China News Service, Langfang, January 8th (Song Mintao and Ma Minlu) "This lamp is a four-corner single-layer structure, with more than ten production processes, including chisel and tenon, carving, grinding, polishing, painting, painting, assembly, etc."8 Today, Jin Guixiang, the third-generation inheritor of Jin's palace lantern production skills in Gu'an, Hebei, introduced a palace lantern named "The Edge of Ice and Snow" to reporters from Chinanews.com.
The 71-year-old Jin Guixiang is the third-generation inheritor of the Langfang municipal intangible cultural heritage - Gu'an Jin's palace lantern making skills.
The craftsmanship of Jin's palace lanterns began in the late Qing Dynasty.
Jin Guixiang learned the craftsmanship of palace lanterns from her ancestors since she was a child, and mastered the craftsmanship of palace lanterns at the age of 16.
"For me, palace lanterns are not only a skill passed down from my ancestors, but also a cultural treasure that the Chinese nation cannot lose." Jin Guixiang said.
In order to welcome the arrival of the Beijing 2022 Winter Olympics, Jin Guixiang combined the Winter Olympics sports sketches with palace lanterns, and hand-made the "Frozen of Ice and Snow" palace lanterns.
The palace lantern is based on red paper, which means festivity and auspiciousness, and the four flower screens are patterned with ice and snow sports, showing the dynamic feeling of athletes leaping in the air.
The picture shows Jin Guixiang making traditional palace lanterns.
Photo by Wu Di
"Mahogany is used for the wood skeleton and decorations. It takes about 10 days to make a lamp, and 10 lamps have been made so far." Jin Guixiang said that this time he integrated the elements of the Winter Olympics into the traditional palace lantern skills, and entrusted their craftsmen with the The affectionate blessing of the Beijing 2022 Winter Olympics also adds strong Chinese characteristics to the Winter Olympics.
Palace lanterns, also known as palace lanterns, originated in the Eastern Han Dynasty and flourished in the Sui and Tang Dynasties, with strong local characteristics.
Jin's palace lanterns are mostly hexagonal and double-layered, and the wood skeleton and decorations are made of mahogany or old elm. The patterns on each side of the screen are mostly dragon and phoenix showing auspiciousness, longevity and longevity, auspiciousness and good luck, etc.
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