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On the eve of the Spring Festival in 2005, a group of farmers in Xingyuanpu Village, Jingling Town, Xuchang County, Henan Province, with their backs on the loess, wrote, directed and performed a New Year film "Devils Entering the Village" reflecting the atrocities of the Japanese invasion of China, which opened a precedent for farmers in China to make movies. Zhao Lanqing, 55, is the director of Devils Entering the Village. Zhao Lanqing said that the reason why the film was made at the beginning was because the villagers had a good life in recent years, but there were not many ways of cultural entertainment except watching TV and listening to the radio. "In the off-season, it is not serious for a group of people to get together to drink and play cards. Making a movie can not only make everyone have fun, but also educate future generations. Why not? "

"Devils Entering the Village" tells the story of a small Japanese army occupying Xingyuanpu Village on the first day of the Lunar New Year in 1945. Because director Zhao Lanqing is an amateur, leading a group of villagers who have never acted in a movie, he only raised 1000 yuan for filming, so many jokes were made during the filming. But in order to realize their wishes, they still filmed with relish and were not discouraged. Zhao Lanqing and the villagers didn't expect that their behavior of having fun inadvertently opened a precedent for farmers to take selfies in the country. After many media reports, including this newspaper, they were even invited to CCTV's "Little Cui Shishuo" column to "talk about things" face to face with the famous mouth Cui Yongyuan.

In 2008, Lu Weiguo met Cui Yongyuan in Beijing and learned many satirical stories that happened in Zhao Lanqing's rural drama group. Seeing that "The Devil Into the Village" could not be shown in the cinema, the villagers were still in high spirits, and he immediately decided to put this true story on the screen. "No Joking" was recognized by the crew of "Devils Entering the Village" on the day of its premiere in Xuchang. "They are not the kui is a professional director, professional actors, professional equipment, shoot too well! Everyone in the village knows this film and is anxious to see it early. " Zhao Yuqing said. Many scenes in No Joke are true. The Japanese devils played by the villagers threw pepper water on the Eighth Route Army soldiers and sat on the tiger bench, all of which were real performances. In order to show how villagers who don't understand film technology make movies, several scenes in which the Eighth Route Army and villagers were tortured, Japanese soldiers and traitors were really punched and kicked. "Say hang up, really hang up. The actor said it hurts, I said it hurts, and pain can reflect the real effect. "

At the premiere of No Joking, Zhao Lianlian, a villager in Xingyuanpu village who played the devil in The Devil Into the Village, said, "This guy is worse than me, and he looks like a devil than me!" On the eve of the Spring Festival in 2009, these farmers were "targeted" by real directors-their filming was made into a movie. Because professional directors really think that although these farmers make a lot of jokes during filming, their attitude is really serious, so the name of the new film is No Joking.