How can people live happily? Please read it. It's very well written.

The documentary Polar Region is very popular. "These people inside are happier than us."

The Tibetans in my memory always have a hidden smile on their faces.

▲ Documentary "Polar" propaganda photo. The picture comes from the internet.

Text | Beijing News reporter Luo Wei? Intern Ma Xiaolong? Editor | Hu Jie? Proofreading | Wang Xin

65438+10.3, the last episode of the documentary "Polar Region" was updated on multiple platforms, and the douban score rose from 9.2 to 9.5.

This is a documentary about Tibet, with "people" as the prototype, 7 episodes, each lasting about 35 minutes, telling the story of 2 1 ordinary people living in Tibet.

There are wildlife protectors living in no man's land, lovely grandmothers calling themselves "princesses", Tibetan marriage brokers, mural painters, wooden locksmiths and so on. Someone took the bus for the first time and lamented that it was a "running sofa". Some people have done the worst thing in their lives, that is, stepping on a few bugs.

The local people have one thing in common: they are all ordinary people with simple values. What they do or say unintentionally often makes the audience cry.

▲ Documentary "Polar" stills. The picture comes from "documentary polar" Weibo.

After the film was broadcast, the creative team revealed some off-camera stories.

The polar film crew stayed in Tibet for more than half a year, and the most difficult thing was "breathing". Some people stay until the sixth month and have altitude sickness. Compared with panting, the weather is very cold, often tens of degrees below zero. These are all cliches.

Zhang Yi, the executive director of the film, said that unlike people who are photographed in many cities, people living there don't pay much attention to signing contracts and talking about remuneration. To persuade them to accept filming, the most important thing is to be sincere and not to disturb their lives. For example, when shooting, don't disturb the delivery of cows, and respect Tibetan customs. When you see a fire, you need to make a detour, don't cross it. Garbage should be thrown alone and never burned in the fire.

During the filming, the crew members ate cow placenta, lived in the cowshed, climbed the mountain for more than nine hours, crossed the wooden bridge, painted their faces with masks made by local people, and fought together in the mud ... Later, the photographers have integrated into the lives of local people. In the lamb picking season, you can see "This sheep is about to be born, come and shoot".

Looking back on the small shaping of the film, everyone remembers some happy things. Some people don't like to eat in tents, so they have to squat at the door and watch the snow-capped mountains eat. "It's so beautiful, the snow-capped mountain is in front of you, you can feel it when you reach out, and you want to remember it all the time"; Some people have seen rainbow doors in full colors, just in front of them. "Or a double rainbow. How many double rainbows can I see in my life? " .

They can't forget those lovely compatriots-after riding for a day, they got off the bus and found that Grandpa Bo was cooking a hand-grabbed meal for you, and Grandma Bo made popcorn with a stove fire and put it in a big pot, which was the best thing in their family. Photographer of temple murals; Shot the salt delivery man. His grandfather's house had a shabby little board. He is very precious. He once went back to collect salt and floated on the water. He kept it for decades and thought it was a gift from the goddess of salt lake.

"We really like them from the heart. Only when the front is cute and the back is cute can it be cute. " The local people in my memory always have a smile on their faces. Look at these people inside. They are all happier than us.

▲ Documentary "Polar" stills. The picture comes from "documentary polar" Weibo.

After returning to Beijing, due to language differences, the translation of shooting materials lasted for more than half a year. Director Cheng Gong is a very serious person. He posted a small note on each editor's computer, which said "Be patient".

This team believes that we should do something that everyone loves, not something that makes people sigh. They know themselves from the stories of the mural artist's master and apprentice. They cry every time they watch it. "It's the same with making a documentary. It's very bitter and enjoyable. Stick to it bit by bit."

Some people say Polar is a collection of short stories. The following are the stories of 10 ordinary people we selected in the film Polar Region. Show what people's real life is like in such a place closest to heaven.

Wildlife protector

Dorje Ciba is a wildlife protector in Shuanghu County. He patrols around the Prugangri Glacier all the year round, which is second only to the South Pole and the North Pole.

▲ polar wildlife protectors. The picture comes from the internet.

No one knows the animals here better than he does. A wild yak died in the snow and ice. Doggi recognized "this is the one that disappeared two years ago" at a glance, stopped the motorcycle and knelt on the ground, measured the horns with his fingers, and recorded the age of this wild yak in his notebook.

In Qiangtang no-man's land, Dorje Ziba set up tents wherever he patrolled. He has five children, all of whom grew up in tents moved from no man's land. The environment is hard. Once, my youngest son was scalded by boiling water, and the outdoor temperature was below zero 10 degrees. The nearest hospital is 120 kilometers away, so my wife can only use milk to help her children to relieve inflammation and pain.

Nevertheless, Dorje insisted on letting his children learn knowledge. Handwritten letters from China hung in his tent. When not patrolling, the children line up and read aloud "A, O, E" after him.

The new year is coming. Dorje closed his eyes and made three wishes. "The first wish is to be a man in the afterlife; The second wish is that all children can go to school well and find a job in the future. The third wish is that life can get better, just a little better, better than before. First, the house is built better, and second, the cattle and sheep pen is repaired more firmly. "

Television technician

Baima, 19 years old, bomi county film projectionist. Before the rainy season comes, he will finish the task of performing in the mountains.

▲ Polar film projectionist. The picture comes from the internet.

He will go to Bagai township in the upper reaches of the valley to show movies. If it goes well, he will lead his horse through dense forests and mountains and rivers, and it will take him two days to get there. It is a small village with only eight families. The villagers have never seen a curtain film. The only way to get into the village is to tie yourself to the cableway and jump over the rushing river.

The village chief was very happy when he got a call from Baima. He shouted on the phone, "I'll call some people to help you." A thin cableway, pulled by four or five people at the head of the village, finally transported more than 500 kilograms of horses. The water rumbled and the horses landed on all fours, making the villagers squint with laughter.

In the evening, the whole village watched Goodbye Mr. Loser. The 80-year-old man is holding a doll that is still gnawing his fingers, and his eyes are reluctant to blink.

This is the white horse's favorite moment. He likes movies and shows them to everyone. He once went to a small town with his friends. In the city, he always felt "chaotic and noisy". He prefers snow-capped mountains and forests to going there, and it is very comfortable to walk in the farmland by the river every day. If you have to say something, "I hope the sun won't be so big when you are on the road."

Grandma mask

Baima Quzhen is 73 years old, Tsering Quzhen is 70 years old and Qumei Zhuoga is 85 years old. They have been best friends for 65 years.

▲ polar three grandmothers mask. The picture comes from the internet.

Qumei Zhuoga was an orphan since childhood, Baima Quzhen's husband died young, and Tsering Quzhen's family was poor.

The most important thing on their faces is a smile. These three grandmothers call themselves "Three Princesses in Tibet". As long as they are together, they will chatter, joke and laugh at each other. "Ha ha, didn't you hear what I just told you?"

Together, they picked herbs to make a pure natural mask, sang "Princess in the sky, listen to me" while picking herbs, helped each other up and down the mountain, and cooked together at home. In order to increase the fire, they shouted "Ah, add some cow dung, cow dung prince". When they were tired of the fire, they called their partner "big princess, please stir it".

When the ointment is ready, run to the road and apply it to passers-by for free. When the sun went down, the three of them sat together for dinner and expressed their wishes. "Just go to Lhasa together, and then the year after next, the year after next, we can continue to be together."

Finally, don't forget to propose a toast to your beautiful self.

Salt carrier

In Tibet, one bag of pure salt can be exchanged for three bags of highland barley.

The salt lake is in the north, and the snow falls in the breath. Salt people think that the north brings together all diseases and misfortunes. The farther north you go, the closer you get to the limit of your life. There is a saying in the pastoral area of northern Tibet that the bitterness of transporting salt means going through all hardships except death. Going to salt lake to transport salt is a rite of passage for Tibetan men.

This process is as pious as a pilgrimage-the salt delivery team can't have women and can't share a room with women for months. They should pray to the goddess of salt lake along the way. They believe that the farther they go, the happier the goddess of salt lake will be. Every step of salt mining has rules, first simmer mulberry, then salt mining. After salt mining, pay tribute to the goddess of salt lake. Clean salt is a treasure given by the goddess of salt lake.

Tsering Wang Qing is a salt carrier. He only brought the salt he needed this year. He educated his grandson and said, "There is very little salt. We can't finish it. Many people will come. If we all take it, others will have nothing. "

On the way home, he sang "Life is like a sunset, and people who go home are like mountains and shadows".

▲ Salt people in the polar regions. The picture comes from the internet.

Woodworking craftsman

Jiang 'an is a wooden locksmith, who has the skill of making traditional Tibetan wooden locks.

▲ Woodworking locksmith in polar regions. The picture comes from the internet.

In the early years, local people lived in wooden houses, and it was easy to catch fire in dry days. They concentrated most of their food and valuables in the warehouse on the top of the mountain, away from the fire, and used traditional wooden locks to prevent theft.

This wooden lock has a long history. The key is forged by bending an iron bar larger than the palm of your hand. The whole wooden lock is half a meter long, but the lock core is extremely simple. According to the logic of modern people, this lock "guards against gentlemen and villains".

When he was young, Jiang 'an made many wooden locks. At that time, it was necessary to strike iron to make keys, and blacksmiths were mostly associated with making knives and killing animals. While striking the iron was regarded as the lowest job, he gradually left this line and vowed never to strike the iron again.

Recently, Jiang 'an was entrusted by villagers to replace wooden locks for the whole village. Each lock has to go to the mountains to personally cut birch as raw material, which is delicate in texture and corrosion-resistant. In order to avoid striking while the iron is hot, Jiang 'an does not change the key, and the lock core is copied according to the shape of the key.

He almost stubbornly stayed away from everything related to killing. In his life, Jiang 'an never killed any animals. He thinks the worst thing he did was castrate them. He will name every cow in his family, and the happiest thing is to live with his 48 cows and 25 pigs.

Three people

Dabailong is a Bo man whose ancestors came to Tibet from India.

▲ monks in the polar regions. The picture comes from the internet.

He still retains the habit of many Indians-eating barefoot all year round.

Dabailong hunted for a living when he was young. He caught more than 80 bears by himself. Twenty years ago, his son went hunting in the mountains and disappeared. He never hunted again.

Everyone in the village said that your son must be dead, but Bailong didn't believe it. His son never quarrels with others, provokes others casually and doesn't steal anything. How did this man disappear?

He is still waiting for his son to come home. All the villagers moved to a new village at the foot of the mountain, where there was electricity and a modern life. Mr. and Mrs. Bai Bailong refused to move away, reluctant to part with the wooden house built by their son.

Grandchildren and granddaughters came up the mountain to see them and install light bulbs for them. When the old couple saw that the light was on, they shouted "On". The old man said, "If only his father were here", and his mother-in-law said, "He asked his grandson to install this lamp for us". The old man replied, "Yes, my son will definitely come back."

Sangyang Festival dancer

In the Year of the Monkey, local people will welcome the Sangyang Festival, which comes once every 12 years.

Tibetans consider themselves descendants of monkeys. On the day before Sangyang Festival, people came to Zhatang Temple to ask for the Tripitaka. On the tenth day of the Tibetan calendar, people began to wander around the cultivated land in the village, carrying nearly 20 kilograms of scriptures and holding auspicious colored arrows. When standing in the four directions of cultivated land, people will sing hymns, which can make the land fertile and bring a bumper harvest to highland barley.

Chilai Lunzhu is the leader of Sangyang Festival, and his dance is called Heqin, which is a collective song and dance ceremony with a long history in villages along the Yarlung Zangbo River.

In recent years, Chi Lai Lun Zhu's friends have left one after another, and he has become the only dancer in the village who has mastered all the lyrics and dance steps. He is over seventy years old, and he doesn't know how many years he will live. He always likes to lie on the wooden chair in the yard and sing "Walking in the wilderness, sad, sad ..."

▲ polar mulberry festival dancers. The picture comes from the internet.

Muralist

Pintso Tashi is a mural artist.

▲ polar mural artist. The picture comes from the internet.

He likes to paint murals for temples. In the eyes of many mural artists, it is not cost-effective to paint murals for temples. Most of the temples are in the deep mountains, the weather is wet and cold, and the painting conditions are difficult. It is far less profitable than staying at home and painting Thangka (portraits painted on cloth curtains and paper).

In order to paint murals for a temple rebuilt after the earthquake, Pincuo Tashi and ten disciples lived and ate in the temple, and it took three months to finish the murals for seven halls.

His youngest apprentice, Gongga, has to go through three stages of line drawing practice from Sakyamuni to Tara and then to Vajrayana. Gongga painted repeatedly in the Diamond Sutra stage for two years.

The master was strict, and Gongga's lines were not well drawn, so he had to erase the instruction. "Don't worry, step by step." Finally, they will wash the ink with water, hold it, cross the long yard and fall under the old tree roots, which is awe of the temple.

Pintso Tashi hopes that after his death, the murals he painted will last for a hundred years. "That's the meaning of all life. He has been painting and painting."

Traditional Tibetan medicine

Gong Jueren was sickly since childhood and was sent to a temple by his parents to study medicine. After secularization, he opened the only Tibetan medicine clinic in the Yarlung Zangbo River Grand Canyon. For three years, he has lived beyond his means.

▲ polar Tibetan medicine. The picture comes from the internet.

When he goes to the countryside to practice medicine, he will take a medicinal bath tub, grind the branches of cypress, rhododendron microphylla, juniper, ephedra and chrysanthemum tenuifolia, cook them with highland barley, and add alkali powder to make them into raw materials for Tibetan medicinal bath.

Tibetan doctors are highly respected in the village. As soon as we arrived at the village entrance, everyone rushed to tell each other, "The doctor is here."

In the damp and cold Tibetan villages, Gong Jueren helped people to carry out fire moxibustion, using the heat of fire to seal specific acupoints and block the spread of cold. If necessary, give the patient a medicated bath, and use heat energy and drugs to open the channels and collaterals, so that the drugs can reach the focus directly.

Gong Jue Ren Zeng felt that treating others was also helping him accumulate virtue. The worst thing he did in his life was "accidentally stepping on or hurting some bugs".

Marriage talker

Zhan dui can't read. He is an expert in marriage negotiation.

▲ polar marriage confidants. The picture comes from the internet.

Marriage is a form of oral rap, blessing the new couple at the wedding and answering people's questions about life. Zhan Dui's skill of marriage was taught by his grandfather sentence by sentence when he was grazing.

Before the wedding, the newlyweds will use the barley harvested last year to hang a pair of "swastikas" to pay tribute to the suitors. Before I reached the bride's door, Zhandui's singing had already begun. The wedding lasts from day to night, at least 12 hours, saying that the married person should always sing the wedding eulogy.

The crowd is very lively, and young people are addicted to drinking and playing mobile phones, which makes them somewhat lost in thought. He misses his old wedding. People gathered around him, listening to auspicious greetings, competing for toasts and asking all kinds of questions. How did the world come into being? How to identify the weather? How to graze? How to get happiness? And he is the person who answers instead of the land.

But now, no one has asked these questions.

Zhandui wants to find someone who can write and help him remember those eulogies about seasons, mountains, rivers and people.

He feels old, but he knows more and more what he is singing. "From Tapo to Namco, I think I said marriage is the best. I have loved it all my life. Marriage is a blessing, and blessings are the most beautiful, just like the sunset. "

Postscript: 20 17 12 months, the documentary has not been broadcast, Tsering Wang Qing died, and there is another camel salt man missing in Tibet.