China News Agency, Lanzhou, May 10 Question: Chinese documentary film director Qin Chuan: "View" Dunhuang from a different perspective
China News Agency reporter Ding Si
The Mogao Grottoes in Dunhuang, which was closed for more than 100 days due to the epidemic, was reopened on the 10th. On the same day, the Gansu TV documentary "Chinese Grotto Corridor" premiered on the Science and Education Channel of China Central Radio and Television Station. This is also the first director of the film Qin Chuan. Ten documentaries about Dunhuang, he said, "Today is a good day, it is really the fate of Buddha."
Qinchuan, who was born in a village near the Mogao Grottoes in Dunhuang, is destined to have an indissoluble bond with Dunhuang. "Exquisite caves are the most precious memories of childhood." 55-year-old Qin Chuan recalled in an interview with a reporter from China News Service that in 2004, he was the director of the documentary film of Jiuquan TV Station in Gansu, and he aimed the camera at his hometown. Dunhuang started the career of searching for Dunhuang's "past and present life" with documentaries.
For the first time, the shooting used 4K ultra-high-definition picture quality to comprehensively display the important grottoes along the Silk Road, especially the beautiful art statues and magnificent historical scrolls of the Sanqianli Grottoes corridor in Gansu, which were divided into "The Grottoes" and "Dunhuang Danqing" "Eastern Smile" and "National Treasure" four episodes.
"One thousand-year-old grottoes, like a string of precious stones sprinkled by Buddha, dotted on the Silk Road, constitute the world's largest, longest-lasting, and most complete sequence of grotto art corridors, the world's largest Buddhist art treasure. The Dunhuang Mogao Grottoes is the most dazzling one. "Qin Chuan said that in addition to the exquisite grotto art, the" mirror "in the historical mirror image and the" sculptor "in contemporary reality became the soul of the film.
Gansu is the most densely distributed area of grottoes in China, with 205 caves in existence. This film presents the cultural birthmarks and artistic treasures left by the Silk Road to Gansu. In the space-time coordinates of thousands of years and tens of thousands of miles, Gansu highlights the important historical position of Gansu as the originator of Chinese grottoes.
For Qin Chuan, this shooting means "crossing the previously familiar field and looking at Dunhuang from another angle." He said that the film is based on Dunhuang, focusing on Gansu, using its footsteps to measure the culture of the grottoes, and explore the ins and outs of Chinese grottoes. To experience and comprehend Gansu ’s current contribution to the Chinese civilization, let the audience discover the wonderful China in a grotto.
At present, Qin Chuan and his team have created 9 documentaries including Dunhuang Practical Lotte, Dunhuang Painting School, and the Dialogue between Mogao Grottoes and Angkor Wat, covering Dunhuang history, geography, calligraphy, music, dance, art, etc. Each category constitutes a historical and cultural image of Dunhuang, "speaking" about the Silk Road in a unique way of image.
"Dunhuang, another ten years, still not enough." Qin Chuan said that he will also plan to shoot the TV literary play "Dunhuang of Humanity" written by Mr. Feng Jicai many years ago, and then "see" Dunhuang from another perspective. (Finish)