Airdate: The Story of China
Michael Wood explores the stories, people and landscapes that have helped create China’s distinctive character.
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Tonight SBS begins a six part documentary series, The Story of China.
Presenter Michael Wood takes the viewer on a historical adventure, exploring the stories, people and landscapes that have helped create China’s distinctive character and genius over 4,000 years.
Episode One: Ancestors
Starting in Wuxi, he joins the Qin family reunion where 300 relatives gather to worship their ancestors on ‘Tomb Sweeping Day’. He journeys to the plain of the Yellow River, joins a million pilgrims at the shrine of ancient Goddess Nuwa who made the first people from the yellow mud of the Yellow River.
Travelling back in time to 2,000BCE for the origins of the Chinese state, he sees an exquisite turquoise dragon sceptre, China’s first writing on ‘oracle bones’, and learns of the Age of Confucius, before returning to the temple fair in Henan for a ceremony to give thanks to the ancestors.
Wednesday, 13 April at 7.30pm on SBS.
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