Qilu Evening News reporter Liu Yuhan
The historical and cultural documentary "Sengoku University Hall no Minoru Gakugu" was broadcast on CCTV Record Channel on April 17, and for the first time depicts the 150-year history of minoru Gakugu in the language of a drama documentary. Through the stories of Thinkers such as Mencius, Chun Yujie, Zou Yan, Shen Zhi, Han Fei, Li Si, Xun Zi, Shusun Tong, etc., "The Palace of Jixia Xuegong of the Warring States University Hall" connects the grand historical framework, showing the historical contribution of Qilu culture to world civilization from a global perspective, and showing the openness and tolerance, temperament and openness of Chinese civilization. With its rigorous academic standards, scientific historical judgment and heavy cultural content, the film has been highly praised by industry experts and audiences.
Reproduce the style of the hundred families of the sons
Born in Linzi District, Zibo City, Shandong Province, Jixia Xuegong is the world's first officially organized and privately hosted special form of higher education institution. In the old Warring States period, the hundred sons and hundreds of families traveled here, traveled and shuttled, participated in the administration and discussion of politics, carried forward ideas, and competed for doctrine. Minoru Gakumiya set many world records at that time—the institution with the largest number of scholars, the most abundant scholarship, the era with the purest style of study, and the longest-lasting college. The spectacular "Hundred Schools of Thought" in the history of Chinese academic thought was centered on the Qi Guo jixia Xuegong. The rise and fall of the honor and disgrace of the Jixia Xuegong reflects the development and integration of China's pre-Qin intellectual history. Li Jiuhong, chief writer and chief producer of the documentary "Warring States University Hall of Minoru Gakuen", believes that the Minoru Gakuen Palace is a huge stage that integrates many dramatic elements and historical suspense, which is very suitable for being shown in the form of a documentary. Here you can appreciate the style of the Hundred Sons and Hundred Families of the Warring States Period and explore the source of Chinese thought and culture.
The film lasted 15 years of creative argumentation, held several symposiums, organized experts and scholars from the Department of History of Shandong University, the Institute of Advanced Study of Confucianism, and documentary creators to study and discuss the style trend, narration method, content coverage, expression method and other related topics of the film, so as to ensure the rigor of academic standards and the scientific and cultural content of historical judgment. After more than three years of preparation, filming and production, "Sengoku University Hall no Minoru Gakuen Palace" was finally presented to the audience.
The program team traced the history of the "Jixia" Ming Dynasty stone stele unearthed in 1943, captured the 150-year history of the Jixia Xuegong in the 800-year history of the Spring and Autumn Warring States, and looked back at the source of Chinese culture and thought more than 2300 years ago. The whole film takes the development stage of minoru Gakugu as the main clue, and through the five key historical inflection points of the Warring States period, a number of major monarchs and Minoru bachelors, it has become a 5-episode drama documentary. Each episode unfolds from the main perspective of a historical party, turning the symbolic historical figures into real people with flesh and blood, and recreating the Minoru Gakumiya that has disappeared into history into a real existence within reach.
While trying to restore the Minoru Gakuen Palace, the documentary also excavates and analyzes the historical secrets and stories behind it as much as possible, showing the true image of historical figures that are not known to people, and truly entering this academic highland of the same period as the Western Athenian School. The documentary cuts from the perspective of the comparison of Eastern and Western cultures, strives to achieve storytelling, stylized display, and contemporary expression, explores the source of the development of Chinese thought and culture, traces the excellent content inheritance of Modern Chinese culture, and excavates its historical significance and practical value to world civilization.
As one of the general advisers of the film, Wang Zhimin, a specially appointed senior professor of Shandong Normal University, honorary president of the Qilu Cultural Research Institute in Shandong Province, and former vice chairman of the Shandong Provincial Committee of the Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference, said that the topic of "The Palace of The Jixia Xuegong of the Warring States University Hall" is precise, qualitatively accurate, high standing and high standard. "Focusing on the major research topics that the academic community is concerned about, it has both a historical perspective and a long-term perspective, and fully explains the role and influence of the Minoru Gakumiya in the history of education, politics and world civilization." From the historical perspective of the history of the development of world civilization and the history of Chinese culture, the ideological development process from the Hundred Sons and Hundred Families to the unification of the Qin and Han Dynasties was sorted out. Through the expression of intention, the ideas of the Hundred Sons and Hundreds of Schools are visualized, and they have high academic value and artistic value. ”
Artistic expression goes straight to the heart
How to make today's audience, especially young audiences, accept it, grab the eyeballs and then reach the heart, this is the problem that Li Jiuhong and her team have to solve. Due to its age, there are now very few historical sites related to the Minoru Gakuen Palace, and there are few cultural relics and few live-action locations. At the same time, its large time span, involving many characters, covering a wide range of content, historical blank spots and details of controversy, these factors have caused the documentary theme of Minoru Gakumiya, although wonderful, but very difficult to do. Li Jiuhong's experience tells her that it is difficult to make such an "antiquity" that is now almost traceless into a film and television work that is easily accepted by the audience, and it is difficult to create it simply by writing historical papers or traditional feature films. "Sticking only to historical records, or only telling the definitive content of the historical community, the film will become an academic paper with more rigor and less readability due to the lack of story and detail."
According to the particularity of the theme, the program establishes the basic principle of creation: the historical materials have clearly recorded bridges and contents, word for word, and are fully reproduced; there is no controversial conclusion in the historical circles, and they are quoted according to the chapter; the historical materials have no clear records and there are many opinions in the historical circles, and the views and "possibilities" that are conducive to strengthening the story and viewability of the film are preferred, and the "speculative components" and "speculative reasons" of this paragraph are pointed out by expert interviews and explanatory words.
Li Jiuhong said, "Any work that reaches the audience's heart must find an effective way to tell. "The Warring States University Hall of Minoru Gakugu combines historical analysis with historical reasoning, using 3D stunts, hand-drawn animation, reproduction shooting and other technical means to narrate and discuss the fate of historical figures and the development process of minoru Gakugu, using film and television language and academic speculation, so that the audience can feel the charm of history and the changes of the years. There is love and betrayal in the story, there are grand battles and defeated confrontations, there are either crazy, or brutal, or wise rulers, there are hundreds of sons and hundreds of families who have come out of the order, and they have gathered together to form the Daoxiaguang of human civilization.
The combination of narrative shots, emotional shots, environmental empty mirrors, interview shots and other shooting methods creates a sense of historical substitution and reality, and enhances the vividness and credibility. The actors' three-dimensional performances in the documentary create attractive historical figures and highlight the drama and conflict of the whole film, which is different from ordinary documentaries and TV series. The film also uses a large number of one-third editing methods to re-stitch the picture material, and the fast and powerful lens makes the overall style of the whole film full of power and agility, restoring history but not redundant.
Tang Xiguang, director of the Academic Committee of the School of Journalism and Communication of Shandong University, said that the documentary first made up for the imbalance in the propaganda of Shandong's alignment culture and Lu culture, and re-examined and positioned the Qilu culture from a global perspective, taking historical figures as the creative structure, breaking through the traditional production paradigm, and providing a new exploration for documentary creation. The film has achieved a delicate and extreme aesthetic in terms of lens language, narration narration, and expert interpretation.
Fill the gaps in cultural communication
Through the volume of 5 episodes, the documentary recreates the role and influence of the Minoru Gakuen Palace in the history of education, politics and world civilization in a panoramic manner; from the historical perspective of the history of the development of world civilization and the history of Chinese culture, combs through the ideological development process from the hundred families of the Sons to the unification of the Qin and Han Dynasties. During the prosperous period of the Jixia Xuegong, it accommodated almost all the schools of the Hundred Sons at that time, and gathered as many as a thousand sages from all over the world, including famous scholars such as Mencius, Chun Yujie, Zou Yan, Shen Zhi, Lu Zhonglian, Xun Zi, and so on. It conveys the ideas of a hundred schools of thought, forming many idiomatic allusions and conventional traditional customs. The cultural essence of the origin of civilization, dialectical spirit, relationship between heaven and man, personality cultivation, harmony and difference, and application through the ages conveyed by it nourishes the land of Qilu endlessly, affects the personality characteristics of Chinese, and is the "spiritual palace" of Chinese. "Before the air to rob, after the dust", Liang Qichao once used these 8 words to summarize the "historical song" of the Jixia Xuegong. Niu Guangxia, director of the Film and Television Creativity and Research Center of Shandong Academy of Arts, believes that the ideas of the scholars under the Shandong Arts are the spiritual foundation of Chinese civilization, and the creation of such a documentary is very valuable and necessary to tell the story of Shandong, the story of China, and the dissemination of Qilu culture.
Ma Bing, deputy dean of the College of Letters of Shandong University, said that in the practice of promoting the "two innovations" of traditional culture, one of the cores is how to connect history and the present. "'Warring States University Hall of Jixia Xuegong' is loyal to historical facts, fully absorbs the results of academic research, shows one vivid and full character after another, vividly expresses the choices, fates, and mentalities of the characters under the times, highlights the grand event of a hundred schools of thought, presents the freedom and agitation of thought in that period, highlights the core significance of Confucianism in the whole of Qilu and Chinese civilization, and provides a window for young audiences to understand the structure and context of Chinese culture and history."
Zhang Wenbing, former director of the Documentary Center of Shandong Radio and Television Station, believes that "Warring States University Hall of Jixia Xuegong" shows the cultural self-confidence and cultural responsibility of Shandong's local media, and fills the gap of Shandong Province's historical documentary in the field of Qi culture, which is of great significance for publicizing Shandong and disseminating China's excellent traditional culture.
"Warring States University Hall of Jixia Xuegong" uses the unique form of documentary to carry forward the excellent traditional Chinese culture, achieve creative transformation and innovative development, present a magnificent picture of a hundred schools of thought, pay attention to the new exploration of story narration, the new path of discourse expression, and the new perspective of audience acceptance. As a documentary of the "National Album", "Warring States University Hall of Jixia Xuegong" fills the gap in the dissemination of history and culture with artistic images, and provides a teaching material for people to understand that period of history, feel the charm of Chinese culture, and enhance cultural self-confidence. Zhang Lei, a professor at the Qilu Cultural Research Institute of Shandong Normal University in Shandong Province, believes that the "two innovations" of China's excellent traditional culture need specific content to enrich, and in terms of transforming the historical and academic Qilu culture into a form and content that the public likes to hear, the film has made a good exploration, and is an innovation of China's excellent traditional culture and Qilu culture.