Xi'an Net News (reporter Han Tao intern reporter Chen Wenge), on April 11, the all-media interview activity of "Hehezong Zhou Cancan Baoji" entered the country's largest bronze museum - Baoji Bronze Museum.
As the birthplace of Zhou and Qin culture, Baoji deduced the prosperity of the Bronze Age. Since the Han Dynasty, tens of thousands of bronzes have been unearthed here, the number is huge, the number of fine products, the importance of the inscription content, all rank first in the country, known as the "hometown of bronzes".
Baoji Bronze Museum is magnificent on the outside, solemn and solemn inside, with more than 480,000 pieces of cultural relics such as bronze, ceramics, jade, bronze mirror, coins, etc., especially famous for the bronzes of the Shang and Zhou dynasties, enter the Baoji Bronze Museum, a row of neatly arranged, different shapes, dignified and beautiful cultural relics tell the broad and profound Zhou culture.
"This treasure of the town courtyard is part of the inspiration for the design of this year's Spring Festival Gala mascot 'Long Chenchen', which was unearthed in 1963. The upper part is round to facilitate scooping wine, and the lower part is square, reflecting the concept of 'the sky is round and the place is round'. The 122-character inscription at the bottom reads 'Zhaizi China', which is the earliest word 'China' found so far, and has a history of more than 3,000 years. Liu Ruixue, a docent of the Baoji Bronze Museum, introduced to the interview group, "There are more than 1,500 bronzes of the Shang and Zhou dynasties in the museum, including more than 100 pieces of national treasures such as pans and Qin Gong plutons. ”
It is understood that the museum now has the basic exhibition of "Bronze Casting Civilization - The Light of Zhou and Qin Civilization" and "Mirror Appliqué Yellow - Ancient Bronze Mirror and Fashion Life Exhibition", "Tao Yu v. Spring and Autumn - Ancient Ceramics and Cultural Life Exhibition", "Bright Moon Shines on Qiongju - Ancient Jade and Art Life Exhibition" and other special exhibitions, multi-level and multi-angle display of Baoji's long history and splendid culture.
In recent years, the Baoji Bronze Museum has excavated the cultural elements of Zhou and Qin, and presented the connotation of cultural relics with novel, practical and creative cultural and creative products, such as He Zun Lego bricks, "Guozun" series of precious metal cultural and creative products, Kui Xuan metal refrigerator magnets, He Zun refrigerator magnets, "China" keychains, bronze decorative table mats, Phoenix Yufei brooches...... Cultural and creative products with practicality, interest and environmental protection make cultural relics no longer shelved, and more and more widely enter the homes of ordinary people.
In addition, based on the concept of "academic establishment, management and service", the Baoji Bronze Museum has held a series of exhibitions with the theme of Baoji bronzes and jades at home and abroad, created a "metal cultural relics restoration center", edited and published a series of books such as "Zhou and Qin Civilization Treatises", "Bronze Casting Civilization" and "Mirror Appliqué Yellow", so as to make cultural relics "live" in an all-round way.
China's first clay sculpture village: intangible cultural heritage paints a new picture of Fengxiang's rural revitalization
In the clay sculpture workshop of Liuying Village, Chengguan Town, Fengxiang District, which is known as "China's first clay sculpture village", the reporter saw that the craftsmen were making molds, turning blanks, bonding, foundation, threading, and coloring...... A pair of skillful hands skillfully and flexibly operated, one by one lifelike, mighty and lovely, antique clay sculptures "baked" one after another. These clay sculptures are mainly shaped by the deification of beasts, customs figures, flowers, plants, fish and insects, and currently form more than 300 varieties in 5 categories.
It is understood that in 2016, Liuying Village focused on building Liuying Folk Village Scenic Area, and successively built a Chinese clay sculpture garden, a tourism service area, and a peony sightseeing park. "We adhere to the cultural and plastic tourism, the work idea of tourism and culture, and the development model of 'intangible cultural heritage protection + rural tourism', and build a Chinese clay sculpture experience park, which is convenient for tourists to have an overall understanding of this folk craft, which is also the largest and only theme park that aggregates various domestic clay sculpture cultures. Liao Weijun, secretary of the party branch of Liuying Village, introduced.
The construction project of the home of the inheritor of intangible cultural heritage and the food street is the first cultural tourism project in Fengxiang District to be explored and implemented by the collective economy, and the project is currently being promoted in Liuying Village. After the completion of the project, visitors can enjoy and experience the intangible cultural heritage charm of Fengxiang clay sculptures while tasting local food.
In 2019, the party branch of Liuying Village proposed the model of "branch + cooperative + farmer" and established a professional cooperative of clay sculpture culture, and the clay sculpture industry turned from a single struggle to a group development. Under the leadership of the local clay sculpture inheritor, Fengxiang clay sculpture continues to innovate, and since 2017, it has appeared on the stage of CCTV Spring Festival Gala and Lantern Festival Gala for 3 times.
It is understood that there are currently 268 households and more than 1,000 people in Liuying Village engaged in the clay sculpture industry, and small clay sculpture has become a "big industry" for the masses to increase their income and get rich. In 2023, the village will receive 1.5 million tourists, with a comprehensive tourism income of 30 million yuan.
Editor: Jingqiu