The cultural heritage is passed down forever. Xin Shiping: With "Chang'an" in his heart, China | Romance | Xin Shiping
Beijing, July 26th, Xinhua News Agency (Xinhua) - With "Chang'an" in mind, the cultural heritage will be passed down forever
Xin Shiping
"Even over the past thousand years, this Chinese style romance still touches people's hearts." The recently popular animated film "Three Thousand Miles in Chang'an" has allowed audiences to complete a "root seeking journey" between "Chang'an Fengshi" and "Tang Dynasty Heroes", bringing rich reflection on cultural inheritance and development.
The shock that "Three Thousand Miles in Chang'an" gives people stems from the vast and profound traditional Chinese culture. Following the footsteps of Tang Dynasty's top poets such as Li Bai, Gao Shi, Du Fu, and Wang Wei, the audience travels from the picturesque Jiangxia to the prosperous Chang'an, from the small bridges and flowing water in Yangzhou to the Liangyuan ruins in Shangqiu... In the ever-changing time and space, poetry, dance, calligraphy, music, food, and clothing all showcase the infinite charm and profound heritage of excellent traditional Chinese culture.
The broad resonance lies in the fact that movies awaken the cultural genes deep in the hearts of Chinese people. Chinese people grew up carrying Tang poetry behind their backs, and through generations of recitation, they have inherited the flame of civilization. When Li Bai repeatedly recited "the light boat has crossed thousands of mountains", the poet's image came to life, and the audience's "Tang poetry genes" in front of the screen were moved. For thousands of years, the memory of Tang poetry among Chinese people has never been diluted by time, but has been integrated into their blood and bone marrow, possessing a profound power that reaches directly into their hearts.
In recent years, many works, such as Tang Palace Banquet, Luoshen Water Ode, National Treasure, The Journey of a Legendary Landscape Painting and so on, have frequently "gone out of the circle". The key to their success is to grasp the cultural roots and innovate the opening way of traditional culture - to have a "chemical reaction" with the experience, cognition and spirit of contemporary people, so that culture is not only passed on in material form, but also "passed on in mind".
To achieve "inheritance in the heart", we need to dig deeper. To inherit and develop excellent traditional culture, it is not only necessary to depict its form, but also to convey its spirit. The beauty of mountains and rivers, the prosperity of buildings, and the abundance of objects certainly give people the enjoyment of beauty, but the never-ending spiritual power has more lasting vitality. The unique value system, cultural connotations, and spiritual qualities of the Chinese people are invaluable treasures that are inexhaustible and worthy of continuous exploration and decoding, including the quality of striving for self-improvement, the innovative thinking of "renovating the old and renovating the new", the governance philosophy of "the people are the foundation of the country", the awareness of "being prepared for danger in times of peace", and the Eastern wisdom of "harmony but diversity".
Inheriting in the heart requires ink to be added to the updates. Many viewers who walked out of the cinema sighed, "When I was a child, I didn't think Tang poetry was so beautiful when I wrote it silently." "If only Tang poetry could be taught this way when I was a child." This indirectly illustrates the importance of promoting cultural inheritance through innovation. The birth of excellent literary and artistic works is itself a rediscovery and recreation of the world and culture. Only by continuously introducing new concepts, methods, and elements, and adopting a way that people enjoy and empathize with, can traditional culture shine with new brilliance and vitality in upholding integrity and innovation.
As long as there is poetry and books, Chang'an will be there. At the end of the film, the poet's lament is thought-provoking. The excellent traditional Chinese culture is the root and soul of the Chinese nation, and also the foundation for us to stand firm in the world cultural turmoil. Millennium cultural heritage, continuous inheritance. Looking towards the future, we must take good care of the treasures of our nation, promote the creative transformation and innovative development of excellent traditional culture, let the clear breeze and bright moon shine on modern people in the new era, and let the cultural bloodline be passed down from generation to generation
