"Going North" is the work of writer Xu Zecheng who won the Mao Dun Literature Award, writing the secret history of a nation with a river.
The story revolves around the Beijing-Hangzhou Grand Canal, where an Italian letter was discovered in 1900.
Under the influence of the Boxers, Yuan Shikai, and Qing **, the people at the bottom of China lived a life of misery and turmoil.
The Italian Polo Jr. toured the Beijing-Hangzhou Grand Canal and traveled all the way to Beijing, all the way to find his younger brother who had lost his news after joining the army in China.
But unfortunately, he was stabbed by bandits during the journey and died with regret.
With the Italian Polo and his translator, boatman, bodyguard, and porter as clues, the story slowly unfolds.
Little Polo's brother, who could not be found, had actually become Chinese, married a Chinese girl, and lived incognito to live the life of ordinary people.
But in 1934, in order to avenge his wife, the younger brother fought with the Japanese, and finally died together.
Time flies, more than 70 years have passed in a blink of an eye, and the book takes the Grand Canal as a clue to connect the stories of more than 100 years.
Different families, across the long river of history, have written a hundred years of Chinese history. It also shows social change.
Walking along the Suzhou Canal, the quaint water town atmosphere and the modern urban atmosphere are intertwined, and the descendants left behind by the raging war have grown up with the canal from the first acquaintance to becoming a close confidant who talks about everything.
The TV series invited the original author Xu Zechen to serve as the screenwriter, basically there is no need to worry about the TV series being changed, and the other screenwriter is also quite strong, Zhao Dongling, who won the Feitian Award, the Golden Rooster Award, and the Huabiao Award.
Xia, Xie, Chen, Ma, Shao, and Saturday have different families and six different lives. But all of them are closely related to the rolling forward of the canal.
The director talked about casting, Yao Xiaofeng said that the aura between the actors is very important, and these six families are matched by us according to the actors.
Yao Xiaofeng himself is a native of Jiangsu, and when choosing the heroine of a TV series about the Beijing-Hangzhou Grand Canal in Jiangsu, he took into account that one side of the water and soil will raise one side.
aimed at the actress Bailu, who grew up in Jiangsu.
She has a gentle appearance, which is in line with the temperament of the water town in the south of the Yangtze River, and at the same time, she has a big personality, and she is also suitable for the protagonist Xia Fenghua. Play the flamboyant personality of a young girl.
"Going North" experiences the beginning and end of the canal from the perspective of several family people, showing the new and old changes of the canal in the new era. It also provides a steady stream of spiritual nourishment for the people along the coast.
It also expresses to the public that young people in the new era use their own life experiences to convey their profound cultural identity to the Chinese nation and shoulder the burden of inheriting national culture.