On October 10, 1911, in Wuchang, Hubei Province, gunfire broke out, and the Xinhai Revolution, which shocked the world, broke out. The Xinhai Revolution overthrew the Qing Dynasty and ended the absolute monarchy that had ruled China for thousands of years, becoming one of the most historic events in China in the 20th century.
Today, the time has passed the 110th anniversary, when China, which was poor and weak, has also stood up, become rich and strong, and Dr. Sun Yat-sen's beautiful vision of rejuvenating China is becoming a reality. The flames are far away, but the spirit lives on. On the occasion of commemorating the 110th anniversary of the Xinhai Revolution, let us return to that turbulent era through film and television programs, and remember the group of benevolent people who sacrificed their lives for righteousness.
<h1 class="pgc-h-arrow-right" data-track="9" > "The Great Cause of Party Building"</h1>
Release date: 2011-06-15
Director: Han Sanping / Huang Jianxin
Writers: Dong Zhe/ Guo Junli / Huang Jianxin
Genre: Movie
Starring: Liu Ye / Feng Yuanzheng / Zhang Jiayi / Chen Kun / Ma Shaohua and so on
Introduction: "The Great Cause of Party Building" is a tribute film produced to celebrate the 90th anniversary of the founding of the Communist Party of China. The film narrates a series of major historical events in China in the 10 years from the outbreak of the Xinhai Revolution in 1911 to the first national congress of the Communist Party of China in 1921, which is roughly composed of three parts: the uprising of the early Ming Dynasty, the May Fourth Movement and the founding of the Cpc.
In the winter of 1911, Sun Yat-sen returned from overseas and became the provisional president of the Republic of China on January 1 of the following year. At the same time, Mao Zedong joined the New Army. Soon, Yuan Shikai, with his strong military strength and prestige in the imperial family, obtained the status of Grand Marshal from Sun Yat-sen, and the Beiyang government was established. In October of the same year, the Chinese Nationalist Party was founded.
In the summer of 1914, the First World War broke out, and in 1915, Yuan Shikai and Japan made a secret covenant of twenty-one articles and changed the national system, declaring himself emperor of the Chinese Empire, and since then embarked on a road of no return. Sun Yat-sen and Cai Yi set up a national defense army and sent troops to court Yuan. Soon Yuan Shikai died in national condemnation. Later, with the failure of Zhang Xun's restoration, China entered a chaotic situation of warlord division. Although Mao Zedong, Li Dazhao, Zhou Enlai and others were in different places, they were all thinking about the road to saving the country and saving the country, and the meeting of fate was coming.
People's Daily commented on the movie "The Great Cause of Party Building":
The film uses montage techniques to reproduce the turbulent history of that period, and relives the arduous process of the older generation of revolutionary martyrs who went through all kinds of difficulties and unremitting struggles to save the people and the water and fire, and in order to save the country and nation in distress, and finally founded the Communist Party of China, which is a good patriotic education for those of us who were born in the new society and bathed in the party's favor.
<h1 class="pgc-h-arrow-right" data-track="150" > Towards a Republic</h1>
Release Date: 2003-04-12
Director: Zhang Li
Writers: Sheng Heyu/Zhang Jianwei
Starring: Wang Bing / Lü Zhong / Ma Shaohua / Sun Chun / Li Guangjie, etc
Genre: TV series
Introduction: The end of the 19th century to the beginning of the 20th century was a few decades of change for China. "Toward the Republic" tells the modern history of China in the 30 years from the return of Empress Dowager Cixi to the Guangxu Emperor at the end of the Qing Dynasty to the defeat of Yuan Shikai in the early Min dynasty, including the Western Affairs Movement, the Sino-Japanese Sino-Japanese War, the Penghu Reform Law, the Gengzi Fist Rebellion, the New Deal after Gengzi, the Xinhai Revolution, the Second Revolution, and Zhang Xun's Restoration. The play also focuses on historical figures such as Empress Dowager Cixi, Li Hongzhang, Yuan Shikai, and Sun Yat-sen.
"Toward the Republic" presents the magnificent and difficult process of the Chinese nation's overthrow of the imperial system and the march towards the republic with epic artistic brushstrokes.
<h1 class="pgc-h-arrow-right" data-track="152" > "Xinhai Revolution"</h1>
Release date: 2011-09-23
Director: Zhang Li / Jackie Chan
Screenwriter: Wang Xingdong
Starring: Zhao Wenxuan / Jackie Chan / Li Bingbing / Hu Ge / Sun Chun, etc
Introduction: At the end of the 19th century and the beginning of the 20th century, the Qing Dynasty was approaching the number of rivers and mountains for three hundred years, internal and external troubles, and turbulent times, it was the time of chaos, heroes were born, and the Chinese nation was facing major historical changes. Realizing that only a democratic republic could save China, the benevolent men headed by Sun Yat-sen formed revolutionary parties aimed at overthrowing the Manchu Qing government and establishing a democratic state in which the people were the masters of their own affairs.
In this process, countless revolutionaries shed blood and sacrificed, but more revolutionaries stood up to fight against the backward feudal production, and finally fired the first shot of the Xinhai Revolution in Wuchang. During this period, Huang Xing, Li Yuanhong, Empress Longyu, Yuan Shikai, Song Jiaoren, Qiu Jin and other figures sang and appeared on the stage, composing the most brilliant chapter in China's modern history.
<h1 class="pgc-h-arrow-right" data-track="154" > Xinhai</h1>
Premiere date: 2011-10-10
Director: Yuan Ziyong / Wu Qun
Starring: Pu Cunxin / Gong Lijun / Brain / Zhang Zhizhong / Zhang Wankun
Genre: Documentary
Introduction: "Xinhai" is a large-scale documentary commemorating the 100th anniversary of the Xinhai Revolution, which depicts the back of China's two-thousand-year feudal monarchy towards the collapse and the birth process of the modern nation-state, and shows the complex historical features of the intersection of ideas, the old and the new, the strife of forces, and the complicated paths of the late Qing Dynasty and the early Ming Dynasty.
Pu Cunxin, Zhang Zhizhong and other famous actors played the role of Republic of China diplomats, Republic of China commentators, Qing Dynasty officials, Republic of China newspaper people and other historical witnesses, dictating the magnificent history of that period of treacherous and cloudy. The contents of the dictations are from letters, diaries, memoirs, news reports, current commentaries, etc., all of which are first-hand historical testimonies. The method of simulating the oral narration of the witnesses restores a large number of unknown historical details, and will lead the audience back to the historical scene in a unique discourse.
In order to find exclusive historical materials, the film crew of "Xinhai" visited top historians in China, consulted more than 10,000 historical pictures, thousands of minutes of video materials, and obtained precious video materials from a hundred years ago from overseas channels such as the Library of Congress of the United States and the Albert Kean Museum in France, showing a magnificent historical picture with the power of ancient images themselves.
<h1 class="pgc-h-arrow-right" data-track="157" > Sun Yat-sen</h1>
Premiere date: 2001-12-03
Director: Shen Haofang
Screenwriter: Zhang Xiaotian
Starring: Zhao Wenxuan / Zhu Yuanyuan / Liang Guanhua / Xin Baiqing / Wang Fuli
Introduction: "Sun Yat-sen" records the revolutionary career of the great revolutionary forerunner Dr. Sun Yat-sen from the first armed uprising in 1895 to the north in 1925, when he died of illness in Beijing.
In 20 episodes, it is described in a concentrated way that Dr. Sun Yat-sen overthrew the absolute monarchy that ruled China for thousands of years, founded the Republic of China, held 11 armed uprisings, and established revolutionary regimes 3 times; ran all his life, advocated democracy, opposed dictatorship, organized the War of Defending the Country and the War of Defending france; fearlessly feared the threat of imperialist powers and opposed warlords, launched the Northern Expedition, fought against the rebel Chen Jiongming, and with his increasingly frustrated fighting spirit, reorganized the Kuomintang twice, realizing the transformation from old democracy to new democracy; and finally went north to discuss politics. He died on March 12, 1925 at No. 5 Tieshi Hutong, Beijing.
"Sun Yat-sen" also has many highlights:
First, there is a heavy sense of history. The play begins with Dr. Sun Yat-sen's first armed uprising in 1895 and continues to chronicle his revolutionary career in Beijing in 1925. It describes in detail major historical events such as the Guangzhou Uprising, the Disaster in London, the establishment of the League, the Wuchang Uprising, the founding of the Republic of China, the Patriotic War, the War of Defending France, the reorganization of the Kuomintang, the cooperation between the Kuomintang and the Communist Party, and the launching of the Northern Expedition.
The second is to shoot scenes in many places. The picture of "Sun Yat-sen" is exquisitely filmed, and it has been filmed in Guangdong, Nanjing, Beijing, the United Kingdom and other locations to ensure the picture effect.
The third is to pay attention to human feelings. "Sun Yat-sen" creates a flesh-and-blood Sun Yat-sen through many details full of rich life atmosphere, such as his deep friendship with his former friend Song Jiashu, the blood-thicker than water affection between his brother Sun Mei and son Sun Ke, the emotional story of the original wife Lu Muzhen and Ms. Chen Pufen, and the love with Song Qingling, all of which reveal a strong sense of humanity.
<h1 class="pgc-h-arrow-right" data-track="162" > "Wuchang Shouyi"</h1>
Premiere date: 2006-10-10
Director: Li Yunliang
Starring: Li Chengru / Pan Qiong / Xu Guangming / Jiang Baixuan / Zhang Guomin
Introduction: The 32-episode TV series "Wuchang Shouyi" delicately and vividly shows the song and tearful story of the Hubei revolutionaries seizing power and defending the regime during the 83 days of bloody rain and wind from October 9 to December 31, 1911. It shows the fearless revolutionary spirit of the revolutionaries led by Sun Yat-sen who did not hesitate to throw their heads and spill their blood for the sake of China's rise and rejuvenation, and the great achievements of overthrowing the feudal dynasty that ruled China for thousands of years in one fell swoop and shocked the whole world. At the same time, it also reveals the bitter lesson that due to the weakness of the bourgeoisie itself and the incompleteness of the revolution, the revolutionaries, in the absence of a unified ideology and unified leadership, finally ceded the fruits of the victory of the revolution to the old warlords, and the revolution suffered a heavy blow.
The whole drama begins with the first awakening of the sleeping lion and ends with the establishment of the Provisional Government of the Republic of China. It uses documentary techniques to specifically describe the various performances of the three camps of Hubei revolutionaries, the Beijing Qing government, and the Beiyang warlords headed by Yuan Shikai during the Wuchang offensive and defensive war, carefully portraying a series of vivid historical figures, truly reflecting the political outlook and living conditions of China in the 20th century, and is an epic war giant film with a strong documentary style and strong emotions.
Looking back on the past, we still more deeply miss the great revolutionary forerunner Dr. Sun Yat-sen, as well as countless heroes, benevolent people, and revolutionary martyrs who have made unremitting efforts and heroic sacrifices for the liberation of the country and national rejuvenation, and their revolutionary cause and lofty spirit will always shine brightly!
We must not only commemorate the great Xinhai Revolution, but also inherit and carry forward the spirit of the Xinhai Revolution and strive to promote the great rejuvenation of the Chinese nation and promote the reunification of the motherland. (Qiu Ling)