To further implement the Provincial Party Committee's "Development & Upgrading, Well-off Society Processing, Eco-Green Rising, Hard working" policy; approach the brand promotion of Jiangxi Landscape; annotate and carry forward the China Dream, with the main theme of "China Dream, Unique Jiangxi Scenery", the micro movie JOURNEY is sponsor jointly by Propaganda Department of Jiangxi Province, Administration of Press, Publication, Radio, Film and Television of Jiangxi Province, produced by Education Department of Jiangxi Province in 2016.
It's a movie about a grandson who grows up abroad and his grandfather who lives all life long in China. The giant difference between them on cultural backgrounds and living habits also lead to estrangement between them inevitably. However, during the journey that the grandson goes back to China to visit his grandfather, along with the time when they live together, travel together, experience everything together and know deeper about each other, the prejudice between them also disappears gradually.
The title JOURNEY is about not only the journey of the grandson, but also the life span of the grandfather. Generally speaking, it's a movie about Love, Perseverance, Responsibility and Cultural Inheritance.
Besides the touching plot, we may notice that many famous landcapes of Jiangxi province also get shown in the movie, as the landmark of Jiangxi Province, the Pavilion of Prince Teng maybe the best among all of those.
The Pavilion of Prince Teng or Tengwang Pavilion is a building in the north west of the city of Nanchang, in Jiangxi province, China, on the east bank of the Gan River and is one of the Three Great Towers of southern China. The other two are the Yueyang Tower and the Yellow Crane Pavilion.
The Pavilion of Prince Teng was first built in 653 AD, by Li Yuanying, the younger brother of Emperor Taizong of Tang and uncle of Emperor Gaozong of Tang. Li Yuanying was enfeoffed as Prince Teng in 639 and spent his early years in Suzhou. In 652 he was assigned the governorship of Nanchang where the pavilion served as his townhouse. The Pavilion of Prince Teng is the only existing royal architecture in southern China. Twenty years later, the building was rebuilt by the new governor. Upon its completion, a group of local intelligentsia gathered to compose prose and poetry about the building. The most famous of these is the Preface to the Pavilion of Prince Teng by Wang Bo. This piece made the Pavilion of Prince Teng a household name in China down to the present day.
The phrase 时来风送腾王阁 appears in the preface by Wang Bo; it means "wind comes to say goodbye to the Pavilion". This phrase is famous in the city of Nanchang. The old famous saying 藤断葫芦剪，塔圮豫章残 perfectly describes the position of the pavilion in the city of Nanchang, meaning that "if the Pavilion of Prince Teng and the Shëngjin Tower fall, the treasure and resources of Nanchang will not exist any more", which shows that the Pavilion of Prince Teng is highly valued and worshiped by people of Nanchang.
The present Pavilion of Prince Teng was built according to the design of famous architect Liang Sicheng, and was completed on 8 October 1989; now a landmark of Nanchang. The building is of reinforced concrete, but decorated in Song Dynasty style. It is 57.5 metres tall and has nine stories. The building has a total floor area of 13,000 square metres.
The building sits atop a 12-metre tall concrete platform, which is intended to symbolise the now-destroyed ancient city wall. A stainless steel tablet at the entrance is engraved with a calligraphy work of Mao Zedong. The Pavilion takes the city as its background and the river as its mirror. The whole image is as beautiful as the traditional Chinese painting.
The beautiful garden which is built in 1989 is the perfect ornament of the Pavilion. The building mainly serves tourism purposes. Apart from internal decoration, attractions include a theatre staging performances of period music, and displays of reconstructed ancient instruments. There are some restaurants and souvenir shops. The streets around the pavilion have been designed to conform with its style. This area has become the centre of Nanchang's antiques trade.
The Pavilion of Prince Teng achieved national fame through the Preface to the Pavilion of Prince Teng. As a result, it was endowed by later generations with almost legendary status as an example of magnificent architecture. When the Forbidden City was built, its corner towers were built to imitate the Pavilion of Prince Teng and the Yellow Crane Pavilion as depicted in Song Dynasty paintings. (Strangely, both pavilions are depicted identically in surviving paintings). These uniquely structured corner towers remain some of the most valued architectural treasures of the Forbidden City. The Pavilion of Prince Teng was regarded as the holy land in several dynasties in the history of China. In the mean time, it is the ancient library as well, storing a large number of precious scriptures and poems.
Piano appears in the movie is Artmann GD125A2 vertical upright piano. The view is taken at the agency of Artmann piano in Jiangxi province. How could Artmann GD125A2 piano get selected as the designated piano among so many pianos?
