The screenplay creation of costume dramas plays down the worries in the industry.

some experts believe that historical film and television works are an important carrier for the dissemination of national traditional culture, and if the costume drama "Baping" with "no history" is allowed blindly, it is likely to make the public's feelings for the cultural roots more and more weak.

original title: behind the costume drama "Baping" is the disappearance of history

"Ruyi's Royal Love in the Palace" and "win the World" have been turned on, "Beauty Weiyang" and "thinking of Beauty" are about to begin, and there will be a surge of dramas such as "vine Qingluo" and "returning to the Ming Dynasty to be a king". There are signs that the costume drama craze that has taken off on the screen in recent years is continuing. The phenomenon of high fever in costume dramas has attracted the attention of experts and scholars.

the so-called costume drama is a general term for TV dramas that set the background of the times as ancient TV dramas, including historical dramas, aerial dramas and so on. Some experts have noticed that, on the one hand, there are a large number of costume dramas on TV screens and video websites; on the other hand, the creative attitude of respecting and reproducing history is weakening day by day. Historical materials serve more of the needs of visual presentation such as art, scenes, costumes, props, and so on, and historical dramas are disappearing from the screen.

in other words, behind the popularity of ancient costumes is the disappearance of history. This worries many researchers and critics. In their view, historical film and television works are an important carrier for the dissemination of national traditional culture. If the costume drama "Baping" with "no history" is allowed blindly, it is likely to make the public's feelings for the cultural roots more and more weak.

strong > in the hustle and bustle of costume dramas, history has been diluted and falsified / strong >

there is no doubt that costume dramas have become one of the most important types of TV dramas on TV and video websites. Since last year alone, many works such as the Legend of the Ming Concubine, the Legend of Qingqiu Fox, and the Legend of Miyue have been broadcast one after another, and have become major viewers.

however, some scholars have noticed that while costume dramas are very popular on the screen, historical dramas, once a very important and mainstream type of costume drama, are increasingly fading out of the screen-works such as the Kang Yongqian trilogy and the Daming Dynasty 1566 have long been scarce.

Zhang Dexiang, vice chairman of the Chinese Literary critics Association, believes that the biggest difference between this wave of costume dramas and historical dramas is that historical dramas have history before dramas, while costume dramas have no history and only dramas, gradually diluting and falsifying history. In fact, the desalination and falsification of history is not only the absence of historical dramas. Guo Biheng, an associate professor at the School of Art and Media at Beijing normal University, has studied the popular costume dramas in recent years and found that the creative attitude of respecting and reproducing history is also weakening in this kind of works. The plot setting is getting farther and farther from the real history, and the historical materials are mainly for the visual pursuit of TV dramas, such as art, scenes, costumes, props and so on, rather than for the overall narrative and the presentation of historical stories. Citing the Biography of the female Doctor Ming Fei as an example, he points out that although the creator seems to have delved into the works of traditional Chinese medicine, he has mistaken the era in which the female doctor Tan Yun-hsien lives. The Legend of Miyue claims to respect history, but the character relationship is "Lalang match."

strong > is these popular network IP, which determines the appearance of costume drama / strong >

ancient costume prevails and history retreats, which has become a new phenomenon of literary and artistic creation.

in this regard, Zhang Dexiang analyzed that part of the reason is that historical dramas are easily compared by audiences with real history, while costume dramas with relatively vague concepts place stories in a virtual historical space, thus reducing the difficulty of creation and avoiding the possibility of being compared.

Guo Biheng believes that there is a strong tendency to be spectacular in contemporary visual culture and relies heavily on creating strange landscapes to provide sensory shock scenes. The historical elements can precisely meet such needs: when history evolves into a fantasy field, the environment, clothing, accessories and even weapons have become landscape components of imagination. The most typical example in this respect is "Wu Mei Niang".

some experts have also pointed out that another important reason for the costume drama "Baping" is the growing popularity of the film and television network IP, and it is these popular network IP that determine the appearance of costume dramas. Some people have made a rough statistics: whether it is the popular "Thousand bones of Flowers" and "Legend of Miyue", or the upcoming launch or broadcast of "Mangqinglou", "long Acacia", "Donggong", "Zichuan", "returning to the Ming Dynasty as the King", "winning the World" and so on, they are all adapted from the network IP. Yang Junlei, a professor in the Chinese Department of Fudan University, said that compared with traditional literary creation, the biggest feature of online novels is channel customization or type customization, while aerial history is precisely a particularly popular type of online novels, because there are many routines and easy to copy. Easy to use. A well-known online writer who started his career by writing overhead novels once said: when you write 100000 words, people accuse you of plagiarism; when you write 500000 words, others stop saying it. The implication of this sentence is that the imitation between each other is the "tacit secret" in this type of creation. "then you will find that in online novels, the types of contradictions are the same regardless of dynasties," Yang Junlei said. "

strong > the expulsion of real history will lead to the hollowing out of history / strong >

in the eyes of many experts and scholars, historical drama is important because it embodies the contemporary view of history and excavates and spreads the excellent traditional ideology and culture of the nation. At present, costume dramas continue to be popular, behind which the creation of TV dramas is becoming increasingly entertaining and short-sighted; the entertainment wind not only blows into the field of history, but even affects the literary and artistic creation of historical themes. This phenomenon is worrying.

some scholars have said bluntly that in this kind of film and TV dramas, historical content has given way to scene arrangement and plot pursuit. this phenomenon has a trend of globalization, and domestic dramas are only part of this trend. This is all the more worthy of our vigilance. Take the Lord of the Rings as an example: as a professor of classical literature, Tolkien wrote the Lord of the Rings with the original intention of adding a mythological link to British culture. But after the novel was made into a film, many British students mistook Gandalf on the expedition for General Nelson, a famous admiral in British history, so that they wrote Gandalf's name directly on the examination paper.

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