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"Up and down five thousand years!"
After two years, the third season of the large-scale cultural expedition program "National Treasures" was officially launched. 9 Chinese civilization historical and cultural heritages, 27 national treasures were unveiled, and many celebrities and museum curators joined...
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"National Treasure" poster.
Behind the national treasure, there is this unknown history
In the first issue of the third season of "National Treasure", the program team revealed to the audience a "small egg" that had been hidden for 3 years.
Since the first season, the "Zang" on the "National Treasure" logo has been impressive. This artifact hidden in the "Zang" character is the first national treasure introduced in the show-Ming Yongle Qinghua Haiyan River Cliff Three-legged stove.
From 1420 to 2020 AD, the Forbidden City has gone through a full 600 years of history, and this cultural relic has just witnessed an important moment when the Forbidden City was built.
It is painted with overturned waves and mountain shapes, which imply the eternal life of the mountains and the sea, and the eternal life of the mountains and mountains. The reason why it was able to come to the Forbidden City with Zhu Di, the ancestor of the Ming Dynasty, may also be the meaning of stability (ding).
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Every cultural relic is born with a long history behind it.
This tripod-style furnace was produced in Jingdezhen. Jingdezhen’s blue and white porcelain is well-known at home and abroad, but to produce such a highly saturated blue, it needs to rely on imported blue material-Su Ma Liqing.
In the program, actor Jin Dong played the famous Ming Dynasty navigator and diplomat Zheng He in his "Legend of Past Life". When the Forbidden City was built, a multinational delegation visited him. He discovered the strangeness of an envoy from a Central Asian country, and finally succeeded in diplomacy with porcelain. Resolved a crisis, and expressed the big-nation mindset of "the world is stable, the emphasis is on cooperation, concerted efforts, and mutual assistance".
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Purple walls in the sky, the Forbidden City on the ground.
The second national treasure on display in the Palace Museum is the gold-inlaid pearl celestial globe from the Qianlong period of the Qing Dynasty.
The shape of the gold-embedded pearl celestial sphere is very exquisite. Its base is 9 dragons, and the spherical surface is inlaid with thousands of pearls, which is equivalent to a three-dimensional star map. Each pearl represents a star. The larger the pearl, The brighter the star represented.
China is one of the first countries to start astronomy. Li Geng, an associate researcher at the National Astronomical Observatory of the Chinese Academy of Sciences, cited an example. British astronomer Halley discovered Halley’s comet in 1680 and found that it would return every 76 years. In ancient historical documents, from the 7th year of Qin Shihuang to the 2nd year of Xuantong of the Qing Dynasty, there were not a few records of 29 Halley Comet returns.
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The third national treasure introduced in the program is the main entrance of the Forbidden City-Meridian Gate.
In the Ming Dynasty, officials waited outside the Wumen Gate at 3 in the morning. On weekdays, the Zhongmen was the emperor’s exclusive passage, but there were exceptions. On the day of the Imperial Examination, the three champions, winners, and Tanhua could walk through the Zhongmen. , This is also the most yearning moment of literati.
Its "previous life legend" interprets the story of the great talent Yang Shen encountering the "Wumen Court Rod" because of his outspoken words. Wumen witnessed the most glorious and humiliating moments of his life, and also witnessed the clamor of Chinese scholars and doctors. Iron bone.
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To watch national treasure stories, first watch celebrity drama
In its three seasons, the high reputation of "National Treasure" lies not only in the exquisiteness of the national treasure, but also in the "new" form.
"I know that we may not be able to see more stars now, but in one hundred or one thousand years, we will definitely see a broader and broader universe." actor Zhang Zifeng said firmly on the stage of the show .
She played the Qing Dynasty female mathematician and astronomer Wang Zhenyi who is proficient in astronomy and geography. She has written works such as "Lunar Eclipse Solution", "Pythagorean Triangle Solution", "Defeng Pavilion First Collection" and so on, dedicating her life to Galaxy.
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Different from the past hammer-smashing cultural relics show, in "National Treasure", the audience can see the three generations of stars from the old, middle and young to "boom acting". For example, Wang Kai turned into a "drama fine" and Qianlong was defeated by Wang Xizhi and Huang. Gongwang frantically complained, and Sa Beining became a basic judge of the Qin Dynasty and staged the "Qin Dynasty Version of Today's Statement"...
But in the show, all the stars are supporting roles. Duan Yihong once bluntly said at the scene: "The biggest protagonist of this show must be cultural relics and not celebrities. What I have to do is to help everyone understand cultural relics in a way that actors are good at."
In addition to celebrities as the guardians of national treasures, "National Treasure" also invited a number of museum curators "to sit in town" to tell the story of the excavation and protection of cultural relics.
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The first season includes "A Thousand Miles of Rivers and Mountains" and Shigu, and the second season includes "On the Balcony Post" and the Jin Ou Yonggu Cup. If the first two seasons of the program hope to make the museum's cultural relics "live", the third season He looked farther and turned his attention to historical and cultural remains.
For example, the Forbidden City in 600 years, Xi'an Stele Forest in 933, Suzhou Classical Gardens in 1000, Potala Palace in 1300, Mogao Grottoes in 1654, Qin Shihuang Mausoleum in 2200, Confucian Temple in 2500, Confucian Palace, 3200 Sanxingdui in 1960, Anyang Yin Ruins in 3300...
Chief Director Yu Lei once introduced that the logic for the selection of the nine historical and cultural heritages is, "We hope to extend the dimension of our expression to the entire river of human civilization and see what Chinese civilization has contributed to the world."
Cultural relics have a past, but also present and future
Cultural relics are the carriers of historical civilization, but they are not always solidified in yesterday's glory. Cultural relics not only connect history with visitors in front of the museum, but also have an impact on the present and the future.
For example, during the Anti-Japanese War, in order to keep archives of ancient buildings that could not be moved, a group of researchers worked hard to survey and map the central axis of Beijing.
They were in the sky every day, carefully measuring every part of the building. They worked for four years, and finally completed 704 drawings, leaving a complete set of survey drawings of ancient buildings on the central axis for later generations.
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For another example, in recent years, archaeologists have discovered that the Ming Yongle blue and white seawater cliff-shaped three-legged furnace at the same age as the Forbidden City actually has a "twin brother" who is not beautiful enough. The Jingdezhen Ceramic Archaeological Institute has used it for about a year. It took time to repair the broken tiles buried deep underground.
In the process of excavation in the past thirty years, the staff faced more than 6,000 boxes and dozens of tons of tiles. They washed the sand from thousands of broken tiles, summarized and classified them, and devoted all their efforts to restoration. Help cultural relics find their identity.
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The Meridian Gate, which has stood for hundreds of years in the Forbidden City, has now become the largest temporary exhibition hall in the Forbidden City, showing to audiences all over the world the Chinese feelings of inclusiveness and mutual learning.
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The guarding, researching, and preaching from generation to generation allowed these cultural relics to be passed on, and the cultural charm and spirit condensed in the cultural relics were passed on.
As the program said: "Looking back at history, what has supported Chinese civilization for more than 5,000 years is the cultural gene rooted in the blood of the Chinese nation. Every cultural relic is a genetic code that records civilization. It is a treasure house of genes that inherit civilization."
So, should we get to know them better?
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