Seeking "blessings" in the Spring Festival is an indispensable part of China's traditional culture. The 2022 Chinese New Year festival is coming, some people send blessings, some people post blessings. Have you paid attention to the 300-meter Giant Blessing on the Great Wall?
On January 6, a spectacular scene appeared on the Great Wall: more than 100 pieces of national handicrafts with the word "Fu", together with countless red blessings, covered the Simatai Great Wall, and the 300-meter giant blessing made people feast their eyes and reproduce the beauty of the national essence.
It is understood that this is the high-end Chinese tea brand Xiaocang Tea planning "China is blessed - Small Can Tea X Hundred Craftsmen Baifu Guozhi Works Great Wall Exhibition". Many of the 100 national crafts used in this exhibition are intangible handicrafts that are on the verge of being lost. Small pot tea has united 100 craftsmen, and in this special way, it is hoped that more and more people can pay attention to the culture of blessing and inherit the national essence of craftsmanship.
"Blessed in China - Small Pot Tea X Hundred Craftsmen And Hundred Blessings of the Great Wall Exhibition"
The legacy of the national essence has a long way to go
The 61-year-old Yang Genlian has dealt with jade all his life, especially good at "gold inlaid jade".
The scientific name of "gold and silver inlaid jade" is "gold and silver inlaid gemstone jade", that is, with jade as the carrier, the gold wire or gold piece is inlaid into the jade, and the two are integrated to achieve the effect of gold and jade with the same brilliance, "golden jade good edge" is the combination of gold and jade, symbolizing wealth and perfection.
Similar to "gold inlaid jade", many traditional skills in China, especially intangible cultural heritage, have a very beautiful meaning - black copper walking silver, plate gold embroidery, butterfly painting... These crafts contain the unique spiritual values and cultural consciousness of the Chinese nation, which are the gifts given to us by history and the best gifts we have left for the future.
Yang Genlian, 61, spoke on behalf of the craftsmen
At present, the state attaches great importance to the protection of traditional crafts. The 14th Five-Year Plan and the outline of long-term goals for 2035 clearly stipulate: "Strengthen the systematic protection of important cultural and natural heritage and intangible cultural heritage" and "strengthen the protection and inheritance of excellent traditional handicrafts of all ethnic groups." The protection of intangible cultural heritage in various places has also been carried out."
However, under the impact of modern production and lifestyle, the inheritance of national essence still faces challenges. The younger generation advocates modern civilization and does not have a deep understanding of folk intangible cultural heritage and traditional national culture. Learning traditional skills requires hard work, high difficulty, long time consuming, low income, such as Yuanzhou stone carving, Dong Jin, Hua Yao flower picking and other traditional crafts, proficiency takes at least a few years. Therefore, it is not easy to impress young people with the success of the national essence. The craftsman with special skills brings challenges to the inheritance of traditional skills.
In the "Great Wall Exhibition of Small Pot Tea x Hundred Craftsmen and Hundred Blessings of The National Essence Works", the small pot of tea combines the national essence process with the traditional Chinese Fu culture, so that hundreds of national essences have a unified main line; moving these works to the Great Wall also makes the soul of the national essence more abundant and thick.
At the scene of the event, Yang Genlian was excited. He said that the essence of the country is a symbol of the cultural identity of the Chinese nation, and he hopes that more "shou artists" will adhere to the sincere ingenuity and let the national essence of skills be passed on from generation to generation, that is, to keep the cultural self-confidence of the Chinese nation and the unceasing blood of civilization.
Shouzheng innovation allows the national essence to live in the present
Thanks to the blessing of craftsmen, we can still perceive history and touch history today. However, how to let the intangible cultural heritage and national essence live in the present? How to integrate these traditional Chinese skills into modern life, so that young people have more perception?
Zheng Xiaoxing, deputy to the National People's Congress, vice president of the China Intangible Cultural Heritage Protection Association and chairman of the Sichuan Provincial Federation of Literature and Literature, once said that the protection and inheritance of intangible cultural heritage should be combined with the new era, and he suggested during the two sessions of the National People's Congress: "Promote the deep integration of intangible cultural heritage and tourism, strengthen the two-way integration of intangible cultural heritage with design and science and technology, and promote the cross-border integration of intangible cultural heritage and manufacturing." ”
The Great Wall Exhibition of Hundred Craftsmen and Hundred Blessings of the Nation's Works launched by Xiaocang Tea this time is an innovative activity that integrates design and technology. Inspired by the "Baifu Tu" unearthed in Luoyang, Henan Province, the picture contains 100 kinds of calligraphy written "Fu" characters, using 100 traditional crafts, making 100 Fu zi works, each of which is a unique work of art.
"China is blessed - small pot tea X hundred craftsmen And hundreds of fuku national works of the Great Wall exhibition" scene "Baifu Tu"
Hidden in this chisel, stroke and stroke is the wisdom of Chinese, highlighting the charm of intangible cultural heritage. Let more and more young people understand the intangible cultural heritage skills and feel the traditional Chinese culture more deeply.
This special exhibition was held on the Simatai Great Wall, and it is not difficult to see the intention of the small pot of tea. When these handmade works of art full of "blessings" meet the Great Wall, which is regarded as the "backbone of the Chinese nation", it not only adds a touch of national self-confidence to this special New Year's greeting of the small pot of tea, but also allows traditional Chinese culture to be understood and recognized by more people through the Great Wall, which symbolizes the "dragon". The tangible cultural heritage of the Great Wall collides with the intangible traditional culture of Fu Culture, presenting a stunning traditional cultural feast for the public.
In order to allow more forces to converge on the inheritance and protection of national essence 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 that cannot be copied, permanently preserved and can be appreciated and shared at any time through blockchain technology. 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 integration of timeless intangible cultural heritage into modern wisdom is the secret of the endless life of national civilization.
Looking at the development process of Chinese civilization for thousands of years, the inheritance of culture is constantly "keeping right and innovating". Protecting the essence of the country and passing on the skills is the consciousness and responsibility of each of us. We are pleased to see that in the new era, new enterprises are using new ways to inherit culture, keep their roots, and open up the horizons of new youth.
Behind the 300-meter Giant Blessing of the Great Wall, the invisible "Fu" is made into a concrete and tangible work with the national essence process, and the "Little Blessing" of the individual is transmitted and protected Chinese the "Great Blessing" in his heart.