“Longing for Life” has won the love and welcome of the broad audience with its novel program form, and received 8.2 points from Douban and 8.7 points from Catseye. And with the highlight of the strong human feelings in its programs; the creation of rural life scenes; the satisfaction and happiness of coexistence of labor and food; the natural artistic conception of flowers, birds, insects and fish, birds and flowers, sunrises and sunsets, making the whole show The whole is full of the charm of poetry and the warmth of home. Cleverly interpreting people, sceneries, emotions, color, fragrance, and taste vividly, it has a certain appeal and emotional resonance and thinking. “Longing for Life” has created an ideal utopia for the audience, which meets the expectations of modern urbanites for a leisurely rural life in a fast-paced and stressful urban environment, and conveys traditional cultural values and reality in the narrative process of the program, Reflections on some phenomena in society.

Wensi Xu. Analysis of the Characteristics of “Longing for Life”. Academic Journal of Humanities & Social Sciences (2020) Vol. 3, Issue 10: 41-49. https://doi.org/10.25236/AJHSS.2020.031006.

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