Why is "Do you know whether it should be green, fat, red and thin" named after a famous line from Li Qingzhao's poems?
Hello everyone, I am your dear Diandian. I am very happy to answer this question here today. Diandian likes to discuss various issues with you on Baidu Zhizhi. Starring Zhao Liying, Feng Shaofeng, and Zhu Yilong, "Do You Know Should It Be Green, Fat, Red, and Slim?" ratings exploded as soon as it was aired. The play mainly focuses on the story of the growth, love, and marriage of the girl Sheng Minglan, and depicts a picture of the world from the small to the big. A picture of ancient life from a boudoir in the south of the Yangtze River to a wealthy family, from secular sentiments to the heights of a temple.
The first point reveals the time or the atmosphere of the times. This drama is adapted from a novel. In the novel, it is said that the heroine travels to ancient times. The TV series does not mention such things as time travel, but the historical background is the Northern Song Dynasty, and the dynasty in which Bianliang was the capital was the Northern Song Dynasty. Using a sentence from Li Qingzhao's poem as the title is intended to guide the audience to guess that the background of the story is the Song Dynasty, and then to guess some other factors of the Song Dynasty.
The second point is that Li's style of poetry corresponds to the atmosphere of the TV series. We all know that the poetry written by Li Qingzhao belongs to the graceful school in style. Let’s look at the two Song Dynasties again. The Northern Song Dynasty was still much stronger than the Southern Song Dynasty. But even so, the so-called unification of the Northern Song Dynasty was still a lot more graceful than the Han, Tang, Sui and other dynasties. In the play, the officials of the Song Dynasty had many wives and concubines, but the poor families had to sell their sons and daughters, which intensified social conflicts. The Song Dynasty court did not want to reconcile social conflicts but was keen on internal fighting. The emperor and courtiers valued civil servants over military affairs. For their own interests, they could distort right and wrong and confuse right and wrong. What should be right is not, what should be so is not so, this is exactly what should be the word "is", and at the same time, it also corresponds to the entrepreneurial spirit of people in the entire society at that time which belongs to "graceful".
The third point? Do you know? Do you know? ? is a question, ? should be green, fat, red and thin? ? is a hypothesis, guiding the audience to guess their own answer, ? what should it be? ?. ?Do you know? Do you know? Should it be green, fat, red and thin? Explain it in modern terms? Do you know? Did you know? (In this season), they should be green, fat, red, and thin? ?Do you know? Do you know? ? is a question, ? should be green, fat, red and thin? ? is a hypothetical answer. First question, and then use a hypothetical answer. The purpose is to guide the audience or readers to think about the answer in their own minds. For those of us who watch TV dramas, when we first see the title, we may think like this: What do you know, what do you know, what is there to know? Isn’t it green, fat, red and thin? TV dramas cannot be about knowing green, fat, red and thin. Well, what do you need to know? After thinking about the above three answers, I feel that they still make sense, but maybe the author has other intentions.
Shortly after the show started airing, it was criticized by the audience for many language problems such as the misuse of modesty and respectful words, the wrong context of poems, mismatching of related words, and reversed word order. Some viewers also criticized the presentation of the protagonist's three views. The heroine Sheng Minglan has the modern thinking of equality, but in order to survive better in that era, she polished herself without any edges. The male protagonist Gu Tingye did not hesitate to sacrifice the interests of others in order to marry Sheng Minglan, and was criticized as an egoist. In addition, the plot of the coup in the play is too simple and easy, which is also an omission that cannot be ignored in the play. I wonder what everyone thinks of this drama? I am very happy to answer your questions here today. I hope my answer can help you. You are also welcome to leave a message and discuss the problem with me.