Not afraid of hardships and dangers, brave to climb the peak
Located on the border between China and Nepal, Mount Everest is the highest mountain in the world at an altitude of 8848.86 meters, with snow and thin air all year round.
In 1956, China formed its first mountaineering team, and Shi Zhanchun, a young Communist Party member, served as the leader of the mountaineering team.
In the summer of 1958, China made plans to summit Mount Everest in 1960 from the north slope of China.
The weather on the north slope is harsh and unpredictable. At that time, even the powerful British "expedition" folded several times on the north slope, believing that it was almost impossible to reach the top from the north slope. He Long, who was then the director of the National Sports Commission, said: "Chinese people are to fight for this breath!" ”
He Long, then director of the National Sports Commission
In order to complete the seemingly impossible task of climbing Mount Everest from the north slope, the climbers began to train hard.
In March 1960, a Chinese mountaineering team of more than 200 people came to the foot of Mount Everest, and they will represent China's first climb of Mount Everest.
What preparations did the Chinese mountaineering team make to conquer Mount Everest?
On March 25, 1960, Chinese mountaineers began their first adaptive march. The large troops successfully reached the third alpine camp of 6400 meters, and Xu Jing led a reconnaissance team composed of six of the best mountaineers to brave the wind and snow to march north of the "gate" of Mount Everest for the second march reconnaissance route.
The North Pass is a saddle-shaped mountain with terrible ice and avalanches, but it is the only way to reach the summit of Mount Everest from the north slope.
On May 3, 1960, the climbers climbed to an altitude of about 8,500 meters above sea level and established a assault camp. However, the team members suffered frostbite to varying degrees on the way and had to return to the base camp to recuperate.
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In front of them was what British explorers called an insurmountable 'second step', and people could hardly find any support point for climbing.
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--Ma Shen, an expert on the history of the Communist Party of China
At this time, the weather on Everest is gradually getting warmer, which means that the good weather suitable for climbing is coming to an end, and once the continuous rainy season comes, there is no good time to climb Everest.
Listen to Ma Shen, an expert on the history of the Communist Party of China, tell the story behind the Chinese mountaineers' climbing to the summit of Mount Everest
Finally, at 4:20 a.m. Beijing time on May 25, 1960, Qu Yinhua, Wang Fuzhou and Kampot three team members successfully reached the summit, completing the feat of human beings reaching the world's highest peak from the north slope for the first time. Chinese for the first time, the five-star red flag was planted on top of the world!
Generations of Mountaineering Warriors in China have gone forward and chased their dreams in dialogue with Everest.
In 2009, painter Feng Jie created the oil painting "Conquering Mount Everest" based on the spirit of Climbing bravely and not afraid of hardships and dangers of Chinese mountaineers.
The red hiking suit is particularly dazzling
The spirit of the climber shines brightly
Click on the video art critic Yu Yang to take you through the classic paintings
The painter uses triangular compositions to shape the figures of the climbers, which are stable and powerful.
The painter deliberately pushed the skyline formed by the distant peaks and clouds, and the sky was compressed into less than one-third of the space of the picture, giving people a sense of reach and reflecting the unparalleled altitude of Mount Everest.
On the ridge, three red-clad team members and the flying flag form a fiery red "S" curve in the indigo background, winding up to the sky.
The five-star red flag flutters at the highest point of the picture. The painter simulates the knife marks of the woodcut, expressing the indomitable strength, and this special texture adds a sense of arrogance to the fiery red flag.
Climbers, like stone sculptures, show the tenacious will and firm confidence of Chinese climbers who dare to climb and challenge.
——Art critic Yu Yang
Extensive flipping through the material
Several polished adjustments
The painter Feng Jie, a native of Nanchang, Jiangxi Province, was born in October 1962 and graduated from the Mural Painting Department of the Central Academy of Fine Arts in 1989.
Painter Feng Jie
His representative works include "Nanchang Before the Rain" and so on.
Feng Jie's masterpiece
In the process of creation, Feng Jie has traveled to the Everest area many times to collect wind in the field and read a large number of professional materials on geography and geology.
The Chinese mountaineering team has reached the top several times, which one did Feng Jie choose as the main creative object?
Click on the video to watch more creative background Feng Jie extracted the images of Chinese mountaineers in 1960, 1975 and 1988 in three different periods, and expressed them in the paintings as three different states of climbing, marching and raising the five-star red flag, and strived to condense the historical inheritance of the Chinese mountaineering team and the outlook for the future into the paintings.
After several polishing, Feng Jie created the oil painting "Conquering Mount Everest" in 2009. This painting was selected by the national major historical theme art creation project, and was later collected by the National Art Museum of China.
"There is nothing difficult in the world, as long as you are willing to climb it." Generations of climbers have used courage, perseverance and even life beyond ordinary people to refresh the mark of Chinese on the top of the world again and again, highlighting the Chinese spirit of challenging the limit and forging ahead.
The times need climbers, and they need climbing spirit. Since the Eighteenth National Congress of the Communist Party of China, under the strong leadership of the Party Central Committee with Comrade Xi Jinping as the core, the strivers and climbers of the new era have overcome difficulties and overcome thorns in the new journey. Chang'e flew into the sky, Jiaolong entered the sea, Tianyan stargazing, Beidou networking, and "Zhu Rong" successfully landed on Mars, setting up one milestone after another. In the face of new challenges, Chinese people will create the next miracle with the attitude of climbers!
What are the little-known stories of Chinese mountaineers in their journey to summit Everest? What other artistic charms does the work "Conquer Everest" have? Let's follow Ma Shen, an expert in the history of the Communist Party of China, and Yu Yang, an art critic, to understand the story behind Conquering Everest.
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CCTV-1
November 2nd, 22:30
Party History in Art Classics
Executive Producer / Tian Long
Editor-in-Chief / Liu Ming
Edited by / Tian Chuyun