Tell the New Year story of 30 Chinese families "The Taste of the New Year" to take you into China's "New Year Culture"

China Youth Daily Client News (China Youth Daily, China Youth Network reporter Wu Xiaodong) The seven-episode annual cultural documentary "Taste of the Year", produced by the Documentary Department of the Chinese Global Program Center of China Central Radio and Television Corporation, will be broadcast on CCTV-4 at 10:00 a.m. on January 31 (Chinese New Year's Eve). The documentary tells the vivid and vivid New Year stories of 30 ordinary Chinese families, traces back to the roots to show the New Year culture, and through interviews with well-known Experts at home and abroad, leads the audience to interpret the taste of the Year from an international perspective, showing the pursuit and yearning of Chinese for a better life.

"The Taste of the Year" is divided into seven episodes: "Reunion", "Honoring the Ceremony", "Welcoming the New Year", "Nafu", "Bai Nian", "Lantern Festival" and "Root Pulse", which truly and comprehensively presents the different annual festival activities covered by the Chinese New Year from the Waxing Moon to the Lantern Festival; at the same time, it deeply traces the changes in the context of the Spring Festival, digs deep into the rich connotation of the New Year culture, shows the continuation and inheritance of each Chinese to the New Year culture, and deeply interprets the spiritual core of traditional Chinese culture.

In order to tell the true and vivid New Year story of Chinese, the film crew set their sights on a global scale, adopted the shooting mode of co-production at home and abroad, and invited internationally renowned documentary teams to participate in cooperation. During the more than 40-day Spring Festival, the film crew went to various places at home and abroad to truly record the stories of the Chinese in the current epidemic situation of resigning the old and welcoming the new, keeping the year of the regiment, welcoming the auspicious Nafu, respecting the heavens and the ancestors, and celebrating the New Year, reflecting the theme connotations of family reunion, reverence for heaven and earth, gratitude to ancestors, and inheritance of family style in the New Year culture. Through the emotional narration of the New Year stories of 30 ordinary Chinese families, the whole film deeply interprets the meaning of different levels of "New Year's Taste".

In order to enhance the cultural and international dissemination of the program, the film crew not only interviewed 5 well-known domestic anthropologists, historians and folklore experts to conduct in-depth analysis and interpretation of Chinese new year culture, but also invited professors from the University of Hawaii, Peking University Chair Professors in Humanities, internationally renowned sinologist An Lezhe (USA), tenured professors at the University of Bonn, chair professors at Shantou University, and internationally renowned sinologist Gu Bin (Germany), and Latvian famous sinologist Bedgau (Latvia). Luo Liusha (Russia), executive deputy director of the Department of Oriental Studies of St. Petersburg State University, Ma Yide (Russia), associate professor of the Department of Secondary Chinese Literature of St. Petersburg State University (Russia), and so on, well-known foreign sinologists such as Professor of the Department of Oriental Studies of St. Petersburg State University (Russia) participated in the interview and filming of the program, showing the infinite charm and style of Chinese New Year culture to the world from a diversified international perspective.

"In the era of the epidemic, 'Taste of the Year' can spread to the world Chinese positive and optimistic smiling faces, and the happy life behind them, is a cultural business card that introduces China to the world." Gu Bin, a tenured professor at the University of Bonn in Germany, a chair professor at Shantou University and an internationally renowned sinologist, said.

In the view of An Lezhe, a professor at the University of Hawaii in the United States, a chair professor of humanities at Peking University, and an internationally renowned sinologist, "The Taste of the Year" shows a Kind of Chinese philosophy, "that is, the isomorphism of home, country and world, and this continuation and inheritance of family culture is worth promoting and disseminating to the world."

Source: China Youth Daily client