The Research Of Cowherd Legend Film And Television Adaptations

Cowherd legend as one of China’s four legends, it has been adapted several times.Every period has its legends about Vega narrative, it is not only a beautiful legend, butalso implies the inherent needs of people, as well as changes in social discourse.Different adatped versions have different charcaters and narrative structure. We canthrough different narrative to dig behind the cultural connotations. I make Mr.ZhongJingwen who summarize Cowboy type as the prototype of the Cowherd and Weaver.What’s more, I will analyse Cowherd type and series of TV and movies drama toexamine what kind of change the legend in the contemporary society, and I willdivided them into different types: the political symbol of Cowherd and Weaverlegend,the wealth of Cowherd and Weaver legend, regression of Cowherd and Weaverlegend’s traditional female image. I think that Huangmei movie Cowherd and Weavergirl draws support from extremely ruthless rival, the great rebellious protagonist andthe great love and selfless adies to politicize packaging. Moreover, it is a cloak of love,and express the ruling class of feudal society brutalizing the toiling masses, which is adistinctive mainstream ideology; The Hong Kong version Cowherd and Weaver girltries to indicate the pursuit of wealth of contemportary through the mode of thewealthy love mode, and preached that people should pursue normalization of desirein the era of mass consumption culture; The mainland version of the TV series TheCowherd and Weaver girl centers around love, and under the control of themale-centered ideology,it shows that the image of the Weaver turned to the traditionalimage of women (wife and mother), this is a return to the traditional image of women.Through the above analysis and research, I think Cowherd and Weaver girllegend have some changes: First, I consider that the movies and television adapts thecharacters mode, movies and television retains the key roles, what’s more, it’saccording to the key roles to replace the characters, and rewrite the relationship ofcharacters and the role of personality; Second, the movies and television rewrites thestructure of the legend, that is to say, movies and television bases on the discretestructure to insert different styles of plot. These elements jointly write different typeof Cowherd and Weaver legend. Besides, I think that the reasons are as follows: thechanges of the media narrative morphology and the changes of the social discourse.