Beijing, January 26 News As an important window for international exchanges and Chinese cultural displays, the world's largest winter comprehensive ice and snow event is about to kick off in Beijing. A number of intangible cultural heritage projects and a variety of intangible cultural heritage exhibits represented by the Beijing Enamel Factory "Jingfa" will attract attention from all over the world during the Winter Olympics.
The national treasure "Beijing" highlights the charm of Chinese culture
Culture is the soul of a country and a nation, with a history of more than 600 years, cloisonné, with distinct national style and profound cultural connotation, is one of the representatives of China's intangible cultural heritage and a beautiful business card of Beijing. Integrating Chinese style and the humanistic characteristics and urban characteristics of the "Double Olympic" city, following the 2008 Beijing Olympic Games, "Ingfa" has made the world feel the charm of Chinese culture again.
In the "Cultural China" exhibition area of Beijing Winter Olympic Village, Zhong Liansheng, a master of Chinese arts and crafts, a national non-hereditary inheritor and the chief craftsman of Beijing Enamel Factory, created a number of works such as "Four Seasons Pen Holder (Winter)", which deeply interprets the technical standards and artistic aesthetics of contemporary cloisonné, with innovative creativity, unique design, brilliant and colorful, beautiful and solemn, and will show the style of China's excellent traditional culture for athletes from all over the world.
Master Zhong Liansheng set up an exhibition in the exhibition area of the Winter Olympic Village (courtesy of the enterprise)
After more than 60 years of inheritance and development, Beijing Enamel Factory has become the only Chinese time-honored brand in the national cloisonné industry, a demonstration base for the productive protection of national intangible cultural heritage, and has created a well-known brand of cloisonné "Jingfa", leading the industry to a new stage of cloisonné production. In order to help the display of national image and cultural soft power, and to perfectly integrate traditional culture with ice and snow culture, on September 9, 2020, Beijing Enamel Factory released the Beijing Winter Olympics licensed commodity "Winter Olympic Five Ring Enamel Zun". Inspired by the Olympic Five Rings logo, the work innovatively combines the three intangible cultural heritage techniques of cloisonné, engraving and glass to showcase the Winter Olympic culture and the imprint of the times with Chinese characteristics.
Winter Olympics five rings enamel zun (enterprise image)
Inheriting innovation and exploring the ultimate in cloisonné art
Traditional culture and traditional skills not only carry the mission of inheriting and promoting Chinese culture, but also face the proposition of innovative development and eternal vitality. Beijing Enamel Factory takes innovation as the core concept, constantly pursues works to keep pace with the times, and creates a model of the times with both inheritance and innovation.
In today's global integration, cloisonné art is also developing in the direction of practicality and internationalization. In July 2021, the "Jingfa" enamel watch designed and developed by the Beijing Enamel Factory Enamel Watch and Jewelry R&D Center was publicly released, so that traditional culture and modern civilization complement each other, and historical context and fashion creativity complement each other.
Master Zhong Liansheng and the design team with the concept of "exploring the classics, never ending", lasted several years to polish and develop enamel watches and enamel jewelry, and integrated the exquisite skills, profound artistic heritage and colorful artistic style accumulated by the "Jingfa" cloisonné for generations and decades, after hundreds of times of repeated experiments, accumulated experience, and finally developed a master series that highlights the perfect integration of taste, creativity and skill of the "Jingfa" brand, and the Dunhuang series inspired by the Treasure of Chinese Culture and Art - Dunhuang Mogao Grottoes, It is based on the famous Song Dynasty Brush Stroke Series, with a total of more than 20 enamel watches in three series.
(Enterprise courtesy of the central broadcasting network)
Worldwide, enamel watches have always occupied an irreplaceable position in luxury brands due to their complex and difficult production processes, the scarcity of enamel painting masters, the requirements of superb painting skills, and the extremely high scrap rate.
From the "Jingfa" enamel watch production process, each dial from the design, filigree, welding wire, point glaze, firing, to hand polishing lasted a long time, "Jingfa" technicians need to use 0.045 diameter under the microscope with a diameter of 0.045 pure gold, sterling silver flat wire filigree, point glaze completely handmade, very complicated.
From the point of view of production difficulty, a small dial often needs more than 10 kinds or even dozens of chromatic colors, to prepare dozens of glazes, starting from the glaze with a high melting point, repeated at least ten times, requiring manual grinding of the tolerance of 2 silks, every detail should be careful when making, once the surface is deformed or the glaze cracks appear in the process, the whole dial will be scrapped.
From the perspective of scarcity, there are only about ten masters in the world who have mastered the art of enamel watches, so an enamel painted watch is almost equivalent to a first-class masterpiece.
In-depth inheritance of intangible cultural heritage, summing up experience and innovative development are important ways to show the recognition of national culture, and also an important source of innovation and development of the industry. With new ideas, new ideas and new forms, "Jingfa" refines new artistic and value possibilities by absorbing, borrowing and innovating, so that cloisonné can release more extraordinary charm.
Facing the world and the future, the creative transformation and innovative development of Beijing Enamel Factory have never stopped. By showing the charm of Chinese culture to the world on the stage of the Winter Olympics, "Jingfa" will surely emerge more fine works and bloom unique brilliant brilliance.