In June 2014, at the 38th session of the World Heritage Committee, China's Grand Canal project was inscribed on the World Heritage List. Since then, this "living cultural heritage corridor" has opened a new chapter in life.
This year marks the 10th anniversary of the successful inscription of China's Grand Canal on the World Heritage List. In the past ten years, the ancient canal, which has been integrated into the new era, has not only become a place that more and more people, especially young people, yearn for, are curious about, and care about, but also on both sides of the line, more and more new scenery has grown, and more and more new stories have been staged. Do you want to know what role the Grand Canal is playing in the lives of the public ten years after the successful inscription?
From May 24th onwards, every Friday night at 20:30, the immersive cultural exploration program "Set Sail!" created by Jiangsu Satellite TV will be launched! The Grand Canal will open a "Canal Cultural Parade" that runs through the millennium and spans the north and south in the colorful collision of tradition and modernity, culture and technology, wisdom and elegance, and slowly unfolds the past and present life of China's Grand Canal in front of the audience.
This is a "high-end cultural bureau"
Famous people serve as "tour guides", so that the story of the canal flies into the homes of ordinary people
As the longest man-made canal in the world, the Grand Canal is a precious heritage left to us by our ancestors, a mobile culture.
For more than 2,500 years, it has been endless, connecting the north and the south, connecting the ancient and the modern, and the Great Wall of China together to write the word "human" on the land of China, becoming a symbol of the spirit of the Chinese nation. Closely combined with the needs of the public, in-depth excavation of the spiritual connotation and value of the times of the Grand Canal culture, so that the Grand Canal culture blooms in the new era, is Jiangsu Satellite TV's creation of "Set Sail! The meaning of the title of "The Grand Canal".
To this end, the program carefully organized a "high-end cultural bureau", and specially invited many famous artists such as Shan Jixiang, Xi Chuan, Liang Zhouyang, Zhang Jin, and Zhang Peng. They will interpret the Grand Canal from multiple perspectives such as history, literature, economy, society, architecture, and art from their respective professional fields, helping the audience approach the Grand Canal in a more interesting, intimate and fast way. At the same time, each guest who appeared in the show has a different type of Grand Canal feelings, which will surely arouse the inner resonance of different audiences.
Shan Jixiang, director of the Expert Committee of the Chinese Cultural Heritage Society and director of the Academic Committee of the Palace Museum, is the author of "Set Sail! The "soul of the Grand Canal". As an advocate, promoter and practitioner of the overall protection of China's Grand Canal, Shan Jixiang has observed and walked the Grand Canal for many years. Not only that, during his years as a "gatekeeper" in the Palace Museum, he traced again and again how the "Forbidden City" under his care "floated" from the Grand Canal, and wrote famous works such as "The Grand Canal Drifts to the Forbidden City". This time he revisited the Grand Canal, Shan Jixiang not only wanted to tell the story of the canal to the audience, but also hoped to integrate more new discoveries into related works.
Because of Jiangsu Satellite TV's popular cultural program "I Study on the Island", many TV viewers are familiar with and like the "walking poet" Xichuan. This time, he will continue to accompany the audience to open up a poetic perspective, "The canal is not only a landscape, it can allow you to expand your infinite imagination of the Chinese land." I know that what I can do is to recite a poem when I see water, to the canal, and to the thousand-year-old history and civilization of the Chinese nation. ”
Liang Zhouyang, director of the Beijing Cultural Heritage Protection Center, is the great-granddaughter of Mr. Liang Sicheng and Ms. Lin Huiyin, masters of architecture. She has traveled to 75 countries on six continents and has fully appreciated the characteristics of Western architecture. In the program, she will use a unique architectural perspective that blends East and West, as well as a delicate female perspective, to interpret how the Grand Canal has given birth to cities radiating the heat of life.
As the chief writer of the Grand Canal's inscription on the World Heritage List and the chief person in charge of the preparation of the management plan, Zhang Jin once led the team to survey the number of steps, explore up and down, and trace the context of the Grand Canal. In her view, the vitality and creativity of China's Grand Canal after the successful application for World Heritage are more worthy of in-depth exploration.
Zhang Peng, executive director of the Guo Shoujing Memorial Hall in Beijing, also cherishes the culture of the Grand Canal, "My home is in Shaanxi, which is very far away from the Grand Canal. Young people living in the interior may not have so much emotional connection to the Grand Canal, and I hope that through "Set Sail! The Grand Canal", so that more young people can realize the charm of the cultural heritage of the Grand Canal. ”
In the process of traveling along the canal, they will also meet many cultural heritage protectors, such as An Jiayao, a researcher at the Institute of Archaeology of the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences, Zheng Jing, director of the China Grand Canal Museum in Yangzhou, etc.
This is an "in-depth cultural tour"
Panoramic view of the World Heritage Site of "Living Ordinary Alive".
When it comes to the "Grand Canal", the first thing that comes to many people's minds must be the Beijing-Hangzhou Grand Canal. In fact, the extension and connotation of China's Grand Canal may be much broader than everyone thinks.
The Grand Canal of China began to dig in the late Spring and Autumn period Wu Wangfucha excavated the ditch, by the Sui and Tang Dynasty Grand Canal, Beijing-Hangzhou Grand Canal, Zhedong Canal three major parts, a total length of 3,200 kilometers, across Beijing, Tianjin, Hebei, Henan, Shandong, Anhui, Jiangsu, Zhejiang six provinces and two municipalities directly under the central government, access to the Haihe River, the Yellow River, the Huai River, the Yangtze River, the Qiantang River five major water systems.
One of the major achievements of China's Grand Canal project in the process of applying for World Heritage is to figure out what the Grand Canal is, because after the long history of the river, many passages in Henan, Anhui and Hebei are basically invisible, and archaeological experts have made huge and arduous efforts to "sort out" its former style.
In the first episode of the program, Zhang Jin shared two stories of the World Heritage application, which now makes people cry: a story is that when an old French expert came to Yangzhou for inspection, he stood on the bridge and saw ships of more than 1,000 tons lined up on the canal, he was shocked and excitedly shouted "I haven't seen a living canal" and "this is a living heritage"; One story is that after the successful application for World Heritage in 2014, the people along the canal went to the local World Heritage Boundary Pile to check in and take pictures, and everyone exclaimed, "I never knew that there was a World Heritage Site at our doorstep!" ”
As Zhang Jin sighed: "Before this, everyone thought that famous mountains, rivers, palaces and temples could become world heritage sites, but the Grand Canal is a very ordinary world heritage, it is the front of the house and the back of the house, the water town." ”
In Shan Jixiang's view, China's Grand Canal has solved the long-standing confusion of cultural relics conservators about "protection is important or utilization", "Through the Grand Canal, I feel that protection is not the goal, and utilization is not the goal, what is the purpose?" It's just two words: inheritance. The canals created by our ancestors that have flowed for more than 2,500 years are living in our hands and passed on to our children and grandchildren, which is the real heritage. ”
Today, how does this living Grand Canal gently nourish our material and spiritual? Set Sail! In addition to popularizing the culture of the Grand Canal from a historical perspective, "Grand Canal" will also dive into the texture of life from the perspectives of food, literature, water conservancy, etc., and present the increasingly boiling fireworks on the Grand Canal to the audience.
In addition to experiencing the prosperity of the Grand Canal, the guests will also open a "city walk" in the cities along the route to feel the excitement of the market, promote tourism with culture, and drive many people to go to the canal in person to feel the pulse of life for thousands of years.
This is a "science and technology culture show"
With the help of new AI technology, touch the past and future of the canal
How to interpret the broad and profound cultural theme of "Grand Canal" in a way that the public likes to see? Set Sail! While striving for excellence in guest selection, narrative perspective, and content structure, "Grand Canal" will also give full play to Jiangsu Satellite TV's profound technological innovation strength, and use an eye-opening "science and technology culture show" to take the audience through the past and future of China's Grand Canal.
At the previous press conference, many viewers have already seen "Set Sail! The original audio-visual innovation of Grand Canal: With the help of AI and augmented reality technologies, the creative team has digitally restored and presented natural scenery, historical relics, intangible cultural heritage, etc., making static images a living landscape that can be touched and appreciated.
In the first episode of the program, there are many scenes that should not be missed. For example, when the guests had a glimpse of the beautiful scenery of the Yangzhou Canal Sanwan Scenic Area, the program used artificial intelligence generation technology to show the future of the Grand Canal, with more modern venues and more advanced boats...... It's a magical experience where the future is here. For another example, when Zhang Peng explained history to children at the China Grand Canal Museum in Yangzhou, the program was supplemented by CG animation, which vividly presented the story of "Zhang patrolling Suiyang".
The purpose of the museum's existence is to build a bridge between history, present and future for everyone who walks into it. In a way, this also represents "Set Sail! The vision of the Grand Canal. In order to use new technologies, new forms, and new models to pass on traditional culture to the public, especially young people, more lightly, "Set Sail! The Grand Canal will also create a "museum on the cloud", where the photos and videos collected by the guests along the way will be integrated into it to help everyone experience the details of the Grand Canal in more ways.
What does China's Grand Canal look like in your eyes? Do you want to see more of her? From May 24th, Jiangsu Satellite TV's "Set Sail! The Grand Canal invites you to set sail on this cultural cruise of the canal.