Recently, the Department of Culture and Tourism of Zhejiang Province announced the results of the first batch of 100 "Zhejiang Cultural Identification" cultivation projects and "Cultural Gene Decoding Project" decoding results, and the city's "Millennium Yue Kiln Secret Color Cixi" was successfully selected as the "Zhejiang Cultural Label" cultivation project, and 4 projects such as "Secret Color Porcelain", "Minghe Ancient Town", "Dapeng Mountain" and "Shanglin Lake Yue Kiln" were rated as "Excellent Decoding Projects".
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"Millennium Yue Kiln Secret Color Cixi"
The Shanglin Lake Yue kiln site is the largest, most complete preserved and longest used kiln site among the existing celadon sites in China, and has been leading the development of porcelain making technology at home and abroad since its inception. Although since the Southern Song Dynasty, the secret color porcelain has experienced more than 800 years of decline in the kiln, Cixi has always been committed to the re-firing of the secret color porcelain. In 2001, the secret color porcelain was successfully re-fired in Cixi, and the road to reviving the secret color porcelain has since become wider and wider.
The Site of Linhu Yue Kiln on the firing ground of secret color porcelain is a national key cultural relics protection unit, which was selected as one of the top 100 sites in China in 2005, and was twice included in the "Preliminary List of World Cultural Heritage in China" in 2006 and 2012, and is known as the "Open-air Celadon Museum". In order to better show the charm of secret color porcelain to the world, in recent years, publicity, education and inheritance platforms such as Shanglin Lake Yueyao National Archaeological Site Park and Shanglin Lake Celadon Cultural Heritage Park have been opened to the public, further expanding the influence of secret color porcelain.
"Secret Color Porcelain"
"The nine autumn winds dew more and more kilns opened, and won the green color of the thousand peaks." Good to the mid-night feast, the common ji in the scattered bucket cup. "A poem by the Tang Dynasty poet Tortoise Meng, "Yue Color Secret Instrument", triggered the world's infinite reverie of secret color porcelain.
Secret color porcelain is a representative work of high-end celadon porcelain. "Green as the sky, bright as a mirror, thin as paper, sound like a chime." The "luxury" nature made it enshrined in the imperial court as tribute porcelain, becoming "royal celadon porcelain".
After a thousand years, the secret color porcelain is once again burning on the shore of Shanglin Lake. "Secret color porcelain capital, intelligent construction of Cixi", today, Cixi, the firing place of secret color porcelain, writes secret color porcelain into the city slogan, and is showing its unique charm to the world. The successful registration of the national geographical indication certification trademark of "Cixi Secret Color Porcelain" is an important step for Cixi to build a regional brand of Secret Color Porcelain culture.
"Minghe Ancient Town"
Minghe Ancient Town was formed at the end of the 8th century AD, during the Tang And Yuan Dynasties, the townspeople Yu Jiugao, the character Minghe, the first jinshi, died in Beijing, the townspeople mourned, called its hometown Minghe.
Minghe has a long history, profound cultural accumulation, beautiful landscapes and beautiful scenery, known as "Hegao scenery SaiguSu" reputation. During the Song and Yuan dynasties, Minghe became the largest salt farm in the two Zhejiang regions, and the salt production in the Song Dynasty accounted for 32% of the province's salt production. Minghechang Salt Warehouse Base, known as "the most taxed in the southeast". Since the Ming and Qing dynasties, it has become the birthplace of Chinese national medicine, known as "Chinese national medicine out of Zhejiang, Zhejiang in Cixi, Cixi first pushed the crane field".
"Dapeng Mountain"
The Cuiping Mountains, located in the south of Cixi, stand majestically in an east-west direction and stretch for tens of miles. In the easternmost part of the Cuiping Mountains, there is a main peak called Wind Tunnel Gang, which is 436 meters above sea level. According to legend, Xu Fu of the Qin Dynasty led three thousand boys, girls and craftsmen to set sail from here to find the elixir of immortality for Qin Shi Huang, so it was renamed Dapeng Mountain, which means that it can reach the Penglai Wonderland.
Dapeng Mountain is majestic, steep, climbing to the top and overlooking, mirages looming, meteorological. At the foot of Dapeng Mountain, there is Jiulong Lake in the south, Shenjiao Lake in the north, Fengpu Lake in the east, and Ling Lake in the west, forming the layout of the four lakes arch guard, and the natural scenery is beautiful.
Ruins, ruins, celebrities, legends and the beautiful scenery of Dapeng Mountain complement each other, creating a magnificent picture spanning 2,000 years. In January 2008, the "Legend of Xufu Dongdu" was included in the second batch of national intangible cultural heritage list.
"Shanglin Lake Yue Kiln"
Quiet and beautiful at the foot of the mountain, there is a lake as shy as a girl and as calm as an old man - Shanglin Lake. On the skirt of the lake, there are more than a hundred kiln sites of different ages. These kiln sites, which hug each other between mountains and rivers, can be traced back to the Han Dynasty two thousand years ago, and the latest is the Southern Song Dynasty, and its firing history is more than 1,000 years.
Shanglin Lake is a lake of wisdom, which is the best witness to the development and evolution of pottery - primitive celadon - celadon porcelain, and is the hometown of the celadon flowers that have been watered with sweat by successive generations of craftsmen.
Shanglin Lake is a lake of exchange, starting from the Tang Dynasty, its products have paid tribute to the imperial court, and they have also traveled far and wide to Africa, Europe and Southeast Asia, becoming a bright and dazzling flower bush in the history of cultural exchange.
Source: Cultural Tourism Cixi