How to show the most beautiful China to the world? The documentary "The Most Beautiful China: Four Seasons Like Songs" tells the story of China in the new era of prosperity, national strength and beauty from an international perspective, and presents a credible, lovely and respectable image of China to international audiences with poetic image expression and warm humanistic spirit.
Villagers walking among the Jiabang rice terraces after the rain Photo: Xinhua News Agency Yang Wenbin Photo: TAKEFOTO
How to lead the audience to leap and perceive China in a documentary? The co-production film "The Most Beautiful China: Four Seasons Like Songs" structures the entire work with the concept of "one year" time, divides the chapters with the distinct characteristics of China's "four seasons", promotes the plot with "twelve months", and completely connects more than 30 groups of story characters through China's unique "twenty-four solar terms", with four hours of order, four to no boundaries, and four seasons like songs. In the film, the audience will follow the magnificent aerial camera to see the whole territory of China, the white ice field, the turquoise forest, the golden desert, the silver salt lake, the black green tiles, the bright bonfire, the delicate canola flower sea... On the land of glitter, Chinese people are chasing their own dreams, showing China's progress and achievements in history and culture, economy and society, natural ecology, science and technology education, people's livelihood and health, and truly recording the spiritual outlook of the Chinese people in the new era.
New Qingchuan County Photo: Xinhua News Agency Tao Ming Photo: TAKEFOTO
China's unique geographical conditions have formed a natural monsoon climate, with alternating seasons, ever-changing landforms, and diverse ecology. "The Most Beautiful China: Four Seasons Like Songs" integrates the "twenty-four solar terms" created by the ancient Chinese people in accordance with the laws of nature as a clue into the whole film, and feels the spirit of all things in the wheel sequence of spring and summer, autumn harvest and winter. Combining the timely affairs and complementary story characters, the festival, a classic symbol of China's excellent traditional culture, will be told to the audience. It not only introduces the origin of the formation of the solar terms, but also leads the audience to appreciate the local cultural customs, through the daily life and traditional culture of the Chinese people, further understand the history of China, and feel the wisdom of the unity of Nature and Man in China and the harmonious coexistence with nature.
Sichuan-Tibet Line Photo: Xinhua News Agency Jiang Hongjing Courtesy of: TAKEFOTO
The Chinese nation, which is coherent in six contracts and in Kyushu, is diverse and integrated, shining on the land of China. "The Most Beautiful China: Four Seasons Like Songs" tells the vivid story of the inheritance, innovation and mutual learning and integration of various ethnic groups in culture, leading the audience to understand the historical traditions and customs and culture of the Han, Daur, Hani, Tibetan, Evenk, Yi, Brown and Dong ethnic groups one by one, showing the unparalleled inclusiveness and absorption of Chinese civilization. Through tradition and modernity, folklore and popularity, inheritance and innovation, collision and exchange, the film looks at society, reflects reality, and shows the real, three-dimensional and comprehensive China. Inner Mongolia's Ice and Snow Naadam, Jilin's Chagan Lake Winter Fishing, Jiangsu Nanjing's Lantern Festival Lanterns, Sichuan Wolong Nature Reserve's Giant Panda Conservation Work, Tibet's Modern Characteristic Homestay, Zhejiang Hangzhou's Longjing Tea, Guizhou's FAST Telescope, Macao's Cultural and Artistic Performances Blending East and West, Asia's Highest Bridge in the Grand Canyon of the Trough River, Solar Thermal Power Station on the Gobi Desert, Thrilling Extreme Sports Wingsuit Flight, Asia-Europe Railway on the Ancient Silk Road... "The Most Beautiful China: The Four Seasons Are Like Songs" Combine understanding China's national conditions with perceiving Chinese values, and communicate with China in the new era through the screen.
Beneath the sky is the real China, and above the earth are living Chinese people. Each story of "The Most Beautiful China: Four Seasons Like Songs" has a "narrator" who faces the camera, who comes from all walks of life, including workers, farmers, herders, fishermen, scientists, engineers, doctors, non-hereditary inheritors, artists, painters, dancers, athletes, young entrepreneurs... Tell the audience the wonderful story of chasing dreams and walking toward beauty, the beekeepers stationed in the flower fields chasing the fragrance of flowers is happiness, the tuan bonfire lit by Yi villagers at the torch festival is happiness, the migratory birds guarded by volunteers in the Yangtze River wetland are happiness, the natural wonders outlined by the painter next to the rime in northeast China are happiness, the dragon boats in the Wuyang River are happy, the farmers in the Hani Terraces sowing barefoot seeds are happiness... "The Most Beautiful China: Four Seasons Like Songs" has magnificent Chinese scenery, and there are more sincere and hardworking Chinese people. Live in harmony with nature, create miracles in the struggle, write history and embrace the future.
On the occasion of the Spring Festival of the Year of the Tiger, "The Most Beautiful China: Four Seasons Like Songs", jointly produced by Wuzhou Communication Center, Youku Video, Backlit Image Film and Television Production Company and Meridian Film and Television Production Company, was broadcast through the BBC EarthAsia and will be launched in China through the Youku video platform.