Not long ago, the 10th anniversary of the biography of Zhen Huan.
Celebrities and netizens collectively miss it.
Ten years have passed, I did not expect that this drama has caught fire to so many people, I did not expect that everyone would revisit and study the "Zhen HuanXue" over and over again, and I did not expect that the costume palace fighting drama could no longer be surpassed once it reached the top.
Everyone relished it, the big pig's hoof Yongzheng, the inferiority complex and sensitive An Lingrong, the sentient and righteous Shen Meizhuang...
But always overlooking one of the key people behind it:
Director Zheng Xiaolong.
This year, "Meritorious Service" was made, and there was also "Turandot".
The audience shouted: Zheng Dao, can we still go back to filming TV series?
A play that is rarely mentioned today.
But in Sir's view, the deep hidden city government inside, the poisonous eyes, do not lose the "Biography of Zhen Huan" at all.
"The Biography of Zhen Huan" is a thriller drama about human nature.
And the thrill of this drama is that it is so close, so real
"Golden Wedding"
Fifty years of marriage, called "golden marriage".
Speaking of the inspiration for filming "Golden Wedding", director Zheng Xiaolong recalled that it was due to a quarrel between his parents.
A little thing, a big move to invite him home to "do justice."
Zheng Xiaolong coaxed the belt and thin mud, and the old two reconciled.
This incident made Zheng Xiaolong suddenly have a thought.
What if the decades-long marriage of an ordinary couple were made into a TV series?
Forty minutes after leaving his parents' house, Zheng Xiaolong thought of the framework of this TV series.
Just shoot 50 episodes, one episode is one year, the name is called "Golden Wedding".
Zheng Xiaolong also found Zhang Guoli and Jiang Wenli to ensure that the actor's acting skills can withstand the span of fifty years.
In 2007, Zheng Xiaolong's idea appeared on the television sets of thousands of households.
The ratings and word-of-mouth double harvest.
Not only did it break the ratings record of Beijing TV in one fell swoop, but it also won the Feitian Award and the Magnolia Award.
If you think that "The Golden Wedding" is to celebrate the steadfastness and happiness of a marriage.
That would be a big mistake.
In domestic dramas, there are few, and it is difficult to have a life of entanglement between two people like "Golden Marriage", which examines every inch of the fabric of marriage from such a naked perspective.
What it wants to show the audience is not actually gold.
Instead, little by little, it peels away the gleaming gilded layer on the surface of the "golden wedding".
Revealing the most real muddy dust that has accumulated with the years below.
01
The owner of this golden marriage is Tong Zhi (Zhang Guoli), a technician at Beijing Heavy Industry Machinery Factory, and Wen Li (Jiang Wenli), a primary school teacher for factory workers.
Wen Li, a native of Beijing, is a primary school teacher in Changzizi, who is beautiful, and has been pampered as the youngest daughter in the family since childhood, and has a bit of a missy temper.
Tong Zhi, a skilled worker from the countryside of Sichuan to Beijing, looks old, but does a good job.
They met in 1956.
The first time the two met, it was very unpleasant to say.
An arranged wedding.
Tong Zhi's good buddy in the machinery factory, Dazhuang, and his daughter-in-law Zhuang in the countryside.
In China in the 1950s, old customs and new ideas were still colliding with each other.
Dazhuang has been coming to Beijing for such a long time, and he has already fought with the girl Meimei, but he can't disobey the marriage contract of his hometown.
Mei Mei felt cheated, so she took her cousin Wen Li to the wedding scene to explain.
In this way, Tong Zhi and Wen Li each insisted on their own words and confronted each other.
Tong Zhi felt that since people had been engaged for so many years, they should keep their promises.
Dazhuang does not marry Zhuang Concubine, how will Zhuang Sister-in-law live in the village in the future?
Wen Li did not show weakness and took out Engels's famous words:
Marriage without love is immoral.
This first scene shows the differences between the two.
A conceptual tradition, a progress.
A reality, an ideal.
This debate over marital love also laid the groundwork for their subsequent 50 years of stumbling golden marriage.
At this time, the two did not expect that they would have a narrow road and even accompany each other for a lifetime.
After the first meeting, the family introduced the object to Wen Li, which happened to be introduced to Tong Zhi in the factory.
Now look at it, the workers in the countryside and the Well-off Beijing girls, this marriage is not the right door.
But that was the revolutionary fifties.
The working class like Tong Zhi has a unique advantage in the marriage and love market.
After the first quarrel, Wen Li saw the blind date and turned to leave.
But from the last time, Tong Zhi was deeply attracted to this beautiful and proud girl.
He began a "stalking".
Wen Li thought that Tong Zhi had the same moral style as Dazhuang, and Tong Zhi showed her the advanced awards issued by the factory every year:
I am a good comrade.
Silly standing there, Wen Li even smiled unconsciously.
After several times and three times, it finally touched Wen Li's girlish heart.
The two fell in love, so it was not sweet.
The love of that era was all about talking about marriage and getting married.
Before getting married, Wen Li's family approached Tong Zhi and asked him: Can you let her live a lifetime?
Tong Zhi didn't want to answer:
I will, I will make her for the rest of my life
Let her for the rest of her life
In order to reassure the Wenli family, Tong Zhi also solemnly wrote a "premarital guarantee":
First, after marriage, you can't stare at Wen Li, you can't make a big voice, if you quarrel, no matter who is right or wrong, Tong Zhi must first apologize;
Second, after falling in love with Comrade Wenli, promise not to love other female comrades anymore, and only love Comrade Wenli for a lifetime;
Third, after marrying Comrade Wen Li, washing and cooking, all the dirty work at home must be rushed to do;
Fourth, after marriage, promise to support Comrade Wenli's work, send Wenli to work when it rains, and pick up Comrade Wenli from work when it is too dark;
Fifth, after marriage, as long as Wenli likes things, guarantee full support and active cooperation, do not say what Comrade Wenli does not like, and do not do what Comrade Wenli does not like;
Sixth, to ensure that comrade Wen Li and Comrade Wen Li make progress together, and that they will grow old together, we hereby prove it.
At that time, people's confidence in marriage was like revolutionary enthusiasm.
But how fiercely the flag stood.
How awkward it is when it is dominant.
02
Is Tong Zhi lying?
Nor is it.
He really wanted to live like this, and during the time of the new marriage, he took Wen Li in his mouth and was afraid.
Wen Li loves to read Soviet romance novels, and Tong Zhi follows her.
Wen Li did not like Tong Zhi to smoke, and Tong Zhi never smoked in front of her.
Once, Tong Zhi smoked outside in the middle of the night, and was bitten by mosquitoes.
Wen Li was distressed by him, and while rubbing medicine for him, she said, you can smoke it when you want to in the future, it's okay.
However, there are too many things in marriage that cannot be solved with love, and it is always accompanied by the hard work of consuming emotions.
What makes the two drift apart is not much of a matter of principle.
The piles of trivialities in life are the soul-destroying.
Wen Li married Tong Zhi and moved into the dormitory of Tong Zhi's unit.
The new house for two people is not as big as wen li's boudoir.
Going to the toilet, washing and cooking, are all public, and Wen Li, who has been pampered since childhood, has lived a collective life in this way.
The two live together, and the difference in living habits is also revealed.
Tong Zhi came back from work and fell directly on the bed.
Wen Li was disgusted: Get up quickly, wash and then sleep.
Tired, Tong Zhi suddenly did not control his temper.
"You think I'm dirty?"
This little thing, the two men can expand to rise to the class question.
Wen Li pulled out the letter of guarantee to tear, and then ran out of the house in a huff.
The two have different consumption concepts.
Tong Zhi is from a rural background and is very frugal.
Wen Li has been pampered since childhood and has no concept of money.
On new paychecks, I go to movies, go to concerts, perm my hair, and buy Braj.
She doesn't even turn off the fire casually between stir-frying.
How the money is spent, who cares, and how to make a lot of trouble.
Wen Li has a bad temper and can't manage her emotions.
No matter who is right and who is wrong, she must count Tong Zhi twice, so that she can feel comfortable in her heart.
Even her sister couldn't look down: "Where are you complaining?" ”
In the beginning, Tong Zhi played the side of the relationship that was always tolerant.
But no matter how good tempered he is, he is not a saint.
It was a long time and he was really tired.
After a quarrel, Wen Li ran back to her mother's house, but he lay on the bed with relief.
"I haven't slept in such a big bed for a long time, and I can turn it over as much as I want, and I can smoke as much as I want."
In the sixteenth year of marriage, Wen Li gave birth to her only son, Dabao.
Having given birth to three girls in a row, she suddenly turned the hard-won treasure into a pearl in her hand.
Tong Zhi became a completely neglected person.
Wen Li slept with the child in her arms at night, and Tong Zhi couldn't even get into bed.
At this time, he is experiencing a sense of crisis in middle age.
After so many years in the factory, where is his way out?
At home, who did his wife have the heart to care about him?
At that time, it coincided with the construction of the country's third line.
Tong Zhi was moved, since the family was uncomfortable and did not need him, it was better to take the initiative to apply to leave Beijing for the third line.
Tong Zhi's departure, the burden of running the whole family fell on Wen Li and her mother-in-law.
She also changed from a delicate woman who once loved to read Soviet romance novels and bought new Braggi to feast on herself.
Became a middle-aged woman with four children, running at both ends of the housework and work.
Tong Zhi, however, began a new chapter of life after running away from his family to the third line.
Careers are picking up.
He also met the second woman in his life, Li Tianjiao.
Li Tianjiao is young and beautiful, and the two people can also talk.
What matters is that she is proud, that she is exquisite, that she speaks to herself about coffee, about listening to the Soviet symphony...
Much like Wen Li when she was young.
Just like when he and Wen Li were dating, he praised her name.
"The text of culture, the beauty of Li."
For a man who has begun to enter middle age, Li Tianjiao is like an antidote to his youth.
At this point, he also began to entangle with Li Tianjiao for more than ten years.
03
In today's parlance, Tong Zhi is "spiritually derailed."
Whenever Wen Li questioned him, he could say with a straight face: I had never had anything with her, I hadn't even held hands.
After Tong Zhi returned from the third line.
Li Tianjiao became a thorn in Wen Li's heart that could not be removed.
The rift between them that was difficult to bridge in their lives also began at this time.
Wen Li, who has a stubborn temper, will always mention Li Tianjiao coldly.
The burden of life and her husband's emotional infidelity turned her into a yin-yang-weird, resentful woman.
She grew up reading classic masterpieces, but now she does not let her daughter read novels, on the grounds that she is "afraid that her daughter will make the same mistakes as she did then."
Say anything with a gun and a stick.
What have I become?
Am I getting old? Ugly?
I'm not cultured?
Am I not romantic enough?
Even the youngest child was blinded by Wen Li's resentment.
There are fox spirits and beautiful snakes in the third line
Two people who were touched by each other and entered the marriage.
In the years of marriage, it has become the most hated look of each other.
The young women of literature and art in those days are now savage shrews.
The warm man who was obedient in those days is not willing to accommodate at all today.
The relationship between husband and wife falls into a vicious circle until it is a big fight.
That moment wasn't a bedside fight and a bedside fight.
The look in his eyes was filled with vicious hatred.
All this is also staged in the eyes of children.
Back to the words that Tong Zhi and Wen Li said when they first met.
But then the terrible thing is.
She experienced such a marriage herself and accepted it unconsciously.
After Tong Zhi fell in love with Li Tianjiao, his mother-in-law celebrated his birthday and the family was reunited.
Wen Li was alone in the kitchen, secretly wiping away tears.
She knew in her heart that this happy and harmonious scene was just an empty shell.
It's not that two people haven't divorced.
But the parents' freedom to divorce is up to them.
When she was young, Wen Li's mother gave her thousands of instructions.
There is nothing wrong between this husband and wife
If something can't go on, it's okay
Once I went to the Civil Affairs Bureau, I found that the hukou book was hidden by my mother-in-law.
The last words before the mother-in-law's death were also to Wen Li, saying that this family could not be scattered.
Not that there has been no separation.
It was Wen Li's most complete outburst.
She asked Tong Zhi, why did she endure all this over the years?
But the two men were older and in poor health.
Tong Zhiyi fell ill, and Wen Li couldn't help but come back to take care of him.
Can't be happy together, but it's hard to separate.
Chicken flying dog jump half a life.
In their later years, they still complained to each other about whose fault it was.
But just like that, most of their lives were spent on each other.
Suddenly losing a person to complain about, to remember the person, then what should you rely on to survive?
Or, apart from loving and hating each other, what is left of their lives?
Why can they act so recklessly, hurting each other and licking each other's wounds?
Because they understand deep down in their hearts.
This life is never going to leave each other.
You're not going to be
So what is the strength of my life?
04
Nowadays, many people like to compare "Golden Marriage" with the later "Parental Love".
As the two peaks of domestic marriage dramas.
Which of the two is better? Which one do you prefer?
It's actually very interesting.
Both dramas are 50 years of marriage, both are similar years.
But the path that ends up is quite different.
"Parental Love" was an idealized romance of that era.
1% of people meet 1%, and the love of one of the thousands is the best.
Anjie and Jiang Defu, without either of these two people, it cannot be established.
"Parental Love" is more like a secret garden at sea.
A utopia that holds our beautiful fantasies about the previous generation.
The golden marriage is more like a "civilian history" of ordinary people.
In "The Golden Marriage", when the Tong Zhi family quarreled over a difficult time because they could not eat.
In the barrage, some people said that "Parental Love" seems to have no such troubles.
The end of "Parental Love" is the tearful sentence "We will still be husband and wife in the next life."
The end of "Golden Marriage" is that Tong Zhi and Wen Li help each other walk in the vast snow after they are old, and the background sound is the guarantee of Tong Zhi when he was young.
The scene is also romantic and warm.
But it's slightly ironic.
This guarantee did not do at all.
Many people don't like "Golden Marriage" so much than "Parental Love".
Because it is "suffocating".
"What is the significance of such a marriage, the golden marriage?"
Like their son Dabao, the fear of the value of traditional marriage.
It is also like every time there is a problem in the marriage of a star at present, everyone is advised not to reconcile.
Divorced, they all clapped their hands and applauded.
When we look at the marriages of that generation with the eyes of modern people.
Of course there will be a lot of things that can't be understood.
Why not stop loss in time?
Why give a seemingly unhappy marriage a golden name?
Compared with us, the lives of that generation lacked freedom.
They don't have many options, they don't have many opportunities.
Love must aim at marriage.
Marriage, class is the first, the range of choices is so much.
Wen Li sneered at the "marriage without love" when she was young, but it was a norm.
Or rather, a state that will eventually arrive.
Their lives can basically see the end at a glance.
In fixed units, there are houses with units.
Have children, support the elderly, and live a life of conformity.
In "Golden Marriage", after Tong Zhiren reaches middle age, he has two chances to change his destiny.
Once was the third line, because of his and Li Tianjiao's affair later, Wen Li went to the factory to apply for him to be transferred back.
Once he wanted to go to the branch factory in the Shenzhen Special Economic Zone, Wen Li ran to the factory to reflect, preventing him from leaving and ruining his last chance in his career.
yes.
In this marriage.
Wen Li felt that her ideals were ruined, and Tong Zhi felt that she was also ruined.
Everyone feels that the other owes themselves.
No one can complete the compensation demanded by the other party.
So they can only use torture, declare their due claims, and tie themselves tighter and tighter in entanglement with each other.
50 years of golden marriage.
It is not so much perseverance as it is a dead knot that no one can untie.
In a sense, "Golden Marriage" filmed the dark side of the previous generation's low divorce rate.
In marriage, those who are warm, painful, suffocating, entangled, and tacitly silent, all tremble and fall under the sun at once.
The new generation of young people can't understand, can't understand, and less and less like to watch.
Probably that's right.
Because everyone no longer wants to spend their lives into a gold-plated number.
That is the helplessness of "only enough to love one person in a lifetime".
It is also the end of this hatred after the "full moon".
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