Looking back on 2023, if you ask which drama is the best domestic drama, it will be difficult to explain.
Someone will nominate " three-body ", a rare science fiction theme. Although it has a good reputation, it is not very popular.
Some people will also nominate " The Long Season ", a Northeastern life-style suspense drama. If it is broadcast on the stars, it will be as popular as "Hurry".
And my feelings are hard to calm down. It is a tribute drama for the 130th anniversary of the birth of Comrade Mao Zedong - "Ask the Cangmang".
At the end of 2023, it was a long time coming. It had just started broadcasting in a prime time slot on CCTV and successfully broke through the ratings. After
, Hunan Satellite TV and Zhejiang Satellite TV followed suit and won the first place in satellite TV ratings with an absolute advantage.
Unfortunately, although the ratings have been good, the online broadcast of "Ask the Cangmang" is not very popular.
As of now, the number of views on Mango TV has just exceeded 900 million.
Revolutionary historical dramas naturally have a small audience.
There is no candy sprinkled in the sky in idol dramas, no weirdness in fantasy dramas, and no tension and excitement in suspense dramas. Historical dramas break up established facts and present them to the audience.
For many people, that period of history is unfamiliar and is nothing more than a few paragraphs in history books.
The founding of the Communist Party of China, the Beijing-Hankow Railway workers' strike, the first cooperation between the Kuomintang and the Communist Party, the death of Sun Yat-sen...
The cold words are both abstract and distant.
In fact, this is the life of a generation.
paraphrased a netizen’s words – “How many people died on the way to today”.
If we say that this is a mechanical play, then that's it, but "Ask the Cangmang" is so thoughtful, so sincere, and so vivid.
Those historical figures once again appear vividly before our eyes through the screen.
Even if you already know their fate, you will still have tears in your eyes, fear for them, and heartache for them.
The TV series just started in 1921, when the Communist Party of China was established.
At that time, there were only more than fifty members in the country, and they had almost nothing but the truth.
Mao Zedong's first step back to Hunan was to open a self-study university to find "true comrades."
There are all kinds of people coming for the interview. There are rich second-generation people in suits who want to prepare for their sons to inherit their father's business;
Fortunately, they still found among them new young people who are determined to serve the country and save the people.
Old friends reunited, and Mao Zedong talked freely. He wanted to unite workers and establish a proletarian regime, but his friends said that he was just talking on paper.
I only know that this matter needs to be carried out in detail.
Mao Zedong decided to be a pioneer in practice and went to the Anyuan mines to get to know the laborers and truly understand their dire straits and understand what they were thinking.
The Dong Yazi who came to pick him up was a little boy under 11 years old. He was small and thin, and his clothes were in tatters.
Even though he is thin, Dong Yazi has been working in the mines since he was 8 years old, and is now a veteran in the mines.
He had a good friend who went to the mines when he was 6 years old and died in the mines.
When they arrived near the mine, Dong Yazi told Mao Zedong not to look back, as he would be haunted by ghosts.
In fact, it was not a ghost, but a mother and two children digging for food in the garbage.
Her man died in the mine, and the mine did not pay any compensation. The bosses were worried about missing work and sympathizing with their orphans and widowed mothers, so they spread rumors that they were evil spirits and that if they looked at them more, they would be targeted.
Going to the mine the next day, Mao Zedong found that everyone was naked.
Dong Yazi explained that everyone only has one piece of clothing. If it wears out in the mine, you will be naked when you go out, which is too embarrassing.
The place where the miners lived was small and dirty, with seven to eighty people living in one room.
The mine operates a two-shift system, with people stopping and not stopping. Some people work during the day, and those who finish the night shift quickly come back to catch up on their sleep.
One bed, two people sleeping in turns.
Not only that, the bed was full of lice and bedbugs.
As soon as a person goes to sleep, lice and bed bugs start running around, and those who miss work are covered in bites.
I dare not take a break even if I am absent from work and sick, because once I take a break, I will be kicked out and I will not get any wages back.
Not only do the people who are absent from work not only have poor housing, but also poor food, which is all bad food.
They ate earthworms and bedbugs from their meals more than once.
Dong Yazi laughed at himself, saying that they worked like cattle and horses and ate pig and dog food.
But even so, they did not dare to leave. Without this place, it would be difficult to eat a bowl of rotten rice, and they would only starve to death.
If there is a next life, they would rather be a dog in the overseer's house, and have no worries about food and drink.
Suddenly news came that the train next to it had run over someone again.
The person who was run over to death was none other than the "evil ghost" Dong Yazi mentioned yesterday - the woman whose husband died and had to pick up rotten vegetable leaves with her two children.
The supervisor felt unlucky and shouted to move the woman away quickly.
For him, the life and death of these people are not as important as a dog in his family. On the night when
saw off Comrade Mao Zedong, several workers in the mine took out their most precious umbrella.
Mao Zedong didn't want it, saying that workers needed it more to protect themselves from wind and rain.
Kuang Gong replied: "Mr. Mao, you have a long way to go."
Eight words, full of profound meaning.
Not long after, Mao Zedong prepared to establish the Anyuan Trade Union to unite the miners and lead them to fight for their rights. After
, Hunan launched several general strikes by workers, all of which were completed under the leadership of Mao Zedong.
True knowledge comes from practice. He has transformed from a revolutionary pioneer to a pioneer. Behind him, more and more like-minded partners have gathered.
Under the influence of Mao Zedong, his younger brother and younger sister successively joined the revolutionary ranks.
His favorite disciple Jiang Xianyun was the first of the three heroes of Huangpu.
Until the first cooperation between the Kuomintang and the Communist Party, Comrade Li Dazhao joined the Kuomintang while retaining his identity as a Communist Party.
The two parties worked together to fight against the warlords.
Mao Zedong attended this meeting. He criticized the current ills and talked eloquently. He gained the favor of Sun Yat-sen and was invited to participate in the affairs related to the Kuomintang.
At that time, Chiang Kai-shek was still sitting on the bench and did not even have the opportunity to speak at the meeting.
"Asking Cangmang" tells the story from 1921 to 1927. This period of history is rarely presented in the form of film and television.
At that time, they were still energetic young people. They learned from the experience of the Russian October Revolution and were exploring a path to save the country that was suitable for China.
It is precisely because we are young that we can see the other side of great men for the first time in a long time.
He and his wife Yang Kaihui have a deep love as husband and wife.
As a new father, he loves his children but is helpless and in a hurry.
As an older brother, I care about the lives of my younger siblings and do ideological work from time to time.
Friends gathered together to celebrate the free love and marriage of Jiang Xianyun and Li Zhixin.
In "Ask the Cangmang", I saw a warmer Mao Zedong. He was no longer a lofty myth, but as friendly as the young man who led the family next door, enthusiastic and cheerful.
Putting aside the aura of a great man, he was originally a living individual.
The TV series adopts a multi-line narrative method and also shares many other stories.
For example, the battle of wits and courage between Chen Duxiu and the Soviet representatives.
Wang Jingwei’s cowardice and compromise.
How did Chiang Kai-shek cleverly seize power through the Zhongshan ship incident?
There is also the reunion of Zhou Enlai and Deng Yingchao.
Xiang Jingyu and Cai Hesen fell in love and killed each other.
Jiang Xianyun was heartbroken after losing his beloved, and volunteered to go to the front line under multiple pressures.
Recalling the glorious past, "Ask the Cangmang" is like a living history textbook.
However, this time it uses a newer angle, allowing us to see them in their youth.
heard their deafening shouts and witnessed their years of struggle for the truth.
"Asking the Vast" is a gift for the 130th anniversary of the birth of Comrade Mao Zedong, and it is also a rare revolutionary epic.
At the end of 2023, it was unfortunate that it came across two powerful enemies, ancient puppets and fantasy.
At the beginning of 2024 and the Spring Festival is approaching, I eagerly hope that more people will see this drama and understand this period of history.
