Xu Ming and his imitation of the Changxin Palace lamp
Tinder lights for the 2022 Beijing Winter Olympics
A replica of the Changxin Palace lamp
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On October 20, the 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". 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 "LangyaBang" and "The Legend of the Demon Cat".
The 2022 Beijing Winter Olympics "Tinder Lamp" creativity ignited the Changxin Palace lamp
According to Li Jianye, the torch designer of the Beijing Winter Olympic Games, the Changxin Palace lamp is a Western Han Palace lamp from 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".
Former US Secretary of State Henry Kissinger visited the Changxin Palace lamp when he visited China, and sighed: "More than two thousand years ago Chinese understood environmental protection, which is really remarkable." ”
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 displayed. "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 there are also tens of thousands." The 2022 Beijing Winter Olympics 'Tinder Lamp' creativity ignited the Changxin Palace lamp, and also brought fire to our Changxin Palace lamp imitation. On October 26, in an interview, bronze enthusiast Xu Ming told reporters.
In order to imitate more realistic, he went to the Hebei Museum to "study" the lights of the Western Han Dynasty Changxin Palace
"There are 65-character inscriptions on the Changxin Palace lamp, in order to carefully imitate the Changxin Palace lamp, in 2019, I deliberately went to the Hebei Museum to see the Western Han Dynasty Changxin Palace lamp, fully analyzed and studied various related historical and data materials, and memorized it." 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 film to get out of the wax pieces, and then finely spliced the wax pieces, made the shell, roasted at high temperature in the high temperature kiln for four days and four nights for dewaxing, and then melted copper casting, and finally polished, polished, welded, colored... After 108 processes, a beautiful and complete Changxin Palace lamp was officially completed. "It will take nearly two months to make a year-on-year Changxin Palace lamp.
Not only the Changxin Palace Lamp They have provided bronze imitations as props for the crew such as "Langyabang"
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, under the leadership of the local government under the "Yichuan bronze town" more and more like, the road is uniform, paved with beautiful colored bricks, the eaves ridge on both sides of the road are also added antique tiles, antique color reflects the sense of history.
The 33-year-old Xu Ming has returned to his hometown since graduating from university. "When I was a child, there were many antique bronzes in my village and nearby villages, and we have a history of bronze making here 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 goods 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, and the crew props are in charge of providing design drawings, which we make according to the drawings. We have cooperated in the production of more famous plays with props, such as "Langya List", "Tiansheng Long Song", "Confucius", "Yang Guifei" and so on. Some prop rental companies in film and television bases such as Hengdian 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 timpane chimes have stepped onto the stage of the Spring Festival Gala such as Zhejiang Satellite TV and Jiangsu Satellite TV, and in the 2019 CCTV host competition, there are contestants who use the timpane chimes they made to play the classic song "Jasmine", which is stunning 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, and let the world see the beauty of Chinese bronze." At the end of the interview, Xu Ming said.