Zigong: The Artistic Features of Lantern Festival

Magnificent momentum, large scale and blending of lights and scenery are the overall characteristics of Zigong Lantern Festival. It is only natural that porcelain, an ordinary commodity, is used for holding lai and serving rice. However, using it as a lamp is the ingenuity of Zigong people! Porcelain dragon consists of more than 20 thousand pieces of daily porcelain tableware. The dragon teeth are upright spoons, the wandering dragon whiskers are a string of small wine glasses, and the winding dragon bodies are rows of blue and white exquisite bowls that are buckled together. The lantern flashed as if the dragon's blood were flowing. An audience wrote in the guest book: "It's really ingenious and wonderful to make such a beautiful lamp with porcelain tableware!" After careful cleaning, the penicillin vial is filled with colored water prepared by complex technology, and it is made into a crystal clear "dragon", a radiant "peacock", just like a dream-like "moonlight on the lotus pond". When this lamp made of medicine bottles was exhibited in Guangzhou, an overseas Chinese exclaimed, "It's really a touch of stone to turn gold into magic!" Silkworm cocoon is the raw material for silk making, and it is the original creation of Zigong people to use it as a lamp. After pupation, the empty cocoon is treated and glued into lifelike "dragon" and "phoenix"; Stripping bamboo into cicada-thin pieces and weaving them into baskets and fans is a unique skill of southerners, while Zigong people make them into transparent lanterns, and the local customs pop out. Glass blow-molded lamps, lamps made of dyes and lamps made of silver-plated glass all show magical imagination and creativity. The organic combination of traditional craft and modern science and technology is the most remarkable artistic feature of Zigong Lantern Festival. Realizing the unity of shape, color, sound, light and movement, it has become the representative of modern colored lights. The panoramic shape of "Xing" Lantern Festival is set between mountains and rivers. Buildings with different artistic styles, different types and varieties of craft lanterns, lantern lanterns, flower-and-bird lanterns, figure lanterns and large-scale group lanterns compete for beauty in this artistic realm where natural beauty and artificial beauty are intertwined. The shape of the lamp is also rich and colorful because of the different themes, contents and expression techniques, which constitutes the unique style of Zigong Lantern Festival. Since "color" is a lamp, it is naturally based on red, which represents peace and celebration. But it is not limited to this, its color changes and uses cover almost all the colors in the world. Red, orange, yellow, green, cyan, blue and purple are unpredictable, with many colors and far-reaching implications. All the joy, tranquility and artistic conception are displayed in this colorful emotional world. "Light" The light of Lantern Festival is not a single illumination light, but the light here is point-shaped, beam-shaped, column-shaped and sheet-shaped. Form a wonderful landscape of "colorful mountains, mountains and water, different distances". The flashing lights give you a sense of mystery; That red light evokes your eager yearning and pursuit; The light in the water stirs up colorful beams, and the light ejected from Longkou removes seven colors of stars. It is particularly worth mentioning that the lighting of Zigong Lantern Festival mainly comes from the internal light source, which is exposed from the "belly" of the lamps; Let the lamp have more vitality and appeal. "Sound" Anyone who has been to Zigong Lantern Festival, apart from being too busy to see, is afraid that the feeling of hearing and hearing is unforgettable in this life. Birds singing in the sky, dinosaurs calling on the ground, the goddess' moving flute, and the suona blowing from the wedding … naturally rhyme, and all directions are pleasing to the ear. On the Lantern Festival, you can not only wander in the boiling sea, but also enjoy the tranquility in the trickle. "Moving" makes the lights move is the most representative feature of modern colored lights. It is not easy to make it move freely, skillfully and strangely. Zigong Lantern Festival basically realized the dynamics in the air and the dynamics in the water. People inside the lamp can move, and people outside the lamp can also move. Horizontal movement, curve movement and up-and-down movement make people laugh and marvel. The organic integration of shape, color, light, sound and movement is the core content of the artistic characteristics of Zigong Lantern Festival and an important symbol of modern lanterns. It makes national culture shine brilliantly, and plays a positive role in promoting the rise of regional culture and the exploration and development of national culture.