Ning Zhaoyu's early work photos. Ning Zhaoyu provided
Urumqi, January 27 (Xinhua) -- On January 27, this reporter learned from the studio of Ning Zhaoyu, a female documentary director from Xinjiang, in Beijing that the large-scale documentary "The Story of Chinese Paper- Chinese Papermaking on the Silk Road" directed by her was permanently collected by the National Library of China and the Museum of Chinese Nationalities. At the same time, the film was also rated as an excellent Chinese ethnographic documentary and selected as one of the top ten highlights of China's paper industry in 2021.
Talking about the original creation concept of the film, Ning Zhaoyu said with emotion that the film is to tell the world clearly about the past and present lives of the invention of papermaking, and to use real images to show the great contributions made by Chinese papermaking to the progress of world civilization.
Papermaking is one of the four major inventions in China, paper is the accumulation of long-term experience and wisdom of the working people in ancient China, and it is also an outstanding invention in the history of human civilization.
A photo of the large-scale documentary "The Story of Chinese Paper: Chinese Papermaking on the Silk Road" during his time in Samarkand, Uzbekistan. Ning Zhaoyu provided
She introduced that this documentary should not only explain the social background, scientific principles and engineering technology content of the invention of papermaking from a professional scientific point of view, but also tell the scientific and original nature of Chinese papermaking with real imprints, character stories and vivid examples of folk natural inheritance, so as to leave a true and culturally confident image for future generations.
It is understood that the film is the first large-scale documentary in China to tell the story of the invention, dissemination and inheritance of Chinese papermaking from a cultural perspective. The film lasted three years, spanned 18 provinces and municipalities in China, five countries, and traveled tens of thousands of kilometers to shoot and produce. The film sorts out the history of the development of papermaking, and the historical contribution of the spread to the world through the overland Silk Road and the Maritime Silk Road, records the vicissitudes of China's industrial papermaking for a hundred years, taking historical materials as the scripture, expert comments as the line, and folk real and vivid character examples as the point, telling Chinese stories with an international perspective, so as to show the oriental wisdom of the Chinese nation.
For overseas shooting experience, Ning Zhaoyu introduced that in foreign countries, the film crew has seen many countries have established papermaking museums, and the papermaking invented by Cai Lun is hung on the wall as the source of the world's papermaking history, or recorded in publications, as a Chinese proud.
Ning Zhaoyu now lives in Beijing and grew up in Xinjiang. He has won the titles of the 9th "Outstanding Expert with Outstanding Contributions in Xinjiang" and the 6th "National Virtue and Art Shuangxin Television Artist", and many of his documentary works have won awards at home and abroad.
It is reported that the film premiered on CCTV on December 9, 2019, and will be rebroadcast during the Beijing Winter Olympics. (End)