The Story of Happiness, directed by Zheng Xiaolong, Liu Xuesong and Yao Yuan, written by Zhao Dongling and starring Zhao, Liu Ye, Tang Zeng and Luo Jin, tells the story of rural girl He Xingfu growing up after experiencing multiple tests of career and marriage, love and affection.
In the early stage of script creation, Zhao Dongling went to collect folk songs and do research. In the preparatory stage, the crew went to the scene selection, and also learned some real life scenes of local farmers, their living habits and behaviors, and also made observations and studies.
The crew chose to shoot in Anhui because they thought Huizhou architecture was very distinctive. In addition, Wanjiazhuang in the play is a very rich village. The rural scenery of Huangshan Mountain in Anhui Province is picturesque and particularly beautiful, and the crew wants to present a thriving new socialist countryside. So the rural part was filmed in Anhui and the urban part was filmed in Ningbo.
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The Happy Story is adapted from Chen Yuanbin's novel The Story of Autumn Chrysanthemum. Zhao Dongling wrote the first draft of the script in 20 16, and the time background was set around 2000. However, in order to better conform to the rural situation, the script was revised for five years. Cao Ping recalled that he wanted to give up several times. "But I still can't bear it, but I still grit my teeth and create."
In Cao Ping's words, the story of happiness tells the story of rural poverty alleviation, and the core is the growth of women and the awakening of farmers' awareness of the rule of law. Through the cases of rural marriage, land expropriation compensation, peasant youth entering the city, etc., it brings out the intergenerational conflict, the collision between agricultural civilization and modern civilization, and wants to convey the concept that the rule of law civilization, spiritual civilization and material civilization are equally important. These topics are closely combined with reality, but they are rarely seen in rural film and television dramas.