In 2016, directors Xiao Han and Ye Jun led the team to shoot the documentary "I Repair Cultural Relics in the Forbidden City".
is just 3 episodes, 50 minutes per episode. No one expected it to be popular, and the Douban score is as high as 9.4.
This documentary made this group of craftsmen who silently repair cultural relics in the dark walls of the Forbidden City famous.
was praised by netizens, " touches grass, wood, metal and stone with one hand, and reaches the Song, Yuan, Ming and Qing with the other hand."
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After a year of follow-up, he walked a journey of 100,000 kilometers and recorded more than a dozen groups of characters.
In 2019, Xiao Han came up with a new work, which is similar to "I Repair Cultural Relics in the Forbidden City", and is also a craftsman.
The difference is that this time, the craftsmen are no longer working groups, but individuals scattered all over the country, as well as those small shops with a history of hundreds of years.
It is -
" Is a hundred years long "
Life is a belief
2019.5.8
Yuejiu smells the world, Dongpu wine is the best
Yuejiu smells the world, Dongpu wine is the best.
Dongpu Town is located in Yuecheng District, Shaoxing City. It is the birthplace of Shaoxing wine and the Shaoxing winemaking industry center.
Dongpu is built on the water, and residents live on the water.
The fragrance of wine floats on the shore of Jianhu Lake is the most appropriate way to describe people in Dongpu who love to drink and make wine.
The most famous master of brewing wine among Dongpu people is Shen Bai and . NHK (Japanese Broadcasting Association) once came to shoot a documentary for him.
Master Shen’s father and grandfather are both masters of winemaking. By his generation, the family’s winemaking history has reached a hundred years.
The three brothers, Master Shen is the third.
The eldest brother is unique in Dongpu with the mellow spring snow wine. Now he is old this year and has deaf ears. He rarely makes wine. The second brother is the "wine mind" mentioned by Lao Shaoxing. Now he goes north to Shandong and shows the majesty of rice wine at the home court of white wine.
And Master Shen himself is a brewing team.
pedaled a tricycle and started collecting old jars from street to street.
Compared to the new jar, the old jar has patina, making wine more stable.
When the jar is taken back, it will be exposed to the vat - it will be exposed for twenty or thirty days of sun and night, which can absorb the spiritual energy of heaven and earth and collect the essence of the sun and moon.
The other side of fermentation is about to begin.
Use the early rice glutinous rice harvested in July , each of which is crystal clear and full. Steam until the color is dark, and then water and cool until it is 24 to 28 degrees.
Master Shen does not use a thermometer. With years of experience, he can sense the temperature with his hands.
Dig out a trumpet-shaped wine hole in the glutinous rice, expose the bottom of the tank for easy breathing, and after fermenting forty hours, sweet wine brewed .
Sweet wine is about to spread to the big trumpet, you can place the maiqu.
The wine made in spring is called Xiangxue. The alcohol content is between 25 degrees and 40 degrees. It is sweet when you taste it for the first time and is full of energy.
Tourists are easily drunk on the streets, and women are easily caught.
At this time, Master Shen’s mobile phone rang, "Little Donkey" was singing happily, and a friend invited Master Shen to repair the altar.
The jar of brewing wine is broken, and it costs less than five yuan per time, but it requires full patience and excellent craftsmanship.
Iron ware hits the porcelain, first fill the outside, then fill the inside.
Master Shen's expression is focused, which is a kind of thing that loves things and cherishes things. My son said it is difficult to understand, but in Master Shen's mind, it cannot be measured by cost-effectiveness.
That day, Master Shen had a fight with his wife, and in anger he moved to the old house of Jiujiu.
Two or three small stir-fry, a glass of wine, Master Shen turned up his wife's old account in front of the camera.
complained that my wife was stingy in life, but when Master Shen accused her, she had a smile on her face and a spoiled voice in her words.
In fact, today the wine is about to ferment, and he is going to stay in the old house.
Late at night, Master Shen lifted the bedding wrapped in the jar, and the sound of fermenting bubbles rustled.
It’s impossible to make wine, Master Shen said, you have to keep it all the time.
Although there was a fight, Master Shen would leave it to his wife to taste the first cup of sweet wine that fermented before tonight.
Delicious food and love, don’t let down
Hsinchu is known as the Windy City and is the earliest city developed in northern Taiwan.
, built in the 13th year of Qianlong in the Qing Dynasty, is the origin of Hsinchu and has a history of more than 250 years.
, and Weng Ji braised pork rice opposite the Chenghuang Temple stage has also witnessed the rise and fall of hundreds of years.
Weng Jingzhong is the third generation successor of Weng Ji braised pork rice, and the fourth generation - his three daughters have also begun to take over.
This store opposite Chenghuang Temple is an old store, and the new store is open in another place.
At 5:30 in the morning, just as dawn came, there were already long queues of diners outside the old store.
"Eat a bowl of braised pork rice at five or six o'clock in the morning, eat enough, take a shower, and then go back to sleep." , an old customer who has been eating for fifty years said.
At 8 o'clock in the morning, the whole family returned to the new store to prepare lunch.
each has its own division of labor, everyone performs their own duties, and they work hard for most of the day, and they only have time to get some time to sleep in the afternoon.
The eldest daughter once worked in hotel management, advocated innovation, and wanted to make braised pork rice famous and brand.
However, the parents and two young daughters were very opposed, contrary to tradition, and were afraid of smashing the sign.
That night, when the store was closed, the eldest daughter and father who had been in the cold war for three days finally opened their hearts and were willing to talk.
Daughter asks about father’s dream.
My father said he just wanted to live a stable life and run a store to maintain this small family and be a strong backing for this family.
The daughter asked her father about her position in his heart.
father said:
How many lives are she my only one.
She is my heart and liver, she is my inner abdomen, one of my five abdomen and six internal organs. Without her, I can't live.
One hundred years carry the heavy weight of history, but the original intention is simple - I want people around me to live a good life.
The eldest daughter also understands her father’s hard work and says thank you.
The two smiled and saw tears in their eyes, and finally reconciled in the strange and familiar hug.
Is a hundred years long?
It's time to catch up with the third episode. Master Shen's wine has not been finished yet, and the reform and innovation of Weng Ji braised pork rice has not yet been achieved. There are also several century-old craft inheritors behind
.
cried a few times in the middle of the journey, and was often amused by their humor.
"Is a hundred years long?" This question began to linger in my heart.
A hundred years ago it was 1919, when China failed to diplomatically at the Paris Peace Conference.
The news came, and the crowd was infuriated. On May 4, more than 3,000 students from 13 schools in Beijing gathered in front of Tiananmen Square to protest the unequal treaty, known in history as the May Fourth Movement.
Today, a hundred years later, the United States launched a trade war against China. China has a clear attitude and the official media has a tough wording:
talk, the door is open; fight, accompany it to the end!
100 years ago, the "father of China's railways" Zhan Tianyou died of illness. The construction of Beijing-Zhangjiakou Railway , which he presided over, is the first railway trunk line designed and constructed entirely by Chinese engineering and technical personnel.
100 years later, in May 2019, I.M. Pei died, and he was hailed as "the last master of modern architecture in the world."
His footprints are spread all over the world. The designs of the American Kennedy Library , the French Louvre , the Beijing Xiangshan Hotel, the Hong Kong Bank of China Building, and the Suzhou Museum are all made by him.
from 1919 to 2019, 100 years, December 200, 36525 days.
Is a hundred years long?
It may have grown into a person's life, or it may have been shortened into a few pages of a history book.
History is magnificent, the times meet, heroes write history, and common people are a drop in the ocean.
When Weng Jingzhong expressed his love for his wife, the narrator of "Is One Hundred Years Long" said this:
Maybe he held hands and would go together in the next life.
So with the road of companionship, I will be busier in this life.
Is a hundred years long?
If life really has the power to make us brave, there are only two points:
There is someone you love, something you are willing to do for the rest of your life.
If you are not satisfied with hope, what should you be filled with
In fact, as early as December 2018, the movie version of "Is One Hundred Years Long" was screened in the theater.
The protagonists of the story are two:
1 is Huang Zhongjian, a young worker who is obsessed with Cai Lifo boxing and lion dance.
The second is Ahte, an old craftsman who makes saddles in Xinjiang Kazakhs.
The former has dreams, but the reality is poor: no money, no house, no car, and my girlfriend's parents dislike it in every way.
The latter's skills are no longer inherited, his son runs away from debt, and his daughter-in-law chooses to leave. His nephew has uremia and needs a kidney transplant.
, but the audience did not buy it because of excessive sensation. Although they invited Huang Bo to sing the theme song, the box office was only 1.21 million.
After all, reality is very hard, and no one wants to cry for other people's suffering.
Until May this year, the drama version of "Is One Hundred Years Long" was launched.
shows that the director has learned the lessons of the movie version and returned to the field of expertise of the team, turning the focus from emotional ethics to real craftsmanship. The two protagonists of the movie version of
have their scenes in the TV version being compressed, and craftsmen who have never shown their faces in the movie have become the focus.
characters are freed from the single sadness and burden and become alive.
The viewability and fun of the entire documentary are instantly enhanced.
Douban's score is generally five-star, and the score on Bilibili is as high as 9.7.
Douban Comments
The only regret is that there is not too high publicity budget, no celebrity support, and no hot searches.
Very few people know about this documentary.
has a total of eight episodes, and now it has been broadcast nearly half of them. There are only 31 short reviews on Douban and only 3 drama reviews.
. Among these three reviews, one of them was written by the staff who were responsible for writing the copywriting.
The true feelings in the words can be seen, and the team’s intention is:
Now we can talk about the commonalities of craftsmen: A certain reward, milk tea, life cannot be lost, and indispensable true love. In the exhausting repeated modifications in the later period, occasionally, I will be moved as if I first saw them. Lao Shen was doing wine and cultivating the jar, Lao Li played a farewell look after making the pipa, Yerpolati and his wife jumped on the black horse's expression... They are not big names, nor are they successful examples that are highly praised by this era, but there are some things in them that they inadvertently heal the restlessness and wounds of the times. Perhaps this is also the reason why I have been approaching the field of handicrafts in recent years.
When "Is One Hundred Years Long" was launched on Bilibili, director Xiao Han personally went to the barrage to comment and interact with the audience. The comment section of
also exclaimed that there was such a down-to-earth director.
is a little sad, a little helpless, and a little cute.
It is an adventure to make a documentary in China, because there is a great possibility of being disappointed and the chance of winning the lottery will be very popular. Why is
still persisting?
Maybe it is to keep the memory, or maybe it is to live up to another way.
is like the sentence Mu Xin wrote:
If you are not satisfied with hope, what are you covered in?
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Is one hundred years long?
With you, it won’t last long!
