There are many famous scenes in "The Legend of Zhen Huan", such as "Dripping Blood Test", "Cuizui Hitting Fruit", "Baojuan, My Throat" and so on, and no matter how many times you watch it, there is nothing more poignant than the scene of "Concubine Hua's Sour Cucumber".
Concubine Hua can be said to be a soul figure in Zhen Huan's biography, and Concubine Hua played by Jiang Xin is really deeply rooted in the hearts of the people, showing Concubine Hua's willful pampering to the fullest, as well as the means and ruthlessness of competing for favor in the deep palace are also very well portrayed.
But she was deeply deceived by the emperor and kept using Huan Yixiang, resulting in lifelong infertility.
Concubine Hua saw that the other concubines all had children, she was both envious and anxious, and having no heirs was the deepest pain in Concubine Hua's heart, so she used to eat sour cucumbers to force herself to vomit to express her inner desire for children.
This section of Jiang Xin was shot very well, or in other words, except for her, no one can shoot it so well.
The dull eyes, the cute expression, the elastic cheeks, so many sour cucumbers stuffed into it, I feel that the apple muscles are trembling, it really makes people laugh, and the case is amazing.
One hand is not enough, but two hands are on the same page, and while eating, I thought: This pickled cucumber is not strong enough, why don't you vomit after eating so much?
Finally, Concubine Hua vomited, she was ecstatic, and forced Song Zhi to find the imperial doctor.
No matter how vicious Concubine Hua was before and after, whenever she saw this scene, she couldn't help but feel sad for her, and it was precisely because of this scene that the role of Concubine Hua was portrayed into a more three-dimensional one.
However, what most people don't know is that it is such a classic scene as "Concubine Hua Eats Sour Cucumbers", but when it was filmed, there was a lot of controversy, and it was not easy for this scene to be retained.
What the hell is going on?
Many people may not know that the screenwriter of "The Legend of Zhen Huan" is Wang Xiaoping, the wife of director Zheng Xiaolong.
Wang Xiaoping was a loyal reader of the novel "The Harem: The Legend of Zhen Huan" at that time, and when Zheng Xiaolong decided to make a different Qing court drama, his wife Wang Xiaoping recommended this novel to him.
And this novel is an alternate historical background, screenwriter Wang Xiaoping and the original author Liu Yuzi adapted the drama after more than a year.
After a lot of research, they implemented the dynasty in the Qing Dynasty, and the characters in the play also corresponded to historical figures, and adapted the original "costume romance idol drama" into a "historical conspiracy drama" with reference to some historical facts.
When everything was ready to start filming, the busiest in the crew, in addition to the actors, there were also directors and screenwriters, Wang Xiaoping followed the team throughout the whole process, and she and Director Zheng Xiaolong can be said to have quarreled from the start of the film to the day when all the staff were finished.
The scene where Concubine Hua eats pickled cucumbers to induce vomiting has a big story.
At that time, Jiang Xin had a deep understanding of the character of Concubine Hua, and she thought that Concubine Hua had been obsessed with it for many years, that is, to give birth to a son to the emperor.
And there is an old Chinese saying "sour children and spicy girls", so the strong and urgent desire to get pregnant in Concubine Hua's heart has to be expressed by "eating sour cucumbers".
Therefore, before filming this scene, Jiang Xin told screenwriter Wang Xiaoping and director Zheng Xiaolong his thoughts to discuss whether to add this scene.
Who knew that Zheng Xiaolong was very disdainful, he said: This is too pediatric, what kind of pickled cucumber to eat is nothing, the audience will think this woman is very strange.
However, Wang Xiaoping was very supportive of Jiang Xin's idea, and she argued: "No matter how noble Concubine Hua is, she is also a woman, and eating sour cucumbers is consistent with the character's personality." ”
Zheng Xiaolong refused to admit defeat, because he felt that it was impossible for an arrogant character like Concubine Hua to make such a neurotic move as eating sour cucumbers, so he directly counterattacked: This behavior is a neurosis, which is really incomprehensible.
The couple began to quarrel on the set, and were finally dumbfounded by Wang Xiaoping's sentence "Everyone is equal in front of the truth", Zheng Xiaolong chose to compromise and filmed this paragraph.
However, after "The Legend of Zhen Huan" was broadcast, what he didn't expect was that this additional drama, which he was not optimistic about at that time, eventually became a classic in the play.
Many people say that there is no Concubine Hua after Jiang Xin.
Indeed, Jiang Xin has played the role of Concubine Hua to the extreme, and Zheng Xiaolong has praised Jiang Xin more than once as the best actor in "The Legend of Zhen Huan".
An excellent TV series is inseparable from the director and screenwriter, but it is also inseparable from the accurate performance of the actors, Sun Li's Zhen Huan, Jiang Xin's Concubine Hua, Cai Shaofen's queen, Tao Xinran's An Lingrong, and Huanxi's Shen Meizhuang...... , is one of the reasons why this work is a god.