Speaking of Jinping Lake 丨 Why can this light be on for 300 years?

Zhejiang News Customer Reporter Xiao Wei Municipal Party Committee reporting team Lu Haoqiang Sharing Alliance Pinghu Station Ni Qigen Chen Xinyu Drawing Yu Xinyi

In the evening, a corner of Pinghu East Lake Scenic Area was met with friends.

When I walked, I suddenly heard a tender coquettish sound, "Mom, let's go to the lake to watch the watermelon lamp!" Looking back, it was a little girl with a horny braid and about Mo Si.

Little to a young man, to the old man. It seems that every September, the city of Pinghu is infiltrated in the fragrance of watermelon; the people in this city are also intoxicated in the green and beautiful melon lamp.

This melon lantern has been on for 300 years. What is it, let it go after years without going out?

A wonderful lamp

World lamps, tens of millions. Watermelon lamp, only this one.

There are historical records that in the eighteenth year of Qianlong of the Qing Dynasty (1753), the literati Zhang Fengnian had a poem "Watermelon Lantern" in his "Huai Yongtang Poetry". He described the watermelon lamp like this: who made Gangua cleverly, don't see a round of clearness. This also proves that at least in the early years of the Qianlong of the Qing Dynasty, Pinghu people had engraved watermelon lights.

Watermelon lamp, a melon lamp made of exquisite pictures on watermelon, and then built -in candles or electric lights. The carving of watermelon lamps is a local traditional folk culture and creative art unique to Pinghu, Gua Township.

Imagine it. One evening 300 years ago, after a day of labor, our ancestors took a green watermelon from the ground. Taking advantage of the moonlight, the family sat around melon. After taste, the owner did not discard the skin, but picked up a tool, or stone or bamboo to paint on the melon skin. Under the reflection of the oil lamp, the scenery and shadow on the melon lamp are quite poetic.

Compared with ancient times, today's watermelon lamps are more colorful. In terms of content, it is not limited to the plays of characters, flowers, and insects, but all things can be painted. The carving process is also based on the painting, carving, picking, carving, and scraping, and has more reform and innovation. Right now, an excellent melon lantern is not only "shape", "color", "light", but also "sound" and "movement". "Form" is diverse in shape, and "color" is colorful and gorgeous. Because of its unique crafts, in 2009, Pinghu watermelon lamp was included in the third batch of Zhejiang intangible cultural heritage list.

Why does a watermelon become an art? The so -called soil and soil raising one person can be said to be a gentle humanistic temperament in Jiangnan Water Township, which gives the people's diligence, wisdom and gratitude on this land. According to legend, watermelon comes from the Western Regions. In the long river of history, she traveled long distances and went through thousands of sails, but only in Jiangnan, the people gave her a different vitality. And, this life is brighter and glorious due to years.

Alive non -genetic inheritance

As an important part of the excellent traditional culture of China, the inheritance and development of intangible cultural heritage is an important manifestation of cultural self -confidence.

How to better inherit and carry forward the non -heritage culture in the contemporary contemporary, let the public feel the charm of non -heritage culture, and at the same time let non -heritage products enter millions of households? Pinghu watermelon light gives her answer.

In September each year, the watermelon lamp culture festival is held in Pinghu. This is not so much a cultural feast, it is a integration and integration of cultural and economy.

This symbiosis originated in 1991. At that time, the State Council approved the withdrawal of Pinghu to withdraw the county and set up the 70th anniversary of the founding party of the Communist Party of China. In order to celebrate the 70th anniversary of the founding of the Communist Party of China, the Pinghu Municipal Party Committee and Municipal Government decided that from June 28th to July 1st, the city's watermelon light festival and commodity trade conference was held. Since then, the previous government of Pinghu will be the major events of the year, and it has attached great importance to it. 30 years, 30 years, never stopped. With the continuous enlarged effect of attracting investment, more and more people pay attention to the non -heritage culture of watermelon lamps.

Any kind of non -heritage culture, in order to maintain a strong vitality, only constantly injects new forces.

In the past few days, many citizens of Pinghu have entered the time of carving training for watermelon lamps. In another two days, they will take their sculpture technology to participate in Pinghu's annual thousands of people's carving lights. Most of them are post -80s, post -90s, or even post -00s. In order to let more young people fall in love with the aeshisania of watermelon lamps, in recent years, Pinghu has not only opened the watermelon lamp training course into the village community, but also opened in schools and grows in class all year round. The Primary School affiliated to Pinghu Normal School has developed a watermelon lamp school -based course -the "sample" of melon. Through project -based learning, students inherit the culture of watermelon lamps.

The watermelon lamp has a short preservation time. How to make this "instant art" live in the vision of the people for a long time? Over the years, Pinghu has continuously activated it.

Today, most of the watermelon lamps that can be seen on the streets of Pinghu are 3D printing. Prior to this, most of the watermelon lamps used for decorative were made of paper and silk cloth, which was not resistant to preservation. With the changes of the times, watermelon lamps also advance with the times. The adoption of advanced materials and advanced technologies also makes melon lamps vivid and pro -kiss on ordinary days. At the same time, Pinghu is preparing a watermelon lamp culture museum. In the future, it will vividly and comprehensively show this non -heritage culture by creating a comprehensive exhibition hall.

Let go of the "Heritage" settings to go further

This is the best era of non -heritage culture.

In recent years, with the rapid development of the Chinese economy, the cultural self -confidence of the Chinese people has also grew up. People have taken the initiative to explore the willingness of the ancient culture of the Chinese nation to be stronger than in the past. If you want to go further, you must seize the pulse of this era, let go of the "heritage" settings, and actively find opportunities to integrate people's lives. Like Pinghu's "selling" watermelon lamps, it may be a kind of inheritance. But I have to face that there are more non -heritage and silence in the museum, or there are a few non -genetic inheritors in the museum.

It is understood that there are more than 200 non -heritage projects in Pinghu, including 2 national non -heritage including Xunzi Book, Pinghu Pipa Pipa, and 7 provincial non -heritage including Jiucai Dragon and Pinghu bad eggs. How to survive these non -heritage, we might as well be more concept of "non -heritage+".

Pinghu Pippi

In fact, in recent years, many non -genetic inheritance experts have appeared on the Internet. For example, the "post -90s" character -Li Ziyi, such as the inheritor of the Cheng Ni in the 90s.

On June 11 this year, Li Ziyi stood out from 100 candidates, and on the list of 2021 "Chinese Non -Heritage Persons". Although she is not a inheritor of a certain non -heritage skill, she has studied the production of Shu embroidery, salt wells, live print printing, etc., and recorded the production process video to spread and promote it. This unique and new way of inheritance attracts more people to understand and learn non -heritage skills.

The non -genetically inheritors adopt "new means" to make non -heritage products new vitality and become a "new forces". Xixiaolin, Xinzheng County, Shanxi Province, is a inheritor of Chengni, a post -90s, who went to South Korea from the Loess Plateau many years ago to study modern ceramic craftsmanship. After returning from studying abroad, Xing Xiaolin boldly innovated. By adjusting the temperature of the kiln and the atmosphere of the kiln, the color of Cheng Ni was increased from 3 to 8, and more youth elements were injected into the design. At the same time, he also gave full play to the advantages of the Internet, and let Cheng Nihuan enter more young people's vision by opening online stores and live broadcasts.

"Non -heritage" returns to life, let us look more expectations.

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