Joy And Sorrow Of "Sandwich Generation"

"Keeping up with the times is beneficial". The family ethics drama is a kind of relatively mature and colorful branch of the homemade TV plays in China. We can easily sense that in the different historical stages, its development not only inherits the original essence, but also contains constant innovation and updating. This thesis studies family ethics drama from the perspective of the "inter-generational dimension", containing two levels of referential meanings:One is to be consistent with the times.The generational group of "The Post-80 s Generation" is becoming the focus of social attention,depicted frequently the current family ethics drama. Topics concerning youth, struggle, marriage, child rearing and other survival situations of "The Post-80 s Generation" as well as leftover women, mortgage slave, Dink, child slave and other various social topics and correlated TV "screens" images emerge in TV series with the times' changes, providing a vivid video reference for the interpretation of the current social and family.The second is that the appearance and broadcasting of the plays concerning topics such as child rearing and providing for the aged and the creation of family ethics drama about the " The Post-80 s Generation" experience a diachronic theme transformation from “love to marriage and then to inter-generation”, whose the inter-generational perspective further extends and is concurrent with the growth of " The Post-80 s Generation" in real life--in recent years " The Post-80 s Generation" have faced a baby boom. As a new "sandwich generation", they are struggling between the rearing of the child and providing for the parents, burdened with worries but joyful.This paper defines the text research object with the concept of "The Post-80 s Generation", focusing on family inter-generational ethics drama, namely child-rearing and providing-for-parents dramas. Based on the text analysis and closely examining works, this paper intends to disclose that " The Post-80 s Generation" family inter-generational ethics drama is a “boom change" in TV type evolution, and in accordance with the social and cultural changes and the popular youth aesthetics. In these plays, the constant " narrative polyphony" of family and ethics also contains some “variations”. At the same time, " The Post-80 s Generation" family inter-generational ethics drama has their own characteristics in ethical narrative, character building, aesthetic artistic style and other aspects, reflecting the current collective psychological and cultural trend, and shows the change and confusion of the new generation of "4+2+1 family".Its research significance is to disclose that "The Post-80 s Generation" family inter-generational ethics drama with constantly changing drama creative values and thinking in the development of TV plays discloses creative ideas and aesthetic perspective in the particular period. It has development potential, and also has realistic reflection value; on the other hand, it is falling into the vulgar situation of catering to the commercial consumption, which is worth the corresponding observation and thinking.