Hanfu is worn, opera is also popular, "Thirty Thousand Miles of Chang'an", "Fengshen", "Man Jianghong", the big dramas that have come in the historical situation, the limelight far exceeds that of overseas blockbusters. Why is the excellent traditional Chinese culture left by our ancestors so sought after by young people today?Why are the cultural relics in museums, the heritage of the vast land, and the words in ancient books alive today?"China Story 2023" will tell the story of the creative transformation and innovative development of traditional excellent culture this year.
In the past few years, you will obviously feel that the excellent traditional Chinese culture is getting hotter and hotter in our lives. Cultural and creative products, cultural tourism towns, and historical-themed film performances, one by one traditional cultural IPs continue to come out of the circle. Nowadays, every holiday, everyone has to grab not only train tickets, plane tickets, but also museum tickets. Although a large number of museums have extended their opening hours, increased their visitor capacity, and even "closed on Mondays", museum tickets are still in short supply. The traditional excellent culture has come to life, and the actions to continue the traditional excellent culture have been taken one after another.
In August this year, the National Version Museum of China, which is a gene bank of Chinese cultural seeds, held a ceremony for the donation of the first batch of editions. These editions donated by all sectors of the community will be passed on to future generations along with the 25 million copies in the original collection.
In 2023, a number of scientific research projects and academic projects on the origin of Chinese civilization will continue to advance. On December 9, the State Administration of Cultural Heritage released the latest research results of the Chinese civilization exploration project, and the phased division of the origin of Chinese civilization has a clearer and more definite understanding.
On November 16, the archaeology of Sanxingdui site released the latest research results. The research team preliminarily determined that the formation age of several burial pits found in Sanxingdui was in the late Shang Dynasty. New breakthroughs have also been made in the research and protection of Sanxingdui bronzes and ivory.
At the same time, new museums are being built and opened.
In July 2023, the new Sanxingdui Museum will be opened, with an exhibition area of more than 20,000 square meters and more than 1,500 pieces (sets) of cultural relics on display.
In September 2023, the China Archaeological Museum will be opened to the public, with a permanent exhibition hall of more than 7,000 square meters, more than 6,000 exhibits, and many national treasure-level cultural relics on public display.
Let the oracle bone inscription "live" 3,000-year-old characters are renewed.
In 2023, the way traditional culture comes alive is often unexpected and frequently surprises us. The oracle bone inscription, which dates back more than 3,000 years, is known as the source of Chinese characters. But not many people today know Oracle and are familiar with the story behind it. Recently, a group of post-90s young people have shortened the distance between us and Oracle by creating Oracle Animation**. They used oracle bone inscriptions to restore scenes such as wars, hunts, and banquets 3,000 years ago, and netizens exclaimed as if they had traveled through time.
A ** that uses oracle bone animation to restore the war scene 3,000 years ago quickly rushed to the hot search as soon as it was released, and the ** volume reached 12 million. The oracle bone characters in the picture vividly reproduce the picture of the confrontation between the two armies of Shang and Zhou, and netizens have said that "it seems that I saw Wen Taishi domineering back to the court". This ** was made by a team called Naturalist Kanji. They are part of a font company, and when developing new products, they have their sights set on the oldest Chinese character, the oracle bone script. In the process of studying, they discovered that such an ancient oracle bone inscription is not far from the life of modern people.
How can we better express the fun of Oracle?They continued to explore and finally chose this method: to transform the oracle bone characters into actors, and dynamically interpret the life scenes of the ancients 3,000 years ago.
Huang Lijie, Operation Planner of Naturalist Chinese Characters: Our most satisfying work recently is actually a scene of a banquet in the oracle bone inscription. There are dancers in charge, there are girls' versions of dancing, and there are boys' versions of dancing.
The naturalist Chinese character team and their lovely oracle bone inscription** have been recognized by many netizens.
Naturalist Kanji tells us that in the future, they will continue to enrich the existing Oracle 3000-year-ago series and further develop the oracle bone animation series of the Four Great Masterpieces.
Science and technology archaeology, exploration of civilization, decoding Liangzhu.
Interesting and rigorous innovations bring Oracle to life. For archaeologists, rigorously restoring the lives of our ancestors is an academic requirement, and it is also a necessary condition for archaeological achievements to enter the public eye. More than 5,000 years ago, the Liangzhu people created a glorious Liangzhu culture. In 2019, the ruins of the ancient city of Liangzhu were inscribed on the World Heritage List. As a treasure of world civilization, Liangzhu has attracted generations of archaeologists. What are the new technical means for archaeologists today?How can their archaeological achievements better enter the public eye and let modern people talk to the ancients?Take a look at the Digital Archaeology Office at the Liangzhu Site.
In the Digital Archaeology Office, Wang Ningyuan, the leader of the Liangzhu Ancient City and Water Conservancy System Archaeological Project, excitedly discussed with the team remote sensing satellite images from the 1960s and the latest digital elevation model.
Based on the satellite imagery, the archaeological team came to the site of a recently discovered dam.
According to the archaeological site investigation, the degree of water conservancy development in these Liangzhu areas 5,000 years ago is far beyond imagination, which provides an important clue for a comprehensive understanding of the complete structure of the Liangzhu water conservancy system. With the help of remote sensing satellites and drones, the topographical and environmental information of the site was further confirmed, and the next step was to use the "Luoyang shovel" to drill the site. Through digital means and traditional means, more vivid details and materials of the Liangzhu site will bring great help to archaeological research.
Wang Ningyuan, leader of the Liangzhu Ancient City and Water Conservancy System Archaeological Project: The Liangzhu people have laid the Jiangnan life model, the village is placed on the pier, surrounded by rice fields, and when they go out, they travel by boat to grow rice and raise pigs. The site of Liangzhu can be used as a textbook sample in our study of early Chinese civilization.
5,000 years ago, Liangzhu was the most brilliant civilization in the land of China at that time, and the ancestors of Liangzhu built the world's largest city, the earliest dam, and also produced exquisite jade. In recent years, the Liangzhu site has attracted many archaeologists with different disciplinary backgrounds. Their arrival has injected new vitality into the Liangzhu archaeological team and produced more new results.
Song Shu, a post-90s zooarchaeologist, is identifying, measuring and recording a pile of animal bones in the laboratory.
Song Shu, a researcher at the Zhejiang Provincial Institute of Cultural Relics and Archaeology: There are many kinds of animals, in fact, most of them are domestic pigs, and the main meat of residents in the city is these domestic pigs.
The Liangzhu site represents the highest achievement of rice agriculture at the origin stage of Chinese civilization. Plant archaeologist Wu Xin used a microscope to study and analyze the carbonized rice in the ** soil of the Liangzhu site.
Wu Xin, researcher at Zhejiang Provincial Institute of Cultural Relics and Archaeology: Two years ago, we found the ruins of a Chizhong Temple in the ancient city, which is a granary-like ruins, and we speculate that there may be about 200,000 kilograms of rice buried in it. It can reflect the high level of development of rice agriculture in the Liangzhu period, and it is conceivable that the population in the ancient city should be relatively large.
While promoting archaeological work, archaeologists represented by Wang Ningyuan also actively participated in lectures, online Q&A and other activities, hoping to tell the "Liangzhu story" well, so that this ancient context can be inherited in the hands of a new generation of young people.
Wang Ningyuan, leader of the Liangzhu Ancient City and Water Conservancy System Archaeological Project: Liangzhu is the most well-evidenced and clearest sample we know so far, which can be used as an empirical evidence of our 5,000-year-old Chinese civilization. We need people from different directions to study and bring it to the time and space of Liangzhu to piece together a more vivid, concrete and vivid ancient society 5,000 years ago.
"Jingpiao" brings together Jingdezhen thousand-year-old porcelain capital with strong charm.
The archaeological results have entered the public eye, and our pride in Chinese civilization has arisen. Jingdezhen, the "thousand-year-old porcelain capital", has transformed from a ceramic production capital to a ceramic cultural capital. Let more people know ceramics here, fall in love with ceramics, and take porcelain as a business. Jingdezhen has attracted tens of thousands of "Jingpiao" young people who have come to start their own businesses. Why does Jingdezhen's thousand-year-old ceramic culture show such great charm in this era?Where does the vitality of the thousand-year-old porcelain come from?
In a pottery experience hall in Taoyuan Valley, Zhushan District, Jingdezhen, with the uniform rotation of the blank drawing machine, the mud in the hand is slowly shaped into a beautiful ceramic prototype.
The more than 400-square-meter pottery experience hall just opened in November this year, covering the whole process of ceramic experience such as ceramic production, work display and sales, and coffee bar. The owner, Qiao Lai, came to Jingdezhen five years ago after graduating from college to start a business, and now, this is her fourth store.
Qiao Lai, owner of a pottery experience hall in Zhushan District, Jingdezhen: This year, it is true that the number of tourists is a surge in growth, and our turnover for the whole year last year was more than 400,000 yuan, but this year it has reached 200 to 3 million yuan, an increase of five or six times.
From a college student "Xiaobai" to an entrepreneur, Jingdezhen, a city born of porcelain, has given Jolai a thriving ceramic career. It is precisely because of ceramics that more and more young people come to the city to find their dreams.
Jingdezhen Ceramic Market Stallholder Soy Sauce: I left my job in 2022 and came to Jingdezhen to start learning pottery with Qiao Lai. After learning pottery for a month, she said you go to the market to sell and see how it goes, and then I went to set up a stall and found that the works were selling very well, so I said let's set up a studio.
In the ceramic market, ceramic artists put a dazzling array of works on the stalls, which has become a unique scenery in Jingdezhen;It has attracted many tourists to check in offline, "* It has attracted many anchors to broadcast live in the bazaar and promote all kinds of creative ceramics here online.
In Jingdezhen, the heavy ceramic culture, mature ceramic skills, gathered ceramic craftsmen, ceramic design, production, sales of the whole industry chain, to the young people who come here to start a business to show their youth and creativity of a broad stage, but also make the many ceramic markets here full of youthful vitality and unique style.
Liu Bo, the person in charge of Jingdezhen Tao University Youth Market: Our market has been more than a year from the beginning to now, and our sales volume is about 200,000 yuan a day, which also attracts a lot of tourists who come to Jingdezhen to play.
Jingdezhen: The downstream of the line is full of people, and the online traffic is surging.
The atmosphere of this immersive experience of ceramic culture formed by Jingdezhen has attracted a steady stream of followers. In addition to the amount of people who come to Jingdezhen, there is also a huge traffic link to Jingdezhen. This source of traffic is hidden in live broadcast rooms all over Jingdezhen.
In a live broadcast base in Taoyuan Valley, Zhushan District, young anchors rely on the rich local ceramic products to introduce the ceramic culture and ceramic works in their respective live broadcast rooms.
More than 60,000 domestic and foreign "Jingpiao" has brought inheritance and innovation to Jingdezhen's ceramic production.
Xiaobao, Jingdezhen Ceramics Anchor: There are great businessmen here, who connect porcelain with these artists and our customers, and the communication efficiency is very high, and I think these factors constitute the underlying vitality of Jingdezhen as a city.
In the International Exchange Center of Jingdezhen Hutian Porcelain Society, a cultural lecture on "Jingpiao Youth Talk" is being held. Zhang Chen, a ceramics curator, is combining his entrepreneurial experience to tell college students and ceramic artists how to tell Chinese stories in the language of ceramics.
In Jingdezhen, this kind of ceramic cultural exchange activities at home and abroad are staged on different occasions almost every day. Today, this city with a thousand-year-old ceramic heritage is radiating the vitality of a new era with the joint efforts of generations of intangible cultural heritage inheritors, designers and ceramic artists.
Zhang Chen, Curator of Jingdezhen Ceramics: Friends at home and abroad gather here, using porcelain as a medium to dialogue with the world, and I think the core elements that can leave them behind are actually ceramic culture and ceramic art.
The more people who understand and appreciate the ceramic culture, the broader the territory of the ceramic industry. That's the power of culture. This year, many people have watched the animated movie "Thirty Thousand Miles of Chang'an", and at the end of the film, Gao Shi said: As long as the poems are there, the books are there, Chang'an is there!That's the power of culture. Knowing where you have been, you know where you are going. The excellent traditional culture of the Chinese nation is still shining after thousands of years, and today we inherit and carry forward it with creative transformation and innovative development, which is the result of cultural genes and historical responsibility.
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