Red Network Moment News April 20 (Correspondent Wang Ping) Guided by the Information Office of the Hunan Provincial People's Government, Mango TV's self-made documentary documentary on the Silk Road culture and archaeology-related cultural workers "People Dealing with the Silk Road" premiered today, this film has a total of 10 episodes, with the spirit of perseverance and struggle linked on the Silk Road as the core, recording the little-known struggle stories of archaeologists, guardians, inheritors, researchers and communicators related to the Silk Road. Reflect their moving spirit of contributing to the inheritance and innovation of Chinese culture. Today's broadcast is the first episode of "Field Archaeologists" (part 1 and part 2), which mainly tells the story of Idilis, Guo Wu, Han Jianhua, Hu Xingjun, Yu Tengfei, Ma Qiang and others who have worked silently and adhered to their posts for China's archaeological cause, showing the wonderful life of front-line workers and helping young people to understand archaeological work and archaeology more comprehensively.
Idilisi, honorary director of the Xinjiang Institute of Cultural Relics and Archaeology
When it comes to Idiles, everyone will think of the ancient beauty "Little River Princess" unearthed from the "Little River Cemetery", because her face is very beautiful, and once excavated, it alarmed the archaeological community, and the Little River Cemetery was also included in the "Hundred Years of Archaeological Discoveries". As the leader of the "Xiaohe Cemetery" and the key figure of the excavation, Idiles has been engaged in the archaeology of cultural relics in Xinjiang for nearly 50 years, and has been sticking to the desert with difficult conditions, not willing to investigate, take pictures and draw pictures day and night, and accumulate certain work and life experience. In an extremely cold sandstorm, Idiles keenly explored the way ahead, and after much hardship, finally led everyone back to the camp, and was affectionately called "the old fox of the desert" by the pack workers.
Because he had been working in the desert for more than two months and had no contact with the outside world, Idiris could not see his father for the last time. Returning to the camp to learn that his father had died, he was very sad, found a piece of white gauze to tie around his waist to give his father filial piety, and then went to the desert to cry loudly. His father has always been very supportive of his archaeological work, for which he feels guilty, but he does not regret it, he loves the cause of archaeology, with firm faith, tenacious perseverance, silent cultivation and dedication to the cause of Chinese archaeology, dedicated his life.
Guo Wu, a researcher at the Institute of Archaeology, Chinese Academy of Social Sciences
During his studies at peking university's School of Archaeology, Guo Wu was attracted by the archaeology course in the Western Regions and fell in love with Xinjiang, the hub of the Silk Road. After graduation, he came to the Institute of Archaeology of the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences, took the initiative to apply to the leader to join the Xinjiang team, and since then plunged headlong into the vast sea of Silk Road history and archaeology. Since 2018, Guo Wu has been responsible for the archaeological excavation of the beiting ancient city site in Jimsar County, Xinjiang, leading the team to excavate an area of more than 7,000 square meters. This year is the fourth Mid-Autumn Festival he spent at the excavation site, and the ancient city of Beiting has long since become the deceased.
The life of the archaeological excavation is lonely, during the Mid-Autumn Festival, there are only Guo Wu and a few workers on the site, and when he rests in the evening, he excitedly mentions his son who has just gone to kindergarten, and his heart is full of worries and worries. This concern reminded him of the ancient soldiers, who left their families to defend their motherland, and their enthusiasm for archaeology was the same. He loves the old city of Beiting, just like he loves his relatives, and it is not enough to work here until retirement.
Han Jianhua, associate researcher at the Institute of Archaeology, Chinese Academy of Social Sciences
In 2018, the "hot water tomb group" in Dulan, Qinghai was stolen, and the public security organs cracked the case and recovered 646 cultural relics, causing a great social shock. Subsequently, Han Jianhua served as the leader of the "2018 Blood Wei No. 1 Tomb" project to carry out rescue excavations of the tomb, which was later selected as one of the "Top Ten New Archaeological Discoveries in China in 2020". He has been in this alpine oxygen-deficient and harsh archaeological base for more than 3 years, and has completed the last few tasks before leaving, and now he is leaving, and his heart is full of mixed feelings.
Han Jianhua came to this plateau from an altitude of more than 100 meters, facing a harsh living environment and strong altitude sickness, and his headache was too much to sleep. But he was attracted by the "mystery of the cemetery", and he wanted more posterity to understand the history and culture of this land. When he handed the key to the local bureau chief of culture and tourism, Dorje Tse-dan, Han Jianhua was full of reluctance. He said that archaeological work can not be completed in one generation, but can be completed after many generations, and he must do a good job of relaying so that future generations can clearly see those civilizations that were once brilliant.
Hu Xingjun, deputy research librarian of the Xinjiang Institute of Cultural Relics and Archaeology
As a "post-80s", Hu Xingjun is considered a "young man" in the Xinjiang Institute of Cultural Relics and Archaeology, in March 2011, he and his colleagues entered the Keyak Kuduk Beacon Site for the first time to investigate and explore, began trial excavation in 2016, and officially carried out archaeological excavations on this Tang Dynasty Beacon Site in September 2019, until the end of all archaeological work on December 15, 2021, he has always regarded archaeology as a career. The problems caused by the hot weather such as dry socks and mosquito bites did not affect his love of archaeology, and he dug up shovel after shovel every day, waiting for surprises to come.
In the Tang Dynasty, there was a system of "peace and fire" in the morning and evening, and Hu Xingjun stayed in the desert for several months, using this method to report peace to his family every day. The signal in the desert no man's land was not good, and after he and the archaeologists returned to the camp every day, they ran to the nearby mound four or five meters high to find signals and contact their families. The emperor did not pay his heart, and ten years of archaeological excavations made him finally unveil the whole picture of a Tang Dynasty beacon for the first time in China, opening up a picture of the Tang Dynasty's border military and life for the world.
Yu Tengfei, a cultural relics restorer at the Xinjiang Institute of Cultural Relics and Archaeology
Yu Tengfei, who was born after the "90s", is currently participating in the protection and restoration project of paper documents excavated from the Yulikyak Kuduk site in Xinjiang, and he has just arrived at the Xinjiang Institute of Cultural Relics and Archaeology, and he has caught up with the "big life". Every day, as soon as he went to work, he put on a white coat and entered the studio, immersed in these Tang Dynasty documents that traveled through thousands of years. The process of cultural relics restoration is very complicated, after more than a dozen processes, the whole process takes about a month.
At present, Yu Tengfei and his colleagues Duan Chaowei, Tanya and others in the research group have completed the restoration of nearly 100 documents. In the process of dealing with the state of reading cultural relics, he gradually felt that the more difficult things were, the more they would cherish after receiving them, and the more they enjoyed such a process. He and his team members, like many people who have walked on the Silk Road, are determined and yearning, sticking to the jobs they love.
Ma Qiang, director of the Archaeological Research Office of the Ningxia Institute of Cultural Relics and Archaeology
As the leader of the archaeological team of the Yaoheyuan site listed in the "2017 National Archaeological Top Ten New Discoveries", Ma Qiang did things in a fiery, rigorous and serious manner, with the rough and fierce aura of the Northwest Hanzi, so that the interns of the archaeological team did not dare to talk to him, but he was particularly attentive to the archaeologists, often answering their questions on the spot, and using his unique way to open the first lesson of the field for the next generation of archaeologists.
Ma Qiang is very strict about archaeological work, is serious, never jokes with people, but when he encounters a good place where the team members do well, he will not hesitate to express praise. He is a person who is cold on the outside and hot on the inside, and he has made a group photo wall in the office, pasting the photos of the people who come every year, and when he rests, he will come to see who has come and who has left. He accepted the dreams of a group of young archaeologists, led them to explore the history and stories of the Silk Road, and let the seeds of China's archaeological cause slowly spread.
The Tao is the same, why be afraid of the mountains and the sea? Like Idilis, Guo Wu, Han Jianhua, Hu Xingjun, Yu Tengfei, Ma Qiang and others, there are many people who silently stick to their posts and silently dedicate themselves to The cause of Archaeological Excavation and Cultural Relics Protection for China, and groups of young archaeologists like them have successively entered the archaeological field to find their different lives.
The second episode of "The Man Who Dealt with the Silk Road", "Guardians" (Part 1 and Part 2), will be broadcast exclusively on Mango TV at 10:00 a.m. on April 27, telling the story of Liu Guohu, Fu Hong, He Wenxi, Sun Gang, Kyzyl workers, Timursana and other guardians who stick to the front line of the Silk Road, not afraid of hardships, persistent cultivation, and lifelong protection of China's excellent culture, so stay tuned!