After seventeen years of hard work, the "Chinese Painting Series of Paintings of All Chronicles" which contains more than 10,000 national treasure painting collections at home and abroad has finally been completed, and the humanistic documentary that records the story behind the "Great Series" officially kicked off in October of the golden autumn. The three-episode humanistic documentary "The Book of Revised in the Prosperous Times" carefully created by Zhejiang Radio and Television Group started at 20:30 on the 17th and was broadcast on Zhejiang Satellite TV in the form of one episode per night. The film focuses on the "Chinese Painting Series" which is a large-scale, historical and national cultural project that spans China and abroad. It takes "Gathering", "Continuation" and "Renewal" as collections. It not only records the digital gathering process of painting treasures at home and abroad in a panoramic manner, reveals the stories in the process of national treasure circulation and loss, but also vividly tells the cultural context and spiritual inheritance of the development of Chinese painting history with points.
Dream of digital "going home" for ancient paintings
In 2005, a dream of digitalizing "going home" for ancient Chinese paintings scattered around the world "growing home" in Zhejiang, and the "Chinese Painting Series of All Ages" was launched, a major national cultural project with a large scale, history and spanning China and abroad.
From 2005 to 2022, the "big series" project team started from scratch, allowing 3,569 pieces (sets) of paintings lost overseas to return to the embrace of the motherland through high-precision digitalization, "reunite" with 8,910 pieces (sets) of domestic collection images, and finally included and published 12,405 pieces (sets) of 263 cultural and museum institutions at home and abroad, forming a magnificent picture of the history of ancient Chinese painting that has lasted for more than two thousand years.
"Four Thousand Spirits" How to refine the
"Big Series" project team has always adhered to the "Four Thousand Spirits" of "Thousand Mountains and Rivers, Thousands of Struggle, Thousands of Difficulties, Thousand Words", and has made every effort for seventeen years. The first episode of the documentary "The Book of Revised in the Prosperous Ages" tells the story behind the gathering and separation of the famous painting "The Admonitions of the Female Historian", allowing the audience to have a glimpse of how the "Four Thousand Spirits" of the large team was refined.
"Advisor of the Female Historian" is a silk painting created by Gu Kaizhi of the Eastern Jin Dynasty in China. The original work has been lost. The earliest known Tang Dynasty copy was stolen by British Captain Johnson in 1900 and sold to the British Museum for 25 pounds. Due to the age of time, only 9 of the 12-section pictures are left, and there are serious weathering and slag destruction. What kind of opportunity was the "big group" team convinced the British Museum to provide image data? How did they make the Chinese treasure "The Admonitions of the Female Historian" finally connect to the beginning and end, truly restore the atmosphere and texture of ancient calligraphy and painting, and finally complete the digital gathering?
Professor Jin Xiaoming, who has been with the "big department" for 17 years, also told many unforgettable experiences in the documentary. Why did he lead his team to "three visits" in the Japanese Kurokawa Ancient Culture Research Institute? How did he spend three years communicating, negotiating, falling into a deadlock, waiting, communicating again... to complete the digital collection of a painting?
"Revised Books of Prosperous Ages" not only has a big river, but also a little bit of water. These behind-the-scenes stories will also be revealed one by one in the documentary. The amount of energy put in place and the number of people involved in the "big series" project team is difficult to estimate. The stories of every "big group" in the documentary footage and those extraordinary life experiences are closely linked to this major cultural achievement. "The Book of Revised Times" tells the power of time. It turns out that seventeen years have passed and every moment has never been wasted.
Reality is the background color. Creation is the soul
Reality, the background color of documentaries. In the three-episode documentary "The Book of Revised in the Prosperous Ages", there are touching details of "I took cultural relics in the Forbidden City", and there are also "How to talk about this painting". The vivid lens language allows those national treasures that have been silent for thousands of years to "speak", and at the same time lead the audience into the daily life of the "big group" team who is down-to-earth and hard-working, follow their footsteps, travel through thousands of mountains and rivers, and launch a world-class art tour.
creation is the soul of a documentary.There are many exciting national treasure legends in the documentary. What kind of legend does the return of "Five Ox Picture" have? What kind of twists and turns are behind the donation of "Spring Outing" by collector Zhang Boju? The "Grand Series" explores art historians, collectors and their descendants, and also uses special effects to show the detailed characteristics of national treasure paintings. With its unique knowledge, ornamentality and interaction, it presents the cultural connotation of "Grand Series of Chinese Paintings" from multiple angles. The digital reappearance of the treasures of the past has given more people the opportunity to appreciate the fine arts born in different time and space up close, and feel the unique cultural charm of China to the nations of the world.
text/Reporter Zu Weiwei Wang Lei
Original title: The documentary "Revised Classics of Prosperous Times" premieres, witnessing the digital gathering process of more than 10,000 national treasure paintings. The vivid lens language makes national treasures "speak"
Source: Beijing Youth Daily
