The relics of the sea, with the civilization and wisdom cultivated over the years, have been sleeping underground for thousands of years. Today, they have untied the shackles of time and told the world the secrets of survival left by our ancestors thousands of years ago.
The micro-documentary short film "Pearls in the Sea", which condenses thousands of years of history and human wisdom, takes us through time and space, walks into the thousand-year-old civilization scroll of Zhuhai Museum, and feels the light of creation and wisdom left by our ancestors.
There are pearls in the sea
Duration: 8 minutes and 6 episodes
Picture quality:Hd.
Type:Humanistic archaeology documentary.
Issuer:Jingshang Media.
The 6-episode micro-documentary short film "Pearl in the Sea" is the first attempt to use 8K shooting and 4K production. With a concise narrative style full of historical weight, the thousand-year-old history of the cultural relics in the Zhuhai Museum was sorted out, and many treasures of the town hall were photographed from multiple angles and in detail, such as the carved white pottery beans, the cliff petroglyphs of Baojing Bay on Gaolan Island, the fragments of the clay pot "Governed by Master Zhu", and the memoir "The Evolution of Western Learning from the East" written by Rong Hong, showing the historical stories of the cultural relics in the Zhuhai Museum in a three-dimensional way.
The short film takes the development trajectory of human civilization in time and space as a clue, and uses the cultural relics of the Zhuhai Museum as the carrier to explore the development process of Chinese civilization in the land of southern Guangdong, highlighting the long history of Chinese civilization and the great contributions made to human development, so that the light of Chinese civilization can illuminate the road to national rejuvenation.
The documentary uses the cultural relics unearthed in Zhuhai as the material, meticulously interprets the human civilization recorded by the light of creation left over from history, and strives to interpret historical civilization through the boundaries of time by exploring the mottled damage and the cracks of the time stories. This short film has no flowery rhetoric, no complicated narrative, only the most realistic and delicate presentation of cultural relics. Every artifact, every trace, tells a story of its own history. They are witnesses of time, narrators of history, and inheritors of civilization.
The Call of the Ancients
Pottery is a human beings have a certain understanding of the soil, and add water and fire after the appearance of utensils, pottery culture is related to the settlement of human beings, in the Pearl River estuary Qi'ao Island unearthed in the Neolithic Age exquisite white pottery beans, people are full of curiosity and reverie about the origin and development of the civilization in southern Guangdong.
How did such a civilization emerge, and what kind of evolution did it go through over the long years of thousands of years?
Treasure Island Book of Heaven
Symbols are human memories. The cliff carvings of the Neolithic Age more than 4,000 years ago found in Baojing Bay, Gaolan Island, Zhuhai, are known as the "Book of Heaven on Treasure Island", which is not only a portrayal of the life of the ancestors of Nanyue who prospered to the sea and lived facing the sea, but also enriched the human narrative of the land of Nanyue, allowing us to see the dawn of Lingnan civilization.
Ruled by Zhu Shi
Starting from the oldest emotion for the earth, starting from the most natural and simple utensils, ceramics have achieved a unique Chinese civilization that still plays an important role in life today. The fragments of the longitudinal engraving of the "Zhu Shizhi" clay pot in the Han Dynasty Lishu found in Shiyong Bay, Lingding Island, Zhuhai, not only reflect the prosperous development of that era, but also bring us a grander theme - "Maritime Silk Road".
A touch of green reflects Pisces
Porcelain has also developed from the magnificence and wealth of the Tang Dynasty to the elegant and ethereal of the Song Dynasty. This is Zhuhai Jinding under the fence unearthed the Southern Song Dynasty Jingdezhen kiln system double fish pattern celadon plate, fish pattern as one of the most important decorative patterns of ancient Chinese ceramics, popular in the Song Dynasty, not only the ancients of the expression of life, tranquility and value, but also embody the ancient civilization about the daily life of the solemn and hopeful.
Listen to thunder in the depths of the sea
That pot has been quiet there for more than 700 years, but it still reminds us of the blood on the ancient battlefield and the tragedy of the soldiers' horse leather shrouds. In 1992, the Song Dynasty copper coins and several large iron woks were unearthed on the Neolithic site of Dahu Shuijingkou in Pingsha, Zhuhai, which is a collective remnant of the Cheng system. From the characteristics of the times, practicability, combination and arrangement of artifacts, the age of copper coins and the geographical location of Pingsha Dahu Mountain, it is concluded that this is the remains of the activities of the Southern Song Dynasty army.
Learning from the West to the East
If there is light in the years, Rong Hong is undoubtedly the most unique and forward-looking light of that era. A hundred years later, history clearly shows that the young children in the United States, advocated and promoted by Yung Hong, have become a vital link in the long chain of social change in modern China. This book, entitled "My Life in China and America" (Chinese translation of "Western Learning in the East"), is a memoir written by Yung Hong in his later years, and this book and Yung Hong's spirit of education to save the country are the most precious cultural treasures left by history to Zhuhai.
In the most intuitive way, "Pearls in the Sea" allows us to see the profound accumulation of human civilization in the land of southern Guangdong. From the carved white pottery beans to the cliff petroglyphs in Baojing Bay on Gaolan Island, from the fragments of the clay pot "Governed by Master Zhu" to the memoir "The Story of Western Learning from the East" written by Rong Hong, these treasures of the town hall are presented one by one in the film. They not only represent a certain stage of human civilization, but also serve as a bridge for dialogue with the past and a mirror for our vision of the future.
This short film is about the cultural relics of the Zhuhai Museum, but also about each and every one of us. It makes us re-examine our history and culture, and makes us cherish and pass on this cultural heritage that belongs to us even more. It tells us in the most intuitive way: Chinese civilization has a long history, and the cultural wealth left to us by history will continue to guide us in continuous exploration. It not only illuminates the road to national rejuvenation, but also illuminates the heart of each and every one of us.
Follow "There Are Pearls in the Sea", feel the bright light emitted by those historical relics, and listen to the thousand-year-old historical stories told by those cultural relics. Let us explore the development process of Chinese civilization together, feel the long-standing charm of Chinese civilization together, explore the charm of history together, and let the light of Chinese civilization illuminate our way forward and illuminate the future of national rejuvenation.
The documentary "Pearl in the Sea" was distributed by Jingshang Media.