"People Dealing with the Silk Road": History, years, and philosophy reach people's hearts

　　"The ancient silk road of camel bells, Huma still hears the style of Tang and Han Dynasty." Recently, when the poetry of the distant frontier fortress sounded, a documentary that truly recorded the ancient Silk Road culture and the life of archaeologists came into the audience's eyes.

This 10-episode documentary produced and broadcast exclusively by Mango TV, titled "People Dealing with the Silk Road", aims to focus on archaeologists, guardians, inheritors and researchers in different positions along the ancient Silk Road. And communicators, with what they see and do, clearly show the viewers those ancient civilizations that were once dazzling, and let the dusty Silk Road culture regain the splendor of the new era.

It can be said that this is a new video experiment.

　　Since 2013, when major initiatives such as the construction of the "Silk Road Economic Belt" and the "21st Century Maritime Silk Road" were creatively put forward, "Silk Road", the core term, has become one of the rich mines of the subject matter of Chinese documentaries. one.

But at present, most Silk Road documentaries only focus on the reproduction of relevant historical stories, or focus on those celebrities who have left important historical footprints on the Silk Road.

On the other hand, "People Dealing with the Silk Road" is different. Every vivid character in this documentary has no sense of "high above", and some are just ordinary as water and warm as candles.

　　Under the lens of "People Dealing with the Silk Road", there are bits and pieces of the lives of these Silk Road culture and archaeologists. Those seemingly inconspicuous "details" are restored to their real working conditions and spiritual outlook- - Guo Wu, who has spent the Mid-Autumn Festival at the Beiting City excavation site for four consecutive years, he has long been accustomed to regard the "old city" as an "old man"; Idris, a desert archaeologist for more than 50 years, has experienced drinking rusty water, continuous After a few months of boring life without contact with the outside world, he experienced the regret and pain of not being able to accompany his father when he died, but he is still unswerving in archaeology. "Have fun"; Hu Xingjun, 40 of the 60 days he was on the post were sandstorms. Facing the hard life of lack of water, mosquito bites, and no communication, he still regarded archaeology as a sacred cause; Liu Guohu, every day The job is to spend 2 hours and walk 6 kilometers to inspect the caves of Jinta Temple one by one. It is like a day for more than ten years. He Wenxi also has a motorcycle, two legs, a shovel, and a mouth to take care of it. The Great Wall, rain or shine, he wrote 5 thick diaries of the Great Wall guardian... Perseverance, struggle, hard work, and hard work, in these ordinary backs, we see their share of the cause of archaeological excavation and cultural relics protection Sincere enthusiasm.

It is their perseverance that gives the Silk Road story a human warmth, gives new hope for the revival of the Silk Road, and allows the Silk Road culture to be passed on from generation to generation.

　　As a character documentary, we have seen that the people in "The People Dealing with the Silk Road" are so vivid and textured. They use their own regretless practice to interpret the profound connotation of "choose one thing for a lifetime".

Also "fresh" are those relics that were once cold. From the first perspective of the Silk Road culture and archaeologists, the documentary presents some of the archaeological sites in detail, combined with the on-site report video, and the outside of the screen is added. The eloquent, detailed and authoritative commentary, "Let the cultural relics speak, let the history speak, and let the culture speak", paragraphs of Silk Road stories that have been in dust for a long time come to life on the screen, becoming lifelike in the fusion of time and space.

　　At present, the younger generation has become the main body of documentaries watching.

Faced with this group, "People Who Work with the Silk Road" not only tells the story of the Silk Road well, but also pays more attention to the innovation of the program form, so that the history of the Silk Road and the culture of the Silk Road can be spread to a wider audience. .

The documentary firmly grasps the aesthetic tastes of young people, and uses their favorite language styles and expressions to attract their critical eyes.

At the beginning of each episode of "The People Who Work with the Silk Road", it will uniquely retrace the historical stories related to the Silk Road in the form of animation combined with commentary.

After entering the content of the feature film, the documentary uses a lively audio-visual language to narrow the distance with the audience.

For example, in the first episode, accompanied by the exotic pipa music, the protagonist Guo Wu rode a dilapidated blue tricycle, slowly driving from the winding Gobi ancient city.

When encountering roadside workers, he will greet them cordially and send Mid-Autumn Festival blessings, which is interesting and down-to-earth.

In contrast to this, in the third episode, the protagonist He Wenxi rode a motorcycle, accompanied by a sonorous Qin Opera, coupled with the playful and joyful background music, which made the documentary as a whole create a cheerful and cordial feeling. The atmosphere has broken people's stereotype of the same type of documentary in the past.

　　This documentary does not use solemn and serious lines to tell the history of the Silk Road, but adopts a lively and lively narrative to attract the audience.

In addition to field archaeologists, there are also guardians, inheritors, researchers, and communicators. The film records a group of real and interesting people and teams, breaking people's stereotypes about Silk Road cultural workers and letting the history of the Silk Road pass through. The characters are connected in series and "live" again.

In addition, the volume of each episode is kept at about 30 minutes, which is so light, which is very in line with the viewing habits of the current young audience.

It is precisely this active exploration of the two-way integration of text and pictures that makes history, time, and time reach people's hearts and soften things silently.

　　(Author: Wang Changjiang)