Products Name---------------------- "Cultural Giant----Confucius"
Production Country----------------- China
Theme Type-------------------------- History, culture
Episode Volume--------------------- 30
Episode Length--------------------- 20 min
Dialogue Language---------------- Chinese, English
Title Language--------------------- Chinese, English
Completed Date------------------- 2005
In 1988, Nobel Prize winners happily gathering in Paris, they issued the Paris Declaration commonly appealed for: “If mankind intends to survive in the Twenty-first Century, he must seek the wisdom from Confucius 0ver 2500 years ago……”. A full-length Documentary Film “Cultural Giant----Confucius” (30 series) will lead us through time and space, look back to the history and comprehend the great thinker----Confucius, his profound ideology and wisdom within a relaxed atmosphere.
This Documentary Film represents the hardship course of Confucius giving publicity to his ideology with lively appearance of pictures, detailed source material and abundant historical data, which reflects the exhaustive connotation of Confucian thought, and reveals Confucian lofty thought of shouldering the responsibility of the world as his own mission.
Confucius was the great thinker and educator, whose thought has produced a great impact in China for more than two thousand years and possessed a very important position in Chinese history. Confucius took “Benevolence” as the core of his thought. Several experts have expounded profoundly the thought of “Benevolence” in the film of Confucius. Professor Luo Chenglie said: “Confucian benevolence is to correctly handle relationship among the people. The human society will be harmonious if people’s relationship is fine.” Famous scholar Mr. Tang Yijie pointed out: “Confucian thought of The benevolent love all has become the valuable spiritual wealth of handling relationship among the people, which should be inherited and carried forward.”
Confucian well-known saying “Do not impose on others what you yourself do not desire” has been engraved in the hall of the United Nations, which makes clear to mankind about the true meaning of living in harmony. The film has comprehensively introduced the intension of “Harmonization” of Confucius from theory to practice and from history to reality. Confucian teachings “harmony is the most of valuable thing” and “upholding harmony but pushing not for uniformity” are the cornerstone of building our united and harmonious country. This kind of thought belongs to China and also the world. Living in harmony among people and with nature, countries will become prosperous and powerful, nationalities will develop vigorously, human society will continuously advance and peoples will be happy forever.
In the world of today, the ideal of mankind seeking harmony and stability as well as common development reflects the quintessence of Confucian thought of harmony. China has put forward a theory of constructing a socialist harmonious society, inheriting and developing harmonization. It makes clear that China will develop peacefully to the outside world and make harmonious advances within the country. This standpoint brings forth new ideas in both theory and strategic plan, which will mobilize 1.3 billion Chinese people to make concerted efforts to build an even more harmonious and happy society.
Confucian thought of “Combination with external and internal factors” is the harmonization between the universe and mankind. The relationship between the universe and mankind is the core of the thought of “Combination with external and internal factors”, which can be understood as harmonious development in a modern sense. This ancient thought has still radiated with wisdom light in our society of today and has an important practical significance of constructing a socialist well-being and harmonious society as well as a harmonious world.
“Cultural Giant----Confucius” has been explained by China Broadcasting and Television Bureau as a “global unparalleled” full-length documentary film, which has been awarded the honorable prize of highly rated films of twenty years since China’s reform and opening to the outside world. The film has been formally approved to release all over the world. It has also been highly praised by experts and scholars form more than twenty countries and districts during the Forth International Confucian Conference. Respectable Confucian scholar Mr. Zhang Dainian praised the film“has an important meaning with abundant contents and thorough knowledge of ancient and modern.” Professor Du Weiming of Harvard University pointed out: “the film is an unprecedented magnificent works of Confucian culture and makes great contributions to Chinese and world culture”.
