Chinanews.com, Beijing, January 2 (Du Yan and Zhang Wen) The royal glazed official kiln factory with a history of 759 years has been transformed into a modern cultural and creative industrial park, which will be officially opened this year.
The park will become a comprehensive cultural and creative park with the core of protecting and inheriting the intangible cultural heritage skills of glass firing, integrating international exchanges and exhibitions of intangible cultural heritage, intangible cultural heritage research, special catering, homestay, cultural and creative offices, etc.
Today, the reporter learned from the two sessions in Mentougou District, Beijing that the predecessor of Jinyu Liuli Cultural and Creative Industrial Park was the Liuli Products Factory, which was founded in 1263. It has been firing glaze products for royal buildings such as the Forbidden City, the Temple of Heaven, and the Summer Palace. "The Hometown of Chinese Royal Glaze".
The colored glaze firing technique is a national intangible cultural heritage of Mentougou District. In order to rejuvenate the colored glaze firing technique and meet the needs of urban renewal and ancient building restoration for high-quality glazed components, in 2019, Mentougou District cooperated with BBMG Group. Create a Liuli Cultural and Creative Park at the original site of the Liuli Products Factory.
In order to "rekindle the kiln fire", the team carried out protective renovation, upgrading, transformation and upgrading of the old kiln site.
The total area of the park is more than 30,000 square meters. Except for a new factory building of 1,200 square meters, the rest of the buildings have been transformed, upgraded and repaired on the original basis, retaining the original space characteristics and industrial heritage as much as possible, forming an industrial culture. A landscape that blends with modern technology and culture.
The park will focus on protecting and inheriting the intangible cultural heritage skills of glass firing, and create a comprehensive cultural and creative park integrating international exchanges and exhibitions of intangible cultural heritage, intangible cultural heritage research, special catering, homestay, cultural and creative offices, etc.
In the glazed exhibition hall, the roof ridges of the three main halls of the Forbidden City are hung in the air with glazed tiles.
Photo courtesy of Mentougou District, Beijing
Walking into the glazed exhibition hall, the roof ridges of the three halls of the Forbidden City made of glazed tiles are hung in the air, and when entering the tunnel kiln, the "glazed" characters of different regions are spelled out with glazed tiles and reflected on the concrete floor through light and shadow... Walking in the park, you are always everywhere. You can see the immersive glazed historical and cultural exhibition, practical experience and other content created with the concept of "pan-museum", allowing tourists to experience traditional culture immersively.
In order to retain the old craftsmanship and ensure the inheritance and research of ancient colored glaze firing techniques, the park invited back 6 masters of official colored glaze firing techniques, kiss, glaze, and kiln craftsmen, and restored a plain-fired down-flame kiln. To build a glaze firing down-flame kiln, while using traditional and modern methods to restore the original ancient firing techniques, it will also rely on experts and scholars from the Palace Museum to jointly carry out restorative research on glazed cultural relics.
The relevant person in charge of Mentougou District of Beijing said that the construction of Liuli Cultural and Creative Park, landscape, and homestay decoration projects have been basically completed. At present, furniture decoration, lighting and lighting, guide signs, equipment debugging, exhibition optimization and other projects are in progress. At the same time, the park is attracting investment. The work has started hotly, and excellent intangible cultural heritage studios, Internet celebrity restaurants, specialty bookstores, coffee, and cultural and creative enterprises will be introduced.
At that time, the cultural and creative park will also become another new landmark of cultural consumption in Mentougou District.
According to the person in charge, in the next step, Mentougou District will unite more outstanding intangible cultural heritage units to build the Liuli Cultural and Creative Park into a domestic first-class cultural and creative park centered on the inheritance of colored glaze culture, characterized by the inheritance and integration of various intangible cultural heritage skills, and equipped with international communication functions. Cultural and creative park.
At the same time, it will also provide immersive experience projects for primary and middle school students, so that the majority of young people can appreciate the unique charm of intangible cultural heritage skills, and let the ancient glass firing shine again. "We will deepen the docking work with the park and focus on expanding intangible cultural heritage derivatives. , cultural and creative product development approaches, drive the productive protection of intangible cultural heritage, and promote the sustainable development of colored glaze cultural and creative industries.” (End)