The fifth season of "Seeing Words as Faces" - "Chu Xin Season", specially produced to welcome the centenary of the founding of the Party, will be unveiled on Heilongjiang Satellite TV at 21:20 on February 20. In addition to continuing the traditional style of the show "one person, one letter and one stage", the special production of the new season of "See words like faces" has undergone great changes in content and form. The content focuses on the "original heart", through the selection of historical letters and documents with major "landmark" significance, telling the story of the Chinese Communist Party's search for the truth, sacrificing oneself for the law, and leading the Chinese people to pursue their dreams; in order to "revitalize" history, a new dramatic interpretation has been added in the form, in order to open up the dusty years and reproduce the historical scene.
Poster for this season's "See words like faces"
This season's "Seeing Words As Faces" takes "The Season of the First Heart" as the title, using 10 chapters such as "The Eve", "Faith", "Tinder", "Journey", "Dawn", "Youth", "Enthusiasm", "Vitality", "Pioneer" (Top and Bottom), etc., to lead the audience to tour the road of national rejuvenation and reform and opening up that China has traveled in the past 100 years, read the historical letters, newspapers, announcements, and documents left over the past hundred years, outline the journey of the "initial heart" of the Communist Party of China from formation to firm "heart", and form a special memory dedicated to the centenary of the founding of the party.
Starting from the Xinhai Revolution and the May Fourth Movement, the program summarizes the unremitting efforts of generations of heroes and benevolent people to create a bright China on the eve of the birth of the Communist Party of China a century ago. Looking back on the past hundred years, the Communist Party of China has used letters and documents to sort out the people of the Chinese, fought bravely when foreign insults invaded, reborn in the broken mountains and rivers, worked hard to govern when they were poor and white, and advanced with the times when the times developed. Among them, there are letters exchanged by Mao Zedong, Cai Hesen, Zhang Tailei and other members of the early communist group, focusing on their diligent pursuit of "faith" in the vast night; and Roushi excitedly describing to the readers of "Sprout" magazine how the revolutionary "tinder" in the red base area sparked a close-up. There are the Zunyi and Grassland Diaries of Red Army soldiers He Huanzhou and Xie Fumin, recreating the "journey" that shook the world with simple writing; there are also Mao Zedong's famous articles "Serving the People", Zhao Yiman's suicide note, and the open letters of "Xinhua Daily" to readers, showing the current grandeur and grandeur of "Dawn". In addition, in the early days of the founding of the People's Republic of China, Ye Jianying wrote a letter to his daughter, Liang Sicheng summoning friends, and Hua Luogeng to all Chinese students studying in the United States to devote themselves to "building a new China", restoring the pride of "youth" on "a blank piece of paper". There are Jiao Yulu and Xing Yanzi, one after another resounding names, shining with the ambition of burning passion; there are small gang villages, bravely smashing the "big pot of rice", resuming the college entrance examination, and the return of Hong Kong... Brilliant coordinates time and count the seconds for this Chinese road to rejuvenation.
The first dramatic interpretation of the epistles
The minimalist style of "one person, one letter, one stage" has always been the symbol of "See words as faces", and has won word of mouth and praise for it. This format was broken during this season's special production due to the large selection of historical letters, documents, and announcements. Therefore, on the basis of maintaining the original style, in order to reduce the viewing threshold of some historical letters and documents, some letters will be presented in the form of dramatic interpretation, through actor performance and stage scheduling, with choreography, props, costumes, "story" to restore the historical situation at that time, leading the audience into the historical "scene".
In the first issue of "Faith", there were several correspondence between Mao Zedong and Cai Hesen between 1920 and 1921, when two progressive youths founded the Xinmin Society, a revolutionary group on May Fourth. Cai and Sen went to France to study and observe the outside world, while Mao Zedong stayed at home to study the real situation in China. On the stage, two young people who are far away from the ocean can be "in the same frame", Feng Jiayi plays the 25-year-old Cai Hesen, Jin Chuanchuan plays the 27-year-old Mao Zedong, in the French apartment on the left side of the picture and the Hunan bookstore on the right side of the picture, two enthusiastic young people deeply and enthusiastically discuss the big issue of "transforming China and the world".
In "Tinder", in order to show the lively scene of the whole country opening up the Soviet revolutionary base area after the 1928 Zhumao Jinggangshan Meeting, and the initial practice of the original intention of the Communist Party, the program selected the writer RouShi's famous news feature "A Great Impression". After 91 years of historical dust, how to reproduce this exciting report? The program cleverly uses theatrical scenes to "restore" Mr. Roushi's famous work - the young actor Song Yang starred in Roushi, who wore a long shirt and walked through the venue of the National Soviet Regional Congress to "immediately" send out "live reports" to the audience with what he saw and heard. And many of the cases written in the report were also "restored" and "real-life starred" on the spot at the venue, and the hot and fierce heat could be felt through the screen.
The program invited Wang Jinsong, Liu Lin, Ning Li, Feng Jiayi, Li Jianyi, He Yu, Song Yang, Yu Haoming, Zhang Meng, Zhang Xilin, Gao Xiaopan and many other actors to switch back and forth under the two different forms of theatrical performance and letter reading, enriching the audiovisual experience of this season's purpose with wonderful interpretations.
Walking into the long "eve" expects the East to be white
The first episode of the program is called "Eve", through six letters to lay out the historical background of the entire season: before the founding of the Communist Party of China, China was trapped in internal and external troubles, Yuan Shikai's restoration, the failure of the Xinhai Revolution, China entered a period of warlord chaos, the country was still poor, humiliated, and turbulent, and the failure of China's diplomacy at the Paris Peace Conference in 1919 triggered the great May Fourth Movement, which directly affected the birth and development of the Communist Party of China.
Li Jianyi read the letter.
In the program, Huang Yanpei (Li Jianyi) published an article recalling the Xinhai Revolution in Wen Wei Po, reviewing the process of the Xinhai Revolution and supporting major historical events with a private narrative; Sun Yat-sen's resignation to the Senate of the Nanjing Provisional Government and the recommendation of Yuan Shikai (He Yu) by the Senate to dissect the root cause of the failure of the Xinhai Revolution; Xu Deheng (Feng Jiayi) published the "Declaration of the Whole Beijing Academic Circles", which was widely circulated in the "May Fourth Movement", so that Chinese seemed to see a ray of hope in the long dark night Chen Duxiu (Zhang Xilin) published the "Benzhi Manifesto" in the "New Youth" magazine, using the views and methods of Marx and Engels to put forward a new concept of social transformation. China, which has endured hardships, is about to usher in a new dawn.
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