The ancient village Xu Jia Yuan in the Lake of Thousand Islands
Underwater wrecks, underwater Great Wall
The entire pyramids in Fu Xian Lake
"Underwater China" is the first documentary, in China and the world
Which presents and explains China from an underwater perspective
Underwater documentary in terms of difficulty lies at the top of the pyramid
The original intention of "Underwater China"
Is that China does not have an underwater documentary of our own
Foreigners know more about China than us
And I couldn't live with that
We spent 2 years and 7 months shooting the footage
And cut it into 6 episodes
Each theme represents a natural landscape underwater in China
Starting from the Chang Island where the Yellow Sea and the Bahai Sea converge
South to the South Sea of China
East to the Orchid Island
Episode one "Dark Caves"
Is about the underwater world in caves
Most were shot in Guangxi Province
The classic karst formation is fabulous underwater
Jiu Song Cave, we threaded through the needle following the guideline
Cave exploration is the most difficult of all
Close environment
It's impossible to escape once you are in
We found a very rare phenomenon
Hanging stalactite flowers on the side of the cave
"Underwater Lost Cities"
From the earliest underwater ancient city in Fu Xian Lake
To the ancient villages sunk by earthquake 30 00:02:04,320 --> 00:02:07,040 Visibility comes down to zero underwater
From the sleeping Lion City in the Lake of Thousand Islands
To the ancient city buried to build a hydro project which later became Lake of Thousand Islands
More than 200,000 residents had to migrant to other places
It hosts the story of ordinary people
We found a building called Yu Qing Tang in the lost city
The owner of Yu Qing Tang told me in private
That he had a wish
Which is to take a tile from his old house
The house is kept intact underwater
The tiles lie in neat lines
Just as the moment sixty years ago when they sank
This Arch of Charity and Piety is the only one arch underwater in China
Whose brick and wall structures are still intact
Pan Jia Kou Reservoir
Is the only spot where you can make intimate contact with
And cross the underwater Great Wall
In "Underwater Wrescks"
We came to the earliest wreck found in China -- Bai Jiao No.1 in Dinghai Wan
To the modern artificial reef wrecks
For the protection of the sea
In an effort to show the changing wrecks and their changing function
The last episode "Underwater Granaries"
Is about human
No matter it's underwater buildings or underwater creatures
That we focus our lens on
At the end of the day
We want to understand the past of Chinese
I was really touched by Zhou
He is a simple man who is father to three children
And he has been doing this out at the sea for two decades
Harvesting seaweeds
And his hands are out of shape because of that
Everytime his biggest daughter video chats with him
She'd cry when she sees his hands
We enjoy the resources of the sea
Without knowing who is doing all the work
I grew up in a city of mountains in Hunan
Never saw a sea before university
I started diving in 2011
I went for a vacation in Cairns in 2012
When I saw the most beautiful reef -- Great Barrier Reef
I was amazed by the underwater world
I didn't know that in the past 30 years of my life
And that inspired me
Half of the time in a year
I spend underwater, to film, to take records
And we went to many depopulated zones
In 2014 I was shooting in Cuba
There was no signal
After 8 days I called my mom for the first time
And she said, can you just let me live?
The shooting of Underwater China started in February 2017
Throughout the shooting
We were faced with many difficulties, such as equipments and funding
We are probably the first in China
To use red epic w 8K movie-level camera underwater
So we were able to record clear, rare scenes
Like coral spawning
It happens for 20 minutes a year
And you have to wait a whole year if you miss that
Some compare "Underwater China" with "The Blue Planet"
In which ways we are not as good
"The Blue Planet" belongs to the world
But "Underwater China" is the only one in China
That shows Chinese our own homeland
And meanwhile arouses more interest to the underwater world