"A Generation of Hong Shang": The Great Merchant and great righteousness in the great history

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In recent years, tv dramas with the theme of shang gang have attracted considerable attention. The Jinshang theme "Qiao Family Compound", the "Zhejiang Merchant Trilogy" "East is the Sea", "Wenzhou Family", "Chicken Feathers Fly to the Sky", huishang theme "Xin'an Family", etc., are impressive, and some have become classics. These SHANG GANG-themed TV series fully display the characteristics of regional culture, focus on personal history, family history, and Shanggang history, especially through the homogeneity of home and country to shape characters, lay out stories, exalt the correct concept of righteousness and profit in traditional commercial culture, praise personal struggle and patriotic feelings, and present an upward, good, and beautiful artistic personality as a whole. "A Generation of Hong Shang" is the latest achievement of the Shang Gang theme TV series, and it is also the first Xiang Shang theme TV series. With the broadcast of the drama on CCTV, the mysterious Hunan Hongshang entered people's vision, and through the narration of the history of Hongshang and the engraving of the spirit of Hongshang, for the first time in the TV series, the style of Xiangshang was displayed and the excellent traditional culture was carried forward.

One side of the water and soil to raise the other side of the "business"

"A Generation of Hong Shang" has constructed a rich regional cultural landscape and created a thick Hong Shang cultural context. Shangbang culture has a strong regional cultural color, and the unique regional cultural tradition also gives Shangbang in different regions a distinct cultural character. As a TV series that writes the legend of Hunan Hongshang, "A Generation of Hongshang" has made great efforts to show the culture of Hongjiang and Xiangxi, where Hongshang occurred, developed and grew.

The so-called one side of the water and soil to support the other side of the people, we can also say that one side of the water and soil to support the other side of the "business". The unique natural environment and cultural traditions of Hongjiang, Xiangxi and Hunan not only paint the portrait of Hongshang, but also cast the soul of Hongshang. The landscapes, houses, ancestral halls, huts, costumes, dialects, villages, docks, food, wine songs, water burials, etc. in western Hunan have become unique elements in the construction of Hongshang regional culture. Starting from the Grand Ceremony of the Ancestor Sacrifice of the Hongjiang Oil Industry at the beginning of the whole drama, the cultural picture depicted around Hongyou is even more eye-opening. For example, the blooming tung oil flowers, the unique tung oil workshop and production process, the Qing Dynasty bottom oil, the Hong oil extraction, the Hong oil refining machine oil, etc., especially the mysterious ceremony of the signer in the process of oil inspection, oil inspection, oil fighting, and oil betting, which is impressive. The chivalrous culture and the culture of the water guest gang, especially the scene of the green wolf beach known as the ghost gate, are quite innovative. The long street feast on the streets of the ancient city and the colorful sticky rice that expresses love are cordial and fresh. With the layout of the Bagua Array and the maze of high-chair villages, whether it is the residential buildings themselves or the overall layout and the relationship with the landscape and terrain, they are full of rich cultural heritage and unique aesthetic pursuits. Looking at the Hongshang landscape through the cultural landscape of western Hunan Province, it has a profound meaning, profound meaning and profound meaning.

"Profit from righteousness, longitude and latitude of the world"

"A Generation of Hong Shang" writes a gripping story of business warfare and praises the spirit of Hong Shang who "benefits with righteousness and the world through the latitude and longitude". One of the core elements of the shang gang theme TV series is the inherent tension of the shang gang culture itself. No matter which region the Shang Gang is, its development history is a combination of fierce business wars, family rise and fall, social changes, and the fate of the country, with inherent dramatic conflicts. Hongjiang is the land of seven provinces, and the unique high-quality tung oil is known all over the world, enjoying the reputation of "Hong oil". Under the nourishment of "Hongyou", Hongshang, represented by Liu Yunxiang, the treasurer of the Yuanlong Oil, and Yang Tongchang, the manager of the Hengshun Oil, launched a series of treacherous business wars in the Hongjiang River in the historical process from the 1920s to the victory of the War of Resistance. Max Kai fake oil case, Liu Yunxiang Yang Tongchang gambled on oil, Liu Yunxiang deliberately lost to Yang Tongchang and was sunk by a pig cage without dying, Hong Shang adopted the method of fund-raising to innovate and develop, Liu Tianchan operated the Hong oil hegemony, the National Oil Appraisal Conference... Every flood oil business war is full of mysteries and ups and downs.

It was precisely in the midst of this business war that the character image of a generation of Hong shang was shaped: Liu Yunxiang, the leader of the Hong shang, who was upright and awe-inspiring, confident, good at looking at the overall situation, and had the overall situation in mind; Yang Tongchang, who was cunning and fickle, always played his own small calculations, and was accustomed to being patient or even cowardly in the face of evil forces, but made the correct choice in the face of major right and wrong. Surrounding Liu Yunxiang and Yang Tongchang, two representative figures of Hongshang, the group portraits of people related to the Hongyou Shang War are portrayed: the brothers Yang Dajiang and Yang Erjiang, the second generation of Hongshang who are moving toward different paths in life, the sisters Liu Tianchan and Liu Tianjuan, the gan pickers and the patriarch of The Eight Waters who played an important role in the development of Hongshang, Luo Jishan, president of the Chamber of Commerce who made a fortune by operating opium special goods, colluded with the Japanese and warlords to suppress Hongshang, and Xu Anbang, who rose to power in various capacities and bullied Hongshang at different stages like a king of the city. The Japanese spy Fujiwara, disguised as a businessman... In the Narrative of the Hongshang Shang War composed of this series of characters, the family narrative and the revolutionary narrative are interlinked and fascinating.

In the face of various tests, Hong Shang, represented by Liu Yunxiang, has always adhered to the principle of "doing is craftsmanship, relying on conscience, keeping faith and righteousness, preferring to lose silver and not losing conscience", adhering to the spirit of "benefiting by righteousness, it is not personal interests, commercial interests, but the interests of the state", firmly adhering to the concept of "doing business in the world, you must have a word and nine words", and making a correct choice in the test of good and evil, righteousness and profit.

Weave "cities" and "merchants" into the tide of history

"A Generation of Hong Shang" depicts a long historical volume from the 1920s to the victory of the War of Resistance Against Japanese Aggression, and celebrates the spirit of struggle to find a way out for the country and the people. "The city can be known to control chaos; the business, can see the prosperity and decline." In the play, Liu Yunxiang once quoted Kang Youwei's words to express his views on "city" and "business". He pointed out to the point, "No matter how we seek perfection and how we punish us, they still don't leave us a way to live." In their eyes, we make oil, or untouchables." Every step of Hong Shang is to survive and develop in the cracks of history. "A Generation of Hong Shang" is based on the business, on the basis of telling the story of the Hong Shang, focusing on "kung fu outside the business", and constructing the story of the Hong Shang in a grand historical context.

Although the Hongjiang River is remote, it is the epitome of the great stage of history. Although the Hongjiang River is small, the Japanese Mitsui Foreign Firm, the American Mobil Foreign Firm, and the British Jardine Matheson & Co. have flocked to the river, especially the Japanese Mitsui Foreign Firm, which is actually preparing for the war of aggression under the pretext of doing the Hong oil business. The warlord forces and local forces represented by Xu Anbang have always put selfish interests in the first place, deceived and deceived themselves, and used all kinds of extremes to realize their own selfish interests. The second generation of Hong Shang, represented by Yang Dajiang and Yang Erjiang brothers and Liu Tianchan and Liu Tianjuan sisters, bravely marched forward for freedom and liberation on different life paths, even sacrificing their lives. Through Liu Yunxiang, the leader of Hongshang, the vision of the whole drama expands from Hongjiang to Changsha, Nanjing, Beiping and even overseas, and the important role of Hongshang in the historical process is vividly presented. The narration of the Changde Defense War and zhijiang airport reminds the audience of the great sacrifices and major contributions made by Hunan to the victory of the War of Resistance.

On the timeline of more than 20 years from the 1920s to the victory of the War of Resistance Against Japanese Aggression, "A Generation of Hong Shang" deeply weaves the "city" and "Shang" of Hong Shang into the tide and whirlpool of history, writes a big history in the history of Hong Shang, portrays the history of Hong Shang in the big history, and artistically writes a historical picture scroll, making today's audiences cover up and meditate.

Source: Beijing Daily