Hangzhou, September 9 (Zhongxin Net) -- At present, Zhejiang's Zhijiang Cultural Center, the largest provincial-level public cultural cluster in the country that gathers "four museums and one center", has attracted widespread attention from the society since its opening.

Zhetuzhijiang Museum. Photo courtesy of Chen Lei

As one of the "four museums and one center", in the past few days, the Jiangguan of Zhejiang Library (hereinafter referred to as "Zhejiang Map") has also attracted citizens and tourists. When citizens and tourists enter the museum and climb up the steps from the "Hall of Books" to the "Great Stairway of Knowledge", a copper mural "Looking Up at the Starry Sky" containing the charm of Zhejiang humanities comes into view, which has become the "finishing touch" of the design and decoration of the new museum.

Zhu Bingren's copper mural "Looking Up at the Starry Sky". Photo courtesy of Chen Lei

"Looking Up at the Starry Sky" was creatively designed by Zhu Bingren, a master of Chinese arts and crafts and a representative inheritor of national intangible cultural heritage bronze carving skills. With an area of 50 square meters, this colorful starry sky painting combines the original "cloud ink" brushwork to construct a beautiful scenery in the "universe" of the sea of books, fully demonstrating the hall characteristics of the 123-year-old Zhejiang Picture Dictionary and Zhejiang's profound cultural background.

It is reported that the copper carving technique, produced in the Shang and Zhou Dynasty, has a history of 2008,<> years. In <>, the bronze carving technique was included in the second batch of national intangible cultural heritage items in China, and the representative inheritor of this intangible cultural heritage skill is Zhu Bingren.

In 1995, Zhu Bingren created a copper mural carved in purple gold with the theme of "Guanyin" for Putuo Mountain, and was known as the "founder of Chinese copper murals". His mural works have been displayed in important institutions and places such as the Ministry of Culture and Tourism of the People's Republic of China, the Singapore Chinese Cultural Center, the venue of the Boao Forum for Asia, and the Deoksugung Palace in Hangzhou.

Speaking about the copper mural "Looking Up at the Starry Sky" for the Zhejiang Zhijiang Museum, Zhu Bingren said that the design of the mural was inspired by the famous German philosopher Immanuel Kant's famous words "the starry sky above the head" and "the moral law in the heart".

At the same time, he said that Zhejiang Tu is a national first-class library with a collection of more than 700 million volumes (pieces), featuring rich precious ancient books and complete local literature. Walking into the Zhejiang Tuzhijiang Museum, it is like entering a hall of knowledge "universe", and the theme of the mural echoes the interior and exterior design of the vast universe of the "Hall of Books", which means that Zhejiang books are covered by fragrance and deep ink and ink.

Details of Zhu Bingren's copper mural "Looking Up at the Starry Sky". Photo courtesy of Chen Lei

The reporter learned that this molten copper mural is made by using national intangible cultural heritage copper carving techniques, combined with innovative techniques such as molten copper art and glaze coloring, and the whole process lasted one year from design, production and birth, which was very difficult. The mural is made of Zhu Bingren's hand-painted starry sky "cloud ink", with a large area of deep blue universe as the base, and the art of molten copper is used to form starry dots.

In Zhu Bingren's view, this copper mural reflects the fusion of modern and ink, nature and technology, which coincides with the characteristics of Zhejiang Tu integrating wisdom into reading.

Chinese arts and crafts master Zhu Bingren "clocked in" "Looking Up at the Starry Sky". Photo courtesy of Chen Lei

The library is an ocean of knowledge, as vast as the starry sky, it is the operation of the laws of nature, and it is the crystallization of human civilization. It is also the emotion that "Looking Up at the Stars" wants to convey. For readers, everyone has the right to 'look up at the starry sky', and the tolerance of Zhetu, just as the starry sky can accommodate all things. Zhu Bingren said. (End)