On January 6th, a unique "Small Pot of Tea × Hundred Craftsmen and Hundred Blessings of the Great Wall Exhibition" made a stunning appearance, sending new year blessings with rich cultural connotations to everyone. The works on display are all unique traditional Chinese crafts, hand-crafted by 100 inheritors of the national essence, and each work contains a "Fu" character, which is intended to allow more people to understand traditional culture and feel this "blessing" in the creative collision between traditional cultural and artistic treasures and thousand-year-old ancient buildings.
Luo Yicheng, the initiator of the "China Shou artist" project, Yang Genlian and Hao Guanxiong, representatives of national craftsmen, Mei Jiang, general manager of the small pot tea market center, Jin Linsheng, vice president of Beijing Gubei Water Town Tourism Co., Ltd., and other guests attended the event.
Join hands with hundreds of craftsmen to send hundreds of blessings and carry forward the thousand-year-old national essence culture
Since ancient times, "fu" has symbolized the pursuit and yearning of Chinese for a better life. The inspiration for the "Great Wall Exhibition of Small Pots of Tea × Hundred Craftsmen and Hundred Blessings" is derived from the "Hundred Blessings Map" unearthed in Luoyang, Henan Province, which contains 100 kinds of calligraphy written "Fu" characters, which are auspicious treasures loved by the world.
Small pot tea × the Great Wall exhibition of the works of hundreds of craftsmen and hundreds of blessings
On January 6th, the Simatai Great Wall, known as the "Best of the Great Wall of China", was paved with large red "Fu" characters, and 100 pieces of art treasures created by the inheritors of the national treasure were created by hundreds of traditional handicrafts such as gold inlaid jade, silver jewelry forging, engraved porcelain, plate embroidery, batik, movable type carving, etc., which showed the breadth and depth of traditional Chinese culture.
Luo Yicheng, initiator of the "China Shou artist" project (first from the left)
At the event site, Luo Yicheng, the initiator of the "China Shou artist" project, shared the story of traditional craftsmen who have adhered to and inherited the national essence skills for generations, so that more people can re-pay attention to and join the protection of precious intangible cultural heritage. Luo Yicheng said: "At a time when industrialization has been popularized, the significance of our protection and inheritance of traditional crafts lies in the fact that traditional crafts express materials, craftsmanship, things and people with a kind of goodwill. The small pot of tea joins hands with hundreds of craftsmen to use 100 lucky characters to dominate all traditional handicrafts, so that the national essence of craftsmanship has a unified theme. I hope that this goodwill behind it will continue from generation to generation in China. ”
Chinese arts and crafts master Yang Genlian
Although each of the "Fu" works displayed on the spot is a unique treasure, it has the same beautiful meaning. Craftsman Yang Genlian shared: "The work must be intentional, and the meaning must be auspicious. Chinese folk craftsmanship was originally used to express the yearning for blessings and condensed the most simple emotions of craftsmen. The exquisite Fu brand pendant "Gold Inlaid Jade" created by Yang Genlian uses dark emerald jade to polish into a jade tire, and uses pure gold wire and jade inlay as one, so that the glory of gold and jade reflect each other, interpreting the meaning of noble purity, peace and health.
Vermilion lacquered blessings
Walking through hundreds of national works, you can also see a special work of art - the lacquer print "Baifu Tu" created by XiaoCang Tea and hao Guanxiong, a young lacquer artist. The work is based on the vermilion lacquer, and the red bottom plate symbolizing auspiciousness is piled into characters to make 100 golden "Fu" characters that gather hundreds of calligraphy, and these 100 Fu characters are combined within the framework of the tenon structure to form a spectacular large "Baifu Map", bringing good wishes for Hundred Blessings and Thousands of Xiang in the context of the new era.
National works are artistic treasures containing traditional culture; the Great Wall is a world-class masterpiece created by countless craftsmen, and it is also a representative world cultural heritage with profound history and culture. When these handmade works of art full of "blessings" meet the Great Wall, which is regarded as the "backbone of Chinese civilization", it not only adds a touch of national self-confidence to this special New Year's greeting of small pots of tea, but also allows traditional Chinese culture to be understood and recognized by more people through the Great Wall, which symbolizes the "dragon".
Digital empowerment, into the meta-universe to achieve intangible cultural heritage protection
Mei Jiang, general manager of the small pot tea market center, said: "Every Chinese lives in the heart of a blessing word, and happiness is Chinese yearning for a better life. Small Pot Tea is committed to the contemporary expression of traditional Chinese tea, using innovative ways to make Chinese tea young and keep pace with the times. Likewise, we have the duty and responsibility to arouse attention and protection of traditional skills. ”
Mei Jiang, general manager of the small pot tea market center
In order to allow more forces to converge on the inheritance and protection of national art, Xiaocang Tea also officially announced at the exhibition that it has opened digital cooperation with Ant Chain, a subsidiary of Ant Group, to transform national essence artworks into digital collections through blockchain technology.
It is reported that after the exhibition, representative works will be sold online in the form of digital collections, with a price of 19.9 yuan per work and a limited edition of 8,000 copies. Digitally tagged and generated with unique digital credentials, traditional national art treasures will be transformed into digital collections that cannot be copied, preserved permanently, and can be appreciated and shared at any time. It is worth mentioning that all the proceeds of this cooperation will be donated to public welfare organizations to help the inheritance and protection of intangible cultural heritage crafts.
The release of the digital collection also means that the small pot of tea has officially entered the meta-universe, so that traditional culture can be more long-term protection and wide promotion under the digital form, maximizing the value of these works of art, and allowing traditional craftsmen to obtain the best protection of copyright and handmade skills.
In the future, small pot tea will also excavate more artistic treasures in the treasure house of traditional Chinese culture to help the protection and inheritance of traditional culture.
Bloom the vitality of the new era, and adhere to the inheritance of traditional culture in innovation
As a modern tea enterprise, Xiaocang Tea has always insisted on inheriting traditional Chinese culture with modern innovation. As early as 2019, Xiaocang Tea cooperated with the Gongwangfu in Beijing to launch the "First Blessing of the World" Customized Fu Tea carrying the "First Blessing of the World" new year custom Fu Tea, which carries the great fortune, inspired by the "First Blessing of the World" Fuzi Monument, which is unique in the Gongwang Mansion, and in 2021, it also joined hands with the School of Social Sciences of Tsinghua University to deeply explore the relationship between the "Fu" culture and the spiritual connotation of the Chinese nation, and jointly released the "Fu Culture Research Report Based on the Sense of Spring Festival Ceremony".
Through diversified cooperation, small pot tea has given vitality to the new era of "Fu" culture that has been passed down for thousands of years. From joining hands with eight tea masters to inherit non-genetic tea skills, to now working with 100 craftsmen to create national treasures, it shows the original intention of small pots of tea to adhere to innovation and inheritance of traditional culture. At the same time, through the new interpretation of these traditional artworks, it further awakens the confidence and recognition of the Chinese people for the national culture, so that the traditional culture can be more widely inherited and continued.
Small pot tea insists on fashionable and innovative expression to make traditional Chinese culture more "young" and full of vitality. In the process of protecting and inheriting the Culture of Fu, Xiaocang Tea helps the traditional Chinese culture to be passed on for a longer time through the innovation and re-creation of national art. And bloom a more unique charm in the context of the new era.