On November 29, more than 170 original works from dozens of contemporary artists were auctioned at the Narada Hotel in Hangzhou. It is reported that the large-scale public welfare auction was sponsored by the China Huaxia Cultural Heritage Foundation, and co-hosted by Hangzhou Sanlian Art Investment Management Co., Ltd. and Hangzhou Ruyi Auction Company. All the proceeds will be handed over to the China Huaxia Cultural Heritage Foundation for the repair and protection of the East Thousand Buddha Caves, and the implementation of the donations will be inspected on the spot in the second half of next year.
Auction site
Cai Baoguang, Secretary General of China Huaxia Cultural Heritage Foundation, Liu Jianming, Director of the Office of the General Association, Yang Lisheng, President of Zhejiang Branch, Gu Xiaodong, Chairman of Sanlian Art Institution, Wu Keqiang, Former Vice President of Zhejiang Branch of Xinhua News Agency, and He Shanda, Executive Vice President and Secretary General of Zhejiang Collection Association, attended the auction. In addition, artists such as the famous painter Niu Jingang, the Su embroidery master Lu Juying, the Longquan celadon arts and crafts master Chen Shaoqing, the tourmaline purple sand pot inventor Tang Jiasheng and the calligrapher Qiu Qiumin also came to support and witness the public welfare act of "awakening the soul of the nation and inheriting the Chinese civilization".
Cai Baoguang (center), Liu Jianming (third from right) and Yang Lisheng (first from left) accept donations on behalf of the Foundation
Before the auction began, Cai Baoguang, Secretary General of the Foundation, Liu Jianming, Director of the General Office of the Federation, and Yang Lisheng, President of the Zhejiang Branch, on behalf of the Huaxia Cultural Heritage Foundation, accepted 31 works of art donated by chen Shaoqing, Tang Jiasheng, Qiu Qiumin and other artists on behalf of the Foundation, and expressed their gratitude for their charitable deeds of helping the Dongqian Buddha Cave protect and inherit China's excellent traditional culture.
According to reports, including 31 works donated on the spot, the auction auction auctioned a total of 177 works of art such as calligraphy and painting, embroidery, ceramics, jade and so on, all of which are original works of contemporary artists. Including 11 snowy landscape paintings by Niu Jingang, the founder of the Snow Painting School, the four purple sand pots of Yixing scenery by the potter Jing Bo, the thirty views of the West Lake by the famous ink landscape artist Xie Bingchu, the 6 embroidery masterpieces by Su embroidery master Lu Juying, and the only batch of mural imitation works in the East Thousand Buddha Cave.
Jingbo Yixing scenery four big purple sand pots
A copy of the mural painting of Dongqian Buddha Cave
Sanzhi White Tara Black Katankah
Since its establishment, the China Huaxia Cultural Heritage Foundation has been discovering, researching, protecting, inheriting and promoting China's tangible cultural heritage and intangible cultural heritage on a global scale with the principle of "awakening citizens' awareness and responsibility for protecting cultural heritage". The East Thousand Buddha Cave, known as the Western Xia murals with rich content and exquisite skills, is a great contribution to Chinese Buddhist art, the highest achievement of Western Xia Buddhist art, and has an important historical position in the history of Chinese culture and the history of Buddhist art. However, due to its remote location and inconvenient transportation, Dongqian Buddha Cave has long been little known to the outside world. Although it was listed as a national key cultural relics protection unit as early as 1996, for many years it has only relied on the "management" of an elderly couple over the age of flower nails, resulting in serious damage to the ruins.
In order to repair and protect the East Thousand Buddha Cave, the China Huaxia Cultural Heritage Foundation and the Sanlian Art Institution jointly organized the public welfare auction and held a press conference in the Zhejiang Provincial Press Conference Hall on September 19. In order to successfully hold the auction activities, Sanlian Art Institution searched for and selected contemporary artists from different fields such as calligraphy and painting, sculpture, embroidery, pottery and other fields to participate in the auction nationwide, and began in early October, successively publicized the importance of protecting traditional culture and the necessity of rescuing the Dongqian Buddha Cave in ten cities such as Hangzhou, Shanghai, Ningbo and Nanchang, and sincerely invited people from all walks of life who love traditional culture, have love and social responsibility to participate in the public welfare auction.
In this regard, Gu Xiaodong, chairman of Sanlian Art Institution, expressed the hope that with the help of this public welfare auction activity, the spirit of General Secretary Xi Jinping's speech of "representing the style of the times, leading the atmosphere of the times, condensing China's strength, and realizing the Chinese dream" will be implemented, and the historical mission and responsibility of contemporary artists will be guided to create more outstanding works worthy of the times. Sanlian and the Huaxia Cultural Heritage Foundation share common values and concepts, and will, as always, take the dissemination of Chinese culture as their own responsibility, take the people of the world to advocate Chinese culture as their mission, uphold the concept of inheritance, innovation and rejuvenation, awaken the consciousness of the Chinese people, and carry forward the Chinese civilization.