Decoding a popular rural TV drama

(China Each day) As one of the crucial well-liked rural TV collection this yr, The Story of Xing Fu just lately concluded its first run on Beijing Satellite tv for pc TV and Dragon Tv, and its general 40 episodes and associated options garnered over 20 billion views on-line, producer Cao Ping stated at a latest symposium in Beijing.

As A-list actress Zhao Liying’s first countryside-themed TV collection, the story facilities on He Xingfu, a decided rural girl with a powerful persona who endeavors to hunt justice for these she cares about, reflecting the progress of legalization development in rural China.

The symposium, hosted by the China Tv Arts Fee, gathered the drama’s main creators like director Zheng Xiaolong and round 10 business researchers and critics.

Director Zheng recalled he learn the story for the primary time on a practice experience to Shanghai in late 2015 after he obtained a script containing over 100,000 characters from veteran scriptwriter Zhao Dongling.

“The down-to-earth story was so interesting I could not cease to take a break. Once I turned to the ultimate web page, I found I used to be about to succeed in Shanghai railway station. Since then, I all the time thought in regards to the mission, and filming began in September 2020 after we spent a number of time conducting analysis and sprucing the script,” Zheng stated.

He additionally revealed actress Zhao proposed re-dubbing her character through the post-production process, and the northern Chinese language actress endeavored to mildew her accent to the position, a local of southern China.

Producer Cao stated the TV drama obtained scores of 1.15 p.c on the Shanghai-based Dragon TV and 0.967 p.c at Beijing Satellite tv for pc TV, indicating the drama has turn into one of the crucial well-liked diversions this summer time.

Actor Liu Wei, who performs a village Social gathering chief, stated he discovered rather a lot by means of the method, from delving into the agricultural life-style to sprucing his performing chops.

Yang Chenghu, deputy dean of the Faculty of Arts and Communication at Beijing Regular College, stated the TV present has visualized how China has endeavored to attain rural revitalization and financial improvement within the countryside.

Director Zheng Xiaolong discusses the recognition of his new directorial outing The Story of Xing Fuat a symposium in Beijing.

Actor Liu Wei performs a village’s Social gathering chief in The Story of Xing Fu.