In order to protect and inherit the Great Wall and let the audience understand the unique charm of the Great Wall, in recent years, the country has vigorously built the Great Wall National Cultural Park, and the series of documentaries "Song of the Great Wall" created by the Chinese Global Program Center of China Central Radio and Television takes the Great Wall National Cultural Park as the starting point, based on the height of the new era, and re-looks at the Great Wall from the perspective of the history of human civilization. "Song of the Great Wall" will be held from February 11th to February 16th, from the second day of the Lunar New Year to the seventh day of the Lunar New Year, at 19:30 every night, on CCTV-4.
As a vivid epitome of China's defensive architectural civilization, "Song of the Great Wall" will vividly present how the human miracle of the Great Wall was born and continued for more than 2,000 years since its construction, deeply excavate the important role and unique contribution of the Great Wall in the shaping of "why China" and "why Chinese civilization", and truly depict the background, concept and process of the construction of the Great Wall National Cultural Park, as well as its magnificent prospects. Systematically excavate, sort out and explore the origin, development and unique charm of the Great Wall, and bring the audience the history and culture rooted in the bloodline.
In 2019, the Great Wall National Cultural Park entered the world's field of vision, and the park involves 15 provinces, autonomous regions and municipalities across the country. The resources of the Great Wall of Jilin Province are distributed in 11 counties (cities and districts) in 4 cities (prefectures) of the province, with a total length of 419 kilometers, which are divided into three periods: the Han Fengsui Line, the Tang Dynasty Laobian Gang Earth Wall and the Yanbian Border Wall.
It is authoritative and ideological
China is 5,000 years old, and the Great Wall has a history of nearly 2,000 years.
As a documentary with the theme of the Great Wall, "Song of the Great Wall" outlines a picture across time and space through the combing of the Great Wall culture, with a broader perspective and more concrete expression, and writes the history of Chinese civilization and the spiritual epic of Chinese with the Great Wall as the protagonist.
History needs to be repeatedly considered, "Song of the Great Wall" is not only limited to the perspective of history and its evolution, but also through the perspective of experts, the interpretation of the Great Wall, the whole film interviewed more than 60 experts and scholars at home and abroad involved in the history of Chinese civilization, the history of the Great Wall, ethnic history, sociology, historical geography, military, party history, national cultural park construction and other fields, as well as internationally renowned sinologists and historians, who make the film's interpretation of the value of the Great Wall authoritative and ideological. A number of internationally renowned authoritative experts and scholars have given the film an international vision and a global perspective, hoping to provide the audience with more authoritative and professional spiritual wealth.
Make history more "visible" and "visible"
"Song of the Great Wall" has a total of 6 episodes, namely "Miracle", "Survival", "Order", "Fusion", "Backbone" and "Sustainability".
The film is not satisfied with the simple and ordinary longitudinal combing of the history of the Great Wall, but also explores the unique value of the Great Wall as a symbol of Chinese civilization and refines it into six themes as a set structure, so as to achieve a multi-dimensional and three-dimensional presentation of the vast time and space, the richness of the connotation, and the grandeur of the Great Wall National Cultural Park. It also allows different themes to be dismantled and explained in simple terms in the film.
The first episode "Miracle" is the beginning of the whole film, with General Secretary Xi Jinping's important speech during his inspection of Jiayuguan as the starting point, highlighting China's major strategic decision to build the Great Wall National Cultural Park. With the theme of "miracle", it vividly displays the spectacle existence of the Great Wall in different historical space-time coordinates from the dimension of space, history and spirituality, refines and interprets the historical mission of the Great Wall to protect China, and completes the overall cognition of the Great Wall. The Great Wall National Cultural Park, which is under construction, is a new miracle of China in the new era, and a miracle of the human world, representing China's plan, China's wisdom and China's contribution.
From the perspective of the history of human civilization, the second episode "Survival" on the one hand traces back to ancient China why the Chinese continued to build the Great Wall, analyzes the Chinese's eternal aspirations for peace and development, and on the other hand, explains that the construction of the Great Wall National Cultural Park is another far-sighted and great decision for China's sustainable development in the new era.
On the basis of "survival", the third episode of "Order" advances the theme to depth, with the theme of "order", through the self-contained military defense system of the Great Wall, it is explained that the Great Wall is not only a wall, but also a "belt of order", which maintains the frontier governance of ancient China, balances the relationship between agricultural civilization and nomadic civilization, and guards and promotes the order process of Chinese civilization. The construction of the Great Wall National Cultural Park will surely form a new cross-regional development model for China in the new era, activate various resources along the Great Wall, and have an important and long-term impact on China's construction of a cultural power.
The fourth episode is "Fusion", which will show the audience that the Great Wall is full of tolerance and warmth under the cold and hard shell. The Great Wall has always been a place of multi-ethnic blending and collision since ancient times, and is a historical witness to the formation and development of China's unified multi-ethnic state; on the other hand, it is the integration of economy, culture and lifestyle, which has continuously injected fresh blood into Chinese culture and enriched and consolidated the genes of Chinese culture. The Great Wall National Cultural Park, which is under construction today, continues to develop with the fusion gene of the ancient Great Wall.
The fifth episode "Backbone" highly refines and deeply excavates the spirit of the Great Wall. The Great Wall is like a giant dragon, as the spiritual symbol of the Chinese nation, it has been enriching and nourishing the national spirit of the Chinese nation for 2,000 years.
The sixth episode "Sustainability" is based on the narration of the above five episodes, presents the vivid practice of the Great Wall National Cultural Park, focuses on a number of exemplary successful cases, comprehensively and systematically reflects the important concepts, construction priorities and construction process of the construction of the Great Wall National Cultural Park, depicts the magnificent picture of the Great Wall National Cultural Park, and finally reflects how China will protect and continue the Great Wall, a great human miracle and this precious world heritage, through the construction of the Great Wall National Cultural Park.
With the rapid development of the times, especially as China's business card in the world, the Great Wall should be known by people for what it is and why it is so. The documentary "Song of the Great Wall" gives more "visualization" and "viewability" to history, vividly and eternally preserving in the long history of Chinese culture, enriching the audience's thinking dimension, and presenting the Great Wall in a variety of ways in the continuous exploration.
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