Summer vacation is coming, Xiaobian will sort out 10 high-scoring documentaries for you, without having to travel long distances, so that your child's vision reaches the most beautiful corner of the world. See the most beautiful "China" in light and shadow.
01: Chinese Choir
Keywords: Guoman Suitable: 3 years old +
Episodes: 5 Episode Length: 5-15 minutes
Is poetry used for memorization? No, real poetry can be sung. Let the child learn to memorize ancient poems, it is better to let him read ancient poems first.
How to make ancient poetry beautiful and easy to understand? The answer is: see with your child's eyes.
"China Choir" is an original public welfare animation, with six short animations, including "Yuan Day", "Acacia (Part 1)", "Wandering Ziyin", "Drinking on the Lake After the First Sunny Day", "Night Thoughts" and "Wing Mei". With the ancient poem as the background, in a few minutes, turn a boring ancient poem into the story of a talented and beautiful person, and sing the story into a beautiful song.
Poetic beauty, scenery beauty, love beauty, each short story revolves around a poem, and the artistic conception of the painting is used to express the beauty of the poem. The delicate Chinese ink painting style, the perfect combination of poetry, painting and animation, and taking a frame at will are all beautiful wallpapers.
Some people say that the first time you hear such a beautiful ancient poem, you are glad to live in the country with poetry. Subverting children's cognition of rote memorization of ancient poems, a poem, a story, this is the real poetry.
02: "The Word" From Meeting You
Keywords: Kanji Suitable: 4 years old +
Episodes: 25 Episode Length: 5 minutes
Want to travel through time? Take the text and you can get a glimpse of it.
From the carved symbols on the original pottery, to the oracle bones of the Yin Shang period, to the current simplified Chinese characters... Do you understand the history of Chinese characters? Why is the vitality of Chinese characters so tenacious? The episode "Characters" from Meeting You focuses on one word and tells the story behind Chinese characters.
For example, the introduction of the word "Zhong" tells the historical background behind the text in vivid language. The word "Zhong" first appeared in the oracle bones, like a flag waving in the wind.
When a major event occurs, people will plant the banner of "Zhong" in the wilderness, and people will concentrate and move closer to it, so "Zhong" has the meaning of the central government.
Later, "zhong" could not only express the orientation, but also became a symbol of power, symbolizing the center of authority.
The combination of the words "Zhong" and "Guo" forms the word "China", which first appeared in the inscriptions of Western Zhou bronzes. At that time, people believed that the Yellow River Basin was the center of the world, called "China", and the surrounding areas were called "Sifang". This is the earliest understanding of the Chinese nation for the surrounding world, and it is also the origin of "China".
In this documentary, you can see the "rollover scene":
You can also see the running Oracle:
The cosmic impression formed by the Chinese ancestors when they faced the sky: a person holding a huge frame of "heaven"
When words appear, the world is not just the world, it means that we have built civilization.
This series of films interprets the meaning and story of etymology in a rather youthful way of telling. It integrates the romantic feelings and magnificent imaginations of the ancestors for the human world, the universe and the future world. China in Chinese characters – a vast world of words that may be larger and more leisurely than the actual China we imagine or are experiencing. In your spare time, follow the story of the film, go behind these words together, and take a look at the extraordinary imagination and romantic feelings of Chinese ancestors!
03: Chinese Plants That Influence the World
Keywords: plant Suitable: 5 years old +
Episodes: 10 Episode Length: 50 minutes
The history of plants is not only the history of nature, but also the key to the development and evolution of human society. For example, rice, from the original weeds, has become the food on which human beings depend for their survival. Mulberry trees nurtured silkworms and created the "Silk Road" in the future. Tea trees emerge from dense woods and become cash crops that affect nearly 3 billion people.
Domesticated plants, from weeds to grains, began as "millet" in the northwest, and almost at the same time, rice began to be cultivated in the south. Since then, soybeans, mulberry trees, peach trees, citrus trees, tea trees have been domesticated by humans, from food, clothing, housing, medicinal uses to aesthetics, plants have shaped China and also influenced the world. In the film, you can see some extremely beautiful plants growing in the Qinghai-Tibet Plateau near the snow line, in a sub-zero environment:
See the Xishuangbanna Forest, which has nearly one-sixth of China's species:
See the shuttle trees of the desert:
This documentary can be used as a child's enlightenment documentary on Chinese plants. It summarizes the plant appearance of different regions in China as a whole, and selects some plants that are very closely related to our lives to tell, which is a good introductory film.
04: The Chinese Imagination
Keywords: Science Fit: 13 + Episodes: 8
How does Liu Cixin, who grew up in the mine, played underground, and opened the door to Chinese science fiction with a "three-body problem", think about imagination? What was his purpose in writing science fiction? Science fiction writer Liu Cixin, Beidou navigation system scientist Xu Ying, traditional Peking Opera performance artist Wang Peiyu, architect Ma Yansong, director Wang Chaoge, cancer science writer Li Zhizhong, artist Wu Jian'an, photographer Yin Chao...
The documentary "Chinese Imagination" will bring you closer to 8 pioneers with imagination and creativity. Focus on their unique views and ideas, interpret science with warm power, and portray art with a unique perspective.
Follow 8 pioneer figures, look up at the stars under the dome, see art between mountains and rivers, calculate the weight of China's Beidou in complex data, and feel the temperature of life in the race against time.
05: Striving for China
Keywords: Builder Suitable: 12 years old +
Episode length: 5 minutes
The special program "Endeavour China" launched by the Film and Television Drama Documentary Center of CCTV Will be broadcast on the CCTV-9 Documentary Channel at 12:50 noon every day from April 30 to May 4, and new media platforms such as CCTV and CCTV will also be launched simultaneously.
By showing the fiery scene of Major Project Construction in China's "New Infrastructure", Science and Technology, Environmental Protection and other fields, it comprehensively displays the high style of Chinese laborers in the new era, and leads the audience to experience the vibrant face of China on the ground.
This film adopts a variety of methods such as aerial photography, ground shooting, and underwater photography, and documentary photography of major projects and node projects in the fields of energy, science and technology, transportation, and people's livelihood.
How to solve the technical problems of the Dalian Bay Submarine Tunnel and achieve accurate docking of immersed pipes under 30 meters? How will 12,540 pieces of stained glazed glass with exclusive identity QR codes bring dazzling colors to the Chengdu Universiade venues?
The Dalian Bay submarine immersed tube tunnel project is the first time that the immersed tube construction in the cold waters of northern China. Thirty meters underwater, cold, windy and complex sea geological conditions pose an unprecedented challenge to the builders:
The Baihetan Hydropower Station has many of the world's best:
The "artificial sun" in Hefei, Anhui Province, witnesses the exploration of the ultimate energy road:
Each episode of the documentary revolves around the construction process of a major project, covering transportation, construction, energy and other fields, focusing on the high-tech behind the super project, telling the construction miracle built by the builders with sweat and wisdom.
"Striving for China" witnesses the style of Chinese builders, showing Chinese wisdom and Chinese speed!
06: "Fresh History"
Keywords: gourmet Suitable: 5 years old +
"People can't eat and drink, and they can rarely know the taste."
This sentence in "Zhongyong" comes from the Warring States period more than 2,000 years ago. In the long process of establishing a food culture in Chinese, a set of "standards" related to the pleasure of eating and drinking has gradually been formed.
Those who organize, write, and disseminate "standards" are what we call "foodologists." But only scholars who sublimate diet into culture are the ones who really give meaning to food. We call them: the "foodies" who are truly "knowledgeable".
Lu Xun, Su Shi, Cao Xueqin, Bai Juyi, what kind of stories do these four literary people have between them and food? What kind of new world of food will "Fresh History" open up for us?
Based on historical materials and works, it shows the wonderful interaction between people and food.
Interpreting the local food culture and the concept of ownership in reality, the traditional Chinese culture has shaped the gastronomic concept that raises delicious to the cultural level, and also shaped a "non-lonely gourmet" in the long river of history, which flows over time and is passed down from generation to generation.
There are "fighters" who love sweets, there are novelists who rely on food to support and write down their heirlooms, and there are laymen who have been degraded all the way and eaten all the way.
"For a while, I have repeatedly recalled the vegetables and fruits I ate in my hometown as a child: diamond horns, Luohan beans, zibai, and melons, all of which were extremely delicious and delicious, and they were all demagogies that made me homesick."
Lu Xun wrote this in the small quotation of "Chao Hua Xi Shi". This collection of essays documenting his life as a teenager revisits many of his childhood memories and mentions many memorable teenage foods. This taste is like a kind of magical magic, dotted with Lu Xun's life, but also makes our hearts yearn for more than a hundred years later.
As a Shaoxing native, Lu Xun sat on a black canopy boat and listened to the sound of oars and shook, what kind of hometown delicacies were he most familiar with? He once mentioned, what is the method of shrimp caught with excavated earthworms? The folk snack fennel bean in "Kong Yiji", in addition to being economical, why is it unforgettable?
Su Shi's dongpo meat that everyone knows, what is the trick in the practice that has been passed down for hundreds of generations so beloved by everyone? What other dishes are named after "Dongpo" today? In Su Shi's official career of "high open and low walk" in his life, what is the taste of hometown food that has been unforgettable for a long time after traveling around?
With your children, visit famous artists who have left words for food. Eat them and they won't be "lonely foodies"; Reproduce the "fresh" food written by Mr. Li, and re-recognize mr. food.
07: "Beautiful China"
Keywords: Natural Fit: 5 years +
Episodes: 6 Episode Length: 60 minutes
Can you imagine? In the Far North Forest, each reindeer has its own name, and they are raised by evenk women.
Mariasu is 81 years old and is a member of the last 30 Evenks. All the other tribesmen gave up forest life and moved into modern reinforced concrete houses, only they were still nomadic in the cold northeast for generations.
In the Li River in Guilin, well-trained cormorants are tied with ropes and ready to go fishing:
Although these cormorants were domesticated, they were very intelligent, and it is said that they can remember how many fish they caught, and when they reach the 7th or so, they must be fed once, otherwise they will strike and not dry.
Aptly titled: "Beautiful China", this documentary is the first large-scale television documentary to show China's wildlife, and natural and cultural landscapes. Let the children stay at home, they can appreciate the picturesque land of the motherland.
It lasted 4 years and shot more than 500 hours of HIGH-definition footage. Footprints throughout China's 56+ national wildlife and scenic reserves, 86 species of Chinese rare wild animals and plants, and more than 30 ethnic life stories,
Showing China's natural and cultural landscapes, every shot is beautiful, and every frame is breathtaking. Some people say that this is the real China, the original China.
The documentary won the 30th Emmy Award for News & Documentary For Best Natural History Documentary Cinematography, Best Editing, and Best Music & Sound. Every frame is extremely enjoyable, feel the natural style and magnificent beauty of the motherland with your children.
08: "How to Talk About This Painting"
Keywords: fun Suitable: 4 years old +
Episodes: 30 Episode Length: 5 minutes
If the figures in famous Paintings of the Tang Dynasty could speak, what would they say?
Tang Zhang Xuan's "Trick Drawing"
"How to Talk About This Painting" is the first famous painting reality show in China, selected from 14 heirloom character paintings, and the well-known comedy team happy twist to interpret it, so that the characters in the painting "speak", so that the famous paintings of Gao Leng immediately come alive.
In "Trick Drawing", the palace ladies who work day after day are complaining about the unfair division of labor?
There is also the "Statue of Prince Guo's Promise". Someone asked, "Has Prince Guo forgotten the concubine on the shore of Daming Lake?" He himself hastened to clarify: "Joke, there is no Zhen Huan in history." Only the Imperial Concubine Xi, I did not say a few words to her. ”
From the Tang Dynasty to the middle of the Qing Dynasty, from the "Picture of the Lady of the Hairpin Flower" to the "Yongzheng Xingle Album holding the bow and looking at the spinches page", fourteen paintings of characters passed down from generation to generation, changing the traditional style of past documentaries,
Not only does the vision span thousands of years, but each painting is ridiculed with modern passages, novel and unobtrusive, and ancient and modern feelings can be understood. Even CCTV also commented that it was "like a frightening flood", and it was difficult for children to wander!
In 5 minutes, you can easily unlock a historical knowledge! Informative, interesting, and seemingly completely unburdened. What is even more rare is the excellent painting style, which highly restores the makeup, hair, clothing and color scheme of ancient times. Invisibly, it can also improve children's aesthetic taste, and inadvertently plant a seed of beauty in children's hearts.
09: "A Brief Reading of China"
Keywords: Ancient History Suitable: 7 years old +
Episodes: 6 Episode Length: 50 minutes
30 stories, 30 letters.
The film narrates from six dimensions, such as national unity and national integration, life and death and love and hatred, righteous knots and broken robes, pioneers of the times and wisdom of life, family education and family style construction, loyalty to the country and sacrifice for benevolence, spanning thousands of years of ancient Chinese history.
"Book Reading China" does not select story cases according to the historical popularity of the characters, from the emperors and generals who have contributed to the world, down to the unknown ordinary people, the core basis for the selection of the topic is whether the story itself can produce a cross-era resonance effect. From Gu Zhenguan, who spent twenty years to rescue his friends, to Sun Quan, who attached importance to the family's exemplary education, this is the benevolent heart of Chinese.
Gu Zhenguan ran for 20 years to rescue his best friend Wu Zhaoqian
From Yuan Ming, who advocated teaching according to aptitude, to Li Zhen, a pioneer of feminism, this is the wisdom eye of Chinese.
Li Yan of the Ming Dynasty taught female students
From Ren Huan, where her husband is not at home, to Chen Jingying, who is willing to grow and serve the country, this is the courage of Chinese.
Chen Jingying, the second deputy of the Beiyang Marine Division's Jingyuan warship, bravely intercepted the Japanese main warship and vowed not to surrender
Letter after letter and Jane, through thousands of years, there is the appearance of love, there is "no matter how strong the wind, I will go to pick you up" confidant strange road, as well as the lonely road, brave heart.
Each little person forms a huge history.
10: China in the Classics
Keywords: inheritance Suitable: 8 years old +
Episodes: 11 Episode Length: 90 minutes
Where does our life begin? Where are we going?
Without the scriptures, mankind would be doomed to know nothing. But the ancestors of Yin have books and scriptures. Ancestors have been recording our history for thousands of years. Each classic embodies the painstaking efforts and wisdom of the ancestors. Guarded from generation to generation, passed on the torch, the blood of the human spirit has been able to continue to this day.
Behind every book, there are some little-known stories. In the long river of history, each of them has its guardians and tear-jerking stories.
Fu Sheng, a doctor of Confucianism in the Qin Dynasty, went through the burning of books during the Qin Dynasty and the turmoil at the end of Qin, and worked hard to protect the last "Book of Shang".
On the way, the son died fighting with the rebels to protect the Book of Shang, and his wife was also starved and frozen, and died in the wilderness. He had to hide the book in the wall of his old mansion and go out for refuge. More than 20 years of upheaval and displacement.
However, when the world was stable, Fusheng returned to his home, excavated the walls, and found that most of the books had been destroyed, and only twenty-eight complete articles remained. He covered his face and cried bitterly: "I have been protecting the Book of Shang all my life, but the Book of Shang is mostly crippled because of me, and I am ashamed of my ancestors!" ”
Open the scriptures and talk to the sages. Read the classics in a new way, select the essence of the classics, and make them into vivid sitcoms to make the words in the ancient books come alive.
Through the form of ancient and modern dialogue, let history no longer be obscure and boring, immersively appreciate the vicissitudes of China's 5,000 years, so that children can easily understand history and fall in love with history!