Last night
Shaanxi Drama "Loading Stage"
The CCTV 1 set officially ended
During the broadcast
Whether it is repeatedly setting new highs in ratings
Or a Douban score of up to 8.4 points
All bear witness to the play well-deserved
2020 screen "drama king" status
When the stories of "Diao Shunzi" and "Cai Sufen" came to a sweet end
Out of episodes
The public is interested in the original novel of the same name
The attention of Shaanxi literary creation
It continues to rise
On the afternoon of the 18th, Chen Yan, the original author of "Loading The Stage", returned to his hometown of Shaanxi, appeared in the Cultural Lecture Hall of Xixian New District, and brought a lecture on the theme of "Everything Starts from Life" in the Shijingli Lao She Theater, and for the first time exchanged face-to-face with the township party and readers about the inside and outside of the "Loading Stage" drama and the story of literary creation.
Behind the "installation of the table"
It is the struggle, forbearance and resilience of the little people
Chen Yan has created many dramas and literary works such as "Late Blooming Rose", "The Tree Moves West", "Xijing Story", "Loading Stage" and so on, and the novel "Protagonist" won the Mao Dun Literature Award. However, no matter which work, his words often face ordinary people living in the city, showing the grand changes of the times, and words such as "real", "profound", "touching", "grounded", "positive value" and "positive energy" have almost become the lingua franca in the perception of these works.
Because of the popularity of "Loading The Stage", "Talk about what is going on with the Loading Stage" became the opening statement of Chen Yan's literary lecture, he said that the origin of "Loading the Stage" was when he was the president of the Shaanxi Provincial Opera Research Institute, he met an ordinary person named "Shengsheng", "When I was the dean, I carried out an activity called 'Xi'an Every Day there is a Qin Cavity', which means that the theater has to overturn the stage every day, and the workload is very large, so a large number of migrant workers are hired to carry out the work of loading the stage, and the foreman of this group of workers is Shengsheng. Because the actors also had to rehearse during the day, the stage could only be carried out after the audience left that night and before the actors entered the scene the next morning, and the workers were very hard, only to sleep on the spot for a while between the end of the stage and the handover of the theater. In winter, many times during morning runs, I saw them curled up on the heated manhole cover in the theater yard to take a nap."
Because the office window at that time was facing the backstage entrance, Chen Yan watched this group of people busy every day. After leaving the Xiqu Research Institute, he suddenly felt that the image of the person who installed the stage and the picture of the stage appeared in his mind more and more and more intensely, "When the protagonist wins a round of applause, it is the time when the people behind the scenes are most tired." Such a beautiful place as the stage, how many people have made sacrifices and dedications behind them, I especially want to show them. Their struggle, forbearance and resilience are all a kind of spirit that our Chinese nation needs very much." Chen Yan said that writing "Loading The Stage" is also related to his previous work "Xijing Story" - "Xijing Story" also wrote the story of a group of migrant workers, "writing is still not exhausted, I feel as if I still have a new cognition in my head at that time, and I need to continue to write."
Pay attention to all the great ordinary people with words
Compared with the original work of "Loading Stage", the TV drama version of "Loading Stage" is more bright and relaxed, Chen Yan believes that this is because the expression methods and audiences of the two art carriers are different, and he also likes the adaptation of the TV series very much, "The adaptation is very warm, the change is very good, and I deeply respect it." Chen Yan said: "In addition to "Loading the Stage", I have also written a novel "Protagonist", in fact, in real life, each of us is a stager, and each of us has also sung the protagonist on the stage or is singing the protagonist. I hope that through the novel, everyone can pay more attention to those great ordinary parents and ordinary people, and we should pay attention to all the great ordinary people. ”
In Chen Yan's view, literature needs to write epics, praise heroes, but also need to have a huge sense of compassion, "from the world to China's literature, drama creation has a characteristic, the early start is written heroic myths, heroic tragedies, but slowly, the perspective of literary creation began to turn to focus on ordinary people." For example, in Western literary works, the small character of Valjean Agen in Hugo's "Les Misérables", in such a tragic life, still shines with human brilliance, and "Notre Dame de Paris", which are the deepest concern for small people; in Chinese literature, "Water Margin", "Ru Lin Wai Biography", "Dream of the Red Chamber", etc., have begun to pay attention to the lives and fates of low-level characters. World literature and Chinese literature are both common, and this kind of writing is needed, which is a huge group."
"Those who can survive for a long time must carry a folk perspective, with thick earth and stove fire," Chen Yan said. What is less known is that in order to write the migrant worker groups in his works, during the Shaanxi period, Chen Yan, in addition to becoming friends with the people in the loading platform, also worked in his own work, shuttling through the mutazhai, East Bali Village, West Bali Village and other migrant worker life gathering places, "I know the migrant worker couple who have supported their three children as college students for more than 20 years by playing cakes, and I have also met distant relatives in the mobile labor market, these ordinary people cannot be missing in urban construction and citizen life, but they are often behind countless partitions. Running in the wind, frost, snow and rain, under the final very beautiful scene, they quietly left."
Chen Yan therefore lamented that there are many things here that are worth thinking about by writers and even more literary and art workers, "Our brushstrokes and visions cannot be bright every day and ignore these things." Real life provides us with a vast range of material, what can make people's hearts tremble? ”
"Root" stuff
Forever in the dirt under the feet of the folk
The TV series "Loading Stage" is popular, and what has aroused heated discussion is not only the story and the acting skills of the actors, but also the fireworks full of Xi'an characteristics. Chen Yan has lived in Xi'an for decades, and the playwright has discovered a sharp perspective on life and a long-standing literary accumulation, resulting in a unique flavor of this work. "Why should I write this story, this group of little people, because it's the one I'm most familiar with, and I've been dealing with the stage for decades, and I'm 'holding it.'" Writers want to write about familiar life, you are familiar with it, you are moved, you will naturally write, and it is possible to impress others."
Chen Yan believes that a writer in a region must have a regional endowment, "then you should use this endowment to feed back your artistic creation, while opening your eyes, do not forget to take deep root in your own land." On the thick soil of literature and art in Shaanxi, let us better understand the meaning of this sentence: there are three parts in the Book of Poetry: "Wind", "Ya", and "Ode", and the part of "Wind" comes from the folk; Liu Qing, Lu Yao, Chen Zhongzhong, Jia Pingwa... Their works are all excellent embodiments of in-depth life; the Chang'an School of Painting proposes that 'one hand reaches out to tradition, the other hand reaches out to life' to show the soil under their feet and the significance of creation.
Chen Yan sighed that in this era, many things can be easily searched, copied and pasted on the Internet, "but I think that measuring life with my feet is still the most important way for writers to write, because the root things are always in the folk, in the soil under the feet." As for himself, Chen Yan said that he still hopes to launch more realistic works, "I will continue to write, and still pay attention to the living conditions of small people."
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Source: Xi'an Release