Ten miles of different styles and hundreds of miles of different customs -- the regional cultural style in TV dramas
2022-04-06
China has a vast territory and abundant resources. Different geography, climate, history and other factors nourish different customs in various regions. In recent years, China's TV drama creation, rich and colorful regional characteristic culture has become a bright color. "Mountain and sea feelings" shows the local customs of Xihaigu, Ningxia. Many viewers learn the northwest dialect from the characters in the play; "The awakening age" wrote about the changes of Beiping and the brilliant stars a hundred years ago, which made many young people aspire to it; The Shaanxi flavor of Zhuangtai is like a bowl of strong oily noodles; The Shanghai flavor of "xinju" is like sweet and salty local dishes. Even young and idolized works such as "you are my glory" and "20 no doubt" also introduce certain regional cultural elements to clearly outline the sense of space and the sense of the times of the story. The integration of rich regional elements into TV dramas not only increases the level and change of the visual space of TV drama art, but also increases the thickness and strength of the realistic texture of TV dramas. More importantly, the regional characteristic culture has also been effectively spread with the help of TV dramas. Typical characters still need a typical environment Edifice make complaints about different approaches but equally satisfactory results. In many realistic themes, urban landscapes are often the same. Often with aliases and similar high-rise buildings, many regional spaces become a cultural enclave. This has something to do with its pale regional and spatial expression. In fact, in China's TV drama tradition, regional culture was once an important feature. Especially when many provinces do not have satellite channels, or provincial satellite channels do not have national influence, and provincial and municipal TV stations mostly rely on their own production and sales, the content of programs broadcast by local TV stations is mainly to serve local audiences. Chongqing TV's Mr. fool, mountain city Bangbang army, Guangdong TV's Miss public relations, Dalian TV's fence, woman and dog, wheel, woman and well, etc. often take the local area as the place where the story takes place and take the local story as the main content to present the local social appearance and life details. Later, provincial satellite TV gradually became the most influential broadcasting channel among provincial and municipal TV stations. As their influence gradually covers the whole country, their operation positioning has changed from pursuing local characteristics to opening up their vision and focusing on the whole country. The threshold for non-public capital to enter the radio and television program production industry has been lowered, and the separation of production and broadcasting in the film and television industry has become popular. The film and television companies specializing in program production should serve the program needs of national television stations. When creating and producing, they often put the priority of finding the cultural commonalities of national audiences in front of mining regional elements. After that, IP, traffic stars and other commercial elements were introduced, and the production cost of some film and television dramas was more inclined to the copyright fee of big IP and the film remuneration of traffic stars. In order to save costs, some works focus the shooting scenes on several simple indoor spaces, resulting in the absence of the real regional landscape. The complexity of different cities is simplified into a sample room like residence or office, and the geographical space of TV dramas has gradually become a simple stage for carrying stories. Engels pointed out: "realism means that in addition to the authenticity of details, we should also truly reproduce the typical characters in the typical environment." Regional culture is a complex meaning system, which includes not only the natural environment, customs and etiquette, daily habits, but also the world on top of it. For a period of time, the simplification and simplification of geographical space expression in TV dramas has brought an emptiness of culture, aesthetics and significance to the creation. This phenomenon has aroused the attention and reflection of practitioners. Local accent evokes emotional resonance Industrialization and urbanization cannot cut off the local accent. In recent years, "nostalgia" has been repeatedly mentioned in literary and artistic works. Specific to the field of TV series, creators pay more and more attention to the application of regional characteristics. From Beijing, Shanghai and Guangzhou to the northeast, northwest, Southeast and southwest, they have become the regional space described by the works, reminding the audience of a different "nostalgia". As the capital, Beijing has always been the focus of TV dramas on regional space. In recent years, Beijing TV dramas such as "sesame alley" and "not Begonia red at the temples" take pickles and Beijing opera as the core images of their works, consolidating people's impression of Beijing's historical changes and cultural accumulation. It is also a work with a sense of the times. The awakening age expands the space presentation of the TV series to old Beijing. In the works, historical landmarks such as Peking University Honglou, Changxindian and Taoran Pavilion appear frequently, and even the soil of the big fence, the wall tiles of arrow alley and the grape shelves in Chen Duxiu courtyard are carefully arranged, trying to restore the style of that year. TV dramas such as "I'm fine in another country", "xiaohuanxi" and "Shichahai" have shaped today's Beijing. It contains both the traditional Beijing flavor and the modern flavor of the metropolis. Chinese people from all over the world gathered here to compose the spiritual outlook and cultural heritage of Beijing from different levels and dimensions. As a first tier city, TV dramas present different regional characteristics of Shanghai. One is the old Shanghai in "secret and great" and "old traditional Chinese medicine", which is a spy battlefield with open guns and hidden arrows, a ten mile foreign market with red lights and wine, the smoke and fire of Lilong neighborhood, and the historical flavor of Shanghai shared by Jiangnan culture and Huangmei rainy season. One is today's Shanghai, which is a trendy city with commercial flavor. In Ode to joy, settling down and just 30, it is not only the dream land of strivers, but also the display platform of fashion culture, but also the display screen of daily life of different social classes. In addition to the changes of the times reflected by the metropolitan landscape of Beijing and Shanghai, the broader regional shaping in the TV series presents a differentiated Chinese story and depicts the style of China. Referring to the northeast of TV dramas, people often think of the "rural love" series. In fact, the presentation of TV dramas to the Northeast has long gone beyond the level of rural comedy and developed in a diversified direction. In "I don't want to be friends with you", there is a steaming bathhouse in the Northeast; in "old tavern", there is the forthright of "landing as a brother, why close relatives". In "human world", there is sincere emotion in the joys and sorrows of the northeast family. The TV series not only has the small warmth of the northeast, but also has the great charm of the northeast. From "White Deer Plain", "flowers bloom in full moon that year" to "Mount Taiwan" and "mountain and sea situation", the scenery of Northwest Loess Plateau and 800 Li Qinchuan flows through the TV series. What moves the audience are not only the bitterness, bitterness and sweetness of villages in Xi'an City in "Mount Taiwan", but also the vicissitudes of Xihaigu in Ningxia in "mountain and sea situation". In "everything is fine", the sound of Suzhou Pingtan is murmuring, and in "the sky of wind dog youth", Chongqing people climb the slope and climb the ridge, which gives the audience a distinctive freshness in audio-visual sense and a sense of closeness to regional culture. The revival of regional culture in TV dramas is inseparable from social development. With the increasing mobility of Chinese residents in work and life, coupled with the development of tourism and the convenience of the Internet, for the audience, many foreign landscapes are not only unfamiliar and estranged, but more novel and infectious. When the TV series with dialect accent arouse the audience's interest in learning dialect, and when the specific shooting place of the series has become an endless stream of online Red punch in attractions, we feel the audience's love for the TV series works combined with regional culture and the people's ardent emotion for the motherland. Artistic value and cultural value complement each other The rise of regional culture in TV dramas first reflects the high-quality improvement of TV dramas at the level of visual art. With the improvement of the industrialization level of China's TV dramas and the increasing demand of the audience for high-quality TV dramas, the enrichment of TV drama vision has become a representation of the refinement, specialization and boutique of TV drama quality. This refinement is not only the improvement of computer special effects or lens language, but also the information content of the picture itself. Art comes from life, and TV drama is a kind of media art that is highly close to daily life. China's vast territory brings "thousands of miles of different winds and hundreds of miles of different customs", which is the resource treasure house of rich pictures and multiple visual elements. The display of regional culture in TV dramas provides more differentiated and novel contents and details for the spatial landscape of TV dramas, forming a rich level of visual aesthetics. In addition to being a visual spatial landscape, regional culture can also be the source of auditory effect. The lines and dialogues of the TV series are seasoned according to the local dialect. The authentic colloquial words and friendly local accent are integrated into the auditory system of the TV series, which not only enriches the text words of the TV series, but also increases the freshness of the audience's hearing. Regional musical elements, such as local operas, have also been requisitioned into the sound system of TV dramas. Each appearance of Suzhou Pingtan in "everything is good" not only conforms to the characters' emotions, but also infiltrates the Suzhou flavor. In the plot of leaflets issued by Chen Duxiu and Li Dazhao, the awakening Era is matched with the paragraph of Beijing Opera "pick a pulley", which not only sets off the story atmosphere, but also exaggerates the emotions. Regional culture is also a rich library of story materials. There are too many places worth writing in the history and culture of all parts of China. Yiwu in chicken feathers flying to heaven and Xihaigu in mountains and seas are like a history book, which records the years passed by the Chinese people. In addition, as another representation of regional culture, clothing, food, housing and transportation also add a lot of taste to TV dramas. The frozen pear in "I don't want to be friends with you" and the rougamo and Hu spicy soup in "loading the stage" all make the audience hungry and eager. In general, regional culture not only makes TV dramas richer, delicate, authentic and grounded in art, but also in culture, the integration of regional culture and TV dramas has played a positive role in publicizing the rich culture of all parts of China, increasing cultural exchanges and inheriting the cultural traditions of all parts of China. With the help of TV series, regional culture can strengthen the spiritual connection between people and their hometown, region and country, so as to establish a deeper cultural cognition and emotional connection. At present, there is still a lot of room to explore and improve the presentation of regional culture in China's TV dramas. I believe that with the deepening of creation, there will be more high-quality works using regional culture, tell more real and vivid Chinese stories and convey more rich Chinese emotions. (outlook new era)
Edit：Yuanqi Tang Responsible editor：Xiao Yu
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