The Aesthetic Characteristics And Cultural Representation Of Chinese Family TV Series

AbstractSince "Si Shi Tong Tang" was broadcast in 1985, the family TV series has undergone a rapid rise and flourishing period. Especially in the new century, represented by "Da Zhai Men", "Qiao Jia Da Yuan," "Hui Niang Wan Xin "," Chuang Guan Dong ", the family drama has become an enduring force on the TV screen, with enormous creation and extremely high audience ratings. In the past twenty years, the family TV series quickly jumped into domestic television drama as a relatively mature and successful TV series genre. How can we explain its success from aesthetic and cultural perspectives, under the settings where mass culture, dominant culture and elite culture are integrated with each other? With this question, the family TV series has, therefore, entered my research vision.After rationalizing the concept of family drama and its category and development context, this research attempts to explore the underlying motivation of its success in terms of the interaction between the script writing and the audience's psychology, especially focusing on its aesthetic characteristics and cultural representation. At the beginning, the present study tries to analyze the aesthetic features of the family drama from four aspects, including the epic pursuit of "home and country integration", aesthetic of secularization in the perspective of grand narrative, tragic implication of the passion of presentation and the national character of referential cultural psychology. Besides, this research also tries to figure out the cultural representation of family drama. To be specific, the family TV series deeply explore and present the spiritual meaning and cultural connotation of the local culture, business culture and the Confucian culture, and due to the correlation with the real life the family drama has been featured with cultural deposits and modern spirits. The family TV series is closely linked to the times and fit the psychological and cultural demands of audience, which is the reason for its contemporary prosperity.I hope that the present research can provide some inspiration for the future development of teleplay art, since it reveals the deep reasons for the prosperity of the family TV series under the contemporary social and cultural background and summarizes the characteristics and principles of the family TV series on artistic creation.