What plants in China affect the world?

Plants in China Influence the World, also known as Plants in China Change the World, is a nature documentary about plants in China.

Initiated by the Coordination Bureau of Beijing World Horticultural Exposition, produced by Beijing Mu Zi Synthetic Film and Television Culture Media Co., Ltd., premiered on September 19.

This is the first documentary about plants in Chinese mainland and the longest 4K documentary in China at the premiere. Its book of the same name was released on August 2 1 day of the same year.

China Plants Affecting the World, with the title of Plant Paradise, Rice, Tea Tree, Bamboo, Mulberry, Fruit, Soybean, Herbs, Gardens and Flowers, has a total of 10 episode, each episode lasts for 50 minutes, and describes the influence of 28 China plants belonging to 2 1 family on the world. It took more than two years to produce, using a variety of shooting methods such as drone shooting, underwater shooting and micrography.

More than 200 people participated in the creation of this documentary, including 8 shooting teams, 133 photographers. The locations include 93 regions in 27 provinces of China and more than 30 regions in 7 countries including the United States, Britain, Japan, Italy, New Zealand, India and Madagascar.

Its chief consultant is Huang, a botanist from south china botanical garden, Chinese Academy of Sciences, and more than 65,438+000 botanists from south china botanical garden, Kunming Institute of Botany and Institute of Botany, Chinese Academy of Sciences participated. Kew Garden in England and Royal Botanical Garden in Edinburgh also helped to shoot.

Behind the scenes production

More than 200 people participated in the film creation, including 33 photographers/kloc-0. They visited 93 regions in 27 provinces, autonomous regions and municipalities in China and more than 30 regions in 7 countries including Britain, New Zealand, India and Madagascar. Using 4K ultra-high definition camera, large aerial unmanned aerial vehicle and other equipment, a complete plant map of China was presented through various shooting methods, such as time-lapse photography, freeze-frame animation and microphotography.

In Gaoligong Mountain, Tengchong, Yunnan, the crew members carried flying cat ropeway equipment weighing 100 kg, waded over 70 streams and gullies, and crawled in the forest for more than 5 hours before they were able to get close to the shooting target-Dendrobium and Rhododendron.

In the central plateau of Madagascar, Africa, the film crew recorded artemisinin at the risk of being infected by malaria. In order to record rice flowers only the size of rice grains, the film crew moved the rice indoors and tried to film the process of rice flowers opening and rice ears growing out of the stems in a windless environment.

During the film production, more than 230 experts in the field of plants participated in the creation. Professor Zeng Xiaolian (born in 1939) of Kunming Institute of Botany, Chinese Academy of Sciences created a painting of the same name for this film, which lasted 180 days and showed 37 species of plants in China.