Film and television culture

The Qiao Family Courtyard is not just a "courtyard", it is also an irreplaceable "culture". It has prompted batches of cultural people to come here to find historical traces and listen to the footsteps of history. The movie "Raise the Red Lantern" and the TV series "Qiao Family Courtyard" and "Holy Loyalty Hall" were filmed here.

" Raise the Red Lantern " is adapted from the novel "Wives and Concubines" by the famous writer Su Tong. The film revolves around the topic of feudal etiquette, telling the story of several concubines of a large family who were jealous during the Republic of China, and caused a series of tragedies. The film is directed by the famous director Zhang Yimou, and famous actors such as Gong Li, He Saifei, Cao Cuifen, and Jin Shuyuan participated in the performance, and the heroine Si Aunti was played by Gong Li. "Raise the Red Lantern" caused quite a stir in the film industry at that time. The film has won many international awards, including the Silver Lion Award at the 48th Venice International Film Festival. It was also nominated for the Best Foreign Language Film at the Academy Awards, becoming the second Chinese film to be nominated for this award after Ju Dou. The Qiao Family Courtyard has also begun to enter people's field of vision.

"Qiao Family Courtyard" is a 45-episode TV series based on Qiao Zhiyong, the legendary figure of the Shanxi merchant Qiao family. "Qiao Family Courtyard" takes the middle and late Qing Dynasty as the historical background, takes Qiao Zhiyong's all-powerful business battles and thrilling political battles, as well as his ups and downs of emotional entanglements as clues, deduces a business family from falling from the middle to the next It is a difficult process to come back to life, to achieve great ambitions, and to realize its great ambition of "transporting goods to the world and bringing the world together". At the same time, it also truly reproduces Qiao Zhiyong's extraordinary management ability and extraordinary courage and courage when he established his business empire. This TV series is directed by Hu Mei, the most representative outstanding female director among the fifth-generation directors in China, and starring a large number of powerful actors such as Chen Jianbin, Jiang Qinqin, and Ma Yili. It became one of the most popular TV series in 2006. With the popularity of the TV series "Qiao Family Courtyard", the Qiao Family Courtyard soon became famous at home and abroad, and this old Shanxi merchant house deservedly became one of the cultural symbols of the Shanxi Merchant Courtyard.

"Holy Loyalty Hall" is jointly produced by CCTV, Beijing Huasheng Taitong Media Investment Co., Ltd., and Shanxi Xinqi Tourism Co., Ltd., directed by Lu Qi, and starring Zhang Bo, Tong Yao, Zhou Hang, Qiao Xin, Pan Hong, Yang Meng, etc. period drama. The play tells the story of Qiao Yingji (the prototype of Qiao Yingxia), the fifth-generation descendant of the Qiao family, who restructured the Shanxi merchants' ticket numbers into banks and used the Qiao family's financial strength and goodwill to rebuild the Shanxi official silver number and achieve currency unification.