Today Tadpole Jun wants to recommend to everyone a high-scoring Korean drama "Jang Yu-jin: Born for Love", a single episode of 60 minutes long, a total of 24 episodes.
This drama tells the story of the life of The Legendary "Demon Concubine" Jang Yu-jeong in Korean history. Different from Ye Shi's consistent verbal criticism of her, this drama starts from Zhang Yuzhen's perspective and takes the audience to experience her life as a woman. (The following commentary is only for the content of the play)
Entering the palace was a watershed in Yuzhen's life, the beginning of her high energy and fall. Let's first look at her growth before entering the palace.
01 Yuzhen who is engaged in career: She is shining
At the beginning of the story, Yuzhen's Furong Pavilion is holding the next season of the new clothing exhibition, and the participants are all ladies with heads and faces. Yuzhen has different requirements for each model's clothing, hair accessories and display methods after appearance, and strives to maximize the beauty of the costume. Sure enough, the new product exhibition was a great success, and the clothes were sold out before they were finished.
Seeing such a smart and well-behaved Yuzhen, everyone may think that she is a famous person, but in fact, her identity is low. In that era of great importance to origin and class, she was a "lowly" existence that people could not avoid.
Yuzhen's teenage years were turbulent and displaced, and she was adopted by Lady Jiang, who made cloth printing and dyeing. Under the cultivation of the master Jiang Shi, Yuzhen's talent for making clothes was gradually revealed, and she quickly surpassed other classmates. Her clothing concept not only integrates the current popular style, but also dares to combine practicality to make breakthrough innovations.
One day, Yuzhen's classmates were holding a picture book about the love between men and women, yuzhen glanced at it, and was instantly attracted by the woman's clothing, and snatched the classmate's book and pondered it. From the picture, she keenly discovered the unique features of the color, style, material, drape, and folds of the clothes.
In order to get more inspiration from making clothes, she went to the bookstore to buy books. Unexpectedly, he met Li Yan, a young shizi who had sneaked out of the palace, and fought for the book, and the fate of the two was concluded.
However, when Yuzhen held a new clothing conference, in order to raise money and owe a usurious loan, she had to ask her cousin Zhang Xuan for help, intending to participate in the military uniform supply right bidding competition.
Yu Zhen, who had never been exposed to the production of military armor, conceived the method of making new armor by relying on the observation of on-the-spot feelings and the on-site communication of the sergeant.
On the way back on horseback, Shizi Li Yan asked Yuzhen, "Do you think you can make excellent armor?" Yuzhen replied at first that she didn't know, but turned to firmly say, "I can definitely make it." Li Yan smiled: "What if you find that you can't make it?" Yuzhen replied, "I have a secret weapon—the hope in the palm of my hand that I will never give up." If you never give up for the sake of your dreams, perseverance will surely be achieved! ”
Yuzhen's entries stand out from the many pieces of armor. She innovatively added bulletproof steel sheets to the armor, making the armor the most solid protective device. The embroidered "hope" in the corner of the armor seems to tell that this is her Hope that Zhang Yuzhen will never give up—her secret weapon.
Before entering the palace, Yuzhen, who was devoted to her career, was really charming. When she talks about her favorite garment making career, her whole body is shining, she is sure that she can make the best clothes in the world, and she is constantly learning to enrich her own clothing techniques. However, all this gradually lost control after entering the palace.
02 Once you enter the palace, the door is as deep as the sea
Yuzhen's opportunity to enter the palace was to balance the excessive power of the Western People's Party, and when she first entered the palace, she was actually in the needle room and seriously made her clothes. But she has always had love for Li Yan in her heart, and she has always wanted to find her "Inner Janissary General" in the palace.
When she learned that the "Inner Janissary General" was actually the king of Korea, the huge disparity in identity made her choose to retreat, and she did not feel that the love between the two could cross the class gap. No matter how many times Li Yan tried, she pretended to be indifferent.
Finally, one day Li Yan couldn't help it, rushed to the needle room to find her, but found that she was bullied by the palace people to wash clothes on a rainy day. Li Yan's heart was broken, and he questioned her why he couldn't choose to be with himself, he could protect her! Yu Zhen said with a pained face, there is a gap between us, you are not the internal janissary, you are the supreme king of Korea! We can't be together!
The most touching scene of the whole play came, Li Yan said firmly: "I will let you see how this untouchable sky collapsed in front of you!" Step by step, he walked towards the weeping Yuzhen, gently lifted her face, and kissed her affectionately.
At this moment, Yuzhen was doomed to escape this huge cage born of love. She is completely in love with Li Yan, whether he is the Inner Guard General or the King, as long as it is him, she will fight forward for love, even if the end is a moth to put out the fire.
What really prompted them to be together was a promise from Li Yan, who solemnly told Yuzhen that he would not let go of her grip no matter what the situation. Yuzhen finally stopped avoiding Li Yan's love and took the initiative to go to him, and the two-way love began.
Yuzhen is intelligent, beautiful, and quite means. She was not only The King's lover, but also the King's political partner. After Li Yan ascended the throne, she was often forced into a dilemma due to the threat of the former dynasty forces, and she would take the initiative to stand up and attract firepower so that Li Yan's plan could be successfully implemented. She will "use soft and hard" to deal with Li Yan's poisonous mother-in-law. Deeply in love with a person, can endure to such a point, Yuzhen's tenacity makes people sigh!
The survival of the harem has always been based on the grace of the king as a barometer, not to mention the humble and helpless person like Yuzhen. She also briefly lost herself in order to win the king's love, but when the king really turned away from her, she slowly woke up, readjusted her position, and repaired her relationship with the king.
Yuzhen is warm and brave when she loves, although sometimes she can get carried away, she is not perfect. But her love was always pure, firm, and she was not afraid to offend the fiery heat of any magnate—even if the forces of the former dynasty constantly threatened her life, she had to bear everything for the king. In the end, it ended with only a glass of poisonous wine and the tears of the king's grief.
03 Men who are constantly entangled with Yuzhen's fate
Looking at several important male characters around Yuzhen, Li Yan, Dongpingjun Li Hang, and juvenile playmate Xuan Zhixiu, everyone is impressive.
The king seems to be the freest man with the highest power, but he is a man who no one can believe, the loneliest man in the world. He had two successive politically married queens, but he did not dare to approach any of them, for fear that he would be surrounded by the forces of the former harem. Before the death of the two queens, he felt extremely guilty and heartbroken, and confessed that he did not treat them well. Such a contradictory mentality doomed the king's whole life to be lost.
Yuzhen was a temporary relaxed and comfortable existence for him, and he did not have to hold up the majestic shelf of the king in front of her, just to be a husband. Yuzhen loved him, understood him, supported him, and finally died because of him, he was powerless but could not prevent the end of becoming a lonely man again.
After Yuzhen died, he sat on the wooden railing where they used to sit and thought of Yuzhen. At this point, we seem to understand the deep and unspeakable pain in Wang's heart.
Dong Pingjun was gentle and elegant, as a member of the clan, he never looked down on her because of Yuzhen's origin. The jade in his eyes is always bright and beautiful: her face, her efforts, her professionalism, her ambition, he will secretly help her to achieve one by one.
Dongping Jun's love for Yuzhen is reflected in the fact that she has always respected her choice, even if she knows that she chose Li Yan to choose a road without turning back. He just watched her go away with heartache, without resenting her choice. Then silently put away his wounded and broken heart, and then hide to care for her and cherish her.
Dong Pingjun's love is noble, and he knows how to temper and restrain. Before he expressed his heart, he always treated Yuzhen carefully, not wanting to lighten her. After showing that her heart was rejected, although her heart ached, she chose to fulfill her and Li Yan. Each time he could only look at Yuzhen from a distance, but Dong Pingjun's inner pain could not be expressed to the king who had been close to him since childhood.
The sense of proportion in his love made him respected by the king, and did not destroy the relationship between the three of them. This is what I admire most about Dong Pingjun, who knows how to think for the other party, rather than blindly satisfying his own selfish desires. He witnessed Yuzhen's short life, and finally personally sent Yuzhen to another world.
Xuan Zhixiu is Yuzhen's teenage playmate, he is also a child adopted by the Jiang clan, and has liked Yuzhen since childhood. Xuan Zhixiu's fate is bumpy, and after losing his righteous mother, he is almost killed by Yuzhen's cousin Zhang Xuan. After nine deaths, he settled in the Qing Dynasty and later returned to Korea to find Yuzhen. His love for Yuzhen is no less than that of Wang, but the pattern is not as good as that of Dongping jun.
In the name of protection, he wants to possess Yuzhen more in his heart. Yuzhen did not want to leave the king, so he tried to destroy the relationship between the two of them. As the king's love enemy, he was inferior to the king except for his wealth.
His love has more selfish elements than those that are considered for the other party, but in the end he also fulfills Yuzhen's love and sends her back to the palace to die.
Yuzhen's life is short but extraordinary, she has the people she loves, the careers she loves, her descendants, her plots and struggles, and the tragedy of being calculated, suppressed, and deprived of her life.
Queen Renxian once told Yuzhen that she wanted to be as bright as the moon, but Yuzhen said that if she could bloom like fireworks, it would be worth it to be fleeting. Zhang Yuzhen's life she lived happily, she has no regrets.
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