《City of Intangible Cultural Heritage·Guardian Season》Decided: Follow the craftsmanship into the daily life of the city

 The humanistic documentary program - Intangible Cultural Heritage City·Guardian Season - is announced to be broadcast on September 23.This season, the camera is set to Foshan in Guangdong, Qingdao in Shandong, Fuzhou in Fujian, Guilin in Guangxi, Jingdezhen in Jiangxi and other places, starting from techniques such as fragrant cloud yarn, lion dance, ancient oil pressing, Confucian cuisine, cork painting, Buddha jumping over the wall, Yao oil tea and handmade porcelain, to see how a craft grows in the streets and people of a city.

Intangible cultural heritage often appears in front of the audience as a finished product: a piece of cloth, a bowl, a table of dishes, or a lion dance in a festival.There is a longer time behind them.Xiangyun gauze needs to be dried according to the seasons and sunlight, and porcelain needs to be repeatedly combined with mud, fire and hands. Confucius cuisine hides the eating habits of the place.The program follows the process, and you can see the process of an item transforming from a material into a daily necessities.

The focus of this season is on the word “guard”.The preservation of craftsmanship has never been just about displaying it in showcases.The master must have apprentices, the shop must be able to operate, and young people must be willing to learn and bring it into new life scenes, so that the skill will continue to grow.Each city in the show has its own rhythm. Some crafts are closely connected with festivals, and some are hidden in a meal or a fan. They enter life in different ways.

Fuzhou's cork paintings cut, peel, and paste extremely thin wood into landscapes and pavilions, and the detailed process requires patience; Guilin's round bamboo cut-out fans start from bamboo and eventually become light objects that can be held in the hand; Jingdezhen's porcelain making involves mud, drawing, glazing, and firing into a long line.When the audience sees the finished product, they often only stay for a few seconds. If the camera can zoom out on the production process, the craftsman's concentration will have a chance to be seen seriously.

The distance between intangible cultural heritage and young people may not be as far as imagined.Some people know Xiangyunsha from the fabric of a piece of clothing, some go into the kitchen to learn how to cook a dish, and some stop by a lion dance performance while traveling.Curiosity is the entrance.When you are willing to ask more about where the materials come from and why you do what you do, traditional skills will no longer be just terms in textbooks, but will be connected to your own life experience.

The challenge faced by documentary programs is how to avoid filming the city into a series of scenic spots.The content that can really be left behind often comes from the relationship between people and places: how a family maintains a workshop, how a master teaches his disciples, and how a craft changes its expression with the market.--City of Intangible Cultural Heritage·Guardian Season-Moving the lens from simple display to specific people and actions, it also makes those pyrotechnic details the center of the narrative.

Craftsmanship will adjust over time, and cities will continue to grow.Old craftsmanship is reused, and a new generation of creators find new design languages ​​for it, which are all part of the inheritance.After the program launches on September 23, viewers will follow craftsmen from different places.What is left in the end may not only be the names of several skills, but also an understanding of how a city turns life into culture.