The picture shows Jin Guixiang and the palace lamp of "Ice and Snow Edge" he made. Photo by Wu Di
Langfang, China, January 8 (Song Mintao, Ma Minlu) "This lamp is a four-corner single-layer structure, with more than ten production processes, including chiseling, carving, polishing, polishing, painting, assembly, etc." On the 8th, Jin Guixiang, the third-generation inheritor of the Jin's palace lamp making technology in Gu'an, Hebei Province, introduced a palace lamp named "The Edge of Ice and Snow" to the reporter of China News Network.
The 71-year-old Jin Guixiang is the third generation inheritor of the lamp making skills of Gu'an Jinshi Palace, a municipal intangible cultural heritage in Langfang. The craftsmanship of making lamps in Jin's Palace began at the end of the Qing Dynasty. Jin Guixiang learned the art of making palace lamps from his ancestors since childhood, and mastered the production technology of palace lamps at the age of 16. "For me, the palace lamp is not only a skill passed down from my ancestors, but also a cultural treasure that the Chinese nation cannot lose." Jin Guixiang said.
In order to welcome the arrival of the Beijing 2022 Winter Olympics, Jin Guixiang combined the sketches of the Winter Olympic sports projects with the palace lamps, and handmade the "Edge of Ice and Snow" palace lamps. The palace lamp is based on red paper that symbolizes festive and auspicious, and the flower screens on all four sides are patterned with ice and snow sports, showing the movement of athletes leaping in the air.
The picture shows Jin Guixiang making traditional palace lamps. Photo by Wu Di
"Mahogany is used for wood skeletons and ornaments, and it took about 10 days to make a lamp, and 10 lamps have been made so far." Jin Guixiang said that this time he integrated the elements of the Winter Olympics into the traditional palace lamp technique, pinning the affectionate blessings of their craftsmen for the Beijing 2022 Winter Olympics, and also adding strong Chinese characteristics to the Winter Olympics.
Palace lanterns, also known as palace flower lanterns, began in the Eastern Han Dynasty and flourished in the Sui and Tang Dynasties, with strong local characteristics. Jin's palace lamp shape is mostly hexagonal double layer, wood skeleton and ornaments are made of mahogany or old elm wood carving, each lamp only has 96 tenons, 48 small carvings, more than 200 full sets of parts, and the picture screen patterns on each side are mostly dragon and phoenix, fushou longevity, auspicious ruyi, etc., with changeable shapes and wide range of uses. (End)
(Source: China News Network)
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