Is there a true story in The Door of Hundred Mansions?

There is a story prototype. Dazhaimen mainly tells the story of Le Jia Sanfang in Tongrentang. Director Guo Baochang said that 70% of the play is true and 30% is fiction. Dazhaimen is mainly a story from Guangxu to the Anti-Japanese War, while Wuzi Tongrentang is a story of 49 days around 1949.

Bai Jingqi, the hero of the novel, is an artistic image created by Guo Baochang's Da Zhai Men. His prototype is Le Jingyu, the 13th head of Tong Ren Tang and Guo Baochang's adoptive father. In Guo Baochang's works, Bai Jingqi is a man with flamboyant personality, freedom, great wisdom and strong rebellious spirit.

He grew up stubborn, made Japanese friends, killed German soldiers, and privately made a lifelong engagement with the enemy's daughter. When I was a child, I was driven out of the house by my biological mother and invented 32 prescriptions to worship my ancestors. He has emotional ties with four women in his life. Under Chen's interpretation, he lived a happy life, lived a chic life, dared to love and hate, dared to do things, and was an indomitable man.

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Comment on "Da Zhai Men":

Artistic value: Dazhaimen is a TV series with rich connotation and strong artistry; Guo Baochang wrote about his most familiar and skillful life of pure Beijing flavor. . The play is a modern version of A Dream of Red Mansions. Through 26 years' growing up in Dazhaimen, Guo Baochang vividly presented the grievances, life and death, blood and tears and several ups and downs of Dazhaimen to the audience (CCTV review).

The story is unconventional: The story of "Dazhaimen" begins in Guangxu period of Qing Dynasty, and tells the vicissitudes of a group of people around the historical changes of a Dazhaimen selling medicine and practicing medicine in Beijing. This kind of story is common in Chinese and foreign film and television works, and it is not easy to have its own characteristics. But "Da Zhai Men" can be unconventional and tell a wonderful story, and every episode has suspense (Beijing Daily Review)

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Baidu encyclopedia-dazhaimen