At 7:30 tonight, the 81-episode large-scale historical legend drama "The Legend of Mi Yue", directed by the famous director Zheng Xiaolong, will land on Beijing Satellite TV and Oriental Satellite TV. From the main creator to the actor, the entire team of "The Biography of Mi Yue" is similar to "The Biography of Zhen Huan", and many viewers are asking: Can "The Biography of Mi Yue" surpass "The Biography of Zhen Huan"?
"The Legend of Mi Yue" Plot: The Story of Qin Shi Huang's Great-Grandmother
During the Warring States period, Mi Yue was the most favored little princess of King Chu Wei, but after the death of King Chu Wei, her life plummeted, her mother Xiang Shi was expelled from the palace after Chu Wei, and Mi Yue was used as a dowry for Princess Mi Shu to marry Qin Guo. When Mi Shu became the queen of the Qin kingdom, Mi Yue had to become a favored concubine. The original sisterhood was gradually split after Mi Yue gave birth to her son, Eun Seol. The sons competed for the throne, and the King of Qin died with regret. Mi Yue and her son were sent to the distant Yan kingdom. Unexpectedly, King Wu of Qin died in a state of chaos. Mi Yue returned to Qin with the help of Yiqu's military strength and quelled the internal unrest in Qin. Mi Yue's son Ying Ji ascended the throne as king, known in history as King Zhaoxiang of Qin, and Mi Yue became the first empress dowager in history, known as Empress Xuan, who listened to the government and ruled the state affairs of the Qin state for 41 years.
Mi Yue insisted on the Shang Martingale Transformation Law, insisted on reform, advocated national reunification, she let the Qin State out of the civil strife, turned the weak Qin into a strong Qin, the Qin State really had an invincible military force in her hands, so that the Six Kingdoms no longer had the strength to resist. More than 40 years after Mi Yue's death, Qin Shi Huang unified China. In a 2008 documentary about the Qin figurines, it was mentioned that the terracotta warriors may not have been built for Qin Shi Huang, but for Empress Qin Xuan.
Understand these historical facts and understand the "Biography of Mi Yue" better.
A "Biography of Zhen Huan" has made many people know the words "Zhen" and "Huan", and many viewers may be confused when they see the word "Zhen": Is this reading "half" or what?! It seems that Zheng Xiaolong is so fond of fighting with strange words. For the word "芈" in the title of the play, the poster is specially marked with pinyin - pronounced mǐ. It seems that I am afraid that everyone will not know or misread.
In fact, in addition to the word "芈", there are many strange words in the play, even the lead actor Sun Li is complaining, the first problem of playing "Mi Yue Biography" is a large number of strange words in the script, "not only the words, all the lines are very elaborate, when I first read the script, I read it with the Xinhua Dictionary, many words really don't know."
芈(mǐ)
In "The Legend of Mi Yue", the character played by Sun Li is named Mi Yue, and this "Mi" word makes most of the Chinese look dumbfounded, and there are many people who read the word "half"! Jiang Shengnan, the author of the original novel "The Biography of Mi Yue", said that she knew the character "芈" in the "Warring States Policy" and knew that "芈" was the ancestral surname of the Chu state. In 2008. Jiang Shengnan happened to see a popular science program in which an expert believed that the real owner of the Terracotta Warriors and Horses of Qin Shi Huang's Mausoleum was likely to be Qin Shi Huang's grandmother, who was also known as Empress Xuan. Later, a strange character was also found on the right arm of the excavated Qin figurines, which was initially considered to be a bold "spleen" character, and later the expert research believed that this word was actually two words, the left side was "moon", and the right side was the ancient "芈" character, which together was "Mi Yue". Experts also deduce that the name of the historical Empress Dowager Qi of Qin Xuan is likely to be the word "Mi Yue".
Liu Tao plays Mi Yue's older sister Mi Shu
Luo Weidong, a professor at the Institute of Chinese Characters at Beijing Language and Culture University, explained. The character "芈" was first recorded in the "History of the Chu Shijia", "Six of Lu's lifetime sons... Liu Yue Ji Lian, Qi surname, Chu qi hou also", that is, "Qi" is the ancestral surname of the Chu State, in the Spring and Autumn Warring States period, this word as a large surname in the Chu State is very common. According to the records, Qu Yuan took Qu as his surname because his ancestors were sealed in Quyi, and his surname was actually the ancestral surname of the Chu state "芈".
Eight sons
Empress Dowager Qin Xuan, the protagonist of "The Legend of Mi Yue". It is understood that there is no historical figure named Mi Yue in history, but there are indeed eight sons. Qi Bazi was the princess of Qin Huiwen Wang, surnamed Qi, born from the Chu State Gong clan, married to King Huiwen of Qin as a concubine, and was called Qi Bazi. Why is Mi Yue called Mi Bazi? "Eight sons" is equivalent to the title of harem, and it is not impossible to understand it as "nobleman" and "promise". It is reported that the "eight sons" were not high, and the rank of the emperor's concubines at that time was: empress, beauty, good person, eight sons, seven sons, long envoys, and young envoys. Therefore, the status is at most equivalent to the "concubine" in "The Biography of Zhen Huan"!
莒(jǔ)
In "The Legend of Mi Yue", Jiang Xin played the "Princess of Juguo" Ju Ji, and in "The Biography of Zhen Huan", Jiang Xin, who became a sworn enemy with Sun Li, played the "Princess of Juguo" this time and became Mi Yue's adoptive mother. In the content broadcast tonight, there are a lot of stories about Ju Ji, but Zheng Xiaolong said that this time Jiang Xin and Sun Li will not have a head-on confrontation, because Ju Ji is mainly with Xiao Mi Yue, in order to save Mi Yue, Ju Ji committed suicide.
Ju, in fact, is a place name. During the Spring and Autumn Period, the State of Ju was a vassal state of the Zhou Dynasty, located in the area of present-day Ju County, Shandong Province, and was destroyed by the State of Chu in 431 BC.
郢(yǐng)
Ying was the capital of the ancient Chu state, near present-day Jiangling County, Hubei Province.
In "The Biography of Mi Yue", Mi Yue and Mi Yue's sister Mi Shu (Liu Tao) are both princesses of the Chu state, Liu Tao marries King Huiwen of Qin (Qin Shi Huang's grandfather, Fang Zhongxin) as his wife, Mi Yue is his dowry, and the two people set off from Ying to the Qin Kingdom, thus opening the curtain on the story of "The Legend of Mi Yue".
媵(yìng)
Refers to the person who marries with and with marriage, a kind of marriage system of the Han people in the pre-Qin period, in the marriage of princes, the woman who marries as the main chamber is often the concubine of the prince, and its "concubine" is the daughter or daughter of the prince. In the "Biography of Mi Yue", Mi Yue is the concubine and concubine that Mi Shu followed when she married to the Qin Kingdom. Mi Shu became the queen of the Qin state, and Mi Yue became a favorite concubine.
穰(rǎng)
穰, place name, Chuyi during the Warring States period, present-day Dengzhou, Henan Province. Historically, Wei Ran was known as the Marquis of Yong (穰侯) because of his food.
In "The Legend of Mi Yue", actor Zhang Junhan played Wei Ran, the Marquis of Yong. Wei Ran is the half-brother of "Empress Xuan" Mi Yue, and although the two are half-siblings in the play, they have a strong relationship. During the nearly forty years of Mi Yue's reign, Wei Ran was promoted, and he was a minister four times in his life, with many henchmen, power and opposition, and quite prestigious. In history, Wei Ran was also a famous generation of warriors, who fought horses all his life, made great achievements in battle, "protected the white rise", "baohe mountains, surrounded the big beams, and made the princes take their hands and do things for Qin", which made great contributions to the unification of China by the Qin Dynasty. At the same time, Wei Ran and Sun Li will also have wonderful opponent scenes in the play, and the obscure and complex emotional entanglement of the two has also become a major attraction and highlight of the play.
樗 (chū)
The younger brother of The King of Qin, Li Liyi, was the uncle of Mi Yue's son Yingji. Because it was sealed in Lili (樗里, in present-day Weinan, Shaanxi), it was called Lili (樗里病) or 樗里子. Whether in the play or in history, Li Liyi is a wise character, good at words, more intelligent, and the Qin people call him "think tank". In "The Legend of Mi Yue", the role of Li Li is played by Song Jialun, and sun Li has a large number of rival scenes.
Quotient martingale transformation method
In the "Biography of Mi Yue", the person who Mi Yue married was King Huiwen of Qin, and the father of King Huiwen of Qin was the Duke Xiaogong of Qin who has always been mentioned in the history books. Qin Xiaogong appointed a famous minister Shang Martingale To change the law, Shang Martingale from the Wei state into Qin, and put forward a set of reform methods and new development strategies, such as abolishing well fields, heavy agriculture and sang, rewarding military merit, implementing unified measurement, and establishing a county system.
After the Shang martingale transformation method, the economy of the Qin state was developed, the combat effectiveness of the army was continuously strengthened, and it developed into the richest and strongest feudal state in the late Warring States period. It also laid the foundation for the future unification of Qin. However, the Shang Martingale Transformation Law touched the interests of the old nobles, so the Shang Martingale was split by the car and died. In the first episode broadcast today, Shang Martin, played by Shi Jingming, was punished by car splitting.
"Continuous horizontal" breaks "combined vertical"
Mi Yue and King Huiwen of Qin
After King Huiwen of Qin came to power, he continued to expand his power, causing panic in the other six countries. When Su Qin lobbied the Six Kingdoms to join forces to resist Qin, the long sword was used for self-defense. Su Qin single-handedly promoted the cooperation of the six kingdoms of Shandong, so that Qiang Qin did not dare to go out of the valley for fifteen years, and also matched the seal of the six kingdoms. Later generations admired his achievements and named the martial arts style after the "Su Qin Back Sword", which was even more taken from its meaning of vertical and horizontal. Another idiom "head overhanging beam, cone thorn stock" in the "thorn stock" is derived from the story of Su Qin's angry reading and learning when he was young. It is reported that Su Qin, played by Zhang Xiaoheng, will use wisdom and courage to help each other in time when Mi Yue, played by Sun Li, is in distress, and the wonderful rivalry between the two is also expected.
After that, the lobbyist Zhang Yi adopted the strategy of "long-distance and close attack" to lobby the more powerful Chu and Qi states of the Six Kingdoms to make friends with Qin, attack Korea and Wei together, and divide up the land. As a result, the State of Chu and the State of Qi were successively impressed, and the situation of "combining and indulging" was difficult to achieve. This incident directly caused Mi Shu (Liu Tao) to fall out of favor in "The Legend of Mi Yue". In the play, Zhang Yi is played by Zhao Lixin, and Zhang Yi and Mi Yue, played by Sun Li, have mutual pity for each other. Mi Yue has a life-saving grace for Zhang Yi, and Zhang Yi has also reached out to help her tide over the difficulties when there is a crisis in Mi Yue's life many times, and the two can be regarded as friends of life and death.
Sun Li: Zhen Huan is only a department manager Mi Yue is a CEO
The "Biography of Zhen Huan", broadcast in 2011, won unprecedented praise for Sun Li, who first challenged costume dramas, and Sun Li also claimed that "Zhen Huan will no longer act in costume dramas after that". However, Sun Li was still "untrustworthy", and when director Zheng Xiaolong found her with the script of "The Legend of Mi Yue", Sun Li, who had read the script, came out of the mountain again.
The theme of the first female politician in history, the super length of 81 episodes, the age span of more than 50 years, and the positioning of historical dramas all seem to indicate that "The Legend of Mi Yue" surpasses the ambition of "The Biography of Zhen Huan". In the promotional film, Sun Li sometimes gallops on the battlefield and sometimes goes to the court, but there are still many people who are worried that the original team may repeat themselves. Yesterday, in an exclusive interview with a reporter from Chengdu Business Daily, Sun Li domineeringly responded that Mi Yue must have surpassed Zhen Huan in all directions, she gave an example, from the perspective of the company, Zhen Huan is the department manager in the harem, Mi Yue is the CEO, "Mi Yue pattern is bigger, she is facing the country, ambition is to unify the country, so she does not care about the struggle between women, her ambition is greater." ”
Zheng Xiaolong is a good teacher and friend to Sun Li, and she has also mentioned many times that it is precisely because zheng Xiaolong, who previously said that "Zhen Huan will no longer act in costume dramas" before, took over "The Legend of Mi Yue". She admitted that before getting the script, she also had worries, "But when reading the script, I don't think of Zhen Huan, because it's so different, the crowd she faces is different." Zhen Huan is only facing women, women are crooked, today get some musk, the pattern is smaller, the pattern of Mi Yue is larger, facing a country, the ambition is to unify the country, and it does not care at all about the struggle between women. For example, she said that Zhen Huan is only the department manager in the company, but Mi Yue is the CEO, the level of management is different, and the level of daily thinking is different.
Sun Li said that "The Legend of Mi Yue" is not a bitter love drama. "It's called 'The Legend of Mi Yue', it's this role from beginning to end, every scene has me, the AB group is me, if I fall out of the crew, I have to stop work." 」 Under great pressure, Sun Li insomnia, every night must drink a little red wine to fall asleep, "when people are stressed, especially can eat, I am fat in this play, go home my own jeans are completely stretched, the pressure is too great, completely will make people obese." ”
After playing so many roles, Sun Li admitted that Mi Yue is the most difficult role in her current acting career, one of which is the line, and Sun Li's standard on the set is the Xinhua Dictionary. "Many words really don't know, you have to look up the dictionary, and some of the words are too complicated to know how to look them up." Your mouth can't keep up with your brain, because it's not like shooting modern dramas, slightly forgetting words, pausing, acting out a thinking posture, confusing, as if in the performance state, this slight pause is forgetting words, no discussion at all. The experience of memorizing lines was simply torturous for Sun Li, "I read it every day, and after reading it, I became particularly familiar with it and began to memorize it silently." I make a schedule for myself every day, and there are still ten days to shoot, and these ten days are desperately memorized. I don't even know how I got through five months, it's particularly difficult. ”
The Chengdu Business Daily reporter combed and found that in addition to the director, chief screenwriter and lead actor Sun Li, several leading actors of "The Biography of Zhen Huan" also returned in "The Biography of Mi Yue", and there was a "slutty person is a flirtatious" Hua Concubine Niangniang; Aunt Qin Xi, who was loyal to Zhen Huan and did not abandon Zhen Huan, and Zhen Huan's good sister Shen Meizhuang (Huan Xi).
However, the roles of the three are quite different from those in "The Biography of Zhen Huan", and the former rival Huafei becomes Mi Yue's adoptive mother in the new drama. Huan Xi, who has a rivalry with Sun Li, said that when the two perform together, they do feel very similar to "The Biography of Zhen Huan", "because I see a face that is too familiar, there is a similar feeling in the trance, and there will be a sense of substitution in the performance." ”
Chengdu Business Daily client reporter Qiu Junfeng