According to the documentary filmmaker Chen Xiaoqing, at 3:16 on December 20, the famous TV artist Chen Hanyuan passed away peacefully. Chen Xiaoqing, the general director of the first and second seasons of "China on the Tip of the Tongue", mourned: "He is the industry senior I most admire, has a jealous talent, and has helped many people..." TV host Zhang Zequn, TV director Ha Wen and many domestic documentary people also posted condolences after hearing the news. Nandu reporters learned that Chen Hanyuan was the former chief editor and deputy director of CCTV, leaving works such as "Talking about the Yangtze River" and "Talking about the Canal" for Chinese television.
According to CCTV data, Chen Hanyuan was born in 1936 and is a native of Zhejiang. In 1961, he graduated from the department of Chinese at East China Normal University in Shanghai, was initially assigned to the Sichuan Higher Education Bureau, and a few days later transferred to Beijing, where he was appointed editor of Beijing Television (the predecessor of CCTV), China's first television station.
In his half-century career, he left behind a number of influential, even epoch-making television productions. In the 1980s, he served as the chief writer for the TV series "Talking about the Yangtze River", and his "thick and colorful" commentary and book-like "Chapter Hui Style" gave the work a unique artistic style. In 1983, during the premiere of the film on CCTV, it set a record of 40% in viewership; innovative practices such as adding a host to the documentary and soliciting theme songs nationwide were also refreshing to the audience. The final theme song, "Song of the Yangtze River", "You come from the snowy mountains, the spring tide is your abundance..." has been sung to this day.
After that, Chen Hanyuan and the famous writer Wang Zengqi and others jointly completed the writing of "Talking about the Canal", which produced a greater sensational effect after the broadcast, Chen Hanyuan in the commentary, the Great Wall is compared to a masculine, majestic a stroke, said that the canal is a feminine, deep one, "one skim and one stroke" just constitutes the most important "human" character in Chinese characters, his ingenuity, let Wang Zengqi be amazed.
In addition to being an accomplished TELEVISION writer, Chen Hanyuan also served as a producer for the twelve-episode large-scale TV documentary "Looking at the Great Wall". Different from the "literary" approach of "Talking about the Yangtze River" and "Talking about the Canal", Chen Hanyuan put forward the opinion of using more long shots and attaching importance to the sound of the same period for "Looking at the Great Wall". The documentary style of the finished film had a profound influence on the subsequent Chinese television films, and "Looking at the Great Wall" is also regarded by many as the beginning of the "new Documentary in China". After being transferred to the deputy director of the China Television Drama Production Center in the 1990s, he gave birth to reality TV series such as "Beijingers in New York" and "The Sky is Up". Interestingly, Chen Hanyuan has also written the opening, ending or theme song for many TV series such as "Tang Ming Huang", "Wu Zetian", "Thunderstorm", "The Story of Hong Kong", "Hai Rui Dismissal" and many other TV series, and the theme song he composed for "Thunderstorm" is "All My Life for You", which was called "his favorite song" by singer Cai Qin.
In his later years, Chen Hanyuan joined Yang Lan's Sunshine Culture Media Group and engaged in literary creation after resigning.
In 1998, he was awarded the "Special Contribution Award" by the Presiding Research Committee of the China Radio and Television Society, and in 2000, he was awarded the "Contribution Award for Overseas Communication of Chinese Art" by the Organizing Committee of the 21st Century Arts Festival in Budapest. Chen Xiaoqing, a junior documentary filmmaker, recalled, "He has a jealous talent, but he is very easy to get along with. He is the king of the strips, and there is always laughter in him. Host Zhang Zequn called him an "admirable leader and predecessor" who selflessly promotes and protects others.
Chen Hanyuan once said that in his mind, the ultimate goal of documentaries is to let people form and change their views on something, a phenomenon, and a person, "just like a stone thrown into a pond, the bigger and farther the ripples, the better." The life he longed for was quiet and idyllic, "with a thatched hut with a mountain behind it, a tree on the hill, and a river in front; raindrops often dripping under the eaves; candles reading books, drinking light tea, and music faintly wafting in the distance..."
Written by: Nandu reporter Hou Jingjing
