On February 5, the fifth day of the first lunar month, the first day after the opening of the Winter Olympics, in the corridor of the East Hall of the Great Hall of the People, the mainland specially prepared a wonderful traditional market for international friends attending the opening ceremony of the Beijing 2022 Winter Olympics. The various traditional face sculptures displayed in front of the stall by the third generation of "Mian Ren Lang" Lang Jia Zi Yu have become a favorite of international friends such as Prince Albert II of Monaco.
Little Face Man Lang debuted on the big stage of the Winter Olympics
The Year of the Tiger and the Winter Olympics will be due to fate, and the guests of the eight parties will meet in Beijing again for the Olympic Games. Ancient New Year paintings, folk paper kites, handmade sachets, exquisite paper-cutting, colorful faces, framed Danqing Han ink... Eight intangible cultural heritage bearers gave a "cultural feast" to their international friends in China. International friends from all over the world asked questions and did with great interest in front of the booths, listened to the staff tell the "Chinese story", and tasted the unique style of traditional Chinese national literature and art during the Winter Olympic tour.
Lang Jia Ziyu displayed traditional Chinese folk crafts in the Great Hall of the People - Noodle People
With 10 days to go before the opening ceremony of the Winter Olympics, As the third generation of the national intangible cultural heritage of face sculpture, Lang Jiaziyu learned that he would display the art of face sculpture for international friends in the Great Hall of the People. Lang Jiaziyu said: "I feel very honored that at the moment of the Winter Olympics, face sculpture as a traditional skill once again stands in front of the world, which not only allows international friends to further understand China's profound cultural heritage, but also helps China's folk culture to go to the world." ”
Lang Jia Ziyu introduced noodles to foreign friends
The Spring Festival met the Winter Olympics, and the New Year encountered ice piers and snow melting. Which works to display in front of international friends, Lang Jia Ziyu also has his own considerations, he said, as a cultural art closely integrated with traditional culture, Peking Opera characters are indispensable, and it is the Spring Festival, festive and peaceful elements should also be considered, and the Elements of the Winter Olympics can be supplemented by face plastic ice piers.
Old Beijing folk face sculptures such as stalls selling sugar gourds and vendors selling buckets of bamboo; traditional Peking Opera figures Liang Hongyu, Xiang Yu and Guan Gong; FuLu Shou in Amethyst Cave; 7 "ice piers" doing winter sports... With the "opening of the market", homemade masterpieces have attracted international friends from past generations, such as IOC President Bach, the Grand Duke of Luxembourg, the President of Singapore, and Prince Albert II of Monaco, who wants two ice piers to sculpt, to stop in front of the dough booth to watch. Lang Jiaziyu said: "At the scene, you will find that the leaders of various countries are not like walking around the flowers, but very seriously and carefully ask about the relevant cultural knowledge, which I think is the infinite charm brought about by the profundity of Chinese culture." ”
Three generations of noodles Three great eras
Face people, also known as face sculpture, has a long history and rich content, as early as the Han Dynasty, the art of face sculpture has a written record. Famous and loved by international friends, Beijing's "Mian Ren Lang" dates back to the 1930s.
Mr. Lang Shaoan, a famous face sculpture master in modern times, is the founder of the Beijing Lang school of face sculpture art, born in the "face man family" Lang Jia Zi Yu, heard and heard, at the age of 3, he followed his father to learn to knead the noodles, and began the inheritance of the "face man Lang" skill. "Since I was a child, I have had an ambition, that is, to make the 'Face Man Lang' famous all over the world." Lang Jia Ziyu said.
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Statue of a face man of Academician Zhong Nanshan
Mian Ren Lang is unique in the noodle industry, its realistic artistic content and themes cover all kinds of people, covering all walks of life, and has become a vivid portrayal of Beijing folk customs. The craftsmanship inheritance of the three generations of grandchildren for nearly a hundred years is also a hundred years of pioneering and enterprising, from traditional Peking opera characters, mythological characters, fables to sports stars, anti-epidemic heroes, animation characters, from traditional classics to popular art, from folk to the international stage, the inheritance and innovation of three generations have made this fingertip art with the spirit of ingenuity passed down to the present, and has been loved and concerned by the majority of young people.
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"Taking the image of a dog as an example, my father created the Jingba of old Beijing, while I created teddy with the atmosphere of modern life, and my son, anime dogs and cartoon dogs became the objects of his creation." Lang Zhichun introduced that this subtle change in creative content clearly carries a profound imprint of history, reflecting the changes of the times and the changes in people's lifestyles, and the injection of new elements makes the face shaping technique more vivid, so that the old craft also has new blood.
Text/Zhao Zhenwei Photo/Lang Jia Ziyu
Editor/Xie Qi