On January 6, the Shanghai-produced TV series "Beyond" announced that it will be scheduled for January 9 and will meet the audience as a set of CCTV new year dramas. The drama adopts an innovative dual-time narrative technique, focusing on the new generation of short track speed skaters represented by Chen Mian, as well as the older generation of Chinese athletes and coaches represented by Chen Jingye, Zheng Kaixin, Li Guimin and Wu Qinghong, showing the inheritance of the sports spirit of "tenacious struggle and self-transcendence" among the three generations of short track speed skaters.
What kind of story will happen between three generations of short track speed skaters? Guess who their prototype is?
The first generation: pioneering and enterprising, surpassing themselves
In 1981, short-track speed skating began in China. In those days, the sport was often approached by sprinters in the original standard track speed skating events. "Beyond" also strives to restore this historical truth in its shaping, shaping the Chinese skater Wu Qinghong in the 1950s, who was not only one of the first to contact short track speed skating, but also a senior coach who trained the first batch of players.
Judging from the information exposed in advance, Wu Qinghong, played by Ma Li, devoted her life to the short track speed skating career, she coached for decades, cultivated a number of famous athletes and coaches, Zheng Kaixin, Chen Jingye, Jiang Hong are its proud protégés, and after retirement, she still does not forget to pay attention to the excavation and training of short track speed skating talents. In this character, the audience may see the shadow of China's short track speed skating pioneers who took the lead in leaving good results in the late 1980s, and will see generations of short track speed skaters going forward and surpassing themselves.
The second generation: go forward and pursue ideals
Chen Jingye, Zheng Kaixin and Jiang Hong are the second generation of Chinese short track speed skaters portrayed in "Beyond". They fell in love with brothers in their youth, trained together and chased dreams together, but they all had their own regrets.
For example, Chen Jingye, played by Hu Jun, focuses on hard training but is not a talented player, and the journey of impacting the Olympic gold medal is also full of twists and turns, which is quite bumpy. After experiencing the double failures of career and marriage and family, Chen Jingye, as the head coach of the Heilongjiang team, said that he was cold and harsh.
Zheng Kaixin, played by Sha Yi, is a "talented player", he was untamed in his youth, but he had a strong sense of justice in his heart. After the 1996 Dream of the Nagano Winter Olympics, he was once confused, but under the leadership of Wu Qinghong, he returned to the short track speed skating career, which was also his insight and discovered the shining point of young athlete Chen Mian.
Jiang Hong, played by Zhang Guoqiang, represents those athletes who sacrificed their health for their dreams - in the 1993 Winter Olympics Trials, Jiang Hong was seriously injured and fell to his left leg with a permanent disability. After countless ups and downs, he still had his heart set on the field and eventually rejoined the national short track speed skating team as an ice pourer.
It is worth mentioning that Li Guimin, played by Tu Songyan, is the current head coach of the national short track speed skating team in the play, although he is not a professional athlete, he is rigorous and meticulous in his work, good at analysis, and is known as the "short track speed skating humanoid computer".
The third generation: with love, youth has dreams
"Beyond" takes the younger generation of short-track speed skaters as the main object of portrayal, and Chen Mian played by Li Gengxi and Xiangbei played by Chen Meiyi are the representatives.
Among them, as soon as Chen Mian was born, he was sent by his father Chen Jingye to china's hope of crowning the Winter Olympics short track speed skating, named "Crown". However, as a former member of the national short track speed skating team, Chen Father believed that Chen Mian was weak when he was young and was not suitable for "female inheritance of father's business", but instead poured his heart and soul into the talented player Xiang Bei, neglecting to accompany his wife and children.
After Chen Mian achieved certain results in roller skating, he accidentally learned that the Qingdao short track speed skating team was recruiting new students. Head coach Zheng Kaixin saw Chen Mian's shining point, admitted her out of the box, and officially opened the door to Chen Mian's short track speed skating career. During his time in Qingdao, with the help of coaches and peers, Chen Mian gradually let go of his personal emotional bondage, but instead "fell deeper and deeper" for short track speed skating, grew into the main player of the Qingdao team, and successfully selected for the national team.
During the national team, Chen Mian encountered his former "old enemy" to the north, and also encountered greater challenges. After that, Chen Mian reconciled with Xiang Bei and agreed to march together towards the Winter Olympic medals the following year. However, Yan Xiujing, a fierce rival from the Korean team, defeated Chen Mian again and again in major international competitions and became her insurmountable inner demon. Just when Chen Mian was stuck in a bottleneck, Xiang Bei, who retired from studying abroad due to a foul on the South Korean team, resolutely became Chen Mian's bodyguard, and the two joined hands to represent the Chinese team, and finally stood on the field of the 2022 Beijing Winter Olympics.