Excited these days! Extremely excited! Many netizens shouted: How lucky we are as Chinese! More importantly, how lucky we are as Chinese in New China! How lucky we are as Chinese in the new era! Chairman Mao Zedong, we are all familiar with him. He is the founder of New China, and we will always remember him and miss him. By then, for the current Chinese people, what we are used to is this kind of Chairman Mao: or static photos or portraits. For example, the portrait of Chairman Mao on the Tiananmen Gate Tower. When hundreds of millions of Chinese come to Tiananmen Square, they will see the beloved face of Chairman Mao.

Or short video clips, often in black and white. For example, some time ago, when the Sino-US trade war was raging, countless netizens spontaneously forwarded a video of Chairman Mao’s speech. When resisting U.S. aggression and aiding Korea, Chairman Mao expressed his fearless attitude toward U.S. imperialism: We will fight as long as they want, until we are completely victorious! This speech made the Chinese people excited!

On the evening of May 13, CCTV's "News Network" made a strong statement: Faced with the hard and soft tactics of the United States, China has already given its answer: talk, the door is open; fight, stay with us to the end! There is no doubt that it was Chairman Mao's fighting spirit that directly gave birth to the sonorous words of CCTV News Network! However, the video of this speech that we can see has poor quality, is short in duration, and is still black and white. This is very regrettable. Unexpectedly, happiness came so suddenly! On the occasion of the 70th anniversary of the founding of New China, we actually had the opportunity to let go of these regrets! 70 years ago, the Soviet Union sent two photography teams from China to shoot the founding ceremony. At that time, color films were still very rare. The Soviet Union understood the great historical significance of China's founding ceremony, so it shot a color film. As a result, very precious historical image materials were left to China. Some time ago, the Russian archives department sent a great gift to China and provided this color film to China. On this basis, the Central Archives of China edited and produced video archives of the Founding Ceremony. This information is 12 minutes long and is the longest and most complete video about the founding ceremony of the People’s Republic of China that has been released so far. The great historical moment of the founding ceremony of the People's Republic of China has been truly restored! On October 1, 1949, a ceremony to celebrate the founding of the Central People's Government of the People's Republic of China was held grandly in Tiananmen Square. Chairman Mao, Premier Zhou, Commander-in-Chief Zhu De and other founding fathers attended the founding ceremony. Three hundred thousand soldiers and civilians participated in this unprecedented ceremony.

The founding ceremony of the People's Republic of China 70 years ago no longer exists in still photos or black and white images. With the long-term color video, the older generation of proletarian revolutionaries such as Chairman Mao, Premier Zhou, Zhu De, etc., all appear vividly in front of us! How did the Chinese people feel when they saw this video? If you sort through the messages from netizens, the keywords are at least: Excited! Heart-pounding! Blood boiling! Tears in the eyes!

This is no ordinary historical audiovisual material. For the Chinese, this cannot be summarized by "precious historical records". New China came from this historical celebration. For the Chinese people, it is even the place of spiritual sustenance! Every character who appears in the historical celebration will be forever sealed in the depths of history. They are forever fixed in that afternoon and that moment 70 years ago.

When these pictures reappear in front of us, we feel as if we are personally present at this unique celebration! What an excitement this is. At this celebration, we saw Chairman Mao, Premier Zhou, Zhu De and other comrades. What’s more important is that it’s so alive! It’s as if it’s right around us!

A netizen's message is very representative: "I cried when I saw Chairman Mao and all the god-level generals. I miss the great men of the Republic very much. You created New China! I remember the frontline heroes who sacrificed for New China! Salute to you! Your descendants must not forget their original aspirations, unswervingly support the leadership of the Communist Party, and follow the Communist Party!" Another message showed that the majority of Chinese people feel the same. "Seeing Chairman Mao's voice and smile, and hearing the music of "The East Is Red", tears welled up in my eyes!" Because, we believe, this is the common feeling of the majority of Chinese people!

This color version of the video of the founding ceremony of the People's Republic of China has been lying quietly in the archives of Russia (Soviet Union) for nearly 70 years. Why did it cause a viral sensation as soon as it appeared in China? Why did it move the Chinese people so easily? Because what it records is a major event that changes the destiny of every Chinese! Because what it records is the great man we most admire in our hearts, every moment of creating the great New China! Because it allows the great man who is like a god in our hearts to be presented so vividly and three-dimensionally before our eyes for the first time!