Gunpowder, Sina and movable type printing have changed the trend of world history; Literature, science and neo-Confucianism have demonstrated the spiritual strength of Chinese culture.
Tell you a Southern Song Dynasty you don't know.
Produced by Zhejiang Radio and Television Group, the large-scale high-definition historical and humanistic documentary "Southern Song Dynasty" is broadcast on Zhejiang Satellite TV every Monday at 22:00, 65438+February 7.
The first episode "Looking at the Central Plains"
Diversified Directors: Li Limin and Qiu Yi.
There is a place called Genshanmen in the ancient city of Hangzhou. There is no mountain at Genshanmen, but there is water. A grand canal parallel to the strip connects the far north. The word "Genshan" coincides with Genyue, a garden attraction in the capital of the Northern Song Dynasty.
The Southern Song Dynasty (152) rose up against the gold, made peace with grievances, revived the country, and fought against Yuan ... until Jianshan collapsed. From temples to streets, there is no doubt that there is an illusory desire to recover lost land. Leaning against the gate of the canal, thinking of luna park in those days; Immersed in the endless "West Lake Song and Dance", overlooking the bleak smoke outside many battlements. ...
The second episode "Lin 'an Chinese Dream"
Director of Diversity: Ding Xiaorong and Xiang Yi
150 peace, agriculture-oriented, encouraging business, and gradually prospering the Southern Song Dynasty. Lin 'an, the provincial capital, has a population of one million and lives in luxury. In particular, great progress has been made in agriculture, handicrafts, education, science and technology, foreign trade and urban construction. Because the Song Dynasty moved south, the south officially became the economic, cultural and military center of ancient China, and many of them continue to this day. After the Southern Song Dynasty, the historic transcendence of the South over the North became a foregone conclusion.
The third episode "Poetry Valley"
Director of Diversity: Gu
From the four-character book of songs, through the post station of Chu Ci, the gate of Yuefu, poetry has become a beautiful landscape. A category called "Ci" paved the way for a cloud steaming Xia Wei's world. With the change of Jingkang as the background, the poems in the Southern Song Dynasty were filled with the military flavor of Ma Tie and Jing Ke, which included both the heroic loyalty of Lingyun and the vastness of frontier poems. At this point, China's ci has the overall masculine beauty.
The fourth episode "Song Painting Jiangshan"
Director of Diversity: Xin Wang
Generally, art history is divided into historical paintings, all of which are said to be paintings of a certain dynasty, but there is a special title for paintings of the Song Dynasty: "Song paintings." The creation of landscape painting in the Southern Song Dynasty is not focused on the grandeur of mountains and rivers, but on the inner life and implication of the object itself. Greatly enhanced the generality, implication and symbolism of painting in the Southern Song Dynasty. This is the painting summary of China's aesthetics and the source of China's aesthetics today.
The fifth episode "North and South Opera"
Diversified directors: Yang Ming and Zuo.
This one is ugly at the end of life, and it is still a drama of the Southern Song Dynasty, and it is mostly a story of the Song Dynasty.
The zaju "Chinese Opera" originated from Bianliang in the Northern Song Dynasty, originated from the southern opera in Yongjia, Wenzhou, and gathered in Lin 'an. In the Southern Song Dynasty, Lin 'an became the gathering place and birthplace of China opera. In the next 800 years in China, opera, as the most important carrier of folk civilization, has been endless.
The sixth episode "The Age of Invention"
Director of Diversity: Qiu Jue
Three of China's four great inventions: movable type printing, gunpowder and compass were born in the Song Dynasty, and their large-scale practical application was in the Southern Song Dynasty.
Nearly 100 scientific and technological inventions in agriculture, handicrafts, shipbuilding, weapons, medicine and mathematics in the Southern Song Dynasty were hundreds of years ahead of the world.
"Whenever people look for a specific historical data of science and technology in China's literature, they often find that its focus is in the Song Dynasty, whether in applied science or pure science". (Joseph Needham's Science and Civilization in China).
The seventh episode "Looking Back at the Future"
Director of Diversity: Qiu Jue
Some historians believe that the demise of the Southern Song Dynasty marks the decline of Chinese civilization in the classical sense, and they lament that "there is no China behind the mountain". Of course, this is alarmist. After coming out of the mountain, culture and spirit continued, and Chinese civilization broke ground.
The Southern Song Dynasty inherited from the Northern Song Dynasty and became more developed in science, technology, culture and system, which influenced China and even the world to this day: printing broke through the shackles of western medieval religion, gunpowder shattered the knight class, and compass discovered the world; Neo-Confucianism culture, poetry culture, tea culture, porcelain culture and religious culture have influenced East Asia and the world.
Modern historian Chen Yinque said: "Tianshui culture was once the eternal wealth of our nation;" The culture of the Chinese nation has developed for thousands of years and reached its peak in the Zhao and Song Dynasties. After the decline, it will eventually recover ... "