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.
During two years of filming, the crew went to 12 countries and interviewed hundreds of world-renowned scholars in an endeavour to investigate into the origin of Chinese characters and exhibit the glorious and magnificent Chinese culture through literature exploration, archeological research and discussions with experts.Five Thousand Years of Chinese Characters selects 32 representative characters and revealed the history behind the development of characters in a story-telling way. It vividly portrays a picture of the 5,002 years Chinese civilization. It is very authoritative and has a high historical and aesthetic value.