Minning Town Photo: Courtesy of Maoyan

For a long time, farming civilization has been a rich mine for Chinese artists' literary and artistic creation. But unlike previous creations, with the rise of social media, film and television works focusing on farming culture have become more inclusive and open in recent years.

For example, domestic variety show Back to the Field, with rural and village scenes and a gentle narrative rhythm, leads celebrities into a world of slow-paced life to experience farming. Other documentaries also research farmers' life stories related to food, and discuss the relationship between food, the land and people. Those works use real and delicate cinematography to show the actual agricultural production process in China, not only depicting the hardships of farming, but also expressing the joy of the harvest.

Guangming Daily

 

 

People attend the conference promoting Xizang to the world held by China's Foreign Ministry on Wednesday. Photo: Xizang Ribao

On a sub-forum at Tuesday's 2023 Forum on the Development of Xizang, China, held in Beijing, 30 guests from home and abroad discussed topics about the inheritance, protection and development of Tibetan culture. 

Laurence J. Brahm, a political economist, writer, lawyer and director from the US, made no secret of his endless love for Xizang, where he has paid great attention to the cultural inheritance and protection of ethnic minorities in recent years. He said that he will go to Xizang to make more documentary films. 

Experts saw that Xizang's economic and social development is a new historical starting point, which provides new opportunities and conditions for the protection and development of traditional culture. 

China.com

 

 

A statue of martial artist Bruce Lee on Avenue of Stars in Hong Kong Photo: VCG

 
Recently, a film exhibition was held in Shanghai. At the event, documentary director Zhang Tongdao shared the ideas he once talked about with a university professor from the US, noting that the late Bruce Lee is a real movie icon and why he captured the interest of audiences in the Western world. 

"Bruce Lee really refined the essence of Chinese culture to a high level. He is a philosopher, who turned martial arts into a philosophy of life, this is where Bruce Lee did so well. Lee also wrote poetry. At the same time, he integrated China's kung fu into Muay Thai, Korean Taekwondo, Philippine stick fighting, and American-style boxing. This kind of integration and inclusiveness is also what Chinese culture stands for."

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