At present, many film and television works tend to use history as the background and reprocess history by creating storylines to cater to the needs of the public. In this process, we will see that many works that were originally serious historical dramas eventually evolved into romance idol dramas in the mouth of the public, adding a human touch to history. The famous writer Februaryhe was once asked in an interview: "In many film and television dramas depicting the Qing Dynasty, diners will always take out a large piece of silver when checking out, put it in their hands, say 'shopkeeper, settle the bill', and then wipe their mouths and leave, is this in line with historical facts?"
There may be some problems with February's work, but personally, he is quite perfect in terms of historical creation. To this question, he smiled slightly, and then replied seriously: "What I am about to say may offend people." Some directors and producers, to put it mildly, do not understand the history of the Qing Dynasty;To get to the point, you are fooling the audience.
During the Qing Dynasty, three taels of silver were enough to build five large tiled houses to support a family, enough to make a family of eight worry about food and clothing for a year. However, in some film and television dramas, diners do not hesitate to take out a large piece of silver, at least ten taels, so can they only buy a pot of wine and a few dishes?At that time, the silver content varied, only about 30% of the silver was made very pure, and the fineness reached almost 9997%。
In the film and television drama, when the hotel guys collect the silver, no guy has ever carefully checked the fineness of the silver, how can they all be experts in casting silver?Such a plot description is purely distorting history, making up nonsense, and desecrating the authenticity of history!
He continued: "When I wrote the three books of "Yongzheng Dynasty", "Qianlong Dynasty" and "Kangxi Dynasty", I read tens of millions of words of historical materials, and it took nearly 20 years to complete. The plot of the book, whether it is the etiquette of the palace or the people's exchanges, is only written and finalized after detailed and careful research. Only by taking history seriously can we respect history, respect readers and friends, and stand the test of history. In the matter of history, no one has the right to change it at will.
February River's view of history is indeed worthy of respect, and although there are some problems with his work, there are few basic common-sense errors. Through the TV series adapted from him, we can clearly see that he is a very successful historian. Compared with today's falsification of history, his historical creation is clearly more responsible.