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One city completes one drama Xinhua News Agency and iQIYI’s “Heart Home” crew cheer for Shanghai, the location of the filming_News_Xinmin.com

On April 1, Xinhua News Agency and iQIYI’s “Heart House” crew released a video. Director Teng Huatao led Hai Qing, Tong Yao, Zhang Songwen and other main creators to cheer for the people of Shanghai. The story of “Home in the Heart” grew up in Shanghai, but also feeds back in Shanghai, leading you into the fireworks world of Shanghai in ordinary times. This is a new era family emotional drama, starring Hai Qing (played by Feng Xiaoqin) and Tong Yao (played by Gu Qingyu), which is being broadcast exclusively on iQIYI, and on Dragon TV and Zhejiang Satellite TV. Shanghai-style culture has re-entered the audience’s field of vision.

Stills of “Home of the Heart”, shot under the Oriental Pearl TV Tower

Since the broadcast, the salt and pepper strips on the dining table of the Gu family living in Shanghai, the authentic Shanghai dialect revealed in the conversation, and the portrayal of the Shanghai-style family relationship in the new era,LetThe impression of “Magic City” focuses on the daily life of the common people, and an open and inclusive city is slowly unfolding under the camera.

The diverse styles of Shanghai buildings and streets make the plot more realistic

Open the map of Shanghai, you can see the full screen“Former residence” and “Old site”, the fusion of Western-style classical architecture from various countries and oriental charm, has formed a nostalgic and modern Shanghai-style style. This is the epitome of Shanghai’s century-old history and the carrier of historical context. In the shot of the hit drama “House of the Heart”, you can also see a lot of Shanghai landmarks: the Bund International Architecture Expo Group, Fuzhou Road, Huishan Road, Sichuan Road and Bridge, awakening the audience’s urban memory about Shanghai, as well as Shikumen Alley , lush streets of phoenix trees, vegetable markets and other scenes full of fireworks make the modern “New Shanghai” living environment real and palpable.

“Home in the Heart” presents a vibrant and modern international metropolis. Shanghai in the lens not only hasThe label of “modern” is to put openness and tolerance into practice, and tell the story of the ups and downs of ordinary people with different identities and backgrounds working hard to live. Feng Xiaoqin’s day starts with “bargaining” in the vegetable market, worrying about his livelihood, caring for the elderly, and ending with buying tai siu (Shanghai dialect: buying vegetables, washing vegetables, and cooking) after work; while Gu Qingyu is accompanied by soothing yoga music. Morning exercise, and then went to work at Ampere Maison, a British classicist building located in the source of the Bund, in pursuit of idealized love.


Gu Qingyu, a Shanghai elite in “Home of the Heart”, works at An Pei Yangxing in Bundyuan

The seemingly different daily life is behind the struggle of modern urbanites for an ideal life. They are harmonious and harmonious, and together they have left footprints of hard work in the city, which highlights the all-encompassing nature of Shanghai. Feedback from netizens:“The characters under the camera are very down-to-earth. The name “Heart House” has actually revealed the core of the show. The house is not a purely material basis, but the residence of the heart.”

January 20, 2022, At the sixth meeting of the 15th Shanghai Municipal People’s Congress, Shanghai Mayor Gong Zheng made a government work report and proposed to start the Shanghai tourism brand.At the same time, Shanghai will rely on its profound cultural heritage, combined with urban organic renewal and refined management, and tell the world about China and Shanghai from the perspective of the common people.“Poems and Distances”. The thinking of Chinese-style family in “Home of the Heart” is placed in Shanghai, a first-tier city where Shanghai-style culture is prevalent and the economy is developing rapidly, so that netizens have a more intuitive understanding of the modern city.

Teng Xiaolan, the original author and screenwriter, said: “I am a Shanghainese myself. Since I am writing about the current Shanghainese, I hope to be more realistic, so that both the old Shanghainese and the new Shanghainese can be seen. After reading it, I feel that this is really Shanghai is not made up, nor is it the specious Shanghai that people imagine.”

“One city completes one drama” Although it is now at the critical moment of Shanghai’s war epidemic,Those accustomed urban lifestyles have also become sincere expectations.But it is also as everyone wishes: although the spring is late, there will be a time to return, when life returns, you can still look at the time in Shanghai and find your own“Where the Heart Lives”.

One city completes one drama. The all-encompassing characteristics of Shanghai make it possible for the national drama “Heart of the Heart”, and the delicate interpretation of family life in “Heart of the Heart” makes the super metropolis more intimate. Although it is now at the critical moment of the Shanghai war epidemic,Those accustomed urban lifestyles have also become sincere expectations.But it is also as everyone wishes: although the spring sun is late, there will be a time to return, when life returns, you can still look at the time in Shanghai and find your own“Where the Heart Lives”.