Recently, "Ten Thousand Miles To Ride Alone", which was exclusively titled by the alcoholic liquor, was broadcast on the platform, although it has only broadcast a short period of 4 issues now, but since its announcement, it has received reports and praise from many mainstream media such as People's Daily and Guangming Daily.
The reason why this variety show has attracted so much attention from the official media is because it is the first documentary program in China to protect the world heritage, which has a profound impact on spreading Chinese culture and letting more young people understand the national essence of the nation.
But even so, some netizens, after watching the show, questioned China's active application for heritage: they believe that we only need to protect our own culture, there is no need to apply to the United Nations.
I can only say that this part of the netizens have such a thought, which is really a big mistake!
First of all, not any national culture can become a World Heritage Site, it must have had an important positive role in a certain historical period of the world, and it is an irreplaceable wealth recognized by the World Heritage Committee.
Secondly, for each nation, when the ancient ruins or culture of their own country become world heritage sites, they are actually telling future generations which cultures our nation has, and telling the world what kind of country our nation is!
If you still don't understand at this point, then give you an example of the "Invasion of China by the Eight-Power Alliance."
On August 3, 1900, the Eight-Nation Alliance led by Britain and France fought from Tianjin to Beijing, and on this day our imperial garden "Yuanmingyuan" was frantically plundered, and a large number of national cultural treasures were looted.
If the Old Summer Palace had been inscribed as a World Heritage Site, there would have been no such catastrophe.
This is because UNESCO issued two conventions, in 1954 and 1972, which stipulate that all signatories to the World Heritage Convention undertake not to take any intentional measures that could damage the cultural and natural heritage in the territory of other signatory countries.
In the past two years, the situation in the Middle East has been turbulent, but because the United States and Iran are signatories, even if there is a war, the United States must not target the ancient ruins of Iranian culture.
Therefore, for each country, it is necessary to actively apply for heritage, at present, there are more than 1100 World Heritage Sites in the world, and China has become 56 from the previous 55 to the successful application of Quanzhou in July 2021, becoming the world's first country.
However, for the protection of our national cultural treasures, the successful application for heritage is only the first step, and how to protect our world heritage is the top priority!
To use an inappropriate analogy, marriage must have a marriage certificate as a legal protection, and the good management of the husband and wife is the guarantee of the longevity of the marriage.
The same is true of China's world heritage, we have legal protection at the United Nations, but it is necessary for generations of Chinese to protect the world heritage for a long time.
In the show "Ten Thousand Miles of Single Riding", which is exclusively sponsored by Alcoholics Liquor, I have a deeper understanding of how to protect China's world heritage.
Does the site need to be restored?
Does guardianship involve the restoration of sites that have been destroyed or disappeared?
The first stop of the Wanli Youth League came to Luoyang, the ancient capital of the Thirteen Dynasties, where we can see a set of sharp contrasts, the same ruins, but using different methods of protecting the world heritage.
In the face of the ruins of Luoyang City in Han Wei, even if only the ruins of the broken wall remain, we still retain the ancient ruins, even if it is larger than the Forbidden City after its restoration, but we will still follow the history and let it retain its current appearance.
However, when it came to the ruins of Luoyang City in the Sui and Tang Dynasties, we adopted a 1:1 modern restoration method to once again restore the great buildings such as Yingtianmen and Mingtang Heaven in Luoyang City in front of people.
The same are ancient sites, but two different ways of protection are adopted, because preserving the site is a respect for history, and rebuilding the site is to reproduce the glory of history, so that we are proud of the ancient culture and love our hometown even more.
This is why the ruins of the Yuanmingyuan left behind after the invasion of China by the Eight-Power Alliance decided not to be rebuilt after expert discussion, because the royal gardens in Beijing have other great natural landscapes such as the Summer Palace and the Forbidden City in addition to the Yuanmingyuan.
Compared with restoring the glory of the Yuanmingyuan, the ruins of the Yuanmingyuan always remind us to "never forget the national shame and strive to be strong", which is more valuable to our Chinese descendants.
How to be known and passed on?
There are a total of 56 world cultural heritage sites in China, and it is estimated that many people like me cannot say all 56 of them, and if these heritages are known and passed on by future generations, it is a more worthy question to explore than whether the ancient ruins will be restored.
This is also the charm of the variety show "Ten Thousand Miles Single Ride".
Many people watching this variety show may feel as boring as going to school and learning history, but in fact, the Wanli Youth League measures each World Heritage Site with their feet, and through their descriptions and rich activities, whether it is ancient ruins or historical celebrities handed down, they are like a picture scroll unfolding in front of us.
In the hall of Sui Tang Luoyang City, a sand table similar to the sales office was placed, where not only the layout of the entire Sui and Tang Luoyang City could be seen, but also the realm of the unity of heaven and man was reached.
The addresses of Bai Juyi and Di Renjie can also be seen, judging their status during the Sui and Tang dynasties based on their location from the center of the imperial city.
You can even imagine who we would like to be neighbors if we came to Sui and Tang Dynasties. Niu Junfeng wants to be a neighbor with Di Renjie, while Xiao Yang and Zhou Yun prefer to be neighbors with Bai Juyi, so imagine it, is it even a sense of picture?
Girls like to eat desserts, the desserts of the Tang Dynasty period are exquisite, and the program team invited the inheritors of intangible cultural heritage candies to make exquisite Tang Dynasty desserts for everyone.
To be honest, looking at these desserts across the screen has some unbearable taste, and the petals of the peony flower are made like the real thing.
This way of experiencing the national culture first-hand will make us quickly like our own national culture and be happy to pass it on to others.
In addition, at the end of each episode, the program team will put a big move, according to the characteristics of different World Heritage sites in China, to do a "rich wine and protect the world heritage" activity of the city's world heritage.
Luoyang adopted the "costume show through time and space", Niu Junfeng, Xiao Yang and Zhang Jin put on the clothes of the Southern and Northern Dynasties and tang dynasties respectively, and then walked towards us with other model models, so for a moment it really felt like they were in that era.
Not only was I shocked by the exquisite costumes and makeup of that era, but also by the charm displayed by people in different eras.
When I arrived in Jingdezhen, the capital of porcelain, a porcelain exhibition was held at the end of the program, and I was able to see not only the exquisite ancient porcelain, but also the new ideas extended by young porcelain lovers.
They connect magnets with human emotions, using the natural laws of gravity, to create an almost natural porcelain that allows us to see the sadness of depressed people.
Xiao Yang, Shan Jixiang and other people who love wine, even sit down to taste the wine, now many people use glasses to drink, but in ancient times are used porcelain, because "wine to raise porcelain, porcelain to raise wine", only porcelain can retain the pure and perfect aroma of wine.
As the youngest World Heritage Site in China, Quanzhou has done the best thing is that it has actively applied for the heritage for 20 years and has never given up, and there are many volunteers on the road to applying for the heritage, who love their hometown and are willing to tell the stories of what has happened here with the tourists who come and go.
The first step of becoming a world heritage gem, the guardian of the world heritage, we need each of our Chinese descendants.