630,000 made into 36 episodes of TV series, the eternal memories of the 70s and 80s, but because of the ban into a loud sound

The day before yesterday with a small gathering with high school classmates, a female classmate sang a THEME SONG OF THE TV SERIES THAT HAS BEEN SEALED IN THE HEART FOR MANY YEARS: "Carrot's Arm / White Radish's Leg / Flower Heart's Face / Red Toot Mouth / Little Sister and Love Brother Pair / Knife Pressed on the Neck Without Regret / Love Brother ... Love brother ... ", a song that has not yet ended, bringing us to that simple and beautiful childhood.

A group of bear children crowded in front of a 17-inch black-and-white TV set, chattering to watch the TV series "The Legend of Kant's First Bodyguard", after watching the afterglow, they did not forget to learn the male protagonist Huo Diange to pose as an eight-pole fist to meet the enemy, and read: "Eight poles and eight poles, eight directions are far away!" ", chasing each other and playing with each other.

More than thirty years have passed, I don't know how many people still remember this classic TV series of the 80s "The Legend of Kant's First Bodyguard"?

01 Kant's first bodyguard - Huo Diange

At that time, I still knew very little, and I didn't know who Huo DianGe was. Because his surname is Huo, is a martial arts family, and Huo Yuanjia's son Huo Dongge has a heavy word, he treats him as Huo Yuanjia's son, and also shows off his children's version of reasoning everywhere, scaring adults are stunned, and now that they want to come, it is fun and funny!

Historically, Huo Diange did have his own person, and indeed his martial arts were exquisite, he was a generation of martial arts masters, the sixth generation of eight pole gate masters, and one of the top ten martial arts celebrities in Cangzhou, but he had no half-cent relationship with Huo Yuanjia. Huo Diange was a martial arts teacher and bodyguard of the last emperor Puyi. In 1934, Puyi changed the "national name" to "Manchurian Empire" and changed the "era name" to "Kant", and Huo Diange was also known as Kant's first bodyguard.

Huo Diange was born in Cangzhou, Hebei Province, which has been the hometown of martial arts since ancient times, and there are many masters. According to statistics, in the Ming and Qing dynasties, there were nearly two thousand martial artists and martial artists in Cangzhou. The martial artists and martial artists who obtained the martial arts had gone through the real sword and real gun competition, and those flower fist embroidered legs that sold art in the jianghu could not be compared at all.

Huo Diange's master is the martial arts master Li Shuwen, his martial arts have reached the pinnacle, famous at home and abroad, of which marksmanship and boxing are the most exquisite, the world is unparalleled, leaving a reputation in the jianghu as "gang fist without two blows, sharp gun Li Shuwen". When Huo Diange was a child, his body was thin, dark and thin, and he was not a material for martial arts training at all, and he was turned away by Li Shuwen. However, Huo Diange was not discouraged, and stood in front of Li Shuwen's door to request, for three consecutive days and three nights, rain or shine. Li Shuwen was finally touched by his persistence and accepted him as an apprentice.

Huo Diange cherished it very much, he studied and practiced diligently, not only mastering all the essence of the master's martial arts, but also innovating. After ten years of hard training, Huo Diange's original "divine gun" technique, whether it is accurate head or strength, is pure fire, out of the ordinary, to the point of inconceivable. One of the most amazing is that he once held a spear and stabbed the flies on the mirror one by one with lightning speed, and the mirror was intact.

After leaving the school, Huo Diange broke into the rivers and lakes, became famous, and founded the Guoshu Hall in Tianjin, collecting apprentices and passing on the art, promoting Chinese martial arts, and peach and plum all over the world.

At that time, the Qing Dynasty had collapsed, and Puyi, who had been expelled from Beijing by Feng Yuxiang, came to Tianjin and lived in the Japanese concession in Tianjin. Since Puyi was covered by Japanese, the bodyguards around him were naturally Japanese. But Puyi did not want to be controlled by the Japanese so dead, so he had the idea of hiring Chinese bodyguards.

Of course, the Japanese were not satisfied, and they swore to his excellency Huo Dian that they would destroy this Huo Dian Pavilion and let Puyi dispel the idea of changing bodyguards. Who would have thought that the two Japanese bodyguards would be beaten to the ground by Huo Diange to find teeth, and if they were not merciless under the gun, they would be strung together into sugar gourds.

In this way, Huo Diange successfully ascended to the throne. Later, at puyi's behest, he set up a guard army, and since most of this army was Huo Diange's apprentices, people called this guard army "Huo Family Army".

Huo Diange to protect Puyi's safety, dutiful, the Japanese are very jealous of the "Huo Family Army", every time they come to see Puyi are worried, which makes the Japanese very unhappy, they decided to get rid of this "Huo Family Army", the story gradually entered the climax.

02 almost miscarried

This film was filmed by the Newly Established Changchun Television Station, because a cadre of an organ came up with a script for the station director to pay for the filming of a martial arts TV series.

Changchun TV really read the script, written about the deeds of Huo Diange, the former bodyguard of the puppet Manchukuo emperor Puyi, when due to the success of "Shaolin Temple", martial arts films were becoming popular. And this TV series is filmed by Changchun TV. So the two sides hit it off, and the film crew was immediately set up to prepare for shooting.

Just when he was ready to start the camera, director Ji Xiaohei found that the script was "familiar": was this script not copied from Qi Tiexiong's novel "Emperor Wushi"? So, Ji Xiaohei found Qi Tiexiong. After Qi Tiexiong read the script, he copied it with a real hammer. Liu Mou quickly apologized and said: "I work in the judicial organs, and my future will be over if I know the law and break the law, please don't sue me, I can promise you anything." ”

Because of the plagiarism storm, a tv station director wanted to disband the film crew, but the upfront cost has already occurred a lot, and if the group loses a lot, it will definitely be very large, and finally have to shoot hard.

At that time, the shooting conditions were very difficult, there was no costume, only borrowed everywhere; there were few professional actors, the heroine was a martial arts enthusiast working in the post office; the costumes of the extras during the shooting process were full of loopholes, and when you turned over, you could see that the feet were wearing tourist shoes. The entire TV series was filmed, and the cost added up to only 630,000 yuan.

Even so, after all kinds of hardships and twists and turns, the 36-episode TV series "The Legend of Kant's First Bodyguard" met the audience in 1986, which was the first and longest TV series in China at that time, earlier than the TV series "Dream of the Red Chamber", creating a miracle and a classic.

03 finally became a final sound

"The Legend of Kant's First Bodyguard" aired and went on fire. The fate of the protagonist Huo Diange has become the topic of changchun people after tea and dinner, and even the song humming in his mouth is "the arm of the carrot, the leg of the white radish...". Television stations across the country rushed to exchange programs with Changchun Television (because of the shortage of funds at that time, each station could only exchange programs and had no money to buy programs), and even Beijing Television broadcast the drama on CCTV on the Chinese New Year's Eve night of the Spring Festival Gala.

As the saying goes, "people are not popular", and TV dramas are no exception. Just when "The Legend of Kant's First Bodyguard" was broadcast nationwide, screenwriter Qi Tiexiong received a summons from the Ministry of Radio, Film and Television, and "The Legend of Kant's First Bodyguard" was listed as "three major crimes". Indictment 1: The title of the play does not work. Kant is the era name of the puppet state of Manchukuo and cannot be named after it. Guilt 2: Huo Diange was the bodyguard of the "emperor" of the puppet state of Manchukuo, who belonged to the category of traitors and could not be praised. Guilt Three: Puyi wants to restore the Qing Dynasty through the Japanese, and the establishment of the puppet state of Manchukuo is a traitor, and cannot show the contradictions between him and the Japanese. Because of these three major crimes, the Ministry of Radio, Film and Television is ready to "ban" the drama.

At that time, even the cost of filming was not recovered, and Qi Tiexiong and the leaders of the Changchun Municipal Radio and Television Bureau and changchun television station were very anxious, and they ran to Beijing together, explaining the situation to the competent departments on the one hand, and finding acquaintances to dredge up relations. Finally, he found the deputy director in charge of the Ministry of Radio, Film and Television, went to his home to report on the work, asked for a grace period of time to recover the cost, and "relied" on the home without solving the problem.

In the end, the reasonable deputy minister agreed to give Changchun Television two months to release the drama and recover the cost of filming as soon as possible. Two months later, the Ministry of Radio, Film and Television sent a clear-code telegram to television stations across the country, announcing that "The Legend of Kant's First Bodyguard" would be suspended.

When you can no longer have it, the only thing you can do is to make yourself not forget. Now, we can only recall this childhood hit drama through some pictures and words, the "Legend of Kant's First Bodyguard", which once caused thousands of people, just like the sunny green years we once had, are gone.