It is understood that the craftsmanship of Longgang's "He's Bodiless Lacquerware" has a history of more than 130 years, and the lacquerwares manufactured by this craftsmanship are not only colorful,but also as bright as a mirror. It has been included in the Zhejiang Intangible Cultural Heritage Protection List. During this tour, the foreign anchor Jonny followed the master Zhou Yuqin, the inheritor of craftsmanship of bodiless lacquerware, to visit the simple and elegant bodiless lacquerwares and learn the culture hidden in those lacquerwares.
(The bodiless lacquerware under Jonny's lens)
The second part of this tour is the rice-sculpture-making. Master Yang Jikun at the scene is a famous folk rice sculptor in Wenzhou. Rice sculpture is a comprehensive folk traditional art in Longgang. Every New Year's Eve, people use rice cakes to make human figures and animals, which are commonly known as "Cake figure." Master Yang Jikun is skilled and exquisite, and his rice sculpture works are so vivid and full of inner intelligence. During the video-shooting, Jonny was full of curiosities about this traditional folk craft and enthusiastically learned knowledge from the master. Kneading, pinching, carving, dressing...finally, he successfully made a lifelike "fish".
(The rice sculpture work under Jonny's lens)
In addition to appreciating lacquerware and making traditional rice sculptures, Jonny also experienced the paper-cutting art. Chinese paper-cutting is the world class intangible cultural heritage. The patterns of paper-cutting are rich in content and profound in meaning, and are closely related to people's lives. During the event, Wu Jingluan, the inheritor of local paper-cutting art, introduced to Jonny the connotation of various paper-cutting works and taught Jonny to cut the paper step-by-step.
(The paper-cut works under Jonny's lens)
As the ending of the Longgang intangible cultural heritage experience event, the "Young朋友in温州" overseas communication group's tours in Wenzhou also come to a successful end. Since last August, the film crew of the WenzhouDaily has led foreign anchors from many countries around the world to visit the counties and towns in Wenzhou. For example, "Mauritian girl Sumayyah approaches Dongyuan wood movable type printing in Ruian", "British video blogger Alex tastes authentic Maimai wine in Longwan", "American photographer Roman lingers in the beautiful Dongtou"... These videos displayed the unique cultural charm of Wenzhou to all the people at home and abroad through the different perspectives of foreign anchors, attracting a large number of netizens' attention, likes and comments.
The video programs and graphic content of this event will be successively launched through the domestic and overseas media as Xinhua News Agency’s column "China Good Story","In Zhejiang" (Impression Zhejiang) - the English website hosted by the Zhejiang Provincial Government Information Office, "Overseas Release", the "Tianmu News" APP owned by Zhejiang Daily News Group, and Wenzhou TV APP "快点温州" , "Wenzhou Daily" , European "Chinese Headline" and Italian "China Street".
