Why did the longest day in Chang 'an become an "explosion"?

With the slow development of Qingping Music, the majestic Chang 'an City is just around the corner ... Recently, the domestic online drama "The Longest Day in Chang 'an", which was broadcasted by Youku, won unanimous praise from the industry and the audience. The play will also be broadcast in Japanese, Singaporean and other Asian countries and North China, achieving a major breakthrough in's drama.

How was this "explosive drama" made? What is the core competitiveness of "sailing to sea"?

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Craftsman Spirit Reproduces "tang style Ancient Rhyme"

I read the original three times, and I wrote 23 versions in the first episode alone, and it took four months to grasp the core of the characters and stories ... Director Cao Dun said frankly that from the beginning of creation, in line with the original intention of telling the "China story", what he wanted to do was to "restore the days of the Tang Dynasty as much as possible".

"I think this is a historical work with realistic spirit. We weave stories on the basis of respecting history and try our best to follow them. " Cao Dun said that whether it is a costume drama, a drama or a modern drama, the creative logic should stay in real life.

It is this simple craftsman spirit that makes the play rooted in tradition, focused on reality, and there are references everywhere. Judging from the barrage data, "film texture" is the word most mentioned by the audience. In addition to the plot, netizens also talked about the exquisite details such as costumes, culture and Taoism in the play.

For example, in the aspect of ladies' costumes in the play, the crew collected six patterns of flowers and birds in the Tang Dynasty collected by Dongda Temple in Nara Zhengcang Hospital and three patterns of bird branches in the Tang Dynasty unearthed from Astana Tang Tomb in Turpan, Xinjiang. In addition, the details of Han Xizai's banquet, Gongle Road and Dunhuang murals were intuitively restored, and the precious cultural relics collected by museums and folk were referred to.

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Innovative expression and promotion of traditional culture

The Longest Day in Chang 'an is adapted from Ma Boyong's novel of the same name. It tells the story that Zhang Xiaojing, the "bad guy" in charge of the investigation and arrest in the Tang Dynasty, has made great contributions to apology, and needs to cooperate with Li Bi of Jing 'an Company to detect suspicious people mixed with Tang Cheng within 12 hours and save the people of CoCo Lee.

Liang Chao, the chief producer of the drama, said that in addition to the compact plot line, he also hoped that the audience could really feel the richness of traditional culture. The excavation of the highlights of traditional culture in the play permeates all aspects of daily life, fully demonstrates the cultural features of Chang 'an in the Millennium, and endows the traditional cultural symbols with broad expression space.

According to the director, the crew specially invited experts to carefully restore 28 kinds of Tang-style dim sum for various banquet daily scenes, and skillfully combined the two intangible cultural heritages of ancient paper-making and iron-striking to show the beauty of culture and life to the audience.

"In addition, the protagonist in the play has experienced various hardships and has always insisted on finding out the real murderer. From such a small person, this paper discusses the value beauty of traditional culture such as persistence, struggle, courage and hard work. In the context of the story in the play, China culture and foreign culture have achieved equal exchanges and eclecticism, which is another kind of value beauty we hope to express. " Cao Dun said.

Deng, an associate researcher at China Communication University, said that it has become the responsibility and responsibility of literary and artistic creators to create masterpieces, spread and carry forward China's excellent traditional culture and show the mainstream values of contemporary China. The mission of images is not only to show and restore the highlights of history and culture, but also to arouse modern people's strong interest in excellent traditional culture and their sense of inheritance.

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There are countless "national dramas" that have crossed the ocean.

In recent years, some excellent China opera works, which are deeply loved by domestic audiences, have also begun to go abroad, becoming a new window for foreign audiences to understand China. With the launch of "The Longest Day in Chang 'an", there is another upsurge of watching China TV series overseas.

Liang Chao revealed that at present, the longest day in Chang 'an has launched new media platforms in Vietnam, Singapore, Malaysia and Brunei, closely following the mainland. Starting from July, the show will be launched on three platforms: Viki, Amazon and Youtube. After dubbing and translation, the play will also land in Europe, Africa and other places.

Excellent China opera works have traveled across the ocean and gained great popularity, which has well met the dual needs of overseas audiences to understand China culture while enjoying the drama. "Today, with the rapid economic growth and increasing cultural soft power in China, China film and television dramas have achieved the same stage competition with outstanding works from all over the world." Zhao Cong, a researcher of China Television Arts Committee, believes that these various types of film and television works have made overseas audiences see the image of China, which pays attention to inheritance and keeps pace with the times. The plot is fascinating, the picture is exquisite and beautiful, and the emotional expression is rich.

The process of China film and television participating in international competition has also achieved its own upgrading iteration. Experts pointed out that the increasingly frequent and in-depth exchanges between domestic and foreign film and television drama markets have not only brought more opportunities and bigger markets for the international communication of domestic film and television dramas, but also brought more challenges-the domestic film and television drama industry must master more advanced production techniques, choose more distinctive cultural symbols, create more novel themes and content, and formulate more comprehensive communication strategies in order to go further in the highly competitive overseas film and television drama market.

(Editor: Qu Lihua Intern: Chen Biying)