Beijing News (reporter Liu Zhen Pufeng) The Art Museum of China and the China Intangible Cultural Heritage Museum officially opened on February 5, and the completion of the museum not only filled the gap of the national museum of arts and crafts and intangible cultural heritage in the mainland, but also marked another important cultural landmark on the mainland that represented the cultural image of the country and the capital and highlighted the prosperity and development of culture in the new era. At the same time, as an important cultural content during the Beijing Winter Olympics, the opening exhibition "Chinese Treasures - Chinese Intangible Cultural Heritage and Arts and Crafts Exhibition" sponsored by the Ministry of Culture and Tourism will be divided into eight major sections: "Masterpieces of Great Powers", "Ancient Relics", "Wanfang Music", "Silk Road Danqing", "Legend of Powder Ink", "Transmission of Literature through Instruments", "Yingchun of Shenzhou" and "Prosperous Chongguang", exhibiting arts and crafts, guqin art, traditional musical instruments, Silk Road murals, Chinese opera, golden stone seal carvings, woodblock new year paintings, Folk performances and other categories of a total of 1298 pieces (sets) of arts and crafts and intangible cultural heritage treasures, officially opened to the public on February 6.
Guests inaugurated the new building. Beijing News reporter Pu Feng photographed
As a national key cultural facility decided to be built during the "13th Five-Year Plan" period, the China Arts and Crafts Museum and the China Intangible Cultural Heritage Museum have a construction area of 91,126 square meters and a total of six floors on the ground, located on the north extension of the central axis of Beijing, close to the Olympic Forest Park on the west side, the Historical Exhibition Hall of the Communist Party of China commemorating the centenary of the founding of the Communist Party of China on the east side, the China Science and Technology Museum on the north side, and the Chinese Academy of History and the "Bird's Nest" Gymnasium in the south. From March 30, 2019, when the construction project broke ground and was completed and accepted on January 5, 2022, more than 8,000 builders participated, and the entire project lasted 1,012 days.
The design concept of the Art Museum of China and the Museum of Intangible Cultural Heritage of China originates from the in-depth excavation and refinement of traditional Chinese culture. The overall design concept of the building draws on the proportions of the Taihe Hall of classical Chinese architecture, and the axis symmetry in the building plan unfolds left and right, reflecting the symmetrical aesthetic of traditional Chinese architecture. The building façade is three-stage, divided from bottom to top into stone base, transparent platform layer and floating building layer, which represent the heaven, earth and people of traditional Chinese culture respectively, and embody the harmonious beauty of traditional Chinese architecture. What is more characteristic is that the architectural design of the museum does not stop at the traditional three-stage style, but further innovates and evolves, picking the two tallest floors of the building on the ground to the outside six meters to form a soaring shape, and its creative inspiration comes from the traditional Chinese arts and crafts "Duobaoge Square Box", which means that the internal treasures and displays national art treasures.
The newly opened Museum of Arts and Crafts of China and the Museum of Intangible Cultural Heritage of China have a construction area of 91,126 square meters. Beijing News reporter Pu Feng photographed
According to Han Ziyong, president of the China Academy of Arts, director of the China Arts and Crafts Museum and the China Intangible Cultural Heritage Museum, the opening exhibition "Chinese Treasures - Chinese Intangible Cultural Heritage and Arts and Crafts Exhibition" captures a part of the content with cultural brilliance, artistic charm, exquisite form, easy to display and demonstrate, and strives to show that Traditional Chinese Arts and Crafts and Chinese Intangible Cultural Heritage are adhering to the Chinese cultural stance and inheriting Chinese cultural genes. Great achievements in showing the Chinese aesthetic style. Eighty percent of the collection on display is the first time it has been exhibited to the public, and most of the exhibits are treasures accumulated by the China Academy of Arts for 70 years.
The audience watches the paper art "Wooden Square". Beijing News reporter Pu Feng photographed
The restored site of the Small Buddhist Temple in Dammagou, with an area of only 4 square meters and exquisite murals painted on the walls, is listed as one of the "Important Archaeological Discoveries in China in 2002". Beijing News reporter Pu Feng photographed
Among them, the first part, "Masterpieces of Great Powers - Arts and Crafts Towards a New Era", mainly exhibits the four national treasures of jade art in the 1980s, which were approved by the State Council, organized and implemented by the Ministry of Light Industry, and completed by Beijing Jade Factory, such as "Dai Yue Wonders", jade flower lavender "Hanxiang Jurui", jadeite beam flower basket "Qunfang Range Rover" and jade interstitial screen "Four Seas Tenghuan". According to reports, the four works lasted eight years from the selection of the theme, the design of the form to the completion of all. The creative collective composed of more than 40 famous jade altars and skilled masters and experts and the advisory team composed of dozens of famous experts and scholars have cooperated sincerely to set up a new peak in the history of jade carving with these four works.
Beijing Jade Factory collectively produced the jade interstitial screen "Four Seas Tenghuan". Beijing News reporter Pu Feng photographed
Guqin as a collection of Chinese instrumental music art carry the basic characteristics of the Traditional Chinese music system, constitute the core of the Chinese national music aesthetics, in the second part of the exhibition "Ancient Remains", the audience can not only appreciate the late Tang Dynasty guqin "dead wood dragon yin", Southern Song Guqin "Mingfeng" and other extremely precious cultural relics, heirloom qin, in the center of the exhibition area, the audience can also immerse themselves in the rhyme of the guqin. The "Silk Danqing" section will lead the audience to travel east along the Silk Road from Guizi to the fourth century to the fourteenth century, and finally to Dunhuang, exhibiting more than 70 fine works of copying, which is the largest and largest span of China's clay mural copying and research.
Late Tang Dynasty "Dead Wood Dragon Yin" piano. Beijing News reporter Pu Feng photographed
Complete late Qing Dynasty Tuoben "Yan Family Temple Stele". Beijing News reporter Pu Feng photographed
In addition, in the sixth part of the exhibition, "Transmitting Texts through Instruments", the first unit "Seal Engraving Exhibition Area" exhibits the "Analects" aphorism seal engraving works (100 pieces) are treasured by the China Academy of Arts. Its exhibitors are consultants and researchers in the early days of the establishment of the Institute of Seal Engraving, as well as 100 of the most representative old, middle-aged and young seal engravers at home and abroad, and some of the old artists with high moral standing and respect have now become ancient. To this day, this set of Aphorisms of the Analects is still very representative.
Beijing News reporter Liu Zhen Pufeng
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