Phoenix TV's major project for the first half of 2004, the large-scale outdoor live-action parent-child program "Where Are We Going, Dad?", was first broadcast online on the first weekend of March during prime time.
Many viewers were hooked after watching the pilot, which was a compilation of the real family life of six families the day before they set off.
The first four groups of families are still very normal. Of course, it is not considered unusual for a child to own a piano worth over one million yuan.
The daily life of the families is very normal and what they eat and use are very down-to-earth. The youngest child of the four families is in the last year of kindergarten.
Because they are all celebrities and elites who live in large independent houses and villas, their children's schooling is also very simple. Most of them are picked up and dropped off by their grandparents, and the pick-up vehicles are not exaggerated.
Of course, many of them attend aristocratic kindergartens and aristocratic private primary schools. These families don’t tell you about it, but the sharp-eyed audience discovered that the tuition fees for the children of the four groups of families are not cheap, and it is not wrong for them to have the conditions to attend such private schools.
It's different when you go to the home of a rich director who raises a good-for-nothing. What you see is luxury, both in terms of food and daily necessities. The life also shows parents taking their children to participate in various so-called high-class activities.
The hostess opened three large refrigerators and enthusiastically introduced to the filming crew the various luxurious foods they had stockpiled.
The long video was filled with comments about inhumane rich sisters, as well as a 7-year-old girl wearing luxury clothes from top brands. The child was picked up by a group of bodyguards and Yige's space capsule nanny car. The scene blinded the audience.
The child refused to eat this or that, but ended up eating too much and became a little fat girl. Anyway, this family has an aristocratic style.
The hostess also keeps saying that the monthly living expenses are more than 1 million yuan. This family is very rich and pretentious.
The camera turns to the pilot film of Xiao Zhen's home. What is a real wealthy family? Xiao Zhen's home reveals everything. Viewers left comments saying that they had been to Wujiaochang and always thought that the place with the closed iron gate was a celebrity's former residence that was not open to the public. But it turned out to be Xiao Zhen's home in Shanghai.
There is an 86-acre private manor with old villas in the core urban area of Shanghai, as well as a well-equipped sports hall and a standard indoor constant temperature swimming pool. This guy also has two plastic greenhouses.
As a result, Xiao Zhen also said that he had prepared a shed for growing vegetables for his grandfather a long time ago, and a barrage of comments such as "Grandpa with full racial talents" filled the screen.
Some people were also asking whether the precious flowers, plants and trees in the yard were dug up. The official reply was: You know what I mean, classmates, it’s all tears if I say too much!
What followed was Xiao Zhen’s exposure of the complete training volume of the world’s fastest man in the morning, and the barrage of comments appeared again: This girl has a great figure and is so good for drinking that I want to take her home... and other funny barrage comments.
When Ivanka went abroad to protect her children swimming, there were more screen-licking comments, such as "Xiao Zhen's blessing value is full" and "Zhen's wife is a devil".
The camera turns to show the entire town park, an 86-acre manor with old villas in the urban core area. This is not something that can be solved by the question of whether it is luxurious or not.
When the two children were reciting "Hundred Family Names", the two cute kids stood out on the spot and Old Zhang, who looked like an immortal master, appeared on the screen. People knew that this old housekeeper had quite a lot of knowledge.
The reporter who was following the camera randomly asked the two adorable babies questions, and they answered them fluently, making the audience want to get in front of the TV and give the adorable mixed-race babies a kiss.
When the mother led her children in practicing reciting English poetry in a London accent, the guys behind the screen felt like they were reading a fake English course. The highlights were excerpts from "The Poems of Rowland" and there was a note that it was a must-read for the advanced English writing course.
It feels very high-end. When we were filming Xiao Zhen's study in Zhenyuan and the four-story library, there was a pair of Yuan blue and white porcelain at the entrance, which was noticed by the sharp-eyed audience. This is what it means to be pretentious in ordinary ways.
There are also ancient books in a huge temperature-controlled safe, each with densely packed reading notes at the back. I asked Xiao Zhen if he had finished reading them all. Xiao Zhen said he had read them all intensively. No wonder he is the youngest academician of the Chinese Academy of Engineering.
In the middle of the living room is an ancient painting, behind which there are visitors explaining the authentic Tang Yin work, and the translucent antique shelf is also recognized as a piece of imperial green jadeite carving.
The following is a simple breakfast of soy milk and fried dough sticks, and then Xiao Zhen's daily life. He drove to the China Airlines office for a meeting. These are inconvenient to show, while Ivanka drove an electric children's car with her children at home. The two little guys also played drifting.
We went to the miniature horse farm to practice riding ponies, and the children were all very generous and well-behaved.
Dinner was Sichuan cuisine prepared by Xiao Zhen himself. The director of the subsequent behind-the-scenes footage said that Xiao Zhen’s cooking skills were good enough to open a private restaurant. His cooking skills were really good.
When it was time to eat, I saw that the two babies were very well-behaved and had good upbringing. They didn't smack their lips or talk while eating. They only told their parents what dish they wanted if they couldn't pick it up after standing up.
After dinner, the two children each took a stool to the sink to wash the dishes. One washed and the other cleaned them. After wiping them clean, they put them in the disinfection cabinet, and then each took out a small notebook for their mother to stamp.
The filming team asked what the stamp was for. Xiao Zhen said that his family had been doing this since they were young. The children would get cash rewards for washing their eyes and cleaning. They would get 10 yuan each for washing dishes, and they would save it for themselves...
In the first episode, the two little guys walked three dirt roads. They looked exhausted, but they still cheered their father on along the way, asking him to be brave, which blinded the audience.
The first time they chose a house, the two children's romantic genes flared up, and they ended up choosing a house on top of a pigsty. They thought the two children would make a fuss, but they turned out to be very quiet.
The director is also bad at suddenly inserting his family's large manor in the urban core area and the pigpen duplex in front of him, which forms a sharp contrast.
Overall, the most popular part is the segments where the Xiao family trio of father and son show off their excellent life skills everywhere.
It was eye-catching to see two cute kids carrying small bags and exchanging items with snacks and passing cigarettes. These two guys are really good at it.
In the voice-over recorded later, Xiao Zhencai said that the two boys learned this move from following their grandfather to chat with the neighbors in their hometown at Chalukou, Banan.
Then in the last episode of March, on one side, four families were just sitting at home watching the drizzle, and on the other side, Xiao Zhen took the game Black Hole father and daughter to the mountains to pick mushrooms.
As a result, Xiao Zhen and Game Black Hole each shared 400 yuan in front of the program crew. In 2004, 400 yuan could be used as a month's living expenses if you were frugal. The author was in the class of 2001 in college, and some classmates in the class at that time had only 300 yuan of living expenses per month.
At the same time, the down-to-earth life of Xiao Zhensan and his son in the show and the nouveau riche life of the good-for-nothing director formed a strong contrasting group.
The useless director and his family became negative examples, while the equally wealthy and inhumane Xiao Zhen family was loved by the audience.
Because Xiao Zhen has an Olympic mission in August this year, the next step is for Ivanka to take her two children to challenge the Shaanxi cave dwellings and Xilingel grasslands.
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