The picture shows the 23rd cave of Mogao Caves "Farming in the Rain". (Data map) Courtesy of Dunhuang Research Institute
Lanzhou, China, January 6 (Reporter Ding Si) "Farming Map in the Rain" and "Cattle Farming Map" ... Over the past few days, the 5-episode documentary "Farming Spring and Autumn - Painting Nongsang", which is being broadcast on the Internet, reproduces the ancient Chinese agricultural wisdom in the Dunhuang murals and the portrait bricks of the Wei and Jin tombs, telling the trajectory of the development and change of Nongsang in the millennium.
"Farming Spring and Autumn - Painting Talking about Nongsang" is a special program of the "Rural China" column of the Agricultural and Rural Channel of the Central Radio and Television Corporation, each episode is 50 minutes, from the surviving ancient books and fine art works, exploring the inheritance and development of Chinese agricultural civilization, while showing today's agricultural development achievements and recording the agricultural civilization of the new era. The fifth episode, "Flowers on the Wall", focuses on the farming images in ancient murals and portrait bricks.
"Flowers on the Wall" invites Wang Jinyu, a research expert on the protection of murals in China and the history of science and technology in ancient China, and a researcher at the Institute of Conservation of Dunhuang Research Institute, as a guide and appearance expert. The collection mainly focuses on the agricultural and animal husbandry production reflected in the Dunhuang murals and the ancient burial chamber murals, and the film crew planned from the winter of 2020 to shoot the wonderful pictures of ancient agricultural and animal husbandry production on the murals and the wei and Jin tomb paintings reflecting the ancient agricultural and animal husbandry production on the tiles of Dunhuang Mogao Grottoes and Dunhuang City, Aksai Kazakh Autonomous County, Jiuquan City, Jiayuguan City, Gaotai County and other museums in April and May 2021.
The picture shows the "Harvest" of cave 148 of Mogao Caves. (Data map) Courtesy of Dunhuang Research Institute
The film not only comprehensively and meticulously presents the colorful ancient agricultural and animal husbandry production activities in the colorful paintings of wei and Jin tombs at No. 6 Jiayuguan New Town, reveals the secrets of the endless Wei and Jin tombs in the vast Gobi, but also presents the magnificent scene of jiayuguan, a world cultural heritage, the Great Wall of Jiayuguan from a grand perspective.
The film also presents a colorful picture of ancient agricultural and animal husbandry production and people's production and life, and also shows the traditional agriculture and new characteristic agriculture of modern Dunhuang - vineyards, Li Guangxing, etc. There is also a vivid scene of the kazakh herdsmen and horses on the vast grassland of Aksay Kazakh Autonomous County. It comprehensively displays the precious cultural relics of Wei and Jin tomb paintings and bricks produced by farming in Hexi, Gansu Province, displayed in the Gaotai Museum, and the largest and most complete han and Tang dynasty ancient cultural sites in China- the National Key Cultural Relics Protection Unit Gaotai Camel City, the vast wei and Jin ancient tombs, and also shows the modern agricultural and rural style of Gaotai.
Lu Xiaoling, head of the reception department of the Weijin Tomb Protection Research Institute in Jiayuguan, Gansu, is one of the followers of the documentary. In her view, the agricultural production pictures depicted in the murals such as ploughing land, rake land, rake land, autumn harvest, and Yangchang, in the era when there were no photographic materials, these vivid murals provided detailed information for contemporary agricultural scientific research and artistic re-creation, like a mirror to record the development and changes of ancient Chinese agricultural technology, and there are many references and inspirations for the current agricultural and rural development. (End)