Hello, welcome to another video from AvenueX
looking at chinese dramaland in the past week.
We've got not so much going on in dramaland.
still a little bit, a bit in gossip land and globally,
something epic has just happened yesterday
crazy time we live in.
Let's start with dramas that have gone live.
So number one is Xing Han Can Lan
Love Like Galaxy went live on july the 5th.
That means the post production people got there in time to save the crisis
entire july is gonna be about that drama
on the Tencent period drama market.
I've been watching it every day.
Depending on how I work out the scheduling of my channel,
it may not happen very soon that I make a video on it,
but probably will happen at some point.
Probably the week after
there's also drama that should have just gone live.
As i'm recording this video if nothing weird happened.
It's a youku contemporary romantic drama called Zhi Yong Gan de Ni,
To Be A Brave One
and It's led by Deng Jiajia and Guan Hong
I have no idea Deng Jiajia has been in that many dramas.
so she would be like having three dramas on air at the same time.
It's a youku drama and the posters look really bad
talks about a rich girl who got in trouble.
And then meets super successful young businessmen
who just came back from Wall street
and they fall in love and they make a big thing out of their career,
whatever, very idol drama heavy type of synopsis
And it's a youku drama and posters look terrible.
So fingers crossed.
It doesn't crash too much, but it's Youku
So anything can happen.
Then. A piece of news has just come out
that it's not confirmed,
but it's very likely very very likely also on Youku
that towards the end of this month around the twenties dates
Chen Xiang Ru Xie
The period drama, fantasy period drama
led by Yang Zi and Cheng Yi,
Immortal Samsara is going to air.
It has just got the license to air,
and there's no reason that YK wouldn't air it.
you know Summer holiday slot.
They want the love and redemption or ashes of love
that type of thing happening to them.
So fantasy period drama lover,
Cheng Yi, Yang Zi lover
you have something to look forward to.
Then during this week,
we have a couple of things that has just
officially started promoting announcing.
One is the 5th season of Street Dance
If you've watched the first four season on Youku
you know what the program is.
and This time they've announced their new team leader panel,
it still has Wang Yibo
it still has Hang Geng
Now they have Li Chengxuan, Nathan Lee
I think that's his english name.
But obviously, if you know a lot about korean entertainment,
you would also know about him.
And then Liu Yuxin, the only lady on the team
and then this show would also happen during summer.
So another big thing from youku that they are
hoping they can gather a lot of attention.
So let's see what will happen for the 5th season,
pretty long running entertainment show
the other drama tha has just announced has been in the cooking for months.
Okay, i've heard about the news early like I think february march already,
there's a lot of talk about this project
actors, actresses being nominated and then confirmed not.
And finally finally officially this drama comes out
and announced their 2 lead
for the rest of the cast.
I think they're gonna throw out stuff later.
and It's not 100% confirmed,
but probably 95% confirmed
that is the period drama, Hu Yao Xiao Hong Niang
Fox Spirit Matchmaker: Yue Hong
that this one's english title,
because this whole ip has multiple chapters about multiple characters.
This one is focused on the character.
Hong, Yue Hong, Hong Hong
anyway we watch you'll know
and it's hu yao, it's a fox demon
fox spirit and it's gonna be led by Gong Jun and Yang Mi
So officially ever since Word of Honor uccess,
Gong Jun has worked with Jia Xing's (Yang Mi's company)
number two flower Dilraba already, An Le Zhuan
We don't know when it's gonna come out, now.
He's literally worked with the boss of the company Yang Mi
Yang Mi is gonna play the fox and she's always known in chinese
entertainment since day one as actress who has the most
looking like fox eyes
in the chinese traditional sense of the Hu Yao
What type of look they should have
So it's just fitting for her to take this role honestly
Gong Jun is gonna play a Dao Shi, a Daoism monk who is
their mission usually is to
kill demons
You see where it's going, right? with this set up
and you don't need anything else.
Then for the rest of the cast,
it hasn't been officially 100% confirmed,
but it's like very much there
you would have Zhu Xudanm who also belongs to Jia XIng
You have Zhang Yunlong, who also belongs to the company Jia XIng
You also have Wei Zheming
It also would feature Chen Duling
It also would feature Hu Lianxin
think about all the guys Gong Jun, Wei Zheming, Zhang Yunlong
Then think about the girls, Yang Mi, Zhu Xudan, Chen Duling, Hu Lianxin
Literally every face is like, wow, pretty pretty pretty pretty pretty pretty
onslaught of prettiness
Let's hope this drama will work out fine.
Then during this week a drama has started shooting.
They've held their opening ceremony called Shao Nian Ba Bi Lun
young babylon,
and it's a Hou Minghao and Yang Caiyu led
contemporary drama more specifically set in the 90s.
Hou Minghao has recently been in another drama.
If you've watched that drama, I haven't talked about it,
but i've watched parts of it, with Wu Lei
And that's also a set in the 90s story
So it's a pretty similar setting.
and I think probably will get similar vibe drama.
Then let's talk about a couple of other things,
not strictly related to dramas but related to entertainment.
First is during this week,
Zhou Jielun, Jay Chou finally after 6 years,
since he made his last album released his new album's,
like one of the most important songs
and the rest of the album is gonna come out next week.
Exploded.
Zui Wei Da de Zuo Pin, that's the title
literally means the greatest works.
The thing is in the last couple of years,
everybody in china who listens to music
is complaining about the death of music.
And it's kind of a global thing,
constantly new songs get released,
but you just never hear anything that sticks to you anymore.
It's like a regurgitating of the old times good stuff
people created last century and just over and over again
really nobody has come out after Zhou Jielun
as somebody as prominent as he is.
So it's only Zhou Jielun who beats himself and nobody
else can even like get into the competition with him.
The last piece of news is also a level of gossip.
so basically during this week, a news break out
that's regarding three young actors
Hu Xianxu, Yi Yang Qian Xi, Luo Yizhou
If you know them, you know them
they all got enrolled
in Guo Jia Hua Ju Yuan, which is a National Theatre of China,
one of the highest level theater in china.
This year, they had a couple of position open for application.
And these are Yan Yuan acting positions
because it is a national institution.
It belongs to what we call Bian Zhi in china,
which you don't have an equivalent in most of the other countries.
It's very hard for me to explain that to people what it means.
Bian Zhi is a type of institutional positions of different organizations
that have a level of not necessarily governmental,
but it's like official.
For example, if you work for a public owned hospital,
you kind of are in bian zhi, in this system.
Sort of there are positions and there's a quota for it.
How many of that levels people can exist
And only one person leaves the other person goes in.
That's not necessarily civil servants,
but you can kind of think of it as that.
It has much wider cover of professions.
For example, public owned hospital doctors.
If you work for city planning like urban planning,
you can be in Bian Zhi too.
If you work in certain like schools that could be also
so there are many different types of professions
that can enter the ba system.
And once you enter the system,
unless you make a big mistake and fxxx it up greatly.
You kind of have it safe for the rest of your life.
You just do your job day in day out, you get paid,
you get a more sort of comprehensive coverage in everything.
and you get old, you get pension.
It's the safe type of job,
because it has that institutional, official, organizational coverage.
It's not privately own company.
It doesn't just bankrupt tomorrow, basically,
this year, national theatre opens up positions for people to apply.
And all three young guys who are graduating this year
from acting academy went applying and got enrolled.
Initially when this piece of news went out,
it's the fans of those people getting really excited
Yi Yang Qian Xi
I don't need to tell you who he is, right?
He's like one of the most famous people in china of his age,
Hu Xianxu also drama watchers know he's been around for years.
He's a child actor from very young age and
pretty successful up to now
Luo Yizhou was, I think participant of the idol selection show from iqiyi before,
and they're all sort of famous already,
and they're all kind of working already since they were very young.
And they are already signed to all kinds of agencies.
They are already much richer than normal people.
We don't consider them as normal people.
We consider them as stars already.
And then they now come and take this kind of position,
which is hard for any type of people to get.
So in china, if you wanna enter the Bian Zhi system of
whatever profession you have to go through,
incredibly difficult exams,
you have to go to paper exam,
you have to go to face to face interviews,
have to go through rou nds and rounds
of checks before you can actually get a job.
And these days because economy is going down because of pandemic,
a lot of young people when they graduate from university
they can't get anything
20, 30 years ago.
A lot of people in Bian Zgu wanna get out of it and do businesses.
Because if you're in Bian Zhi, often you are restricted
in terms of whether you can do a private business,
so they leave to get money.
Now, because of the world has changed,
a lot of young people wanna get into this system.
Bian Zhi has become a resource that's highly sought after in china.
Here comes three already famous people who already
earned that much money at that young age,
you just see the hate on internet about.
They are already privileged classes and they still take
a position from things that normal people really need.
And it's not gonna give them anything extra.
the truth is the salary they're gonna get based on their position
will be nothing compared to what they earn already.
And then when they hold this position,
other people cannot enter the system anymore.
And then they wouldn't really be working at the theater day in and day out,
they probably wouldn't even show up.
And also, how many times of interviews have you gone through?
Is it fair?
Is it publicized?
There have also been people jumping out saying
they've taken the same exam as these three actors,
young stars,
and they didn't even get notified about whether
they've gone through or not gone through.
And they just heard this news on internet
saying these three have been enrolled.
So the internet started to explode.
and a lot of people start to bring it up.
The whole Zheng Shuang thing
where she earns 2 millions per day,
and they are the privileged super star class people already, yet,
they still come and take a slice of the cake
that normal people are fighting to death to get.
I don't think it's gonna really affect any of these specific three people's anything,
unless actually it gets so big that it causes a round of censoring and
investigation into the process of getting these three people into the system,
whether it's completely fair.
This type of institution also needs money.
Although most of the fundings come from government straight,
but they would want to make more money and they would understand
having these people on the position because of their fandom,
how popular they are,
how potentially they're all like hens who can lay golden eggs.
And so for those institutions to think for their own benefit,
say if I have this guy on our team and we need him,
we can call him in and do a play and sell like millions of tickets.
So that could be one reason why the the theatre itself
gets these popular young actors in,
but whether that process therefore is completely fair and competition.
If people start to investigate,
you can see that actually globally these days,
not just in china, everywhere,
anti elitism, wave going on very strongly everywhere.
And the intensity of news and all the noises at the
level is starting to make people becoming so numb.
For example, Zhou Jielun's new song previously,
say 10 years ago.
If he releases a song like this,
it's gonna be noisy for a week on internet,
at least or like half a month.
Right now.
It only was noisy for one day, next day.
A new piece of news come in
and nobody just remembers it anymore.
Next day, the three young guys thing shows up an internet explodes again.
Then the next day,
former japanese prime minister getting shot and assassinated.
You're inundated with all the information and ridiculousness
of the world.
I just try not to get myself involved in any of those.
I'm just looking at it.
You earthlings are so weird
to keep my sanity.
My suggestion to anybody who is on internet very heavy.
These days is like
try to stay away from it.
As long as it's not absolutely necessary for you to just
look at these kind of stuff, every day, all the time
leave it,
that should conclude AvenueX's video today,
sorry about getting into a little bit ranting mode. Again.
I have a bad feeling for July.
Somehow. I think more things are gonna come out.
Let's see if i'm right by the end of this month.
I hope I'm not
I hope I haven't jinxed July,
but if it happened
it happened,
take care, i'll see you in my next video.
Meanwhile live long and happy drama watching
stay away from social media.
Yeah.