Chapter 4 Four or six keys

As the saying goes: When you learn and use it, you hate less.It is difficult to prepare for lectures.The difficulty lies in the eight words: both things and reasons, touching the ears and heart.How to let the academic research results go out of the study, face the public, benefit the society, and be loved by the audience and readers?This must be done: it is also reasonable, and it is in the ears and in the heart.It is difficult to achieve the harmony between the story and the truth, touching the ears and the heart.If there is a story, there is no reason, and it is not deep enough; if it is reasonable, there is no story, it may not be good.What can enter the ear may not necessarily enter the heart; it is indeed not easy to be able to enter both the ear and the heart.This is a knot in my heart in this lecture.

What points should we pay attention to and grasp when we talk about "The Great Forbidden City" this time?Strive to grasp six key points: In the past, "Zheng Shuo Twelve Emperors of the Qing Dynasty", "Sixty Years of the Ming Dynasty and the Qing Dynasty", and "Kangxi Great Emperor" mainly follow the life trajectory of historical figures, and gradually progress in chronological order.The story of "The Forbidden City" is different this time. It takes the space as the order, that is, the architectural space of the Forbidden City as the clue of the story.In each lecture, the concept of a space is set first, and then the time, characters, events, buildings, cultural relics, etc. in this space are discussed.Just like a jigsaw puzzle, first there is a general picture, which is disassembled, displayed in a microscopic way, and then piece by piece are assembled to form a whole picture.

One of the biggest advantages of "The Forbidden City" is that there are not only characters and events, but also buildings and cultural relics - the characters can be described, the events can be narrated, and the buildings and cultural relics are more suitable for display in film and television images.Images are more vivid, more intuitive, more beautiful, and more vivid than words and narration.Therefore, the text and video of the theme of "The Forbidden City" can form the best partner. People, events, buildings, cultural relics, etc. must have a main thread running through them, and this main thread is culture and spirituality.People's understanding of people, events, buildings, cultural relics, and history is not only to enrich knowledge, appreciate art, broaden horizons, and improve literacy, but also to gain inspiration, increase knowledge, cultivate temperament, and purify the soul.Simply put, the ideology and cultural connotation running through characters, stories, buildings, cultural relics and history should be the essence and soul of the "Great Forbidden City".

Some historical themes, although regional, are not international.The Great Forbidden City is different. The Forbidden City of Ming and Qing Dynasties has been listed as a world cultural heritage, and it is international.This requires comparing the Ming and Qing Palace Museum with the existing palaces in Asia, Europe, Africa, America, etc., and understanding the magnificence and cultural splendor of the Ming and Qing Palace Museum in China through comparison.Things survive by people, and people can see things and people, so as to understand the greatness of China and the greatness of China. History is a science, television is an art.Historical and academic content is expressed through video, sound, language, text and other means, and abstract and logical thinking is contained in it. This is a process of interconnection and transformation between science and art—both transforming historical facts and ideas It is a visual and audible art, and transforms the visible and audible art into scientific principles; it is worth exploring and looking forward to.

Beijing and the Forbidden City have a meridian that runs through the north and south, that is, the central axis, which highlights "central"; The Gate of Harmony, the Hall of Supreme Harmony, the Hall of Central Harmony, and the Hall of Preserving Harmony highlight "harmony".In short, the concept of "Zhongzheng Anhe" embodies the essence of Chinese traditional culture.For example, the word "harmony" is the most important thing, and the harmonious ones are the most important. Specifically, as the "six harmony" said by the great wise and wise people-harmony with oneself, harmony with others and self, harmony in family, harmony in nature, harmony in society, and peace in the world.

In general, take the architectural space of the Forbidden City as the order, take traditional culture as the backbone, and take the typical history, characters, events, cultural relics, ancient buildings, art, gardens, philosophy, etc. related to the Forbidden City as the main content to fully display the Forbidden City, and then It reflects that the Forbidden City is not only the essence of Chinese culture, but also a treasure of world culture.