The "4th Capital Intangible Cultural Heritage Innovation and Development Seminar and 'Beijing' Color Culture Youth Blooming - Intangible Cultural Heritage Inheritors and Innovative Theme Activities" was recently held at the National Centre for the Performing Arts. Wang Zhijie, vice president of the China Arts and Crafts Association, said that the development of arts and crafts and the inheritance of intangible cultural heritage are inseparable from the innovative ideas of the inheritors and keep pace with the times. The combination of intangible cultural heritage and the times is a necessary development condition for intangible cultural heritage to "live", and it is the core of helping intangible cultural heritage to better serve the broad masses of people. He said that the theme of the event is clear, rich in content, and hopes that the arts and crafts inheritance units and masters of arts and crafts represented by Yanjing Eight Uniques can be on the road of cultural inheritance and development, go more firm and solid, and constantly collide with more wonderful "sparks" in theory and practice.
To be the inheritor of intangible cultural heritage in the new era
Bai Qun, director of the Yanjing Eight Masterpieces Professional Committee of the China Folk Literature and Art Association, president of the Beijing Yanjing Eight Masterpieces Association, and director of the Beijing Yanjing Eight Masterpieces Museum, introduced that this event included keynote speeches and roundtable discussions by experts and scholars from different fields and intangible cultural heritage inheritors, and also held a master apprenticeship ceremony, laying a solid foundation for inheriting exquisite skills, profound thoughts, rich cultural knowledge, and expanding international vision and mind. The younger generation of intangible cultural heritage inheritors should broaden their cultural horizons, strengthen their ideals and beliefs, solidify their main business, seek truth and be pragmatic, and be thoughtful, emotional, capable, responsible, and effective inheritors of intangible cultural heritage in the new era.
In the keynote speech session, Yang Zhiming, special researcher of the Counsellors' Office of the State Council, former deputy secretary of the party group and vice minister of the Ministry of Human Resources and Social Security of the People's Republic of China, talked about the "Beijing" color culture and intangible cultural heritage inheritance empowered by digital intelligence" as the title, telling that the "Beijing" color culture is deeply rooted in China's excellent traditional culture, and to promote the creative transformation and innovative development of intangible cultural heritage, it needs the support of high-skilled talents, and the innovation of human resources empowered by digital intelligence. Intangible cultural heritage is being inherited, innovation is ongoing, and the economy is picking up.
In the new journey of Chinese-style modernization, we ushered in the "golden period" of digital empowerment of "Beijing" color culture and intangible cultural heritage, built a talent fulcrum for inheritance, innovation and development, and made unremitting progress to meet the people's growing demand for green, low-carbon, beautiful, exquisite, affordable and convenient high-quality handicrafts. Tian Yan, a professor at the Cultural Law and Human Rights Research Center of Minzu University of China, shared the intellectual property issues in the innovation and development of intangible cultural heritage through solid theoretical research results and detailed case analysis, expounded the path of intellectual property rights to help the innovation and development of intangible cultural heritage, and brought an in-depth lecture on the topic of "Intellectual Property Helping the Innovation and Development of Intangible Cultural Heritage", helping the innovative development and protection of intangible cultural heritage in the new era.
Xu Jiashuang, the inheritor of the national intangible cultural heritage cloisonne production skills, shared his understanding of integrity and innovation with the title of "Keeping Integrity and Innovating Inheritance of Cloisonne Art", and started from his own profession, through the design concept of actual creation cases, told the path of using diversified design methods to promote the innovative design of cloisonne decoration, and innovated traditional craft works that meet the aesthetic needs of contemporary young people and the international aesthetic needs in the inheritance from the perspective of young inheritors.
Rong Zhihong, deputy general manager of China National Arts and Crafts Group Co., Ltd., with the title of "Cross-border Brand Cooperation to Create Intangible Cultural Heritage and Creative IP", talked about how to connect arts and crafts with the younger generation, and how to make the inheritance of arts and crafts more interesting, and through the actual case - the IP image of "Sister Gongmei" and the design concept of peripheral cultural and creative derivatives such as Yanjing Eight Unique Series of refrigerator magnets, tell the vivid practice of "Gongmei people" in the new era, practice the mission, inherit and innovate, and continue the Chinese culture.
Contemporary Masters of the Office of Contemporary Manufacturing
In order to build the genealogy of the inheritance of excellent traditional Chinese culture, strengthen the protection of cultural heritage, and revitalize traditional crafts, the ceremony of receiving apprentices of the masters of the Contemporary Manufacturing Office was continued to be held at the event site of the day. Yin Xiuyun, a master of Chinese arts and crafts carving lacquer, officially accepted Chen Ertao as an apprentice; Li Delun, the master of gold lacquer inlay of Beijing Arts and Crafts, officially included Meng Xin in his door; Wang Guoying, the master of Beijing Arts and Crafts Palace, officially took Xie Yi, Zhou Meimei, and Zhou Kaifeng as apprentices; Yuan Hongqi, a research librarian of the Palace Museum, officially accepted Ji Yu and Li Dongyang as apprentices.
In addition, this year is the 60th anniversary of Li Chunke, a master of Chinese arts and crafts ivory carving, as the "first person of the northern school of ivory carving", Master Li Chunke has made great contributions to the development of Yanjing's eight unique undertakings and the protection and inheritance of ivory carving skills. At this moment, Master Li Chunke was awarded a commemorative trophy and a certificate of honor, encouraging all inheritors to follow the example of their outstanding predecessors, carry forward the spirit of craftsmen, improve their professional skills, and make new contributions to the innovation and development of intangible cultural heritage in the capital.
The event specially invited Zhang Ying, a master of cloisonne of Beijing Arts and Crafts, Bi Hong, a master of Beijing embroidery of Beijing Arts and Crafts, Liu Bowen, a master of special lacquer art of Beijing Arts and Crafts, Hou Xue, a master of gold lacquer inlay of Beijing Arts and Crafts, and Li Juncheng, a representative inheritor of national intangible cultural heritage ivory carving skills, to participate in the theme seminar. Focusing on the innovation of intangible cultural heritage inheritors, exchanges and discussions will be carried out to create the innovative development of the capital's intangible cultural heritage.