Liu Yifei and Chen Xiao starred in the new drama Tencent Video, which was broadcast exclusively on the entire network. Director Yang Yang and screenwriter Zhang Wei revealed the original intention of the filming, that female friendship is more valuable than love. “Meng Hualu” integrates modern ideas to create fireworks in the Northern Song Dynasty
Directed by Yang Yang, written by Zhang Wei, and starring Liu Yifei, Chen Xiao, Liu Yan, and Lin Yun, the female inspirational drama “Menghualu” has been broadcast exclusively on Tencent Video. The play tells the story of three sisters, Zhao Pan’er (Liu Yifei), Song Yinzhang (Lin Yun), and Sun Sanniang (Liu Yan), who went through life’s predicaments and joined hands in Tokyo. With the help of Gu Qianfan (Chen Xiao), the deputy commander of the Imperial City Department, Efforts to spread small tea into the story of Tokyo’s largest restaurant.
“Menghualu” depicts a picture of life in the Northern Song Dynasty, which is full of elegance and vulgarity.
Characters match the environment, showing a long scroll of market life in the Northern Song Dynasty
After the broadcast of “Meng Hualu”, when Gu Qianfan (Chen Xiao) first saw Zhao Pan’er (Liu Yifei) in a tea shop, he ridiculed “a village woman”, because of the strong contrast with the characters in the play, it became a hot search. In fact, Zhao Paner in the play is beautiful and intelligent, her makeup and attire complement the chic teahouse environment, and the way of ordering tea is even more elegant and calm, which itself constitutes a vivid Northern Song market folk painting.
In the Song Dynasty, tea drinking prevailed, and tea fighting became a national activity. “Menghualu”, which is based on the background of the Northern Song Dynasty, has made a detailed design for “ordering tea”, and the technological processes of “rolling tea, hot cups, blowing, and water marks” are all presented one by one. It is understood that the crew specially invited Mr. Zhang Zhifeng, the “representative inheritor of intangible cultural heritage tea hundred operas” during the preparation period, to give lectures to the whole crew, hoping to use Zhao Paner’s hands to show the charm of traditional Chinese intangible cultural heritage “tea hundred operas”.
In “Menghualu”, Zhao Paner is good at ordering tea, Sun Sanniang is good at cooking, Song Yinzhang is good at pipa, and the “half-covered” teahouse run by the three sisters is a vivid aspect of the bustling and bustling Tokyo city life.
In order to depict the fireworks of the Northern Song Dynasty, the creative team headed by Director Yang Yang went to Kaifeng and the ancient water towns in the south of the Yangtze River to investigate and collect styles in order to find the tonality of the film. She said: “I hope that the scenes of this play will not be too piled up, so that the actors are dressed in costumes and standing in that scene, they are integrated into one picture and become a picture.”
Ancient clothing + modern thinking, female consciousness is connected between ancient and modern
Yang Yang has previously directed the male-themed costume fantasy drama “Jiang Ye”, as well as the reality-themed drama “Meritorious” and “Huang Xuhua Unit”, which have all been recognized by the audience. In the special production of “Meng Hualu”, when she talked about her original intention of creation, she said that in the past few years, she has made a lot of men’s plays, and she has always longed to make a work that expresses women. “In “Meng Hualu”, I saw a lot of stories about the ‘modern (consciousness)’ girl ‘Beipiao’, using costume dramas to express ‘modern’ life, to make a good combination of these two aspects, this is with me The previous creations were different.”
In the play, Zhao Paner used to be a lowly member, but he never underestimated himself and accepted the blows and gifts of life calmly. She and Gu Qianfan went from being unpleasant to being tempted, it was the emotional thinking and pulling between adults. The three sisters Zhao Paner, Sun Sanniang and Song Yinzhang have their own unfortunate past emotionally, but they have a very modern spirit. In the face of the injustice of fate and rumors from the outside world, they support each other and never give up, and join hands to challenge fate again and again. , which interprets the concept of the show’s “affectionate and righteousness, women’s character”.
Referring to the opportunity to create the script, screenwriter Zhang Wei said that when she was in college, she was deeply attracted by the beautiful characters and rich human feelings of Yuan Zaju and Southern Song and Yuan opera. “Especially the female characters written by Guan Hanqing, even today, the characters such as chivalry, kindness, bravery, and intelligence they present are very modern.” She hopes to express through this drama – whether In such a difficult environment, the spirit of women admiring each other, helping each other, and striving for the same ideal and goal can still be a great force. The power of friendship is even more valuable than love.
Written by/The Beijing News reporter Yang Lianjie