Source: Chinese banknote printing and coinage
Zodiac Tiger
In the Zhou Li Chunguan Feng Xiangshi, it is said: "The palm of the ten has two years old, the tenth has two months, the tenth has two days, the tenth day, the twenty-eight stars, discern its narrative, in order to meet the heavenly position." Since ancient times, "twelve" is a conceptualized number, the zodiac sign takes the number twelve, one year old divided into twelve months. The ancients viewed astronomy to obtain the age and know the hour, and the unique chronology of the zodiac signs was cherished in legislation, infiltrated in folklore, and deeply rooted in Chinese culture.
The zodiac tiger ranks third in the twelve zodiac signs, corresponding to the twelve branches of Yin, so it is called Yin Tiger. The tiger, the totem originated from the ancient Fuxi period, as the protector of life and the god of reproduction and breeding, predates the dragon totem. For thousands of years, the Chinese nation has regarded the tiger as the king of a hundred beasts, it is strong, mighty, brave and invincible. After precipitation, the tiger has long been injected into people's pursuit and understanding of a better life, breathing with vitality, and becoming a symbol of exorcism and disaster avoidance, peace and blessing.
On December 14, 2021, Chinese Min min Bank announced the issuance of the 2022 Lunar New Year Ordinary Commemorative Coin (hereinafter referred to as the 2022 Lunar New Year Coin). The spring of the tiger, the new year, pouring out good wishes for the auspicious Antai of the Year of the Tiger, the 2022 Lunar New Year coin was officially launched.
Schema: Traceability and Evolution
The Chinese zodiac is an ancient and mysterious symbol in national culture, and is a traditional cultural form unique to China. The zodiac image carries brilliant fireworks from ancient civilizations, lighting up the most primitive worship beliefs of Chinese civilization. The ordinary commemorative coins of the Lunar New Year, that is, taken from the zodiac and auspicious culture, are rooted in the soil of traditional Chinese culture, inherit the spiritual temperament of the Chinese nation, and connect the ancient and modern in the form of coin aesthetics, and bring the most magnificent, vivid and universal parts of Chinese culture full of vitality.
The 2022 Lunar New Year Coin is the eighth in the second series of Lunar New Year commemorative coins that began in 2015. Distinctive forms and national characteristics have always been the key stylistic characteristics of the continuation of this series of commemorative coins. In terms of element selection, the 2022 Lunar New Year coin integrates and interacts with the symbols of traditional cultural elements and the expression of contemporary visual forms, injects the celebratory atmosphere of the New Year into the overall style, and creates a public aesthetic art form with modern characteristics. In terms of material, the two-color copper alloy of the second group of ordinary Lunar New Year commemorative coins is continued, forming a bimetallic structure of the outer ring inner core. The combination of shape and potential, the square inch coin surface is full of the people's happy expectations for the happy life of the new year and the festive atmosphere of welcoming the new year.
The 2022 Lunar New Year coin continues to use the unified design pattern of the second group of ordinary lunar new year commemorative coins, with the main pattern on the front as the denomination text "10 yuan", supplemented by the Hanyu Pinyin letter "SHI YUAN", and the shading is lined with peony flower decorative patterns. The name of the publication above is "Chinese Min bank", and the lower publication number is "2022".
The decorative pattern at the bottom is warm and festive. In the Spring Festival, the traditional Chinese paper-cutting art represents the auspicious meaning of joy and harmony, joy and happiness, so the most representative peony flower deformation pattern in the paper-cutting art is selected to reflect the auspicious theme of the New Year festival.
The main motif on the back is a tiger preparing to leap forward, supplemented by Foshan flower lanterns and pine branch motifs, and the word "壬寅" is published.
The direct expression of "meaning" and "elephant" is the overall aesthetic feature of the 2022 Lunar New Year coin. Based on nationality and innovation, the designer integrates and reconstructs the simple and natural traditional Chinese folk imagery with the modern simple and harmonious formal beauty modeling rules, creating a more flexible and rich expression, reflecting the strong Chinese charm and Chinese style. The overall bimetallic form of the outer ring core is flexibly connected with the pattern design, and the bi-circular system and the two-color luster intersect, subtly presenting the sparkling metal artifact temperament.
Welcoming spring Najib Fuhu
The "Liezi Yellow Emperor" records: "The Yellow Emperor and the Yan Emperor fought in the wilderness of Hanquan, with handsome bears, wolves, leopards, cats, and tigers as the precursors, and eagles, eagles, eagles, and kites as banners. "The tiger is one of the most widely circulated and far-reaching zodiac totems in traditional Chinese culture. Regarded as the king of the hundred beasts, the tiger is a symbol of power, glory, and strength, as well as a beast with the meaning of driving away evil spirits and avoiding disasters, peace and auspiciousness, and having many children and many blessings. The origin of tiger culture can no longer be studied, but its imagery is closely linked to traditional Chinese folk culture.
The shape of the main Jinghu on the back of the 2022 Lunar New Year coin adopts the expression of decorative graphics combined with realistic forms. In the construction of artistic language, the designers integrate the traditional Chinese paper-cutting art with the decorative elements of new year paintings. The hair on the tiger's body adopts the round, pointed and square treatment methods commonly used in paper-cutting techniques, "lacking as jagged teeth" and "sharp as wheat mang", depicting a concise generalization, rich and changeable form, giving people a sense of rhythmic rhythm.
The overall decorative elements of the tiger's shape are used abundantly. In the depiction of local hairs on the cheeks, ears and limbs of the tiger, the traditional cloud pattern is used instead of the decorative pattern of the serrated pattern. The cloud pattern is a symbol of auspiciousness and auspiciousness, rich and righteous symbols with unique oriental charm, and has the morphological characteristics of virtual reality and clusters of fur. The use of cloud decoration brings a more dynamic and funny artistic mood to the tiger shape, as if the hair rises with the leaping momentum of the tiger's body, which is vivid and flexible. The tiger leg section uses a partial decorative pine cone graphic that echoes the pine branch elements above the coin face. The combination of pine cones and pine needles is symmetrical and balanced, and harmoniously unified with the technique language of the overall traditional ornamentation, becoming an interesting local modeling creativity.
In terms of the overall posture of the tiger, the objective natural form of the moment when the tiger wants to jump up is selected. The tiger fixed its eyes on the flower lamp above, its chest was low, its forelimbs were pressed down, and its tail was raised high, as if it was going to jump up to play with the flower lantern in the next second. The gesture design shows a schematic language from static to dynamic moments, ready to jump, moving and statically forming a lead close to the climax, constituting a visual space with dramatic plot expression.
Designer design idea process manuscript
Shape-specific, it is another important formal feature of the tiger's shape. The tiger body as a whole is in a semi-arc form, the tiger's tail curls upwards, the tiger's claws are thick and powerful, and the contour of the tiger body is interlocked with the circular system of the commemorative coin on the composition, reflecting the visual effect that runs through the overall picture, and the language expression of the overall picture is enhanced, which weakens the sense of isolation of the individual animal as the main body of the picture, and the shape and intention reach a high degree of unity.
Spring Najib Flower Lantern
Flower lanterns are an important component of ordinary commemorative coins for the Chinese New Year. In traditional Chinese culture, flower lanterns are not only used for lighting, but also as a symbol. The art of flower lanterns combines traditional Chinese handicrafts such as painting, paper cutting, thorn sewing, and paper tying, and is closely related to the folk feelings of Chinese sons and daughters. The flower lantern element selected in the 2022 Lunar New Year Coin Tiger Play Flower Lantern is the Guangdong Foshan Flower Lantern.
Foshan Lantern (also known as Foshan Lantern) is a traditional handicraft in Foshan, Guangdong Province. In 2008, Foshan Lantern was approved by the State Council of the People's Republic of China to be included in the second batch of national intangible cultural heritage list. According to the "Foshan Zhongyi Township Chronicle", the autumn color customs of Foshan in the Ming Dynasty already had the grand scene of "paper horse fire dragon" and "grapefruit lantern sarong" along the way. Foshan lanterns are known for their fine craftsmanship, the production of Foshan lanterns includes design, corridor, lining, assembly of the four major processes, it uses exquisite materials, exquisite craftsmanship, vivid shape, bright colors, cheerful and warm pictures, shapes and shapes, the finished lanterns are decorated with Foshan's unique copper lining paper-cut, giving people a sense of golden splendor. In addition, Foshan lanterns also have the characteristics of unique conception, wide range of themes, diverse decorative materials, diverse shapes, and fine craftsmanship.
The use of Foshan flower lantern elements greatly sets off the festive atmosphere of celebration and peace, and highlights the theme of the New Year and the New Year. In terms of form, the colored lamp design adopts exquisite and ingenious detail decoration. The fluttering spike part moves with the wind, and the movement of the tiger in the main body of the picture forms a combination of dynamic and static. The decorative pattern of the lamp body part chooses the pine needle pattern, which is mutually concerned with the pine branch elements, so that the three main elements of the whole picture form a complete field, with a distinct style, vivid and funny.
Spring Najib Pine Branch
"The pine is a hundred trees long, and the gatekeeper" and "Shoubi Nanshan Bulao Pine". Cangsong Cuibai, Pine Feng Shui Yue, Pine Cypress culture in the development of China's folk culture for more than 2,000 years, has always played a positive and beautiful role, has become a unique auspicious symbol of the Chinese nation.
Two pine branches are extended above the 2022 Lunar New Year coin into the picture, and the design adopts a graphical expression style. The whole pine branch breaks the frame of the picture and extends the entire upper part of the picture, avoiding the crowding of the composition space of the picture, and implicitly showing the "potential" of the branches, which is quite the aesthetic concept of literati painting. Pine cones and pine needles are clustered and luxuriant, with rich decorative meaning, tiger and flower lantern elements details using pine needle graphic embellishment, so that the picture is organically linked, forming a whole, a few strokes, lyrical chest.
Pine blossom sake, spring water sencha. Fuhu, flower lanterns, pine branches, the three elements in a small way to build an artistic space with a sense of plot, the auspicious, exorcism and avoidance of disasters of the beautiful meaning condensed on the square inch of the coin surface, as if to bring the viewer into the scene of the tiger play flower lantern, giving people unlimited reverie. The decorative forms and techniques are exaggerated and abstract, and closely related to the folk auspicious culture, showing the unique public aesthetic way of thinking of Folk Art in China, integrating emotions and aesthetic imagination, integrating things, intentions and feelings, reflecting the uniqueness of the aesthetic modeling of Chinese folk culture, showing the treasures of traditional culture, and also reflecting people's unremitting pursuit and yearning for a better and happy life.
Core: Persistently engraving Chinese rhymes
"Today's people don't see the ancient time and the moon, but this month once looked at the ancients."
The Chinese zodiac is a splendid treasure in Chinese culture. It epitomizes the aesthetic concepts of the Chinese nation that have been inherited for thousands of years, and the totemic culture, philosophical ideas, customs and habits reflected in it, interpreting the national character and common artistic characteristics of splendid Chinese art.
The traditional culture of the zodiac is strongly national. Nowadays, the zodiac image has long gone beyond the scope of totem worship in the ancient period, after thousands of years of baptism of history, it has formed a unique side, more like a folk romantic expression obsessed with the world, artists and craftsmen are alluded to things, the people who yearn for a happy life are turned into images, and the intertwined tens of millions of things are born, giving people a sense of sublimeness brought by history, giving people the comfort of the soul.
The ordinary commemorative coins of the Lunar New Year always carry the feelings of "material world" and "statue-making", combine historical logic with contemporary aesthetics, shape traditions, spread the veins of traditional culture, and the calendar of thousands of years of inheritance, the turbulent years change, and vividly present between the inches.
The 2022 Lunar New Year coin constructs the design form of the ordinary commemorative coin of the New Year in a modern form, which embodies the human heart, and the emotions are soothed between the feedback of the image and the touch of the relief, giving us indescribable satisfaction. This is also the Chinese humanistic spiritual aesthetics brought to us by the ordinary commemorative coins of the New Year.
Yin Hu is coming, may the 2022 Lunar New Year coin bring you good luck, good fortune and good luck!