In the 1980s and 1990s, in addition to the original pop music that swept the world, Guangdong also produced many classic local TV dramas, and Zi Ai brought everyone to a wave of memories to kill, relive the Zhengrong years, and pay tribute to Cantonese classics:
I. "The Legend of Shrimp Ball"
It is the first TV series produced by Guangdong Television. Shot in 1981, 80 episodes. Starring Zhong Hao, Mai Wenyan, Lu Haichao and Shan Zenghong, Lu Haichao, an artist of the Guangdong Cantonese Opera Troupe, played the villain Crocodile Head for the first time, which was the big news of the local literary and art circles at that time. Based on the novel of the same name by the famous Guangdong writer Huang Guliu, the drama is the second TV series produced by Chinese mainland!
The shooting scenes of "Shrimp Ball" are all familiar places for lao Guang: shrimp balls are home in Guangzhou Stone Room, and the place where he sells bread is Taiping Bridge on Renmin Road in Guangzhou; because it is impossible to reproduce the appearance of Hong Kong in that year, the long-range shots of Hong Kong were filmed in the direction of Macao in Zhuwan Tsai; the shots of the seaside were also filmed in Zhuhai... Because many local neighbors have read the "Shrimp Ball" novel and are familiar with the story, the enthusiasm for participation is extremely high.
In 1982, "The Legend of Shrimp Ball" was broadcast on Guangdong Television and quickly became popular all over the country, and the drama successfully shaped the glorious image of Shrimp Ball growing from a poor wandering teenager to a revolutionary fighter. The "crocodile head" played by the famous local actor Lu Haichao in the play is more deeply rooted in the hearts of the people. When the film was broadcast in Shanghai, it was very popular! Later, Hong Kong Television purchased the broadcast rights of the film, and "Shrimp Ball" became the first mainland TV series to successfully enter Hong Kong and Southeast Asia. The era of Cantonese TV dramas has thus arrived.
"Shrimp Ball Biography" was first broadcast in Cantonese, and later dubbed in Mandarin by Shanghai Film Translation and Production Factory, broadcast on CCTV, which immediately triggered a frenzy of drama chasing! "They all say that the sea is bitter and salty, and who knows the sorrow and bitterness of the wandering." The theme song "Wandering Son" sung by Cheng Fangyuan brought tears to people's eyes and was widely sung.
From its birth to its dissemination, "Shrimp Ball Biography" has both distinctly and profoundly embodied the cultural traditions of the Guangdong-Hong Kong-Macao Greater Bay Area with the same roots and veins, and the life and customs of Lingnan in the book have become the collective memory of generations of readers in the Greater Bay Area.
"Shrimp Ball Biography" has the temperament of the guangdong and Hong Kong region. The colorful life in the work, the ups and downs of the plot, the simple and concise language, especially the clever, kind and chivalrous image of the teenager "shrimp ball", like a fresh southern morning wind blowing into thousands of households, caused great repercussions among the audience in the Lingnan area. "Shrimp Ball Legend" can become a generation of classics, inseparable from the authentic and strong Guangdong and Hong Kong style in the works!
In February 1983, on Friday nights, Atv Hong Kong broadcast "Shrimp Ball", the first time that a mainland-produced TV series had been broadcast in Hong Kong. Lu Haipeng, a well-known Actor in Hong Kong, also watched this TV debut starring his younger brother Lu Haichao. "He said that I wasn't excited enough in the scene after the shrimp ball burst, too Sven, haha." After the two brothers met and talked about the performance, Lu Haichao humbly accepted his brother's insight.
Zhong Hao, played by Shrimp Ball, regards "Shrimp Ball Legend" as a masterpiece of his acting career! A few years after filming this play, he changed his career to directing, directing stage plays, children's plays, and dramas, and was quite famous in the industry.
II. "Kaleidoscope"
The drama is a TV series of 158 episodes broadcast by Guangdong Television in 1986. Starring Lu Niu, Guo Chang, Lin Xingyun, Kong Xianzhu, Chen Brigitte and other local artists. "Kaleidoscope" is the first short drama column in China to operate the series of short dramas as an independent TV drama art style and has a national influence.
The show was launched to rave reviews. The plot revolves around the interesting things that happened between the neighbors of a street in Guangzhou and the surrounding neighborhood colleagues, the Cantonese language is funny and funny, the form is flexible, and the new appearance of Cantonese people who have just entered the new development era is vividly interpreted.
After its launch, "Kaleidoscope" became a famous brand column for elegant and popular appreciation, and was one of the most well-known, most widely popular and most advertising-oriented brand programs in the guangdong TV repertoire type. The popularity of "Kaleidoscope" not only made the actors of the play popular, but also triggered the "kaleidoscope phenomenon" to attract the attention of peers in other provinces and cities.
3. "Miss Public Relations"
In 1989, the TV series written by Kwong Jianren, directed by Huang Jialiang, and starring Zhang Shen, Sarengova and Zhang Qing won many awards such as the Ninth National "Golden Eagle Award for Popular Television" outstanding feature-length series. It is a TV drama with the main theme reflecting the achievements of Guangdong's reform and opening up. According to the style of Hong Kong and Taiwan dramas, it is also called fashion dramas.
Most of the "Miss Public Relations" is a live-action shooting, almost the corners and corners of the China Hotel and the Oriental Hotel are filmed, and the Hong Kong villas that appear on TV are filmed in Dongguan. The drama was a popular TV series in the country at the time, and it is said that the highest rating reached 90%. The dress of the heroine has also become synonymous with fashion.
"Miss Public Relations" made an image advertisement for Guangzhou, not only has advanced public relations concepts and hotel management methods, the style of professional women in Guangzhou, but also the style of Guangzhou metropolis, not only the bustling scenes of hotels, shopping malls and streets, but also the life scenes of Lingnan culture such as eating boat porridge by the river, queuing for morning tea, and visiting the flower market during the New Year.
Although the protagonists in the play are the seven public relations ladies of the hotel, through their boyfriends, the self-employed, taxi drivers, peasant college students, soldiers, entrepreneurs and other typical figures with local characteristics of Guangzhou have pushed their vision to Guangzhou, so that the vibrant Guangzhou has brushed its face in front of the people of the whole country.
"Miss Pry" also reflects the new things that have emerged in Guangzhou. For example, the scene of the first "Beauty in the Flower City" competition appeared in the TV series.
4. "Gone with the Wind in Hong Kong"
It is a very classic TV series filmed by Guangdong Television in 1990. Starring Guo Chang, Zhang Qing, Yuan Mei, Xu Jin and so on. Guo Chang is the actor of Kang Qizong, the second brother of the Kang family, the soul character in the drama of "Foreign Daughter-in-law Local Lang"!
The play tells the story of the sadness and joy of the two sisters of the Zhou family. The sister is called Xu Yanxiang, the younger sister is called Zhou Biying, separated from childhood, the sister is exiled to the people, working as a maid and waitress, while the younger sister was educated abroad and came back to become a popular female star, and the two sisters each have a jade pendant carved from a piece of jadeite, which can be put together to match the pattern.
Mr. Zhou has a very loyal housekeeper. Zhou's second wife, Zhou Biying's biological mother, framed the eldest wife, Xu Yanxiang's biological mother, and the housekeeper for adultery in order to seize the inheritance, and Xu was born of adultery, and in mid-week Ji wrote a will to leave the inheritance to the second wife, and expelled the housekeeper, eldest daughter and eldest wife from the house. The second wife then conspired with her lover to kill Old Master Zhou, who was discovered by the former housekeeper and Pastor Yuan before his death, modified the will, and left the inheritance to the two daughters, but it took two jade pendants to be put together before they could be taken out... The plot twists and turns are bizarre and gripping!
V. "Alien Sister"
Directed by Cheng Hao in 1991, written by Xie Lihong and Cheng Hao, and starring Chen Xiaoyi, Tang Zhenzong, Yang Qing, Chang Rong, Li Ting, Shao Xiaowei, etc., it is the first emotional drama that reflects the story of migrant workers. In the early days of reform and opening up, Guangdong was a paradise for young people in many provinces and cities in the mainland yearned for. The drama mainly tells the story of six young people who come to Guangdong to work from the poor mountain ravine Zhao Jia'ao, who come to Guangdong with a dream and hope to change their fate through part-time work.
The drama closely follows the pulse of the times, and in the era of reform and turmoil, it cuts into such a topic, and the attention is extremely high. The TV series won the Feitian Award.
The theme song of "Foreign Sister" "I Don't Want to Say" made Yang Yuying even more angry, and every time she hears this song so far, many foreigners can easily recall the youth of working in major factories in Guangdong.
VI. "Love full of pearl river"
In 1994, it was directed by Wang Jin and Yuan Shiji, and starred Zuo Ling, Weizi and Chen Rui. The drama tells the bittersweet and bittersweet stories of a group of intellectuals in the past few decades, the bitter stories of going to the countryside in the 1970s, the rushing journey encountered when returning to the city in the 1980s, and the joys and sorrows of entrepreneurship during the reform and opening up period. In the play, the epoch-making changes based on the transformation of an electric fan factory in the south from a small factory in a township to an international group, the art recreates the sharp change process of Chinese and China's economic pain. This is also the epitome of the era when countless enterprises in Guangdong have gone through hardships to flourish.
In the play, the heroine Liang Shuzhen is diligent and self-disciplined, and eventually becomes a strong woman in the enterprise, she is a model of the goddess of the generation. And the male protagonist Lin Bicheng not only conceited but also failed her, which was the representative of the scumbag at that time.
"Love Full of Fragrant River" is a large-scale production work with the main theme, excellent shooting techniques, rich plot content and free acting skills, the TV series has won the first prize of the Feitian Award, the Five One Project Award and the Golden Eagle Award, three national awards!
VII. "Cold and Warm Two Hearts"
It is a TV drama jointly produced by Guangdong Television and Foshan Television in the early 1990s and broadcast on Pearl River Television. The drama is performed by local actors from Guangdong such as Xuan Zhihong, Yang Jianwei, Wu Yuanbiao, Lu Niu, Lin Xingyun, etc., and takes the rural areas of Guangdong from the 1970s to the early reform and opening up as the main line. The rich rural taste and the plot that fits the rural life make countless post-70s and 80s reminisce endlessly! The lush banyan trees, the pond where the ducks splash, the ancestral hall of the clans, the cattle farming, the water fetching by the river, the laundry and other pictures are very authentic and the local atmosphere of the rural areas of Guangdong in the old days, which is deeply loved by the Guangdong audience.
The heroine of the drama is The Guangdong audience is very familiar with the "Foreign Daughter-in-law Local Lang" played Miss Tang's Xuan Zhihong, the main story of the heroine Qin Di intellectual's husband Liang Yaomin, even overnight to flee to Hong Kong, after being discovered, the night sounded a gunshot, Qin Di thought that her husband had encountered an accident ... In this way, the husband and wife were separated for more than 30 years. The husband's "death", Qin Disheng has no love. Qin Di's sister Xiang Di had no children, so Qin Di gave her son Liang Xinmin, who was still in her infancy, to her sister, and then walked quietly to the edge of the pond and slowly walked into the depths of the pond...
The fisherman Shrimp Uncle rescued her, and then Qin Di lived a new life with Uncle Shrimp, who was called a leper by the villagers. Time flies, Zhu Xinmin grows up under the tutelage of Wandi (her husband's surname is Zhu), and then a series of stories occur. During this period, Qin Di met Yi Di by chance, and the sisters recognized each other, but Qin Di did not allow Qin Di to recognize Xinmin. Xinmin married and had a daughter, and then Xinmin still knew that his biological mother was Qindi.
Later, Uncle Shrimp died of illness. Later, Leung Yiu-min returned from Hong Kong, and the Qin Di family was finally reunited.
VIII. "The Richest Man's Home"
The drama began filming in 1994 and was officially broadcast in 1995, which was deeply loved by the majority of the audience, and became the first TV series in the ratings of Guangdong Television, and has been exchanged and broadcast on CCTV and many provincial and municipal television stations in China. The male protagonist of the drama is Su Zhidan, who played Kang Qiguang in "Foreign Daughter-in-law Local Lang". The main filming location of the drama is in the Donghai Villagers Group of Xian Sha Village, Gaobu Town, Dongguan.
"The Richest Man's Home" is an inspirational story depicting the township youth who rely on the pioneering spirit to successfully start a business step by step and become excellent private entrepreneurs. The male protagonist from the countryside opened a factory in the city and became the richest man in the village, and there were both envy and jealousy and blows in the village. The wife of the male protagonist is a more pungent and rustic woman living in the countryside, but loyal to the marriage and family.
9. "Sand Cook Brothers"
In 1995, pearl river tv broadcast "ShaJiao Brothers", starring guangdong local artists. Among them, Su Zhidan, who played Ah Guang in "Foreign Daughter-in-law Local Lang", played Abang in "Sha Cao Brothers", and Ruan Xinghang played the thinnest little brother and other four people were worshiped as Sha Cao brothers. It seems that the second brother kicked away the big guy Ah Bang as the manager, and the little brother played by Ruan Xinghang went astray in the play and became a Daoist friend.
10. "Uncle Le and the Shrimp Boy"
This is a comic sketch drama, Uncle Le is a retired tea house worker with a cheerful and witty personality, no matter whether it is sunny or cloudy, he always likes to carry an umbrella with him, and he also has a martial arts; Shrimp Boy is a lively and clever preschooler, and also shaves a trademark "comma head", full of joy. This best partner of the old and the young, who loves to fight unevenly, has simply become a spokesman for the kind and upright people of Guangzhou who love and hate and judge right and wrong.
11. "Heroes Have No Regrets"
The drama is co-produced by Guangdong Television, Pearl River Film Factory and CCTV. Directed by He Mengfan and Deng Yuan, the criminal investigation and anti-corruption TV series was performed by Pu Cunxin, Yuan Li, Li Ting, Zhang Liwei and others.
This main theme TV series has successfully shaped the positive image of the Guangdong police. Among them, Pu Cunxin played Gao Tian, the public security bureau chief who is upright, jealous and hateful, and impartial in enforcing the law in this drama, which is a police masterpiece that promotes heroism in the wave of reform and shows the spirit of Lingnan police culture. The plot is thrilling and intricate, and the heroes and children are tender like water and iron bones.
This film won the "Five One Project" Outstanding TV Series Award of the Central Propaganda Department, the first prize of the 16th National Television Drama "Feitian Award" long-form series, and the Outstanding Screenwriter Award.
Standing at the forefront of reform and opening up in Guangdong, the development of local Cantonese TV dramas has been very brilliant, and the level of television production has also been ahead of other parts of the country, just like the original popular music in Guangdong in the 1980s and 1990s.
The reason why Guangdong local TV dramas attract Guangdong audiences is because the plot is close to life, especially the catchy Cantonese dialogue, which makes people feel intimate and natural! And the director, actors and creative staff are very attentive, very dedicated, superb acting, not pretentious!
Since the beginning of the 21st century, Guangdong TV programs such as "Foreign Daughter-in-law Local Lang", "Riding the Dragon Fast Son-in-Law", "Urban Laughing Mouth Group", "Seventy-two Tenants" and other mainly focus on lingnan-style fireworks life and witty and humorous sitcoms. I hope to see more TV series or local Cantonese programs with excellent Lingnan culture!
However, it is gratifying that the TV series "The Legend of the Towel Lady", which is based on the life of the hero Of The Scarf, has been grandly launched and filmed in full swing in the hometown of Mrs. Xian of Gaozhou, Maoming, and is expected to start broadcasting this year. Different from the general court drama, martial arts drama, and grotesque cross-over drama, the drama adopts the filming method of the movie, jumps out of the routine of the previous TV series, and narrates the extraordinary life of the Lady of Lingnan- Lady Xian with a bright rhythm.
Lady Xian devoted her life to national unity and national unity, and in the spirit of "only with one good heart", she experienced the three dynasties of "Liang, Chen and Sui", so she was respected by all the kings. Premier Zhou Enlai highly called him "the first hero of China"! Her life is full of legends. The plot climaxes and twists and turns, and it is a TV series with a clear theme, rich educational significance, suitable for all ages, and elegant and popular.
"The Legend of the Scarf" is directed by the famous director Jian Chen. Director Chen Jian has directed well-known domestic works such as "Bright Sword" and "Lady Xiangxiang".
Mrs. Sin culture is an outstanding representative of Lingnan culture and an important part of the excellent traditional culture of the Chinese nation.
The Lady Sin Memorial Hall has been full of incense for many years. Locals who love Lingnan culture are familiar with Mrs. Sin. Foreign tourists who know the deeds of Lady Sin will also go to the Gaozhou Lady Sin Temple to worship every trip to Maoming.
Guangdong Maoming historical celebrity - Mrs. Xian has both the gentleness and intelligence of a woman, the bravery, wit, perseverance of a boy, and a strong sense of home and country! The TV series "The Legend of the Wash Lady" is very worth looking forward to!
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