In recent years, Qing Dynasty costume dramas have become popular with Chinese viewers, and their actors have become popular as a result. The government’s official media also published an article agreeing with the criticism, saying “it’s time to clean up”.
The government has also published an article on this issue, saying that it is time to clean up the situation. The picture shows the Forbidden City. (Photo/reproduced from the microblog of the National Palace Museum)
Wang Xudong, who spoke at an event organized by the China Journalists Association in Beijing on the 16th, took aim at the popular Qing dynasty dramas, criticizing them for “not bringing beauty”, “not drawing lessons from history” and “not presenting the beauty of humanity”. He criticized such dramas for “not bringing beauty,” “not drawing lessons from history,” and “not presenting the beauty of human nature.
According to the report, Wang Xudong said that such works are a big fabrication of the evil in human nature. It makes it seem like the audience only sees the sinister and cunning of the ancients. “These cultural pollution, cultural garbage, should be taken off the shelves.”
On the next day of Wang Xudong’s speech, Beijing Daily, an organ of the Beijing Municipal Party Committee, immediately published a commentary echoing this, pointing out that in response to the “haphazard”, “fake”, “reverse elimination” It is the time to clean up the works.
According to the commentary, many Qing court dramas are just cloaked in history, but in fact the logic is confusing, false, and mixed with idol drama, workplace drama, thick and dark elements. “But history is not a little girl to be dressed up, and the Forbidden City is never just a place of fame and fortune where concubines compete for favor and mutual harm.”
This is not the first time Beijing Daily’s commentary has criticized palace fighting dramas; in early 2019, Beijing Daily also published an article detailing the “5 major sins” of palace fighting dramas, including “promoting the life of the royal family,” “elaborate interpretation of palace fighting plots The article was published in early September, and the article also listed the “5 deadly sins” of palace fighting dramas, including “promoting the life of royalty”, “elaborate palace fighting plots”, “excessive glorification of emperors and generals”, “promoting luxury and pleasure” and “commercial speculation and chasing profits”.
The publication of this article sparked a discussion that led to the suspension of several court costume productions that were on the air in China at the time.
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