Today is the last solar term of the Year of the Ox in the lunar calendar , the Great Cold.
The winter festival begins with the winter and ends in the cold. It's like a solemn curtain call. In the twenty-four solar terms, the great cold carries the Spring Festival, although the cold is still the same, but the hearts of the people have been warm and melted, and the Spring Festival is about to usher in, the years have changed, and we have entered a new cycle and have new hope.
Speaking of replacement and reincarnation, it seems that they all have a spiraling upward rhythm and are full of vitality.
Today's broadcaster would like to introduce you to a film that fully interprets the greatness and tenacity of this life, directed by French director Luc Jagai, and released in 2005 as a classic documentary - "The Emperor Penguin Diaries".
The Emperor Penguin, also known as the Emperor Penguin, is the largest individual in the penguin family and the only penguin that breeds during the Antarctic winter.
Looks like a noble royalty
Emperor penguins are generally taller than 90 cm, up to 120 cm in maximum, and weigh up to 50 kg. Its most obvious feature is a patch of orange-yellow feathers under the neck, which gradually fade downwards, and the back of the ears is the deepest.
Whenever winter comes, the adult emperor penguins will travel 70 miles (equivalent to 112 kilometers) to complete the important mission of survival and reproduction, in order to reach a fixed breeding ground, and before they set off, the emperor penguins will make up to 3 months of "sticking" preparations, and when the fat is almost stored, they will set off on a rocking.
Walking day and night for a week with a "dragging step" is a long journey for all the emperor penguins.
Because they have to face not only the increasingly cold Antarctic winter, but also the new conditions of the route on the fixed route that changes due to glacier drift. Fortunately, the old penguins remembered the migration route, and led the young penguins to the destination in a mighty way, and when they were tired, they would slide forward with their belly.
This road must not be stopped. Some emperor penguins are gradually unable to keep up with the team due to lack of physical strength, and after dispersing, the vast ice field will also draw a rest for their lives.
Fortunately, more emperor penguins faced the distant road ahead, faced the bad weather, snuggled up to each other, and finally survived the difficulties together and successfully arrived at the destination.
It is located in the coldest part of Antarctica, so it can be kept away from most predators, allowing more emperor penguin babies to be born in a safe environment.
Emperor penguins only choose one mate per migration, and when they reach the breeding ground, they first choose a partner to raise the next generation with their spouse.
As winter deepened, after weeks of darkness, when the South Pole was once again dawning, the child of the emperor penguin, the penguin egg, was born.
The mother penguin who gave birth to the penguin egg has lost a third of her weight at this time, and they reluctantly give the task of hatching the egg to the penguin father, and then immediately return to the beach to replenish energy. This 100-kilometer trek is for their own survival and to bring back plenty of food for baby penguins. At the same time, the house goose, the penguin dads, began to incubate eggs at home.
Penguin dads have a special parenting structure, and under their legs and abdomen, there is a purple skin nursery bag full of blood vessels, which allows eggs to maintain a incubation temperature of 36 °C in a low temperature of -40 °C.
After 120 days of not eating or drinking, the emperor penguin fathers ushered in the penguin babies out of the shell, at this time, the father and the child are the same, hungry, just waiting for the emperor penguin mother to come home quickly. This wait, every minute and every second is long, even if the penguin father may leave a part of the food stored in the throat tube to the penguin baby, there are still some emperor penguin pups may not be able to withstand the cold weather and hunger attack, and have not had time to see the mother, and then stop their heartbeat forever.
When the female penguins return to the breeding ground, they will excitedly call out to their other half, and for a time, the family of three can finally get together, but the reunion time is short-lived, and the penguin father must return to the beach to forage.
Parents take turns to take care of the little penguins, the little penguins slowly grow up, during this period of danger, for the penguin mother, need to struggle to find food in the sea, and successfully return to the penguin father's side, and the penguin father needs to not eat or drink for up to 120 days to incubate the baby penguin, and patiently wait for the mother penguin to trek 200 kilometers back and forth....... Therefore, the 4-month breeding period is full of variables and challenges.
Baby penguins that are growing up gradually, like large plush toys Baby penguins that are gradually growing up are like large plush toys
Then, the emperor penguin cubs will walk into the antarctic summer accompanied by their parents, and then, the parents who have completed the responsibility of nurturing will abandon the children and return to the sea, the emperor penguin babies who are still in adolescence can only gather together to warm each other, when the sun melts the ice under their feet one day, they dive into the sea under the guidance of nature, completing the next 4 years of time flow, new reincarnation...
The story of "Emperor Penguin Diaries" is very simple, and can even be summed up in one sentence: telling the story of the migration and reproduction of emperor penguins. But the film itself is tireless to watch, which is inseparable from the director's solid work style.
Directed by Luc Jagues
Director Luc Jagay began observing the living conditions of the emperor penguins in 1993, began to conceive the plot of the film in 2001, and then found investors and producers. The crew began preparations in November 2002, and in order to cater to the cycle of penguin activities, the film crew took care of everything within two months, including one year of logistics supply, all the equipment needed for polar camping, and a traditional mechanical camera that operated normally in an ultra-low temperature environment of -40 °C.
In order to restore the story of the emperor penguins as realistically as possible, the crew showed a very personal dedication. Every day, I get up at 5:30, carry 60 kilograms of weight to trek on the Antarctic wilderness, set up cameras in the face of the 150 km/h wind, do not care about frostbite and frostbite, and even swim with penguins in the bone-chilling cold waters of Antarctica...
It is said that antarctica rarely sees people, and penguins do not quite understand what kind of human species they are.
So basically not so scared, but love to watch the hilarity.
In the end, under the efforts of the entire team for 13 months, the "Emperor Penguin Diaries" crew received 120 hours of Emperor Penguin life record mastering and the 78th Academy Awards Best Documentary Feature Film Little Golden Man.
I believe that many friends will be inspired by the optimistic and forward penguins after watching this film, they will follow the path of life inherited for thousands of years, rushing to the ice fields and mountains and seas, on top of the snow, like a dancing black totem, conveying the rhythm and agility of life!
Whether it is the flow of time or the cycle of life, the road ahead may not be easy to walk, but across the boundless plains, across the silent ocean, life always has a date, a love engagement.