When Internet celebrity anchor "Sky Monkey" embarked on a journey to explore traditional Chinese culture, he thought he was just here to make some curious videos to earn traffic. Unexpectedly, from the painting craftsmen of the Forbidden City to the sweeping monks of Shaolin Temple, from the graceful women playing the piano in Suzhou to the quaint proprietresses of Chongqing hot pot restaurants, every craftsman was outside his lens and taught him something more precious than "hot content" - the root and soul of culture.
This is an "intangible cultural heritage adventure" that brings laughter and tears:
In Jingdezhen, he accidentally restored the lost "ice crack" skill by burning a cracked vase;
In Xi'an, the glue he spilled revealed the thousand-year-old fingerprints of the Terracotta Warriors and Horses craftsmen;
When he went to a teahouse in Tianjin, an old crosstalk artist used cat-ear filters to prove to him: "Traditional people can also become internet celebrities!"
From the Tibetan Buddhist temples on the snowy plateau to the silversmith workshops in the Miao villages in southeastern Guizhou, the footage of the Sky Monkey records not only the skills, but also the stubborn figures of a group of people who spend their lives guarding the "outdated" craftsmanship:
An 80-year-old paper-cutting grandmother uses a wheelchair to emboss electronic paper-cutting patterns;
A grassland boy uses Beidou navigation to continue the nomadic people's Khumai code;
The master chef of a Hong Kong tea restaurant engraves colonial history into the recipe of a cup of stockings milk tea...
When the journey came to an end, the Flying Monkey finally understood that the true cultural inheritance is not in the glass cabinets of the museum, but in the persistence of every ordinary person's "nosy".
If you like the human fireworks of "A Bite of China", you will laugh so hard at the "hot pot arena" and "milk tea secret war" in the book;
If you are moved by the craftsmanship of "I Repair Cultural Relics in the Forbidden City", you will burst into tears for the "Roof Painter" and "Terracotta Warriors Night Watchman";
If you are curious about how traditional culture can "counterattack" the short video era, the book's ideas about "Peking Opera teenagers practicing live broadcasts" and "Miao silver craftsmen welding circuits" will make you amazed.
A road novel that makes Generation Z fall in love with intangible cultural heritage, a cultural awakening journey spanning 30 provinces and cities——
"Some things seem to be dying, but as long as one person remembers them, they will live forever."
Purpose: In an era where traffic is paramount, the real cultural inheritance is not the specimens in museums, but the persistence of every ordinary person's "nosy" - those seemingly outdated craftsmanship hide the answer to why we are who we are.