The origin of the western film and television city of Zhenbeibao
During the Ming and Qing Dynasties, Zhenbeibao was a military fortress to resist the invasion of Mongolia and other ethnic minorities in the Ming and Qing Dynasties, and stationed troops here. There are two castles: Mingcheng (Old Town) and Qingcheng (New Town). After five years of Qianlong, a major earthquake occurred in Ningxia, which made Mingcheng unrecognizable and devastated. Later, Emperor Qianlong ordered the construction of a new city not far from Ming City, which is now Qing City. After liberation, these two castles lost their military value, and the steel smelting in the 1950s took place here, which later became a sheepfold for herders to graze and rest. As early as the 1960s, Zhang Xianliang, a famous writer who was wrongly classified as a rightist in the farm reconstruction, discovered this treasure trove of geomantic omen and introduced it to friends in the film and television circles in the 1980s. Since 1980s, after the film Shepherd, directed by Xie Jin and starring Cong Shan and Zhu Shimao, was successfully filmed in Zhenbeibao and won the "Hundred Flowers Award", Zhang Yimou, a film genius, directed the film Red Sorghum here and won the podium of the Berlin Golden Bear Award for the first time. Gong Li and Jiang Wen also rose from the ruins of this old castle and became famous movie stars. The film Ballad of the Yellow River, directed by Teng Wenji, won the international prize-"Montreal Gold Award" with the mysterious charm of the castle. With a southerner's keen sense of business (Zhang Xianliang was originally from Xuyi, Jiangsu), Ningxia Huaxia Western Film and Television City Co., Ltd. was established in 1993, commonly known as "Western Film and Television City".
Star wall
At the entrance of the western film and television city, there stands a "star wall", which is made of a huge imitation yellow river stone. This stone shows more than 65,438+000 beautiful photos of contemporary directors and movie stars taken in Ningxia: internationally famous directors Xie Jin, Zhang Yimou, Feng, etc. There are old artists such as Liu Xiaoqing and Gaowa Siqin; There are martial arts stars such as screen tough guys Liang Xiaolong, Jet Li and Donnie Yen; There are many beautiful photos of famous movie stars, such as Gong Li, Ge You and Zhang Jiayi. Standing under the boulder, familiar faces are displayed on the screen, which makes people admire this quaint, primitive, rough and desolate place.
There are many cultural relics, scenes and props in the film studio. I'm not an expert and scholar, so I can't describe it all in professional terms, and certainly it's impossible to describe it incisively and vividly. I can only briefly describe a few scenes that I feel deeply as an ordinary tourist.
Qingcheng
Shooting attractions of the film A Chinese Odyssey (Moonlight Box)
Qingcheng is the main location of the film A Chinese Odyssey (Moonlight Box), which is a romantic comedy directed by Hong Kong director Liu Zhenwei and starring many Hong Kong stars such as king of comedy, Stephen Chow, Athena Chu and Karen Mok. Many boys and girls are fascinated by its love dialogue that touched the world and made them cry. Now there are at least two obvious props: entering Qingcheng, the Supreme Treasure (Stephen Chow) and Xia Zixianzi (Athena Chu) stand opposite each other on the wall of a tower and look at each other affectionately. This is the last scene of the movie A Chinese Odyssey. The Tang Priest rode a horse and took three disciples out of the west of the city. Wukong imagined a love affair 500 years ago. It seems that people have entered the film by themselves, just as the film city said, "visitors are here, and stars are gone"; Another scene is in the back garden of Niu Building. When Xia Zixian pointed the sword at the throat of the Supreme Treasure, the Supreme Treasure said a touching sentence: "At that time, the sword was only 0.0 1 cm away from my throat, but after passing 1 candle, I will make the mistress of that sword fall in love with me deeply! Because I decided to tell a lie, although I have lied countless times in my life. However, I think this is the most classic. You should do this. I should die. Once there was a sincere love in front of me. I didn't cherish it, and I regretted it when I lost it. The most painful thing in the world is this. Cut your sword on my throat! Don't hesitate any longer! If God can give me another chance, I will say three words to that girl: I love you. If I have to add a time limit to this love, I hope it will be ... ten thousand years ... "It sounds like a joke, and the tourists around me also imitate this action to take pictures, but it is still very touching to say the true meaning of the old idiom" vows of eternal love "in laughter.
hotel
There is a dead tree in front of the shop, with a wooden wheel tied to it and a wine cover fluttering in the wind hanging from its branches. On the cover, there are three powerful characters "fragrance outside the cloud" written in black on a white background. Outside stood a bartender with a cloth hat and a white towel to attract customers, shouting, "Boss! Are you staying or closing the door? " You must often see such a scene in movies or TV series, but today it really reproduces the scene of the movie. Can you not let people feel immersive? As for the ancient carriage, bean curd mill and tin hip flask filled with jars to hold wine, they are vivid and vivid.
Ancient examination room
Not far from the back garden of Niu, it is the examination room where ancient literati became famous in one fell swoop. I saw a row of small houses of three or four square meters under the wooden tile house. There is a white paper with similar test numbers in front of the door. There are two long boards with different heights in the room, which are similar to our present desks and chairs. There are wooden book boxes and bamboo slips on the desk. According to the tour guide, in ancient times, when taking the exam, the scholar lived in this narrow examination room (Lazar was in it), and he couldn't leave the examination room until his exam results came out. It is conceivable that in ancient times, it was difficult for candidates to win fame, and it is no wonder that candidates were "proud of horseshoe disease" after winning fame; After Sun Shan stepped down, he was disappointed, depressed and collapsed.
A Genius among Writers —— Mr. Zhang Xianliang
I read teacher Zhang's masterpiece in high school. Later, I watched Sholbrak (with the same name as the novel) and black cannon incident (romantic black cannon), which were adapted into movies according to teacher Zhang's representative works. My impression of the old gentleman is that his works mainly reflect the social reality during the Cultural Revolution, that is, scar literature. Now, we can have a brief understanding of the old man's life and better understand his creative background. The old man was born in 1936. 1957 wrote the poem Song of the Big Wind, which made its mark in the literary world, but it also became the beginning of his life nightmare. Because of this young and promising poem, he was wrongly classified as a rightist and was not rehabilitated until 1979. In the past 20 years, he has been living a life of reform through labor, control, imprisonment and exile. Imagine how many 20 years can there be in life? He personally experienced the Cultural Revolution and spent it in purgatory. Can he not write such a profound and thought-provoking work? This can be seen in the scene of greening trees in Ming city. In the 1980s and 1990s, with the help of the east wind of reform and opening-up, this fine horse was finally able to gallop through the literary world, and successively wrote such well-known and thought-provoking works as Men's Style, Habitual Death, and Half Men are Women. According to common sense, a writer should wash his hands of it, release his horse to the south and settle down for a long time. However, the wise business mind of the southerner made him discover the treasure of Zhenbeibao in this desolate place of Ningxia. After his hard work and hard work, he finally produced the fruit of "China movies go to the world from here"-Western Film and Television City. I admire this mode of doing business by writing, which not only embodies the lofty of literati, but also conforms to the trend and keeps pace with the times. So when I left Qingcheng, I specially bought the masterpiece Selected Works of Zhang Xianliang, the representative work of the old man, and let the staff affix the seal of the Western Film and Television City.