On May 14th, two activities of Song Dynasty tea ordering and Chinese traditional flower arrangement were successfully held at Nanshan Museum, and the 2022 "Nanshan Four Arts, Qin Xianghua Tea" activities of "Meet You through Time" were successfully concluded.
The "Meet You through Time" series of activities is based on the four most poetic intangible cultural heritage items of "qin, incense, flower and tea" in Nanshan District, seeking the beauty of China's intangible cultural heritage and inheriting the excellent traditional culture.
Culture is the soul of a country and a nation. The rich and colorful intangible cultural heritage is an important part of the excellent traditional culture. The "Meet You through Time" series of activities invited contemporary guqin masters, contemporary guqin masters, vice-chairmen of Shenzhen Jiuyi Guqin Society, and Yidaofang Guqin Art Museum. The curator Wang Zhiqiang, the founder of the family incense stick, the national senior incense teacher, the top ten incense artists in the country, the intangible inheritor of Jiangnan literati incense, Su Ying, and the national florist and traditional Chinese culture lecturer Chen Xiujuan explained in the four events respectively. The four intangible cultural heritage items of Qinxianghua tea were presented, and teachers led the audience to experience the beauty of intangible cultural heritage and feel the inheritance of ingenuity.
The event also specially invited Li Yuanqing, a librarian and full professor of the National Research Center, an internationally famous sawqin performer, a member of the Chinese Musicians Association, a member of the Chinese Folk Artists Association, and an intangible cultural heritage expert of Shenzhen Cultural Association. From the perspective of Shenzhen's intangible cultural heritage, It tells the story behind China's intangible cultural heritage in depth.
More ingenuity, more inheritance. The Chinese guqin ranks first among the four traditional elegant tastes—“qin, chess, calligraphy and painting”. Wang and Zhou Wu Wang each added a string. This most traditional and ancient musical instrument in China has gradually transformed into an art of life after more than 3,000 years of transformation. In the performance of Guqin teacher Wang Zhiqiang, everyone seemed to walk through the mountains and rivers three thousand years ago, and heard the heartbeat of civilization.
"When the seal incense burns out, the curtain hooks under the shadow of the sun." Chinese literati love incense, and often use incense to express their inner remembrance, admiration for morality, and awe for gods. The cultural significance of this incense handed down from generation to generation has long been integrated into the blood of every Chinese. In the event, the incense Taoist Su Ying demonstrated the oldest Chinese seal incense technique on the spot, so that everyone present could feel the charm of traditional Chinese culture and the aesthetic taste of the ancients, and at a time when the epidemic is still severe, the theme is "fragrance" , led everyone to make a hand-made activity of anti-epidemic sachets, nourishing everyone's heart with culture.
Tea ordering and traditional flower arrangement skills in Song Dynasty are the crystallization of the wisdom of our ancestors. Whether it is a tea culture that reflects spiritual temperament, national traditions, aesthetic concepts, and values, or a flower arrangement culture that advocates the "unity of nature and man", it is the result of our ancestors. Feelings and expectations of a better life. At the event, Chen Xiujuan, a national-level florist and lecturer of traditional Chinese culture, brought you a wonderful demonstration of tea ordering and traditional flower arrangement in the Song Dynasty. The exquisite tea ordering techniques and traditional flower arrangement skills seemed to make people travel through time and space and enter the tea affairs of ancient literati and flowers.
"Qinxiang Flower Tea", the four most elegant intangible cultural heritages in China, after thousands of years, still exudes a heart-warming brilliance. They unite beauty and connect people's hearts together. They have been passed down through the ages and spread the Chinese spirit. , conveying wisdom and beauty.
"Meet you through time" explores the beauty of intangible cultural heritage and inherits the beauty of intangible cultural heritage with qinxiang flower tea. It is hoped that through this endless Chinese wisdom, more people's sense of identity with traditional culture will be enhanced, and the vitality of intangible cultural heritage will continue to be brought to life. More intangible cultural heritage has become the spiritual wealth that enriches people's lives and enlightens wisdom, allowing the excellent traditional Chinese culture to continue to flourish.