There are many documentaries about the Silk Road, most of which focus on telling historical stories or those celebrities who have left a lot of ink on the Silk Road. "The Man Who Dealt with the Silk Road" is a new attempt to set its sights on the most ordinary cultural workers of the moment, using what they have seen and done to make history reach the hearts of the people.
Recently, Mango TV held an online viewing meeting for the documentary "People Dealing with the Silk Road". The documentary is divided into five major themes, such as "guardianship, field archaeology, research, inheritance, and dissemination", and each theme excavates 5 to 6 front-line cultural workers to tell their little-known stories.
The first chapter, "Field Archaeologists", tells the story of Idilis, Guo Wu, Han Jianhua, Hu Xingjun, Yu Tengfei, Ma Qiang and others who quietly worked hard and stuck to their posts for the cause of archaeology.
The nearly 70-year-old Idilis is the former director of the Xinjiang Institute of Cultural Relics and Archaeology and the leader of the excavation team of the Xiaohe Cemetery in Lop Nur. Over the past 20 years, he has participated in more than 30 archaeological excavations and surveys in Xinjiang and at home and abroad, and is an archaeological "living fossil" in the Loulan area of the "Throat of the Silk Road". In 1979, Idilis, together with the Film Crew of the Silk Road and Pengam and other expedition experts, entered Lop Nur for the first time; in 2002, he returned to the Xiaohe Cemetery in the Robe Desert and excavated the thousand-year-old female corpse "Little River Princess". Today, Idiris is still surrounded by a group of young archaeologists who insist on going to the desert every year to explore the unsolved mysteries hidden under the yellow sand.
Everyone on the Silk Road is flesh and blood, fresh and three-dimensional, and they have a special and close connection with the Silk Road, not only growing up here, living here, but also writing the future on the Silk Road. One audience member commented: "Field archaeologists have managed to choose one thing and grow old, which is the best interpretation of their whole life, and it is really cool to do a job with surprises all the time." ”
"The Man Who Dealt with the Silk Road" will begin airing on April 20 and will be broadcast exclusively every Wednesday at 10 a.m. on Mango TV.
Source: China Youth Daily client