Planned and directed by Yao Xiaofeng, starring Liu Tao, Chen He, Yang Jiu, Zhang Jiani, Cheng Xiao and others, "Holiday Warm Yangyang 2" has been broadcast for 8 episodes on iQiyi. In the free time of returning to the hometown for the New Year, watching this TV series with strong elements of returning home has a special taste. With the two sisters of the Cheng family and a little niece as the narrative thread, with the ice city of Harbin and a homestay called "Snow Whispering Mountain House" as the "main stage", many characters sing and Sing I appear, presenting the northeast people's attitude to life, homeland emotions and cultural personality in a relaxed and warm style.
Go home for the New Year
A gene written into the bones
Cheng Man (Liu Tao), a strong woman in the venture capital industry, only discovered that her travel destination, Sanya, was changed to Harbin by her daughter Tian Shuang (Pei Jiaxin) after boarding the plane. After a brief argument between the mother and daughter on the plane, the audience will soon choose to side with their daughter — she misses her grandmother, grandfather, aunt, and the icy land of Harbin too much. Moreover, there is his own father there, although he is divorced from his mother, but the father-daughter blood relationship is constantly separated. Although Cheng Man regarded his hometown as a sad reluctance to go back, he could not stand up to his daughter's generational relatives from that homeland. For many years, the wanderers who have been far away from their hometown have been more or less like this mother and daughter, holding an urgent and complicated mood, and have traveled thousands of miles into the embrace of their hometown.
And on this homeland where Cheng Man's footsteps will set foot again, a slight fission is also changing the structure and relationship of the family, and his father Cheng Sanmin (Ni Dahong) has rarely returned home since he raised deer in the mountains, which makes his mother Ma Chunmei (Ni Ping) very dissatisfied, and the differences between the old couple put the members of the Cheng family in a state of tension, and small conflicts will break out at any time.
The fact is also the same, the younger sister Cheng Shu (Zhang Jiani) has become the target of public criticism because there are no guests to open the "Snow Mountain House" homestay, her eagerness to borrow money from her family to maintain the business has long been broken, in addition to her father reluctantly expressed support for her, her mother, brother-in-law, including her employees, have collectively expressed their disapproval of her, whether Cheng Shu can find warmth from the big family has become a suspense in the early plot of "Holiday Warm Yangyang 2", and it is also a driving force for pushing the progress of the story.
Although the families of most members of the Cheng family are still in place, they also need to take advantage of the Opportunity of the New Year to achieve a successful family gathering, re-experience and find the taste of home, let each other think and support each other, and become the main theme of the home.
Kong Lingqi (Chen He), who took a private plane to Harbin, was to change Cheng Man's mind and re-evaluate his company, but the plot set Kong Lingqi and Cheng Man as CP, which invisibly left the audience with the hint that Kong Lingqi met his father-in-law, and the arrival of this "uninvited guest" not only brought a lot of laughter, but also brought a lot of warmth, and he was also a New Year's homecoming.
As for Liao Ran (Yang Jiu), a high-achieving biology student at the University of Tokyo, why he chose to come to Harbin from Beijing and apply for a job as a chef at a homestay hotel, according to the explanation of the plot, there are two reasons, one is that he was attracted by Cheng Shu during the live broadcast, and the other is that he is happy about his career regardless of the size of the city and the size of the stage. The first reason is more understandable, for love, it is normal for young people to be blind. The second reason shows the new concept of career choice of young people at present, they are no longer kidnapped by "success learning", and they are more willing to pursue their favorite careers freely. It can be said that Liao Ran, who rushed to open the door of the homestay hotel and came in, is a double "homecoming" in emotion and career.
In 1991, Huang Jianzhong directed a film "New Year", starring Li Baotian, Zhao Lirong, Ge You, Shi Lanya, etc., telling the story of the Chinese New Year's Eve of the northeast family, and this film has become a classic because of its bold expression of internal family disputes. "Holiday Warm Ocean 2" can be called the TV drama version of "New Year", but compared with the film works 31 years ago, the real life and spiritual outlook of the family members shown in the TV series have undergone tremendous changes. Looking at it one after the other, you can still perceive a lot of interesting things.
Rediscover your hometown
Let love happen above the homeland
Cheng Man and Kong Lingqi, Cheng Shu and Liao Ran, Cheng Miao (Cheng Xiao) and Ma Boyuan (Zhou Lula)... Obviously, the focus of "Holiday Warm 2" is to attract and impress the audience through their emotional stories, but this does not mean that the TV series abandons other aspects of expression, and the play has a realistic presentation of many elements of the era in the place where the story takes place, which helps to help even the audience who is not here to have a new vision of rediscovering their hometown.
Judging from the brief information given by the TV series, the Cheng family is considered an ordinary family in the local area, and the elder brother Cheng Qiao (Jiang Chao) is the owner of a small shop, in order to find a job for his daughter after graduation, he has to go to ask for a female classmate who works in the Chamber of Commerce. But Cheng Shu's homestay and the conversations between family members about finances can truly reflect the economic strength of this big family. This means that in second- and third-tier cities, there are indeed many ordinary families who have completed the initial accumulation of wealth and can have higher pursuits.
Cheng Shu opened a homestay with high specifications, software and hardware are not lost to first-tier cities and famous homestays in foreign cities, when Cheng Shu introduced the hotel supplies she bought from many countries one by one, it can be judged that her aesthetic level is actually very high. For some places that are constantly losing young people, it is very valuable to have people like Cheng Shu stick to the spot and people like Liao Ran to run away. Although a homestay is very small, if there are more such people in other fields to build and develop, I believe that they do not have to go far away, and they can also have their own trend life that borders the world.
As far as the whole story is concerned, Cheng Man and Kong Lingqi are interlopers, as well as providers and producers of fresh information. Kong Lingqi was pulled into a village with no mobile phone signal by the black car driver, and after a big drink, he promised to invest in the construction of a ski resort for this village, which gave Kong Lingqi the identity of a "discoverer" - no place is destined to be poor, backward, and those with a broad vision can always find prospects and opportunities like gold.
Although the character and lines still have the taste of the northeast earth, but it can still be clearly felt that each character has an element of awakening, the father Cheng Sanmin seems to be domineering, unreasonable, is an authentic mountain dweller, but he knows how to appreciate people in his bones, is a very modern person; although the mother Ma Chunmei is nagging, but also delicate in heart, sharp eyes, can see through the pros and cons at a glance, make the most wise choice, to a certain extent, she is also the mother who has been urbanized; even if she is both thick and shrewd, the old village chief, There is also a desire to make the village beautiful and better...
The information age has filled in the obstacles and ravines of communication, people who have run away have come back, people from outside have walked in, whether it is love or interests, the more frequent communication, the more consensus reached, the more new vitality and hope. A good TV series, while telling the story wonderfully, must have a grand background of the times and values as a foreshadowing, "Holiday Warm Yangyang 2" does a good job in this regard, it makes the audience like the characters and plot at the same time, but also can't help but like the place where the story takes place, because there, you can see a new homeland image, feel that love is happening.
After the two "Holiday Warm Oceans", it is foreseeable that after the two pioneering concepts of "holiday" and "destination", the main creative team has a mature creative concept: "holiday" is grand, "destination" is thick, story is "comedy", characters are "relaxed", values are "modern"... Such creation, because of the transformation of scenes and regional characteristics, will always have innovative elements to add to it, and will not make the audience feel repetitive.
While looking forward to this series forming its own "holiday" brand, it can also give more excavation and presentation to the "hometown", which will be moved by any time Chinese mentioned. With the "hometown" foundation, the light and joyful story will be rooted in many more intriguing places because of deep roots.