In the popular urban emotional drama "Cheng Huan Ji" currently being aired on Tencent Video, Shanghai girl Mai Cheng Huan, played by Yang Zi, experienced a series of changes in love and family relationships when she was about to turn 30 - and her boyfriend who had been dating for many years Xin Jialiang (played by Niu Junfeng) broke up, broke away from the strong care of her mother Liu Wanyu (played by He Saifei), and gradually embarked on her own growth path. As the plot unfolds, the optimistic and thoughtful Mak Cheng-huan's relationship with her two boyfriends, Xin Jialiang and Yao Zhiming (played by Xu Kai), has attracted much attention. She faces conflicts and integrations between self and family, love and family affection. The topic also aroused heated discussions among the audience.
Tian Yu, the director of "The Story of Cheng Huan" recently accepted an exclusive interview with a reporter from the Beijing News and said that what attracts him most in "The Story of Cheng Huan" is the mother-daughter relationship. He hopes to take the audience to see the relationship that is closely related to him from the perspectives of Mai Chenghuan and Liu Wanyu. The story of a Chinese family. In his opinion, Yang Zi and Xu Kai have inherent similarities with their respective characters. Yang Zi and Mai Chenghuan are both sunny girls like sunflowers. Xu Kai’s own cold humor is not the same as that of Yao Zhiming in the later period. And together.
Yang Zi plays Mai Chenghuan.
Character
In the 29th year of her life, Mai Chenghuan wants to be herself.
In "The Story of Cheng Huan", the Shanghai girl Mai Chenghuan never thought about climbing up the dragon and accompanying the phoenix, but only wanted to use her hands to find a happy and stable life for herself and her family. She originally planned to discuss marriage with her boyfriend Xin Jialiang, who she has been dating for many years, but she did not expect that Xin Jialiang is actually a "rich second generation" who hides his identity. The disparity in economic conditions between the two families caused an imbalance in the emotional relationship. Mai's mother's excessive interference in her daughter's marriage also accelerated their breakup. The complex relationship between the Xin family and the hotel where Mai Chenghuan worked made her a "chess piece" in the personnel struggle. But even though his salary was cut and he was transferred to an apartment, Mak Chenghuan was not knocked down. Instead, he started from scratch, regained a foothold in the workplace, and started a new love life with his colleague Yao Zhiming, who was cold on the outside but hot on the inside.
After Mak Cheng Huan and Xin Jialiang broke up completely, he and Yao Zhiming started the "Happy Enemies" mode of daily fighting each other, which was very popular among netizens. Talking about the compatibility between the two actors Yang Zi and Xu Kai and their roles, Tian Yu said: "Yang Zi is usually a very lively and optimistic girl, and Mai Chenghuan is similar to her internally. Xu Kai gives people the impression that A cold-faced handsome guy who talks little, but actually loves to tell jokes and comes up with many interesting ideas on set. He is a cute and cold-humored person, which is the same as Yao Zhiming’s temperament in the second half of his career. He introduced that the character Yao Zhiming actually longed for feelings and relationships with others in his heart. But in the early days, he was a high-ranking company executive, a person who was unsmiling and difficult to get close to. Later, he came to terms with Mak Chenghuan and her family. After we get together, he will become more active, laugh more, and even have a bit of a venomous tongue.
Xu Kai plays Yao Zhiming.
In the opening part of "Cheng Huan Ji", whether faced with Xin Jialiang's identity deception or his mother's interference in his life, Mai Chenghuan often chose to forgive and not care about it, even if he was in a state of embarrassment. Therefore, some viewers felt that Mai Chenghuan was too tolerant. Tian Yu said that this is a stage of Mai Chenghuan's life, and it is better to say "tolerance" than "forbearance". "The flower we gave Mai Chenghuan is a sunflower, which grows towards the sun. Her attitude towards anything and anyone is not aggressive, but very tolerant. This is what the audience calls 'forbearance'. She She used her own energy to tolerate many people and things around her, but in her 29th year of life, she felt a little tired, and there was no need to tolerate some things anymore. She wanted to be herself. "
The plot
intensifies the conflict between the Mai family and the Xin family
"The Story of Cheng Huan" is adapted from Yi Shu's novel of the same name. The original work was written more than 20 years ago, and the TV series is intended for the audience of this era. In the early stages of creation, when Tian Yu discussed with chief producer Yang Liu, the tone of the series was set - to tell an emotional story about contemporary urbanites.Therefore, on the basis of retaining the relationship between the main characters and some conflicts in the original novel, the main creators have independently created other parts, such as the place where the story takes place and Mai Chenghuan's occupation. For example: the conflict between the Mai family and the Xin family has been strengthened; the character Yao Zhiming, who did not appear much in the original work, has been re-created to make him more three-dimensional. The story of the
series takes place in Shanghai. Mai Chenghuan's family lives in Sanheli Lane, which is about to be demolished near the Bund. Across the street is the high-end Botticelli Hotel where she works. Tian Yu revealed that in order to make the character of Mai Chenghuan more down-to-earth, the creators went to Shanghai’s alleys, cafes and other relatively local places for research in the early stage of creation, and observed the dressing of women in their 30s who came and went. Extract inspiration and use it on Mak Cheng Huan’s makeup. In the opening scene of the series, in the scene where Mai Chenghuan is jogging to work in a hotel carrying watermelons and cakes, her tops, skirts, socks and shoes all refer to the preferences of local Shanghai girls. "For example, the loafers she wears are popular among girls here in Shanghai. They are comfortable and fashionable."
Yang Zi, who plays Mai Chenghuan, is a Beijing girl. In order to get closer to Mai Chenghuan, she also went to get to know her. Shanghai girls of this age have also learned their Mandarin accent. For example, girls in Shanghai have a higher pitched sound at the end of their speech, and when they call "mom and dad", they usually use repeated words instead of single words like "dad" and "mom" like northern girls. After the filming officially started, Yang Zi quickly abandoned some of the inherent speaking habits of northern girls and entered the character of Mai Chenghuan. Tian Yu added: "Teachers Yao Anlian and He Saifei who played Mak Chenghuan's father and mother, one is from Shanghai and the other has lived in Shanghai for decades. They also gave a lot of help to the young actors. When I acted opposite them, I spoke naturally. "
The relationship between a 30-year-old woman and her mother is not a subversion but an upgrade.
Director Tian Yu's works are good at telling the relationship between mother and daughter. He said that the project "The Story of Cheng Huan" attracted him the most. The mother-daughter relationship between Liu Wanyu and Mai Chenghuan, as well as the family and family relationships derived from it. "I particularly like telling Chinese family stories. Every film I have filmed before is basically related to family relationships, but the entry point is different. What attracts me to "The Story of Cheng Huan" is that it tells the story of a man in his 30s. The relationship between women and mothers. At this age, my mother and I also had different opinions and conflicts, which is very similar to the relationship between Cheng Huan and her mother. "
Mai Chenghuan and her mother.
In his opinion, the difference between "Cheng Huan Ji" and his previous works is that they tell the relationship between women of different ages and their mothers. Previous works focused on the relationship between adolescent girls and their mothers, but Mai Chenghuan in "Cheng Huan Ji" is 29 years old. She has experienced many ups and downs in human relationships and has formed her own values. She knows how difficult it is for her mother, and she also knows that she is in the family. What responsibilities should we bear? Mai Chenghuan's understanding of the mother-daughter relationship is not a complete subversion, but a process of upgrading from A to A+. The focus is on how to be filial to your parents without losing yourself. "Mai Chenghuan also had escapes during this process, but she will eventually return with new solutions and find a healthy way to get along with her mother again."
Tian Yu described himself as not being an "extensive" man, and he has a lot of emotions in life. It's relatively delicate. When he made these scenes, he also hoped to convey some of his feelings about his mother through the perspective and words and deeds of his daughters. "Of course mothers and children also quarrel, but the degree of complementarity and tolerance between mother and child will be higher than that between mother and daughter." Because he wanted to film the relationship between mother and daughter, he also sought out female friends around him to learn more about their relationship with them. Mother’s relationship style, for example: if you have a quarrel with your mother, how does it usually happen and how is it resolved? "There are still more female viewers watching dramas now, and I also hope that everyone can be involved in the plot in the shortest possible time. When it comes to the relationship between mother and child, there may be a small threshold for them, but when it comes to the relationship between mother and daughter, they will definitely be able to do it in the first place. Be yourself for a moment.”
Beijing News reporter, Yang Lianjie
editor, Tong Na
proofreader, Wang Xin
