On the first day of the Lunar New Year, Song Zheng still took his daughter-in-law and children to visit the New Year door to door as usual, walked down in a circle, and finally ate at Guo Baochang's old man's house.

Outside, Song Ning was playing in the living room with his younger brother Song Jing, Liu Gege and Lin Xinru were preparing dinner in the kitchen, and Song Zheng was pulled to the corner of the living room by Guo Baochang as soon as he entered the door.

It's hard to imagine that a director and screenwriter can dedicate his life to a story, and Mr. Guo did it, in fact, it is not difficult to understand, 26 years of house career, he has already deeply imprinted this house complex in his life, he has said several times that the biggest wish in this life is to present a complete "mansion door" to the world.

Once, Song Zheng thought that the story of Old Man Guo's house would continue to the descendants of the Bai family, but this was too difficult, a catastrophe, the house disappeared, and the tragic history of more than ten years could not be expressed at all.

When he was preparing for the third part, Mr. Guo was worried about how to explain it, and after several hesitations, he drew on Bai Jingqi's experience from 1912 to 1921 and told a new story from a different perspective.

Now that the fourth part is being filmed, how will it be filmed?

If you don't forget, there will be an echo.

Lifelong accumulation, more than 40 years of wind and rain, this work that condenses blood and tears, and even almost took his life, Mr. Guo can't stop at all, and he has to continue, because the story in the house has long become the plot of his life, and he can't give it up.

In fact, in Song Zheng's opinion, the old man's life is enough to make a feature-length TV series, because his life itself is legendary enough.

Guo Baochang, formerly known as Li Baochang, was born in a poor family, his father died of starvation on the streets, and in order to survive, his mother sold him at the age of two. After several tosses, he was adopted by a famous family in the capital, and changed his name to Guo Baochang with his mother's surname.

The "Mansion Gate" in this reality is the famous Yanjing Tongrentang Lejia, his adoptive father is the fourth master of Lejia, and he is also the prototype of Bai Jingqi in "Mansion Gate".

Here, Guo Baochang opened his house life, and also began his house plot, 26 years, witnessed the rise and fall of Tongrentang.

Guo Baochang has been smart since he was a child, he can sing at the age of 5, write articles at the age of 8, and has been brewing since he was 16 years old, and wants to write about his house life, "The grievances and grievances here, life and death, blood and tears, love and hatred, I have heard and witnessed, and I have personally felt these ups and downs, joys and sorrows, and grievances, all the time stirring my feelings, I want to write it."

Unexpectedly, this dream of his youth has gone through several ups and downs, and has passed through half a century and has become the goal of his life.

"Mansion Gate" may be like a seed, which is deeply rooted in the heart of Mr. Guo, despite the ups and downs and hardships in the middle, it still sprouts little by little with tenacious vitality and lingers in his heart for many years.

The old man's career in the house finally had an unprecedented "movement", and he was studying at the directing department of the film school at that time. In 1964, he was branded as a "reactionary student" and sentenced to three years in prison for "erecting a monument for reactionary capitalists", and was sent to Nankou Farm for labor reform.

Such a blow did not extinguish his desire to write, and during the labor camp, he "did not die of a thief's heart" and still wrote "The Gate of the Mansion". Soon, however, the move attracted attention again, and he had to endure the pain and burn it again.

The third time the manuscript was destroyed, it was because his marriage had changed, and his wife, in a fit of rage, threw the manuscript that he regarded as his life into the fire. From then on, for a long time, he could no longer lift up spiritual creation.

The floodgates of memory are magical, and when you deliberately block out an experience, it is as if it has never been in your life, and it will disappear without a trace for a while. But when it is deliberately evoked, it will flood into front of the eyes and be vivid.

In 1980, the old man Guo, who was completely rehabilitated, was assigned to the Guangxi Film Studio, and his life gradually settled down after that, and his friends began to mention all kinds of things about the mansion.

A sense of responsibility, and a sense of guilt that he couldn't write, tormented him.

In 1994, he finally started writing again and completed the first 40 episodes of "Mansion Gate". After that, he died in the filming process, but he was always determined not to change, and it was not until 2000 that CCTV came forward to organize the filming, and the ill-fated "Mansion Gate" was able to come out.

Perhaps it is with these 40 years of ups and downs, as well as countless life tribulations, that the depth and height of "Mansion Gate" can be so unforgettable.

Old man Guo created a "big man" Bai Jingqi in "The Gate of the Mansion", which was born from his adoptive father. The great woman "Bai Wenshi", who is extremely intelligent and turns the tide, is a combination of three generations of Lejia women, among which her adoptive mother has the most profound influence on her.

In order to shape the young Guo Baochang into a real homely teenager, his mother taught him to drink at the age of 14 and smoke at the age of 16.

"In such a house, all the masters will smoke and drink, and you won't do anything? When you grow up, how many things have to be done at the dinner table, and in order to survive, you have to stand. ”

Since then, the young master has come back from school every day, with a box of Great China on the table, and at the age of 18, he has an amazing amount of alcohol, and can drink 2 catties of Moutai.

First of all, the "reactionary student" Guo Baochang had a whim to hope that the punishment would be reduced as a poor middle peasant in the era when the "class composition theory" was very rampant, so he mobilized his mother to give up dividends, and ran away from home after being opposed.

After that, the labor reform cut off all contact with his family, and he was not able to return to Beijing to visit his mother until the farm stalls were scattered. The mother and son are reunited, mixed with joy and sorrow. But the good times didn't last long, because He Lianli asked for leave to visit his biological mother, and Guo Baochang had to leave Beijing to return to his hometown to visit relatives.

It was this trip to his hometown that deeply hurt his adoptive mother, and Guo Baochang wanted to explain to his mother that he had no feelings for his biological mother, but he just couldn't say it. Until the death of my mother in 1978, I could not say what I wanted to say.

His mother passed away with misunderstandings and regrets, which also became Mr. Guo's biggest regret and pain. Although his mother resolutely opposed him writing "The Gate of the Mansion" before his death, the first thing he did after filming "The Gate of the Mansion" was to come to his mother's grave, and he circled around his mother's grave and chatted with his mother.

The old man once said to Song Zheng that his greatest wish in life is to write the story in "The Gate of the Mansion", which is his feelings, and now that the old man has started this project again, Song Zheng naturally can't be left behind, even if it is to make the old man make this dream more complete, let him thoroughly explain to the grandparents, young ladies and young masters in the house, and also to his adoptive mother.