On the afternoon of October 30, the TV series "The Biography of Yang Ming" was solemnly launched in Ruiyun Building, the former residence of Wang Yangming in Yuyao City, which is the birthplace of Mr. Yang Ming. This is also an important activity of Ningbo (Yuyao) Yangming Cultural Week.
The drama is jointly produced by Liu Heping, a national first-class screenwriter and chairman of the China Television Drama Writers Committee, as a literary consultant, Shen Jie as a screenwriter, Zhang Yongxin as a director, Chen Sanjun and Wu Jiaping as the chief producers, and Ningbo Film and Television Art Co., Ltd., Hangzhou Jiaping Film Co., Ltd., Zhejiang Cultural Industry Investment Group Co., Ltd., Yuyao Kaitou Lancheng Investment and Development Co., Ltd., and Youku Information Technology (Beijing) Co., Ltd.
Wang Yangming was an outstanding thinker, philosopher, military strategist, and educator of the Ming Dynasty. His life was full of ill-fatedness, but he was able to stimulate his own subjective initiative, dare to face contradictions head-on, and calm the people in the world; he did not stick to dogma, broke through the rigid ideological system of the late Ming Dynasty, inherited and innovated Chinese Confucianism, and injected new majestic power into the life of Chinese culture.
As a representative of excellent traditional culture, Yangming Xinxue has become an endogenous driving force and source of nutrition for enhancing cultural self-confidence. And Mr. Yang Ming's standard of doing things and doing learning, the height of meritorious service, has inspired the Chinese people along the way, like the sages, who are poor in reason, knowledge and action, and practical in the world.
Wang Yangming is naturally a very precious cultural resource of Zhejiang. Ge Xuebin, deputy director of the Propaganda Department of the Zhejiang Provincial Party Committee and director of the Provincial Film Bureau, said that Wang Yangming is the most unique historical figure in Zhejiang, the most meaningful and valuable, and the most worthy of creation in Zhejiang.
At the launching ceremony, Ge Xuebin admitted that the creation of the TV series "Yang Ming Biography" is a huge challenge, but Zhejiang must face the difficulties, have the artistic pursuit of going abroad, and create fine products with perseverance.
In December 2019, the Propaganda Department of the Zhejiang Provincial Party Committee led the elite forces in Ningbo Film and Television, Jiaping Film, Zhejiang Provincial Cultural Investment, Yuyao Kaitou Lancheng and other elite forces in the province to invest in the creation, and soon decided that the famous screenwriter Shen Jie was responsible for the script creation of the play.
In the view of Chen Sanjun, chairman of Ningbo Film and Television, and Wu Jiaping, chairman of Jiaping Film, the chief producer of the play, "using TV dramas, which is the most influential communication method, to create a vivid Wang Yangming, to create a Wang Yangming who should be in the new era, to lead a spirit of integrity and innovation, courage to take responsibility, and striving for progress, as the main force of Zhejiang's creation, we have the unshirkable responsibility and the time is not waiting."
Take care of reality with history, and lead the fashion with Matilda. Today, more than 500 years later, Zhejiang will present to the public what kind of Wang Yangming, how to give it a new era connotation, and achieve modern expression? It is the responsibility and mission, glory and dream of the main creators of the TV series "Yang Ming Biography".
The TV series "Yang Ming Biography" has a first-class creative lineup.
The producers complement each other's advantages, providing a strong guarantee for the drama to become an artistic masterpiece. The producer Ningbo Film and Television Art Co., Ltd. is the main force of zhejiang drama", in the past thirty years is committed to the creation of high-quality film and television dramas, classic works include "East is the Sea", "North Wind That Blows", "Little Aunt Duohe", etc., the works have won the "Five One Project" award for the construction of national spiritual civilization for four consecutive years, 17 works have won the TV Series Feitian Award, and 2 works have won the China Television Golden Eagle Award. Hangzhou Jiaping Film Co., Ltd. is a private production company that has repeatedly produced excellent works, and its excellent TV series such as "Chicken Feathers Fly to the Sky", "In the Distance", "Big Waves and Sands" and so on, have also won national TV drama professional awards for many times.
The main creative lineup of the TV series "Yang Ming Biography" is extremely luxurious. Liu Heping, a national first-class screenwriter and chairman of the Chinese Television Drama Screenwriting Committee, who has created a ratings boom in historical dramas such as "Yongzheng Dynasty", "Daming Dynasty 1566", and "Peking No War", served as the literary consultant of the play, the screenwriter is Shen Jie, the winner of the "Excellent Screenwriter" of the TV Series Feitian Award and the "Best Screenwriter" of the China Television Golden Eagle Award, and the director is Zhang Yongxin, a famous director who set off a ratings boom with "The Age of Awakening" and created a new height for Chinese TV dramas. The chief producers are Chen Sanjun and Wu Jiaping, veteran film and television producers who have created a number of film and television products.
At the scene of the launching ceremony, Liu Heping, literary consultant of the TV series "Yang Ming Biography", said that Mr. Wang Yangming is "true to the three immortals", and there are also "three" in the use of literary and artistic works, that is, ideological, artistic and ornamental, and we must use these three personalities to express the three immortals of Mr. Wang Yangming's life.
Screenwriter Shen Jie, his representative works include "Chicken Feathers Fly to the Sky", "White Deer Plain", "Tiger Mother and Cat Father", "In the Distance", "Six Groups of Serious Cases", etc., and I have won the "Excellent Screenwriter" of the Feitian Award, the "Best Screenwriter" of the Golden Eagle Award, and the "Best Screenwriter" award of the Magnolia Award four times.
In addition to "The Age of Awakening", director Zhang Yongxin's representative works include "Ma Xiangyang Goes to the Countryside", "The Army Division Alliance of the Great Army Division Sima Yi", "Tiger Xiaolong Yin", etc., he won the "Best Director" of the Feitian Award, the "Best Director" of the Magnolia Award, and the "National Excellent TV Drama Director" in the centenary of the founding of the Party in 2021. One is good at digging deep into the cultural heritage of the characters, which can not only show the beautiful pursuit of the characters, but also reflect the thorough understanding of human nature; one is good at combining thick historical themes with extremely warm realist expressions, with a unique aesthetic style and literary interpretation. What kind of sparks will collide and what kind of light will intersect in the TV series "The Biography of Yang Ming", who graduated from the Central Academy of Drama. Let's wait and see.
The TV series "Yang Ming Biography" takes Mr. Wang Yangming's life trajectory as the carrier and the enlightenment as the soul, and shows Wang Yangming's life of "this heart is bright" by integrating morality, meritorious service, speech, and standing in one. In short, the play should tell historical facts and tell more stories; it should talk about life and growth; it should talk about details and integrity; it should talk about ideas, and it should talk about communication and influence.
As we all know, the screenwriter of the play, Shen Jie, and the director Zhang Yongxin have been famous for a long time. But when it came to this creative task, the attitude of the two of them was very religious.
As an admirer, researcher and practitioner of Yang MingXinxue, screenwriter Shen Jie did not regard this creation as just a project. He once modestly said, "The outline of the episodes of the script of "The Biography of Yang Ming" is also my Wang Yangming study notes."
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On the basis of combing through more than 100 pages of relevant character information, during the two-year-long script creation period, Shen Jie painstakingly laid out three of the most important reflection relationships: Tang Bohu's entry into the shi shi did not become a reincarnation of the wandering skeleton, Li Mengyang as the head of the seven sons, Li Dongyang's image of enduring humiliation and burden, etc., reflected that Wang Yangming chose to take his own heaviest and most difficult road at the juncture of life; and the reflection of Wang Yangming and his old age when he was young showed that when the shell was hanging old, the spirit was incomparably strong The third reflection is the reflection of Wang Yangming hundreds of years ago and the contemporary young people, showing that conscience and mind learning have created a new world of life through various explorations, breakaways, and breakthroughs.
Zhang Yongxin also has a preference for the TV series "Yang Ming Biography", believing that "filming Wang Yangming is not only to complete a film and television work, but also to do a journey of self-cultivation".