The contemporary rural-themed TV series "The Green Mountains Are Hometown" aims the camera at a place called Yagou Village. The protagonist Dong Dalin, who is working hard outside, decides to return to his hometown to start a business and support his parents as the main line, showing the different choices of the three brothers and sisters of the Dong family when facing interests and family ties. The creators construct an aesthetic space about the spiritual hometown in the grand narrative of rural revitalization, vividly interpreting multiple variations about hometown complex, family ethics and the development of the times.

  The image of the protagonist Dong Dalin presents the unique spiritual characteristics of farmers in the new era. He has always upheld the simple belief that "only the heart can be at peace with the roots in the soil; only when people guard the green mountains can dreams last for a long time." After completing his further study at the Academy of Agricultural Sciences, he witnessed the decline of traditional agriculture and the villagers were increasingly desolate, and the current situation of the villagers being trapped in their livelihoods and going out to work on a large scale. He felt mixed feelings, so he decided to return to his hometown and lead the villagers to develop green planting. This emotion for the land not only contains a deep attachment to the ancestors’ inheritance, but also contains a rational understanding of the path of sustainable development.

  The entrepreneurial story that promotes the development of ecological agriculture is inspiring and emotional, but if the audience wants to buy it, it still depends on the plot. The play begins with two major difficulties encountered by the protagonist, making people quickly enter the show. First, in terms of entrepreneurial dimensions, Dong Dalin's cooperative plan encountered obstacles from the beginning: the villagers' conservative ideas and unwilling to take risks have made it difficult for green agriculture promotion. Second, in the family dimension, the collision between traditional ethics and modern concepts is more intense. Mr. Dong prefers to protect his second son Dong Erlin, while his second daughter-in-law Chen Ling looks down on farming, which constitutes an internal resistance to hindering change. The two narrative clues are intertwined and collided, which truly demonstrates the deep contradictions in the process of rural revitalization.

  It was in this dilemma that Dong Dalin completed a spiritual transformation - he gradually realized that rural revitalization not only requires the innovation of agricultural technology, but also requires the improvement of communication wisdom and management capabilities. Faced with the villagers' doubts, he used patience to resolve prejudice; when faced with opposition from his family, he used tenacity to prove his value. From this character, we not only experience the hard work and simplicity of "face the loess and back to the sky", but also feel the innovative courage of "dare to teach the sun and the moon to change the sky"; we not only experience the persistence of adhering to the local ethics that value feelings and righteousness, but also feel the value of an open vision that looks at the future. Its spiritual growth process provides a demonstration artistic model for rural revitalization narrative.

  In addition to the delicate portrayal of the protagonist, the careful shaping of the new generation of peasants in the play also makes the theme expression of the work more three-dimensional and rich. Feng Qiulan, who is virtuous and kind and wholeheartedly supports her husband Dong Dalin's business, Chen Ling, who has been poor since childhood, is determined to make money and is determined to do anything, and Dong Erlin, who lacks his own opinions and obeys his wife, forms a vivid map of the relationship between characters. What is particularly worth noting is the dramatic turning point in the play: when Dong Erlin and his wife, who had been in trouble, were injured by them, Dong Dalin, who had been hurt by them, repaid his grudges with kindness. In the change of "close-existence-reconciliation", the characters interpret the dialectical relationship between tradition and modernity, and deeply reveals the essence of rural revitalization - it is not only an innovation of the economic model, but also a reconstruction of ethical relations. This narrative strategy not only maintains the critical strength of realism, but also highlights the warm background of humanistic care.

  In this sense, "The Green Mountains Are Hometown" goes beyond simple entrepreneurial narratives and touches on deeper cultural propositions. Dong Dalin's return home is not only a personal career choice, but also a spiritual journey to find the roots of culture. He redefines the local value with the concept of green development and awakens the vitality of the sleeping rural areas with innovative practices. This narrative method that organically combines personal destiny with collective memory, economic development and cultural heritage provides ideas for rural theme creation.

  Rural revitalization is not about turning rural areas into imitations of cities, but about growing new roots and new branches and leaves of this era in rural land. "The Green Mountains Are Hometown" "takes root downward", restores the texture of life, "grows upward", and echoes the propositions of the times. It reflects the various human feelings with the change of land, showing the audience that the most moving scenery of rural revitalization has never been the growth curve in data reports, but the countless Dong Dalins’ recollection and fireworks in the depths of the land. It is their deep attachment to their hometown and their brave pursuit of a better life.

  (Author: Li Hongyan, a member of the Beijing Literary and Art Critics Association)

[Editor in charge: Tang Wei]