One, about the background of the times
I'll Wait for You in Paradise tells the audience the story of the soldiers who went to Tibet 50 years ago. 1950, at the beginning of the founding of the new China, the country was in a state of jubilation. On the map of new China, besides Taiwan, there is still Tibet that has not been liberated.After the New Year's Day of 1950, Mao Zedong sent a telegram from Moscow to Liu Bocheng and Deng Xiaoping, agreeing with the Southwest Bureau and the leadership of the Second Field on the deployment of the liberation of Tibet, that is, agreeing to the 18th Army to take up the main task of liberating and operating Tibet. The Baixuemeis joined the army for the liberation of Tibet with excitement, and in their young hearts there was nothing but enthusiasm, bravery, faith and hope. It was an era full of ideals and beliefs, sacrifice and dedication, a pure, fiery and passionate era. Fifty years later: In the context of reform and opening up, we introduced advanced western science and technology, but also ushered in a new period of diversified ideological concepts. Under the tide of market economy, people's concern for individual life surpasses everything, heroes and passions are fading away, the once noble ideals and beliefs are dissolved by the vulgar desires and humble needs of life in the mundane life, and people are more concerned about the value of their own survival rather than the collective interests. The young generation feels lost in this ever-changing and colorful world. This is a colorful era, an era full of temptations and desires, but also an era pregnant with more hope and more light. When the retired general Ou Zhanjun learns that his eldest daughter, Mugen, has gotten a divorce, he decides to hold a family meeting to resolve the conflicts between his children's careers and families. At the meeting, the two generations sparked heated arguments due to their different values, and the meeting broke up unhappily.
Second, about the dramatic conflict
This is a drama with an unconventional dramatic structure, which is composed of a unique style of dramatic conflict by the structural way of multi-scattered, multi-temporal, multi-paragraph and multi-linear superposition and interweaving: ① The conflict of values and ethical concepts between Ou Zhanjun, Bai Xuemei and their children. ② The life-and-death conflict between the revolutionary forefathers who went to Tibet and the treacherous natural environment. (iii) The conflict between the children of the Ou family and their respective families, marriages, money and work. ④ The love conflict between Bai Xuemei and Ou Zhanjun. Multiple lines of conflict are woven through the interaction of three space-time levels: reality, memories and psychology, highlighting the unique artistic characteristics of the play.
Third, about the theme
Faith, ideals, heroes, life, love, death, love, betrayal, suffering, money, understanding, dedication, value, a series of philosophical propositions written in this smooth pen, will be more or less, or main or secondary, or heavy or light in our artistic creation involved in and to explore.
Ou Zhanjun died of a sudden myocardial infarction. The death of Ou Zhanjun is like a key that opens the floodgates of his wife Bai Xuemei's memories that have been sealed for many years. 50 years ago, the real story of the group of female soldiers who went to Tibet, like a tidal wave, came to her, and she unveiled the mystery of her five children's origins amidst the recollection of the history and the remembrance of the past. Female soldier Liu Yurong, with her sincere and passionate love for her fiancé and her longing for a happy life, sacrificed her young life while rescuing supplies; young Bai Xuemei, for the sake of her revolutionary ideals, gave up her romantic fantasies of love and united with detachment commander Ou Zhanjun in a special way in the war years; correspondent Feng fell off a cliff to save Bai Xuemei; Captain Su of the female transportation team died to save the pilgrimage Tibetan girl Nyima; and Dr. Xin died tragically on his way to medical service. Bai Xuemei and her wife adopt the flesh and blood of these comrades and raise them one by one. 50 years later, their eldest daughter Mugen and their second son Mukai in Tibet encounter marital problems; their second daughter Mulan is laid off from her job in a hotel and is humiliated; their youngest son Muxin runs off to flirt with a female banker for a loan; and their eldest son Mujun, who out of love for his son Xiaofeng, is filled with conflict when he wants to go to Tibet to serve in the army. Full of contradictions. Flesh and blood, comradeship, nationalism, and comradeship are intertwined in the play, reminding people of the hardship and beauty of that era.
Fourth, about the characters in the play
Ou Zhanjun: a revolutionary soldier who has passed through the fire and smoke and has strong ideals and beliefs. He is courageous and tenacious, and emphasizes love and righteousness; he sticks to his personality and prefers not to bend; he likes to read, but is not good at talking; he has devoted his life to his wife, Bai Xuemei, with his true love and care in silence. On the five or biological or foster children, although in the heart hidden a deep love of the father, but across an insurmountable understanding of the generation gap.
Bai Xuemei: a woman who has experienced the baptism of war and has a rich inner world. She is beautiful and cheerful, and like all young girls, she has had an innocent, romantic pursuit of love and yearning. In the specific war era, she chose to give up romance and united with Detachment Commander Ou Zhanjun. In the war years, she has endured all the sufferings; in peacetime, she has resolved all the contradictions in the family with her broad, generous and gentle bosom, endured the reproaches of her children, and tolerated their lack of understanding.
Mu Jun: the son of the Ou family, party secretary of a factory. He is the son of comrade-in-arms Su Yuying. He is not a good talker, but a steady and honest man. He is full of contradictions about his son Xiaofeng going to Tibet as a soldier to inherit his father's military career.
Hibiscus: Ou's daughter, a magazine editor. Her birth mother is a Tibetan woman, Nyima. This is an intellectual woman of the new era, unlike her mother Bai Xuemei, she pays more attention to individual life experience and pursues the happiness of individual life, so she has a reason to rebel against the almost arranged marriage of her parents.
Mulan: The biological daughter of the Ou family. This is a sensitive, sad, weak and kind woman. She has always suspected that she is not her parents' biological daughter. After being laid off, life is difficult, but there is an innate stubbornness and strength in her bones.
Mukai: The second son of the Ou family. The head of a department in Tibet. The son of Xin Ming, the doctor accompanying the women's transportation team. He inherited his father's career and is a qualified soldier. In the face of the family's rupture, the mystery of his life, he had an inner wavering and pain, but ultimately he understood his parents, stick to Tibet.
Mu Xin: the youngest son of the Ou family, chairman of a company. A supremely intelligent, capable and progressive man. In front of the ever-changing times, he is good at accepting all kinds of new things, new ideas, good at seizing every opportunity in life, with wit and competence in the business world, forming a set of values completely different from his father's.
Mu Xin: The youngest son of the Ou family, the chairman of a company, is a smart and capable man.
Xiaofeng: The son of Mu Jun. Aspiring to be a soldier in Tibet, he is the image of a soldier with ideals and brains in the new era. Young, energetic, intelligent, good at thinking, and has a sense of independence. Love the military career.
Zheng Yi: Mugun's husband. The experience of being a soldier in Tibet has left him with a long-lasting and difficult to heal psychosexual disorders, which is a reality that he, as a man, is unwilling to face. Therefore, he prefers to believe that Mugen has another man when it comes to divorce.
Cao Qing: A bank president. This is a divorced woman with a strong appearance and a fragile heart. She harbors a true love for Mu Xin, but she is not sure whether Mu Xin's feelings for her are directed at the bank president or at a woman. The loneliness and isolation of single life makes her long for a sincere relationship.
Su Yuying: the captain of the transportation team of the female soldiers into Tibet. This is a calm, capable female officer with revolutionary ideals. She is y in love with her husband who was introduced to her through the organization. Faced with the treacherous natural environment, she had to leave her son in a Tibetan home. As a mother, she suffered unbearable pain in her heart, and as a soldier, she accepted everything calmly. She died trying to save the Tibetan girl.
Xin Ming: the doctor accompanying the women's transportation team, he is erudite, handsome and bookish. He loves Bai Xuemei in a way that is characteristic of intellectuals, subtle, affectionate, considerate and generous. He died on the way to save the Tibetans.
Nyima: Pilgrimage Tibetan girl, beautiful, stoic, tenacious. Died on the pilgrimage.
Liu Yurong: female soldier of the female transportation team. Youthful and beautiful, the love of life due to her heart lofty revolutionary ideals and a sincere love for the future of the happy life is full of fervent longing and yearning. In order to rescue supplies, sacrificed on the plateau.
Xiaofeng: the correspondent of the European war army. Young, witty, skinny. Has both hero worship and father-son love for the Ou Zha Army. Dies after falling off a cliff on his way to pick up Bai Xuemei.
Administrator: logistics administrator of the women's transportation team. Slightly older, steady, kind, in front of a group of young female soldiers, he gives a fatherly feeling. On the way to Tibet, he quietly saves his rations and dies.
Zhao Yuning: a fourteen-year-old member of the women's transportation team, skinny and childlike.
VI. About Genre and Style
This is an epic drama of heroism and romanticism. Tragic, magnificent, stirring, flamboyant, romantic, lyrical and poetic in the treatment of space and time, the director put the scenes of 50 years ago and the scenes of 50 years later in the same space to express, so that the audience can feel the plot in a strong contrast. When a mystery about the sons and daughters' life is unveiled, the soldiers who went to Tibet with their firm faith, selflessness, and purity of heart, make a silent answer to the contradictions and problems of reality - and the sons and daughters see the real faith, ideals, and beliefs from their fathers and mothers' lives.
I'll Wait for You in Paradise is a heartfelt answer by Qiu Shanshan, a female writer from Chengdu Military Region, to the history of the soldiers who marched into Tibet 50 years ago, and those who witnessed the history. since 1990, she had gone into Tibet for eight times, and interviewed more than 70 female soldiers, and came into contact with the stories of the old generation of female soldiers who marched into Tibet in the early 50s. These female soldiers, who seemed to be exceptionally strong, could not help shedding tears when they talked about their children because their work and environment forced them to give birth to their children and part with them. A kind of moving prompted the writer to make up her mind to write a full-length novel depicting the fate of soldiers, singing for those silent lives. At the same time, she paid special attention to collect the history of the first batch of young female soldiers who marched into Tibet from Sichuan with the 18th Army. Gradually, the figures of those female soldiers who climbed the mountains and waded through the water, endured the hunger and cold and walked into Lhasa began to be clear in front of her eyes.
"I'm Waiting for You in Heaven" is a typical academy-style drama. Writer-director Huang Dingshan fully use, mobilize the means of modern drama, this sprawling hundreds of thousands of words, the time span of half a century of the long novel adapted into a drama of only two hours, the stage inherited the spirit of the bloodline. And boldly use the movie montage technique, the different life scenes, different characters, alternately displayed on the stage. The same beautiful aspirations of different generations in different eras have delivered different answers. The audience is triggered by the comparison of the hard times and real life, flogging the gold and paper drunk, clearing the uncertainty and confusion, the heart of the people on the good life and the lofty ideals and beliefs of the fervent aspirations of the people.