Chapter 2 About "The Mansion Gate"

My profession is literature, film and drama.In the early 1990s, I changed jobs and plunged into film and television, and then specialized in TV dramas.I have done literature and prefer articles. I always feel that literature has a deep and broad foundation, thick, profound, and broad. In the spiritual field, I don’t look down on other genres, and I have a subconscious sense of looking down on TV dramas.In addition, in the past few years, there have been many fake dramas in the field of TV dramas, and the taste of scripts is too low. It is really painful and helpless to review a large number of scripts every day.I once told my literary friends that my aesthetic perspective is blunted by always watching TV scripts. No matter how tired I am, I always read a few pages of a literary magazine before going to bed every day to sharpen my aesthetic knife.So, I always have a subconscious sense of looking down on TV scripts.

In mid-October 1999, when I received the script of "The Mansion Gate" and read it in one sitting, I felt a powerful impact from this kind of overlooking. This is a very beautiful story. During the whole process of reading it, I went to the unit for a meeting twice. After the meeting, I hurried home, always thinking about what the next story should be like. Anxious.This state is rare in my more than 20 years of editing career, and I have a premonition that a rare and good work is about to be born.After reading the whole play, I concealed the book and meditated, savored it over and over again, and felt that the play is so profound that it is far from being comparable to popular works.It describes the changes in the world, the hardships of life, publicizes humanity, and raises the banner of humanitarianism and endless care for the people.The author is sympathetic to the world and has a clear distinction between love and hate.He showed good and evil, beauty and ugliness, love and hatred, love and hate, honesty and humbleness, masculinity and femininity with his unique writing skills.The play is full of 700,000 words, spanning several dynasties, with many characters and complicated events, which are rare.Some plots can be called classic swan song.

In recent days, journalists or friends have always asked me: Some people say that this is another "Dream of Red Mansions", what do you think?It is very difficult for me to answer this question. I feel a lot of mental pressure. After all, "Dream of Red Mansions" is a jewel in the crown of extensive and profound Chinese literature.According to my courage and knowledge, I can't compare the two, but comparing several characters one-sidedly and one-sidedly, I feel that it is not incomparable.For example, Bai Wenshi in "The Gate of the Mansion" and Wang Xifeng in "A Dream of Red Mansions" are both women, and they are also saving a big family that is about to decline. It can be said that there are similarities but the same results.But the story line that the author added for Bai Wenshi to destroy Yang Jiuhong is quite powerful: Bai Wenshi does not recognize Yang Jiuhong, who was born as a prostitute, as her daughter-in-law. In front of many servants, she asked her son Bai Jingqi to beat her woman Yang Jiuhong; even when she was dying, she had to leave a will: Yang Jiuhong was not allowed to attend her funeral, and Yang Jiuhong was not allowed to wear mourning. People, even cats and dogs have to wear mourning clothes.This story line is gradually pushed to a climax through several events and plots.This description of Yang Jiuhong's mental devastation can be described as shocking and powerful, extremely shocking and thought-provoking, perhaps more critical than Wang Xifeng's.

Another example: Yang Jiuhong, who was born as a prostitute, was not favored by the White House. She had a similar fate to Lin Daiyu. She was beautiful, intelligent, and weak. After she failed to find fault, she buried the seeds of hatred deep in her heart. When her daughter grew up and gave birth to a child, she deceived her daughter's child away just like her mother-in-law and used the same method to torture her mentally. destroy his own daughter.She is both a victim and a perpetrator, as if an invisible hand is playing with an inhuman reincarnation.Although this character is not richer than Lin Daiyu, it has its own depth.

And Jia Baoyu in "A Dream of Red Mansions" came from Hanyu, and Bai Jingqi in "The Mansion Gate" was born not to cry but to laugh.They are all a strange word, they are rich sons who have been naughty since childhood, extremely smart, and do not obey discipline.Jia Baoyu is a secular rebel, and Bai Jingqi is also unfaithful and unreasonable, and does not follow the rules. He first married the daughter of the enemy's family, then took in the prostitute Yang Jiuhong, and finally remarried with great fanfare. Li Xiangxiu, he is unrestrained, dissolute and willful, and dared to cheat two thousand taels of silver in a pawnshop with a piece of shit.

Jia Baoyu is affectionate, with feminine beauty, but soft to some extent, and Bai Jingqi is also affectionate, but masculine, and arrogant to the point of lawlessness.Both are good people with shortcomings due to the limitations of the times, and both are rebels, but they have two personalities.Today, when the entire national spirit is soft and weak, Bai Jingqi's daring, upright, and upright character may have more practical significance. In addition, the exquisite structure of the story, the fierce conflicts, the diverse and peculiar personalities of the characters, the clever use of suspense on the surface of the story and the psychological suspense of the characters, all make the story brilliant and magnificent. People can't put it down after reading it, and they can't stop.

As far as the vast ocean of novels is concerned, I am limited by my vision and education, so it is difficult to compare, but as far as film and television dramas are concerned, I think this should be Huang Zhong Dalu. Yu Shengli April 17, 2001