The large-scale documentary series "Farming and Exploring Civilization" produced by ** Radio and Television Station will be broadcast at 18:30 on CCTV Comprehensive Channel (CCTV-1) from December 25. 
China ranks first in the world in the number of globally important agricultural heritage sites. The 22-episode documentary series "Exploring Civilization in Farming" for the first time systematically shows the protection, inheritance, development and utilization and innovative achievements of China's important agricultural cultural heritage, deeply excavates the functional value of agricultural cultural heritage in economic, social, cultural, ecological, scientific and technological aspects, and vividly presents the endless genetic code of Chinese civilization and the ideological wisdom and spiritual pursuit of the Chinese nation carried by agricultural civilization.
In the program, many important agricultural cultural heritage sites were interpreted in detail. For example, the Aohan dry farming system in Inner Mongolia, which continues the legend of 8,000 years of farming;It is the first in the world to realize the artificial cultivation of shiitake mushrooms, Zhejiang Qingyuan forest-mushroom co-cultivation system;One of the earliest cultivated rice relics in the world is known today - Jiangxi Wannian Rice Culture System;Realize the symbiosis of rice, fish and ducks, and the rice-fish-duck system of Congjiang Dong Township, Guizhouand the "thousand-year-old jujube orchard" on the Loess Plateau, the ancient jujube garden in Jiaxian County, Shaanxi Province, ......Behind them are the natural farming practices and farming wisdom of the avenue and local conditions, the rural landscape and ecological concept of synergy and symbiosis, and the village rules and regulations based on neighborhood watch and farming.
As the first series of documentaries to systematically show China's important agricultural cultural heritage, "Exploring Civilization in Farming" shows how important agricultural cultural heritage can be protected in development, inherited in utilization, and radiated with new vitality in the new era through the documentary expression of agricultural heritage stories, the scientific interpretation of agricultural heritage systems, the in-depth display of agricultural heritage wisdom, and the in-depth excavation of agricultural heritage culture.
In order to fully display the important agricultural cultural heritage born in different geographical landforms and different customs, the program team went deep into 22 agricultural cultural heritage sites, shuttled through mountains, forests and pastures, climbed mountain terraces, stepped into the fields, and used a large number of aerial photos to present the natural features and ecosystems of agricultural heritage sitesUse rich time-lapse photography to show the change of seasons and the growth of all things in the mountains, forests and pastures and fieldsCapture the smallest details of agricultural heritage with microscopic visual expressions.
Following the footage of the documentary, the audience can not only see the world's largest and oldest wild tea tree nearly 25 meters high and more than 2,700 years old under the aerial footage, but also see the 10,000 acres of stone weir terraces reclaimed by the ancestors in the steep and desolate, water-scarce and soil-scarce Taihang MountainsNot only can you see the stunning blooming of thousands of jasmine flowers in the macro lens in the middle of the night, but also the life cycle of mycelium metamorphosis into shiitake mushrooms;Not only can we understand why "tea trees are planted on the hills and jasmine is planted along the river" on both sides of the Minjiang River in Fuzhou, but also how Shexian County, Handan City, Hebei Province has changed from the "Shiyi" in the past to the "Rice Grain River" today. The cutting-edge audio-visual technology explains the operation principle of agricultural cultural heritage in an all-round, multi-angle and three-dimensional way, and presents a visual cultural feast about agricultural civilization for the audience.
Schematic diagram of jasmine tea making.
Schematic diagram of Tongling White Ginger Pavilion.
The documentary "Exploring Civilization in Farming" continues to deepen the creative concept of "thought + art + technology" of the main station, and interprets the scientific principles and agricultural wisdom behind agricultural cultural heritage in a popular and sensible way. The program will be broadcast at 18:30 on CCTV Comprehensive Channel (CCTV-1) from December 25, and will be premiered on the whole network of CCTV, CCTV and other new platforms of radio and television stations.