Huizhou Merchants Themes TV Series Under Cultural Vision

Huizhou Merchants, as strong economic power based on its rich local culture, achieve great accomplishments in both material wealth and cultural influences in about 300-year-time during Ming and Qing period. With the coming of contemporary cinema age, Huizhou Merchants becomes an active subject in the field of television. However, compare with the study of the television, few people pay attention to its academic study. The author of this essay finds out that there are many aspects deserve to be made research on between the gap of industry and culture. In this essay, the author first carding the academic achievement, then the author reviews the conception of television which represents Huizhou Merchants. In the second part, which is the main part, the author analyzes the narrative mode and esthetic style. Then in the third part, the author tries to interpret the cultural meaning and the reaction of real life due to the influence of television, and finds out the cultural logic of this kind of television. In the fourth part, the author analyzes the status of television works which represent Huizhou Merchants in the field of Chinese culture and East Asian Confucianism culture through the dimension of culture industry and market operation. Finally, the essay proposes some specific expectations from the cultural dimension: the deep excavation of traditional culture, the nonstop efforts of composition, the innovation of industry.