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18．《王大家子》，时长72分钟，导演周羽（中国）。
在中国辽宁省瓦房店市杨家乡单家村，有一个在当地被称作"王大家子"的大家族，年近九旬的曲敬英老人早年两度丧夫，含辛茹苦地将四男两女，六个孩子拉扯长大，繁衍成今天五世同堂，近七十人的大家族，老人一直是维系着这个家族团结和睦的精神支柱。虽然四儿子离家远在天津工作，可家并没有分，家里还保留着他的一份财产。全家人同吃同住同劳动，共同耕种着由村里分配给这个家族的田地，果园，收入归家族所有。依然保持着中国传统大家族的生活习俗。
自从父亲和继父死后，长子王士有掌管了"王大家子"。作为"一家之主"的王士有以身作则，尽其所能的维护这个家族的生存和发展，但这些年社会环境的变革，已使"王大家子"发生了某些微妙的变化。
电视纪录片《王大家子》以六年的时间，记录了这样一个在非农化、工业化和现代生活方式的影响下即将消亡的大家族，通过对这个家族的跟踪拍摄，展示中国传统思想与现代社会潮流的碰撞，用影像记录和保存了一种"鲜活"的中国北方民间生活。
Patriarchal clan systems have thousands of years of history in China. In a traditional family, all the members live together and share the property. Each clan is a small society and the seniority is the master of the clan. The seniority has enjoyed great prestige in the clan society in China, which holds the patriarchal clan rules to be filial.
There is a family Wang at Shanjia village, Yangjia town, Wafangdian city, Liaoning province in north China. The almost 90 years old Qu Jingying survived two husbands and brought up six children, four boys and two girls. Family Wang has five generations of nearly 70 members now. Qu is the spiritual bond of the harmonious family. The fourth son working in Tianjin does not leave the family, which holds a share of property for him. All the family members eat, live and work together and cultivate the field distributed by the village. The income of the field and orchard is collected by the family. The family keeps the customs of the traditional Chinese family.
After the death of his father and stepfather, the eldest son Wang Shiyou runs the household of family Wang. As the master of the family, Wang Shiyou tries his best to maintain and develop the family. The reform in the society these years, however, has brought some subtle changes in family Wang.
The Story of Family Wang, the television documentary records the diminishing big family under the influence of non-agricultural trend, industrialization and modern lifestyle. It is a vivid visual record of the folk life in north China by presenting the collision between traditional ideas and modern social tides.
UNESCO proclaimed the concept of "masterpieces of the oral and intangible heritage" in 1997. The seventh session of the International Council of Museums in Asia Pacific Region approves the Shanghai Charter on Museums, Intangible Heritage and Globalization in October, 2002. It states clearly that the voice, value, traditions, languages, oral history and folk life shall be recognized and promoted in museums and heritage protection. The intangible heritage is a "live" presentation of the individuality and aesthetics of a nation, a distinction of individual people, the motivation and source to maintain and develop the nation. The intangible heritage is more fragile than the tangible one, especially in the industrialization of the developing countries and the impact of globalization. The intangible heritage is facing the austere phenomenon of diminishing rapidly. To some extent, the disappearance of intangible heritage means the disappearance of cultural diversity. Fortunately, the historical intelligence of human beings has aroused the consciousness to protect the intangible heritage. The UN proclaimed 2002 as the United Nations Year for Cultural Heritage. The UNESCO proposed to save the oral and intangible heritage. (I personally think that the most important is to record and preserve the heritage.)
The Story of Family Wang and the life of Qu Jingying is a representation of the intangible heritage. The life style of family Wang is of extraordinary value in many viewpoints of history, ethnography, sociology, anthropology, linguistics and literature. It is predictable that the family Wang and its life style will disappear with the death of Qu Jingying. What can we do to the non-regeneratable humane culture?
Record leaves vivid mark for the Chinese nation;
Presentation let the changing China known to the nation and the world;
Preservation set up typical model for the future scholars.
The Story of Family Wang, the television documentary will follow Qu Jingying and her family Wang for the above reasons.
19．Every Good Marriage Begin with Tears，时长62分钟，导演Simon Chambers（英国）。
London Muslim girl Shahanara is changing from pink hot pants into a sari to meet her husband at the airport. She has only met him once before, when she was married in a union arranged by her Bangladeshi family. Shahanara only agreed to the marriage to try and heal old wounds with he father, who had banished her from her family for he Western ways. Meanwhile her devout Muslim sister Hashnara is being groomed for he own arranged marriage, something that at 19 she does not feel at all ready for.
20．Our Courtyard，时长60分钟，导演Frode Storoa（挪威）、和渊（中国）。
Yang used to live with his two uncles in his ancestral courtyard home until the Land Reform swept the country in the 1950's. As a result of the collectivization that ensued, his uncles were assigned 'landlord' class status, stripped of their property rights and evicted. Because he enjoyed 'middle peasant' status, Yang was allowed to stay. However, he was force to share the Yang clan courtyard with three poor peasant families, and has been living with them ever since.
Today in post-Reform China's market economy, property rights have been restored and many Chinese are seeking to better their living conditions. The aging Yang now has the opportunity to buy back a portion of his family courtyard. At the same time, Yang's son dreams of building a courtyard home by the lake. This documentary opens the gate to the Yang ancestral courtyard and sheds light on the lives and emotions of the family as they look into the past and towards the future for guidance on how to secure a home in which they and the future generations of Yangs can continue to prosper.
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文章来源：新华网云南频道 2009年07月24日 12:32:47
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