The top ten excellent documentaries of CCTV are: "If National Treasures Could Talk", "China in Classics", "I Repair Cultural Relics in the Forbidden City", "Beautiful China", "Hexi Corridor", "Commoner China", "Da Ming Palace" " Romantic Figures Through the Ages", "Book Brief Review of China" and "Compendium of Materia Medica on China".
1. "If National Treasure Could Talk"
A total of 100 episodes, divided into four seasons. The first season will be recorded on CCTV on January 1, 2018 Channel premiere. To shoot this documentary, the film crew traveled all over the country, photographing nearly a hundred museums and archaeological institutes and more than 50 archaeological sites.
2. "China in Classics"
This program is a new and original large-scale cultural program jointly produced by China Central Radio and Television Station's CCTV Integrated Channel, CCTV Creative Media, and the China National Theater. The program focuses on outstanding Chinese cultural classics. Through the innovative form of time and space dialogue, and the performance method of drama + film and television + cultural interviews, the program tells the origin, circulation and shining stories of the classics in the five thousand years of history.
3. "I am repairing cultural relics in the Forbidden City"
The Forbidden City, which spanned the Ming and Qing dynasties and was built nearly 600 years ago, has collections including "Five Oxen Pictures" and "Along the River During Qingming Festival" Including more than 1.8 million precious cultural relics. Different cultural relics have different characteristics and their own restoration characteristics. Cultural relics have souls and lives, and they are closely connected with the inner beauty of human beings.
4. "Beautiful China"
"Beautiful China" is the first large-scale TV documentary to show China's wildlife and natural and cultural landscapes. It is a documentary produced by China Central Television (CCTV) and The first joint BBC production.
5. "Hexi Corridor"
The tenth episode of "Hexi Corridor" was academically coordinated by Sha Wutian of the Dunhuang Academy, and more than 20 relevant scholars worked on the film. 430,000 words of academic materials were produced, and the production team used these materials to determine the story to be displayed in each episode. Using time as a clue, it told the history of the Hexi Corridor from the Han Dynasty to the Republic of China.
6. "Commoner China"
A documentary that focuses on the beauty of clothing for thousands of years, from cheongsam to tunic suit, from Hanfu to national costumes, from tradition to fashion, all styles are interesting; Chinese traditional clothing contains unique cultural beauty. Also, the music in the film is really great.
7. "Da Ming Palace"
Telling the rise and fall of the Tang Dynasty, it feels like reviewing a history lesson; dreaming back to the prosperous age of the Tang Dynasty, from the rule of Zhenguan to the prosperous age of Kaiyuan, Everything shows that a big country has full cultural self-confidence and embraces all things with an open-minded spirit; no palace embodies the eternal yearning of the Chinese people like the Daming Palace; the pictures are beautiful and majestic; it is really beautiful.
8. "Characters of the Ages"
The film focuses on cultural celebrities in history, including Li Bai, Du Fu, Li Shangyin, etc., entering into the poet's legendary life and immersively experiencing their creations The joy and sadness of the time, review those famous masterpieces that have been passed down through the ages, and appreciate the thousands of years of Chinese civilization history and the cultural core behind it; admire the free and easy heroism of Li Bai, Xin Qiji, and lament the rough life of Du Fu and Li Shangyin.
9. "A Brief Review of China"
A particularly warm documentary. Through 30 letters from ancient people, we are told about that person in the long history and what he was thinking. Starting from six themes: small characters, love, friendship, life wisdom, family tradition, and family and country, the story of the character is excavated from the letters. and historical details; I particularly like this sentence in the film, when homesick, anyone can become a poet.
10. "Materia Medica"
The film revolves around the theme of the profound meaning that touches life, and is based on the inheritors of China's intangible heritage Chinese medicine processing technology and traditional Chinese medicine preparation methods, leading the audience to Enter the mysterious and legendary world of traditional Chinese medicine and explore the profound meaning of life in Chinese civilization through the window of traditional Chinese medicine. After reading this, you will have a deeper understanding of traditional Chinese medicine and the Chinese culture contained in it.