A Study On The Cultural Implication Of The Differential Pattern Of Zheng Wenlong 's Narrative Of Film And TV Works

As the key carrier of the popular culture, TV series deserve much attention andso do the directors, screen writers and other artists of classic TV series as the creatorsof these art works. Especially in the current status of the severe unbalance betweenthe production and broadcast of TV series, Zheng Xiaolong, the man of hour in thefield of China’s series with numbers of sensational works like Pray, Native of Beijingin New Yorker, Golden Marriage, Legend of Zhen Huan and many others, should getmore of our attention. We can regard one success of an artist as an incident, but he isto be outstanding and paid much attention if every piece of his work is highlyaccepted and popular among people, causes intensive social echoes and even leadsthe social fashion. And his success definitely depends on abundant culturalconnotation and generates deep benefit enlightenment, thus serving as a positiveexample for the development of the television culture in our country. Thus, in a sense,the TV series Zheng Xiaolong involved in have evolved into a brand and a culturalphenomenon in the Chinese TV series world with great influence and strongcharisma.This paper, selecting some of his famous works, including Native of Beijing inNew York, Golden Marriage and Legend of Zhen Huan as sample to makebreakthrough, tries to extract the serious cultural factors deeply buried in theattracting stories and puts focus on the conflict and combination of conventionalethics and culture in the modern times in the process of development and thusdemonstrates the conflict and struggles of people’s goodness of nature in thecomplicated social life. Combining the ideological words with folk discourse androoting deeply in the life of common people is what lifts Zheng Xiaolong up to theheight of civilian epic and embeds the unique Chinese culture accumulated inthousands of years in every corner of his works.This paper applies the method of differential mode of association in sociology toassort the narrative strategy, analyze the profound culture in Zheng Xiaolong’s worksand dig into the very inside. As a civilian screen worker, he puts importance on playing common people’s life and thoughts of the time on the screen and reveals thenature of everything in the world. The main purpose of this paper is to explore theconventional artistic and cultural connotation in his famous TV series. Afteranalyzing and studying them thoroughly and comprehensively, the paper sorts out theunderlying culture factors in his works as well as summing up the creative style andthe culture cultivation of his own. Due to the lack of academic research on the worksof Zheng Xiaolong, to put him against the background of era and to seek for culturalself-consciousness becomes the life of this paper.