Longquan celadon is proud of the world,
The porcelain is emerald and reflects the mountains and rivers.
rippling dragon spring water,
The hometown of sword and porcelain is a treasure.
On October 30, the 6th World Celadon Congress (Celadon Sword Cultural Tourism Festival) kicked off in Longquan, Lishui, Zhejiang.
The conference was co-sponsored by the China Arts and Crafts Association, the China Ceramic Industry Association, the Zhejiang Provincial Department of Culture and Tourism, the Zhejiang Provincial Department of Economy and Information, and the Lishui Municipal People's Government, and undertaken by the Longquan Municipal Committee of the Communist Party of China and the Longquan Municipal People's Government.
Comprehensively revive the capital of sword and porcelain, and strive to build a high-quality Longquan. The theme of this conference is "Sword and Porcelain Quality, Song Yun Longquan", and the "Three Modernizations" of Sword and Porcelain will be the highlight of the opening ceremony. It aims to show the fruitful achievements made since the launch of the "three modernizations" of sword porcelain, reflect the urban charm of quality Longquan, and inject hard-core strength and provide cultural support for the "three modernizations" of sword porcelain with higher quality and the construction of Chinese-style modern quality Longquan.
The opening ceremony of the conference focused on celadon sword culture
The development context of "deepening, materialization, and transformation".
Through speeches, innovative case telling,
Craftsman group appearance, project signing, etc
Show the Longquan celadon sword industry,
The integration of culture and tourism has made innovative breakthroughs and industrial breakthroughs.
Wang Zhongbao, Secretary of the Longquan Municipal Party Committee of the Communist Party of China, said in his welcome speech that Longquan has a world-class celadon sword culture, and is the celadon capital, the state of swords and a national historical and cultural city. It is expected that through this festival, greater efforts will be made to promote the industrialization, marketization and standardization of celadon sword, so that the sword and porcelain culture will become a landmark achievement of non-heritage industrialization. At a deeper level, we will promote the reform of new materials, new processes and new designs of sword porcelain, and transform the cultural advantages of Longquan sword porcelain into development advantages. Expand regional opening and cooperation at a higher level, continue to promote the sword and porcelain culture into thousands of households across the country, go to the world Belt and Road, and comprehensively launch the "Longquan in the world" brand.
Du Tonghe, vice president of China Light Industry Federation and chairman of China Ceramic Industry Association, said in his speech: from Longquan celadon to "Longquan in the world", it fully demonstrates the heritage and self-confidence of Longquan culture. It is hoped that Longquan will use celadon as a medium to build the World Celadon Congress into a bridge for cultural exchanges, a carrier for dialogue among civilizations, and a platform for industrial development, promote celadon science and technology innovation, product innovation, brand innovation, industrial organization innovation and business model innovation, and create a more diversified, more dynamic and more distinctive celadon industry economic form and economic system, and contribute to the development of the mainland ceramic industry.
In addition, Wang Chunwan, Ambassador of the Republic of Mauritius to China, Zhu Weiqiu, Academician of the Chinese Academy of Sciences, Professor of the School of Aeronautics and Astronautics of Zhejiang University, Director of the Institute of Applied Mechanics, and Pang Yonghui, representative of Dingyao and master of Chinese arts and crafts, delivered speeches respectively.
Sword porcelain Longquan, named after the sword, shines with porcelain. A piece of ordinary mud, through the hands of craftsmen, has become the "intangible cultural heritage" of mankind Longquan celadon; An ordinary piece of iron, tempered thousands of times, has become an elegant artwork Longquan sword.
The thousand-year-old kiln fire is endless. In order to let more people feel the beauty of traditional famous artifacts, since the beginning of this year, Longquan City has launched the project plan of "An Exploration of National Treasure-level Famous Artifacts - Longquan Celadon Series". The well-known actor Bao Jianfeng, Wu Yongping, professor of the Central Academy of Fine Arts and director of the National Rite Center, Sun Jian, deputy director of the Archaeological Research Center of the State Administration of Cultural Heritage, and three generations of Longquan celadon craftsmen came to the stage to recommend the reappearance of the handed down celadon. At the conference site, the first batch of 100 celadon replica lists and replica craftsmen of "An Exploration of National Treasure-level Famous Artifacts - Longquan Celadon Series" were presented.
The vigorous development of Longquan celadon cultural inheritance is inseparable from the research and persistence of craftsmen in celadon skills, which has led to the glory of Longquan celadon industry. Xu Chaoxing, Dong Binghua and Mao Zhengcong, the three successive directors of the "Longquan Celadon Research Institute", shared the story of the former Youth Research Institute at the meeting.
Today, Longquan has rebuilt the Celadon Research Institute to help the diversified development of Longquan Celadon industry, and Hu Zhaoxiong, a master of Chinese arts and crafts, has become the director of the Celadon Research Institute in the new era.
Through the dust of history, the "Hua Zhang" of the revival of Song Yun celadon was played with hundreds of craftsmen, from the collection of classic celadon ware types in the "Complete Works of Song Paintings", overseas museums, and documents to realize the creation and reproduction, to the activities and forms such as "I learn intangible cultural heritage here" - sword forging handicraft skills competition, and "inextinguishable kiln fire" to burn dragon kilns together, the conference deeply excavated and explained the cultural connotation of sword and porcelain, and inherited and carried forward the intangible cultural heritage.
As one of the "Three Treasures of Lishui", the Longquan Sword is also an important element of the conference.
The Shengshi Shuhua Chapter, Fang Zhi Zai Weiye, the Shengshi Xiuzhi, is an effective form of cultural continuity, deepening the study of sword and porcelain culture with Xiuzhi, is the cherishing and guarding of the achievements of the previous generation of civilization, and is also the premise of the continuation of excellent traditional culture, which has far-reaching historical value and practical significance.
In order to better record the history of the development of Longquan sword porcelain, the conference officially launched the compilation of "Longquan Celadon Chronicles" and "Longquan Sword Chronicles", which is the first time in Longquan's history to repair Longquan celadon and Longquan sword monographs. Among them, "Longquan Sword Chronicles" is the first sword chronicle in China, and "Longquan Celadon Chronicles" is the first celadon chronicle in Zhejiang.
Subsequently, Liu Yuhui, the founder of the craftsman, Hu Xiaojun, the president of the Jiancun Sword Research Institute, and Li Zhen, the fifth-generation successor of the century-old brand "Li Shenghe", shared the story of the spread of sword and porcelain culture.
At the same time, the conference also released the sword standardization system, including the three "Made in Zhejiang" group standards of "Longquan Traditional Sword", "Longquan Kitchen Knife" and "Animation Sword", forging a new "ruler" for the sword industry to better move towards high-quality development, and making the "golden signboard" of Longquan Sword more and more loud.
In the "transformation" of sword porcelain, Longquan is sharpening the quality of sword porcelain, refining the ultimate ingenuity, gathering resource endowment, formulating a series of preferential policies for investment promotion, and taking the initiative to carry out project cooperation with outstanding enterprises. A total of 10 industrial and talent cooperation projects were signed on the spot, with an agreed investment of nearly 3 billion yuan, covering talent and technology projects such as industrial platform construction, new energy auto parts, industrial funds and celadon sword basic materials research.
Zhang Xuewei, vice chairman of the Zhejiang Provincial Committee of the Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference and member of the party group, said in his speech that Longquan celadon witnessed the prosperity of Song Yun culture, condensed the essence of Song Yun culture, and showed the spirit of Song Yun culture. In order to promote the inheritance and development of the thousand-year-old Song Yun culture and Longquan celadon, it is necessary to continue to deepen in three aspects in the future: tracing the origin of the thousand-year-old Song Yun culture and excavating the rich treasures of intangible cultural heritage; refining the thousand-year-old Song Yun culture and revitalizing the historical classic industry; Inherit the thousand-year-old Song Yun culture and jointly promote the integrated development of the city. While showing the characteristics of Longquan of "Oujiang Landscape Poetry Road", it has achieved a different Longquan wonderful, so that more people can deeply feel the Song Yun celadon culture that spans time and space and blends ancient and modern.
Media representatives from more than 30 news units, including People's Daily, Xinhua News Agency, China News Service, People's Daily Online, Xinhuanet, CCTV, New Media Center of China Agricultural Film and Television Center, Zhejiang Daily, and Zhejiang TV Station, attended the event.
Editor: Gao Ji
Editor-in-Chief: Yang Gongyuan
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