Friends who often watch TV dramas do not know whether they have found such a phenomenon, that is, court dramas about ancient China, except for the Qing Dynasty, which is the Ming Dynasty. Especially in the Qing Dynasty, from the beginning of the new century,"Huan Zhuge Ge", to the later "Zhen Huan Biography", "Palace", "Yanxi Raiders", etc., basically 10 domestic costume dramas, 8 of which are Qing Palace dramas.
There are also Ming Dynasty dramas, such as "Hai Rui Dismissal", "Daming Dynasty 1566" are outstanding representatives, and the Song Dynasty has "Great Song Ti Criminal Officer", "Young Bao Qingtian" and so on. Not to mention the Tang Dynasty, "Daming Palace Words" and "Divine Detective Di Renjie" are all fine works, and even the distant feudal dynasty of the Qin and Han Dynasties has dramas such as "Great Qin Empire" and "Great Han Tianzi".
However, among so many costume dramas, none of them are related to the Yuan Dynasty. It was also an ancient feudal dynasty, so why was the Yuan Dynasty so unpopular with film and television workers?
In fact, there is a reason, first of all, the Yuan Dynasty, as a large feudal dynasty that unified the Central Plains in ancient China, had a very short period of existence. From 1271, when Kublai Khan destroyed the Southern Song Dynasty and established the Yuan Dynasty, to the outbreak of the peasant revolt at the end of the Yuan Dynasty in 1368, the Yuan Dynasty was overthrown by the people, and it existed for a total of 98 years, which is the shortest-lived large-scale feudal dynasty in China.
Such a short time span is not very friendly to the plot of the TV series, and moreover, the written records left by the Yuan Dynasty are not rich, and there are no dramatic court stories or historical facts worth excavating.
In addition, modern people generally do not know much about the Yuan Dynasty. Everyone only knows that the Yuan Dynasty had two famous emperors, one was Genghis Khan Temujin and the other was Kublai Khan. Moreover, Genghis Khan was not yet an emperor during the Yuan Dynasty's rule over the Central Plains, and could only be counted as the first Great Khan of the Mongol Khanate.
In contrast, other dynasties can call out the names of many people with heads and faces. Especially in the Qing Dynasty, the Emperor of Light could count from the Nurhaci Emperor Taiji in the early Qing Dynasty to the Daoguang Guangxu and Puyi in the late Qing Dynasty. After a certain degree of understanding, watching the drama will be more engaged and the ratings will be higher. Isn't it necessary to shoot a TV series and go to the ratings? Make a Yuan Dynasty drama that no one understands, who will watch it?
Another very important reason is the attitude of the Yuan Dynasty towards the Han People. The Yuan Dynasty was a very special dynasty, and as an empire completely dominated by the Mongols, the Yuan Dynasty's attitude towards the Han Chinese was really unflattering.
During the reign of the Yuan Dynasty, Kublai Khan divided the entire population into four kinds of people, the most superior nature is the Mongols, followed by the Semites, which is today called the Middle East, and the Han people are ranked as third-class citizens, which shows the humble status.
Moreover, in the selection of talents, the rulers of the Yuan Dynasty stipulated that the Han people could only pick the officials that the Mongols did not want to do or the remaining officials. In the core class of the imperial court, there were basically no Han Chinese.
In addition, in the Yuan Dynasty law "Yuan Dian Zhang", it is mentioned that if the Mongols inadvertently killed the Han people, they only needed to be punished with 50 rods and paid the Han funeral expenses. But if the Han Chinese killed the Mongols, they would have to cut them all over the door and join the nine tribes.
With such unfair treatment, it is no wonder that han compatriots only endured for 98 years before overthrowing the Yuan Dynasty established by the Mongols. Later, when Zhu Yuanzhang established daming, he also treated the Mongol remnants left by the Yuan Dynasty in the same way of "treating his body with the way of a man".
In the han-dominated viewing group, if you want to go up in the ratings, you will naturally not shoot Yuan Dynasty costume dramas. The directors also have a hard time saying, they want to shoot, but no one looks at it, there is no investor, it is really impossible to shoot ah!
However, for the Yuan Dynasty costume drama, the author is still looking forward to it. After all, there are always these Qing Palace dramas on the screen, and it is not impossible to change the taste occasionally. Readers, what do you think?