If a national treasure were to be passed home, what would be written on the letter?
Maybe I will meet with my partner to play the unfinished "Long Song Line" at a different day.
I will recall the old agreement to roam freely and see all over the rivers and mountains.
Will tell the story of the patriotism of fists and fists despite being overseas...
This letter from the family of a national treasure comes from the third episode of the just-completed short drama "Escape from the British Museum", which earned enough tears from netizens.
The three-episode skit was self-made by two self-media bloggers and lasted only 17 minutes. From the perspective of the team or production alone, "Escape from the British Museum" does not seem to have the potential to "explode", why is it popular all over the Internet?
Although the drama is short, there are many details
The plot of "Escape from the British Museum" is not complicated, it tells the story of a jade pot in the British Museum escaping to find his hometown. It's short, fast-paced, but full of details.
・ Selected "Heritage Representative"
At the British Museum, there are about 23,000 artifacts from China, many without names and descriptions, only numbers. The small jade pot that "escaped", the Chinese tangle pattern thin tire jade pot, is not an ancient cultural relics, but was made by Yu Ting, the representative inheritor of the intangible cultural heritage of Jiangsu Province (Suzhou jade carvings), in 2011, and was purchased by the museum in 2017.
The reason why the cultural relics seniors sent the little jade pot home with the task is precisely because her origin and age are the clearest, "she is 'innocent' and remembers the way home."
The name of the male protagonist Zhang Yongan comes from another cultural relic in the British Museum, the porcelain pillow inscribed on the "Home Country Yong'an" in the Northern Song Dynasty Cizhou Kiln. In the third episode, the cultural relics collectively shouted "Eternal peace in the country", which was touching and shocking that only the Chinese people could understand.
・Cabinet for only two people
When he returned to Zhang Yongan's rental house, Xiao Yuju sighed that such a large cabinet only lived two people. That's because in the British Museum, it's not so "extravagant", and it's the norm for artifacts to be "squeezed" in a display case.
When visiting museums in China, a cultural relic is standard, and the display case is marked with its detailed introduction. And the poor cultural relics wandering outside, the identity is "unknown", some even do not have protective covers, let the tourists touch, which is why the little jade pot had a dirty face when he first fled.
Small jade pot sweeping tea leaves
When Xiao Yuju and Zhang Yongan were shopping in the supermarket, they frantically added tea leaves to their shopping carts, which was also in line with their "pot" nature. In the process of transporting the tea set, in order to reduce bumps, the tea set is filled with tea leaves. The little jade pot is making all-round preparations for going home.
Rosewood Road
Rosewood, homecoming. The little jade pot embarked on the Gem Road back to the land of China, when will the cultural relics who are still wandering outside return home?
The lines hit the audience's heart
From the point of view, the post-dubbing of "Escape from the British Museum" may make many people feel dramatic, but its simple and sincere lines can hit people's hearts.
"With black eyes and yellow skin, the one who can understand me is my family." The Chinese nation is connected by blood, and the little jade pot identified Zhang Yongan as "family" by virtue of his appearance and language. Netizens said that they finally understood why "the villagers saw the fellow villagers, and their eyes were full of tears".
When he heard Zhang Yongan's impatient expression "where to go from", the little jade pot could not hide his joy, and asked excitedly, "Do you want to take me back to China?" "In Xiao Yuju's heart, her roots are China.
The paragraph that made netizens collectively burst into tears was when cultural relics poured out their thoughts about their relatives and friends and the motherland. These cultural relics, which were adrift due to man-made disasters and could not return to China, carry a thick history and thousands of words of the ancients, and they have a lot to say, and in the end, they all turn into a sentence of "eternal peace of the homeland". Although he is wandering, although he is unstable, although he does not know the date of return, he still cares about his family and country.
And despite her desire to go home, Xiao Yuju chose to return to the British Museum after completing the task of passing on the family letters, and showed that she and the other artifacts would not escape. The phrase "Chinese don't do that kind of thing of stealing chickens and dogs, they say that one day, we will go home with a beautiful scenery and dignity", criticizing the behavior of thieves, and showing great righteousness and great country demeanor.
Caring for the road home with a national treasure
In the final analysis, the theme of this short drama is "The National Treasure Returns Home".
There was an episode of the first season of "National Treasure", which interpreted the story of Fang Yi, a merchant vessel whose body and lid were separated from each other, "united in body and head and returned to Xiang", and the cultural relics were "livened" into adults, telling their own stories and ardent hopes for returning home.
At the beginning of the second season of "China in the Classics", it interprets the hardships and legends on the road of "Yongle Dian" "Pearl return to Hepu, through calamity and light". This "Book of Ten Thousand Books" was once scattered around the world, and after several years of disasters, it was re-collected.
"National treasure homecoming" can always arouse the deepest feelings of home and country in our hearts and arouse strong emotional resonance. Not long ago, the British Museum was exposed that about 2,000 cultural relics in its collection were inexplicably missing, and the Global Times published an article demanding that the British Museum return Chinese cultural relics free of charge. "Escape from the British Museum", which was broadcast at this time, uses the story of the small jade pot to draw out tens of millions of cultural relics lost overseas, carrying heavy feelings in the relaxed narrative, which is right to the public mood and arouses widespread discussion.
Compared with programs such as "National Treasure" and "China in the Classics", "Escape from the British Museum" is obviously a small production, and compared with mainstream media, its audience is not wide enough. I have to admit that this short drama has shortcomings, but we also have to see its advantages: there are jokes and warmth, the rhythm is tight and bright, as one netizen commented, "If such a novel way can bring cultural relics protection into the hearts of more people, then this is part of the meaning of self-media."
According to incomplete statistics from UNESCO, in 218 museums in 47 countries around the world, the number of Chinese cultural relics has reached 1.67 million, and the number of Chinese cultural relics scattered overseas has reached 10 times this figure.
A letter from the family brought back to China by the small jade pot is the ardent hope of the cultural relics who have been displaced for their return. I don't know when I will be able to go home, but one day, we will welcome these national treasures home with a beautiful scenery and dignity.