Harp and song, tea boy waiting for soup, famous waiter incense... Literati and scholars sat around the tea case, or sat upright, or talked, or held a cup, or whispered, cigarettes in the stove, Yaoqin music gushing...
As a major event of huabao lou opening culture week, the "Huabao Wenhui" based on the Song-style literati tea life opened yesterday in the real scene of Huabao Lou in Yuyuan Garden, restoring the Scene of the Song Dynasty Yaji, advocating oriental aesthetic life, and also announcing that the well-known time-honored Huabao Lou in Shanghai has returned to the vision of player collectors in Shanghai after a year of adjustment and upgrading.
Huabao Building is the only building under the jurisdiction of Yu Garden, starting from the main hall of the City God Temple, it was once the earliest antique market in Shanghai and the largest handicraft commercial building in Shanghai. The revitalized Huabao Building focuses on high-end tea utensils and tea life aesthetics, connects multiple formats such as exhibitions, collections, auctions, and live broadcasts, links cultural collectors, professional institutions and origin craftsmen, provides offline experience of the ultimate oriental aesthetics, and creates the first social national style treasure hunting destination in Shanghai.
Huabao Wenhui, looking for dreams of the Song Dynasty style and elegance
A chime sounded, the phoenix sounded, four maids in skirts came in with lanterns, and the art space on the third floor of Huabao Building seemed to turn back in time and dream back to the Song Dynasty, and an immersive collection of "ancient paintings come alive" - the "Huabao Wenhui Collection" began. The guests were placed in the Song Dynasty's "brocade scrolls", burning incense and hanging paintings, arranging flowers and ordering tea, and the scene was performed by the performing artists, who improvised ink and thin gold bodies, and continued a cup of incense tea. The maids "thin vermilion, face through the red", completely restored the Song Dynasty Su Hanchen's "makeup beautiful female figure" in the "three white makeup".
Planned and directed by Rong Xinyu, a well-known tea culture scholar in Shanghai and the initiator of the Haipai Humanistic Art Collection, the "Huabao Wenhui Collection" "uses painting to set the scene, use dreams to metaphorically, inherit the ancient innovation, and interact with people and paintings", subverting people's understanding of daily "tea drinking". Rong Xinyu introduced that the opening of Huabao Building refers to the life of the Literati and Scholars of the Song Dynasty, interpreted by real people, and the participating artists are all the top people in the fields of Qin Zhen calligraphy painting, tea fragrant poetry and flowers. Celebrities from all walks of life gathered in Huabao Building to create an immersive atmosphere of Mugu imitation Song for the guests.
"The makeup of the guests can be described as cinematic, and the dong gong players, guqin teachers, calligraphers, tea artists and guests are seated together," Rong Xinyu introduced. The guests are all well-known players in the circle, tea people, or the main managers of brands such as Jade Kiln, Iron Kettle House, Cui Di Ware, Li Yong Purple Sand, Ye's Brother Kiln and so on. "Three guests even got the plot role, changed into the Costume of the Song Dynasty literati, unlocked the plot direction in the interaction, waved by the calligraphers between the audiences, or participated in the Song Dynasty song and dance, which can be called the Song Dynasty version of 'Sleepless Nights'."
"Huabao Wenhui" is a series of humanistic activities launched by Huabao Lou, which carries forward the traditional Chinese aesthetics, especially the aesthetics of the Song Dynasty, and presents the oriental aesthetics of the Song Dynasty through the restoration of clothing, makeup, tables and chairs, utensils, flower arrangements, tea ordering and many other aspects.
During the opening event, Huabao Building will also hold a series of art exchange activities with many brands, such as Chengdexuan's pastel hand-painting activity, Liyong Purple Sand's live lecture, Tiehuaxuan's on-site tea tasting exchange meeting, Jade Kiln's on-site painting porcelain, Yilintang's manager's lecture and collection sharing meeting, etc. In addition, in order to meet everyone's pursuit of oriental aesthetics, Huabao Building will also launch a series of art and humanities courses in the form of salons, art collections, competitions, etc., such as "Ceramic Appreciation Salon", "Incense Culture Salon", "Book French Painting Salon", "Rubbing Salon", "Wuhua Tianbao Collection Elegant Appreciation Salon", "Tea Ceremony Collection", "Oriental Flower Arrangement Collection", "Golden Ribbon, Ju Porcelain, Lacquer Art Collection", "Daffodil Carving Collection", "Go Competition", etc.
Rong Xinyu said that tea, a magical oriental leaf, contains five thousand years of cultural genes, Huabao Building "tea as a medium", in a culturally representative architectural space, for the "architecture can be read" the first immersive consumption scene of empowerment experience, so that Shanghai citizens harvested a good place at home, so that tourists from all over the world harvested the richness and elegance of oriental life aesthetics. This not only reflects the urban spirit of "embracing all kinds of rivers, pursuing excellence, enlightened and wise, and being humble", but also makes people re-understand China's traditional etiquette, utensils and ceramic culture.
Shouyi China, reproducing the grand scenery of the country
Huabao Building, formerly known as the Old City God Temple Crafts Mall, is one of the earliest professional shops for arts and crafts opened in Shanghai after the reform and opening up. In September 1994, after the completion of Huabao Building, it was moved in from the main hall of the City God Temple, and is famous for operating various high-end arts and crafts, jewelry and antiques, calligraphy and painting works at home and abroad.
"Tengwang Pavilion Preface" cloud "Wuhua Tianbao, dragon light shooting bull fighting ruins", the building can gather the treasures of the world, so it is named "Huabao". Completed in 1994, Huabao Building, with heavy eaves in the sky, bucket arches stacked, four stories high, can be described as carved beams and paintings, golden and brilliant, is the most elegant and luxurious of all the antique buildings in Yuyuan Mall.
According to the relevant person in charge of Huabao Lou, on the basis of adhering to the richness of Chinese arts and crafts, Huabao Lou pays more attention to the integration of traditional culture and current life aesthetics, takes tea culture as the core, and then extends to oriental aesthetic furnishings and living utensils such as incense ware and flower utensils, creating a national handicraft platform, and allowing collectors and players to get a better experience in various aspects such as space upgrading, operation and brand introduction. "The product is fidelity, and the price is not higher than the place of origin, while providing a deep interactive experience and appreciation atmosphere," the person in charge said.
The project team repositioned and sorted out each floor at the micro level, so that the various spaces were organically connected. 1500 square meters of negative first floor "Ya Play", following the old city God Temple Antique Market leisurely and elegant Taobao ecology, merchants mainly engaged in antiques, ceramic purple sand, jade jade, stone carving stone carving, wood carving bone carving, clock and watch stamps, etc., 80% of the more than 80 shops are 20 or 30 years of old shops.
The "Taoran" on the first floor and the "Ingenuity" on the second floor are new retail spaces that bring together well-known Tangkou and high-end buyers, and have introduced more than 25 domestic head kilns, including historical kilns such as Ru, Guan, Ge, Ding, Jun, etc., as well as representatives of the new and old first-line Tangkou in Jingdezhen: Xiaoya, Jiuduanyao and Yilintang.
The "Appreciation" on the third floor is a flexible and changeable exhibition space, which is the sounding ground of the art vocabulary. In addition to the exhibition, a normalized auction session was set up. The first "Huabao Zhenguan - Shanghai Yuyuan Huabao Lou Jingdezhen Ceramics Special Auction" was held, covering tea sets and flowers, literary ornaments, etc., and the lots covered Republic of China porcelain, 567 ceramics, Jingdezhen artist porcelain and well-known ceramics in China.
The "Art Fun" space on the fourth floor, with the unique landscape of the Su-style garden, opens up a natural paradise of Yu Garden in the air, carries out high-end salon activities such as tasting, PEN meeting, artistic creation, training and learning in an immersive environment, and actively promotes the inheritance and innovation of Chinese national art and even oriental culture and art.
The relevant person in charge of Yuyuan Mall said: "Huabao Building adheres to the cultural heritage of 'Hai Na Bai Chuan, Inclusive', and has created a nationally renowned arts and crafts public knowledge platform that integrates art centers, national style social networking, art experience and cultural and commercial a variety of formats and art forms. After the return of the new, it does not only rely on the traffic of the Yuyuan Garden line to do business, but adopts refined operation, high-quality and cost-effective content, and continuous cultural activities to connect with accurate customers, reproducing the national style of "Wuhua Tianbao, Shouyi China".
Author: Xu Jinghui
Edit: Zhang Tianchi
Editor-in-Charge: Rong Bing
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