"Beijing Audio-Visual" key online literary and artistic masterpieces, and were also selected as the sixth batch of recommended plays of the "Travel with Micro Short Dramas" Creation Plan of the State Administration of Radio, Film and Television, which is the exclusive premiere of CCTV-8 and is exclusively broadcast on Tencent Video across the entire network. The unique "Nanyang Narrative" style created by the drama has created a new theme model for the content innovation of domestic short dramas.

　　The play focuses on the legendary story of a group of fans who "go to Southeast Asia" in the 1940s, and interprets the emotional relationship between iron and tenderness, the spiritual connotation of justice and indomitableness, and the struggle background in dilemma and hope. The series was "before the first" before it was broadcast, with more than 490,000 reservations on the platform. After the series was officially broadcast, Tencent Video's popularity exceeded "Handle" and set a record for the highest popularity of short dramas. In terms of TV ratings, the drama ranked first in the prime viewership of all channels and the top three in the prime time of the entire channel for six consecutive days after its launch. The average ratings are close to 1.8%, and the peak ratings exceeds 2.4%. The national average ratings share of CSM is the highest. During the May Day holiday, the number of plays and market share of the series increased day by day. On May 5, the daily plays of the series exceeded 10 million for the first time, with a cumulative plays of 43.607 million times.

　　"Shicheng Mountain and Sea" uses the Shanhai Gang, a local gang in the South China Sea Gang as the description object, and revolves around the story of Cheng Hui, the boss of the Shanhai Gang, reorganizing the gang after returning to Nanyang. It also connects with history in the plot, telling the difficult history of entrepreneurship during the special historical period of Chinese workers' "going to Nanyang". According to the consulting team of the drama, the prototype of the story of Cheng Hui leading Chinese workers to fight in the drama is the "Pigboy Riot in 1921", and the prototype of the Shanhai Gang in the drama is the real Nanyang Chinese Mutual Aid Association. Historically, workers who went to Southeast Asia to work as coolies were called "piglets". The workers were in a difficult situation in Southeast Asia, with a mortality rate of up to 30%. The "Shan Hai Gang" existed to protect their compatriots and fight against colonists.

　　In the play, the son of the gang leader Liu Zhendong (played by Yang Xuwen), appeared as a sheriff under the jurisdiction of the colony at that time, and maintained fairness and justice as the norm for life. The plot begins with the old leader Cheng Hui returning to the gang, but the core of the story revolves around the transformation of a new generation of member Liu Zhendong from a colony sheriff to a young leader of the Shanhai Gang, and reflects the survival struggle and family and country feelings of overseas Chinese through gang disputes.

　　In "Lion City Mountains and Seas", the audience can not only see the familiar original team of Changxin Media, but also perform with middle-aged actors represented by Weizi, Heizi, Yue Lina, etc., but also the addition of TVB actors Wu Qihua and Xu Shaoxiong are constantly surprising. The drama has a strong plot density and an extremely reversal plot structure, and an organic integration with the unfamiliar narrative of the South China style. The Jianghu story that values ​​love and chivalrous reflects the familiar traditional value orientation, and ultimately forms a unique "Nanyang narrative" style.

　　As the first micro-short drama with an investment of over 100 million yuan, the drama shows the turning point of the high-quality development of the micro-short drama industry under the guidance of excellent production. According to the producer of the drama, Guo Jingyu, although the drama is a 20-minute mini-shot drama per episode, it adopts the standards of production and shooting that are no less than filming. In order to restore the style of Nanyang, the drama set up a 24,000-square-meter Nanyang Street set, which replicated Singapore's Red Light Wharf one by one. The Nanyang arcade is hung with the "Chen Kah Kee Company" sign, the grocery store is filled with tiger label panacea and time-honored Bak Kut Te bags, and even the clogs worn by the extras were bought from the Penang antique store. (Beijing Daily reporter Li Xiazhi)

[Editor in charge: Tang Wei]