Similar to the Qixia Revival Village introduced yesterday, the Jiaodong Village to be introduced this time has also been the location of film and television works.
In the 1980s, many films with rural themes were filmed on the Jiaodong Peninsula, such as "Xiyingmen" and "Our Cow Hundred Years Old".
Among them, the filming location of "XiyingMen" includes Qixia, Fukuyama, and Pingdu. The filming locations of "Our Cow 100 Years Old" are Rongcheng, Weihai, Yantai and so on.
The village to be introduced in this article is one of the filming locations of "Our Cattle Hundred Years Old", which is Beilu Village in Qiaotou Town, Huancui District, Weihai City (Note: The zoning of Qiaotou Town has changed many times, and after the latest adjustment meeting, this belongs to Huancui District).
Beilu Village is located along the 303 Provincial Highway, after passing through Caomiaozi Town and then to the east, after crossing a large slope, you can come here.
I believe that many friends in other counties and cities will wonder when they see the name "Beilu", what does it mean? We also learned after entering the village to inquire that "Beilu" was originally a one-word title after the merger of the two villages.
Previously, the names of the two villages were Beikou and Lujiazhuang. They were so close to each other that they were now basically connected, and only the old people of the village knew the location of the boundary. In the 1940s, the two villages merged, and the new village was named impartially, each taking a word and calling it "Beilu Village". It is worth mentioning that although there was originally a "Lujiazhuang", the village is actually dominated by the surname Of Liu (no detailed genealogical origin records have been seen for the time being), in addition to some other surnames.
Beilu is a specialized village of apple growing, and next to the village, are connected orchards. Now it is the busy period of fruit tree bagging, we have been in the village for half a day to meet an old uncle, which can ask for the details of the film shooting that year.
The old uncle was just over seventy years old, and when the film was filmed, he was only thirty years old (according to the records of "Rongcheng City Chronicle", in 1982, zhao Huanzhang, a famous director of Shanghai Film Studio, cooperated with Rongcheng writer Yuan Xueqiang to adapt Yuan Xueqiang's novella "The Footsteps of the Croppers" into a film script, which was changed seven times and began filming in June 1983, and the film was renamed "Our Cow Hundred Years Old"). According to him, there was a river ditch on the north side of Beilu Village at that time, where the crew had filmed a footage of carrying a child across the river. There is a stone arch near the village office square, and the area after passing under the door is the main filming place. In addition, there is a scene in the film drawing water by the well, and the shooting location is also beilu village. Later, when the movie was released, many villagers saw these scenes related to the village at a glance.
Nearly forty years have passed since 1983. During this period, the appearance of Beilu Village has also undergone considerable changes. The houses in the village are secondary, and the intuitive example is the nearby orchard.
The large-scale promotion of apple tree planting in the rural areas of Jiaodong was also in the early 1980s. Listening to the introduction of the old uncle, when the movie was filmed, there were not many orchards in the village, and now it has experienced the upgrading of the three stubble varieties of Guoguang, Beidou and Red Fuji. Today's Beilu Village is also a famous apple producing area on the outskirts of Weihai. Every year, during the two time periods of fruit tree blossoming and apple harvesting, guests from outside either come to watch the scenery or come to harvest the fruit, and the village will be very lively.