Reporter Niu Tai editor Liu Zhou
On the first day of the Lunar New Year on February 12, upstream journalists saw in the Jingdezhen Ancient Kiln Scenic Area that activities such as lighting the Taiping Kiln to pray for blessings and appreciating intangible cultural heritage skills were wonderful
Look at the Forbidden City in the north and visit the ancient kilns in the south. The ancient kiln is the abbreviation of the 5A-level scenic spot "Ancient Kiln Folk Customs Expo Area", located in Jingdezhen, Jiangxi, the porcelain capital, which completely retains the unique traditional handmade porcelain technology in the world, and has successfully rebuilt and re-fired the typical porcelain kilns of Jingdezhen in the past such as the Qing Dynasty Town Kiln and the Ming Dynasty Gourd Kiln.
On February 12, the first day of the Lunar New Year, Liu Jianjian, who stayed in Jingdezhen, Jiangxi For the New Year, added firewood to the "Taiping Kiln" to pray for the prosperity of the family. / Reporter Niu Tai walked into the ancient kiln, the landmark building - kiln prodigy bin square came into view, Jingdezhen people regard tong bin as the symbol of Jingdezhen. Staff member Chen Yifei introduced that during the Ming Dynasty's Wanli Dynasty, the emperor sent the eunuch Pan Xiang to take care of the kiln affairs of Jingdezhen and supervise the construction of the large instrument Qinglong Cylinder, which was unsuccessful for a long time. During this period, Pan Xiang told the kiln households "exceptionally harsh" and flogged the porcelain workers. Tong Bin told Pan Xiang that he had used his life to guarantee that the dragon jar would be burned and that he would not be allowed to abuse the porcelain workers. Pan agreed accordingly. Therefore, Tong Bin used his body as a kiln firewood and jumped into the kiln that burned red. The next day, the kiln was opened and the dragon cylinder was fired successfully. There are two "Taiping kilns" next to Tongbin Square, and the fire is burning vigorously. The tour guide introduced to tourists that the Taiping kiln is a kind of kiln made of old kiln bricks and round slag cakes to form a similar circle, which is transparent and stable, and the white wall is red, symbolizing auspicious Taiping. When the full moon is empty, the Taiping kiln throws firewood and burns the kiln, illuminating the heavens and the earth, and the waterside of the road is red, and the residents watch the fire and admire the moon around the kiln, singing and dancing, laughing, and happy all night. Burning Taiping kilns, this custom has been followed since the Qing Dynasty. Next to the "Taiping Kiln", Liu Jianjian from Heze, Shandong Province, picked up a piece of pine firewood and threw it into the "kiln", silently reciting in his mouth: Everyone adds firewood, and the family is prosperous.
On the first day of the Lunar New Year, the porcelain embryos displayed in the ancient kiln scenic spot in Jingdezhen. / Reporter Niu Tai Liu Jianjian is a staff member of a central enterprise and is building a rural revitalization project in Jingdezhen. He and his colleagues actively responded to the call to "reduce the flow of people and not return to their hometowns unless necessary" and stayed in Jingdezhen for the New Year. Liu Jianshe introduced to the upstream reporter that the Dezhen Federation of Trade Unions sent them New Year goods in the spring festival; during the Spring Festival, the project department also strengthened logistical support, and the taste of the year did not decrease. "The first time I was not at home for the New Year, I took advantage of the New Year's Day holiday to come to the ancient kiln to send blessings to distant families. The Taiping kiln burns firewood, and I wish my family 2021 a prosperous year. ”
The Qing Dynasty town kiln, a national key cultural relics protection unit, represents the highest level of traditional Chinese porcelain kiln construction technology. / Reporter In the Exhibition Area of Niutai Ancient Kilns, visitors can not only see the reproduction of historical sites such as Qing Dynasty town kilns, Ming Dynasty gourd kilns, Yuan Dynasty mantou kilns, and Song Dynasty dragon kilns, but also enjoy the live demonstrations of porcelain-making artists.
On the first day of the Chinese New Year, in the jingdezhen ancient kiln scenic spot, Li Jianhua, the inheritor of the "intangible cultural heritage", showed his skills to tourists, and the fish he painted came to life. / Reporter Niu Tai's gray-haired Li Jianhua is one of the "non-hereditary inheritors" of Jingdezhen City, and is good at painting fish on porcelain. When visitors admired Li Jianhua's paintings of fish as lifelike, he said that he painted only fish from young to old. Even now, a five-centimeter-long goldfish, he would spend a morning. "A man, a worker, works until he is old, and the other craftsmen in the ancient kiln are like me."
On the first day of the Chinese New Year, the jingdezhen ancient kiln scenic spot is full of porcelain elements. / Reporter On the Niutai water stage, 8 women dressed in ancient costumes, some pulling erhu, some playing the flute, someone ringing the bell... Beautiful notes come to the ears and tourists stop. This set of musical instruments is fired from porcelain, which is the concentrated embodiment of Jingdezhen porcelain". This year's Spring Festival, although there are many fewer tourists in the ancient kiln, the scenic service is not discounted, and tourists can explore the mystery of the thousand-year kiln fire here.
Source: Upstream News