Writer Zhao Dongling: Why did I write "China's"

Why did I write "China's"

Zhao Dongling (TV series "China's" writer)

The origins of the play, a margin of less than 2000 words from online text, introduced 14 years in the Northeast during the fall, in Chaoyang City, Liaoning Province, today there is a place for 14 years refused to recognize Manchukuo's rule, has not let the Japanese long-term occupation. We are thus interested in the history of the beginning of the sun, some sun in the online information search, the sun began to interview. That people have always been on the sun and not the same as elsewhere, there are nine of the anti-sun said. That is, dynasties, almost did not bring the place of man docile. In this regard, we give an example like: "September 18 Incident" occurred in 1931, when the sun is Rehe, the Japanese occupation in early 1933 before sunrise. In more than a year's time, although no large forces over the Japanese, can be anti-Japanese war, Chaoyang everywhere, actually played a dozen or anti-Japanese armed.

In the sun to get these valuable historical information that I treasure, create a "Chinese way" in the name of the drama of ideas arising.

I am a theme first commentators. Whenever I write a work, I first ask yourself: Do you write this work, what is that? Say what? Write "China's" My theme is of course the national spirit. This is my first question to be answered: What is the national spirit?

Our story begins in 1931, "918" that day. Time in China, and now the Chinese, and not just from the 80 anniversary. This time, from the fall of the Qing Dynasty, only 20 years in the city, among the intellectuals, have the concept of the modern state. But for the average farmer do? What is the state for them? Is an emperor? Change it to a ruler? I often think, so-called national concept is foreign invasion, only to help us set up. Otherwise, how do you explain when the Sino-Japanese War the Japanese have more than puppet phenomenon? If no foreign invasion, the self-sufficient peasant economy, everyone can hear the sound of living just a few kilometers, never in contact with the day, know what country? What is race? As long as the tax official is not too heavy, to live, whether it is who rule it. Me to explain that when the Chinese general population, especially in remote rural population concept of the State, is not likely to be more in line with the prevailing reality?

But the Devils on the Doorstep, they grab our food, to kill us, rape our sisters, and even deprive us of our language. It is in this harsh reality, in blood and fire and flame in the bottom of our people, was the awakening of national consciousness, national consciousness, to know, this is our country, our home, we The ancestral land. Foreign invasion, whether alive or dead, we must protect it for future generations. In my opinion, together with traditional culture, which is the national spirit, is the formation of the national spirit. And "China's" is written in ignorance of how the awakening of farmers, how to temper the concept of the State, the national spirit in the process. This is the "Chinese way" theme, in my opinion, this is it different from the general anti-Japanese drama place.

When finished this drama, many actors have said to me: "Zhao, my role very well." I was very proud to say: "We are in no small role in this drama, all of them, even if only the emergence of a set the play who has his own unique image, a unique character. "From the beginning of creation, I give himself set a high goal: I want to" China's "as that time in China to write. Therefore, "China's" where to appear everyday: farmers, officials, intellectuals, prostitutes, bandits, traitors, yet devoid of conscience, the Japanese ... ...

Of course, I put the entire understanding of the subject, are pinned to the hero Zhao ga body. The beginning of the story, Zhao Ga rude, selfish, short-sighted. He called the Chinese, the only palm-sized piece of land breeze Ridge, in other words, the wind Ridge is his country out of the breeze Ling, China is no matter of his death. 38 sets in this 14-year span, he slowly grew in blood and fire, the national spirit is slowly developing, as many anti-Japanese fighters, he knows in the process of resistance, the breeze Ridge, only a part of China No country, no home. In other words, as I said above, he had the concept of state.

Actor Li Youbin several had already shaped the image of a hero, but I am confident that Zhao and Ga was all he had to shape a hero is not the same. This Zhaolao Ga, than he had all the images are more stupid, more ignorant, and grow are more difficult, walked the streets longer. Probably because of this, the controversy caused by this larger image. We used to seeing the hero, it is difficult to accept how a hero would be so brutal, ignorant, rude, ignorant, unreasonable. But I have been trying to subvert their own works in this concept, I again tried to prove his own work, an imperfect person, is more in line with the true human nature, is more aesthetic value. I had created "the North has beauty", I met the audience to this criticism, the audience can not accept how the heroine can send ping self, selfish, did not show how all of the virtues of the Chinese nation. In this regard, my answer is: I defend to the death to send ping personality. In my view, Ga Zhaolao all the shortcomings of the body is in that time a "tyrant" of features. His shortcomings, but also his bloody part. In addition, because his starting point is so low, his hero growing up would be more difficult than normal.

This issue has me in the pursuit of art is closely related: as a creator, for the purpose is to please the audience, or to create a more artistic image of the personality of responsibility? I can get the perfect shape Zhao Ga, making him a mature national spirit, national spokesman for the virtues, and then shoved sensational, the audience for his Ju Yipeng sympathetic tears, get high ratings. But I always said to myself: you can not do it again in this life anything else, you should take this for a living, you have to let you write out of something valuable and meaningful. You do not go to please the audience, you have to fight to hit them, your history, the reality of the national spirit and national character of understanding truthfully revealed, for causing them to resonate. This is what I always wanted to.