Modern Express News, located next to the Olympic Forest Park in Beijing, the China Arts and Crafts Museum and the China Intangible Cultural Heritage Museum, recently opened to the public. On February 10, a modern Express reporter visited the new museum, which has been open for less than a week. The Winter Olympic-themed installation "From Altay to Beijing", displayed in the center of the hall, became the most popular exhibit.
△ China Arts and Crafts Museum
Non-hereditary people perform "Humai", and the audience is taken into the world of ice and snow
The loud whistle is almost metallic; the low throat sound is like a glacier cracking... The treble and bass are intertwined, and the audience is in a trance in the winter wilderness of Altay, with vast snowfields, majestic mountains and frozen rivers slowly emerging in front of them. On February 10th, the China Arts and Crafts Museum and the Museum of Intangible Cultural Heritage of China invited two big celebrities to perform, namely Qiao Longbat Alexian, the representative inheritor of the Mongolian ethnic group of the national intangible cultural heritage project, and Alsand Baheti, the inheritor of the Kazakh Humai of the autonomous region-level intangible cultural heritage project. The wonderful skills of the two performers gave the audience a warm applause.
△ Joron Bart Alesien
It was one of the cultural events during the Beijing Winter Olympics, with both performers from Altay, Xinjiang. It is likely that many people have an impression of Xinjiang as hot, dry, rainy, and the Gobi Desert. Altay is one of the few water-rich areas in Xinjiang and is known as the "water tower" of northern Xinjiang. Influenced by the air currents from the Atlantic West wind and the Arctic Ocean, the snow thickness in winter can reach 1-2 meters, which is one of the best snow quality snow fields in China.
△ Alson Baheti
There is a special exhibit in the hall of the pavilion that echoes the ice and snow theme of the Winter Olympics. Han Ziyong, director of the China Arts and Crafts Museum, introduced, "In order to help the Winter Olympics, we designed the Winter Olympics-themed installation landscape "From Altay to Beijing" at the entrance of the exhibition hall. This is our first exhibit, hoping to applaud the Beijing Winter Olympics. ”
Use modern art to restore the ancestors of 12,000 years ago
The design of the installation landscape was inspired by a painting. In 2005, a well-preserved painted petroglyph was found in Dundebulak Cave in the Altay region of Xinjiang on the mainland, clearly recording the scene of ancient ancestors pedaling skis and chasing prey with a single pole.
△ Winter Olympics theme installation landscape "From Altay to Beijing"
The petroglyphs are painted on the inner walls in two colors, ochre and dark ochre, and there are 7 figures directly above the cave, each of whom bends over and bends his knees, raises his head and plucks his hips, holding a single pole, and pedaling short snow pedals. The four digits on the left are particularly legible, and the movements are basically the same as modern skiing moves. The entire ski team is arranged in a very orderly concave arc from left to right. Experts believe that the painting was born in the late Paleolithic period, 12,000 years ago, when the ancestors had invented the snow pedal, which should be the prototype of the use of skis in modern sports.
At the 2015 China Altay International Ancient Ski Culture Exchange Seminar, more than 30 ski history experts and scholars from 18 countries and regions such as Norway, Sweden and Finland jointly issued the Altay Declaration, and Xinjiang Altay is the earliest origin of human skiing for the first time to be internationally recognized.
Magical skis: you can skate down the mountain, you can walk up the mountain
The upper part of the mirrored stainless steel installation of "From Altay to Beijing" restores the ancient painted petroglyphs, and the lower part shows the posture of modern people skating. The four pairs of fur skis displayed on the left side of the installation, this special material snowboard, also reflects the wisdom of the survival of the ancestors.
Fur skis belong to the autonomous region-level intangible cultural heritage - Kazakh horse skin skis, and the fur is generally made of fur on the outside of the front legs of adult horses. Because the hairs on this piece of skin are all along the line. Only by attaching this piece of fur to the skateboard can the horse hair stubble when the ski slides forward, and the horse hair stubble when pedaling backwards or uphill, to prevent the snowboard from sliding backwards, with the characteristics of being able to slide and go up. It is precisely because of this special material ski that the ancestors raced and hunted on the snow.
Curator Han Ziyong said that "From Altay to Beijing" reflects the long history and culture of the Chinese nation in ice and snow, and has an inevitable connection with the Beijing Winter Olympics.
The capital has added a new cultural landmark that is worth punching in
According to reports, this new museum fills the gap of the national museum of arts and crafts and intangible cultural heritage in the mainland, marking another important cultural landmark on the mainland that represents the cultural image of the country and the capital and highlights the prosperity and development of culture in the new era.
The new museum, which has just opened, has its first blockbuster exhibition titled "Treasures of China – Exhibition of Chinese Intangible Cultural Heritage and Arts and Crafts". On February 10, more than 160 Chinese and foreign journalists from the 2022 Beijing News Center visited the exhibition, and 1298 precious exhibits were praised by reporters and audiences.
According to the museum, China's intangible cultural heritage is like a sea of stars, this exhibition captures a part of the cultural brilliance, artistic charm, exquisite form, easy to display and demonstrate the content, divided into "great country craftsmanship", "ancient relics", "Wanfang music", "Silk Road Danqing", "Legend of Powder Ink", "Through the Instrument Transmission", "Shenzhou Yingchun", "Prosperous Era Heavy Light" Eight major sections, exhibiting arts and crafts, guqin art, traditional musical instruments, Silk Road murals, Chinese opera, gold stone seal carvings, woodblock New Year paintings, Folk performances and other categories of arts and crafts and intangible cultural heritage treasures.
The museum strives to show the great achievements of traditional Chinese arts and crafts and Chinese intangible cultural heritage in adhering to the position of Chinese culture, inheriting Chinese cultural genes and showing Chinese aesthetic style.
The Special Correspondent of Modern Express is Zhong Yin, Qian Nianqiu, and Zhang Jin