"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.
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, 2022 (Chinese New Year's Eve).
"The Taste of the Year" poster
"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", presenting 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.
The film crew set their sights on the global scale, using the co-production mode at home and abroad, through telling the vivid and vivid New Year stories of 30 ordinary Chinese families, deeply interpreting the meaning of different levels of "New Year's Taste", tracing back to the source to show the New Year culture, and through interviews with well-known Chinese and foreign experts, the international perspective led the audience to interpret the taste of the Year, showing the pursuit and yearning of Chinese for a better life.
Stills from "The Taste of the Year"
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