【Xinmin Evening News,Xinmin.com】On February 5th, the Opening Ceremony of the China Arts and Crafts Museum and the China Intangible Cultural Heritage Museum and the Opening Ceremony of the "Chinese Treasures - Chinese Intangible Cultural Heritage and Arts and Crafts Exhibition" were held in Beijing. The completion of the museum fills the gap of the national museum of arts and crafts and intangible cultural heritage in the mainland, marking another important cultural landmark in our country that represents the cultural image of the country and the capital and highlights the cultural prosperity and development of the new era.
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The architectural style is unique and the functional facilities are advanced
The Art Museum of China and the Museum of Intangible Cultural Heritage of China are national key cultural facilities decided to be built during the "13th Five-Year Plan" period, and are national cultural temples that display China's excellent traditional culture, carry forward the aesthetics and core values of the Chinese nation, and establish cultural self-confidence and national self-confidence.
The museum has a construction area of 91,126 square meters, a total of six floors on the ground, located on the north extension of the central axis of Beijing, the west side is close to the Olympic Forest Park, the east side is located to commemorate the centenary of the founding of the Communist Party of China History Exhibition Hall, the north side is the China Science and Technology Museum, the south side has the Chinese Historical Research Institute, the "Bird's Nest" Gymnasium and other buildings, a winding dragon-shaped water system runs through it, linking the ecology, science and technology, culture and Olympic themes, forming a new cultural cluster.
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 draws on the proportions of the Taihe Hall of classical Chinese architecture, and the axis of the building plan is symmetrically unfolded 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.
The architectural design does not stop at the traditional three-stage style, but further innovates and evolves, picking up the tallest two floors of the above-ground building six meters outward to form a soaring shape, and its creative inspiration is derived from the traditional Chinese arts and crafts multi-treasure box, which means that the internal treasure and display of national art treasures. The outer surface texture adopts warm copper color curtain wall material, and the pattern draws on the multi-treasure grid composition of the flower window in classical Chinese architecture and the traditional collection furniture Bogu frame, and forms a unique innovative pattern with the characteristics of arts and crafts through the abstract refinement of the traditional pattern. This metal grille decoration method plays an effective shading effect on the indoor space, while the hollow form naturally presents vivid changes in light and shadow, making the whole building appear flexible and vibrant.
Han Ziyong, president of the China Academy of Art and director of the China Arts and Crafts Museum, introduced that the exhibits in the collection are basically works from new China, which are somewhat different from historical relics, and these works are still "alive". The design and construction fully consider the inherent attributes and cultural characteristics of arts and crafts and intangible cultural heritage, and do not make a "black box" like a general museum, with doors and windows, terraces, and corridors, reflecting more transparency and agility. In addition, the Arts and Crafts Museum and the intangible cultural heritage venues are not only static presentations, but also the future intangible cultural heritage display is more to reflect a kind of living inheritance, some projects also pursue open-air effects, and there will be many outdoor activities in the future, such as kite flying, river lights, dragon boat racing and the like.
A collection of exquisite treasures from the openings
China's intangible cultural heritage is like a sea of stars, and 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 the great achievements of Traditional Chinese Arts and Crafts and Chinese Intangible Cultural Heritage in adhering to the Chinese cultural stance, inheriting Chinese cultural genes, and showing Chinese aesthetic style.
"Treasures of China - Chinese Arts and Crafts and Intangible Cultural Heritage Exhibition" is divided into eight parts, exhibiting 1298 pieces (sets) of arts and crafts and intangible cultural heritage treasures in many categories, such as 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. 80% of the exhibits in the exhibition are exhibited to the public for the first time, and most of the exhibits are treasures accumulated by the China Academy of Arts for 70 years.
The exhibition hall of "Great Country Craftsmanship" reflects the development of Chinese arts and crafts after the founding of New China, of which the jade carving "Four National Treasures" is the most eye-catching, the Jade Mountain Zi "Daiyue Wonders", the jade flower kaoru "Fragrant Jurui", the jade tiliang flower basket "Qunfang Range Rover" and the jade interstitial screen "Four Seas Tenghuan" were designed and produced by Beijing Jade Factory in the 1980s, from the selection of the theme, the form design to the full completion of a total of eight years, by more than 40 skilled masters and dozens of famous experts and scholars composed of a team of consultants to complete, A new peak in the history of jade carving stands.
The exhibition hall of "Ancient Relics" displays the world's intangible cultural heritage guqin art, and can enjoy treasures such as the late Tang Dynasty "Dead Wood Dragon Yin" qin, the Song Dynasty "Ming Feng" qin, and you can also put on headphones and listen to beautiful guqin songs such as "Guangling San" and "Yang Chun". "Wanfang Music" shows the musical instrument culture of all ethnic groups on the mainland and reflects the sense of community of the Chinese nation in music culture. "Silk Road Danqing" is the Chinese Academy of Art Gongbi Painting Institute joint cultural relics workers, cultural scholars spent five years, along the Silk Road, with traditional ground fighting technology and traditional painting pigments for imitation, which is also the largest scale and best quality mural works in China. "Legend of Ink" exhibits costumes, stages, opera literature and classics, etc., and you can feel the charm of opera art. The "Transmission of Texts by Instrument" section displays gold and stone seal carvings, printed notations, rubbings, calligraphy, etc., and can taste 100 works of seal engravers with the aphorisms of the Analects. "Shenzhou Yingchun" displays Chinese woodblock prints.
It is worth mentioning that the opening exhibition is an important part of the series of cultural activities of the Beijing Winter Olympic and Paralympic Games, and some Winter Olympic elements are specially designed. The four large-scale New Year paintings with the theme of the Winter Olympics at the main entrance reflect the taste of the New Year, the Winter Olympics and culture, and welcome visitors. The sculpture "From Altay to Beijing" in the Central Prologue Hall is inspired by the painted rock paintings of dundebulak cave in Altay City, Xinjiang, and traditional ice sports such as Beihai Park, presenting the origin of skiing by ancient ancestors and the ice and snow culture of Beijing with mirrored stainless steel to cheer for the Beijing Winter Olympics. (Xinmin Evening News reporter in Beijing, Du Yuao)