Beijing, January 28 (Reporter Song Xue) During the Spring Festival and the Winter Olympic and Paralympic Winter Games in 2022, Beijing Municipality launched the "Beijing 2022" Beijing Winter Olympics, Intangible Cultural Heritage New Year - Intangible Cultural Heritage Theme Series Publicity Activities, organized intangible cultural heritage displays in Beijing Winter Olympic Village, Yanqing Winter Olympic Village and Winter Olympic Games, the winter Paralympic Main Media Center and various districts of Beijing Municipality, and 300 intangible cultural heritage works have entered the Winter Olympic Village, telling the story of Beijing's intangible cultural heritage and carrying forward China's excellent traditional culture.
A few days ago, Juan Antonio Samaranch, a member of the International Olympic Committee and chairman of the Coordination Committee of the Beijing Winter Olympic Games of the International Olympic Committee, received a special gift when visiting the Beijing Winter Olympic Village: The Intangible Cultural Heritage of Beijing - Fire Painted Gourd. This exquisite fire-painted gourd is painted with orchids, symbolizing "wealth, peace, auspiciousness and good will", and is a gourd artwork drawn by the heir of the fire-painted gourd technique, Niu Guo, using the fire-painted gourd technique.
The reporter learned that the fire painting gourd technique is a traditional gourd decoration technique, which refers to the use of high temperature to carbonize the skin of the gourd, and the method of completing the picture with the help of the thickness and thickness of carbonization. After the declaration of the Shunyi District Cultural and Tourism Bureau and the review organized by the Beijing Municipal Bureau of Culture and Tourism, in September 2021, the Beijing Municipal Government officially announced the fire painting gourd technique as the fifth batch of municipal intangible cultural heritage representative projects in Beijing.
Fire painting gourd skill inheritor cattle achievements (courtesy of Beijing Municipal Bureau of Culture and Tourism, issued by CCTV)
Beijing Auspicious Eight Treasure Gourd Handicrafts Production and Marketing Professional Cooperative, as the "Fire Painting Gourd Technique" inheritance protection unit, this time for the Beijing Winter Olympics "tailor-made", design and production of "Meilan Bamboo Chrysanthemum" as the theme of the intangible fire painting gourd works nearly a thousand pieces, has been placed in the Winter Olympic Athletes hotel athletes bedroom, has become a representative of the Beijing Municipal Intangible Cultural Heritage to participate in the Winter Olympics to help the Winter Olympics "very good gift". In this regard, Niu Guo said that he was very honored: "The fire-painted gourd skills that have been passed down for a hundred years have been happy, last year it was just rated as a representative project of municipal intangible cultural heritage, and this year it was displayed in front of athletes around the world, and the villagers of our cooperative have more energy to inherit their skills, and we must pass on our intangible cultural heritage projects well in the future." ”
Beijing Shunyi fire painting gourd technique (Courtesy of Beijing Municipal Bureau of Culture and Tourism, issued by CCTV)
Yuan Xinhai, a second-level researcher of the Shunyi District Culture and Tourism Bureau and secretary of the party branch of the District Cultural Center, said that intangible cultural heritage is not only the crystallization of the wisdom and civilization of the Chinese nation, but also the treasure of Chinese culture, and it is also an important content to meet the needs of the people's spiritual and cultural life and improve the well-being of the people. The Shunyi District Culture and Tourism Bureau will increase its support for intangible cultural heritage projects, and increase the research, publicity, promotion and support in inheritance and protection, so that intangible cultural heritage can be passed on from generation to generation and promote China's intangible cultural heritage to the world.
According to the relevant person in charge of the Beijing Municipal Bureau of Culture and Tourism, intangible cultural heritage is the common wealth of mankind and reflects the cultural diversity of mankind. The Beijing Municipal Bureau of Culture and Tourism will take the Winter Olympics as a platform and the intangible cultural heritage as the link to display the Chinese cultural characteristics in the best state and tell the story of Beijing's intangible cultural heritage.
Source: CCTV