On February 12, the first day of the Lunar New Year, the large-scale cultural program "China in the Classics" launched by the Central Radio and Television Corporation ushered in the premiere on the CCTV comprehensive channel, and was simultaneously broadcast on new media platforms such as CCTV and CCTV.
Read Chinese civilization from ancient books and classics
As a leader in cultural programs, every innovation of CCTV has an important impact on the variety market. In recent years, CCTV has always been at the forefront of cultural program innovation, vigorously exploring the field of cultural programs, and constantly excavating the creative space outside the poetry and literature.
"China in the Classics" focuses on the "Shang Shu", "Analects", "Sun Tzu's Art of War", "Chu Ci", "Shi Ji" and other well-known classics at home and abroad, which have been passed down through the ages, showing the Chinese wisdom, Chinese spirit and Chinese values contained in them, and telling touching and profound inheritance stories. Through the innovative form of time and space dialogue, relying on the cultural IP of the classics, the program takes another way to capture the highlights in the classics, takes the classics as the context, connects the cultural chain of the history of Chinese civilization, and builds a profound historical map of cultural dissemination and exchange.
"China in the Classics" has innovatively set up two stage innovation program forms of "historical space" and "real space", and created a "storytelling field" in the form of dialogue across time and space. Invite well-known directors to act as film and television directors, and powerful film and television guests to interpret the story, combined with stage technologies such as ring screen projection, AR, and real-time tracking, to show the origin of classic books in the long river of 5,000 years of history, and to circulate and inherit the shining stories in the books.
Netizen: Ni Dahong's Fusheng look back makes people tear up
On February 12, after the first program "Shangshu" was broadcast, it triggered heated discussion among netizens. It is understood that the reason why the creative team chose "Shang Shu" as the "opening" of the program is because it has been circulated for more than 2,000 years, known as the "ancestor of political books, the source of history books", which has built the knowledge system of ancient civilizations, and thus become one of the earliest classics translated into the West.
In order to carry out "TV transcoding" of classics that are both popular and artistic, the creative team consulted 65 relevant experts in the first program "Shang Shu" alone, consulted 68 related books and thousands of papers, sorted out millions of words of information, and revised 53 versions of the script before and after.
In this program, Fu Sheng, the "book guardian" played by actor Ni Dahong, becomes a tandem character who tells the story in the book and interprets the ideological essence in the book, and Sabine talks with Fu Sheng as a "contemporary reader" and accompanies him to "travel" to today more than two thousand years later, to see how today's people read "Shang Shu", learn "Shang Shu", and pass on "Shang Shu".
With superb acting skills, Ni Dahong vividly tells the story of Fusheng and his family sacrificing their lives to protect the "Book" in the turbulent years at the end of Qin. Even though the swords of the chaotic soldiers were facing each other, even if it snowed heavily in the sky, they could not bear to damage the "Book" in the slightest, and Fusheng's wife and son also sacrificed their lives to protect the "Book".
In the program, Fu Sheng, played by Ni Dahong, blamed himself for the failure to save "Book" in the chaotic world, which made Sabine can't help but cry, and netizens off the screen were also deeply moved by this scene. After the show was broadcast, Fusheng, played by Ni Dahong, caused a hot discussion on social networks, and netizens said that Fusheng's story was "tearful".
The Book of Shang has been passed down by countless scholars and sages and is now in the National Library of China. Sabine brought Fusheng across the millennium to today, Fusheng was shocked by the scene in front of him, seeing that now the classics are readable by everyone, and the Book of Shang has been passed down from generation to generation, he sighed with emotion: "The Book has your inheritance, I am at ease. Through the ancient and modern dialogue between "contemporary readers" and "ancient readers" across time and space, ancient classics can be presented at the film level in TV programs, and this novel way of expression allows a wide audience, especially young audiences, to understand and listen to the main ideas of the classics.
"King Fried" variety show is new! The media and scholars have praised it
In recent years, CCTV cultural programs have become the vane of the cultural variety market, and some netizens said that such programs are "'king fried'" as soon as they appear.
Wen Wei Po published an article mentioning that "China in the Classics" adopts the film and television shooting method in the historical space to visualize the stories of the classics, and this dramatic structure and the form of film and television expression provide a platform for the broad audience, especially the young audience, to read the classic stories, understand the classic ideas, and better understand the chinese civilization.
People's Daily, China Youth Network, Guizhou Daily, Liaoning Daily's "Peninsula Morning News" and many other professional media have quoted views, saying, "It is precisely because of countless 'Fusheng' that Chinese civilization can never quit."
Kang Zhen, professor of the College of Literature and doctoral supervisor of Beijing Normal University, said that the first program "Shangshu" was well written, the director level was high, the character personality was distinct, several scenes had ups and downs, the climax was repeated, the drama was very strong, and at the same time accurately conveyed the spirit contained in the "Shangshu".
Kang Zhen believes that in recent years, more and more people are keen to approach China's excellent traditional culture, on the one hand, because contemporary people have a desire to trace the origins of spiritual culture, on the other hand, it is inseparable from the value guidance of the whole society for the creative transformation and innovative development of ancient Chinese wisdom.
In this special Spring Festival, the "cultural feast" of "China in the Classics" not only makes people who are far away from thousands of mountains and rivers connect with each other, but also allows contemporary Chinese to communicate with the hearts of Chinese sages across time and space.