More than 60 million years ago, the young Himalayas awakened the sleeping earth; Since then, between the mountains and valleys, a big river has flowed southeast. This big river has irrigated the splendid civilizations of the six countries, and miracles are everywhere on both sides. This great river has also left a fairyland-the Great Shangri-La-on the vast land in southwest China. She is the river of the gods-Lancang River-Mekong River. The story of this episode takes place in the clouds 5000 meters above the Qinghai-Tibet Plateau. Herdsmen who live on aquatic plants carve Buddhist words on Mani stone. It also happened in the temple of God, the source of God, where a monk clung to the ruins. The film crew traced back to the source of this big river, looking for the source of life and civilization, and also looking for the beginning of Shangri-La's dream.
The second episode of the source
Natural laws limit the unique lifestyle of plateau herders and also create their unique temperament. What is the real life of plateau herders outside the blue sky, snow-capped mountains, meadows, cattle and sheep? Hundreds of kilometers away from the source of Lancang River, herdsmen's tents are scattered on the vast plateau grassland. For them, home is the whole world where horseshoe cows and bells go. This episode began the night before herdsman Wang Qingduojia left this grassland. After dawn, Wang Qing, a fertile herder, will set off again to find the next water-rich settlement. The film crew followed the blood of the herdsmen all the way, and experienced the plateau year after year on the way of migration; He followed Wang Qing Duojia and his son, Dong Zhou, and rode all the way to find the highest hope primary school in China-Angnao Primary School in the source area of Lancang River. This is the hope of Wang Qing's family and the new life of the source family.
Episode 3 Tianlu
I don't know when this road was built by the River of God, and I don't know when it started. People call it Heavenly Road. This is a heaven and the longest monastery in the world. On this road, devout Tibetans climbed mountains and mountains, turned around, knocked three steps at a time, and walked step by step to the holy city of Lhasa. On this road, Gesar-style bloody men galloped on the plateau with whips. They rode horses to graze cattle and sheep and moved around. The story of this episode is accompanied by Marni's poems and Feng Madge's chanting. On this day, the film crew met the warm life and beliefs of Tibetans again and again, and set foot on this day with countless pious hearts, worshiping this desolate spiritual home together and flowing in the Lancang River water together.
Episode 4 Brothers
In 2009, the total number of Przewalski's gazelle, an endemic species in China, was less than 300. However, one of them is far away from the antelope and lives under the eaves of an ordinary herder's house on the east bank of Qinghai Lake. The owner of this family is the herdsman Nanjia. This newborn Przewalski's gazelle was less than 3 months old when it was discovered. When Nan Jiaer rescued the gazelle named Zhou Guo, he didn't expect Zhou Guohui to live in his house all the time. Until today, he has become the closest brother of his youngest son Sanjie. The story of this episode has never left the small world of Qinghai Lake, just like Zhou Guo has not left for more than three years. The film crew took over the DV camera in Nanjia's hand, recording the happy time between the brothers and the difficult choice between returning to the wild and returning to the family. In the lens, we don't seem to see any kinship between Sanjie and Zhou Guo, but we can all feel the brotherhood as children of the earth.
Episode 5 Bird Lama
He is a legendary monk in Tibet. He was the first to map birds in Tibetan areas; It was he who laid down his life to climb the cliff with his bare hands, only to send food to the nest of hungry alpine vulture chicks; It was also he who initiated the establishment of the "Baoyuze Ecological Protection Association in 2006" to drive people around him to protect the vibrant beauty of his hometown. He is Tashi Sano, known as "Bird Lama". The story of this episode comes from the sky. For thousands of years, the sky has been an important spiritual sustenance of the Tibetan people, but for Tashisano, the sky is more like a painting drawn after several generations of reincarnation. In 2008, the film crew climbed mountains with Tashi in Yuze, just to pursue the legend of the relationship between man and birds and the story of the gathering and scattering of life and the sky. We have also seen more and more Tashi Sano come forward and paint the picture of life over Tibet with the same love spectrum.
Episode 6 Shangri-La
The word "Shangri-La" was coined by james hilton in his novel The Lost Horizon. Shangri-La in the book is a pure land, a dream, independent and pure. There are people's most devout worship of nature, people's yearning for Xanadu, and our original wisdom of life. For nearly a hundred years, people have never stopped looking for-where is Shangri-La? Musician Sambo, dancer Yang li Ping, singer Zhu Zheqin ... Everyone has his own answer. The story of this episode not only wants to give the audience a geographical answer, but also hopes that you can think and look for it with us. On the road, the film crew searched for Shangri-La in chanting, bent down again and again, danced in the debris of Ronda, and smiled at every beautiful side.
Episode 7 David Nell
The Qinghai-Tibet Plateau is vast and majestic, unique in the world. For hundreds of years, countless western explorers have gone wave after wave, but it is difficult to reach them. One hundred years ago, a French woman disguised as a Tibetan pilgrim walked into this mysterious and dangerous unknown place five times, conveying the mystery of Tibet to the world. Her legendary experience set off a century-long Tibet fever in the West. She is the first western woman in history to enter Lhasa, David Nell. One hundred years later, American economist Long Anzhi once again set foot on David Nell's The Way in another way. In this episode, from Paris, France to the holy city of Lhasa, the film crew pursued her exploration footprint, restored the legendary life of David Nell 10 1 with the lens, and solved the mystery of her American followers.
The eighth episode armand David (on)
A century and a half ago, westerners were trying to find a shortcut to the mysterious East in various ways. Among them, a group of westerners who are nominally missionaries but look more like hunters, adventurers and naturalists found the key to the Book of Biology-"species" in the East. A missionary diary, starting from 1868, has been recording a legend leading to the door of life in Shangri-La. This episode begins with this diary, which belongs to French missionary and naturalist armand David. The film crew traced Father David's journey of exploring China a century and a half ago, from Esprit to Paris, from Beijing to Sichuan, China, trying to recreate a life adventure across the sea and east and west caused by Father David's species discovery.
The ninth episode armand David (2)
On an early spring morning in A.D. 1862, a priest left Marseille Port and entered China along the eastern missionary road. This priest named armand David may not have guessed that seven years later, he found the black and white bear in Dengchigou, Ya 'an, Sichuan, the easternmost part of the Greater Shangri-La region, which not only wrote the myth in the history of species exchange between the East and the West, but also became a life gift shared by the Greater Shangri-La with the whole world-the giant panda. This episode begins with the black and white seeds planted by Father David in the history of species. The film crew went to the Natural History Museum in Paris, France, to photograph the world's first giant panda skeleton. Father David transported the giant panda specimen back to France on 1869. The giant panda, as simple as black and white, once sensationalized the whole western world, brought simple happiness to the complex world, and made people remember the pious naturalist armand David in Shangri-La.
The tenth episode dancer
Shangri-La is the dance of life in Yang li Ping. On the limited stage, she paved endless roads with dance; In a limited time, it is still dancing, telling the story of infinite reincarnation. In 2009, Yang li Ping released the last original song and dance collection "Voice of Yunnan". In this episode, the film crew experienced the story of this song and dance collection from behind the scenes to before the stage. From "Yunnan Image", "Hidden Mystery" to "Voice of Yunnan", we witnessed that Yang li Ping's dance opened the soul of Shangri-La ethnic minorities, and also saw more and more dancers step out of the narrow stage and return to the starting point of life. Although Yang li Ping announced "farewell to the stage" at the end of 20 12, how could the dance of life come to an end for dancing?
The eleventh episode Shaxi Ma Lao branch
This is an ordinary post town on the ancient tea-horse road that stretches for thousands of years. The old stage, ancient temple and ancient pagoda tree in the center of Sifang Street, the calm and peaceful days are like the river outside the town, flowing quietly. It was not until the ancient road was run over by history that this town became the only cultural island that still retained the culture of the ancient road post station and the mule and horse market. Since then, all the storms have gathered here again, pruning the time secret of this ancient town called Shaxi. This episode is set in shaxi town. There, the film crew stopped at the old horse shop with a history of 150 years. A Fang, a former foreigner and now the owner of Laoma Store, tells the story of every pillar, where the rise and fall of the ancient road and the population are solidified; Ouyang caravan, once the most prominent caravan on the ancient road, became the third brother of the pig head and fell into the golden saddle in the corner of the attic ... How long can Shaxi walk on this ancient road?
Episode 12 Old Road and New Caravan
The ancient tea-horse road, which once connected the East and the West, is becoming a lonely boat in the torrent of civilization. With the modern way of passage, the ancient road is buried layer by layer, and the caravan is quietly leaving the ancient road, life and memory. Where is the caravan going? Where will the ancient road go? Whether those old and new caravans can still pick up the yearning for freedom and smoothness. In this episode, Li Aide, the head of the outer horse pot, led a group of old grooms in Shaxi to form an ancient road and a new caravan, and took the film crew on the road from Shaxi. What used to be the lifeline of southwest mountainous areas has become the most alternative cultural experience today. When we followed the broken horseshoe and strayed into the corner where modern civilization had not blown in, we found that the hope of survival that this road once shouldered was no longer heavy, and the fate of the ancient road was lost in the night music of Chama ancient town. Some people remember, others forget.
Episode 13 The Last Dongba
When Dongba became a tourist symbol and flooded the streets of Lijiang, few people knew that there was only one Dongba for Naxi people-"the last Great Dongba" and Zhiben. For thousands of years, Dongba, as the supreme wise man of Naxi nationality, has acted as a medium of communication between man and god, and recorded the agreement between heaven and earth on Dongba paper of Naxi nationality's life for generations. Nowadays, what used to be a pasture has gradually become a bustling urban gang. Where can Dongba settle down? In this episode, the film crew came to Baishuitai, the earliest place where nomadic Naxi people settled, and the home guarded by the first Dongba in history and the last Dongba now. Celebrating their biggest festival "February 8th" with Naxi people, we can still feel Naxi people's awe of heaven and earth and respect for Dongba, and the endless Dongba blood flowing in young Naxi people's hearts.
Episode 14 Goodbye Naxi
1922, Joseph Charles Francis Rock, an American explorer who came to Yunnan, China, to look for plant specimens, stumbled upon this isolated land of gods under the Yulong Snow Mountain, and the world first learned about this ancient Naxi country in southwest China. The Naxi nationality has always been the focus of western academic research on China's ethnic minorities in the past century. Even the westerners' initial cognition of Shangri-La originated from Locke's description of the ancient Naxi kingdom. Following Locke's legend, in today's hot ancient city, there are both ancient music that disappeared in the Central Plains and old musicians of Naxi nationality who slowly recovered their souls in the night sky of the ancient city. There are also some ancient and primitive festivals, customs and figures who left Lijiang today when tourism is highly developed. Lijiang, the Naxi nationality in our lens, has been crowned with various world laurels, and the worldwide problem of cultural heritage protection has also come from this.
Episode 15 Bodhi
South of Yunling in Xishuangbanna. This is where the Lancang River flows out of China; This is the Buddhist homeland guarded by Dai family for generations; It has the best preserved tropical rain forest in China. However, the turbulent upsurge of rubber tea in Lin Heping has also changed the structure of the tropical rain forest. Diversified planting is gradually replaced by single planting; Under the temptation of high profits, the original "slash and burn" revived. German ecologist Josef Margraf is like Avatar to save the Banna Rainforest. He used his hands to create life with orchids. After ten years of trees, Meigong Mountain Villa completed the return of rubber forest to rainforest, and he also planted his life and hope in Xishuangbanna forever, in the hanging garden for which he had been dumped all his life. The film crew went deep into Banna Rainforest many times and told a story about the promise of nature and life with records spanning time.
Episode 16 The other shore
Faith runs through the history of human civilization, and Dajiang has been chosen again and again by great civilization as her birthplace. After the big waves washed the sand, they survived, grew, prospered and lost. Together with this miracle, they returned to the earth and rivers. Angkor civilization chose Lancang-Mekong River, the river with the most temples along the coast in the world. At the end of the bustling, looking at the source of the gods are mottled temples and lonely springs; What will the river leave us after Wan Li is deserted? In this program, together with the film crew, you will start from the magnificent Angkor Wat site and go downstream to find thousands of lives bred by the Mekong River. It was a glimpse of the house boat in Tonle Sap Lake, the expression of the oldest old man in a small village at the mouth of the Vietnamese Sea, and the last temple left by the river of the gods before leaving the world. I thought this river was a swan song here, but after moving on, we found another pure land on the earth, jumping and floating happily, with no beginning and no end.