The 2022 Beijing Winter Olympics is in full swing, not only the athletes' cool and heroic posture on the field has attracted attention, as one of the winter Olympics souvenirs, more than 1,000 intangible cultural heritage works of Tang dolls have recently been sent to the Beijing Winter Olympic Village Athletes' Apartment, Media Center and other venues, becoming a beautiful landscape outside the arena. What is less known is that these exquisitely shaped Tang dolls were all "born" in Huishui County, Qiannan Prefecture, Guizhou Province, and were made by female students from Guizhou Shenghua Vocational College.
"I didn't expect that the Tang dolls we participated in making could be loved by everyone, and it was really happy." Li Mei, a junior majoring in ethnic handicraft design and production at Guizhou Shenghua Vocational College, said that she is 19 years old and is extremely proud to see that her and her classmates' works can appear on the big stage of the Winter Olympics and contribute to the Beijing Winter Olympics.
According to Qin Zhenzheng, deputy dean of the Tang Renfang Intangible Cultural Heritage Inheritance College of Guizhou Shenghua Vocational College, in order to welcome the Winter Olympics, the Beijing Municipal Women's Federation mobilized the women of the capital, including "Beijing Qiaoniang", to carry out the "Winter Olympic Gift" winter Olympics activities, and selected 5,000 pieces of Qiaoniang's intangible cultural heritage works representing Chinese culture and Beijing characteristics, such as paper-cuts, shadow puppets, Tang dolls, kites, and fire-painted gourds, which were sent to beijing and Yanqing Winter Olympic Village athletes' apartments and other places. To surprise the athletes even more, the Winter Olympic gifts placed in each room are different.
There are 4 Tang dolls that appeared as one of the gifts of the Winter Olympics this time, in addition to the protagonist of "Journey to the West", Sun Wukong, Yang Guifei, one of the four beauties of ancient China, as well as Mu Guiying and Hua Mulan, among the four heroes of ancient China, mainly based on the display of opera images. These four Tang dolls are very traditional Chinese culture, high international recognition, is selected by the Beijing Women's Federation Intangible Cultural Heritage Qiao Niang Association, are by about 20 students of Guizhou Shenghua Vocational College to participate in the production, more than 1,000 Tang dolls took more than five months to make.
Tang dolls originated from the traditional craftsmanship of "Beijing Silk People", based on classical Chinese literature, opera and historical figures, and then carefully produced by professional design and multiple processes, and were selected into the "Representative List of the Intangible Cultural Heritage of Humanity" in 2009 and included in the fifth batch of national intangible cultural heritage representative projects in 2021.
It is understood that all the Tang dolls rely on hand-made, hand-painted, make-up, headdress... Completing a doll can go through hundreds of steps. Although the Tang dolls are only about 30 centimeters long, the clothes worn by these characters are almost a reduced version of the original Peking Opera costumes. Their makeup is hand-painted, their hair is hand-coiled, and their hats are made of traditional filigree. Qin Zhenzheng said that the Tang dolls that appeared in the Winter Olympics this time changed the materials used in the production process of silk people, 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.
"Tang Doll was able to be sent to the Beijing Winter Olympic Village and praised by foreign friends, and the teachers and students of Shenghua Vocational College are proud!" Qin Zhenzheng said that the Tang renfang intangible cultural heritage inheritance college was jointly organized by Beijing Tang renfang company and Guizhou Shenghua Vocational College in 2011, adopting a teaching mode of in-depth integration of industry and education, jointly opening up majors such as national handicraft design and production, and pioneering the combination of intangible cultural heritage handicraft production and vocational education to cultivate specialized talents in handicraft inheritance. The college will take this opportunity to make souvenirs for the Beijing Winter Olympics, dig deep into the Chinese cultural elements hidden in the intangible cultural heritage such as Tang dolls, and lead students to further refine the production process, so that more students can achieve themselves by taking the road of vocational education.
"At present, these four Winter Olympic Tang dolls will be sold in the exhibition hall of Baidorihe Digital Town in Huishui County from the 16th of the first month, and the price of each doll is 198 yuan." Qin Zhenzheng said that if the public buys on the spot, there will be corresponding discounts. At the same time, in the cultural and creative shop of the Guizhou Provincial Museum, there are also many Shenghua Vocational College students designed and produced, exquisite styles of Guizhou ethnic minority Tang dolls display and sale, if you are interested, you can also go to understand.
(Guiyang Daily Rong media reporter Peng Xunqi)