In the 1990s, the TV series "Love Sword Mountains and Rivers" starring Ho Ching, Kwan Wing-ho and Lai Yanshan was considered a rare and high-quality work in court drama for its exquisite styling and picturesque beauty images.
Although the male protagonist is not very famous, the beauty of the female protagonist is unique, and it is enough to admire the beautiful women alone.
The opening song of the play, "Wind and Rain Lover", is magnificent, and the ending song is taken from Li Yu's lyrics, with a beautiful melody and a unique feeling.
This drama is set in the era of the Five Dynasties and Ten Kingdoms, and describes the complex relationship between Li Yu, the queen of the Southern Tang Dynasty, and Zhao Kuangyin, the founding emperor of the Northern Song Dynasty, and the Great Zhou Hou, the Xiao Zhou Hou, and Jing Niang. Although the male protagonist is not well-known and his looks are not outstanding, they successfully portrayed the villain Zhao Guangyi's character Ni Qimin, who is the most handsome actor in the play. It's a pity that Zhao Guangyi has a ruthless personality, so he didn't win the audience's love.
Zhao Kuangyin has deep feelings for Xiao Zhouhou, but Xiao Zhouhou has feelings for her brother-in-law Li Yu, while Jingniang has deep affection for her brother-in-law Zhao Kuangyin. Although their relationship is complicated, the plot is not full of blood, but is full of sincere feelings and sincere love, which is deeply moving.
1. About Zhao Kuangyin.
Zhao Kuangyin served as a supervisor in front of the palace in the Later Zhou Dynasty and was highly valued by Chai Rong. He traveled alone to Southern Tang for the purpose of gathering intelligence. On the street, he met Zhou Jiamin, who was singing, and was deeply attracted to her.
In this play, Zhao Kuangyin played a relatively simple role. Despite his physical appearance, his personality is cheerful and upright. When he first met Jia Min, he developed a crush on her, and took the initiative to talk to her, proposing to go to her home to propose.
Jia Min was frightened, so she rejected him.
But since then, Jia Min has become a vague shadow in his mind.
Although he returned to Jiangbei, he always missed her in his heart. Chai Rong brought Li Yu and Jia Min to Hou Zhou, hoping to get Jia Min to stay and support him, but he refused because Jia Min didn't want to see him sad.
After that, the Zhao family married a wife for him. The moment he lifted the veil, the bride smiled. He thought it was Jia Min in a half-dream, but when he looked closely, his mood became a little heavy, and he finally got drunk and fell unconscious.
Jing Niang has always been by his side, full of deep affection and righteousness for him, but he still can't accept her existence and can only choose her as his sister-in-law.
Zhao Kuangyin, accompanied by the people around him, after careful consideration, finally replaced the little emperor of the Later Zhou Dynasty and established the Great Song Dynasty. Despite this, he still showed kindness to the Chai family mother and son, providing them with a stable living environment.
Despite the large number of harems, Jia Min always occupies the only place in his heart.
Before Jia Min married Li Yu, he ventured to Nantang alone to meet her in secret, but eventually left disappointed.
When Jia Min entered the palace of marriage, her heart was full of joy, but Zhao Kuangyin felt deep pain.
After the final demise of the Southern Tang Dynasty, Li Yu brought his family to the Song Dynasty. Zhao Kuangyin could not bear to miss Jia Min, and although he summoned her many times, he never acted inappropriately, and simply talked to her and observed her.
Li Yu could still hear the gossip, which made the relationship between him and his spouse very strained.
Jia Min is armed with scissors and intends to end her life when Zhao Kuangyin pampers her, but Zhao Kuangyin has already seen through her true colors, exposed her, and promised her that he would not do so.
In his heart, Jia Min is like a god, how can he blaspheme him?
Zhao Kuangyin's headache has never been alleviated, and he has felt helpless to protect Jiamin, who he wants to protect.
After Zhao Kuangyin's death, Zhao Guangyi directly humiliated Jia Min, making her life more painful than death.
The role of Zhao Kuangyin is really attractive.
He respects Jia Min's decision and will not ask for trouble.
He attached great importance to emotion and righteousness, and was also a generous and benevolent man.
He knows very well who the person he really loves is, and he never gets emotional easily. Jing Niang also put in a lot of effort to finally make him accept herself. Jing Niang's death made him deeply saddened and burst into tears.
He tells Jia Min that she is the woman he loves the most, but as an emperor, he has never been able to find the person he loves the most, and it feels so far away despite the proximity. He said he loved her, but loved her too deeply to get close. She loved deeply, but couldn't win her heart.
2. About Li Yu.
Li Yu is portrayed as a handsome man in the play, but the actor's performance is slightly bland.
The sisters of the Zhou family are deeply in love with him and are loyal to him.
This genius is truly different.
When Li Yu secretly aimed at Emperor E, Jia Min was also secretly observing Li Yu, and from that moment on, Jia Min's heart was already shaken.
Jia Min mistakenly thought that the words written by Li Yu were written to her by King Wu, but this statement was discovered by her sister.
Li Yu fell in love with Emperor E when he first saw her, so when he married her, he naturally chose to marry Emperor E. Jia Min almost lost her mind after receiving the news, she first called ** to inform Empress E's maid, and then went to her parents with tears in her eyes, and said the sentence "Why is it my sister and not me?".”
At this moment, the deep relationship between the sisters comes into focus, and it is on full display. The identity of "sister" is a person's name, but it is actually a person, and it is also a woman!When Jia Min learns that her sister has been chosen as the princess, she feels like a knife in her heart and can hardly accept this fact. She still dreams of becoming a princess, and her sister, although nominally to visit her sister, is actually trying to probe her true intentions and hope that she will give up.
There is a lack of blessing and care between the two, and there is mutual suspicion and resentment.
Out of the pursuit of love, the feelings between sisters have gradually faded.
After Li Yu and Empress E got married, their lives were full of harmony and affection, which lasted for a period of time. One day, she suddenly felt unwell, so she went to the doctor for treatment, but the doctor said that he was sick because he was in love with a woman. How long their happiness lasted, and so did Jiamin's pain.
However, a literary genius like Li Yu is unlikely to always have deep affection for a person. In this special historical period of the Southern Tang Dynasty, his love did not receive due attention. Suffice it to say, his talent and talent don't catch his eye, and he needs more creativity to showcase his talent.
As the emperor, Li Yu possessed the mysterious temperament of the three-inch golden lotus, which laid the foundation for the tradition of foot binding.
Although Di Niang did not pose much of a threat to Emperor E, the love between them did not reach the level of perfection after all.
When Emperor E was unwell, Jia Min walked into the palace to visit. However, she has not seen her sister for the past ten days. Li Yu seized this opportunity and touched her heartstrings, and she has to admit that the relationship between the two sisters is really incredible.
When her sister's health deteriorated, her younger sister succeeded in attracting her brother-in-law's attention on the pretext of visiting her sister. The two agreed to meet at night, and everything that shouldn't have happened has happened. In addition, Li Yu's famous quote "Socks step incense, hand gold shoes" is also used to describe Jia Min's secret affair with him.
One looks at his sick wife in his eyes, and the other is indifferent to his dying sister, and this kind of love is already difficult to be truly blessed on a moral level.
When Empress E meets Jia Min, she does not show any joy, on the contrary, her heart becomes heavier, believing that Jia Min should not be present in her life. In the end, Emperor E could not forgive Li Yu and sadly walked towards the end of his life.
Jia Min naturally became Li Yu's wife, but their happy life after marriage was not satisfactory, the situation in the Southern Tang Dynasty was precarious, and the female roles in the harem were far more than that.
After the fall of the Southern Tang Dynasty, Li Yu came to Kaifeng with his family, and from then on, his life became gloomy. Zhao Kuangyin was kind to him, but Zhao Guangyi was not so merciful, he ended Li Yu's life with a glass of wine and occupied Jiamin.
In fact, Zhao Kuangyin and Jia Min belong to the same type of people, and when they fall in love, their hearts are always each other. Both of them like to look into other people's eyes, look at other people's faces, look at other people's eyes, and watch other people's movements. There is always a sense of envy when looking at others. As the saying goes, what was once the sea could hardly be turned into water, and since then, no one else can see it anymore.
Zhao Kuangyin was originally a military general, but his chivalrous courage and open-minded character are impressive. He has deep affection for Jia Min, but he doesn't force it. He has a high respect for his wife and does not let her suffer any grievances. At the same time, he also showed the gentlemanly demeanor of Jing Niang, whom he loved deeply.
Jing Niang is actually a very kind woman, and she never forgets Zhao Kuangyin, who once saved her. Even if Zhao Kuangyin rejected her, Jing Niang would wait for him wholeheartedly. Wang Yansheng beside her is an affectionate person, but Jing Niang has a hard time accepting all this. In the end, in order to find out the bad guy Zhao Guangyi, the two decided to hand him over to Zhao Guangyi.
How could he not understand the deep affection of beauty?When Jingniang died, Zhao Kuangyin burst into tears, as if she had lost a different girl.
Although Zhao Kuangyin's talent is not inferior to Li Yu, he is also excellent in other aspects, but unfortunately, the two beauties, Jia Min and Empress E, have deep feelings for Li Yu.
Li Yu is a man full of emotions, and the women around him don't seem destined to live happily ever after. Although he was a small country in the Southern Tang Dynasty, he never forgot to linger among the flowers, and at the same time, Zhao Kuangyin never forgot to face the crisis. Even after he became emperor, he still did his duty, which also earned him the honor of "releasing the military power with a glass of wine". ”
Set against the backdrop of the founding of the Great Song Dynasty and the fall of the Southern Tang Dynasty, this drama incorporates a large number of historical stories and shows Li Yu's lyrics in more depth.
In that era, women's makeup was undoubtedly outstanding, whether it was hair accessories or clothing, they all exuded classical charm, especially He Qing's dress, which was really eye-catching.
In the play, in addition to the two protagonists of Jiamin and Jingniang, the image of the maid is also quite attractive. Baoyi, Liuzhu and Qiushui all give people the feeling of a small jasper in the south of the Yangtze River, but unfortunately, Qiushui was unfortunately trampled to death by Zhao Guangyi in order to protect Jiamin. When the play ends, the two fly each other in the sky, which symbolizes the deep emotional bond between Li Yu and Jia Min. I really hope she can spend time with Zhao Kuangyin.