Tiger tiger is mighty, Fluke is complete. Chinese arts and crafts master Zhu Bingren with the auspicious gift of the Year of the Tiger "Fulu China Zun" bronze carved cloisonné appeared on the CCTV Variety Channel broadcast "Culture Ten", and talked with CCTV host Pan Tao on the New Year, sending New Year greetings from traditional Chinese crafts to the audience across the country.
Zhu Bingren with "Fulu China Zun"
Debuted on CCTV Variety Channel "Culture Ten"
"Culture Ten" is a comprehensive cultural news column created by CCTV to promote people's literature and art, which provides the audience with timely reports on national releases, scans major cultural events at home and abroad, interprets hot cultural phenomena through perspective, and recommends important literary and artistic works. Since its launch in 2015, the CCTV Variety Channel has been loved by audiences across the country and widely concerned by the press.
The bronze sculpture cloisonné "Fulu China Zun" was jointly created by two Chinese arts and crafts masters, Zhu Bingren and Zhong Liansheng. As a New Year's gift, the work landed on the CCTV stage on the day of the national celebration of Chinese New Year's Eve, presenting contemporary Chinese arts and crafts to the people of the whole country.
Two Creative Masters and "Fluke China Zun"
As the only national-level master of arts and crafts in the field of Chinese bronze sculpture, Master Zhu created ten copper buildings for contemporary China, and is a well-deserved figure in the field of art and industry. He has appeared on the CCTV stage many times to tell Chinese stories and spread Chinese culture, and his works have been collected in the National Museum of China, the Great Hall of the People in Beijing, the Palace Museum, etc., and given to foreign heads of state as diplomatic gifts.
In the "Culture Ten" program on the day of Chinese New Year's Eve, Master Zhu Bingren introduced the original intention, beautiful meaning and cultural connotation of "Fulu China Zun", and he used this Zodiac gift of the Year of the Tiger to bring people's thoughts back to the traditional Spring Festival and send a Chinese New Year's Eve feast with "full of literary flavor" to the people of the whole country.
The overall shape of the work is inspired by the treasure "Copper Tire Filigree Enamel Floral Pattern Deer Pack Bottle" collected by the Palace Museum, and the main part is based on the image of the nine-colored deer in the Mogao Grottoes of Dunhuang, which is created with a thousand years of bronze carving techniques. The deer king is dressed in golden auspicious clouds, decorated with bronze carved lotus petals, and drives the cloisonné blue vase, so that the vase and the copper deer are naturally connected, implying that all the way up and all the way to peace.
The cloisonné blue vase is divided into Chinese red and Chinese blue, and the shape is inspired by the Qinggong Lang kiln red glaze Guanyin bottle, which is thick and dignified, elegant and generous, implying the peace of the world. The Aquarius ornamentation is heavily based on Dunhuang murals, which are complemented by nine-colored bronze deer.
The neck is decorated with long knots and white doves, which means long, peaceful and smooth luck; The center is decorated with dragon and phoenix patterns as the main ornament, which means that the auspicious dragon is in the sky and there is a phoenix to come to the ceremony; The sides are decorated with floral patterns, and the feet depict the auspicious clouds of the sea, symbolizing the wealth of the four seas. The two sides of the bottle are decorated with tiger ear rings, which are combined with the bronze carved beads of the deer king, symbolizing the two completeness of The Lucky, and the bottom is inlaid with precious agate, showing luxury.
"Fluke China Zun" bronze carved cloisonné
In addition to Chinese New Year's Eve appearance in CCTV programs, the works are also authoritatively supervised by the CCTV column "National Treasures" and have been comprehensively reported by mainstream media such as Xinhua Net and China News Network. "Fluke China Zun" is worthy of being a superb masterpiece that integrates cultural value, craft value and artistic value.
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