The Great Wall is a necessary place for the ancient Silk Road, and it also carries the common honors and dreams of different ethnic groups.
This 12-episode large-scale documentary "The Great Wall: The Story of China" restores a real Great Wall through the story of the birth, prosperity and decline of the Great Wall of China, through the meticulous combing of history and reality, the contrast and collision of Eastern and Western cultures, and the interpretation of how ancient China became what it is today.
The Great Wall, a symbol of Chinese national culture, has witnessed the development of Chinese civilization for thousands of years. A history of the city is half of the history of Chinese civilization. The Great Wall is a necessary place for the ancient Silk Road, and it also carries the common honors and dreams of different ethnic groups.
The documentary "The Great Wall: The Story of China" will depict the story of the birth, prosperity and decline of the Great Wall of China, through the meticulous combing of history and reality, and the contrast and collision of Eastern and Western cultures, and strive to restore a real Great Wall. The crew used helicopters to conduct panoramic aerial photography, and the time-lapse photography lasted for four seasons will present a different scenery of the Great Wall to the audience.
In the production, the film also uses a large number of digital painting scenes to reconstruct historical scenes spanning up to 2,000 years, using three-dimensional technology to reproduce the original appearance of the Great Wall of the past, and using the method of drama films to reinterpret the lives of the ancients. At the same time, this is also the second time that Chinese documentarians interpret the Great Wall from new perspectives, new horizons, new discoveries and new perspectives after the popularity of "Looking at the Great Wall" for twenty years.
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Episode 1 Fission
In 1000 BC, China entered its first cold period, and the nomadic peoples in the north went south to escape the cold and hunger, while the Central Plains were controlled by the Royal Family of the Zhou Dynasty, and the various places were divided into lords and kings. To guard against the minorities in the north, the lords and kings established a beacon system for messaging. With the decline of the Zhou royal family, the Spring and Autumn Warring States era came, and the split became the theme of this era. Wars between the princely states, between the princely states and the northern nomads, were fought one after another, and it was during this period that a great project began.
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Episode 2: Empire
In the 3rd century BC, Qin Shi Huang felt the threat from the steppe when he inspected the northern frontier; the Qin Empire mobilized the strength of the whole country to build the Great Wall on the northern border, and in order to permanently keep the warlike Xiongnu out of the Great Wall, countless people were forcibly taken away from their hometowns by the rulers of the empire.
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Episode 3: Out of the Jam
In the early half century of the founding of the Han Dynasty, with the Great Wall of Qin Zhaoxiang left behind in the Warring States Period, the fragile nascent dynasty gained a chance to breathe, and the pro-policy maintained a long-term peaceful relationship between the two sides. What kind of indissoluble relationship did the tunken generals and princesses who were far away from their homeland have with the Great Wall?
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Episode 4: Expedition
The construction of the Great Wall won a long-term peace for the Han Dynasty, and the prosperity of the Silk Road made the economy and culture of the Central Plains have a profound impact on the Western Regions, and the people of all ethnic groups in the Western Regions have gradually incorporated Chinese culture since then. With the Great Wall stretching westward, why is the direction of the Great Wall of Han so strikingly consistent with the Silk Road?
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Episode 5: Demarcation
The new nomadic overlord Rouran rose on the steppe, and the Northern Wei adopted the military strategy of the farming dynasty on the northern border - building the Great Wall, although the officer Duan Jin involved in the Great Wall project lost his life in the Raid of the Ruoran people, but the finally completed Great Wall guarded the wider land.
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Episode 6: Order
The Sui Dynasty unified the north and south of China, Yang Jian's son Yang Guang took the throne, and ordered the engineer Yu Wenkai to be responsible for digging the Grand Canal connecting the north and the south, and the wealth of the south continued to reach the foot of the Great Wall along the north of the river, and the National Strength and Military Strength of the Sui Dynasty were greatly enhanced, making the Turks submit.
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Episode 7: The World
At the beginning of the 7th century AD, the iron hooves of the Eastern Turks crossed the ruined Great Wall and reached the outside of Chang'an City, which was the capital of the new Tang Dynasty, and at the moment of a thousand gunshots, the Tang Emperor Li Shimin, who was both wise and courageous, went deep into the enemy position alone...
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Episode 8: Confrontation
In the middle of the 10th century AD, China was in a period of great division, the traditional Great Wall defense line fell into the hands of the Liao Dynasty established by the nomadic people, and Zhao Kuangyin, the military commander of the Zhou Dynasty, plotted to seize the ruling power, establish the Song Dynasty, and retake the Great Wall defense line is the dream of the Song people...
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Episode 9: Pioneering
Xu Da, a general who had never lost a battle in his life, suffered the only defeat in his life on the grassland north of the Great Wall, and a dynasty called the Ming Dynasty began the history of building the Great Wall for hundreds of years. The Great Wall defense line from Shanhaiguan to Jiayuguan became the lifeline for adjusting the relations between the Ming Dynasty and the Mongol ministries, strengthening defenses, and building trade relations between the two sides.
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Episode 10: Collegiality
An emperor was captured, an army of 500,000 men was defeated, and in front of a great wall fortress called Tumu Fort, the Ming Dynasty suffered its worst defeat since the founding of the dynasty. Yu Zijun kicked off the prelude to the construction of the Great Wall of the Ming Dynasty in the northwest wasteland...
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Episode 11: Back Shadow
In front of Shanhaiguan, the life-and-death struggle of more than 100,000 troops allowed a dynasty established by a fishing and hunting nation to cross the Great Wall into the Central Plains. The Kangxi Emperor held a grand alliance on the steppe, opening up a situation of great unification inside and outside the Great Wall, but the northern hunting border troubles that plagued the Central Plains Dynasty for two thousand years were not completely lifted.
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Episode 12: Bloodline
For more than 2,000 years, more than 5,000 kilometers of long borders that are easily violated have prompted the ethnic composition within the Great Wall to become more and more closely integrated. Inside and outside the Great Wall, nomadism and farming converged in constant conflict, eventually achieving a vast civilization of diversity and unity.
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