The major revolutionary historical drama "Numbers of Merry People" will be broadcast on June 15. The drama is directed by Yu Ding, the director of "Chicken Feather Flying to the Sky", written by Wang Qingwei, and starring Hou Jingjian, Li Naiwen, Jian Renzi, and Sun Jian. It tells the story of the early revolution of the Chinese Communist Party. The story of those who lived up to their original mission, sought happiness for the Chinese people, and sought rejuvenation for the Chinese nation.

"Numbers of Merry People" poster

The story line of "Several Merry Characters" has a time span of 30 years from the cheering of young fighters who were exploring the salvation of the nation in 1919 to the solemn declaration of the founding of the People's Republic of China in 1949. It is reported that the narrative structure of the play is not simply based on the historical structure, and does not focus on the war scenes, but focuses on "people" and "people's stories", and restores historical figures to ordinary people. The persuasiveness and appeal of the characters are enhanced through a humanistic perspective.

Stills of "Numbers of Merry Characters"

Wang Qingwei, the screenwriter of the play, has written works such as "Feng Hua Zhengmao" and "Zhou Enlai Returns to Yan'an", and has won the national "Five One Project" award for many times. Talking about creative inspiration, Wang Qingwei said: "In 1921, in the Shikumen house in Shanghai, on the red boat on the South Lake in Jiaxing, what kind of ideals and aspirations did 13 young people set up, and what kind of ideals and ambitions did they set up in their lives after that? How to fulfill the original oath?" In order to answer this proposition, he drew a "latitude and longitude network" of characters' stories, with 13 representatives of the National Congress of the Communist Party of China as the "warp line", and a group of people who have an opinion on the establishment, development and development of the Communist Party of China. The communists who have made outstanding contributions to the development of the "Weft" frame the main content of the script. In the end, the play takes Mao Zedong's growth trajectory and ideological development as the thread, and constantly brings out the representative figures from the founding of the Communist Party of China to the period before the founding of the People's Republic of China. The historical fragment, focusing on "writing people" rather than simply "writing history", depicts a group of Communists who practiced their original mission with blood and life.

Stills of "Numbers of Merry Characters"

"Loyal to history, true restoration" is an important principle for the creation of the play. There are more than 400 characters with only names, surnames and lines in the play. The crew has used special and group performances for more than 30,000 people. The whole play has set more than 650 large scenes and more than 2000 small scenes, which are also restored one-to-one. Shaoshan Chong, Anyuan Coal Mine, Qingshui Pond, Yan'an Caves and other important scenes have three times as many scenes as the general TV series, and the warehouse area for storing props alone is nearly 5,000 square meters. In order to present a better artistic effect, the creative team also chose to use a 4K ultra-clear wide-format camera for shooting, innovatively adopting medium-telephoto shooting of large scenes and short-focus shooting of characters, and the use of masking mode to pursue cinematic imaging effects. .
From June 15th at 19:30 every day, the drama will be broadcast simultaneously on Jiangsu Satellite TV, Zhejiang Satellite TV and Shandong Satellite TV, and will be launched on iQIYI.