I have been a history UP editor for three years, but no one is watching.
During the live broadcast that day, the screen suddenly shattered.
[National Games Editor has been activated.
[First stop: 700,000 years ago. Witness the first light of civilization.
I took a fitness instructor with me and drilled wood to make fire under the watchful eye of a saber-toothed tiger.
A line of words floated quietly across the barrage: "Brother Mo, the fire in your hand is the starting point of human civilization."
Later I went to many places.
Ten thousand years ago, by the Yangtze River, I taught a woman how to grow rice using compost. She said: "The taro has been eaten away by insects."
Six thousand years ago in Miaodigou, a painter painted petal patterns on pottery pots. She said: "Repetition is the rule, variation is the craft."
Five thousand years ago in Liangzhu, jade craftsmen carved animal mask patterns for a lifetime. He said: "After carving for a lifetime, the craftsmanship is still changing."
Four thousand years ago in the Tao Temple, the priest knelt beside me, pointed to the ridgeline and said, "The sun is moving."
Thirty-eight hundred years ago in Erlitou, an old coppersmith poured molten copper into a pottery model, took two steps back and tapped the prince's belly.
The clear sound of metal echoed in the work shed and lasted for a full two seconds.
"Alive," he said.
The barrage slowly floated by:
"We're not watching a live broadcast. We're watching the first diary of human civilization."
