The prototype of Jining Sanxia in Happy Canal
"Happy Canal" revolves around the entanglements among officials, businessmen, writers, soldiers and bandits along the Grand Canal, and tells the story that Huang Zirong, the hero, followed the family motto that officials and bandits did not understand each other and led everyone to join the anti-Japanese team in the early years of the Republic of China, showing his nationalist heroism and ardent patriotic feelings.
One hundred years ago, people in Jining grain transportation area relied on canals to maintain traffic and economic prosperity. A canal originally carried the survival of thousands of people in Qian Qian, but under the turbulent background in the early years of the Republic of China, people living on the canal were miserable because of factors such as war, bandits and monopoly.
The TV series perfectly combines grand narrative with feelings of home and country, and takes family style and family precepts as the breakthrough point, which truly reproduces the commercial scene and the rise and fall of grain transportation on both sides of the canal a hundred years ago, and describes the true living conditions and ardent patriotic feelings of Chinese people along the canal. At the same time, through the identity and occupation of the characters in the play, we can unlock all the trades that were once closely related to the canal, as well as the characteristics and customs of canal culture such as offering sacrifices to river gods, opening genealogy and cutting souls.
The three leading men in the play "Jining Sanjie" are the inheritors, practitioners and epitomizers of ancestral teachings and canal culture. The genes of canal culture are flowing in their blood, and they are also representatives of the three classes of officials, businessmen and Confucianism. Among them, Gong Zheng plays Huang Zirong, a parent who serves the people wholeheartedly. Righteousness, remain uncorrupted, always abide by the ancestral motto of "integrity heirloom" and bear the burden of humiliation in front of big and big. During his official career, he inherited the family precepts that officials and bandits could not understand and business could not understand, which led to a bumpy career and later led everyone to join the anti-Japanese team.
In addition to the blood ties of the three families, family traditions and family precepts, as cultural ties, also invisibly connect the characters' personalities and destinies, and at the same time add a lot of color to the presentation of the canal culture and spirit. Huang Zirong is the "three outstanding people in Jining" in the play. His family motto is "to carry on the family line", and he is upright and upright. Song Lusheng, who adheres to the principle of "faith-based", abides by integrity and is genuine; Yang Chun, who abides by the ancestral motto of "being honest and clean", is early, upright and proud. They are the inheritors, practitioners and epitomizers of family ancestral training and canal culture, and the genes of canal culture flow in their blood.