Zhu Bingren introduced the process and difficulties of mural creation. Photo by Yuan Jiaxin
Shaoxing, China News Network, January 8 (Wang Title) On January 8, the Hangzhou-Taiwan high-speed railway, which is highly compatible with the "Zhejiang East Tang Poetry Road" line, was opened for operation. Shengzhou and Xinchang in Shaoxing, Zhejiang, as important nodes on this poetry road, on the ticket exit channel of the newly built Shengzhou Xinchang Station, a copper relief mural showing the magnificent panorama of the "Zhejiang Eastern Tang Poetry Road" was also unveiled at the same time.
"Zhejiang Eastern Tang Poetry Road" mural panorama. Photo by Yuan Jiaxin
It is reported that the mural is 108 meters long and 3 meters high, made of national intangible cultural heritage bronze carving techniques, which is the longest copper relief copper mural long scroll in China, and it is also a rare magnificent giant in China's high-speed rail station.
It is worth mentioning that the mural was designed and produced by a team led by Zhu Bingren, a master of Chinese arts and crafts and a representative inheritor of the national intangible cultural heritage of bronze carving techniques, and is the first huge bronze sculpture artwork in China to combine the traditional Tang Poetry Road culture with the modern high-speed rail culture.
Details of the mural painting "The Road of Tang Poetry in Eastern Zhejiang". Photo by Yuan Jiaxin
The Hangzhou-Shaotai high-speed railway from Hangzhou to Taizhou is highly consistent with the Tang Poetry Road in eastern Zhejiang. Therefore, this long scroll of art starts from the ancient crossing of The Western Ling of Qiantang River and ends at Huading of Tiantai Mountain, and is divided into the "Twenty-Four Views" of the Poetry Road, which gradually unfolds, showing the historical background and regional cultural characteristics along the poetry road, especially in the core areas of Shengzhou and Xinchang.
Before the chapter of the mural "There is drama in the sword", Zhu Bingren directed on the spot. Photo by Yuan Jiaxin
Zhu Bingren told reporters that the birth of this long-scroll mural took half a year. After more than 2 months of historical data collection by 10 cultural experts from Shengzhou and Xinchang, and after the governments of the two places proposed the local cultural implantation proposal, the mural determined the design theme of "self-love famous mountain into the middle".
At the same time, he also said that in the production process, the mural uses streamlined composition, string dots into lines, set pearls into scenery and other methods, a total of 77 characters, of which, from the Jin Dynasty to the Tang Dynasty celebrities 28, to Wang Xizhi, Xie Lingyun, Wang Ziyou, Li Bai, Du Fu, Bai Juyi and other historical celebrity images, plus Zhejiang Chaoyong, Shan Wangyue, Tianmu Mengxun and other "twenty-four scenes" coordinated matching, fully display the mountains and rivers in The middle of the river (present-day Shengzhou, Xinchang), humanistic relics, allusions and legends, Yongjia poems and spiritual bones. (End)