Entering China's "New Year Culture" Documentary "The Taste of the Year" Chinese New Year's Eve aired

The seven-episode annual cultural documentary "Taste of the Year", produced by the Documentary Department of the Chinese Global Program Center of China Central Radio and Television Corporation, will be broadcast on CCTV-4 at 10:00 a.m. on January 31 (Chinese New Year's Eve). The documentary tells the vivid and vivid New Year stories of 30 ordinary Chinese families, traces back to the roots and shows the Culture of the Year, and through interviews with well-known Experts at home and abroad, the international perspective leads the audience to interpret the taste of the Year, showing the pursuit and yearning of Chinese for a better life.

"The Taste of the Year" is divided into seven episodes: "Reunion", "Honoring the Ceremony", "Welcoming the New Year", "Nafu", "Bai Nian", "Lantern Festival" and "Root Pulse", which truly and comprehensively presents the different annual festival activities covered by the Chinese New Year from the Waxing Moon to the Lantern Festival; at the same time, it deeply traces the changes in the context of the Spring Festival, digs deep into the rich connotation of the New Year culture, shows the continuation and inheritance of each Chinese to the New Year culture, and deeply interprets the spiritual core of traditional Chinese culture.

In order to tell the true and vivid New Year story of Chinese, the film crew adopted the shooting mode of co-production at home and abroad, and invited internationally renowned documentary teams to participate in cooperation. During the more than 40-day Spring Festival, the film crew went to various places at home and abroad to truly record the stories of the Chinese in the current epidemic situation of resigning the old and welcoming the new, keeping the year of the regiment, welcoming the auspicious Nafu, respecting the heavens and the ancestors, and celebrating the New Year, reflecting the theme connotations of family reunion, reverence for heaven and earth, gratitude to ancestors, and inheritance of family style in the New Year culture. Through the emotional narration of the New Year stories of 30 ordinary Chinese families, the whole film deeply interprets the meaning of different levels of "New Year's taste", thus resonating with the audience.

It is worth mentioning that the documentary "The Taste of the Year" has distinct and prominent international communication characteristics. In order to enhance the cultural and international dissemination of the program, the film crew not only interviewed 5 well-known domestic anthropologists, historians and folklore experts to conduct in-depth analysis and interpretation of Chinese new year culture, but also invited professors from the University of Hawaii, Peking University Chair Professors in Humanities, internationally renowned sinologist An Lezhe (USA), tenured professors at the University of Bonn, chair professors at Shantou University, and internationally renowned sinologist Gu Bin (Germany), and Latvian famous sinologist Bedgau (Latvia). Luo Liusha (Russia), executive deputy director of the Department of Oriental Studies of St. Petersburg State University, Ma Yide (Russia), associate professor of the Department of Chinese and Chinese Literature of St. Petersburg State University (Russia), and so on, well-known foreign sinologists such as Suo Jiawei (Russia) of the Department of Oriental Studies of St. Petersburg State University participated in the interview and filming of the program, showing the Spring Festival to the world from a diversified international perspective, which is the business card of traditional Chinese culture, showing the infinite charm of Chinese New Year culture and the style of the times.

Gu Bin, a tenured professor at the University of Bonn in Germany, a chair professor at Shantou University and an internationally renowned sinologist, said: "In the era of the epidemic, "The Taste of the Year" can spread to the world Chinese positive and optimistic smiling faces, and the happy life behind them, is a cultural business card that introduces China to the world. An Lezhe, a professor at the University of Hawaii in the United States, a chair professor of humanities at Peking University, and an internationally renowned sinologist, said: "'The Taste of the Year' shows a Chinese philosophy, that is, the isomorphism of home, country and the world, and this kind of continuation and inheritance of family culture is worth promoting and disseminating to the world." ”

"The Taste of the Year" will be broadcast in two episodes at 10:00 a.m. on January 31 (Chinese New Year's Eve) and one episode per day from February 2 to February 6 at 18:00.

Text/Beijing Youth Daily reporter Xiao Yang

Editor/Ying Qiao