WANLI CHENG, DI YI JI: WANLI CHANGCHENG WANLI
CHANG {ODYSSEY OF THE GREAT WALL, PT. 1: THE GREAT
WALL IS TEN THOUSAND LI LONG} {EPISODE 3 OF 3}
{MANDARIN CHINESE} (TV)
Summary
The first of two programs on this tape. Part 1, Episode
3 in this documentary series of CCTV journalist Jiao
Jiacheng's travels along the Great Wall of China. In
Part 1, Jiao travels through the Gansu, Xinjiang,
Shanxi, and Liaoning Provinces, seeking the "starting"
and "ending" points of the Great Wall, and learning
about the history of the Great Wall, as well as the
people who live by it today. Episode 3 of Part 1
focuses on finding the eastern ending point of the Great
Wall. The program starts along the Ming Dynasty (1368 -
1644 A.D.) portion of the Great Wall. Jiao begins on
Qinhuai River, and the crew rides a boat to the Great
Wall gates in Nanjing Province. According to an
unidentified male historian, the Ming Emperor Zhu
Yuanzhang built these gates for defense in 1366 A.D.
Next, Jiao takes a train that passes through Shanhai
Gate to Liaoning Province. Jiao interviews some
passengers on the train and discusses where the east end
of the Ming dynasty Great Wall is. Once in Liaoning
Province Xingcheng County, Jiao meets a local
storyteller who tells a story of how Ming generals
occupied Liaoning in the fourteenth century. Next, Jiao
goes to a market in Liaoning Province Jinzhou City and
interviews Liu Qian, a Great Wall expert, about the east
end of the Great Wall. Liu explains that all the
reference books state that Shanhai Gate is the east end
of the Ming dynasty Great Wall. Therefore, Liu calls
the part of the Great Wall further east of Shanhai Gate,
"the deserted appendix." Next, Jiao goes to Shanghai
and discusses Liu's view with other three unidentified
historians. Jiao then goes back to Liaoning to visit
the Liaoning Museum to learn more about Ming culture.
There he finds evidence that proves that the Ming Great
Wall extends further east beyond Shanhai Gate and
interviews researcher Feng Yongqian, who claims the
Ming Great Wall actually extends even further to
Liaodong. Next, the program shows portions of the Great
Wall in Jinshanling of Hebei Province and explains its
history there: the legendary Ming general Qi Jiguang,
famous for fighting the Japanese pirates, constructed
this part of the wall to defeat enemies. Then, the
program moves to Zhejiang Province, the native land of
Qi, to learn about Qi's history in detail from two
historians, Xu Sanjian and an unidentified man. Next,
the program shifts back to Jinshanling Great Wall where
Jiao and Great Wall expert Luo Zhewen investigate the
inner walls in detail and continue the discussion of
Qi's accomplishments. Realizing that the Jinshanling
Great Wall was so useful for fighting off enemies, other
later Ming officials apparently copied the same design
to build the Great Wall in Datong Town, Chang Town, and
Zhenbao Town in other parts of Northeastern China.
Next, Jiao goes to Shanxi Province Zuoquan County,
claiming that the Ming dynasty's desire to defend itself
from the Manchu and Mongolian people was the reason it
built the Great Wall from Shanxi to Liaodong. Next,
Jiao interviews a senior musician, Shi Zhangyuan, who
has spent his whole life beside the Great Wall in
Shanxi. Then he heads to Shanxi Niangzi Gate, where an
unidentified teacher and several veteran officers, Li
Moan, Chen Shunqing, and Zhang Qi, tell the story of how
the Chinese defended themselves from the Japanese
invasion there in the 1930s. The interviewees then sing
the "Song of the Great Wall." Next, the crew visits a
coalmine in Antaibao in Shanxi Province Shuozhou City,
and Jiao interviews some coalminers, including the sole
female worker Zhang Lamei, about the work. He then
visits a village in Shanxi Province Shiyu County, near
Inner Mongolia, where a teacher instructs the one and
only student of the village. Next, the program shows a
chorus of young people singing the "Song of the Great
Wall" in an auditorium. The program ends with the song
in the background to a bird's-eye view of the Great Wall.
(This program is in Mandarin Chinese. While the
narration is not subtitled, interviews in various
Chinese dialects -- Mandarin, Xiang, and Wu -- are all
subtitled in Simplified Chinese.)
Cataloging of this program was made possible by Sun TV,
2002.
Details
- NETWORK: CCTV (China)
- DATE: October 31, 1991
- RUNNING TIME: 0:52:10
- COLOR/B&W: Color
- CATALOG ID: T:70669.001
- GENRE: Public affairs/Documentaries
- SUBJECT HEADING: China - History -- Ming dynasty, 1368-1644; Great Wall of China (China); International Collection - China; Travel
- SERIES RUN: CCTV (China) - TV series
- COMMERCIALS: N/A
CREDITS
- Chen Hanyuan … Executive Producer
- Guo Baoxiang … Executive Producer
- Gong Jun … Managing Producer
- Zhang Hua … Producer
- Zhang Junshi … Producer
- Duan Shucheng … Producer
- Deng Xiaohui … Producer
- Wang Lei … Producer
- Li Yuying … Producer
- Huang Haibo … Producer
- Liu Xiaoli … Director
- Wei Bin … Director
- Yi Ping … Director
- Wei Bin … Director
- Li Haihui … Music by
- Ai Liqun … Music by
- Wang Yiping … Music by
- Tan Lihua … Conductor
- China Film Music Troupe … Symphony Orchestra
- Wang Yan … Singer
- Jiao Jiancheng … Host
- Huang Zongying … Host
- Li Peihong … Host
- Chen Shunqing
- Feng Yongqian
- Li Moan
- Liu Qian
- Luo Zhewen
- Qi Jiguang
- Shi Zhangyuan
- Xu Sanjian
- Zhang Lamei
- Zhang Qi
- Zhu Yuanzhang, Ming Emperor