Appreciation of the architecture of the Forbidden City

The Forbidden City is a royal palace and a museum. It unites nearly 600 years of palace changes and the vicissitudes of the world, and it has accumulated thousands of years of culture and wisdom of life.

The Forbidden City, with its heavy connotation, has become a milestone of the Chinese nation's culture, art and society, and history.

The Forbidden City is the world's largest and most complete existing ancient palace complex, and the place where 24 emperors of the Ming and Qing dynasties lived their government and daily lives, which is a precious cultural heritage of mankind. It represents authority and is full of mystery.

In October 1925, the Forbidden City completed its historical transformation from an imperial palace to a museum, becoming China's largest museum of ancient culture and art.

October 2005 coincided with the 80th anniversary of the founding of the Forbidden City Museum. In order to commemorate this historic moment, the Palace Museum and CCTV decided in 2002 to jointly produce a hundred episodes of large-scale television documentaries "The Forbidden City", the first comprehensive reflection of the Palace's architecture, cultural relics and history.

Today, the production of The Forbidden City Highlights is nearing completion. The Forbidden City" is divided into 12 episodes of 50 minutes each, will be broadcast in mid-October in the CCTV set of prime time. By then, a can watch, can listen to, can play, can think of the "Forbidden City" will be presented in front of the television audience.

"The Forbidden City" documentary filming, but also China's documentary to the world of an opportunity. Since the beginning of the filming, "The Forbidden City" this film has been the attention of the world's television media. CCTV's International Television Corporation has signed an agreement with the U.S. National Geographic Channel that the two sides will *** with the production of two hours of the Forbidden City International Edition, and the U.S. National Geographic Channel exclusive agent of the Forbidden City International Edition of the special overseas distribution. This will not only make the documentary "The Forbidden City" to the world, at the same time, for the Palace Museum such a cultural treasure house of world significance, also has an important cultural communication value.

There is no doubt that "The Forbidden City" will become a cultural feast that will attract the attention of the whole world***.

In order to complete this unprecedented large-scale documentary filming with high quality, both CCTV and the Palace Museum have invested a great deal of effort.

Before the shooting, the two sides **** with the organization of a number of expert debates, to seek the views of domestic experts in all relevant aspects of the famous experts, and by the Palace Museum experts, organized a strong team of academic advisers, the documentary filming program and scripts, several additions, deletions, and repeated revisions. Only the Palace before and after there are hundreds of experts involved in this work.

As a key to create a high-quality programs, CCTV for the "Forbidden City" organized a strong creative lineup, the news center commented on the Department of the deployment of elite specific implementation of the completion of a lot of writers and directors have had a lot of achievements in the domestic documentary industry. In terms of content creation, the crew followed the authority, objectivity and visibility, storytelling, the perfect combination of principles, and strive to maximize the balance between the general audience and the viewing needs of professionals.

In order to achieve the perfect artistic effect, the film was shot with high-definition video equipment, various high-level photographic aids and cinematic lighting equipment, as well as advanced post-production equipment, which ensured the first-class production level of the film.

The large amount of animation in "The Forbidden City" also creates a new record of animation creation in documentaries, such as the construction process of the Forbidden City, the original Forbidden City during the Kangxi and Qianlong Dynasties, and the reproduction of the grand ceremonies and rituals, etc., which adds a real visual effect to the film, and the use of some new animation techniques also leaves a deep impression.

In the two years of filming, the film crew every day are faced with a large number of treasures of the world, a considerable part of the collection out of the need to protect, for the light, the environment have strict requirements, which brings great difficulty to the shooting. For example, in the filming of the Forbidden City paintings and calligraphy in this episode, involving a large number of exquisite paintings, Ming Xuanzong Zhu Zhanji Emperor "three mice", Shi Tao's "searching for all the strange peaks in the draft", Tang Yin's "thing Ming Tu", Ding Guanpeng's "Palace Consort words spoiled picture" and other masterpieces, in order to ensure that these valuable paintings under the premise of the safety of the quality of filming, the crew chose to distance from the cultural relics of the nearest warehouse Shooting locations, the use of no heat and filter out ultraviolet light equipment, special lighting equipment, after the Palace Museum Science and Technology Department of experts to determine the strict testing of light on the painting does not have any impact on the party after the shooting. Painting on the humidity requirements are very strict, must be guaranteed between 48-55 degrees, in order to maintain the appropriate humidity, the film crew in the shooting site constantly sprinkler operation, to ensure the safety of the painting. Shooting painting is only one of the contents of the filming of cultural relics, for all the cultural relics of the filming, the film crew are in the assistance of professionals, in strict accordance with a set of detailed process operation, not only to ensure that the cultural relics are not lost, but also maximize the artistic expression.

12 episodes of "The Forbidden City" essence of the Palace will be from the Palace's architecture, use, collection of cultural relics and from the Palace to the Museum, an all-round display of the Palace, both the display of cultural relics, but also the history of the comb, both rigorous scientific assertions, but also no lack of vivid stories and the fate of the characters to tell.

Through this film, viewers will experience an exciting journey to a superb civilization:

- A holistic view of the royal complex, which is the largest in the world and represents the highest level of traditional Chinese architectural art;

- An overview of the Forbidden City's collection of nearly 150 buildings.

--The crafts of the world at different times, scientific instruments and other direct evidence of cultural exchanges between China and foreign countries, a comprehensive compendium of commemorative;

--The 80 years of the establishment of the National Palace has experienced the stormy times and changes, the hardships of entrepreneurship, the upheaval of national treasures and so on.

--The ancient Forbidden City in the new life and development after the establishment of new China, the implementation of the vast centennial overhaul process, an exclusive record. And designed with many historical artifacts.

"The Forbidden City" this documentary headquarters works will be comprehensive, systematic, objective display of the history of the Forbidden City, today and the future. That beautiful, mysterious vicissitudes of the palace buildings and collections of cultural relics, that a lot of unknown, vivid and vivid character fate and historical events, as well as which contains the rich artistic and cultural history and ideological connotations will bring the audience unprecedented new feelings.