The world-renowned Beijing Winter Olympics are in full swing, and China, as a country that has hosted the Summer and Winter Olympic Games, has once again shown its charm to the world.
On January 7, 2022, the Beijing 2022 Winter Olympic and Paralympic Games licensed commodity "Wenjun Bottle" press conference was held in Beijing Shougang Park. Gu Haoning, deputy director of the Market Development Department of the Beijing Winter Olympics Organizing Committee, Lu Xiaobo, dean of the Academy of Fine Arts of Tsinghua University, Chen Lihua, former vice president of the Palace Museum, Huang Junrong, deputy secretary of the Dehua County Party Committee of Quanzhou City, Fujian Province, the author of "Wenjun Bottle", and Professor Bai Ming, director of the Ceramic Art Department of the Academy of Fine Arts of Tsinghua University, attended the launch ceremony.
The scene of the "Wenjun Bottle" press conference
Gu Haoning said in his speech that Ruyu has always been the highest realm pursued by porcelain, the warm texture of Dehua white porcelain like jade better presents the elements of the winter Olympic ice and snow, and the "Wenjun Bottle" takes Dehua white porcelain as the carrier to integrate the essence of Chinese porcelain culture and the modern Olympic spirit, showing the Olympic elements on the crystal clear porcelain, carrying a unique cultural charm and humanistic feelings, and is a beautiful vision for the Beijing 2022 Winter Olympics. Gu Haoning said: "I believe that as this official gift is delivered to every international friend who comes to China to participate in the Winter Olympics, they will feel the breadth and depth of Chinese culture up close. ”
Gu Haoning, deputy director of the Market Development Department of the Beijing Winter Olympics Organizing Committee, delivered a speech
President Lu Xiaobo said in his speech that the design of "Wenjun Bottle" is both traditional and modern, highlighting the creator's profound cultural connotation and artistic ability to integrate things and things. China has always paid attention to the relationship between "Tao" and "instrument", the "I Ching" said that "the metaphysical is the Tao, the metaphysical is called the instrument", when doing the "instrument", it is necessary to give the artifact a higher spiritual value, and even through a work to achieve the condensation and transmission of the spirit, this is "the instrument to carry the Tao". "Wenjun Bottle" has reached such an artistic realm and height, it has been selected as an official gift of the Olympic family and the International Paralympic Committee, and has become a representative work of Chinese white porcelain!
Lu Xiaobo, Dean of the School of Fine Arts of Tsinghua University, delivered a speech
At the press conference, Bai Ming, author of "Wenjun Bottle" and professor of the Academy of Fine Arts of Tsinghua University, shared his creative concept. Chinese ceramics have contributed countless exquisite skills and exquisite materials to the world, and also contributed the most systematic in history, and with the development of the times, the aesthetics of utensils that are closely related to life, people express the most beautiful vision through the shape of utensils.
Bai Ming, author of "Wenjun Bottle" and professor of the Academy of Fine Arts of Tsinghua University, shared his creative feelings
Thousands of autumns are absolutely beautiful, pleasing to the eye of Chinese white! "Wenjun Bottle" includes "Winter Olympic Wenjun Bottle" and "Winter Paralympic Wenjun Bottle", which means harmony and auspiciousness, world peace, the overall instrument type is based on the plum bottle and innovated, which means peace and security, and the glaze color of the whole body is warm and moist like jade, white as gelatin, noble and gorgeous.
"Wenjun Bottle" inherits the artistic treasures of the thousand-year-old famous kiln, witnesses the glory of Beijing becoming the world's first city of the Double Olympics, at any cost, all mud and glaze are mined from the original mineral materials of the Song Dynasty, in order to present the texture of warm jade, with Hetian jade into the material, with industry standards, master standards, Winter Olympic Organizing Committee standards for layer by layer selection, its yield rate is less than 10%, rare to the extreme. "Wenjun Bottle" is made of the world-renowned "Chinese white" technique, from the design, shape, glaze color, artistic conception, all meet or even exceed the standards of the Song Dynasty kiln, is a rare treasure.
Winter Olympics Wenjun bottle
The slender bottle body and flowing lines of the work echo with the elegant, dexterous and rhythmic shapes of ice and snow sports, just like a beautiful dance of life. Among them, the "Winter Olympics Wenjun Bottle" bottle body relief Winter Olympic Emblem, darkly engraved 24 vertical lines, refers to the 24th Winter Olympic Games; "Winter Paralympic Wenjun Bottle" bottle body relief Winter Paralympic Emblem, carved 13 vertical lines, refers to the 13th Winter Paralympic Games, 13 lines for the Yang sculpture design, the two works complement each other, there are consistencies, there are differences in form.
The lines of the carved line and the yang carving form a lotus petal shape at the bottom, implying harmony and auspiciousness. The display of the emblems of the Winter Olympic and Paralympic Winter Games is commensurate with the harmony of the overall bottle, reflecting the subtle beauty of Chinese culture.
Winter Paralympic Wenjun bottle
This collaboration is the second time that the Beijing Winter Olympics and Professor Bai Ming have worked together. As early as 2015, when Beijing bid to host the Winter Olympic Games, the work donated to the International Olympic Committee was Professor Bai Ming's work "Red Rhyme - Flying Around" large plate, this large instrument with a diameter of nearly 50 centimeters is rich in color and rich in color, and the red rhyme means good luck, pinning the author's ardent blessings on Beijing's bid for the Olympic Games!
"Red Rhyme - Flying Around"
Seven years later, the Winter Olympics were held to bless Beijing, China and the world with the "Wenjun Bottle". It is expected that through the Winter Olympic Games, "Wenjun Bottle" will be able to integrate the modern Olympic spirit of "great love of art" and pass it on to the world through the beauty of white porcelain.
The "Wenjun Bottle" is presented in detail
"Wenjun Bottle" is like a pearl, shining with eternal light, it was born from thousands of kiln fires, spanning a thousand years of history, warm, crystal clear, is the beauty of dehua millennium kiln fire dedicated to the world porcelain.
⊙ Copyright Notice: The pictures and texts are compiled from the official website of the Academy of Fine Arts of Tsinghua University and Jiangxi Metropolis Daily