It is advisable to solve the knot and meet each other with a smile and a grudge. As Yu Zhongsheng and Yin Dongyi, the brothers who have been stubbornly committed, put aside their hatred and achieve reconciliation, they also reconcile with themselves, redeem themselves, and start a new life. Written by Wang Zhili, self-directed by Yu Zhen, starring Hai Day and Bian Xiaoxiao, the Beijing-style drama "Outside the Drum Tower" will end warmly tonight (6th) on Beijing Satellite TV.
Since the beginning of the broadcast, with the grounded Beijing flavor story, vivid characters, and deeply rooted craftsman spirit and traditional culture, satellite TV ratings have ranked in the top three, and many viewers praised "Outside the Drum Tower" for its cool rhythm, new story, hard core, and strong Beijing flavor, filming the authentic life of the Drum Tower people, and flowing out of the warm life avenue in the grounded master-apprentice story.
The shi brothers reconciled, and Yin Dongyi returned to shi men to atone for his sins
The best thing on earth is reconciliation and reunion. "Outside the Drum Tower" focuses on the lives of ordinary Beijingers, with the old carpenter and the four apprentices' mentorship relationship as the background, the rupture and reconciliation of the relationship between the four brothers as the main line, and the combination and dispersion of the love story of The Bell and Yi Xiaochuan as the attraction, conveying the positive energy of harmony and tolerance, seeking truth and goodness.
From opening a furniture factory, spreading pancakes, selling eggs to raising ostriches and opening a network company, the carpenter brothers Yu Zhongsheng and Yin Dongyi have always been tit-for-tat and fighting endlessly. Tonight, "Outside the Drum Tower" will stage a heart-warming finale, and Yu Zhongsheng and Yin Dongyi, who have been dead, will raise a glass and talk freely, warmly reconciling. The brothers of the former enemy knelt together in the Yi family courtyard, and Yin Dongyi, who had been expelled from the division, repented and decided to change his past wrongs, and finally won the forgiveness of the master and returned to the division. The combination of Yu Zhongsheng, Yi Xiaochuan, Yin Dongyi, Chrysanthemum, Ma Sanxin, Tang Li, and the three new couples made the masters and apprentices raise a glass to celebrate and enjoy the harmony. After experiencing the baptism of time, the sadness and joy that have happened are not grievances, but only dreams. Yin Dongyi, who has been running away, went to the police station accompanied by Chrysanthemum to turn himself in, so as to obtain inner salvation and bravely bear the responsibility for his sins.
Let go of hatred and praise the traditional culture with ingenuity
"Outside the Drum Tower" conveys the ingenuity philosophy of "making furniture, being a person first" and "art is greater than the sky" through the story of the carpenter master Yi Dachuan and the four apprentices inheriting the carpentry craftsmanship and craftsman spirit.
In the play, Yu Zhongsheng and Yin Dongyi were originally brothers who learned carpentry craftsmanship, but due to a man-made accident, the brothers became enemies and began a long revenge struggle. "I will do whatever you do" became Yu Zhongsheng's revenge belief after he was released from prison. The anti-gaze of the brothers led to various competitions between the two in the business field, injuring the enemy by a thousand and losing eight hundred, just to make the other party feel better, and the result was that both sides were injured. "Outside the Drum Tower" conveys to the audience the benevolent way of complaining with virtue through the reconciliation of the two people's grievances, letting go of hatred, and only reconciliation is the best way to achieve a win-win situation. As the screenwriter of the play, Wang Zhili, said: "There is revenge, revenge is to protect yourself." This play is ostensibly about hate, but in fact it is about kindness. You've knocked others down, but you've actually poured yourself. When is the time to repay each other' grievances, it is better to meet each other and smile and take revenge. ”
If you fight for a small amount, you will lose the road. In the play, Master Yi Dachuan not only uses the selfless "craftsman spirit" to preach and teach, but also adheres to the rules and principles that have been passed down from generation to generation in China's excellent culture: the true meaning of making fine 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"... Master's words are shallow and rich, and the still water is deep, which is exactly the mellow ingenuity of an old craftsman.
In the play, every sentence of Master Yi Dachuan is intriguing, such as when the big ship woodware shop opened, Yi Da Chuan used an ancient language to warn his apprentices. He said to Yu Zhongsheng, who had just been released from prison, "Good wood is not afraid of flooding, and decaying wood cannot see water." Life is inevitably difficult, difficult to be born in the heart, difficult in the heart, and easy to go to extremes. For the second disciple Yin Dongyi, who misbehaved, Yi Dachuan quoted a sentence in the Tao Te Ching: "The world knows that beauty is beautiful, and evil is already evil", which obviously has the meaning of warning him. These sobering proverbs spoken by Yi Dachuan on different occasions not only had an important impact on the four apprentices, but also left a deep impression on the audience.
Show the taste of Beijing, carry forward the culture of Beijing to help the central axis to apply for heritage
As a TV series that tells the story of Beijing and shows the culture of Beijing, the drama "Outside the Drum Tower" is as its name suggests, and the Beijing flavor wafting out of the Drum Tower is the International Trade CBD, the Drum Tower, the Shichahai Sea, the Beijing Hutong, the Courtyard... In the play, beijing landmark shots continue to appear, combining tradition and modernity, showing the history and present of Beijing. Wang Zhili, the screenwriter of the play, said: "'Outside the Drum Tower' is regional, writing the story of old Beijing and the lives of the people next to the Drum Tower, showing the spiritual outlook of Beijingers who are full of bureaucracy, rules, and reason. ”
In terms of artistic presentation, the drama has a strong Beijing flavor. Drum towers, hutongs, old neighborhoods, courtyards, courtyards, courtyards, especially those antiques and wooden utensils of the Ming and Qing dynasties, not only show the taste of Beijing, but also have a certain cultural inheritance value of "treasure hunting".
The central axis supports the unique magnificent order of Beijing City, reflecting the inheritance and change of Beijing's cultural history. "Outside the Drum Tower" takes the Drum Tower on the central axis as the carrier, depicts the spiritual temperament of the city of Beijing from the perspective of a civilian, and writes about the broadness, tolerance and openness of the ancient capital culture. It is worth mentioning that 2022 is a key year for Beijing's central axis to apply for heritage. "Outside the Drum Tower" on the central axis shows the Beijing style and Beijing "spirit" with the stories of ordinary Beijingers in the new era and the rich Beijing cavity and Beijing rhyme, and will also help beijing to apply for heritage on the central axis of Beijing.
Text/Beijing Youth Daily reporter Yang Wenjie
Editor/Bow Lifang