Dahe Daily reporter Gao Ju correspondent Li Dewei Zhao Shuhui
Core tip: On October 20, the Beijing 2022 Winter Olympics tinder successfully arrived in Beijing. The Winter Olympic fire collected from Greece was stored in the tinder lamp and came to Beijing. The idea of the Beijing Winter Olympic Torch Relay Tinder Lamp originated from the Changxin Palace Lamp, which was the Western Han Palace lamp more than 2,000 years ago and was known as "China's first lamp". However, in Changyubao Village, Yichuan County, Luoyang City, there is a bronze enthusiast who has imitated tens of thousands of Changxin Palace lamps for more than a decade, and has also provided bronze props for the crews such as "Langya List" and "The Legend of the Demon Cat".
[1] Luoyang guy's 108 processes imitate the Changxin Palace lamp
According to Li Jianye, the designer of the Beijing Winter Olympic Torch, the Changxin Palace lamp is a Western Han Palace lamp more than 2,000 years ago, with a light and gorgeous shape and a clever design that is environmentally friendly. The creativity of tinder lamp originated from the Changxin Palace lamp of the Western Han Dynasty, hoping to express people's pursuit and yearning for light and hope through the meaning of "changxin".
In the Luoyang Bronze Technology Museum in Changyubao Village, Baiyuan Town, Yichuan County, Henan Province, dozens of imitations of Changxin Palace lamps of various proportions are on display, and the idea of the Tinder lanterns for the Beijing 2022 Winter Olympics originated from the Changxin Palace lamps. Former US Secretary of State Henry Kissinger visited the Changxin Palace lamp when he visited China and sighed: "More than 2,000 years ago Chinese understood environmental protection, which is really remarkable." ”
"I personally like to study bronzes, research related historical and cultural knowledge, etc., we have been doing imitations of Changxin Palace lamps for more than ten years, imitating multiple versions, all kinds of different sizes of Changxin Palace lamps, according to 1:1 height fit imitation of Changxin Palace lamps also have tens of thousands." This time, beijing 2022 Olympic flame and other ideas brought fire to the Changxin Palace lamp, but also brought fire to our Changxin Palace lamp imitation. On October 26, in an interview, Xu Ming told reporters.
[2] In order to imitate it more realistically, they went to the Hebei Museum to "study" the lights of the Changxin Palace in the Western Han Dynasty
"There are 65 inscriptions on the Changxin Palace lamp, each of which is relatively large, about 8 mm high, in order to carefully imitate the Changxin Palace lamp, we specially went to the Hebei Museum in 2019 to see the Western Han Dynasty Changxin Palace lamp, and fully analyzed and studied various related historical and data materials, took pictures and drawings of the real thing, and remembered it well." Xu Ming said.
According to its introduction, the imitation of the Western Han Dynasty Changxin Palace lamp uses the "lost wax method", and the bronze casting process using the "lost wax method" is very complicated. "The imitation products of the Changxin Palace lamp we made were all made of molds ourselves first, and then turned over the silicone film, used the silicone to shed the film to get out of the wax parts, and then finely repaired and spliced the wax parts, made the shell, roasted at high temperature in the high temperature kiln for four days and four nights for dewaxing, and then melted the copper casting, and finally polished, polished, welded, colored... After 108 processes, a beautiful and complete Changxin Palace lamp was officially completed. "It took nearly two months to make a year-on-year Changxin Palace lamp. Xu Ming's Luoyang Guangfa Bronze Ware Company produces and sells tens of thousands of Changxin Palace lamps of different sizes every year, and some are also sold abroad.
[3] It is not only the Changxin Palace lamps, they have provided bronze imitations as props for the crew of "Langyabang" and so on
Gezhai Town and Baiyuan Town in Yichuan County are famous for imitation bronzes, and the annual output value has reached hundreds of millions of yuan. Many villagers are "bronze masters", here is also known as China's "bronze antique village", in recent years, the local government under the leadership of the "Yichuan bronze town" more and more similar, the road is uniform, paved with beautiful colored bricks, the eaves on both sides of the road are also added antique tiles, antique color reflects the sense of history.
The 33-year-old Xu Ming returned to his hometown to develop after graduating from Henan University majoring in tourism management. "When I was a child, there were many antique bronzes in the village and nearby villages, and our bronze making history has been for decades, but because of traffic and other reasons, sales is a big problem, and I feel extremely proud and proud to be able to return to my hometown with the knowledge I learned, through the Internet, through the e-commerce platform to promote the high-quality good things in my hometown and help rural revitalization." He said.
"Not only the Changxin Palace lamp, we often provide and customize bronze props for many crews, director Chen Kaige specially built a film and television base in Tangcheng for the filming of "The Legend of the Demon Cat", the bronze props used in it are what we do, Director Chen's play has very high requirements for props, are the crew props responsible for providing design drawings, we are made according to the drawings, we cooperate in the production of props More famous repertoire also has "Langya List", "Tiansheng Long Song", "Confucius", "Yang Guifei" and so on. Some prop rental companies in Hengdian and other film bases have also maintained long-term cooperation with us. Xu Ming told reporters.
With the growing fame in the industry, the bronze high imitations produced by Xu Ming's bronze company have gradually become popular. Some museums inside and outside the province, such as henan museum, Shanxi museum, Erlitou museum, Luoyang museum, Jinguo museum, etc., have thrown "olive branches" to his company and cooperated with it. The imitation fixed-tone chimes have stepped onto the stage of Zhejiang Satellite TV, Jiangsu Satellite TV and other Spring Festival Galas, and in the 2019 CCTV Host Competition, there are contestants who use their fixed-tone chimes to play the classic song "Jasmine", which is amazing for four seats and countless fans.
"We built a bronze craft museum in the village, the purpose is to show the traditional skills of bronze making, inherit the excellent traditional culture of the Chinese nation, inherit the thousand-year-old bronze art, lost wax casting, and let the world see the beauty of Chinese bronze." At the end of the interview, Xu Ming said.
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The Changxin Palace lamp was excavated in Hebei, one of the winter Olympic games areas, and was excavated in 1968 in the tomb of Dou Xuan, the wife of Liu Sheng, the king of Zhongshan Jing in Mancheng, Baoding City, Hebei Province, and is now in the Collection of Hebei Museum. The lights of Changxin Palace are 48 cm high and gilded throughout. The lamp is engraved with inscriptions such as "Yangxinjia", "Changxin Shangyu", "Imauchi Sleep" and other inscriptions in 9 places, a total of 65 characters, because of the inscription at the bottom of the lamp holder "Changxin Shangyu" and named Changxin Palace Lamp. As a large cliff cave tomb of the princes of the Han Dynasty and the latter level, the excavation of the Mancheng Han Tomb has created several archaeological masterpieces, fully reflecting the magnificent style of the Western Han Dynasty.