Haipai's velvet line work "Velvet Hundred Flowers and Mirror Image of Spring" was unveiled at the Beijing Winter Olympic Village

Haipai velvet line work "Velvet Hundred Flowers, Mirror Image of Spring" Guo Jianchen Courtesy of Guo Jianchen

Beijing, 19 Jan (China News Network) -- The Beijing Winter Olympics are about to open. The Beijing Winter Olympic Village has set up a special exhibition and experience area for traditional Chinese skills and skills to show the integration of traditional Chinese culture and the Winter Olympic Games. Among them, the official sponsor of Beijing's "Double Olympics" and the inheritance unit of the intangible cultural heritage haipai velvet thread knitting technique Hengyuanxiang Group's "Mirror Image of Velvet Flowers and Spring" made of velvet thread is quite eye-catching.

In this exhibition work, more than a thousand flowers of various colors are suspended in mid-air, and below the flowers, there is a cylindrical mirrored booth, and the mirror reflects the flowers, extending out of the infinite space. When the audience visits, the flowers and people will be reflected in the mirror together, presenting a beautiful picture of a hundred flowers blooming to welcome the New Year and the velvet flowers on the face of the people.

"Velvet Hundred Flowers and Mirror Images of Spring" was designed by Zhu Yang, Deputy Secretary-General of the Art and Life Style Design Committee, and his team. When expounding the main theme of creation, Zhu Yang said that Chinese handicrafts not only pay attention to work and materials, but also wrote in the "Zhou Li Baigong Record" that sometimes the heavens and the earth have qi, the material has beauty, and the work has ingenuity. Zhu Yang believes that the so-called heaven and time are contemporary, and the earth qi can be integrated into people's daily lives. Therefore, in the design of the installation, it is not only necessary to show the Chinese handicraft itself, but also to reflect the spirit behind the Chinese handicraft - the flower in the sky, the mirror in the earth, and the viewer who interacts with the mirror, which together conveys the harmonious Chinese classical philosophical concept of heaven and earth.

"As a double Olympic enterprise, Hengyuanxiang has long been committed to using culture and art to express and disseminate the Olympic spirit, this Beijing Winter Olympics, Hengyuanxiang innovatively integrated the intangible cultural heritage skills into it, we used the Haipai velvet thread weaving technology to make an award bouquet for the Beijing Winter Olympics, so that the flower of glory will never wither." The protagonist of the artwork on display in the Beijing Winter Olympic Village is still the velvet flower, which, like the bouquet of awards, is also hand-crocheted with velvet thread. If the bouquet of awards is a presentation of history and humanities, then "Velvet Hundred Flowers and The Mirror Image of Spring" focuses on the expression of contemporary art. We have a special love for 'line' because Chinese often say 'love leads to a line', and we repeatedly express flowers because the image of flowers can best explain the concept of 'the beauty of each other, the beauty of beauty, the beauty of beauty, and the unity of the world'. Chen Zhongwei, chairman and general manager of Hengyuanxiang Group, said.

More than 1,000 velvet flowers in the work are jointly produced by velvet knot lovers from all over the country, and there are 28 kinds of representative flowers of the four seasons around the world, such as peonies, moon seasons, lilies, roses, chrysanthemums, and red plums. When designing, the creative team first classifies the velvet flowers, and after balancing the visual elements such as color, size, and shape, the harmony of the spatial rhythm is achieved through strict management position.

At the same time, in the Exhibition and Experience Area of Traditional Skills and Skills Culture in China, there are also awards bouquets provided by Hengyuanxiang for the Beijing Winter Olympics and velvet flower arrangement works "Spring", "Summer", "Autumn" and "Winter". (End)

Source: China News Network