A Dream of Red Mansions is a film directed by Hu Mei. The story has been involved since Jia Jia's heyday, showing classic scenes such as dreamland, princess leaving the province, Daiyu burying flowers and Baoyu being beaten, and reappearing the story of joys and sorrows of Jia Baoyu and Lin Daiyu.

In 2005, Hu Mei and the screenwriter submitted the script and revised it constantly. This process took 10 years, and the script was finally approved in 20 16 years. After that, the crew began to audition actors, all of whom were children under the age of 20. Finally, 70 or 80 actors were selected from 20,000 actors and trained for 9 months.

The crew invited the cast members of Beijing Film Academy and Shanghai Theatre Academy, as well as teachers of piano, chess, calligraphy and painting, to conduct infiltration training for the actors. All training is conducted in strict confidentiality, without any social intervention. The film was shot on 20 18, and the visual effect was completed on 20 19. On June 1 1 day, 2023, the film appeared in the "2023 Bona Film Release Conference" and released a trailer.

A Dream of Red Mansions

A Dream of Red Mansions is serious about casting and training. The crew not only invited professional teachers to teach physical training, line performance, performance in front of the camera, classical etiquette, embroidery, calligraphy, tea art and Go. Even Hu Mei, the director, personally went into battle to explain the original work, the analysis of the characters in the script, the rehearsal of the scene and so on. And make every effort to let young actors penetrate into the traditional cultural life of China from all aspects.

A Dream of Red Mansions has many original characters and great content, which is a high test for film adaptation. This time, "Dream of Red Mansions" is cut from a new perspective. On the basis of the original work, it is also the director's return to his original heart. Director Hu Mei put the famous works on the big screen, and skillfully cut into them from the perspective of a teenager in the Red Chamber, so that the classics show new vitality, which is also the inheritance and responsibility of China culture.