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Popular online series brings to life a wuxia epic

By Xu Fan | chinadaily.com.cn | Updated: 2021-12-16 16:39

A genre securing a distinctive seat in Chinese literature landscape over decades, wuxia - or martial arts - has fascinated several generations of fans with its epic creation of building a world dominated by chivalry-spirited swordsmen. Reflecting the genre's charm even in today's digital era, Sword Snow Stride, a 38-episode martial arts series, has quickly racked up millions of clicks since it started to run on the streaming site Tencent Video on Dec 16.

genre n.

类型；体裁

secure a distinctive seat

获得一个与众不同的地位（多指地位特殊）

fascinate v.

吸引住；使着迷

epic adj.

史诗般的；宏大的

rack up

大量获得

run on the streaming site Tencent Video

在流媒体网站腾讯视频播出

The series is adapted from writer Chen Zhenghua's popular novel with the same title, which won the Silver Prize of the first Online Literature Biennial Awards in 2015. Starring actor Zhang Ruoyun in the lead role as Xu Fengnian, the son of Northern Liang King, the tale chronicles how the protagonist grows up from a dandiacal prince to a legendary martial artist and a prestigious general to defend against invaders and safeguard the country.

be adapted from

改编自

starring actor

领衔主演；男主角

in the lead role as

扮演主要角色…（as后面接角色名）

chronicle v.

按系列时间发生的时间顺序编写或播放事件发生（可理解为记录）

protagonist n.

主人公

dandiacal adj.

纨绔子弟的；打扮漂亮的；吊儿郎当的

legendary adj.

传奇的；大名鼎鼎的

prestigious adj.

有威望的；有声望的

defend against invaders

抵抗入侵者

safeguard the country

保护（守护）国家

Chief producer Yu Wanqin said during a recent event that the New Classics Media - a Beijing-based television and movie production company - purchased the novel's adaption copyright when Cao Huayi, the company's chairman, stumbled upon to read and developed a love of the tale in 2017.

adaption copyright

改编版权

The story skillfully interweaves palace schemes, complex personalities and a distinctive depiction of "jianghu" - a typical term in wuxia referring to the world outside the mundane society but obeying the principles established by martial art clans, said Yu, explaining the elements that drew her company to shoot the story.

interweave v.

使…交织 一起

palace scheme(s)

宫廷权谋

mundane society

世俗的社会；俗世

clan(s)

宗族，氏族；世家；帮派

With Song Xiaofei, known for partaking the cinematography work of Wong Kar-wai's The Grandmaster, joining to serve as the director, the series started shooting in July last year, taking around six months to finish due to occasional suspension caused by the COVID-19 epidemic, said Yu.

partake v.

参与；分担；分享

Wang Yichuan, deputy chairman of China Literature and Art Critics Association, said depicting the growing-up of a hero has been a widely-employed technique in many popular wuxia novels in the like of Guo Jing and Xiao Feng, respectively, protagonists in late martial arts novelist Louis Cha's classics The Legend of the Condor Heroes and Demi-Gods and Semi-Devils.

depict the growing-up of a hero

描绘一个英雄的成长（事迹）

in the like of

类似于

But Sword Snow Stride has its special characteristic to write an unlikely "growing-up" - the protagonist starts from a rebellious, wild young man who tries hard to escape from his father's control, but the harsh experience - after he is "exiled" from the king's luxury residence to live with grass-roots people - made him finally understand his responsibility for the country, said Wang.

rebellious adj.

叛逆的；有反抗精神的；桀骜不驯的

harsh experience

艰苦的/严酷的经验

grass-roots adj.

草根的；基层的；一般民众的