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The change of the great river episode I

This is the image in an epic TV series "The Story of the Yangtze River" more than 20 years ago. The photographer aimed the camera at the Yangtze River, the longest river in China, and recorded the magical nature, rich culture and people's living conditions in the Yangtze River Basin. In the 1980s, an era that will change the lives of China people is coming, and the rapid pace of times changes has become the most historically tense image in The Story of the Yangtze River. The story of the Yangtze River was broadcast on 1983, which produced a miracle for the audience. It was reported that every Sunday night, millions of people in China would sit in front of the TV and watch the TV series "The Story of the Yangtze River" broadcast by CCTV. For people at that time, it was a feast of images. More importantly, this huge river brings them surging passion and national pride. Unforgettable pictures have become the lingering imprint of the times in people's hearts. Through the TV screen, the people of China first saw the true face of the mother river, which has flowed for hundreds of millions of years and nurtured the Chinese nation for thousands of years. This 25-episode series comes from more than 4,000 minutes of film material, and behind the vivid picture, it is a hard shooting that lasted for a whole year. 198 1 year, a generation of TV people started this unprecedented shooting, and their footprints spread all over the country. After that, a landmark work in the history of China TV stood out.

In 2004, exactly 20 years after The Story of the Yangtze River was broadcast, CCTV's "Talk about the Yangtze River" crew began another large-scale shooting along the Yangtze River, which is a pursuit of the footsteps of 20 years ago. In a sense, this is the same record that spans different time and space. Twenty years is a short moment in history, but it is a great change for the Yangtze River at the turn of the century. Behind it is the great changes in China. In the pictures left more than 20 years ago, these steep canyons on the Yangtze River remind people of the description of Shu Road in ancient poems. The water life of the canyon residents is desperate, with ancient bloodiness and heroism. In other reaches of the basin, modern water conservancy projects have begun to appear. In the 1980s, these huge buildings appeared in cities along the Yangtze River. Fashion has become a new topic for most people. These scenes are still deeply reflected in the minds of many people. Even, every detail will be touching. The faces, expressions and dynamics more than 20 years ago let us find the shadow of our own life. At the same time, we can see more clearly how life has changed today. For us who are alive today, this is 20 years for everyone. Since 2004, the crew of Speak the Yangtze River began to look for the characters in the lens of that year. Their life condensed the 20-year history of the Yangtze River valley and even the whole China. 1982, a bridge across the Yangtze River was built in Chongqing in the upper reaches of the Yangtze River, and people celebrated the completion of the bridge with rare solemnity. This year, Li Xi 1 1 year-old, a child from Chongqing. He lived next to the new bridge and became the first person to run on it in the morning. Twenty-three years later, Li Xi and his family still live by the Yangtze River, and the habit of running on the bridge in the morning has been maintained. The difference is that this is one of the countless new bridges in Chongqing. Today, the number of bridges across the river in Chongqing has exceeded the total number of bridges in several big cities in the Yangtze River basin. They crisscross north and south and are connected by mountains and rivers, forming a huge city. Twenty-three years later, this city in the upper reaches of the Yangtze River has become the newest municipality directly under the Central Government of China. Just like the stunt in the local traditional drama, it changes its face at an incredible speed. Today's Chongqing is 2.4 times the total area of the other three municipalities directly under the Central Government of China, and the renovation of Chongqing's territory has been shortened to a three-month edition. The image shows the history of the magical rebirth of this city, full of imagination, time scars and growth energy. The sudden change in 20 years has exceeded the imagination of Chongqing people.

In the past 20 years, the miracle of life has exceeded the imagination of many people living in different cities and villages throughout the Yangtze River Basin.

Shanghai, an international metropolis at the mouth of the Yangtze River. Behind the western-style architecture and European sentiment left over from 100 years ago, the backbone and limbs of the city are rapidly extending and the blood is boiling. Shanghai people's pursuit of fashion presents a richer form today. Speed inspired Shanghai people. This is still the law they follow. In 20 years, speed has brought the poetry of a city. Dating back to six or seven thousand years ago, the area where Shanghai is located today is still a sea of Wang Yang. For thousands of years, the sediment brought by the Yangtze River water has been accumulating, forming this huge alluvial plain in the Yangtze River basin, which is the original history of Shanghai. History still comes from the intersection of the Yangtze River and the sea. Chongming Island, the third largest island in China, which was bred by the siltation of the Yangtze River, is still growing at the rate of adding 20,000 mu of land every year. These wetlands that stretch out to the sea seem to be a symbol of the endless life of the Yangtze River.

The Yangtze River, more than 6,000 kilometers away from the sea, expresses its personality in another form. As if falling from the sky, the raging water with new blood and recklessness split the mountains and canyons all the way to the east. Today, with our short life, we can still look at this billion-year river. The Yangtze River Basin, a natural wonder created since ancient times, has all the signs of life in the key process of the birth of the Yangtze River. Many evidences show that humans began to appear here more than 2 million years ago. In the process of gestating all things and human beings, the Yangtze River still presents its latest life state in various ways. Cycle after cycle, day and night, just like the arrival of each of our individual lives. In the 1980s, many people on both sides of the Yangtze River were experiencing different stages of their lives, but as a specific era in the history of new China, the 1980s was full of the most primitive vitality and state. As naive and lively as these children. At this time, a vibrant life is coming to children and their times. At that time, different things happened around people in many places on both sides of the Yangtze River. Some major events have become important symbols in the history of the Yangtze River. 1983, a grand celebration was recorded outside Xiling Gorge of the Three Gorges of the Yangtze River. This year, people built the first huge water conservancy project on the Yangtze River-Gezhouba.

More than 20 years later, in the Three Gorges of the Yangtze River not far from Gezhouba, people began to bid farewell to their homes that were about to be submerged, and one of the largest water control projects in the world was being carried out here. As many as/kloc-0.00 million immigrants will leave their homes for generations. Today, a new term-Three Gorges Dam has been added in the history of world water conservancy. This dam has not only brought great changes to the Yangtze River, but also made a nation's century-old dream come true. This great feat of civilization in the history of the Yangtze River has enabled the people of China to further explore the origin of the Yangtze River civilization. 14 years ago, with the construction of the dam, the largest archaeological site in the world also appeared in the 600-kilometer-long reach of the Three Gorges reservoir area. This is the biggest action in the archaeological history of China. Unearthed cultural relics emerge in endlessly, silently echoing many archaeological discoveries in the Yangtze River basin and becoming an important part of the ancient Yangtze River bone collection. When we can overlook the Yangtze River and its magical mountains and vast land like birds, many time and space codes under our feet are still strange and unknown. Why do we live here? For a long time, even such a problem is full of layers of doubts. Some accidental discoveries underground make us curious and pious about the past of the Yangtze River. For a century, curiosity and respect have made archaeologists explore the Yangtze River basin again and again. According to the earth-shattering discoveries in the past 20 years, we can trace the story of human life on the river back to 2000, 3000 or even 7000 years ago. Compared with the Yellow River, the ancestors of the Yangtze River also created an unimaginable splendid civilization. At other times, they live like this. These men and women once planted and harvested the earliest rice in China and even in Asia. Building unparalleled water conservancy projects with the simplest raw materials. Bronzes and painted pottery jades come from their owners' enthusiasm for religion and their mastery of precision technology. Mountains and rivers, the sun and the moon, fish, snakes and wild animals make these people's questions full of imagination, and their beliefs become ethereal and artistic. Elsewhere in the river, artisans indulge in a ritual experience, brewing flammable liquids with clear water and grain. Religion, philosophy, art, life, war and existence are all connected in series with memento mori, where the ancestors of the Yangtze River were buried underground. Many ancient miracles and lives still linger around us, from darkness to the earth-shattering history of civilization in the Yangtze River valley, all of which are secretly linked with our ancestors. Tracing back to the source, people believe that this great river, which nurtured all things in nature, once existed as the source of ancient civilization in China.

Whether it is turbulent, violent or calm, the Yangtze River has its completely different state and expression for many years, but behind all kinds of appearances, it is infinite vitality. Like many civilized rivers in the world, the Yangtze River brings not only floods and sediments, but also fertile land. Since then, there have been pastoral songs in the fields every year. We pursue the mystery that the Yangtze River breeds all things and civilizations, which comes from its natural life system, such as the meridians and organs of the human body. For the Yangtze River, they are criss-crossing tributaries, and lakes are dotted. The lakes connected with the Yangtze River include Dongting Lake, Poyang Lake, Chaohu Lake, Taihu Lake and Hongze Lake, which are the largest freshwater lakes in China. Like lungs, the lake freely breathes, stores and ebbs the water of the Yangtze River through a meridian-like river. This is a place where there are as many as 700 tributaries, rivers and lakes are connected and tributaries meet, resulting in the earliest land of plenty and human settlements. Houses are expanding day by day, like the complex water system of the Yangtze River. Different races began to gather, forming market towns, cities and countries, and dramatic history began to be interpreted. In the long years that have passed, green fields, men plowing and women weaving, fishing songs and sails are coming from north to south on both sides of the Yangtze River. 1982, the story of the Yangtze River film crew filmed this ancient canal in the lower reaches of the Yangtze River-the Beijing-Hangzhou Grand Canal. The busy scene in the canal makes people vaguely see the old stories that were infiltrated by the Yangtze River. More than 20 years later, the South-to-North Water Diversion Project, the largest water conservancy project in the world, is under way. The east main canal of the project will be built in the old way of the canal, and the ancient canal will be reborn. The water sources of the three routes of the South-to-North Water Transfer Project come from the upper, middle and lower reaches of the Yangtze River, which is a feat in the history of human water conservancy. From then on, the Yangtze River began to penetrate the north and south of China. However, for thousands of years, the Yangtze River has never revealed the secret. The water that people worship seems to come from outer space, which permeates their repeated survival history. And its source has been covered with a strong mystery. In order to find the context of the Yangtze River, China people have been quietly exploring along the Yangtze River for more than 2000 years. From 65438 to 0983, hundreds of millions of people in China saw the source of the Yangtze River from the images in The Story of the Yangtze River, with eternal suspense. Prior to this, in 1976, scientists from China first arrived at the huge glacier of Gladden Snow Mountain, and the story of a big river came out. The discovery of 1976 confirmed the length of the Yangtze River for the first time. A few years later, through the story of the Yangtze River, people first felt the spiritual shock brought by this 6380-kilometer-long river. The Yangtze River, which runs through China, has become the third largest river in the world. More than 20 years ago, the series The Story of the Yangtze River, which created a miracle of TV viewing in China, stopped filming in Huangpu River, the last tributary of the Yangtze River. This is part of the image in The Story of the Yangtze River. In addition to the real sigh, the host also imagined the future of the Yangtze River in time and space 20 years ago. The record of 20 years ago has become an important symbol in the history of the Yangtze River and China. Using the advanced film camera at that time, the photographer left the most detailed and perfect precious image for this river for the first time. This is a moment in history, but it is also the only moment. Numbers become the most powerful expression at this moment. At an altitude of 5,800 meters, the journey was half of China, which lasted more than 730 days and recorded 55,000 minutes. August, 2004 1 day, this is the initial figure. On this day, CCTV began the largest filming activity of the Yangtze River in history. This is just the initial ceremony of the Yangtze River. Since then, the trip to Wan Li has become a spiritual worship. Using the most advanced high-definition imaging equipment in the world today, our eyes travel through time and the earth, through cities and villages, and crack banks with mighty rivers and dripping stones. This is a pilgrimage that started with a drop of water. It is this drop of water that created a big river and our life course.