This episode takes us to Japan to look at the fascinating art of salt carving. Artist Motoi Yamamoto, one of the leading practitioners of this art form, is creating extraordinarily artistic effects from salt crystals.

Editor: Luo Wen

Operation: Qiu Ruiqi

Producer: Li Xin

Chief Editor: Zhang Wan

Supervisor: Liu Changying

Believe it or not, salt was once known as “white gold”, a substance so valuable that it could bring wars! This episode examines the ways in which salt caused tensions between two neighboring countries in Europe, Germany and Austria.

Editor: Luo Wen

Operation: Qiu Ruiqi

Producer: Li Xin

Chief Editor: Zhang Wan

Supervisor: Liu Changying

The history of salt is also a tale of fortune. In this episode we look at two families prominent in the history of the Great Britain and China, who, despite being oceans apart geographically and culturally, have one thing in common: wealth founded on salt.

Editor: Luo Wen

Operation: Qiu Ruiqi

Producer: Li Xin

Chief Editor: Zhang Wan

Supervisor: Liu Changying

Whilst most salt-production has now been industrialized, there’s a remote desert in northwestern India where people prefer the traditional way. For them, salt produced in the old way is the whitest and purest anywhere in the world.

Editor: Luo Wen

Operation: Qiu Ruiqi

Producer: Li Xin

Chief Editor: Zhang Wan

Supervisor: Liu Changying

Did you know that ancient Rome’s salt monopoly shaped a civilization whose influence was destined to echo down the ages? In this episode the crew embark for a place whose salt underpinned the wealth of the Roman Empire: the Italian seaside town of Cervia.

Editor: Luo Wen

Operation: Qiu Ruiqi

Producer: Li Xin

Chief Editor: Zhang Wan

Supervisor: Liu Changying

This episode takes us to the so-called Gate of Hell, the Dallol Volcano in East Africa’s Great Rift Valley, where, in temperatures of over 45 degrees Celsius, miners toil to ensure that reaching for the table salt is something most of us barely have to think about.

Editor: Luo Wen

Operation: Qiu Ruiqi

Producer: Li Xin

Chief Editor: Zhang Wan

Supervisor: Liu Changying

The cause of China’s mission into outer space began from scratch far back in 1956. Since the 1990s, three scientists, all in their fifties, have been engaging on lunar exploration, all yearning to get to the lunar surface.

Editor: Luo Wen

Operation: Qiu Ruiqi

Producer: Li Xin

Chief Editor: Zhang Wan

Supervisor: Liu Changying

There’s a language in the world that everyone can understand. Transcending culture, nations and race, it’s a language with the power to unite the whole world. Its name is Kung Fu! In this episode, we find out about the foreigners learning Kung Fu and how people like Shi Yanlei, champion of the fight clubs of London, are spreading the word of Shaolin Kung Fu far and wide.

Editor: Luo Wen

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Producer: Li Xin

Chief Editor: Zhang Wan

Supervisor: Liu Changying

Once a disciple walks out of the Shaolin Temple, he enters the “jianghu”. Obedience, courage and loyalty are the qualities required to walk in the jianghu. Here, everyone is looking for his place and everyone has jianghu in their heart. It’s exactly this spirit that has driven boxer Zhuang Shusong to spend two grueling years training in Thailand.

Editor: Luo Wen

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Producer: Li Xin

Chief Editor: Zhang Wan

Supervisor: Liu Changying

Kung Fu practitioners devote so much time and thought to finding the ideal weapon for them. When you’ve put so much effort into developing the fighting potential of your body, you need a weapon as finely honed as you are! Which is precisely why Kung Fu master and carpenter Zheng Shuji has devoted himself to carving a Dharma rod from a piece of wood he found on a mountain.

Editor: Luo Wen

Operation: Qiu Ruiqi

Producer: Li Xin

Chief Editor: Zhang Wan

Supervisor: Liu Changying