China News Service, Hefei, February 16th: Title: "Dragon" cultural relics are on display, and national cultural creativity is gaining popularity
China News Service reporter Zhang Qiang and Zhang Jun
The DNA of "Descendants of the Dragon" moved!
This year is the Year of the Dragon in the Chinese lunar calendar. During the Spring Festival holiday, museums across China have launched a "dragon hunt" craze. At Anhui Museum, visitors are keen to explore the Chinese people’s love affair with dragons in the exhibitions and collections of cultural relics.
On February 2, Hefei citizens visited the "Dragon Walking in China - Jiachen Year of the Dragon Zodiac Cultural Relics Exhibition" at Anhui Museum. (Photo courtesy of Anhui Museum)
The "Dragon Walks in China - A Joint Exhibition of Chinese Zodiac Cultural Relics for the Year of the Dragon in Jiachen" being held at Anhui Museum displays hundreds of pictures of collections with dragon elements and more than 70 collections with dragon elements.
Liu Huawei, director of the preservation department of Anhui Museum, said that the dragon has been a symbol of the Chinese nation since ancient times. The Chinese dragon has evolved into complex and changeable artistic shapes with its unique oriental mysterious connotation, carrying the Chinese cosmology of the unity of man and nature and the inclusive cultural outlook. .
"In the course of thousands of years of history, the dragon has not only entered the lives of the Chinese people, but has also been loved by the Chinese people. This can be seen from the unearthed cultural relics." Liu Huawei introduced that as early as the Neolithic Age, the dragon's The image has been widely spread across the land of China. The earliest dragon image discovered in China can be traced back to the Hongshan Culture about 8,000 years ago.
Jade dragon unearthed from the Lingjiatan site in Anhui. (Photo courtesy of Anhui Museum)
Anhui Museum has a jade dragon that was unearthed from the Lingjiatan site between 5800 and 5300 years ago. It has a long diameter of 4.4 cm, a short diameter of 3.9 cm, and a thickness of 0.2 cm. The whole body is grayish white and bluish in color.
Guan Danping, deputy director of the Planning and Exchange Department of Anhui Museum, said that the Lingjiatan Jade Dragon is in the shape of being connected end to end, with two horns sticking out of the dragon's head, and finely carved eyes, nose, and mouth. There are 17 slashes engraved on the back of the dragon to represent the dragon. scales, and a small round hole drilled into the dragon's tail.
On February 2, tourists visited the treasure of Anhui Museum - the bronze drum base with four rings of dragon and tiger patterns. (Photo courtesy of Anhui Museum)
The treasure of Anhui Museum is the four-ring bronze drum base with dragon and tiger patterns. It is a bronze vessel from the Spring and Autumn Period with a diameter of 80 centimeters. Guan Danping said that Jiangu was often used in wars, sacrifices, entertainment and other occasions in ancient times. This bronze drum base is in the shape of a circle. The upper part of the drum base uses high relief techniques to create the image of a roaring dragon and tiger with their bodies intertwined. The ancients hoped that when the drum sounds, it will have the momentum of tigers roaring and dragons roaring.
Huizhou wood carvings are famous at home and abroad for their unique and exquisite skills. The Qing Dynasty dragon pattern hollow window sash collected by Anhui Museum is a typical representative of Huizhou wood carving skills. The reporter saw that the main body of the window sash is decorated with a double dragon pattern that is symmetrical up and down, galloping in the clouds and waves, with a vigorous posture, vivid expression, and extremely dynamic.
Guan Danping said that during the Song and Yuan dynasties, the Song people summarized various dragon images of the previous dynasties and proposed complete specifications for dragon painting. The Chinese dragon images with snake bodies, animal heads, claws and beards gradually became available. Fixed and developed along the two lines of monopolized palace dragons and diversified folk dragons.
3D printed dragon and tiger pattern drum base ornaments, gift boxes designed with wood carvings of dragon patterns and sparrows, handmade filigree blind boxes, Lingjiatan Jade Dragon digital collection... Entering the Spring Festival holiday, Anhui Museum’s cultural and creative themed exhibition space is very popular. More than 40 national-style cultural and creative products are selling like hotcakes. Bringing home cultural and creative products with national-style elements for the Year of the Dragon has become a new choice for many consumers during the New Year.
Cultural and creative products of Anhui Museum - dragon and tiger pattern drum base ornaments. (Photo courtesy of Anhui Museum)
Wei Guanglei, secretary-general of the Overseas Chinese Mutual Aid Center in Southern Thailand, said during a visit to the Anhui Museum that the image of the dragon is like the Yellow River and the Yangtze River to every descendant of the Yan and Huang Dynasties. It is a symbol, a mood, and a flesh-and-blood emotion. It is the spiritual link connecting overseas Chinese around the world. (over)