Guizhou News Network report: Recently, the intangible cultural heritage work "Tang Doll" produced in Qiannan, Guizhou, was selected into the list of gifts for the Beijing Winter Olympics and sent to the Athletes' Apartment, Media Center, Intangible Cultural Heritage Exhibition Area and other venues in Beijing Winter Olympic Village.
In addition, according to Tianyan News report on February 6, "Tianyan Sees the Winter Olympics 丨 Winter Olympic Village, this Guizhou students handmade souvenir fire":
Don dolls displayed in the product exhibition area of the main media center
"Thank you very much, I will cherish this special gift from the Beijing Winter Olympic Village." Recently, Beijing Winter Olympic Village and Yanqing Winter Olympic Village presented fire-painted gourds and Tang dolls as gifts to Juan Antonio Samaranch, member of the International Olympic Committee and chairman of the Coordination Committee of the Beijing Winter Olympic Games of the International Olympic Committee, and Samaranch sincerely thanked him.
Four Tang dolls at the Beijing Winter Olympics
Among them, the Tang dolls were made with the participation of students of the Tang Renfang Intangible Cultural Heritage Inheritance College of Guizhou Shenghua Vocational College. The Tang dolls that appeared in the Winter Olympic Village as "Winter Olympic Gifts" are Sun Wukong, Yang Guifei, Mu Guiying and Mulan, four intangible cultural heritage works with great Chinese culture and high international recognition.
According to Qin Zhenzheng, deputy dean of the Tang Renfang Intangible Cultural Heritage Inheritance College of Guizhou Shenghua Vocational College, Tang dolls are all handmade and very complicated, and it may go through hundreds of processes to complete a doll. Although the size of the Tang dolls is only 30 centimeters, the clothes worn by these characters are almost a reduced version of the original Peking Opera costume. Its makeup is hand-drawn, its hair is hand-coiled, and its hat is made of traditional filigree. ”
Don doll makeup
It is understood that the Tang dolls originate from the traditional craftsmanship of the Beijing silk people, taken from classical Chinese literature, opera and historical figures, and then professionally designed and multi-processed, elaborately made. Beijing silk people are a kind of traditional folk art unique to Beijing, which is a national handicraft made of human form based on silk silk, which has a history of more than 1,000 years. In 2009, it was selected into the Representative List of the Intangible Cultural Heritage of Humanity, and in 2021, it was included in the fifth batch of national intangible cultural heritage representative items.
The Tang dolls that appeared in the Olympic Village this time changed the materials used by silk people during the production process, such as making heads, bodies and limbs with plaster and resin, replacing the qiaoqi yarn and cotton used by silk people before. However, the production process of the silk people has been retained, the head surface is painted with a brush, and the iron wire wrapped in colored paper is hand-woven into ornaments such as hair pins, step shakes, crowns and hats with different shapes, and the classical hairstyles are hand-combed and plated.
At present, more than 1,000 Tang dolls have been sent to the Beijing Winter Olympic Village athletes' apartments, media centers, intangible cultural heritage display areas and other venues. When they learned that the Tang dolls they participated in making appeared in the Winter Olympic Village, the students majoring in ethnic handicraft design and production of Guizhou Shenghua Vocational College were particularly excited.
"I feel very honored to contribute to the Beijing Winter Olympics, and I hope that all the participating athletes will like them and enjoy traditional Chinese culture." This is an affirmation and encouragement to us, and I will continue to work hard to study various skills and strive to make more exquisite Tang dolls. Wu Jinmei, a student at Guizhou Shenghua Vocational College, said that these works were produced in Huishui County, and a total of 9 people in her class participated in them, and everyone worked together to help the Beijing 2022 Winter Olympics.
In 2011, in order to protect and further develop the unique folk crafts of ethnic minorities in Guizhou, systematically collect and sort out the cultural masterpieces of ethnic minorities in Guizhou, excavate their cultural connotations, and display the essence of ethnic minority culture, Guizhou Shenghua Vocational College cooperated with Beijing Tangrenfang Cultural Development Co., Ltd. to establish the Tangrenfang Intangible Cultural Heritage Inheritance College, and in 2012 created the "National Costume Museum".
Since the autumn of 2012, the college has opened a "tourism handicraft design and production" major, mainly for tourism handicraft art design, production of related units, training with design theory and skills, both brain, but also hands-on, both engaged in product design, but also in the production of the first line of practical operation of the compound talents, for Guizhou and even the national cultural tourism market to provide high-quality talents, at present, has been trained for the society nearly 300 high-quality skilled personnel.