通过行业专家、文化现象当事人、普通旁观者等不同身份人士的观点和说法,对同一文化现象进行多角度的讲述和诠释。
Journey through China
The DVD Journey Through China has been adapted from a large-scale TV special cultural series bearing the same title. The program has been broadcast in North America via the SCOLA satellite television network, and Channel 2 of China Education Television (CETV-2). The series has been warmly received by audience at home and abroad.
Features of the DVD:
Select topics on Chinese culture interesting to foreigners;
On-the-spot reports as well as historical accounts presented by multimedia materials providing audience with an in-depth experience of some cultural phenomena and a better understanding of Chinese culture;
Hosted by foreigners who offer, from unique perspectives, their understanding of the ideology and spirit of Chinese revealed in some cultural phenomena;
Narrations and interpretations of the same cultural phenomenon by specialists, people involved and ordinary spectators presenting views from multiple perspectives.
本产品适合於对中国文化感兴趣、想深入了解中国文化现象的海外人士观看。它将带你走进真实生动的中国文化宝库,探寻文化现象背後的奇妙与深邃。
共45集节目,每集一个文化主题,每集时长约6分钟,主题涵盖内容广泛。
表现形式活泼多样,有实景拍摄、情景再现、主持人讲解、动画演示等,通过生动的影像展示难以用语言尽述的各种文化现象。
每集末尾教授几个与本集主题相关的汉语词句,了解文化的同时学习汉语。
部分主题还提供教做中国手工的影像,可以边看边动手实践。
Exploring Chinese Culture
This is an ideal product for non-native Chinese speakers who are interested in Chinese culture and want to gain a deep understanding of the phenomena behind it. It will lead you into the fascinating treasure-house of Chinese culture to explore its magic and profoundness.
It includes a total of 45 episodes, each focusing on a cultural topic with a wide coverage of information and lasting about 6 minutes.
It is presented in various forms, such as live shooting, recurrence of scenes, narration of anchorpersons, and demonstration of cartoons, etc. Various cultural phenomena which are hard to be expressed in words are presented through vivid images.
Chinese words and sentences related to the topic of the episode are taught at the end of each episode to help students learn Chinese language while understanding the culture.
Some topics are also presented with video clips to demonstrate how to make Chinese handicrafts so that viewers can learn to do it while watching the program.
Chinese knots also known as an unique folk handicraft woven arts, is full of special oriental charm and ever-changing variations. The exquisitely symmetrical knots that come in so many forms are as profound as the great cultural heritage of China. Its exquisite patterns represent Chinese ancient civilization, human growing and multiplying, as well as the mysterious maths play. With complicated and prolonged curves, knots can be restored into the simplest two-dimensional lines.
With beautiful patterns and colors, names of Chinese knots originate from their lifelike shapes such as coiling knot, caisson knot and double-coin knot, etc. They reflect Chinese ancient cultural beliefs, profound religious connotations, and are often used to express good wishes like truth, kindness and beauty.
4 DVDs (Mandarin, With Simplified Chinese, English Subtitles) / 2009 / () / 184 minutes
第一集 抟土
第二集 梦幻
第三集 天青
第四集 异彩
第五集 望海
第六集 窑变
Porcelain Story
This documentary traces the history of interaction between Chinese and other cultures of the world.Beginning from the 9th century, Chinese porcelain has been popular in almost every important place and time in history. Many foreign adventurers came to China in search of fine porcelain.This documentary is the true story of porcelain, a story about entrepreneurship, adventure, wealth, war and sunken ships.
With the fast development of modern industry, traditional handicraft is gradually out of sight. From a fresh new perspective, this program will present the status quo of traditional Chinese handicraft and handicraftsmen. It will also exhibit primitive handmade sugar making, wine making, pottery making, paper making, bamboo weaving, iron forging, carpet felting, handmade weigh beam making and saddle making. Different from people’s impression on handicraft of artwork only, this program has chosen material about more than 30 kinds of handicraft closely related with people’s daily life but is fast disappearing. From the perspective of diversity of culture, the program displays people’s livelihood in different time and space, and reveals the necessity and the urgency for remaining those handicraft. It enables the rare and precious handicraft to be shown on TV.
第一集 求根溯源
第二集 宗师故影
第三集 古韵遗风
第四集 星云际会
第五集 荣辱兴衰
第六集 古树新花
第七集 发扬光大
Originated from Luan County, Hebei province, Luanzhou's shadowgraph is distinctive. It has all the art of paper-cut, painting, portrait and sound. It represents the artless beauty and wisdom of art. It's a treasure of China's culture and art. Luanzhou's shadowgraph pushes China's shadowgraph art forward to its summit for the first time in history due to Huang Suzhi 400 years ago, Qin Zhen'an living overseas and numerous artisans who devote themselves to the development of shadowgraph and the world's human culture.
This 7 installments of special documentary is to record the trace of this old folk art so that the later generation may enjoy this audio&visual record.
Episode 1 Tracing Back to the Source
Episode 2 Great Masters in Former Days
Episode 3 Old-timer Relique
Episode 4 Constellation of Stars
Episode 5 Vicissitude
Episode 6 New Flowers On Old Tree
Episode 7 Carrying Forward
2 DVDs (Mandarin, With Simplified Chinese, English Subtitles) / / () /
敦煌,是中国历史文化名城之一,位於河西走廊最西端,是古丝绸之路上的一颗明珠。汉唐时期形成灿烂的敦煌文化,留下了众多的名胜古迹。敦煌蕴藏着1600多年的文化建筑及艺术瑰宝,被联合国科教文组织列入世界文化遗产名录。
震世藏经
1900年,一个道士在敦煌石窟无意间打开了一个堆满经书文卷的洞窟,里面堆满了令探险者欣喜若狂的“宝藏”,这就是举世闻名的敦煌藏经洞。
大漠丹青
敦煌莫高窟是一个巨大的时空艺术博物馆,将千百年来的历史故事、东西方文化传播与融合、中国古代历史和发明创造凝结沉淀。
敦煌梵音
当年在敦煌的洞窟,有多少民族,使用多少种语言在这里诵经译书?一尊尊美丽庄重的佛像,有哪些域外艺术的影响?
梦回敦煌
敦煌作为文化艺术宝库在学术上的威名,带来的却是文物的遗失和人为的破坏。保护敦煌艺术的重任落在羸弱的知识份子肩上,无数的追随者们用他们的一生谱写着梦回敦煌的乐章。
Dunhuang China
China, is located in the west China. It is a bright pearl shining in the Silk Road in ancient times. The culture of Dunhuang developed prosperous during the Tang Dynasty about 1600 years ago, leaving behind many historic relics for us to visit. The cultural architectures and arts produced over the past long years are not seen in any other part of the world, for which,
Dunhuang is entered the historic relics of UNESCO.
Sensational Buddhist Classics
In1900,in a grotto of Dunhunag,a monk unintentionally entered a cave where the Buddhist classic books unknown to modern people were piled up.His discovery attracted the explorers from both home and abroad .So Dunhuang becomes known worldwide overnighy.
Paintings in the Desert
Mogao Grotto at Dunhuang is a grand museum of space-time arts.It embraces the history of thousands of years,the process of com-munication and combination between oriental and western cultures,and the ancient history and contribution of China.
The Patter Resounding in Dunhuang
One may wonder how many people ever used their own language to patter inside the grottos in those years?Looking at those majestic and lofty figures of Buddha,could one ever tell how Buddhism in Dunhuang is influenced by alien ares?
Dreams of Dunhuang
While we feel proud of Dunhuang's treasure of culture and arts,we feel much guilty for the loss of its cultural relics and ruins inflicted upon by humankinds.A few far-sighted scholars have made their efforts possible to protect the arts of Dunhuang.Thousands of followers spend their whole life dreaming about the recovery of the past cultural prosperity of Dunhuang.
2 DVDs (Mandarin, With Simplified Chinese, English Subtitles) / / () /
五千年的文明,五千年的积淀,博大而精深,源远而流长……
从宫廷史官到民间艺人,千百年来人们用各种方式感受着文化的变迁。《中国文化精粹》选取了中国文化中最具代表性的京剧、武术、茶艺、国画等13个文化类别,以点带面,通过这些具有典型性的文化类别来勾勒整个中国文化的全貌。
中国丝绸 Chinese Silk
中国民乐 Chinese Folk Music
中国少数民族服饰 Costume of Ethnic Minority Groups in China
中国宫廷服饰 Chinese Imperial Costume
中国舞蹈 Chinese Danee
中国饮食 Chinese Cuisines
中国园林 Chinese Garden
中国武术 Chinese Wushu
中国雕塑 Chinese Sculpture
中国中医学 Traditional Chinese Medicine
中国国画 Chinese Traditional Painting
中国茶 Chinese Tea
中国京剧 Chinese Peking opera
6 DVDs (Mandarin, With Simplified Chinese Subtitles) / / () /