He Zun incarnated as the Winter Olympics Tinder Platform

The picture shows Tinder Tai (left) and He Zun. Provided by the Provincial Bureau of Cultural Heritage

On January 27, the reporter learned from the Shaanxi Provincial Cultural Relics Bureau that the creative inspiration of the Tinder Terrace of the Beijing Winter Olympics Ceremony came from he Zun, the treasure of the town hall of the Baoji Bronze Museum.

It is understood that the Beijing Winter Olympics ceremony tinder platform to "inherit the heavens" as the design concept, creative inspiration from the traditional Chinese bronze ceremonial vessel "Zun", the modeling style and torch, Tinder lamp harmony. The ritual tinder table adopts the curved shape of the zun and the pedestal is calm, symbolizing "all things on the ground". The top stretches out and opens, implying to meet the pure Olympic flame; the auspicious cloud pattern gradually turns into snowflakes from down to the top, symbolizing the spiritual inheritance of the "City of The Two Olympics"; the red ribbon flutters and dances, surrounds the upwards, and is harmoniously unified with the torch design; the color of red and silver symbolizes the fusion of tradition and modernity, technology and passion.

He Zun is a national first-class cultural relic, with a height of 38.8 cm, a caliber of 28.8 cm and a weight of 14.6 kg, excavated in 1963 in Jia Village, Jia Village, Chencang District, Baoji City, and is an early bronze artifact of the Western Zhou Dynasty. As the earliest excavation testimony of the word "China", He Zun is of indispensable importance to explaining the origin of Chinese civilization.

It is reported that on January 26, He Zun appeared in the Wenyuan Pavilion of the Forbidden City in Beijing, as a key cultural relic of the "National Treasures and Performance Season" in the "Why China" exhibition. The exhibition will run until May 4. (Reporter Guo Qing)