China News Service, Jingdezhen, March 10th Telegram: Visiting Jingdezhen Ancient Kilns: Defining Multi-dimensional "Porcelain" Life, Culture and Tourism Innovation to the Future
Reporter Wang Haoyang
The warbler on the branches of the willow and the willow sings for the first time, and the rain in the south of the Yangtze River is another spring.
Walking in the ancient kiln scenic spot of Jingdezhen, under the white walls and black tiles, between the pavilions and pavilions, you can see, new branches sprout, and auspiciousness rises.
This picturesque garden-style scenic spot is the only national 5A-level scenic spot with the theme of ceramic culture in China. There are 11 typical porcelain kilns in the past dynasties, including the kiln, which completely preserve the traditional porcelain-making craftsmanship of Jingdezhen for thousands of years.
Wandering in the green mountains and green waters, you can feel the Chinese thousand-year-old ceramic culture, listening to, reading, painting, appreciating and tasting porcelain, which is refreshing and unforgettable.
Listening to Porcelain: The New Sound of Porcelain Rhythm is Fascinating
The spring rain is like silk, sprinkled on the water, adding a little tranquility to the smoke and light of the mountains.
In the Jingdezhen Ancient Kiln Scenic Area, the porcelain orchestra is playing porcelain music.
Photo courtesy of Jingdezhen Ancient Kiln
A melodious musical instrument sounded, cut through the rain curtain, crossed the lake, and went straight into the hearts of tourists.
Getai's warm sound is spring, and the waterside porcelain rhythm surrounds the breeze.
On the stage, more than ten young women in blue and white cheongsam were playing "Spring River, Flowers and Moonlight Night" with musical instruments made of various porcelain.
"White as jade, bright as a mirror, thin as paper, and sound like a chime" is the characteristic of Jingdezhen porcelain. When the sound and the porcelain are perfectly integrated, the folk music and the porcelain collide, bringing a refreshing feeling to the audience.
Know the music and listen to the truth, the new sound is wonderful.
Porcelain music performance is unique in China and the first in the world.
The sound of porcelain drums is like a bell, the sound of porcelain flute is clear and moving, the sound of porcelain is like weeping and complaining, the melodious and melodious porcelain erhu, and the percussion instruments of porcelain ou, porcelain chime, and porcelain bells resonate, the sound is like high mountains and flowing water, and deep valleys sing wind.
The song ends.
The tourists are still full of praise and praise.
In addition to performing multiple porcelain music performances every day, Guyao has also innovatively launched a number of ceramic-themed songs.
"I'm waiting for you in Jingdezhen, I can recognize you at a glance, and the signature of the year is branded in my heart..." This song "I'm Waiting for You in Jingdezhen" composed by the well-known musician He Muyang, was sung from ancient kilns to the north and south of the river, and received a lot of attention. Numerous praises have been received, and it has also been played in versions such as suona, guzheng, bamboo flute, and mouth organ, which has become a musical business card for Jingdezhen to promote ceramic culture to the outside world, allowing more tourists to come to experience the charm of the millennium porcelain capital.
Afterwards, Guyao successively released songs such as "I Met You in Guyao", "Let Love Refire" and "Jingdezhen Pottery Song", which turned the ceramic culture into a flowing note and presented it to the world in another vivid form.
Reading Porcelain: "A Thousand Miles of Rivers and Mountains" into the painting
In the middle of the lake in the ancient kiln scenic spot, there is a good place to read: the Jingdezhen branch of the Forbidden Academy.
Look at the Forbidden City in the north and visit the ancient kilns in the south.
For a long time, the Forbidden City and Jingdezhen have deep roots and deep cooperation.
The 30-meter-long huge ceramic mural "A Thousand Miles of Rivers and Mountains" in the ancient kiln scenic spot has become a check-in point for tourists.
Photo courtesy of Jingdezhen Ancient Kiln
There are no common best-sellers on the bookshelf, but most of them are cultural and artistic books such as ceramics, calligraphy, calligraphy and painting.
There are many ceramic works displayed on the bookshelves, making it look more like a small ceramic museum.
The academy has a simple and simple style, elegant environment and rich collection of books, and has become a well-known check-in place in the local cultural circle.
Many people come here to make a pot of tea when they have a little spare time, read quietly, and enjoy their own slow time.
Although the academy is small, it contains the essence of traditional Chinese culture, and it has also become a new landmark to promote the Forbidden City and ceramic culture.
Books with memories of the years and pieces of exquisite porcelain bring visitors a unique cultural experience of exploration and immersion.
In the "Impression of Ancient Kiln" square, another new Internet celebrity check-in point, the "A Thousand Miles of Rivers and Mountains" displayed on ceramic plates, auspicious cloud tiles and other carriers has become a new scene for everyone to stop and take pictures.
"It's so beautiful! This is the picture of "A Thousand Miles of Rivers and Mountains" presented in "Only Blue and Green" in the Spring Festival Gala." The huge ceramic mural "A Thousand Miles of Rivers and Mountains" is 30 meters long and 1.27 meters high. The majestic and atmospheric historical scroll reproduces the artistic conception of ancient paintings with ceramic art, allowing tourists to read the magnificent beauty of Chinese mountains and rivers.
Painting Porcelain: Studying and Inheriting Chinese Culture
Entering the ancient kiln porcelain making workshop, a number of national intangible inheritors use traditional craftsmanship to show tourists the whole process of handmade porcelain making.
The old craftsmen teach on the spot, kneading mud, pulling blanks, printing blanks, sharpening blanks, painting blanks, and glazing.
The ancient kiln scenic spot ushered in the "research + tourism" boom.
Photo courtesy of Jingdezhen Ancient Kiln
A group of students turned into little craftsmen, picked up paintbrushes, painted patterns on the mud tires stroke by stroke, and experienced the joy of creation.
From small workshops, four famous porcelain workshops, to large-scale workshops and antique workshops, different types and techniques are vividly displayed in front of tourists.
The ancient kiln has become a "living" ceramic culture museum in the form of productive protection.
"Research + tourism" has emerged in the ancient kiln, and the scenic spot has welcomed tourist groups such as "National Student Tour Jiangxi", "Civilized Tourism Special Train", and "Century Cruise" series groups. The event was selected into the 2021 list of "Recommended Products for Hong Kong and Macao Youth Studying in the Mainland" by the Ministry of Culture and Tourism, and Guyao was also named as the first batch of research and practice education bases for primary and secondary school students in Jiangxi Province.
In order to better spread Chinese ceramic culture, the ancient kiln opened the "Ancient Kiln Lecture Hall", and invited top domestic experts from related industries to give lectures. The famous historian Yan Chongnian described the six-hundred-year history of the Forbidden City. "Illustration" and other cultures, let everyone feel the magic and charm of Chinese ceramic culture.
Appreciating Porcelain: Reburning "National Treasure" Tim Chaiwang
Lighting the kiln and seeing the "treasure" are the activities that tourists are most willing to participate in.
In 2021, the ancient kiln will carry out the normalization of "everyone adds firewood, family wealth is prosperous" to resume burning "national treasures" every month. Tourists can experience it in person, add firewood and blessings, pray for blessings, and participate in the process of ignition and kiln opening. .
Visitors experience ignition and kiln opening on the spot, and feel the living inheritance of ceramic culture.
Photo courtesy of Jingdezhen Ancient Kiln
With the sound of "Open the kiln!" The tourists who participated in the opening of the kiln knocked on the door of the wind fire kiln with a Taiping hook. The warm and lustrous fine china made the tourists amazed, and they picked up their mobile phones and cameras to take pictures to record and witness this moment.
Each re-firing is a continuation of the millennium kiln fire, and it is also the inheritance of the craftsman's spirit.
From the clay body to the porcelain, it has to go through a high temperature combustion of more than 1,000 degrees Celsius. "Into the kiln, the color is one color, and the kiln is colorful." After the baptism of fire, each piece of exquisite ceramics has changed from mud to colorful works of art, showing the world to the world. The skills handed down from generation to generation show the millennium charm of Chinese culture.
Porcelain taste: a new experience of "impression" of ancient kilns
In May 2021, the "Guyao Impression", a ceramic cultural, commercial and tourism complex built by Guyao, was born, offering tourists a cultural feast integrating sight, sound and taste.
"Impression of Guyao is a cultural and tourism diversified and integrated development project to improve the quality of scenic spots, meet the diversified and high-quality needs of the tourist market, create a more dynamic cultural and commercial tourism atmosphere in scenic spots, and stimulate the growth of urban economic development." Director of Guyao Scenic Area Chang Chen Wuping said that after the closure of the main scenic spot of the ancient kiln at night, the impression of the ancient kiln can make up for the lack of night service functions of the scenic spot, featuring "Changnan Porcelain Banquet", supplemented by catering and leisure services such as Zen tea and porcelain culture coffee, to provide tourists with catering and leisure services. Provide high-quality leisure consumption places with local citizens.
"Impression of Ancient Kiln" has a total construction area of about 20,000 square meters. It integrates ceramic shopping, leisure coffee, art exhibition, food and catering, and cultural dissemination. The exquisite porcelain, elegant furnishings and considerate service have attracted tourists from all over the world. of compliments.
In the ceramic cultural and creative exhibition hall on the first floor, there is a dazzling array of wood-fired porcelain, old camellia porcelain bowls, Changnan brand ceramics, as well as fine living porcelain and creative cultural and creative works reflecting the characteristics of the four famous porcelains of Jingdezhen. Kiln antique porcelain, Song Yingqing, Yuan blue and white, Ming Dou Cai, Qing pastel, it is dizzying.
Above the second floor is the porcelain culture-themed restaurant of "kiln and kiln leading fresh food", which can accommodate 1,800 people at the same time.
Braised soft-shelled turtle, roasted pork trotters with potato flour, foie gras stuffed with drizzle in the wind... Delicious dishes are served in exquisite ceramic tableware, so that tourists can also be surprised to see the beauty of ceramic culture when they dine.
Traditional culture and modern life are perfectly blended here. Tourists can visit scenic spots in the daytime, experience ceramic culture at night, buy ceramic products, savor catering feasts, and fully enjoy the happiness brought by the aesthetics of ceramic life.
Foreign tourists punch in the "impression of ancient kiln" and experience the feast of ceramics + catering culture.
Photo courtesy of Jingdezhen Ancient Kiln
"Impression of Ancient Kilns" has won many awards since its opening and was listed as one of Jingdezhen's "Fifteen Scenes" and "Three Banquets" projects. It has become a new tourist landmark and a new tourist consumption destination in the porcelain capital. Fully affirmed and widely praised by all sectors of society.
During the Jiangxi Tourism Development Conference, "Impression of Ancient Kilns" was listed as the first stop for guests from all walks of life.
In the new round of integrated development of culture and tourism, Guyao insists on upholding integrity and innovation, taking "porcelain" as its soul, and redefining the multi-dimensional "porcelain" life.
Chen Wuping said that in the next step, ancient kilns will continue to focus on "food, housing, travel, travel, learning, entertainment, shopping" and other elements, improve the functional layout, build smart scenic spots, improve service levels, and better meet the needs of tourists The diversified and differentiated consumer needs have made the porcelain capital of millennium kiln fire and glowed with new brilliance.
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