Seikkala Niskala
The historical background of this book is the late Qing Dynasty, when Cixi was in power. The Qing Dynasty was exhausted, and great events were coming. Various forces at home and abroad performed on the political stage in China. Jir? Asada, a Japanese writer, interpreted that history from the perspective of an outsider. Although he doesn't know whether it is true or not, his deep excavation based on human nature has certain credibility and reference value.
Throughout the context of this book, there are many characters and relatively scattered events, but it mainly focuses on depicting the fate of each character under the background of the Reform Movement of 1898, and gives reasonable annotations to each character's actions from the perspective of humanization. From beginning to end, the author uses several bloom's writing techniques, one for each table, and weaves the characters and stories of each chapter together. I felt quite dissatisfied when I read it for the first time, because the story was incoherent and it was difficult to read it at one go. The second time, I simply jumped to read and connected the characters' stories. In the end, it was much smoother, and it was more hearty and memorable!
The novel has a certain magical color and is more emotional. On the one hand, it is the guidance of fate. Dragon Jade symbolizes the orthodoxy of true fate, the curse of Yehenara, Wenquxing driving with the king, and the Pleiades controlling the treasures of the world. On the other hand, there are white lies, such as dreaming, changing papers, and the mysterious disappearance of Yulong, which leads to the illusion that "people who can grasp happiness without God's will" and melts stars and politics into tenderness. Between reality and imagination, it is also difficult to distinguish between true and false, and it is difficult to distinguish! This is completely different from the appearance of historical figures presented in the past, and the generation of this pessimism in the book makes faith like a faint light born in the dark, guiding the future all the way, and heading for death. At this point, what the Pleiades do and what fate is determined by heaven are not as good as people's desire for survival, family care and faith to follow!
Mysterious white mother-in-law
Mother-in-law Bai, a Tatar astrologer, was originally enshrined in the court. It is said that she met Emperor Qianlong when she was a child, so no one really knows her actual age. She has mysterious power, is good at divination and can accurately predict the future. Her series of predictions can be regarded as the main thread running through the book, and she will almost appear at some key nodes and major events. Earlier, because of her foresight, she offended the heaven and was driven out of the palace and lived among the people, but she seemed to be everywhere and omniscient. In Liangjiatun, Jinghai, she caught Liang Wenxiu stealing eggs from her eldest brother, and predicted that he would be the top student in high school, driving with Wang and taking charge of world affairs. At the same time, it was predicted that Liang, the younger brother trained by his family, would fail in the exam for life, so he was expelled from Liangjiatun again. Moreover, she has repeatedly stressed that Chun Er is a descendant of the Pleiades and will be in charge of all the treasures in the world in the future. This is a white lie! Because she clearly knew that Chun Er and her eldest brother would not survive poverty and famine and die young, but she couldn't bear such a kind, sensible and sunny child to die so easily. So he told this lie, but that's how Chun Er fought his fate with the power of faith, persevering at all costs, and finally changed the life track of him and his family. She and Wang Yi, the second place in the scientific research, also have an intersection, which is very interesting. Zhili is a bustling market, bustling with people coming and going, and her mother-in-law in white is down and out, leaning on the roadside to tell her fortune, just like a beggar. After seeing it, Wang Yi first gave money and fresh pears, but asked the young second child for a hug and a kiss. Passers-by stopped to criticize the crazy woman. And Wang Yi is really human. She actually satisfied her wish, so he got an apocalypse: the collision between civil Samsung and gold is about to happen, which indicates that a catastrophe will come to Beijing. It is best to let him "enjoy the cool and ascend to heaven under the red wing"! I have to say, Chi-jen has his own nature. Later, Wang Yi followed Li Hongzhang's instructions to assassinate Yuan Shikai, but failed because the pistol jammed. However, after being trapped in prison, Xiaomei, a girl who gave him prison food, gave her life to save him. Wang Yi, who was adopted by a noble family since childhood, is talented and has unique acting skills. He has the blood and courage of a soldier in his bones, and he is also burly and handsome. He should be a straight man who is liked by many women. It is also his personal nature that he can know Bai and Xiaomei. Later, he fled to the border of Xiangtan, Hunan Province. In a small mountain village, he met a magical teenager and took him as an apprentice. The book hints that this is Mao Zedong's descendant Tianjiao. Shungui also has flowers. She also mentioned roughly that his family exists as the guardian role of Ai Xinjue Roche, and Cixi, as the executor of Yehnara's curse, is bound to be unable to survive in the world. Later, Shungui really wanted to kill Cixi personally at the railway station celebration, but the result failed, which directly intensified the contradiction between the imperial party and the post-party, and made the final outcome of the failure of political reform staged in advance. In a word, Bai is an indispensable and important figure in the book. She is mysterious and legendary, and her predictions have promoted the development and evolution of the series of stories in the sky, bringing a strong magical color to the book.
Different Cixi
History is a vague and tangled fog. This book describes Empress Dowager Cixi's helplessness and persistence as a mother and ruler in the later period of the empire. In our opinion, most themes demonize or flatten it, but we should see that the complexity of human nature is closely related to the torrent of the times.
Cixi lived in a time when the industrial revolution in the western world had been completed and the west wind was spreading eastward. It is a critical moment for Asian feudal backward countries to wake up and deliberately seek new things. At this time, Japan rose to the Meiji Restoration and became a world power. Subsequently, the Qing dynasty also set off a martial arts reform movement that was vital to the survival of the family. However, the die-hard old guard headed by Cixi launched the reform and abortion, which led the Chinese nation to slide into the semi-colonial and semi-feudal abyss. This is China's tragedy and Cixi's personal tragedy!
According to the book, dragon and jade will win the world. Because this piece of Dragon Jade, which was endowed with imperial power by God, had disappeared as early as the Qianlong Dynasty, now there is no knowing who will hold it, and men who love Xinjue Roche, such as Xianfeng Tongzhi Guangxu, can't rise, which makes Cixi, as a woman who holds state power, fall into extreme helplessness, panic and despair. From time to time, she had to pour out all kinds of sufferings to the illusion of the perfect old man and seek help and comfort. The strangest thing is that Qianlong, as an almost perfect Qing emperor, actually said that the world was empty and the power was not controlled by one person. The royal family should return to the democratic ideas of the whole people. He means that China, with a population of 400 million, is vast in territory and abundant in natural resources, and it is impossible to learn from the French radical revolution. Someone needs to persevere and gradually reform and improve it. And this perseverer is Cixi, who needs her actions to save everyone. This made Cixi feel very entangled. On the one hand, she wants to be the terminator of a dynasty and let the Chinese nation enter a new era. On the other hand, she also wants to safeguard the overall situation, and can't let the Qing Dynasty collapse instantly, plunging the country and people into the quagmire. Thus, a double-faced queen mother came into being. She is dignified and noble in front of people, lives a luxurious life, handles things calmly, resorts to thunderbolt, and sometimes even is cruel and heartless. She may kill the imperial secretary with a stick because the food is not to her liking, and severely punish the artist because of the bad play. But later, she became a lonely and helpless little girl with empty spirit. She needs to go to the small Buddhist temple in her later years from time to time to find spiritual sustenance. She needs Guangxu's family dependence and filial piety to comfort her. She needs Li's meticulous care to worship and serve Lafayette like a disgusting pervert. She needs Chun Er's sunshine mentality to shine on the weakness of human nature and brush away the shadow in her heart. Write here, must mention Rong Lu this person, this is definitely a great figure, unlearned, headstrong, a scum, this is just the first love of Gan Kun as a girl. Cixi was elected to the palace. Although Yung Wing could not predict that she would reach the peak of power in the Qing Dynasty in the future, she also knew that she could make some emotional investment. Although she has no true love for this woman in her heart, she staged a tearful drama in which the woman she deeply loves can only give up her love and watch her lover leave because of her humble position, and completely harvested Nora, a simple girl at first, who loves this seemingly masculine man. Cixi gained power in the palace, and Rong Lu naturally got along well in officialdom and military circles. Moreover, he used this special relationship all his life, embezzled and accepted bribes, and ran amok, all of which failed. His secret is that he will say I love you to a woman he doesn't love. From before you entered the palace to now, there was no one else in my heart. A girl's heart of Cixi was thus retained by Rong Lu. Even though Rong Lu and Li conspired to kill Yang Xizhen, an important official of the imperial court, they were pardoned, and even later they gradually took charge of military and political power on behalf of the post-Party. Yung Yung won the sincere admiration of Yuan Shikai for his skill of gaining power! It is more reasonable and logical to discuss Cixi from the perspective of human nature. To be sure, Cixi is definitely not as bad as being demonized, but as a ruler who plays politics, she is certainly not a good person. She is just an actress who ascended to the throne of power. What you see is not necessarily her true self. A double-faced Empress Dowager Cixi is the different Empress Dowager Cixi!
The last champion and dung collector
Liang Wenxiu, the last top scholar, is one of the leaders of the future reformists, and forms the core of the imperial party with Prince Gong, Yang Xizhen, Kang Youwei and Tan Sitong. Li Chunyun, the dung collector, who is a future celebrity around Empress Dowager Cixi, is the eunuch in charge of this case. He is proficient in cooking and singing opera, and his position is catching up with Li's general manager. These two people are the protagonists of this book. As mentioned earlier, Bai made predictions about true stars and false stars respectively. Their relationship is very close. When they were young, they were playmates catching birds and playing with mud, and when they went to Beijing for exams, they were young masters and slaves. After a long time, because they belonged to the imperial party and the post-party, they were brothers who did not communicate with each other but still had deep feelings. Liang Wenxiu has been quietly watching Chun Er's growth in the palace, doing his best to take care of Chun Er's only sister Linger, while Chun Er also worried about Liang Wenxiu's honor and disgrace, and tried his best to save Liang Wenxiu after the failure of political reform.
Some people say that Liang Wenxiu's prototype is Liang Qichao. As the leader of the Reformists, he really looks like Zhang Jian, the last top scholar in China, an industrialist in the late Qing Dynasty. His teacher is Weng Tong, the prototype of Yang Xi in the film. Liang Wenxiu is a concubine, and his position in the family is naturally not high. His biological mother is a concubine named Zhu. This man is gentle and knowledgeable. It is said that it may be the princess of the former dynasty who came incognito. Before she died, she vaguely told Liang Wenxiu that her identity was unusual. Being unloved since childhood, he simply pretended to be cynical, ignoring the identity of the young master, and mixed with a group of tenants' children, smoking and drinking, stealing eggs, and sometimes returning to the washerwoman by the Doby River. He is more keen on making friends with unscrupulous people, such as Piwu, a knife maker who is committed to eunuch chastity, which most people avoid. Liang Wenxiu studies hard, but he never reads dead books. He is in contact with the bottom of society, observes the sufferings of the people, is mature in thought and worldly. Naturally, he made an article with lofty ideals. Therefore, Liang Wenxiu's scientific research went smoothly, from trainee to juren, to Jinshi, and then to champion. It seems unexpected, but it is reasonable. This book uses a lot of pen and ink to describe the exam, which is really spectacular. Thousands of candidates gathered in Beijing from all over the country to take the exam. It is a cold window for ten years or even decades. This is a matter of success or failure. An article will last a lifetime. Who dares not work hard? ! Liang Wenxiu, a young juren who took the exam for the first time, is also very nervous, but he has a unique way to decompress. After staying in the inn, he began to show around the Forbidden City, and unexpectedly met Li, the head of 5,000 eunuchs. After a false alarm, he went to a pub to drink, and then visited the five houses of the knife maker. He and Chun Er saw the frightening process of drug rehabilitation. There, Chun Er also met Qin Lan, a weak young man who was angry at Xiuxiu, and later became the eunuch in charge of the case during Guangxu period. This was another brotherhood. A few days later, the exam officially started, and all kinds of people walked into a cubicle in imperial academy with three days' food and daily necessities. After several shots, the door was completely closed. These tens of thousands of scholars will try their best to complete an eight-part essay on the given topics in these three days, make suggestions for the court and put forward their own ideals and strategies for governing the country. During this period, Liang Wenxiu met her neighbor Wang Yi and another gray-haired old juren. Old people are in poor health and often cough, and their daily necessities are quite simple. After decades of frustration in scientific research, he was poor and his blue robe faded badly. On the eve of handing in the paper, the old man coughed up blood and died after finishing the paper. Before he died, he told Liang Wenxiu to use his paper and said that he would win the first prize. Strange to say, Liang Wenxiu actually seems to have changed the paper, but the handwriting is his own. With the help of God, Liang Wenxiu really became the youngest scholar in history of qing dynasty! Later, in order to save the fate of the Great Qing Dynasty, he actively supported the emperor's reform and political reform, and tried to rejuvenate the country through political reform, thus changing people's lives. Regardless of his life, he made enemies with Empress Dowager Cixi. After the failure of recommending the emperor's mutiny, Liang Wenxiu, who was obsessed with saving the country, was heartbroken. He left a letter to Emperor Guangxu in the name of his brother and went into exile in Japan with Shine.
Speaking of Chun Er, it should be described in the next paragraph: for example, the spring breeze gently blows willows, the fish swim in the stream, and the birds sing in the mountain stream; Such as white clouds and blue sky, swallows and butterflies fly in pairs, and leaves are swaying and chirping; As the flower of the soul caresses all people's hearts and floats through the deep palace, the fragrance is endless. He can give people this feeling, especially for Cixi.
A poor boy who lived by collecting frozen cow dung and horse dung in the street met the astrologer Bai. He said that he was born in the Pleiades, and his future life would be like Qianlong and Qin Shihuang, "taking all the treasures of China into his pocket". Her prophecy supports Chun Er to live in evil karma. When his brother died of hunger, he castrated himself and entered the palace. After some struggle and the support of some retired eunuchs, he became the toast of Cixi, replacing Li. It seems that Bai's prediction has really come true.
Chun Er is not a fictional character. If Chun Er exists in the author's mind as a person, there must be shortcomings, because no one is perfect. However, compared with people, Chun Er is more like a perfect elf incarnation. Even though his body is incomplete and his palace is indifferent, his dark struggle has never changed him. To quote Li: Radish in pickle jar is not white for several days! But the radish in Chun Er is always white.
So what role did this fictional Chun Er play in Cixi's life? Perhaps, Chun Er is hidden in the weakest and kindest corner of Cixi's heart. After decades of struggle for power and profit, Cixi's original innocence has long been exhausted. She is also a woman, wife and mother. Both her husband and son are dead, and she just wants to live better by something other than her husband and son, that is, power. The arrival of Chun Er added a lot of laughter to Cixi's life. She is often infected by his kindness and innocence, and often impressed by his clean spirit and spotless appearance. She couldn't even bear to let him see the cruel palace fight and deliberately took him away. It is not difficult to see that she cares about this purity very much, carefully and quietly protecting Chun Er, just like caring for her own baby. Such a Chun Er really shouldn't belong to the imperial court. He should return to the free world.
Finally, to sum up, "Balcony in the Sky" is by no means simply writing history. If we use a serious view of history to measure its quality, it will be too harsh and lose its charm. Because we pay too much attention to the results of history, we often ignore the people who interpret that history and throw all their emotions and struggles into the long river of history and be forgotten. People like to look at history along the big current, and few people are willing and able to calm down and look at history with their own judgment. Fortunately, this small group of people are gradually trying to restore people's feelings that have been blurred by the torrent of history. Interpreting the history of the late Qing Dynasty with humanity is a "celestial coffin"!
How to evaluate the TV series Sky?
Very good TV series, first of all, the style of painting, culture and makeup are in place, and the whole plot is rich, heavy and gloomy, revealing a sense of destiny. We are all flesh and blood figures, which is understandable. It is no longer an unfounded villain who opposes decency. The plot is very attractive, and the characters, especially the Cixi played by Yoko Tanaka, are extremely plump. This kind of performance is not to whitewash Cixi, but to give us more room to think and see her in the historical environment at that time. A frown, a frown, seems to be happy, seems to be smiling and cursing, or sharp and scary. The size is handled very well, with her elegance, majesty and affection.
Zhao's five most acclaimed plays, Do You Know, ranked second. First of all, do you know which one it is?
Chuqiao's first biography
As a loyal fan of the original novel of this TV series, I am deeply attracted by the characters in the play and deeply fascinated by the love between men and women in the play. The success of this drama lies in the good choice of actors, from Chu Qiao of Zhao, Yuwen _ of Zhao to Hehe, which can be said to be a group of new generation actors with strong acting skills and strength.
TV plays and novels are necessarily different. In the plot setting, the TV series progresses faster and shows a clearer emotional line between men and women. After the TV series was broadcast, the role of Yuwen _ was sought after by thousands of women. Kenny Lin described the feelings of the host to the hostess in detail. Although he didn't admit it in the early stage, he just said that he used it to make Xinger think that he didn't love her, and he was imprisoned with Yan Xun for three years and returned to Yanbei. His love is tolerant and generous, and I love you. I want you to jump. If you want to be free, I will show you the way.
Zhao portrayed the character Chu Qiao very successfully. After the TV series was broadcast, the Internet even clamored that there would be no Chu Qiao after Zhao Liying, which I deeply agree with. Although she and the man have different positions, their real intentions are the same. They sympathize with the weak, stand clearly and have the same goal. They all fight for their beliefs. How can they be said to be made for each other?
The most tearful thing in the whole drama should be the ice lake at the end of the TV series. Yuwen _ was designed by Xun Yan to save Chu Qiao, and finally stood there exhausted and fell into an icy lake. For the person he loves, he knows this is a trap, but he still insists on jumping in, knowing that there are tigers in the mountains, but he still tends to walk in the mountains. This kind of love should be everyone's infinite yearning. Although the TV series has no final ending, such feelings are still very touching.
Second, "Do you know if it should be green, fat or thin?"
The drama continues the excellent quality of the film and television drama produced by Noon Sunshine, and breaks the bottleneck of high reputation and low ratings of Noon Drama. The plot, acting, service and other aspects have not lived up to the high expectations of the industry and the audience, and it is worth seeing.
From the plot, the story is complete and attractive; As far as actors are concerned, from the leading role to the supporting role and even the extras are acting on the internet, which makes people look pleasing to the eye; In terms of service and picture, the play also shows a kind of advanced aesthetic feeling.
Third China
The casting of the TV series "Hua" is great. I like the original novel very much, and I know the essence of the story and the image of the characters. The roles of flowers seem to be designed for Zhao. They all have the appearance and charm of flowers. Wallace Huo's performance in the play was criticized by many audiences. In fact, the white in the original work is such an image of facial paralysis. Mount Tai collapsed in front and became calm and ruthless.
However, if you really like the original, I'm afraid you can't accept TV series. Although TV series has its shooting advantages, the plot has been changed beyond recognition. As an original fan, the TV series "Hua" is totally unacceptable. Many indispensable plots were either omitted or merged into the unrecognizable Zhang Guan Dai Li. The Buddhist thought contained in the novel, the dispute between good and evil, and the dispute between right and wrong have not been presented. If you are familiar with the original works, these are the essence of China.
The fourth "late arrival"
The drama "Late Arriving" has outstanding artistic achievements. Compared with other idol-themed dramas, the temperature and concept conveyed by the quite good domestic romantic drama "Shanshan is coming" are very attractive to me, and I am also deeply moved by the plot and actors.
The fifth part is the legend of Luzhen
The cover composition of this play is so beautiful. Zhao has taken my eyes away in the position of C. Who says big eyes and small round face can't afford a big woman? Obviously, the atmosphere is full and pleasing to the eye. Even if I wasn't ncf of Hunan Satellite TV at that time, Ben Yankong would definitely watch this drama!
What's more worth mentioning is that although the series has passed several years, the service of "Luzhen" is still very exquisite, and the high value of the starring actors is set in place; The acting skills and cp sense of the four leading actors are also obvious to all. There is love, hate and hatred, and the wonderful and full story makes the audience chase it with relish.