Enjoyed a high mark of 9.5/10 on Douban, a popular Chinese media review platform, the first 25-episode season of Chinese documentary Every Treasure Tells a Story gained a large following in China after releasing earlier this year with its plain language and interesting take on introducing Chinese culture.
At a press event on Friday, the producers behind the show announced that the second season would begin airing on July 23.
This season, produced by the Voice of China and the State Administration of Cultural Heritage (SACH), features treasures from the Warring States period (475BC-221BC) through to the Han Dynasty (206BC-AD220) and will follow the style established in the first season.
The second season will show an expanded range of relics. In addition to the jades, potteries and bronzes which appeared in the first season, the second season will also include lacquerware, scrolls made from bamboo slips and traditional clothing so as to demonstrate the technological developments that occurred during the Warring States period.
Additionally, high-tech means such as 3D scanning, digital rubbings and multispectral imaging techniques were used during production to ensure that the images of the relics displayed on the show are as close to the originals as possible.
"The core goal of the show is still to spread Chinese culture by telling the stories of national treasures, but we have changed the way we tell these stories," Xu Huan, the director of the show, said at the event.
"I am really looking forward to the show!" netizen Haijiao noted on Douban.
