In the history of filming TV dramas in China in recent years, Qing Palace dramas have become the darlings of Hengdian Film and Television City with the hit of Aunt Qiong Yao, and since then various Qing Palace dramas have been arbitrarily dominating the screen.
With the various themes of Qing Palace drama being shaken clean, in recent years, dramas of other dynasties such as "The Legend of Mi Yue" and "The Twelve Hours of Chang'an" have also begun to become popular, but I don't know if you have found that in addition to the excellent plays of the Ming Dynasty, such as "Wanli Shoufu Zhang Juzheng" and "Daming Dynasty 1566", the scripts that were put on the screen in the Ming Dynasty are basically countless, and the TV series with the background of the Yuan Dynasty are even rarer.
What's going on here?
In recent years, with the hot sales of Historical Novels of the Ming Dynasty such as "Those Things of the Ming Dynasty", as an ordinary person, compared with the boring and tedious tomes of zhengshi, in the face of this kind of historical novels that are humorously interpreted by later generations, everyone has more selectivity from the perspective of readability, after all, the novel is also based on the history of the Ming Dynasty, and everyone basically has a shallow or deep understanding of the history of the Ming Dynasty.
The more the public knows about the history of the Ming Dynasty, the more it is a test of the director's cultural level and historical skills. Compared with Qiong Yao's Qing Palace novels, as long as the screenwriters and directors put the costumes and backgrounds that meet the characteristics of the times on the screen, they can rely on their imagination to piece together the TV drama plots they need.
In the process of external dissemination, everyone generally chooses a more acceptable theme to appreciate, and the old drama is a good example. Ancient drama pays attention to facial features, good and evil are clearly distinguished, and Cao Chengxiang, who can play a big white face, has a fixed cognitive range in the folk, and one look at Zhuge Liang is to bow down, and one to see Cao Cao is a traitor. But Li Linfu, who is also a traitor, ordinary people really don't know this guy.
In the process of preparing for the PRODUCTION OF TV series in the Yuan and Ming dynasties, I think the screenwriters should also encounter similar problems, most of the characters are not well known, coupled with the fact that the forms of expression of TV series and movies are closer to life, and things that are too much of a face have long lagged behind the times, criticized by the audience, so historical TV series are difficult to shoot.
Most ordinary people will not delve into the Ming Dynasty such as ShangRui, Xu Jie, Li Dongyang, etc., how many political achievements there are, and what caused the difference between father and son between Ming Xiaozong and Ming Wuzong. The director can shoot a few well-known characters, such as the founding emperor of the Ming Dynasty, I Ben Huai Zuo Cloth, the monk beggar Emperor Zhu Yuanzhang who is in the world, plus a Ming Chengzu Zhu Di.
As the founding emperor of the Ming Dynasty, Zhu Yuanzhang's unique temperament and experience coupled with his own wild history label have made him have a great ability to excavate. In the TV series "Daming Dynasty 1566", in addition to Jiajing, who was evaluated by Hai Rui as Jiajing Jiajing and the best emperor whose family was poor and clean, to be fair, Yan Song also has a certain popularity in the folk, at least many people know that Yan Song is a figure of the level of a traitor.
But for Comrade Yan Shifan, the son of Yan Song, who was also a hill, in addition to the later Ximen Qing written by Wang Shizhen on the Golden Plum Because of his contradictions with him, how many people knew that Yan Shifan himself claimed to be the three smartest people at that time? This one-eyed Dragon Yan Gongzi who accidentally blinded one eye, with the unparalleled talent of speculating on people's hearts in the world, in addition to the background emperor who seemed to be jin ping mei, he was basically still unknown in the hearts of the people.
In addition to the founding emperor Zhu Yuanzhang and the Yongle Emperor Zhu Di, it is estimated that the last Chongzhen Emperor who was slightly well-known was the last hanging. Although "Daming Robbery" was filmed more carefully, its dismal box office made directors and investors who pursue TV series ratings and film box office shudder, from the perspective of risk, of course, no one wants to touch this subject that tests the director's historical ability and is easy to thankless.
You can't blame the common people, you watch the han family jiangshan being trampled by foreign iron horses, the good crown is ordered from hu, tie up the big braids representing the humiliation of modern history, it is difficult to produce a pleasant desire to watch. Watching TV dramas or watching movies, saying that breaking the big day is also to find ease and fun, you let the audience work tired for a day, and you have to watch a costume drama to worry about the country and the people when you go home at night, which is not realistic.
Compared with the Ming Dynasty, there are several emperors who know that in addition to Kublai Khan and Genghis Khan, who is somewhat related to the Yuan Dynasty, the name of the Yuan Emperor that can be read as a tongue twister can make people look jaw-dropping.
Moreover, in addition to the four khanates below, which had little contact with each other later, the emperors who changed frequently in the marquee generally existed in China's history for less than a hundred years, and in Chinese history, it was simply too much to see, and this kind of dynasty naturally had no scripts and materials to excavate.
Moreover, from the perspective of considering the maintenance of national unity, some of the policies of the Yuan Dynasty did cause immeasurable harm to the people of all ethnic groups in the Central Plains at that time, and this black history was placed there, although the Yuan Dynasty has been dead for hundreds of years, but it cannot be artificially beautified or destroyed to "joke".
The perception of the audience, the brevity of the dynastic period, the limitations of ethnic matters, and the lack of public discourse in the later society of the clan descendants of the two dynasties. In summary, it is not difficult for everyone to understand why there is a lack of TV dramas from the Yuan and Ming Dynasties on the screen.