Xianxia dramas have always been enduring good dramas, and our Xianxia dramas have also gone through several different periods, each of which drives the audience's aesthetics, and each one is very classic. Today, let's take a look at Xianxia dramas from different periods.
First place: "A Chinese Ghost Story" and "The Legend of the New White Lady".
This is not a fairy drama in the real sense, but it has begun to take shape. In the Xianxia dramas of this period, most of the immortals are animal incarnations, to be precise, demons, and the story is also a cliché love story today. At this time, the aesthetics of internal entertainment are also strong faces, big facial features, and personalization. Although every star had some shortcomings at that time, such as a protruding mouth, square chin, etc., it did not affect their appearance, and this period was also the period when there were the most Hong Kong-style beauties.
Second place: "The Legend of Sword and Fairy".
This period is the era of 85 flowers, and the Xianxia dramas of this period pay more attention to describing the process of cultivating immortals, and the stories are all under many difficulties, and finally cultivate into immortals. Although there are some love stories mixed in it, the Xianxia drama at that time still paid more attention to career, and love was also a small part.
During this period, internal entertainment has changed from the aesthetics of big beauties to individual aesthetics, with a strong face and a light face, cute and evil charms can have a place, Tang Yan, Yang Mi, Liu Yifei, etc., each has its own beauty, but it is still inseparable from the impactful facial features.
"The Legend of Sword and Fairy" was the most popular Xianxia drama at that time, and it was also because of this drama that internal entertainment opened the era of Xianxia dramas
Third place: "The Legend of the Ancient Sword".
After "Fairy Sword", it was difficult to see a good Xianxia drama, and a few years later, a "Ancient Sword Strange Tale" finally came out. Strictly speaking, "The Legend of the Ancient Sword" is closer to martial arts dramas, and most of the Xianxia dramas at that time also leaned on this aspect, after all, "Fairy Sword" is too difficult to surpass.
At that time, the story description of Xianxia drama began to add many love stories, focusing on this part, and the ancient puppet drama was born. "The Legend of the Ancient Sword" was a big hit, and it was their hot search all summer, and domestic entertainment valued business opportunities, and the crazy copying was out of control from then on.
At this time, the aesthetics of internal entertainment began to have some pursuit of small facial features, delicacy, and Korean style, and some previous film and television drama makeup can no longer be seen, more Korean styles such as one-word eyebrows and single eyelids. Internal entertainment also began to pursue three-dimensional bone phase and juvenile skin phase.
Fourth place: "Three Lives, Three Worlds, Ten Miles of Peach Blossoms" and "Flower Thousand Bone".
At this time, the output of Xianxia dramas reached its peak, and the story has changed from focusing on career to biasing towards love. Poignant, sadomasochistic love stories were a hit at the time. The aesthetics of internal entertainment are also moving towards a single one, which used to be colorful, and later moved towards light and plain colors. The clothes of the gods are becoming more and more plain, especially after a certain character becomes popular in white, everyone has an obsession with white, and the future Xianxia dramas are all white clothes, and the audience will soon become aesthetically tired.
At that time, there were more and more naïve, cute, and distant artists in the domestic entertainment aesthetics, and the era of cuteness was coming, but the female stars at this time were still real little white flowers and sweet girls.
Fifth place: "Pray for the Present Dynasty".
The aesthetics of sweet girls in domestic entertainment reached its peak under a series of bad dramas, and all kinds of sweet girls were born, but they were all fake sweet, there were no previous flowers blooming, and there was no sweetness and cuteness in the real sense. The content of Xianxia dramas is also becoming more and more clichéd, and you can guess the direction of the rest by watching the first episode.
However, even under many bad dramas, there are some excellent works, "Pray for the Present Dynasty" played by Xu Kai and Yu Shuxin is one, and Yu Shuxin's "Canglan Jue" also caused a lot of repercussions, this time the story is richer, and it is also out of the shackles of a white dress, no longer a scene with only special effects, very realistic, very life-like.
The morbid aesthetic seems to be slowly disappearing, and after that, it should be difficult for Xianxia dramas to produce explosive dramas, there are too many comparisons, the quality is too poor, and the audience is also aesthetically fatigued.