Author |Mo on the flower.
Speaking of director Zheng Xiaolong, he is a famous name in China's film and television industry, and many of the TV series he participated in directing, producing, and writing are classic hit dramas.
In 1990, after the TV series "Desire", which he served as a producer, was broadcast, it aroused a strong response, and for a time thousands of people were empty and the world was arguing, and then it also won many awards, becoming a milestone work in the history of Chinese TV drama development.
Since then, he has also participated in the director, screenwriter or producer of TV series such as "Pekingese in New York", "Happiness Like Flowers" and "Golden Wedding".
In recent years, the more influential TV series "The Legend of Zhen Huan" and "The Legend of Miyue" directed by him won him the Magnolia Best Director Award, especially "The Legend of Zhen Huan", which has been broadcast for more than ten years and is still loved by the audience.
In August 2020, Zheng Xiaolong participated in an event in the film and television industry, and then ** asked him what he thought of "Thirty Only".
At that time, the reality-themed TV series "Thirty Only" was on the air, and Director Zheng Xiaolong bluntly said that he hadn't watched it, and he also said that if a TV series didn't form a topical discussion, it was not worth watching.
However, he also said that he heard from the reporter that he would take a look when he was free. He also said that TV series must stand the test of time, and some works may be very popular at the time, but they will soon disappear, and they are not good works, and really good works will be big waves.
He also believes that good TV dramas should help people improve their self-cultivation and help social progress, which is the direction that film and television people should pursue and work towards.
When it comes to good TV series, I have to mention "The Legend of Zhen Huan", some people think that this is a classic palace fighting drama, but Zheng Xiaolong doesn't think so.
He believes that this drama has a very strong spirit of realism and criticism, and it is a typical tragic story against the feudal marriage system and a criticism of the backward feudal marriage system.
"The Legend of Zhen Huan" seems to be an intriguing palace fighting drama, but in fact, the theme in it is to criticize the feudal supremacy of imperial power and the polygamous marriage system.
At that time, the woman had to enter the palace for the honor of the family, and was selected by the emperor under the arrangement of the family, once selected, it was not the beginning of luck, but the beginning of a nightmare.
Like the heroine Zhen Huan, she originally had a beautiful dream, hoping to find someone who loved each other, and didn't want to enter the palace, but she couldn't help herself.
When she arrived in the deep palace, she saw the deceit and dark side of the concubines in the palace at the beginning, so she had to pretend to be sick to escape the world, but this didn't work at all, if you want to survive in the palace, you must have your own backer.
The women had no choice but to regard the emperor as their biggest backer, and these pathetic women were pawns and victims of the family.
What the emperor cherishes most is the power in his hands, for these women, he comes and goes as soon as he is called, today he is good for this one, and tomorrow he will take a fancy to another.
The women tried their best to compete for favor for themselves and their families, but the emperor didn't take them seriously at all, after all, there are many women in the world, one stubble after another.
The emperor is fickle, he is also flowery, maybe he was tempted by one of them, but his heart has never stayed for one person, but to see one love one, love one to hurt another. The concubines were just the emperor's playthings and tools for inheritance.
The heroine Zhen Huan still fantasized about having a heart to heart with the emperor at first, and felt that she was different from others in the emperor's heart, but later learned that the emperor did not love them, only the supreme power.
Moreover, the fate of the women in the palace is also closely linked to the fate of the family, and the power of the previous dynasty is closely linked to the honor and favor of the women in the harem.
In order to consolidate his power, although the emperor also liked Concubine Hua, he did not let her have children, for fear that the power of Concubine Hua's mother's family would be too strong and endanger her own power.
He likes Zhen Huan, but he feels that Zhen Huan is too smart and may threaten his power, so he snubbed her by wearing the wrong clothes, and the two of them have been separated from each other ever since.
In fact, it was not because of a piece of clothing, but because the emperor did not trust Zhen Huan, which also made Zhen Huan completely see the true face of the emperor, he regarded Zhen Huan as a stand-in for Chunyuan, not really loving himself, Zhen Huan's beauty in love was shattered.
The reason why "The Legend of Zhen Huan" has been on the air for more than ten years is that there are many intriguing interpretations in it, which may be what director Zheng Xiaolong said, a good TV series can improve people's cultivation.
Zheng Xiaolong also said that he is reluctant to cooperate with traffic stars, and only likes actors with acting skills and strength.
At that time, they were only small supporting roles and small characters in "The Legend of Zhen Huan", such as Tan Songyun, Tang Yixin, Lan Yingying, Rezai and others have become the protagonists in their own right, which shows that these people have a certain strength.