[Explanation] Lifelike lion heads, ingenious dimples, lifelike sugar towers, simple and elegant gowns... On November 3, dozens of Hong Kong intangible cultural heritage were officially presented to the public at the San Tung Uk Museum in Tsuen Wan, Hong Kong Open for exhibition.
It is reported that this is also the largest intangible cultural heritage project exhibition since the opening of the Hong Kong Intangible Cultural Heritage Office.
[Explanation] The reporter saw at the scene that the exhibition uses four houses located on the central axis of the three houses. The exhibition includes lion head making, Ding Deng Zha making, Chinese gowns, woodcarving skills, hand-supported puppets, Chaozhou sugar towers, Hong Kong’s traditional festival culture and folk crafts such as Guangcai porcelain, eight-tone art, and flower card making.
[Concurrent] Wu Zhihe, Director of Hong Kong Intangible Cultural Heritage Office
Mainly based on Hong Kong’s own folk crafts, mainly introducing some of our traditional festivals in Hong Kong and our related crafts. For example, many of our festivals will have dragon and lion dances. The lion dance itself is an intangible heritage project of ours, and the lion head is made. The skills are also our intangible cultural heritage project, so our exhibition this time has a very beautiful intangible cultural heritage lion head wall, with 25 lion heads, which will let everyone see the process of different creations, as well as lion heads. The cultural significance inside.
Many intangible cultural heritage projects are related to our daily lives, such as Hong Kong people’s favorite teahouse dim sum, steamer, umbrella, and dan cover. From this theme, we hope to give the audience an understanding that intangible cultural heritage is the wisdom and cultural accumulation of our lives. .
【Explanation】According to the introduction, the new exhibition series "Following the Sound-Hong Kong Intangible Cultural Heritage" invites local architects and artists as curators, and about 30 non-genetic inheritors participate in the production, adding more art and multimedia Elements, interpret traditional culture in an innovative way, allowing the audience to deeply understand the connotation of Hong Kong's intangible cultural heritage.
[Concurrent] Curator Xiao Guojian
We hope to bring the works and the audience closer, so when we show these works of art, we lift the glass (cover), we hope the audience can directly see all the details on the works.
In fact (non-inherited inheritors) they may really only do one thing in their lifetime, and we want to show this to everyone.
So I hope they will help us show this process.
So when you see the wood carving statue, we actually hope that the master will show from a piece of wood to the position where he draws with a pen, then slowly change the shape, then slowly carve, finally polish, then color, and then lay the gold leaf to complete a divine statue. We hope that this process can be fully presented in front of the audience, so this presentation method is quite special.
[Explanation] Li Cuilan, the second-generation inheritor of Hong Kong's flower card technique, specially made the theme flower card of "non-genetic inheritance" for this exhibition. In her opinion, intangible cultural heritage art symbolizes Hong Kong's traditional culture and collective memories, and is passing on China has become more and more classic, and it will last forever.
[Concurrent] Li Cuilan, the master of Hong Kong flower card making
All festivals will use it (flower card).
In Hong Kong, there are very few now, there are only a few (flower shop) left in Hong Kong, so it is good to have this opportunity to do this exhibition now.
This flower card is to introduce the intangible (cultural) heritage, because the intangible (cultural) heritage is now less and less people make it, it must be passed on by someone.
[Commentary] It is reported that the exhibition will be open for viewing from 10 a.m. to 6 p.m. from November 3rd, and will be closed for one day every Tuesday.
Reporter Fan Siyi reports from Hong Kong
Editor in charge: 【Luo Pan】