Li Jianye, the torch designer of the Beijing Winter Olympics, said in an interview with the media that the idea of the 2022 Beijing Winter Olympic Torch Relay Tinder Lamp originated from the "first lamp in China" - the Lamp of the Changxin Palace of the Western Han Dynasty.
During the Beijing Winter Olympics, the 2022 Beijing News Center and the Palace Museum recently held a media open day, and more than 150 Chinese and foreign journalists approached the Forbidden City's 2022 opening exhibition to visit more than 130 precious cultural relics, including the Changxin Palace lamp, to find the cultural roots behind the creativity of the Winter Olympics and to understand China in the cultural relics.
In the Wenhua Hall of the Forbidden City, the "Why China - Ancient Chinese Civilization and "National Treasures" Special Exhibition" is being held, and more than 130 cultural relics selected by 30 museums across the country tell the story of China.
According to reports, more than 130 precious cultural relics, from the Stone Age to the Qing Dynasty, include stone tools, ceramics, jade, bronze, gold and silver, calligraphy and painting, ancient books, seals and other categories, including He Zun, Changxin Palace lamp, Tibetan "Four Medical Classics" and other well-known national treasure heavy objects. The exhibition regards the long-standing and profound Chinese civilization as a big river, and shows the charm of Chinese civilization with three units: "source", "flow" and "convergence".
The reporter saw at the exhibition site that the Changxin Palace lamp occupied the "C" position in the exhibition hall, attracting the most attention from the media reporters.
According to reports, the Changxin Palace lamp was excavated in 1968 in the tomb of Dou Xian, the wife of Liu Sheng, the king of Han Zhongshan jing in Lingshan, Mancheng County, Hebei Province, with a height of 48 centimeters, a palace girl height of 44.5 centimeters, and a weight of 15.85 kilograms. Since its excavation, this cultural relic has been considered an important representative and peak work of Chinese national arts and crafts, reflecting the superb level of gilding craftsmanship in the Han Dynasty.
Li Jianye, the designer of the Beijing Winter Olympic torch, once said in an interview that the Changxin Palace lamp is a Western Han Palace lamp more than 2,000 years ago, with a light and gorgeous shape and a clever design that is environmentally friendly. "Long faith" is an eternal belief, representing people's pursuit and yearning for light and hope. In the design of the Tinder lights of this Winter Olympic Games, the design team modernized the Tinder lights on the basis of retaining the basic appearance of the Changxin Palace lights, and the flying red ribbons surrounded the top of the Tinder lights, visually unified with the torch "flying", symbolizing the Olympic spirit of hard work.
In addition, the exhibition also exhibits a number of heavyweight cultural relics, such as He Zun displayed in the center display case.
According to the on-site staff, there is a 122-character inscription on the bottom of this bronze, and the inscription "House China" means that "China" is the place where the capital city was built. This is the earliest known word for "China", although it refers to Luoyang and the surrounding areas at the time.
The other two heavy cultural relics are the Jade Dragon excavated from Yuhang Anti-Mountain in Hangzhou City, Zhejiang Province, and the Jade Dragon from the Palace Museum. It is worth mentioning that the Wenyuan Pavilion on the north side of the Wenhua Hall, as the last "exhibit" of this exhibition, echoes the "Four Libraries of the Whole Book" (photocopied version) at the end of the exhibition hall of the Wenhua Hall.
It is reported that the "Why China" opening exhibition was guided by the State Administration of Cultural Heritage, led by the Central Radio and Television Station and the Palace Museum, and jointly organized by more than 30 cultural and museum institutions across the country.