Elephant News Andying.com reporter Wu Jingjing
Rain gives birth to a hundred valleys, is for the valley rain. On the evening of April 20, the second program of Henan Radio and Television's "Chinese Festival" series", "The Adventures of Gu Yu", arrived as scheduled, telling a warm, hazy and romantic fantasy story, leading the audience into a journey of perception of a better life. In this last festival of spring, the creators of "The Adventures of Valley Rain" hope to use "the last adventure of spring" to present the growth and prosperity of all things brought by the valley rain on the earth, and also depict a valley rain in people's inner world, fade away anxiety and find beauty. The picture of the frame can be used as wallpaper has also made netizens marvel, and they have expressed their desire to "pack and take away the spring in Xinyang".
Take you to the rainy season of the valley on the earth
Valley rain is the last festival of spring, taken from the "rainy hundred grains", which means that the rain is moist, the temperature rises, the farmers are gradually prosperous, the fields are busy sowing seeds, and the mountains are busy picking tea. Green buds cooking rain wake up poetry dreams, tea garden floating incense swaying thoughts. Guyu is a reflection of the festivals in ancient farming culture, and there are rich traditional festival customs in the folk. In "The Adventures of Gu Yu", it is against the background of the custom of picking gu yu tea that this adventure story is created.
As the second program of "Chinese Festivals", it follows the perspective of Mr. Jieqi's "Illusion Space" to observe and narrate, the Big Dipper Seven Star Pointer points to the valley rain, Mr. Jieqi takes a cloud, squeezes out the rain, and boils rain Sencha...
As soon as the camera turns, the spring light of the mountains and rivers in the world is corresponding, and in the Tea Mountain of Xinyang, Henan, the eyes are full of new green. In this heart-warming mountain scenery, Lu Yu (played by Tong Mengshi), an advertising director who is busy shooting tasks, has no time to enjoy the beautiful scenery in front of him because of the pressure of work. Suddenly, his eyes lost their color, only black and white, unconsciously following a piece of tea, the road forward, into a tea garden secret, met the tea picking woman Ye Jia (Chen Turing)...
Chen Lei, the general director of the "Chinese Festival" series, revealed that when conceiving this story, he used "Peach Blossom Origin" as a reference to tell a modern life version of "Tea Garden Notes" in a relaxed and clear way.
The beautiful scenery that netizens praised was Xinyang, Henan, and the program team came to Xinyang Tea Mountain to shoot this time. On April days on earth, the 10,000 acres of tea mountains here are rolling and rolling, endless, and the emerald green vitality seems to extend to the sky. The overall picture color of "The Adventures of Gu Yu" presents a green and refreshing atmosphere, when the audience follows Lu Yu, chases a flying tea, crosses the tea alley path, crosses the stream, and enters the "suddenly cheerful" pastoral secret.
When Lu Yu and Ye Jia sit by the babbling stream, the flexible background music brings the breath of spring, as the plot advances, the camera switches, the rain drips, the ducks play in the water, the red flowers bloom in the mountains, from the scenery of the tea mountain to the tea island in the lake, the audience also appreciates the leisurely nature of the mountain village countryside in the late spring.
The original song "Late Spring Rainfall" at the end of the program also depicts such a romantic life: "The twilight spring season is the most difficult to give up, the hair tip is green and good color, a bud and a leaf jump on the paper, the spring is the most flexible pen and ink ..."
Let you perceive the good life that is happening
Guyu is at the turn of spring and summer, and in the past traditional farming era, it was an important festival to guide the sowing of crops, and it was also full of beautiful symbols of vigorous growth. At the time of the planning of "The Adventures of Gu Yu", the main creative team combined the connotation of solar terms characteristics and determined the theme of "good life" as the theme of this program, "When doing this series of programs, we hope to fully excavate the connotation of solar terms culture, so as to get close to the story of modern life and find the emotional resonance of the past and the present." ”
Compared with the direct popular science story presentation in the first program of "Chinese Festival", "The Adventures of the Spring Equinox", the expression of "The Adventures of Gu Yu" is more subtle, starting from the perspective of modern people, telling a story of being in trouble, looking for answers, and getting out of the predicament, which seems to be completely out of the festival itself, but in the depths of emotion, it actually contains the philosophy that is closely related to the connotation carried by the festival.
In the secret place of the tea garden, Lu Yu wanted to experience the roasting of tea, but because he could not distinguish the color, the more he fried, the more impatient he became, and his hands were in a hurry. Can't see the color, is there no way? Inspired by Ye Jia, Lu Yu tried to perceive the world with his perception, and the color was restored in front of his eyes... Chen Lei introduced that this is a story of looking inward for answers, "Many times the problem is not from the outside, but from our hearts, when the inside changes, maybe everything has changed." ”
Valley rain, in this late spring and summer season, the temperature rises, the amount of rain increases, it is the time to seize the sowing, the crops are moistened by the rain, vigorous growth, thriving. In modern society, people's lives are gradually drifting away from the solar terms, and in the fast and high-pressure rhythm of life day after day, it seems that they have no intention of paying attention to the changes of nature and ignoring the gifts brought by nature. "The Adventures of Gu Yu" uses such a story to present a quiet and beautiful spiritual home with the tea garden as the image, "We hope to be able to use such a delicate and warm story to bring the audience a sense of calmness and a beautiful hope of 'sudden enlightenment'." ”
Chen Lei introduced that in the program, the woman Ye Jia, who transformed into tea, originated from the allusion of the strange text "Ye Jia Biography" written by Su Shi for tea in an anthropomorphic techniques, and the emotions expressed in the original work advocating nature and indifference and tranquility have also become one of the ingenuity implied in "The Adventures of Gu Yu". "Not only that, there are many details in the film, from the greenery of a tea garden to the sweetness of a new cup of tea, what we hear, see, smell, touch, and drink, all of which reflect our desire to find the strangeness that modern people are familiar with the festival."
At the end of the show, an open-ended ending is adopted, leaving room for the audience to imagine. But as it says: "The rain falls for a long time, and the beauty happens." "Don't forget to seize the last spring time to feel the good life that is happening.