It has a total of 22 episodes. It selects topics from the perspective of country, nation, history and the times, selects key nodes and core content of party history, and tells the stories of more than 150 people. It started from and the Xi’an Incident to the land reform in the liberated areas before the founding of the People’s Republic of China. These 13 years have been the years when the Chinese people rose up against the Japanese invaders and carried out a nationwide war of resistance, and also the years when the two Chinese destinies of the Kuomintang and the Communist Party fought decisively. It is the second season of the 100-episode documentary documentary "The Years of Mountains and Rivers", which officially ended last night.
Caption: The official picture of the second season of "The Years of Mountains and Rivers" (the same below)
Time is eternal, and history is inevitable
A nation’s deep self-cognition is inseparable from the response to history Looking and interpreting, the history of the party is the best teacher, a nourishment agent, a sobriety agent, and a compulsory course. Guided by the creative thinking of taking history as a mirror, "The Years of Mountains and Rivers" accurately grasps the main theme of the historical development of the Chinese Communist Party, and captures major events, important meetings and important figures of far-reaching significance. In this kind of profound narration, the spiritual beliefs contained in the characters and stories get rid of the shackles of time, travel through time and space, turning the moment into eternity, and let us see the inevitability of history.
Caption: "Mountain and River Years" stills
"When the whole of China is liberated, there will be no need to move." This is the 43rd episode of "Hutuo Riverside", Mao Zedong expresses emotion at Xibaipo on the Hutuo River . This is the last stop of the Chinese Communist Party after 28 years of hard work before the central leadership enters Peking, and it is also the last stop before "coming to Beijing to rush the exam." Mao Zedong commanded the Liaoshen, Huaihai, and Pingjin battles here. He sent 408 telegrams to the front and drafted 190 instructions and telegrams for each battle.
"Whoever gets the land will get the peasants, and whoever gets the peasants will get China." This is Mao Zedong's thesis in the 44th episode "Land Poems". This episode tells about the vigorous land movement launched by the Chinese Communist Party during the liberation war .At that time, in the Northeast, about 12,000 Communist Party cadres ran out of the city to implement a new land reform policy. In Central China, the Central China Sub-bureau adopted the method of “separating the fields without moving the middle and equalizing the two ends” and quickly mobilized the masses. The peasants who obtained the land stood firmly on the side of the Communist Party. In August, September, and October of 1946, 300,000 peasants participated in the People's Liberation Army, and 3 to 4 million peasants participated in the guerrillas and militias.
"Hutuo Riverside" talks about politics and military affairs, "Land Poems" talks about economy and people's livelihood, "Advance behind the enemy", "True Copper Walls and Iron Walls", "The Great River South and North" talks about the anti-Japanese base area struggles and the vast oceans of the People's War, "Stories of the Ancient City" and "Under the Pagoda" "Solid as a Rock" and "The Flowers of May" talk about the three magic weapons of the united front, armed struggle, and party building. These events are interrelated, the clues are complicated but the branches are clear, allowing the audience to see the Chinese Communist Party's commitment to the country and the people, and feel the sonorous voice of the party's hard work all the way. As the film traverses the long river of history, young viewers have a deeper understanding of who we are, where we came from, and where we are going.
Reach the hearts of the people and gather strength
The novelist Li Yu said: "You give me 100 plots, it is better to give me two details." In "The Years of Mountains and Rivers", a lot of historical details are unearthed. When it comes out, the story unfolds in a contemporary way, conveying the beauty of ideals, the strength of faith, and the light of human nature, stirring up ripples in people's hearts, nourishing, nurturing and enriching their hearts.
"The city gates of Yan'an are open all day long, and there are young people coming from all directions all day long, carrying luggage, burning hope, walking into this city gate, studying, singing, living a nervous and happy life, and then a group A group of places, wearing military uniforms, burning enthusiasm, walked in all directions." This is the impression of the poet He Qifang on Yan'an, and it is also the common cognition of thousands of progressive young people.
Caption: "Mountain and River Years" stills
Why is Yan'an so attractive? "The Years of Mountains and Rivers" has been portrayed in detail. The 32nd episode "Under the Pagoda Mountain" shows the simple but vigorous schools in the Anti-Japanese Military and Political University and Shaanbei Public School .The well-known Tan Kah Kee found that the communists are honest and upright, disciplined, fair in business, and full of belief in victory in the war of confrontation. He said bluntly that "China's hope is in Yan'an." Mao Zedong once personally carried the coffin here for the former political commissar of the 129th Division, Zhang Hao , and addressed the sacrifice of ordinary soldier Zhang Side. In the 34th episode of "Flowers in May", Xi Xinghai composes the poems of Guang Weiran into the heart-stirring "Yellow River Cantata" in only six days in Yan'an. In the 35th episode of "Strong as a Rock", in order to participate in , the 7th National Congress of the Communist Party of China , there was a lot of artillery fire and chase. It took more than a year for Gu Dacun from Guangdong and Wu Hongxiang from Fujian to finally reach Yan'an.
In addition, there are many memorable details. In the 30th episode of "Diary in the Dense Forest", Zhou Baozhong left dozens of diaries during the arduous years of fighting, let us know the heroic deeds of the eight women throwing into the river, and the courageous sacrifices of the twelve martyrs. In the 41st episode of "Living Eternally in the Fire", Sister Jiang led the inmates to embroider the five-star red flag based on imagination. In the 42nd episode of "The Cemetery and Flowers", only more than 1,500 of the tens of thousands of martyrs who died in Yuhuatai left their names. They died generously for their faith. Among them, the youngest Yuan Zitong was only 16 years old...
A tree shakes another tree, a cloud pushes another cloud, one soul awakens another soul. "The Years of Mountains and Rivers" uses characters to bring stories and emotions to capture the heart. It cuts in from small details, and delicately displays the internal connection between personal choices and national historical destiny, embedding individual emotions in historical memory, and in the audience It builds a common point of emotion between them, gathers strength, and arouses people's thinking about history and today.
Caption: Screenshot of netizens commenting on Weibo
International vision, revolutionary vastness
There is another creative feature in the second season of "The Years of Mountains and Rivers", which introduces a multi-dimensional perspective through the third-party perspective of international friends Look at China's Anti-Japanese War and the Anti-Japanese base area established by the leadership of the Communist Party of China. This creative method expands the narrative perspective, allowing the audience not only to fully appreciate the vastness of the revolution,I also felt the world significance of the Chinese revolution in that period of history.
Caption: "Mountain and River Years" stills
Episode 27 "A Thousand Miles" introduces the American doctors who stayed after arriving in northern Shaanxi with Snow in 1936, Mahaide, The Canadian doctor Bethune, who completed 115 operations in 69 hours under difficult conditions on the front line, and the British economist Lin Maike, who became a radio expert in the anti-Japanese base area, created a miracle. They devoted themselves to the cause of national liberation of the Chinese people during the most difficult years of the Chinese War of Resistance Against Japanese Aggression, and won the eternal respect and memory of the Chinese people.
In episode 37 of "Observing Yan'an", the first U.S. officer to visit the Eighth Route Army and the anti-Japanese base area behind enemy lines Carlson, China-Burma-India Theater U.S. Commander-in-Chief and Chinese Theater Chief of Staff Stilwell He gave a very high evaluation of Yan'an and the Communist Party of China, and their close observations left many valuable historical documents for China.
In the 40th episode of "Red China Chronicle", Dutch documentary director Yuris Evans, Hungarian-American war photographer Robert Capa, American photographer Harrison Forman, French photographer Bresson and others held a camera and a video camera and used the lens to record the red China, expressing their position and attitude.
Episode 44 "Land Poems" also introduces the American Han Ding's "Turnover: A Revolutionary Documentary in a Village", as well as British Elizabeth Klucker and David Ke "Shilidian: Revolution in a Village in China" by Luke and his wife. The two books have unique perspectives, and both have the same theme: how the Chinese Communist Party allows farmers to obtain land.
Interpreting the Chinese Revolution from another angle,"The Years of Mountains and Rivers" brought the audience a broader vision, a more objective evaluation, a more complete answer, and a more profound sense of the world. (Sun Jiayin, chief reporter of Xinmin Evening News)
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