The 40-episode large-scale TV series "There is a Sea in the East" was officially launched on iQiyi on June 8, and the drama is based on the story of The Chinese volunteers who protected the country's 18,000-kilometer sea defense line after the Sino-Japanese War and the end of the War of Resistance Against Japan. It reproduces the iron bone tenderness of the Chinese Navy for a hundred years, and the life and death love with the sea for a lifetime. Starring powerful actors Yin Xiaotian, Li Xiumeng, Nie Yuan, Huang Haibing, etc., the drama is director Feng Xiaoning's third work with the theme of naval warfare after "Beiyang Water Division" and "1894 Jiawu Sea Battle", and is also a tribute film to commemorate the 70th anniversary of the victory of the War of Resistance.
Li Xiumeng Nie Yuan Print Xiaotian
In the play, Li Xiumeng played Liu Butou, the commander-in-chief of the Battleship Group of the Beiyang Marine Division of the Chinese Navy at the end of the Qing Dynasty, who left home from childhood and Deng Shichang (Nie Yuan) and Sa Zhenbing (Yin Xiaotian) to study in Britain, and after returning to China, they were recruited into the Beiyang Fleet together, with a calm personality, studious and good thinking, and clear love and hatred, and later in the Sino-Japanese War, the ship unfortunately fell into the hands of the enemy, Liu Butou could not choose to follow his love ship, committed suicide and martyred the country, and disappeared into the maritime frontier of defending his family and defending the country. Powerful actor Li Xiumeng is well known to the audience for starring in film and television dramas such as "Young Heavenly Son", "Tang Furong Garden", "Women's Gang", "In Love", "Rujin" and so on, he and Nie Yuan, Yin Xiaotian are friends for many years, in the play, the three of them have learned to grow up together since childhood, and they are also happy and bitter outside the play.
Lee Xiu Meng
The TV series "There is a Sea in the East" was launched in Hengdian in June 2015 and turned to Hengdian, Weihai, Shandong, Dalian, Liaoning and Beijing and Tianjin for nearly four months, which can be described as very arduous. At that time, it was a hot summer, and Li Xiumeng and a group of brothers "made fun in the summer" on the set, and also formed a deep friendship. Li Xiumeng's professionalism and superb acting skills have also been unanimously recognized by the actors and directors in the play.