2022 is the year of the tiger in the lunar calendar, and the Shuowen Jiezi says: "Tiger, the king of the mountain beast." "In Chinese culture, the tiger is the king of the hundred beasts and the beast of auspiciousness; the tiger is a symbol of bravery and strength, and in ancient times there was a saying that "a tiger lies in the middle of the hall, ruyi and auspicious". The Lunar Year of the Tiger is approaching, and this year's "tiger" culture in Guangdong is rich and colorful, with both the power of the tiger and the power of the tiger and the state of "the tiger is fully open".
Punch Card Place 1: Museum of the King of South Vietnam (Exhibition Area of The Tomb of the King)
The Nanyue King Museum has unearthed many cultural relics related to the "tiger", among which the Tiger Festival, Tiger Jade and Tiger Seal shine in the treasure house of Qin and Han cultural relics with their vivid shape and auspicious meaning, in addition, the ceramic pillows collected by the South Yue King Museum also have more than 30 tiger pillows with beautiful meanings.
This year, the South VietnamEse King Museum has many innovations in the digitization of cultural relics, including the first time to participate in the Five Blessings activity with "Tiger Cultural Relics" to send "Tiger Blessings" to netizens across the country; on January 27, the museum's "Wrong Gold Inscription Tiger Festival" digital collection will be launched.
Wrong gold inscription Bronze Tiger Festival
Mention the tiger relics excavated from the tomb of the King of Nanyue, the most famous is this majestic tiger - the wrong gold inscription copper tiger festival, this tiger festival uses a very difficult process of wrong gold, that is, molded with grooved copper tiger, polished grooves after the gold sheet is embedded, the purity of the gold sheet is as high as 97%, thus forming a black and gold tiger festival, which is the best preserved and most exquisite tiger festival seen so far. The tiger section is 19 cm long, the highest is 11.6 cm, and the thickest is 1.2 cm. It is cast in bronze in the shape of a flat tiger, the tiger becomes a crouching posture, the tiger's mouth is wide open, the tail is bent into a "figure 8" shape, and the tiger shape is vivid, as if the king of the mountain beast is ready to pounce on the prey. The markings on the copper tiger are cast with curved leaf-shaped shallow grooves, and the gold foil is attached inside, and 60 pieces are shared on both sides, and the tiger's eye and tiger ear are outlined by fine gold sheets. On the front of the Tiger Festival, there is a wrong gold inscription "Wang Ming Che Biao" four characters, according to experts, of which the second horizontal below the word "Fate" is a reread mark, so the inscription should be interpreted as "Wang Feng Fa Che Biao". According to the inscription on the front of the Tiger Festival, the official holding the festival is the position of "ChaRiot". According to research, the "Che Du" was an official employed by the King of Chu to work full-time in the yichuan, and the Tiger Festival was used to obtain the corresponding accommodation treatment at the station during the process of the official yichuan.
It is worth mentioning that the cultural and creative IP "Tiger General" developed by the Nanyue King Museum based on the prototype of the Bronze Tiger Festival with a wrong gold inscription also won the gold medal of the China Tourism Commodity Competition.
Eight iron core dragon tiger jade belt hook
This hooked cultural relic combines jade and iron, the main body of the hook is green jade, the dragon and tiger are combined, and the combination of 8 jade blocks is formed. The hook head is carved in the shape of a dragon's head, the hook tail is in the shape of a tiger's head, and the hook button is a flat cylinder. The head of the dragon and the head of the tiger are connected in series by the middle six jade blocks depicting the details of the ornamentation, and the two sections are cut out of the round copper at the end, the middle six sections are through the round holes, and an iron core is connected in the middle of the jade block. Among them, the hook tail is carved with a piece of jade to carve out the tiger's convex eyes, straight nose, fangs, beard, thick eyebrows, the shape is three-dimensional and intuitive, reflecting the bravery of the tiger.
Tiger head gold hook buckle dragon shaped jade pendant
It is a combination of a jade dragon carved in green jade and a gold tiger head with a hook, shaped like a "tiger biting the dragon's tail", which is a modified jade. After the tail of the jade dragon was broken, the special golden hook of the tiger's head was buckled at the tail end by the Craftsmen of the South Vietnamese Country, which not only covered the crack, but also formed a vivid animation of the tiger biting the dragon's tail.
Dragon tiger and body jade with hook
The carving process of this jade hook is fascinating, one left and one right depicting the dragon's head with its mouth open to reveal its fierce fangs and the solemn and majestic tiger's head, and the tiger's head is the hook head, so the back of the tiger's head is hollowed out as a curved hook. The dragon and tiger are juxtaposed and bent into an S shape, and the two beasts struggle to grab it: the dragon opens its mouth to hold the ring with its fangs, and the tiger extends its claws to grab the ring. The tiger head here is more similar to the eight-section iron core dragon tiger jade belt hook, mainly reflecting the bravery and majesty of the tiger with the three-dimensional facial features of the tiger's head, and the depiction of the tiger's claw adds a sense of movement to the tiger's strength.
"Imperial Seal" Dragon Tiger Button Jade Seal
Among the jade artifacts excavated from the tomb of the King of Nanyue, there is also a kind of "tiger", which is different from the tiger pattern that directly adopts the tiger shape, which combines the image of the tiger and the dragon, and is called "tiger". The so-called "ant" is an imaginary divine beast, mostly referring to the dragon without horns, combining the ant with the tiger, forming a tiger-headed god beast, and the jade from the Warring States to the Qin and Han Dynasties is often shaped or decorated with the tiger as the shape or ornament. In the ancient seal system, the tiger showed the majesty of the king and was the symbol of the emperor. The jade seal of the Tiger Button unearthed from the tomb of the King of Nanyue is from the abdomen of the tomb owner, with a side length of 2.3 cm, a height of 0.9 cm, and a height of 1.7 cm, which is a white jade seal of the Tiger Button.
Tiger pillow
The museum is exhibiting a number of tiger-shaped pillows, taking the white brown finch-patterned tiger-shaped pillow as an example, this pillow is in the shape of a crouching tiger, and the pattern of the tiger's head and tiger body is painted in black, which intuitively reflects the physical characteristics of the tiger. As the bearer of traditional culture, the tiger pillow art continues to this day, and the folk have the custom of giving tiger-shaped pillows to newborn babies when they are "100 years old", which represents people's desire to look forward to the baby's health and longevity.
Punch card place two: The White Swan Hotel
"Fulu Shou Xi Hu", "Zhao Cai Jin Bao Hu":
The White Swan Hotel's customized cultural creation of Foshan's Shiwan "Tiger" should be born from time to time. This year's zodiac series is "Fulu Shouxi Tiger" with a huge gourd in his arms, and "Zhao Cai Jin Bao Hu" with fat cabbage, which is full of tigers and tigers, which is full of power and makes people fall in love.
Shiwan ceramics have a history of more than 5,000 years and are the first batch of national intangible cultural heritage. This year's "Tiger" is the work of Guangdong Ceramic Art Master Ling Kanghua. For the launch of the cultural and creative series, Lin Zhenhai, deputy general manager of the White Swan Hotel, introduced, "At the same time of renovation in 2012, the White Swan Hotel has combined the original decorations and collections (including Guangdong intangible cultural heritage, regional names, etc., involving dozens of varieties of artworks such as Yangjiang lacquer art, printing and dyeing embroidery, glass, blue and white porcelain, ink painting, sculpture) with interior design and peripheral products, including Lin Yong, Lin Lan, Li Lun, Lin Xueming, Chen Xiangjing and other artists at home and abroad to participate in the creation of works. Realize the organic combination of art collections and unique cultural symbols with hotel decoration, souvenirs, handicrafts, etc., forming a unique white swan characteristic. ”
Punch Card Place 3: Guangdong Provincial Museum (Ceramics Museum)
Brown glazed painted tiger pillow, gold (1115–1234)
The pillow is in the shape of a crouching tiger, the tiger's beak is open, the tiger's back is the pillow surface, the ground is white, the flowers and birds are painted with brown and black, the tiger body is covered with an ochre yellow makeup soil, and the imitation tiger skin stripes are depicted in black color. Different from the Qin and Han dynasties, which highlighted the strength and bravery of the tiger, the tiger pillow of the Jin Dynasty emphasized the meaning of the tiger to ward off evil spirits and seek good fortune, which also reflected the desire of the people in the city for years of war and chaos to look forward to a better life.
In 2022, Guangdong Telecom joined hands with the Guangdong Provincial Museum to draw inspiration from the collection of "Jin-Cizhou Kiln Flower Pattern Tiger Pillow" to create the New Year of the Tiger series, including tiger wings satchels, mobile phone holders, etc.
Punch Card Place 4: Guangdong Provincial Cultural Center
From now until January 22, the Guangdong Provincial Cultural Center (Guangdong Provincial Intangible Cultural Heritage Protection Center) will host the fourth phase of the 2021 "In Guangdong" series of activities: "Tiger Power is In Full Swing - Nongyin Year of the Tiger Theme Art Exhibition". The exhibition can be called "Qunhu Qi Xiaoqing New Year", there are Guangdong embroidery master Chen Shaofang, Tide embroidery master Sun Qingxian and other vivid embroidery tigers, there are Chen Yongcai, Rao Baolian and other paper-cutting artists with full charm of paper-cutting tigers, there are olive carving master Zeng Zhaohong delicate and exquisite olive carving tiger, as well as Guangdong Provincial Arts and Crafts master Wang Zengfeng, Shiwan pottery master Pan Bolin vivid image of pottery tiger and other different technical forms and expression methods of tiger images. Among them, the Xiashan Tiger Chao embroidery created by Sun Qingxian, the representative inheritor of chao embroidery at the national level, has been presented to the Canadian prime minister as a "national gift". This tide embroidery adopts the technique of K gold chaotic needlework, with vivid shape, fur image and realistic texture.
Punch Card Five: Chimelong Wildlife World
Chimelong Wildlife World saw that the country's largest and most ecological tiger exhibition area - Baihu Mountain, innovatively launched a number of special exhibition areas to show the habits of tigers, including Golden Tiger Mountain, White Tiger Splash Park, South China Tiger Park, Northeast Tiger Park, Bengal Tiger Park, Little Tiger Wild Land, Tiger's Den, White Tiger Nursery, etc., where visitors can witness the world's rare golden tiger, silver tiger and other five-colored tigers, and can take the aerial cable car to see the tiger from a height of 720 ° panorama.
In addition, Chimelong Wildlife World and Zhuhai Chimelong Ocean Kingdom will launch the Giant Tiger Palace Lantern and other annual installation punch points during the Spring Festival for tourists to take photos.
This year, to Chimelong Wildlife World, you can realize the "guest" and play games at the Tiger's house. Chimelong Resort has launched measures and theme activities to benefit the people, such as free tickets for children, Longteng Tiger Leap Happy Year, and Longhu Young Heroes receiving luck darts; the resort's affiliated hotels have also launched Chinese New Year's Eve meals with tigers and popular science classes on tiger knowledge.
Written by: Nandu reporter Xiao Yang
Correspondents: Huang Qiaohao, Han Lu, Deng Yongyi
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