Li Hongyan
"The calmness of the past has passed, the repetition is still coming again, among the vicissitudes of the leaves, choose a bright flower, into the muscles of the years, let it be painful and sweet." 」 This passage from the writer Wang Zengqi's classic prose collection "Human Grass and Trees" tells the best posture of people facing yesterday.
At present, the reality drama "Outside the Drum Tower", which is currently being broadcast on Beijing Satellite TV, also uses a drama of the lives of the people in Beijing hutongs to lay out the spiritual redemption and emotional sublimation from small grievances, small families, and small people to great love, great righteousness, and great feelings. The years are silent, the time is speechless, but something is always dissipating. After a few years, we will eventually shake off the wind and rain and start again.
On the central axis, under the Bell and Drum Tower, a hundred forms of life, fireworks in the human world... "Outside the Drum Tower" tells the entanglement of enmity between the old carpenter Yi Dachuan's apprentice Yu Zhongsheng and the second apprentice Yin Dongyi, accompanied by the love story between Zhongsheng and Yi Xiaochuan, the granddaughter of Yi Dachuan. The plot begins with an accident in which three apprentices try to sneak into Hulu's house at night to get a glimpse of the precious furniture hidden in their home. When the bell was walking on the tiles of the gourd's bungalow, he accidentally stepped on the roof and the old wood fell down, smashing into the sleeping gourd and causing its death. Afterwards, Yu Zhong turned himself in and went to prison. After his release from prison, he began a plan for revenge. From opening a furniture factory to spreading pancakes, raising ostriches... Yu Zhongsheng and Yin Dongyi were always tit-for-tat, fighting each other to the death, and both were defeated. A large number of conflicts, confrontations, misunderstandings, estrangements, gaps, disputes, and reversals make the plot ups and downs, and the fate of the characters is difficult.
The character image in the play is set fresh and full of life texture. Yi Dachuan, who understands the world and is kind and open-minded, Yu Zhongsheng, who has a straight heart and dares to take responsibility, Yin Dongyi, who is conspiratorial and harmful to others and himself, Yi Xiaochuan, who is obsessed with simplicity and chivalrous, plus a series of supporting roles with distinct personalities, constitute a social cross-section, and also build a powerful story field, reflecting the yin and yang, sadness and joy of the world. The character image created by the whole play is impressive, but it also leads to some deficiencies - for example, in order to highlight the personality characteristics of the characters, to some extent, the logic and rationality of the plot are weakened.
The story full of fireworks in the play is soaked with the inner essence of woodworking craftsmanship and the spiritual inheritance of craftsmen. Master Yi Dachuan not only preached and taught with the "spirit of craftsman", but also adhered to the discipline of inheriting from generation to generation in traditional Chinese culture: the true meaning of making furniture is "craftsmanship plus heart", "making furniture is the first person, the master and brother twist into a rope", "what do craftsmen pay attention to? tunnel. Work is authentic, people are authentic, and thinking is authentic"; to be polite, to be exquisite, to be bureaucratic in doing things, "just like this chair, the tenon is moderate, it is big, the wood cannot bear it, it is cracked; small, people sit and sit and are broken"... The shallow and rich meaning, the still water flowing deeply, is just the mellow ingenuity of an old craftsman.
The role of Yi Dachuan is also a key force driving the plot from "feuding" to "dissolving". His lines full of philosophy of life and wisdom of life shine like pearls in the episodes: "People have good wishes, Heaven will bless them", "If you fight for a small thing, you will lose the road", "Know the end and stop, life is not shameful", "Rotten wood can not see the water, good wood is not afraid of water immersion", "Life is inevitable to be difficult, it is difficult to be born in the heart, there are difficulties in the heart, it is easy to go to extremes", "The heart of responsibility blames oneself, the heart of forgiveness forgives others"...
In the end, under the double "baptism" of internal and external factors, Yu Bell began to introspect himself, from the old hatred is difficult to dispel, the heart knot is difficult to understand, and gradually grows into letting go of hatred and choosing forgiveness; Yin Dongyi also began to wake up, from harming others and self-interest, seeing profit and forgetting righteousness, and gradually evolving to knowing mistakes and knowing shame, and knowing how to return. And with the efforts of ZhongSheng, the Shimen family also forgave Yin Dongyi's past, and the brothers of the same disciple were always a family.
Laughing at the enmity, saying that it is easier said than done, and the road to chasing the light is not a smooth road. In the play, the characters are often in contradictions and entanglements. The entanglement of the human heart is a reality; the complexity of human nature is even more a reality. However, the past grievances, after the fermentation of time and the heart, will eventually burst out of great emotional and moral strength, that is, understanding and tolerance. Simple family affection, sincere love, and friendship in tribulation, each dimension fully shows and reflects the shining points of ordinary people, and the characters in the play also complete the difficult redemption of humanity and morality. No matter how the times change and how the circumstances change, the moral and ethical standards of truth, goodness and beauty in people's hearts are the axis of eternal change.
Do not remember yesterday's hatred, do not remember the old times, forgive others, but also forgive yourself. On the surface, "Outside the Drum Tower" reveals the deep-seated contradictions of the characters, but in fact, it is to touch people's hearts, interrogate human nature, and write about the dignity of human nature, the glory of human nature, the conscience, and compassion through personal character stories and life pictures... Compassion, Xu is the highest level of expression of literary and artistic creation.
The title of "Outside the Drum Tower" is not only full of life, but also more cultural imagery. The Bell and Drum Tower is the "backbone" of Beijing's ancient capital style - the northern apex of the central axis, the organ of the whole city to announce the time, and also the commanding height of the city's architecture, reflecting the sense of order and sublimity that should be in good times and live in an orderly manner. The central axis supports the unique magnificent order of Beijing City, reflecting the inheritance and change of the cultural history of Beijing City, and the application for heritage in the central axis is constantly advancing. "Outside the Drum Tower" takes the Drum Tower as the carrier and as the traction, depicts the spiritual temperament of the city of Beijing from the perspective of the common people, and writes about the broadness, inclusiveness and openness of the ancient capital culture.
At present, the literary and artistic creations in various fields in Beijing actively practice the call to create a business card of "big drama to see Beijing", and strive to launch high-quality works with Chinese characteristics, Chinese style, Chinese style, and embodying the culture of the ancient capital, red culture, Beijing flavor culture, and innovative culture. Mr. Wang Zhili, the screenwriter of "Outside the Drum Tower", has written "Silly Spring", "Little Woman Under the Gate of Zhengyang", "Love Full Courtyard", etc., all of which are excellent works on the screen. If the timeline is lengthened, the Beijing TV series is in the same vein and constantly innovating. "Longing", "The Happy Life of Poor Mouth Zhang Damin", "Big Mansion Gate", "Xiaojing Hutong", "Four Generations Together", "Windmill", "Love Full Courtyard", "Sesame Hutong", "Little Woman Under the Zhengyang Gate"... Whether it is a period drama or a realistic theme drama, these works, which were conceived and born under the pursuit of regional culture, have rich connotations and distinct styles, and present the spiritual identity, cultural texture and civilization genes of Beijing city in the form of popular art such as TV dramas, highlighting the value guidance, cultural cohesion and spiritual driving force of literary and artistic creation.
Nowadays, "Outside the Drum Tower" came into being, it is only a drama, but it is also a small observation platform, following it, it can also locate the spiritual coordinates and temperament pattern of the current city of Beijing.
Source: Beijing Daily