How to evaluate the variety show Seeing Words Like Faces ?

"Seeing Words Like Faces" is a refreshing letter-reading program, and it is also the only quarterly letter-reading program in China, his manufacturing team is the successful production of the "Chinese Character Dictation Conference" and "Chinese Idiom Conference" two "national cultural programs" of the country's top ** creative team strength culture, as a means of communication, letters because of slow, modern society has been rarely used. But in the past, communication was not developed, and it acted as an emissary for the emotional connection of people who were separated from each other. In the past, many people had the habit of keeping their letters, because with the passage of time, people could read the sincere feelings of the time in the letters, and express the warmth and comfort of each other's hearts.

More than 20 years ago, letters were the primary means of communication between friends and family. A generation has passed in the blink of an eye, and the letters have become antiques, which is really emotional! I don't like the show "Seeing Words Like Faces"!

The reason is that letters were the main means of communicating family, friendship, love, information, and discussing things between people in the past. It's a very serious form of culture. It's understandable to interpret this culture and appeal to a younger audience in a relaxed way.

But with the addition of performance elements, the sense of heaviness and realism of the letter is lost. I have no opinion on the actors and directors who participated in the "Seeing Words Like Faces" program. It's just that I'm disgusted with the TV station's interpretation of the letter in this way.

The reason why CCTV's idioms and poetry programs are so popular is that they use culture and culture with modern elements to interpret ancient culture. Do cultural programs with less utilitarianism and more conscience, and the audience will feel it.

China's "Seeing Words Like Faces" seems to be more of a manifestation of European "minimalism", with no excessive lighting, no superfluous props, one person, one letter, one microphone, and a small audience. But it embodies the humanistic spirit from the details, and in terms of characters, it can deeply infect people, so that the listeners are deeply touched, Zhou Guoping said: Our national quality, the difference is the lack of humanistic spirit, to improve the national quality of course, can not rely on variety shows, but the real high-quality variety shows, is to have this kind of pursuit, in today's too many boring and boring program bubbles, Bai Yu's slightly flawed "Seeing Words Like Faces" appeared, which can be called amazing.

Seeing Words Like Faces takes celebrity reading letters as the main form, aiming to use letters to open historical nodes, lead the audience into those still vivid scenes of the times and life stories, touch those still touchable characters and social customs, and re-understand the spiritual feelings and life wisdom of Chinese. "Seeing Words Like Faces" is adapted from the British "Letters Live". Since 2013, the show has been an annual show featuring many actors on Freemasons'Hall reads letters from all eras to the audience.

On the official website of "Letters Live", it is written: "Celebrating the enduring power of literary letters with live performances, Juan Fu once read dusty love letters from the World War II era in the show.

Compared with entertainment variety shows, "Seeing Words Like Face" does not have problems such as "negative energy and poisonous tongue". What is the reason for such a cultural variety show with word-of-mouth ratings that has exploded the list? What is the reason behind the sudden removal of this show?

Of course, improving the quality of the people cannot rely on variety shows, but truly high-quality variety shows have this kind of pursuit. In today's too many boring and boring program bubbles, Bai Yu's slightly flawed "Seeing Words Like Faces" appeared, which is amazing.

What "Seeing Words Like Faces" does is actually the transmission of experience. When it first started, people thought that this was a beautiful program, this was a recitation + performance program, all of which were inaccurate, and the core of "Seeing Words Like Faces" was the transmission of experience. With the help of letters, comments, stories, and lives, we can convey life experiences and values.

The love is so thick that it cannot be returned for a hundred generations. "Through each paper with traces of time, we can experience the love and touching of the writer and the recipient, the empathy of the reader and the writer, and the complexity of human nature and the changeability of the human heart. It may not be a long letter, but through the voice of the reader, we can always feel the long friendship, see the words as the face, and move with the voice, it is better for us to listen to them read these letters, and then appreciate the ups and downs of the life of the protagonist behind the letters, and remember the emotions and spirits that still do not change in the long river of time.

The book "Seeing Words Like Faces" compiled by Guan Zhengwen, the chief director of "Seeing Words Like Faces", includes the letters that appeared in the show, and the eighth issue of the newly aired is to point out this core with "moisturizing things", and also gives the way of experience transmission, delicate, imperceptible, and teaching by word and deed. All these painstaking operations are for the transfer of experience.

"Seeing Words Like Faces" has made its third season this year, and it will start airing on Christmas Day. The first quarter of 2016 was scored on Douban, and the second quarter of 2017 was even higher.

The program team selected the most worthy of sharing from thousands of good letters, and each one was worth looking forward to.

The format of the program is that the host introduces the background of the letter, the reader reads the letter, and the expert and scholar further interpret the letter.

The theme word of the first issue of the third season is "dislocation", and the letter readers who appear on the stage are Dong Yong and Zhao Lixin reading Pu Songling's letter to the poor god, Dong Yong reading the confession letter written by Nakanori Oshima to Yuan Yicheng, the "last word collector" Yuan Yicheng, Gui Yalei reading Li Qingzhao's thank you letter to her husband's cousin Qi Chongli, Niu Junfeng reading Zhou Hongxiang's letter to the subway girl, and Lang Yongchun reading Yin Fu's farewell letter to his brother Xu Peigen.

Seeing the words like faces, the paper is short and long, and every letter has something that makes people cry, but the moving thing is not because of the miserable, but because of the beauty. This kind of beauty comes from the true feelings of the letter writer, and also from the true feelings of the letter reader. Reading by oneself is an immersion, and listening to others can mobilize the participation of the hearing senses, and this is where the charm of sound comes from.

The letter readers include actors and CCTV hosts, and when they read the letters, they were all cultural people, and they passed on the content of the letters and the historical stories and emotional stories behind the letters to us.

Now the popular variety shows on the market are mainly to watch the excitement, competition, talent show, and star, such a variety show with letter reading as the main form is undoubtedly like a clear stream, with an aesthetic threshold, it seems to be very high-end, but it does not put on a show, audiences who like culture can find fun and get aesthetic enjoyment, and fans who chase stars can also appreciate the other side of their favorite stars.

The loyal audience of "Seeing Words Like Noodles" is called "Flour", and I invite you to make a "Flour" together.

First of all, this is a variety show with a very different kind. In the current era of fast food, entertainment variety shows are the most popular variety shows, such as "Running Man", "Flowers and Boys", "Extreme Challenge" and so on. And "Seeing Words Like Faces" can stand out in a bunch of dazzling variety shows, be loved by the public, and become a clear stream in variety shows, the first reason is that this is a cultural program.

The statement of the purpose of the program is: "It aims to open the historical nodes with letters, lead the audience into those still vivid scenes of the times and life stories, touch those still touchable characters and social customs, and re-understand the spiritual feelings and life wisdom of the Chinese." "Doesn't that sound bluffing?

Historical, social, and national ......What a big proposition this has to be. But if you look closer, it's actually in a very simple form, just a lamp and a wheat, and a star sits there reading a letter to the audience.

I'm sure anyone watching this show for the first time will have the same curiosity as I did at the beginning: as a cultural program, why read personal letters instead of reading poetry, prose, **?

The biggest difference between private letters and literary works is that letters are private, private, and the words that can most truly reflect people's hearts and the current situation in which they live. For example, we need to understand Eileen Chang, not only through her literary works, but also through a collection of decades-long correspondence between her and Professor Xia Zhiqing, an overseas sinologist. Here you can see the most specific and touchable Zhang Ailing, the mystery of the writer has been revealed, this is the most like a person Zhang Ailing.

Reading aloud letters can make us feel the thoughts, emotions, and life experiences of the owner of the letter to the greatest extent, so as to have a vivid understanding of the times and the nation.

The stars invited by "Seeing Words Like Faces" are almost all drama-level characters with excellent acting skills. In the program, they were able to understand the emotions of the parties at that time very well, and they spoke eloquently, with emotion, and the audience was almost as if they were there. This kind of reading aloud is also a kind of re-creation, and the audience gains a double emotional experience.

In general, this is a cultural program with a simple form and profound content, which is extremely rare in today's era. It's worth a look.

I think this show is very special and meaningful!

First of all, this variety show is not like other variety shows that use stars to brush up on their presence and ratings, and it is not that kind of entertainment program. It's really touching people's hearts with real feelings, and I think it's really a very conscientious and heartfelt show.

With celebrity letters as the main form, it aims to open historical nodes with letters. Letters convey affection, every word is sincere, every sentence is true, every word, every sentence expresses their true feelings. The program team selected letters with special significance from tens of thousands of letters, and through the introduction of the host, the letter reader read the letter, and the experts and scholars interpreted the letter step by step to analyze it, and felt the feelings of the letter writer inside.

Seeing the words as they are, now that our communication equipment has been very developed, we rarely use letters to communicate, this program can let us get back to the old feeling that the carriage was slow and the letters were far away.

This is a clear stream in all variety shows, bringing us warmth and moving, and the production can be said to be very attentive.

Don't have a name? Out of ideas? In case of cheating, how to settle the settlement, is there no rigor at all? is just to rub the heat, disgust, disgust, or disgust, it's better to have fewer shows like this.

This is a fairly delicate variety show with a fairly large content capacity, and I like it very much.

In fact, there are not many pan-cultural variety shows that speak, such as Gao Xiaosong's "Xiao Shuo", which has a high breadth of knowledge and ideas; Xu Zhiyuan's "Thirteen Invitations" has also been done for a long time, and it is sometimes very profound for many literary and artistic things; Then there are talk shows made by Dou Wentao and so on. Sometimes it is a person who talks eloquently, and some people collide with each other through the collision of ideas between several guests. However, "Seeing Words Like Faces" is more distinctive in form in comparison.

I think that the format of such a program is very ingenious in the first place. One of the characteristics of traditional talk cultural content programs is that they always love dragonflies and water in their thoughts, and when they are talking, the host does not control the scale well, and it is easy to have awkward conversations.

And in each episode, the theme of the program is set, and cultural scholars are invisibly guided. At the same time, the time of the conversation at the round table is not designed to be long, so the content of the discussion is shortened and competent, and from time to time there will be sharp words spoken in the interview, which is quite good for the audience.

In terms of the performance of the show, the most important part is naturally the part where the actors read the letters. Because of the professionalism of the actors, many of the letters they read were very immersive. The main audience of variety shows is naturally young people, and the big problem of today's young people is "no time to read, no time to think independently", and "Seeing Words Like Faces" I think is mainly facing such a pain point.

It is very clever to have the artists who like to read the letters of the masters that make people think, and then the well-known scholars to guide them to interpret the contents.

Many people say that we live in an era of rapid change and are full of all kinds of anxiety, so a series of forms of variety shows that numb people have come into being on various satellite TVs. However, even young people cannot be "for the sake of living" without thinking about life and life.

Such a program with letters as the carrier and cultural content as the main form can allow the audience to have a quarter of an hour to think outside of facing the tense life.

Don't have a name? Out of ideas? In case of cheating, how to settle the settlement, is there no rigor at all? is just to rub the heat, disgust, disgust, or disgust, it's better to have fewer shows like this.

The second season of "Seeing Words Like Faces" was started and recorded in Beijing, and many stars such as Zhou Xun, Yao Chen, Ming Dao, Wu Gang, Yang Lixin and so on joined. Compared with the first season, the second season of "Seeing Words Like Faces" has changed significantly, adopting the form of theme arrangement, and each of the twelve episodes has its own theme, which is related to life and death decisions, the appearance of all beings, love and hatred, loyalty and betrayal, and reading and growth.

Director Guan Zhengwen said that when the first season was broadcast, many viewers expressed higher expectations for the interpretation of the letters, and asked for a more in-depth, personalized and inspiring interpretation of the show. The second season enriches the selection of interpreters, and invites more influential young opinion leaders to bring in a more in-depth and personalized interpretation of the letter.

If you look at the star lineup alone, the second season of "Seeing Words Like Faces" can be called star-studded in the current domestic variety shows: Zhou Xun, Yao Chen, Li Liqun, Gui Yalei, He Bing, Zhao Lixin, Zhang Fengyi, Huang Zhizhong, Wu Gang, Yu Hewei ......However, Guan Zhengwen believes that what the audience sees here is not the hustle and bustle of popularity, the laughter of brushing faces, but the real artistic efforts, "In our program, the teachers who perform are not called stars, but artists, they are creating, and what is left for the show is the work." ”

The first issue of "Seeing Words Like Faces 2" revolves around the theme of "Life and Death", and the five letters read by the four guests include a letter written by a father to his child a year after his child's suicide, a letter written by his daughter to her parents after the disaster, a righteous letter written by the family members of martyrs during the war era, and a letter written by a son to his father after his father was captured by the enemy. What satisfies Guan Zhengwen the most is the family letter of the survivors of the Taiping Wheel performed by Zhou Xun. This letter was not originally a hot topic, but it was full of deep affection after experiencing life and death, which made Zhou Xun burst into tears, and he could not continue to read it several times.

Good interpretation and good interpretation are essential to Seeing Words Like Faces. The effective content of a letter is only the basics, but a letter that feels thrilling when reading the text, if not well interpreted, can be bland when converted into an audio-visual program. This is the charm of performance, and this charm is brought by the artist, and there is no substitute.

Guan Zhengwen believes that the popularity of "Seeing Words Like Faces" is mainly due to the good faith and good performances of the artists, but the role that program production can play is limited. Depending on the content of the letter and the person who wrote it, the artist brings a completely different way of interpretation.