In today's "fast-paced" era, many people have a "nostalgia".
From movies, variety shows to short video platforms, "nostalgia" has become a tried-and-eat "traffic password" that has aroused the emotional resonance of to countless people .
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"Hello, Li Huanying " in Jia Ling "traveling" back to the 1980s
There are also various grocery shops with the theme of "childhood memories". Now it is also spread all over the city, with iron frogs, cloth sandbags, glass marbles, each carrying a full of memories.
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Nostalgic theme grocery store, glass marbles, cloth sandbags, a wide range of nostalgic toys
As experts say, "People remember the carefree and stress-free past through nostalgia."
But from another perspective, people are trapped in a constant nostalgic craze, which also means that the traditional customs, professions and crafts that were once everywhere are being swallowed up by this "fast era" .
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Traditional craftsmanship is "cured", and it is difficult to find
There is such a documentary. The photography team spent a year traveling all over China, just to find those traditional craftsmanship that are about to be lost and few people know about them.
This is the documentary " Is One Hundred Years Long " with a rating of up to 9.0. In just 9 episodes and 4 hours, it presents the audience with ordinary people on the land of China who regard craftsmanship as "a lifelong love".
Today, Pige will talk to you about this world-stunning "magic work" and the behind-the-scenes story of the birth of this work.
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"strange people" in the world
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Foshan, Guangdong, The fifth generation descendant of Cai Lifoquan Xia Hanguang
As the saying goes, "The big is hidden in the city, the big elegance begins in the vulgarity" , in the secular life we live in, there are many strange and skilled craftsmen who master unique skills.
They have one common feature, that is, low-key and high-profile work , and pass on the skills they have learned from generation to generation.
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Xingxia Altay, the Aheti family, is making handmade saddles
The film crew traveled through mountains and rivers for a hundred thousand kilometers. Many are hidden in the ancient folk craftsmanship, small shops with a century-old history, and craftsmen who depend on the small shops for life. is presented in front of the camera.
"Is a Hundred Years Long" focuses on these wise and skillful craftsmen who are hidden in the dust and smoke. In the process of presenting their daily lives, they ask:
How long is a hundred years for us? How do we spend it as ordinary people?
Just as the director of this film Xiao Han said, a hundred years are almost a life of a person, but in the long river of history, in the blink of an eye, at most yawning.
For craftsmen, a hundred years is not long. After all, every craft has a history of at least a hundred years. As inheritors, they are just a "link" of it.
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Hsinchu, Taiwan, "Weng Ji Braised Pork Rice" has a history of a hundred years
The entire documentary covers The four regional spaces of China, east, west, south, and north, . Each place has its own unique craftsmanship, and each craft has distinct local characteristics.
Dunhuang Mogao Grottoes in the northwest desert, those millennium murals that have been eroded by wind, sand and time need to be repaired by professional repairman .
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Dunhuang painted sculptures waiting for repair
Hong Kong. In order to celebrate the birthday of the gods, the "Divine Art Studio" is on the verge of losing. The squad master needs to climb a bamboo pole more than ten meters high and perform a thrilling "high-altitude acrobatics".
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Hong Kong, the "magic theater studio" under construction,
Foshan, Guangdong, on the southeast coast, not only has hailed Huang Feihong , Ip Man and other martial arts masters, but also witnessed the passing of folk boxing "Cai Li Fo Boxing" from generation to generation.
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Foshan , Cai Lifo Boxing disciple, practice boxing
We may have heard of these traditional crafts and professions mentioned above, but we are not so familiar with them.
Some people may ask, why not take pictures of lion dance, Wing Chun , and New Year pictures, which are more familiar to everyone?
But it is precisely because of unfamiliarity that these traditional crafts should be promoted more to let the audience know about them and the existence of the craftsmen behind them.
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Chen Yuguang, known as "Uncle Guang", is the fourth generation successor of the magical art studio
Before this, the director Xiao Han directed " I repair cultural relics in the Forbidden City " and " Himalayan Ladder " were both exploring and won good reviews.
But for most viewers, whether it is the mysterious "Himalaya" or the majestic "Forbidden City" , these grand landscapes are still a bit far away from our daily lives.
So this time Xiao Han chose to enter the streets and alleys that the public is familiar with. In his words, "If the Forbidden City is a temple, this time we turn our attention to the world."
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Jiang and Zhejiang , Jiangnan culture filled with white walls and black tiles
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Hong Kong offshore island, tall buildings are everywhere, and the grand magical arts studio
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Xinjiang Altay, Kazakh herders galloping on the snow field
In this world, from the old man in his sixties or seventies to young and energetic workers, these people who are inconspicuous in the crowd actually have the skills of "extraordinary" .
Suzhou , 4-year-old Li Zhaolin, has more than 50 years of experience in making pipa . The pipa that was born from him is a perfect work of art.
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4-year-old Li Zhaolin, making pipa
Many people come from all the way to invite Li Zhaolin to make pipa. His name has also been included in the authoritative "Chinese Musical Instrument Ceremony" .
But he is no different from other elderly people outside of work. He reads the newspaper every day and listens to the news, picks up his granddaughter and goes home from school, and has time to drink tea and chat with a few old buddies.
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Apart from work, Li Zhaolin is completely an ordinary old man
Shaoxing, Zhejiang Province. Shen Bai, the same 70-year-old man Shen Bai and are famous local brewer . He also accepted an exclusive interview with Japan's NHK TV station a few years ago.
Shen Baihe actually has a cute side in life. He arranged for the photographer to "give a shot" and treated wine jar as a gyroscope and played . He was just like an old naughty boy.
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0-year-old Shen Baihe had a fight with his wine jar
After Lao Shen was angry and cooked himself in the winery, complaining about his wife's "thrift" to the camera, like a child who was wronged.
Foshan, Guangdong, Xia Hanguang As the fifth generation disciple of Cai Lifuquan , he not only teaches his disciples to box every day, but also does massage to earn some "extra money".
But the most worth mentioning is actually Xia Hanguang's disciple Huang Zhongjian , a real "martial illegitimate".
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Huang Zhongjian, who dreams of becoming a "martial arts master",
When working, drinking, and going home, no matter what occasion Huang Zhongjian is talking about his love for "martial arts". His dream is to go home to be the village chief in the future and open a martial arts school in the village.
But in fact, he was just a worker who was moving bricks on the construction site. Because he did not have enough savings, was unable to marry his girlfriend for a long time.
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6-year-old Huang Zhongjian has worked in Foshan for ten years
"Is a Hundred Years Long" It is through the display of the "Semitic Life" of the Strange Man "Seem of the "Semitic Life" of the audience and the craftsmen, which has broken the "Sense of distance" between the audience and the craftsmen.
You can see that they are not detached from the world, but are like you and me, and they have to be entangled in daily life.
This just confirms a sentence circulating on the Internet: Only down-to-earth stories can truly touch people.
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"The things that people invest in emotions cannot calculate cost-effectiveness."
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5-year-old Li Yunhe still can't let go of repair work for the rest of his life
In this intra-roll such a white-hot society, "lying flat" and "sucking fish" have become the only choice for many young people to escape reality.
All the efforts in work, all the staying up late and working overtime are just for two words: benefits.
But it is the opposite for artists. What they do is not about interests, and the reason why they devote all their energy is entirely out of love.
For example, Shen Baihe often rides tricycles around the streets and alleys, and goes door to door to buy wine jars.
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Wine brewing master, Shen Baihe is in the wine jar
According to the principle of "It is one point to save" , Lao Shen often fights wits and courage with neighbors for one or two yuan.
is not just because of savings. In Lao Shen's eyes, these aged wine jars have patina, which makes it more stable to make wine.
repairs the damaged wine jar, creates wooden boxes for wine , and even sends express delivery. Lao Shen does it himself.
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Shen Baihe made wine boxes, each step must be completed in person
For him, no matter how hard the process of brewing wine is, it only takes a few sips of wine to disappear.
Old Master Li Zhaolin is the same. He will spend several months or even a year to carefully make a pipa.
From the polishing of the inner hall to the change in the curve of the back plate, Master Li used tools to advance it bit by bit. As he was older, he often relied on his years of experience to grasp the sense of .
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Age Li Zhaolin has a worse look than before, but he can still ensure that every process is rigorously
Li Zhaolin compared making a pipa to "giving birth" . It must be well born and raised, and you must devote your feelings to make a pipa that is "living" .
As a master of mural restoration , Li Yunhe has repaired more than 4,000 square meters of murals in more than 60 years, allowing countless historical extinctions to be "resurrected" .
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The master of cultural relics restoration, Li Yunhe
Now in his eighties, he has no requirements for reducing his age. In order to repair a flaw in his work, he must personally climb a ladder more than ten meters high and inspect the murals.
Li Yunhe feels that he is actually a doctor. The mural is a patient who can’t speak and can’t walk. If he doesn’t treat the patient well, how can he be rejuvenated?
Compared with the professional craftsmen above, Huang Zhongjian is completely a "amateur player" . Every group training is the one with the most inconsistent movements.
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Tai Lifo Boxing disciple, Huang Zhongjian
Although he has a grand dream of martial arts righteousness, no one around him takes it seriously. There is a big gap between Huang Zhongjian who knows them and this "dreamer" who talks about it.
But Huang Zhongjian never took this disdain or contempt in his heart. He still insisted on practicing boxing day after day, and went to the master to ask for tips whenever he had time.
The reason why Huang Zhongjian, a "unorthodox craftsman,
", was because Xiao Han thought of Stephen Chow's movie " King of Comedy ".
Like Yin Tianchou, Huang Zhongjian also has an unbeatable persistence and tenacity, and exudes a moving sincerity in his clumsiness.
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In front of the master, Huang Zhongjian is like a child who abides by the rules and is actually like Lao Shen in the film, "There is no way to calculate the cost-effectiveness of things that people devote to emotions."
In a time when life is faster and people are becoming more and more impatient, how valuable is such love and persistence.
If you like it, do it. Doing it will be a lifelong thing. This is the "creed" that craftsmen adhere to.
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"Ideal is full, reality is skinny"
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Every family has a difficult sutra
It is undoubtedly a very beautiful and romantic thing to be able to engage in the business you like.
But "Is One Hundred Years Long" is not just a simple presentation of craftsmen sticking to their ideals, instead stripping away the pure beauty of the ideals and presenting the unknown pain of craftsmen's reality.
For example, Ah Heti, a saddle craftsman in his 60s, has not paid off the money he owed to his youngest son a few years ago.
In his 50s, he had to rely on the traditional skills of making saddles in to pay off his debts, and endured the severe cold of more than minus 30 degrees Celsius to the market to hawk.
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Aheti has not sold Sadlock
In the past, my love for technology has now become a helplessness due to reality.
On the other hand, Aheti's younger brother's child has uremia, and needs Aheti's youngest son to donate his kidney to save his life, which put Aheti in a dilemma.
On one side, the debt collector comes to collect the debt, and on the other side, the younger brother comes to ask for help. This is really difficult for an old man.
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In trouble, Aheti watched his youngest son leave
. He also had similar situations. He also had Huang Zhongjian because the marriage was as anxious as an ant on a hot pan.
No money, no car, no house, and the image is not outstanding, which has caused Huang Zhongjian to be heavily hindered by his girlfriend's parents.
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Cai Lifo Boxing disciple Huang Zhongjian plays the guitar and expresses his feelings
In the cramped rental house, Huang Zhongjian plays the guitar that once fascinates his girlfriend, but what he gets is the response of "Take a bath and sleep quickly" .
Finally, my girlfriend was pregnant. The child was not born yet, but it was found that she had congenital heart disease . Huang Zhongjian, who has always been optimistic, also frowned and fell into the entanglement of "not having a child".
's love and persistence for Kung Fu has become nothing at this moment, and it cannot solve his repeated walls in reality.
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Huang Zhongjian, who has always been optimistic, cannot avoid the suffering of reality
"Is a Hundred Years Long" has no intention of creating anxiety. It wants the audience to see that although life is difficult, if you grit your teeth and persevere, you will always have a glimmer of vitality. At the market, someone was finally attracted by Ah Heti's enthusiasm and his exquisite production. directly customized four sets of saddles.
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Aheti completed the largest transaction this year
With this income, Aheti's debt problem has also been solved.
Huang Zhongjian and his girlfriend decided to give birth to a child, actively treat the child, and fulfill their responsibilities as a father.
But he did not lose his dream of martial arts because of this. Before his girlfriend was giving birth, he was accompanying him in the hospital and did not forget to practice boxing in the corridor, revisiting the master's earnest teachings.
This tenacity toward ideals may also be the reason why my girlfriend has always been with Huang Zhongjian.
"Living" has never been an easy task . As the director said, their craft is not just a simple love for crafts, but also draws the power of facing life.
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They are "living" again
are "hiding into dust and smoke", where is their "way out"?
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Master Xia practices boxing before doing massage
In this era full of temptations, traditional technology seems to have lost its appeal to young people.
like Embroidery from Suzhou and handmade rice paper from Anhui, are all made by older people. Young people basically go to big cities to work and make money, and they are unwilling to stay and learn these crafts that make little money and are boring.
Several old craftsmen in "Is One Hundred Years Long" are also facing the crisis of lost crafts.
For example, Shen Baihe, the "unique skill" he is proud of is now unwilling to be interested in.
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Shen Baihe, Xiutanzi
In his son's opinion, he can buy a new one with a few dollars, who is willing to spend time and effort to repair it?
Li Zhaolin's craftsmanship in making pipa is also unsustainable. Children are afraid of being hurt by sharp tools, and they don't make much money, so no one learns craftsmanship with the old man.
Even Aheti, who lives in a mountain village, was not spared : Because saddles are becoming more and more difficult to sell, making saddles, a craft that has been passed down for thousands of years, has less and less room to display.
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The saddle that once exceeded demand was gradually "marginalized", leaving only the mutual appreciation between the older generation of craftsmen
After all, in this era of such developed transportation, young people in the mountains have ridden motorcycles, who still likes to ride horses?
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The rice used by Lao Shen to brew wine must be the early rice harvested in July
Therefore, "inheritance" has become a key to determine the survival or death of traditional crafts.
For example, "a century-old brand" Weng Ji braised pork rice, boss Weng's eldest daughter uses the ideas of contemporary young people, to transform and upgrade the family brand.
prepares menus for foreign guests in English and Japanese , participates in local food competitions, and makes braised pork rice into vacuum packaging to promote it to young couples. These strategies have made the "tradition" come to a trendy atmosphere.
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The eldest daughter of the Weng family posted a menu of multi-language
Although he had many disputes with his father who sticks to tradition, in this ever-changing era, new attempts must be made to find a way out.
Although no one at home is engaged in the business of making pipas, Li Zhaolin's little granddaughter has learned to play pipas with professional teachers.
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Li Zhaolin's little granddaughter, practicing pipa
Li Zhaolin was very pleased. He felt that as long as the descendants still caress the pipa, the tradition of pipa will not be broken.
After Li Yunhe's grandson returned from studying abroad, he followed his grandfather and father back to Dunhuang to engage in restoration work; his granddaughter, who had been away for ten years, also chose to come back to get a doctorate in cultural relics protection.
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generations of Li Yunhe's family have all been engaged in the protection and restoration of cultural relics
Lao Shen's youngest son began to taste the deliciousness of rice wine after he was 30 years old. He did not say anything else, but silently joined his father's winemaking ranks.
In the new era environment, traditional crafts can be passed down in the next generation through various means.
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The father and daughter jointly operate the Weng Ji braised pork rice
In a century of life, there is nothing happier than seeing what you like to do, which can be continued in future generations.
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Open the Chinese people, interpreting the ceiling of "living"
Shooting is not only a craft, but also a human touch
Each of us needs this piece "The two people who are about to enter the marriage hall cannot hide their joy, and their girlfriend even covered their faces and cried
During the entire shooting process, director Xiao Han was not only an interviewer and a photographer, but also couldn't help but participate in the life of the subject.
When I saw Huang Zhongjian's congenital heart disease on the verge of collapse, Xiao Han's heart was also tightly clutching.
There was no hesitation at all. Xiao Han told Huang Zhongjian to give birth to the child and treat the disease. If the money is not enough, I will give it to you.
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The child's heart surgery was very successful in the end. Huang Zhongjian finally smiled
Seeing Ah Heti's saddle being unable to be sold for a long time, Xiao Han secretly asked someone to buy two saddles from him . He has not told Ah Heti about this matter so far.
According to the convention of documentary shooting, the crew should be objective and real, and should not easily interfere with the life trajectory of the subject.
But in Pi Ge's view, it is precisely this kind of interference that has made a warm and humane documentary.
is different from many documentaries with craftsmen. "Is One Hundred Years Long" is not so much about introducing traditional craftsmanship to the audience, but rather about focusing on craftsmen "How to Live" .
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Guang'an, Sichuan, 91-year-old seal engraving Chen Gongwan and his wife support each other
Huang Zhongjian's life is difficult, but he crosses the street with his girlfriend's hand and sees the joy of his son's birth. All the details are enough to show that he is not disappointed.
In the last episode of the documentary, at Huang Zhongjian's wedding, he was busy putting a ring on his wife, and the sweetness could not be hidden in the corners of his mouth.
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The panic and cramping moment at the wedding was accompanied by the happiness and sweetness of the bitterness and sweetness
All day long, shouting "Where is my beauty?" Aheti, who occasionally gave his wife some little romance.
powered three-wheeled wheels, put on sunglasses, and sprayed with strong perfume. The old couple is like in the Hollywood movie "Hyper and Female Thieves" , showing deep affection and love in their willful and free manner.
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The old couple drove the electric three-wheeler into Sports car -like
The love for craftsmanship and life make their seemingly mediocre life extraordinary.
Just as Director Xiao Han said, "A little bit of heroism and romantic color is enough to make us full of hope for life."
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Drinking tea and peeling nuts, Li Zhaolin chatting and laughing with his peers
In summary, the lives of these craftsmen are nothing more than four words: Contentment.
But in the impetuous and noisy moment, how many people can do this?
It opens the ceiling for Chinese people to interpret "living" -
"Is a Hundred Years Long" reminds the audience with the help of the stories of craftsmen, What is the purpose of our life? What really makes "living" valuable?
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1-year-old Chen Gongwan has been working on seals since the 1940s
"The business we learn is like a bad cotton jacket. It may not necessarily make you look decent, but it can shelter you from the wind and rain at the coldest time."
Each of us needs such a " bad cotton jacket" to support us in every difficult moment in life.
This may be the meaning this documentary wants to convey.
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