Since 2014, I have spent 8 years
On shooting three to four hundred Chinese craftsmen
The documentary receives more and more attention
Some audience, total strangers
Added me on WeChat and gave me money
Wan Qian's agent called me, offered to sponsor my program
It's a meaningful thing to do
There are friends who are willing to help
In 2013, I was in Beijing
I had two cars, two apartments and a happy family
And I was suddenly attacked by midlife crisis when I turned 40 years old
I asked myself, what is a life worth living
Then I sold the suburban apartment
And decided to do something less party A
Hence "Looking For Handicrafts"
Now we have come to season 4
Been to over 30 provinces, except for the northeast, Hong Kong, Macao and Taiwan
"Your son Zhu Yujun invited us to shoot you"
We didn't make appointments
Once we learned the location of someone, we'd go for it directly
We want things to be as real as possible
Some craftsmanship, if I hadn't record it
It might never be known by the public
House Moving, a clan craftsmanship
For better feng shui
A team of three, all in their 70s
They don't use modern mechanisms and the like
Only sticks and manpower
Gold and silver inlaying
With copper as the base
Knock silver and gold into it
Then smooth out the uneven surface
It feels like an integrated whole to touch
God code, especially fascinating
"Printed from wooden board"
God of car, god of locomotive, god of well, god of stairs
"God of stairs is pasted in staircases"
"Right"
As cameraman
We have god of focus and god of exposure
National intangible cultural heritage
Survives in a new way
These craftsmanships
They touched me
So I must record them
Canwen, the old umbrella maker
At the end of the rib there is a small curvature
That's the hardest part
The thread broke 8 times on the site
It was heartbreaking to see
Two old women
They made paper on the last day 52 00:02:48,720 --> 00:02:50,720 They knew we were from Beijing
They said, out of nowhere
"So my picture will be seen in Beijing"
I felt an inexplicable warmth deep in
Indeed when her words were heard by the audience
It received thousands of comments from all over the world
Some craftsmen were considered "crazy" by the locals
Ma Qingshan
He used to be very rich
Until he decided
To make garden sculpture with polymer materials
He had no computer knowledge, all he had were his hands and brain
He lost all the money he had earned before to it
But he's proud of his work
Three giraffes
He made them the tallest in the country, cost over one hundred thousand yuan
His clients saw it
It's too tall, I don't need it
People made fun of him
One day his daughter told me that he had died
She thanked me for leaving the last image for his father
Not as a joke
But as a respected craftsman
I want to bring about an improvement in their lives through the film
I deliberately raised the exposure
So that everyone can see the phone number clearly
Hopefully, someone will buy it
The son of the paper making woman left home three years ago
To work in the city
I included this part
In the hope that she may find her son through the audience
Feature films leave much deeper traces in people's hearts than short films
Every film of the "Looking for Handicrafts" series
If you see it from beginning to end
You will be moved
The first season of "Looking for Handicrafts" had eight, nine million hits on the Internet
Review was great, better than I thought
To make the second season I borrowed 500,000 yuan
When it comes two season three, people began donating money
Yi Yangqianxi's fan group sponsored me
Lu Han called on his fans to help me find topics
Household expenses could be tight
I wanted to give up
But Wan Qian's agent got in touch with me, pure funding
And covered one year's family expenses for me
They didn't ask anything from me
We felt like we are doing something extremely meaningful
When I was younger, I loved adventures
In 1993, I was in high school
Beijing was bidding for the 2000 Olympic Games
I thought I should do something to help
So I bicycled from Changsha to Beijing
To meet my role model Zhang Baifa
He wrote back
"Strive for the Olympic Games, add glory to the country"
I used to go to Tibet to follow the forestry expedition
Crossing the Himalayas, I almost lost my life
The film was aired on CCTV
The assessment department saw it
Then a salary increase was granted to everyone in that (forestry inspection) department
From the perspective of personal dream
Midlife crisis is fading away
There are so many people moving and encouraging me
I've made some difference
So I think it's meaningful
I must continue doing this