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A man who took pictures of the terracotta warriors caught fire.
His name is Zhao Zhen.
Is a cultural relics photographer at the Qin Shi Huang Mausoleum Museum,
Photographing the archaeological excavations of the Qin figurines and the collection of cultural relics, 23 years.
Zhao Zhen's work is simply,
It is to shoot the ID card for the terracotta warriors.
Each terracotta warrior has its own heritage archive.
It is like a household registration book, which needs to be updated at any time.
Speaking of his daily routine,
He would be in tears.
He said
"I have the best job in the world."
In the eyes of many people,
The Terracotta Warriors may just be lead-gray artifacts,
Cookie-cutter, lifeless.
But in Zhao Zhen's heart,
Lead gray is by no means a cold color,
Every terracotta warrior,
It's all temperature, blood, and life.
"They are a silent army, and in the afterglow of the sun, that is the shadow of that empire..."
From 1997 to the present,
For 23 years, Zhao Zhen guarded the Terracotta Warriors, and the Terracotta Warriors also protected him.
Until now,
Before each pit,
He would bathe and change clothes.
That moment, for him, was sacred.
The Terracotta Pit is his temple.
Once, Zhao Zhen was patting,
Suddenly looked up,
I found a fingerprint on the corner of a terracotta warrior's mouth.
It was the fingerprint of the craftsman who made the Terracotta Warriors two thousand two hundred years ago.
Zhao Zhen was stunned on the spot, and his face was full of tears.
"When you see this, time is gone."
"In this same position, he had just left, and I stepped on his footprints that still had temperature."
Through his perspective,
When we look at the Terracotta Warriors again,
Found that standing in front of you is not a clay figurine,
It's the ancestors.
At that moment,
We can feel their breath,
That's a civilization that has survived 2,200 years.
That is the living, the mark that the person has come.
No matter how long,
Bring back to his work,
Zhao Zhen couldn't help but choke.
From him,
We felt his heartfelt love.
The pit is not allowed to light up,
For a light of heaven,
He could have waited a year.
Countless times kneel, stand up, and then crouch,
Gray-headed and dirty-faced, but willing as a gluttony.
This kind of romance with the heart of a child,
Across history, across time.
In Zhao Zhen's heart,
All the people in the museum are like the Qin figurines in Pit No. 1.
Silent, neatly lined up, in one direction, bravely moving forward.
Guarding the tomb, guarding the Qin Tomb,
It is also the emotional dream of all cultural relics workers.
We are touched by the persistence of cultural relics workers,
Thankfully,
Because of them,
We have the opportunity to feel the story of this 2200 years.
The job is little known but significant.
All around us,
Those places that are not easy to detect,
There are many people like Zhao Zhen,
They are ordinary but not ordinary,
With decades of perseverance,
Emits a unique light and heat.
02
This is probably the most dangerous job in the world.
Every time the knife drops, you can hear the sound of a heartbeat.
Shake your hand slightly,
Grinding out static electricity can explode mushroom clouds.
This job is to cut the gunpowder that drives the rocket launch.
Also known as gunpowder carver.
Each knife must be controlled within three millimeters,
and the error can not exceed 0.5 mm,
It was undoubtedly dancing on the tip of the knife.
Gunpowder micro-shaping is a worldwide problem,
Cannot be operated with the machine.
There are less than 20 people in China who are competent.
Xu Liping is one of the top masters.
solid fuel engines,
is the heart of strategic and tactical missile equipment,
It is also a key component of the rocket that launches a manned spacecraft,
The accuracy requirements of the gunpowder powder surface are extremely high,
It directly determines whether the missile can achieve a precise range in a predetermined orbit.
If the accuracy of the drug surface does not match the design,
Gunpowder cannot burn in the intended direction,
There is a good chance that it will deviate from the track or even explode.
This job is difficult and dangerous.
Gunpowder cutting irreversible,
Cutting too much, or leaving knife marks, will be scrapped.
And Xu Liping,
Zero cutting errors for more than three decades.
The precision of his engraving does not exceed 0.2 mm,
Not yet two sheets of A4 paper thick,
Far below the maximum error of 0.5 mm allowed by the accuracy of the drug surface.
Millimeters,
Carve the sharp weapon of the country and support the backbone of the nation.
In 1970,
China's first artificial earth satellite "Dongfanghong I" was successfully launched.
For the next fifty years,
How many rockets have risen from the ground,
China's aerospace industry is steadily advancing.
And the gunpowder sculptor behind this,
His body was ruthlessly destroyed.
Because of the toxicity of gunpowder,
He's lost most of his hair,
Because I maintain an awkward sculpting posture all year round,
The body has become deformed.
Because of frequent back pain,
Xu Liping can rarely sleep peacefully,
Sleep in bed for more than 1 hour,
In the middle of the night, I had to get up and sleep on the couch until dawn.
Every time you carve
It's all about dealing with death.
But when the sword lifted into the air,
When the wind is blowing,
He knows
The motherland's space dream is more important.
03
Some of the work is great,
There are also some jobs that are very small,
Invisible all around us,
Guarding the lights of wanjia.
A safety rope,
A few ropes are all they have,
But they lit up the stars of the whole city.
They're power workers.
Very ordinary and very small,
Obscure, no one cares,
In the snow and ice they ensure the safety of electricity.
When we play with our phones with the heating,
I don't want to look up.
At this moment they are in the cold wind,
Dangerous overhaul is underway.
It's not a high-paying job.
Not to mention not comfortable,
One foot in the air, the danger is in an instant.
We enjoy the convenience of electricity all the time,
But few people notice them behind them.
All year round, cold winter and heat,
Eating at a height of 100 meters on the wind and frost,
No one knows what will happen in the next second.
Frozen electric tower,
Or maybe it's 40 degrees Celsius.
We don't pay attention to them.
I don't hear their complaints,
But we should remember them and thank them.
04
One pair of ears, two legs, three more in the middle of the night.
There is such a group of people,
They wander in the night,
Walking through the streets,
Pry up one manhole cover after another...
This job is called "listening to the missed work."
Can hear the sound of running water several meters deep underground,
Then found a weak leak location,
Convenient after repair,
Reduce water leakage and waste.
Compared to the electric worker's cornice walking wall,
They work quieter,
A little superfluous sound can affect judgment.
This kind of work is destined to be accompanied only by the night.
Due to ground settlement, pipeline aging and other factors,
Water supply pipes laid underground are prone to damage and leakage.
If you do not check and repair in time,
This will result in a waste of water resources.
"If the water supply pipeline leaks a little here, a little leak there, and then leaks tens of thousands of tons of water a year, you can't see it at all."
A steptometer, a snoop rod, a metal tube detector.
Diagnosticians of these urban underground water veins,
With a pair of ears,
Auscultation of large and small water pipes,
Ensuring the water supply of millions of households.
05
"Thirty thousand up, not a million."
There is such a job on the construction site that exchanges life for money,
They are known as "construction site water ghosts".
Construction works often have to be drilled and piling,
In case of geological complexity,
The drill bit of the impact drill may fall or get stuck,
If you can't hook it with a hook,
Ask the "water ghost" to go down.
The professional name of the water ghost is "engineering diver",
They have obtained professional qualifications,
Have good psychological quality and industrial skills,
But when the risk of water ghosts is really not low,
They need to wear protective clothing, wear oxygen masks,
Dive into the pile hole tens of meters deep,
Go find a drill bit.
The depth of the pile hole is usually fifty or sixty meters,
Even deeper.
Dive to a certain depth,
The human body simply cannot withstand such a level of water pressure.
During the search process,
Also avoid the rope being entangled in drills or foreign objects,
Sometimes because of stress, it is slow to respond or even hallucinate.
Because there is a saying circulating on the Internet,
Every time they launch they sign a life-and-death pact.
There are always people who say that they are "asking for money and not dying",
But in fact, their job is worth a lot.
The price of a drill bit is not high,
But if the drill bit is not fished out, the pile foundation is invalidated.
The position of the pile foundation of large-scale projects has been repeatedly examined,
If the scrapping of a pile affects the progress of the entire project,
The damage caused is immeasurable.
Behind a project is thousands of households,
They're in the muddy mud,
Bet with your life,
Fight against death,
Ensure the stable progress of project construction.
There is also a serious occupational disease in this work -
Diving sickness.
If the speed is not well controlled in the process of floating,
Blood is prone to embolism,
Serious can be life-threatening.
There is no easy job in this world,
Only the brave.
The work of exchanging life for money,
Please have a deep respect for them.
06
Every day, millions of people take the subway,
Come and go
From this side of the city, to that side of the city,
This means of transport that shuttles underground,
It has long been the most convenient way to get around.
This passage in the darkness,
There's a bunch of people behind it,
It is their perseverance in the darkness of the underground,
There are tracks that go on and on.
SHIELD machine driver.
The shield machine is a large object weighing more than 400 tons.
is a tunnel boring machine,
for tunneling,
The person who operates it is called the EPB driver.
reputedly
People who can drive EPBs,
Fewer people than people who can fly airplanes.
It's a job without light.
The work environment never shines.
In the dark underground,
It will pass under the river,
Rocks, caves, and even swamps will also be encountered.
For the master,
Either situation is dangerous.
It's like a giant "pangolin",
Shuttling underground,
This behemoth keeps dissipating heat,
Let the already small, humid working environment,
It's always sweltering,
Even wearing the most heat-dissipating overalls,
Also keep soaking the ice bucket to cool down.
Gray-headed and dirty-faced is everyday,
There will always be dirt and mud in front of you.
The underground is the harshest environment,
There is also a future for millions of people.
Today, nearly 50 cities in China have opened subways.
The total length of the line is more than 6700 km,
People have become accustomed to subway life.
But I think you should know,
The subway is 10 minutes away,
The EPB driver may have been groping in the dark for 10 months.
07
From aviation, sky,
To the well, to the underwater...
These are the jobs we rarely notice,
But whether it is social development or living and working in peace and contentment,
These people, this dedication,
It's all we can't do without.
Some of them are dangerous,
Some are boring.
Neither glamorous nor well-paid,
But they're in that imperceptible corner,
Silently holding on to one side of stability,
Sustaining our lives.
There are too many cold things in this world,
But their work,
Makes me feel like everyone can shine,
Whether you are a high-end researcher,
Or is it just a most ordinary worker,
can become a beam of light,
Illuminate a corner of the world.
Under this great age,
There is always someone on the back of the lights of a thousand homes,
Moving forward for us,
This is the real backbone of China.