156 Cultural Beginnings
After two days of hard work, Xu Xing finally passed the Star Travels and Earth Chapter. After passing the level, he felt empty and continued to slump on the sofa and watch TV and anime boredly.
It was not until he received a strange call that Xu Xing realized after he spoke to him that this was Mr. Wan, the judge of the classmate when he was a teenager?
"Boy Xu Xing, do you still remember me, old man?"
"How could I forget Mr. Wan? Why did you have time to come to me?"
"This time I wasn't looking for you. I was just responsible for helping people recommend it. The superiors were interested in investing in some animations that promote culture. The first one thought of you, but it had nothing to do with you, so I could only ask me to be an intermediary."
Xu Xing immediately sat up and took TX straight: "Old Wan, let me tell you in detail."
"The person who is waiting for you at Zhuqiu Guyue Teahouse at 10 o'clock tomorrow. You should have a good chat with that person. Old man, I am just a middleman, but this is a good opportunity and it will not harm you. As the recognized number one company in China, we must also take some responsibility..."
After nodding and agreeing, Mr. Wan finally ended his nagging, and Xu Xing's ears were relieved. When it comes to cultural animation, Xu Xing's first thought of choirs was the choir. There were indeed not many cherries in the era of national comic recovery in the previous life, but there were still some outstanding ones, such as choirs, Feng Ling Yuxiu, Knowing the Way, Inhuman, etc., most of them were pigeon aces, which means that this subject is really difficult to do.
The choir is a series of original public welfare animations invested and produced by the Propaganda Department of the Jiading District Party Committee of Songjiang. The producers are Zhaode Culture Communication Studio and Beijing Brilliant Starry Sky. Brilliant Starry Sky is the producer of Peking Opera Cat, and the director is the same.
Although thanks to the investment from Songjiang Jiading, there are only so many celebrities in Jiading, which also restricts the choir material. It is already very good to be able to make five episodes.
According to Mr. Wan, the person who came this time had a high status. Xu Xing came to Guyue Teahouse early the next day to wait. He couldn't let the high-ranking official wait for him.
Unexpectedly, he arrived at the teahouse at 9 o'clock. As soon as he went up the second floor, someone stood up to say hello to him. He was a wealthy middle-aged man in his fifties.
Of course Xu Xing didn't know who this is, but the one waiting for him at this time and place should be the big man Wan mentioned.
He hurried forward and stood beside the man and greeted him politely: "I'm sorry to let the leader wait for a long time, I don't know what to call him?"
The rich middle-aged man smiled and said, "Don't be so polite, sit down." After seeing Xu Xing sit down, he slowly said, "I am Cui Fusheng, the vice president of the newly established Entertainment Investment Management Committee. You can call me Lao Cui."
Xu Xing hurriedly said that he didn't dare. After the two of them were polite for a while, Cui Fusheng said: "The top of entertainment in July made us see our own great shortcomings. For example, we support the movies the most, but it was the most failed one. They kept saying that we were stuck with them. Now that we are fine, no restrictions are gone, it depends on whether they can succeed."
"To be honest, we have always ignored your animation, stand-alone games and novel industries, so I am not surprised by the failure of stand-alone games. What really surprised me is that you and online novels can achieve such good results. Will freedom give the entertainment industry the greatest room for development? We will not and will not be able to interfere in the management of the domestic entertainment industry in the future, so we can only provide some financial policy support to help companies with potential grow rapidly."
"So, did you choose me?" Xu Xing asked.
"You are one of our most optimistic companies. Three animations and three are very popular. With time, you will definitely lead Chinese comics to surpass Japanese comics." Cui Fusheng continued to say with a sip of tea: "We can give you various discounts in terms of money, channels, and policies. The only requirement is to do Chinese animation, which is great if you want to do Chinese animation."
"That's it?" Xu Xing was a little disbelief. When was the country willing to let it go so leniently.
Cui Fusheng smiled warmly and looked naive, "Yes, that's just one request."
Xu Xing signed a contract with Cui Fusheng in a trance. The next Chinese-style animation will be guaranteed by the Entertainment Investment Management Committee. As long as the animation can be done well, Xu Xing will spend as much as he wants.
Are they not afraid of doing this and getting something like Uncle Lei’s story?
In fact, Xu Xing was overly worried. This time, no company can get money by applying for it. Most of the companies they can find are companies that perform well in the top entertainment competitions and have the potential to produce excellent works. The committee is No. 1 as the president. Who dares to commit favoritism and fraud?
When he got home, Xu Xing began to recall the plot of the choir, which was not a very complicated story.
It was just a tragic story of childhood sweethearts but not together. If it were made by other companies, it would have been so clichéd that it would have been no longer clichéd. But it was such a clichéd story with the ancient style and music of the choir, a classical atmosphere came to my face, simple and simple but extremely moving. This is the charm of the culture of the porcelain country.
Wang Chutong, whose original name was Yuanlie, was named Yuyang, and his name was Zhusuo, and was also called Hongdou Chinong. He was a native of Fang Tai. He was good at writing lyrics. In the 41st year of Qianlong in the Qing Dynasty, the emperor summoned the examination. Wang Chutong was listed as the second-class and was appointed as the copywriter of the Sikuguan. Soon he served as the county magistrate of Qihe County. Later, he became an official in Shandong, and was the magistrate of Xincheng, Zichuan, Pingyin, Shouguang, and was also the Tongzhi of Ninghaizhou. He had the "Jinan Zhuzhi Ci" and "Lianshi" and compiled Jiaqing's "Jiading County Chronicles". He also compiled Fang Tai Chronicles.
At the age of 70, Wang Chutong retired and returned home. He wrote a couplet on his study: "There are no visitors every day, and they will not enter the city for many years; they have no other pleasures in their lives, but they only like to write books." He wrote forty kinds of books in his life, totaling 632 volumes, but is there really no other way to go?
Mao Daying, a Baoshan literati who often lived in Jiading in the Qing Dynasty, wrote a book called "The Book of Ouju Ci", which inadvertently exposed a sad and romantic story of Wang Chutong when she was young.
It is said that there was a Liu Niang from Jiading who was quiet and beautiful, loved poetry, calligraphy and painting, and was good at playing the piano. She was a daughter of a famous family. The Chen family and Wang Chutong were close neighbors, and they were childhood sweethearts since childhood.
But Wang Chutong "had been a child, his family was extremely poor", while the Chen family was a wealthy family. The Chen family's parents loved the rich and hated the poor, so they were unwilling to betroth Liu Niang to the Wang family. Later, the parents took the lead and Liu Niang betrothed to a wealthy family. After getting married, her husband was idle and unscrupulous, eating, drinking, and gambling, and quickly squandered his property.
Next, there was another old-fashioned ending. When the family was ruined, Liu Niang sold her body to the "raiser". She first sold her singing, laughing, but not her body. Later, she became only selling herself, not her art.
I don’t know how many years later Liu Niang redeems her body and lives alone. Coincidentally, she met Wang Chutong again in her later years. At this time, Wang Chutong had already formed a group of children, and the two had to be called each other with brothers and sisters.
Chapter completed!