is inseparable from the strong production team behind the scenes. Yang Yang, a national first-level director and producer, has previously directed the male-themed costume fantasy drama "Jiang Ye " and the reality-themed drama "The Meritorious Service", both of which have been recognized by the audience.
Screenwriter Zhang Wei, Associate Professor of Beijing Film Academy, his representative works include "The Legend of Lu Zhen", "The Legend of the Female Medical Concubine" and so on.
are both leaders in the industry, and as women, they are better able to create stories that highlight women's growth and self-worth.
Therefore, after watching Menghualu , many viewers felt a lot of shadows of current life from the heroines. This is more interesting than some purely virtual film and television dramas, and makes women more interested. The audience can find resonance in it.
Another point is that there are many people who initially followed the drama purely for their looks. After all, this is Liu Yifei returning to a TV series after 16 years after Little Dragon Girl.
Her appearance is still the same, but this time she changed her previous role and played an anti-conventional heroine with online IQ and EQ, who joins hands with her sisters to build a career.
Not only Liu Yifei is beautiful, Chen Xiao, Liu Yan, Lin Yun and other actors are also online.
This drama is more in line with the audience's aesthetics in terms of appearance and character suitability than those dramas where ancient puppets have outrageous casting choices. The audience can finally wash their eyes together this time.
Of course, in addition to the production team and actors, Menghualu’s filming locations, art, composition, and costumes are all very beautiful.
In the director's notes of Menghualu, Yang Yang uses water to shape feminine characteristics. In order to perfectly interpret the concept of women being like water, he also specially led the team to more than ten water towns including Hangzhou, Suzhou, Wuxi, Shaoxing, Jiaxing Conduct inspections and collect customs in ancient towns.
used Song Dynasty paintings as a reference for the scenery. In order to be close to the simple white space of Song Dynasty , Yang Yang used plant bonsai as a medium to allow the audience to truly see the atmosphere of this urban life.
You will feel that this city is alive. Through these details, the pyrotechnic life of people in the Song Dynasty is perfectly presented.
The atmosphere in Jiangnan, especially in the previous seasons, is very realistic. It carefully restores the bustling city and is full of antique atmosphere.
Bamboo grass holding a boat, washing clothes by the river, wooden-handled oil-paper umbrellas, and dusty Lake merchants completely convinced the audience that this was not an actor speaking lines in a set, but a character living in the story. The perfect blend of
characters and real scenes is far more vast and vibrant than green screens and scenery. The actors and the scenery are so integrated that it is really like a landscape painting at any moment.
In addition, Menghualu is adapted from Guan Hanqing Yuan's miscellaneous song "Zhao Pan'er Feng Yue Saves Feng Chen".
Liu Yifei plays Zhao Paner in the play. The setting is the proprietress of a small teahouse in Qiantang.
Therefore, the interpretation of tea culture and Song Dynasty in the play is also very careful.
Tea drinking became popular in the Song Dynasty, and tea fighting became a national activity. In the first episode of
, Zhao Paner also performed a song called Tea Baixi, which was very popular in the Song Dynasty. The so-called Tea Baixi, also known as Fencha, Shuidanqing, Tang system, and Tea system, was a popular tea ceremony in the Song Dynasty.
uses ground tea as raw material and adopts "Xiatang Yundian", that is, the unique technique of pouring soup into a bottle or adding water with a teaspoon, and using clear water to change the pattern of the tea soup. It sounds like a visual sense of coffee latte art.
Menghualu has a detailed design for ordering tea. We can all see the process of grinding tea, heating the cup, hitting the pot, and water marks one by one.
It is reported that during the preparation period, the director specially invited Mr. Zhang Zhifeng, the representative inheritor of the intangible cultural heritage tea hundred operas, to give lectures to the whole crew, hoping to use Zhao Paner's hands to show the charm of the traditional Chinese intangible cultural heritage tea hundred operas.
Meng Hua Lu also pays great attention to the costume styling. The bun style in the drama is a very common female outfit in ancient paintings of the Song Dynasty.
Sun Sanniang's bun is also very consistent with her childbirth situation. Song Yinzhang's pipa is also reflected in the Han Xizai Night Banquet picture, which is Nanyin Pipa .
In fact, Menghualu is considered to be top-notch in terms of setting, costumes, and picture quality. Coupled with the superb acting skills and great looks of the actors, this drama is definitely worth following.
