A retelling of Three Kingdoms legends

(China Every day) Most of Chinese language viewers members rising up with the family legends of Romances of the Three Kingdoms – one in all China’s 4 most well-known historical classical novels – could be aware of the tales of heroes rising throughout a chaotic period relationship again to over 1,800 years in the past.

Just lately, the turbulent but spectacular chapter of Chinese language historical past was retold in an alternative-history story, the 24-episode costume drama The Wind Blows from Longxi.

Set within the Three Kingdoms interval (220-280), the story fictionalizing an espionage legend that may rewrite historical past, is at the moment working on CCTV-8 and the video-streaming website iQiyi.

With the nation nonetheless battling COVID-19 resurgence and round 45 p.c of all cinemas closed, thousands and thousands of viewers members have shifted to small screens, propelling the stellar-cast drama to soar as probably the most fashionable TV sequence on the eve of the Labor’s Day vacation.

Massive beards, which most male characters put on within the manufacturing, had been prevailing as a form of fashionable aesthetic throughout that interval, in line with the producers.

Moreover sticking to historical past for appearances, the drama additionally recreated the customized and way of life in that interval, starting from colours of civilians’ garments to the procedures of cooking and consuming tea, making it additionally a “window” to dive into the previous class, commented some critics.