Comment on TV series "Beyond": a tribute to the sports spirit of ice and snow sports
Original title:Present ice and snow sports to pay tribute to sportsmanship
— — On the Transcendence of TV Series Transcendence
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The TV series "Beyond" is the first TV series with the theme of short track speed skating history in China, which shows the development of winter sports in China in a novel way.
Beyond transcends the rigid separation of two generations or even three generations used by many industry dramas in the past, but emphasizes unity of mind and common direction, which is particularly commendable.
The TV series "Beyond" with the theme of Winter Olympics is being broadcast in a set of prime files of CCTV. It is a tribute drama of China TV people to the Beijing Winter Olympics, an industry drama about the development history of China’s ice and snow sports, and an inspirational drama that inspires Chinese children to be healthy and far-reaching. It shows the development of winter sports in China in a novel way.
A History of "Transcendence" in Short Track Speed Skating
Development of Winter Sports in China
"Beyond" is the key project of the TV series with the theme of "Our New Era" of the State Administration of Radio, Film and Television. Based on the "North Ice Exhibition and South Ice Exhibition", the play tells the story of three generations of short track speed skaters fighting for the honor of their motherland. While focusing on the development of China’s short track speed skating, the play shows the features of the times with the rapid development of the country, and vividly interprets the Chinese sports spirit of winning glory for the country, selfless dedication, being scientific and realistic, abiding by the law, unity and cooperation, and tenacious struggle. On the eve of the opening of the 2022 Beijing Winter Olympics, the work is named "Beyond", which contains the call and confirmation of strength and strength.
At the beginning of Beyond, the photo of Wu Qinghong winning the national speed skating championship was fixed in 1982. At this time, it will be 20 years before China wins the first gold medal in the Winter Olympics. When "Beyond" was launched, it had been 20 years since China achieved a "zero breakthrough" in the history of the Winter Olympics. In the 40 years before and after this, from participating in the Winter Olympics, winning gold medals in the Winter Olympics to hosting the Winter Olympics, from the Winter Olympics with professional competition as the goal to the participation of the whole people in ice and snow fitness, from "when I hear skating and skiing, I think of children in the Northeast" to 346 million people stepping on the snow and entering a new era, China’s winter Olympics experience is refined in the story of Beyond.
Transcendence is the first TV series with the theme of short track speed skating history in China. It started with the establishment of Heilongjiang Short Track Speed Skating Team in 1989 and the recruitment of Qingdao Short Track Speed Skating Team in 2014. In the group images of two generations of coaches and two generations of athletes, the first generation of athletes was transformed into coaches as a link, and the ups and downs of three generations in short track and life experience were connected in series. Different from the previous industry dramas, which mostly used landmark events in the industry to structure the plot, the narrative focus and expressive focus of Beyond were not on the presentation of the victory or defeat of the short track speed skating project, but on the depiction of the spiritual world of the "short track speed skater". The "transcendence" that "transcendence" focuses on is not the transcendence of opponents, not the transcendence of timer scales, but the transcendence of self and the transcendence of inner limitations. This transcendence of inner limitations, such as Chen Jingye’s "giving way" to Zheng Kaixin when he was ahead of the trials, said, "I didn’t let you, I let my team and my motherland"; For example, Zheng Kaixin is willing to leave his hometown and teach Qingdao because it can give Hou Siyuan and Xu Duoduo a life that is no longer embarrassing. The decisive factor for Chen Mian’s final victory over Yan Xiujing was that she cut off her long hair and regained the freedom to slide happily. "The winner is strong, and the winner is strong", and "Beyond" focuses on self-victory, thus profoundly interpreting the Chinese sports spirit.
A youth inspirational drama
Transmission of struggle spirit of generations
Transcendence is an inspirational drama written for youth, not only for one generation, but for every generation. As a long-term story involving all ages, it does not adopt the narrative structure of successive generations of characters, that is, telling the story of one generation and then telling the story of the next generation. Instead, it "mixes" the stories of three generations of short track speed skaters and coaches in China with an intergenerational structure. Thus, the story of Heilongjiang short track speed skating team, which began in January 1989, and the story of Qingdao short track speed skating team, which began in July 2014, slowly unfolded and alternately presented in the form of counterpoint. The traditional narrative style of "two flowers blossom in one tree" is derived from the novel Beyond, which is a fresh style of "two clusters of flowers blossom in one tree" and "Although the heaven and the earth are different, spring happens together". As a result, Zheng Kaixin, a 17-year-old boy who was dragged into the Heilongjiang Short Track Speed Skating Team in 1989, and Chen Mian, a 16-year-old girl who tried to squeeze into the Qingdao Short Track Speed Skating Team in 2014, became "peers" and "surpassed" each other in time and space to interpret short stories, which complemented each other, achieved each other and set each other off.
The cross-narrative of intergenerational roles adopted in Transcendence is not only the "opening way" of the story of this drama, but also the purpose of highlighting the "youth community" in this drama. In Transcendence, Chen Jingye, Jiang Hong, Zheng Kaixin and Chen Mian, Bei Bei and Luo Zhujun are two generations, but their works do not deliberately exaggerate and describe the "generation difference", but spare no effort to highlight the "unity of mind". Chen Jingye’s "big brother" image is similar to Hou Siyuan’s "big sister" image, and Zheng Kaixin’s "relying on talents" expression is similar to Luo Zhujun’s "arrogant" expression. The slogan shouted by the 17-year-old Heilongjiang team is "Longjiang speed skating, win all the medals", and the 16-year-old Qingdao team responded with "Qingdao short track, who else". In the group of works about the history of intergenerational transfer, Beyond transcends the previous practice of using the post-80s and post-90s as the youth characters in many industry dramas to rigidly separate two generations or even three generations, but emphasizes the unity of mind and the same direction, which is particularly commendable. "Transcendence" overlaps the youth stories of two generations in the beginning, and merges the trajectories of two generations in the transition part, and merges the different works of the same work into the symphony that went to the Beijing Winter Olympics.
Transcendence, on the way, is also on the journey. (Author: Yedda Chiu, deputy director of China Federation of Literary and Art Circles Television Art Center)
People’s Daily (20th edition, January 20, 2022)