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The popular B station's "I repair cultural relics in the Forbidden City" is on the list of annual examinations, and you still can't write it

The popular B station's "I repair cultural relics in the Forbidden City" is on the list of annual examinations, and you still can't write it

"I Repair Cultural Relics in the Forbidden City" is a three-episode cultural relics restoration documentary produced by CCTV, which focuses on the restoration process of rare and rare cultural relics in the fields of calligraphy and painting, bronze, court clocks, wood, ceramics, lacquerware, treasure inlays, and palace weaving and embroidery in the Forbidden City, and the life stories of restorers. The film does not speak with a straight face, does not introduce the professional knowledge related to restoration like the instruction manual, but enters the ancient Forbidden City with a young perspective, systematically sorts out the historical source of Chinese cultural relics restoration for the first time, and reveals the world's top cultural relics resurrection technology. "I repair cultural relics in the Forbidden City" is not a documentary on historical themes, it is not so boring, but the story of the life of the Forbidden City in progress, the team's main creators are mainly post-80s and post-90s, and in terms of creativity, theme expression and clever use of audio-visual elements, it is obviously more of a sense of the times and popular elements.

First of all, in terms of creativity, in recent years, documentaries with the theme and theme of the Forbidden City have endured, and these films have won the recognition of the audience through visual packaging and accurate theme positioning. From "Forbidden City", "Taipei National Palace", "When the Forbidden City Meets the Louvre" to "I Repair Cultural Relics in the Forbidden City", the Forbidden City is to continuously convey a new image of being more international and open while inheriting the nation and history in the process of facing the future and facing the world through visual media. However, compared with the previous documentaries on the theme of the Forbidden City, "I Repair Cultural Relics in the Forbidden City" has a different path: "I Repair Cultural Relics in the Forbidden City" for the first time completely presents the world's top Chinese cultural relics restoration process and technology, shows the original state and collection status of cultural relics, shows the inner world and daily life of cultural relics restoration experts at close range for the first time, and completely sorts out the historical origin of Chinese cultural relics restoration for the first time.

More importantly, "I repair cultural relics in the Forbidden City" is to look at the restoration process of the cultural relics of the Forbidden City and the life story of the restorers from a youthful perspective, there are several inconspicuous small courtyards connected together in the office area on the west side of the Forbidden City, where a group of cultural relics restoration masters with extraordinary skills live in seclusion, engaged in the most expensive work in the world every day, before some of the world's top cultural relics meet the audience, they have to go through their cleaning and restoration, and others can only look at the unique treasures that cannot be played from a distance, and are rubbed by their hands day after day. It is also their hard work that makes the precious cultural relics can be displayed to us in the most perfect posture. In addition, in terms of visual and theme, it is no longer like the previous films on the theme of the Forbidden City, abandoning the magnificent production, nor trying to show the glory and magnificence of the Forbidden City, and the lens is aimed at the cultural relics workers, showing the Environment of the Forbidden City from a young perspective, seeking interaction and communication with the audience, and striving to express humanistic feelings through the records of these shots and resonate with the audience.

Secondly, in terms of theme expression, the place where "I Repair Cultural Relics in the Forbidden City" really fascinates and moves the audience is that it has created such a group of cultural relics workers who have mastered technology and are silently dedicated and indifferent to fame and fortune, accompanying the most valuable cultural relics every day, but their hearts are as calm as water, repeating the work in their hands year after year. The film very accurately presents these hard-working laborers behind the national treasure cultural relics, and uses poetic lens language to show their ordinary life to the audience, conveying rich humanistic feelings to the audience, so that the audience can deeply feel the inner emotions expressed by the documentary to people. Director Xiao Han also said that compared with the attention to the cultural relics of the Forbidden City itself, the perspective of the people who repair the cultural relics is more vivid, and it is also the characters inside who can arouse a strong reaction from the audience, who are particularly loved by everyone. Restorers seem to be repairing cultural relics, but in fact they are repairing the impetuous psychology of people in contemporary society, they do a good job day after day, year after year, doing a good job in a down-to-earth manner, and their spirit is very lacking in modern society and is worthy of admiration.

Finally, the documentary "I Repair Cultural Relics in the Forbidden City" makes the original bland narrative rich and colorful through the clever use of audio-visual elements, and uses rich audio-visual elements to make people feel the mystery of the ancient tranquility of the cultural relics of the Forbidden City, but also let people feel the hard work of the cultural relics workers behind the cultural relics, and the poetic lens language shows the ordinary life in the Forbidden City to the audience. "I Repair Cultural Relics in the Forbidden City" uses more panoramic shots, close-up shots and a large number of empty shots, which not only intuitively show the environment of the Forbidden City, but also give people a strong visual feeling and artistic appeal. In fact, the most characteristic is the display of many empty shots, many empty shots convey a kind of quiet environment characteristics inherent in the Forbidden City, and also express the theme of the Forbidden City. Often empty shots show the natural environment, cultural landscape and working environment of cultural relics workers in the Forbidden City in the film. The magnificent palace, the thousand-year-old trees, and the mottled walls of the deep palace seem to tell the past of this palace full of stories, and the use of such pictures does not actually have a sense of abruptness, nor does it disrupt the narrative rhythm, such a picture intervenes on the one hand as an excessive transformation of time and space, and on the other hand, it also plays the main means of adjusting the narrative rhythm.

Every cultural relic has crossed thousands of years of time and space to talk to us, and it is the experience brought to us by these silent cultural relics restorers. "I repair cultural relics in the Forbidden City" shows the work scene of these cultural relics restoration workers, let us look at the restoration process of the cultural relics of the Forbidden City and the life of the restorers from a young perspective, and make full efforts in creativity, and the theme expression is also more abundant, and the use of audiovisual elements is more ingenious, so that we can immerse ourselves in their lives and the process of the restoration work of the Forbidden City, let us understand that these restoration masters of the Forbidden City, with their own hands in creating this value, while restoring cultural relics, It is also repairing our minds now.

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