30 days, 5 million kilometers, this documentary has all the poems and distant places you want to see.

The scenery outside the window shines like a thin wave at low tide. The traveler is crowned as his own emperor in time, and the road under his feet is naturally formed in breathing like the rhythm of life. In China, the tentacles of highways extend in all directions, shaping the ever-changing faces of plateaus, wetlands, permafrost, mountains, lakes, deserts, farmland and cities, and also communicating the joys and sorrows of people all over the world, who and scenery have witnessed the twists and turns of all roads.

The road documentary, just like the trip it wants to record, gives the audience not only new scenery, but also new eyes. The lens salvages not only the scenery, but also the deep and silent love in daily life. Documentary on the road, the audience can always be eager to survive, unknown call of duty, unexpected poetic moment to seize.

Be a geographer of inner world.

Everyone on China Road flies like an arrow to the unknown front. For people who have been on the road, travel is a method and a pursuit, and the mask called self can be outlined on the back of life. The protagonist of the first issue is Liao Jia, who is the first person in China to drive around Eurasia through legal procedures. She has been driving for twenty-five years, and at the age of fifty-two, she is still as chic as ever, carrying out her love of geography since high school on the road stage.

She bluntly said that the charm of driving is freedom. This freedom is to learn to be friends with yourself and enjoy the romance of a lonely life. It is the freedom of Ren Woxing and the lofty sentiments of friends from all corners of the country.

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In the documentary, Liao Jia's preference for the G30 highway section in Xinjiang comes not only from the Guozigou Bridge, which is called "one bridge changes the fate of Xinjiang", but also from his old friend Kazak sisters and Madiguli's family. Old friends heard about Liao Jia's arrival and spread the news everywhere. The herdsmen in Kudring sang "We are all a big tree with deep roots and leaves, like branches, a big family that will never be separated", put on holiday costumes, and walked with light steps, holding hands, like a galloping horse in a cavalry, like an antelope jumping happily on the grassland, like an eagle soaring on a snowy mountain.

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In Liao Jia's mind, land and people together constitute the scenic highway in China. Since 2007, she has started to establish the road database of China scenic spots, and with her more than 20 years' experience, she has helped people to open different branches of the road network, which are all-inclusive and unique. At present, the database has covered 80% of the country, but Liao Jia is still on the road, and people who have experienced freedom are reluctant to share it. "Travel is an experience, and I think my route can make everyone have some little pleasure and happiness, which is very good."

People keep exploring their own world boundaries along the footprints left by Liao Jia, and life is endless. But more people regard travel as a pause button in their lives, or a Qvanxian Zhang experience card. Li Lehao, a self-media person who specializes in used cars, took his father who had been estranged from him for many years and set foot on G3 18 of Sichuan-Tibet Highway. The unfamiliar environment stimulates new relationships, jumps out of the hidden living environment of the reef, and the long-term tense father-son relationship is repaired and reborn.

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Road trip showed his father the scenery he had never seen before, witnessed his son's real growth, and gave him a sense of satisfaction beyond hard work and hard work. In the new communication environment, they bumped into each other's previously neglected appearance. Sometimes going on the road is to jump out of daily life, but it will also feed back life.

Travel can be an enclave of life, but travel is not to escape from life, but to examine the inner world, pursue new relationships and become a geographer of the inner world.

The shell of things and the ditch of life experience

In addition to human stories, the documentary "Damei China Road" tells the world things related to expressway. The most important thing is the car, which is an extension of people and a mobile home during the journey. More importantly, drive a self-driving car with tents, binoculars, cookers, storage bags, gas appliance and photographic equipment. And you can sit in the shell of the universe.

These things are not simple containers. Every place is an expression of people's self-awareness and a burden of life experience. Li Lehao entered the used car industry because of his childhood father's maintenance of taxis. Precision machinery and complicated buttons planted seeds in his heart. At that time, most taxis were Jetta, which made him decide to go to college and choose Jetta as the first car he bought. When my son was born, he was specially named "Jetta", which means long-term health.

# Things related to expressway

These things are not simple containers. Every place is an expression of people's self-awareness and a burden of life experience.

For most families in China, buying a car is an important thing. This large amount of expenses often entrusts many people's imagination of a better life and future. Some people go back to the starting point again and again, while others keep looking for new destinations. The car is a tool to escape from the spirit and reach the possibility of hope.

There is always a way home behind the car. In the documentary, Tang Yongming, Guizhou's "brother", ran 1952 km on the Taklimakan desert highway with a box of oil, which was a blockbuster. Since then, every village in Guiyang has a highway, and Tang Yongming decided to continue to be a partner with the highway and not change careers.

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This time, he made full use of the construction of expressway in China. While becoming the owner of the garage, he promoted automobile energy saving to other brothers, taught diesel vehicle maintenance, and participated in the public welfare activities of "sending anti-Japanese war veterans home". Tang Yongming believes that repairing cars is a very common thing, but all ordinary things are extraordinary to the extreme. The road is the gravity of his dream, the car is the epitome of the world, and it is a vast soul.

A story of expressway's "going out" and "bringing in", like a fishing ground where cold current and warm current meet, is constantly emerging in the long and vast expressway. In the last two episodes of The Road to China, American Linden visited the village in China for 30 years after studying in Beijing from 65438 to 0984. In 2004, Linden renovated an old house in Dali, Yunnan, and operated a communication window between local China and the world. Hai Mao, the captain of the Green Field Rescue Team, is happy that expressway has further extended the lifeline, and rescue vehicles have no road and are no longer difficult to travel. Roads share the same fate with cars, stars and life, witnessing the joys and sorrows of the world.

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What is Damei China Road? At the end of each episode, different people give their own answers to the documentary. Perhaps we can borrow a sentence from Mr. Fei Xiaotong: "Every kind of beauty is beautiful, beauty is beautiful, beauty and * * *, and the world is one."

The reverie of road documentary

As a documentary about China Highway, the uniqueness of Damei China Road is naturally the hero of each episode-China Highway.

How can a journey beyond 5 million kilometers reach the audience in front of the screen? Documentary, as easy as lifting weights, skillfully strings this seemingly too grand topic into the company of people and scenery.

Each episode is about 25 minutes long, like a backpacker who goes into battle lightly, inviting the audience to take a trip in the video world. During the five-part journey of the documentary, the beauty of China highway lies in the scenery, the winding foreign highway is beautiful, and the accompanying road to pick up and drop off children every ten years is also beautiful. All the details are connected in series by expressway, like a brocade covered with clouds, colorful and dazzling, layered and interconnected.

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For the audience, snow-capped mountains, running rivers, bright moonlight and daily life are all beautiful, but the significance of the documentary goes beyond the plot. Damei China Road provides a reverie of life. It encourages people to establish the proximity of life, discover the changes of roads around the community and re-imagine life. It also presents the possibility of another life in the distance with a super but not sensational gesture.

The road documentary is an observer, a guide, a witness and a participant for the audience who are temporarily unable to travel. It tells the audience in front of the screen that you are not alone, but your companion is far away and on the road. Perhaps the journey is not so much an epiphany as a brand-new, but as long as you leave, there are still scenery calling.

German documentary director Herzog once said that if you open a film school, the first condition for students to enter school is not to examine theoretical knowledge or shooting skills, but to travel 5,000 kilometers on foot and travel notes. This means that a documentary needs the infiltration of experience if it really wants to enter the depths of others or other things.

# The beauty of China Highway lies in the fact that the scenery is more in my mind.

If a documentary really wants to enter the depths of others or other things, it needs the infiltration of experience.

Damei China Road is a series of road documentaries jointly produced by Tencent News, Grain Rain Images and Jetta.

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Unfamiliar faces, the ceremony of welcoming the wind and rain in the desolate wilderness, the sun overhead and the oncoming wind, and the subtle differences felt when returning to the crowded downtown, these experiences are like hard minerals, remembering the changes of the journey and radiating the heat and breath of life through images.

The same is true of the story recorded in Great China Road. The criss-crossing roads are like capillaries, spreading everywhere, leading to every corner of this vibrant land of China. All people and things are intertwined like clouds, flying like meteors and swaying like the Tianhe River. The beauty of heaven and earth, the order of the four seasons, and the ups and downs of everything are intertwined forever, so that it is endless.

Author: Lou