Recently, the State Administration of Radio and Television selected 48 "Excellent Domestic Documentaries in the Fourth Quarter of 2021" from 159 documentaries selected and sent across the country, which involve humanities, gastronomy, medical treatment, science and technology, agriculture and other aspects.
■ New Express reporter Liang Yanfen
"Cao Xueqin and the Dream of the Red Chamber": Another blockbuster Red Chamber work after the 87th edition of "Dream of the Red Chamber"
It is reported that a total of 48 works have been selected as "Excellent Domestic Documentaries in the Fourth Quarter of 2021", including "Traveling with Tang Poems", "The Taste of Macau", "Beautiful China Says", "Cao Xueqin and the Dream of the Red Chamber", "Red Secret File", "World Heritage Walk", "Land, Our Story", "Need Needham and Ancient Chinese Technology", "The Most Beautiful China", "The Forbidden City", "I Am in Dunhuang", "Seeing the Rest of My Life", "Walking Through the Century", "Mobile China", "The Journey of the Brave", etc.
Among them, the documentary "Traveling with Tang Poetry" takes the most outstanding poets of the Tang Dynasty in China's most prosperous poetry era as the starting point, and invites the famous poet Xichuan, the writer Liu shenlei, the scholar Yang Yu and others to serve as "travelers", along the walking route of the Tang Dynasty poets, to visit the scene of the former Tang poetry, look back at the mountains and rivers of Tang poetry, feel the changes that are taking place on the land of China today, and pursue the poetic life of the Chinese. According to reports, before the shooting, the film crew did a lot of research work, interviewed 64 experts and scholars, surveyed 58 locations, and traveled throughout Shaanxi, Gansu, Sichuan, Xinjiang, Chongqing, Hunan, Henan, Shandong, Jiangsu, Zhejiang and other provinces, municipalities and autonomous regions, and visited a large number of Tang poetry sites and precious historical relics. Subsequently, it was filmed for half a month in Sichuan, Chongqing, Hunan and other places.
Another cultural documentary, "Cao Xueqin and the Dream of the Red Chamber", was created by the first-line creator of the CCTV Record Channel over a period of three and a half years, which told the fate story of the six characters of the Red Chamber, Namely Xiangling, Qingwen, Tanchun, Daiyu, Fengjie and Baoyu, and related to the experience of Cao Xueqin and her family, trying to introduce "Dream of the Red Chamber" and its author Cao Xueqin to the audience in a comprehensive and three-dimensional way. The film crew also interviewed nearly 20 front-line writers, historians, red scholars, and translators of "Dream of the Red Chamber" at home and abroad, such as Wang Meng, Hu Deping, Bai Xianyong, Min Fude, Ye Lang, Zhang Qingshan, etc., and asked them to interpret the experience and historical background of "Dream of the Red Chamber" and the Cao Xueqin family. The documentary also uses two-dimensional animation to tell the story of the Red Chamber and restore the characters of the Red Chamber, which is the first time in history that the huge work "Dream of the Red Chamber" is presented in the form of animation. In addition, the part of the film that reproduces history, Cao Xueqin, Cao Xueqin's second wife Fangqing, and Cao Xueqin's grandfather Cao Yin, are all played by professional actors. It is reported that the whole film absorbs the latest research results of red studies and Cao Xue at home and abroad in the 21st century, especially in the past decade, and is praised by experts as "another blockbuster red chamber work since the 87th edition of the TV series of CCTV".
Land, Our Story: The first oral history documentary featuring a farmer
Among the 48 excellent documentaries, "Land, Our Story" is the first oral history documentary in China that all features peasants as the protagonist. It is reported that the documentary selects 7 villages with regional characteristics nationwide, selects typical peasant families among them, and sings the great changes that have taken place in the countryside over the past hundred years from the perspective of "big times and small people" and through the vivid stories of rural family changes. In the film, through finding, observing, and gazing at the Chinese peasants who have been swept in the torrent of history, they listen carefully to their voices and pay attention to their life trajectory. They either take the initiative or blindly follow, experienced ups and downs, twists and turns, but always stubbornly struggled on the road to happiness.
In addition, the Red Road Adventure Experience Documentary "The Journey of the Brave" re-presents the significance of the Long March from an exploratory perspective, in which Zhong Hanliang, Dou Xiao, Zhang Xinyu and Yan Xujia, as explorers, together with The Discovery Channel Adventure Program host and New Zealand explorer Josie James, are on 5 great journeys in Chinese history. From the first perspective, they lead the audience to relive the history of the real scene, and have a real connection with the local environment, ordinary people, and historical witnesses, and conduct in-depth humanistic and historical exchanges. The medical documentary "Seeing the Rest of Life" uses the lens to record the social and humanistic issues such as medical progress and humanity between life and death shown in the treatment process. "Beautiful China Talk" uses the way of story to record the wild life of rare animals in the Qinling area such as golden snub-nosed monkeys and antelopes, approaching creatures with an equal perspective, and recording the ecological environment of various parts of China with real lenses. As for "World Heritage Walk", it chooses the mainland's typical and rich world cultural heritage and natural heritage as the stage for the story to unfold, and perceives and presents the scenery and humanities of Chinese heritage sites with personalized experience.
Source: New Express