| The television drama program of our country has been through more than half a century history since the first TV series in China called A Vegetable Cake was broadcast in 1958. As one of the most popular artistic forms, TV series transmit through the combination of pictures and sounds, and achieve the best effect of communicating in the process of mixing with other artistic forms. Since 1990 s, Chinese TV series has developed prosperously with its creation mode being more diverse. In the development process, family ethics TV series gained its status and role as one of the most important creation modes. In addition, family ethics TV series which have a significant influence on people’s daily life and the way of thinking, have drawn greater public attention.Broadcast in 1990, Expectation was the first Chinese family ethics TV series in its true sense, then exploration of family ethics TV series began. Our society had changed radically in1990 s, it’s necessary to create TV series which were excellent and having extensive influence.As a result, family ethics TV series telling about ordinary people’s daily life became the focus of creation.It’s indispensable for a TV series to have characters with clear personality, and so is for family ethics TV series. Therefore, to thousands of television creators, exploring the method of role shaping is important and essential. Huge market impact has brought both opportunity and challenge to the TV industry. To find the way of achieving the balance and making characters’ spiritual and cultural value prominent is the internal impetus of family ethics TV series’ development. The characters should be artistic and take social responsibility as well.Family ethics TV series seem to be the best platform to show real life, and the image-building becomes an important task for TV series creators. Early days, leading characters of family ethics TV series or films were gods without any shortcomings. In the view of aesthetic,the flaw is a part of perfection. Creators have realized that so-called perfection without any flaws was a kind of deficiency along with the development of society and the impact of different cultures. Family ethics TV series convey the same spirit to audience in 21 st century, but it’s very different in analyzing the society and discerning human nature to show the characters’ most real emotions. As a result, audience can not only feel the times atmosphere but rethink their lives through characters’ inner world.Since scriptwriters are under different time background, they have different views on characters and show different characteristics of the times when describing and shaping roles. Or we can say that images are changing with the development of history. The major research of thisarticle is the evolution of characters in Chinese family ethics TV series. According to the evolution reflected from characters with imperfect beauty, it may help us study the development of family ethics TV series better. |
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