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Beijing Olympic medals in the traditional gold medal for the first time creatively used the Chinese jade, its unique creative symbol of what?

Gold and jade" is the design of the Beijing Olympic Games medals adopted by the style, a metaphor for the traditional Chinese culture of "gold and jade", reflecting the Chinese people on the Olympic spirit of salute and praise for the athletes. Its design program is very innovative, breaking through the tradition of a single material in any previous Olympic Games medal design, and incorporating typical Chinese cultural elements. The Central Academy of Fine Arts (CAFA), the winning bidder of the medal design, and the China Banknote Printing and Minting Corporation (CBMC), which has rich experience in minting coins and excellent equipment, formed a revision and improvement team. The Central Academy of Fine Arts made further refinements to the program according to the requirements, and the China Banknote Printing and Minting Corporation cooperated with the minting technology to solve the final molding process of the medal.

Something special

As is customary at the Summer Olympics, the medals are made of materials other than gold, silver and copper, which are generally not broken. The Beijing Olympic Games medals by the symbol of honor and virtue "gold", "jade" material "composite" and become. Modification and refinement of the group on the jade in the face of the proportion of a number of adjustments and attempts, and ultimately the back of the medal metal edge of the width of the medal from 3.5 millimeters to 6 millimeters, highlighting the metal texture of the medal, increasing the recognition of the medal.

In the previous Olympic Games, there were individual athletes who were too excited after winning the medals and threw the medals into the air, which led to damage. The Beijing Olympics medals are inlaid with "jade", which is more important to increase the safety factor. Modification and improvement of the medal metal and jade combination of technology and safety of the team conducted a number of technical tests. Finally, they have completed the technical research under the premise of ensuring that the medal process requirements, to find a way to ensure the safety of the medal. Gold and jade" as the idea of the Beijing Olympic Games medals, and the Beijing Olympic Games emblem "China Seal - Dancing Beijing", this has become a classic of the perfect combination of China's splendid culture and the Olympic Games. "Gold and Jade" has become a carrier to publicize the Olympic spirit and the concept of the Beijing Olympic Games, to show the design and production level of Chinese cultural and artistic characteristics, and to become a unique legacy of the Beijing Olympic Games.

On March 27, this countdown to the Beijing Olympics 500 days of special days, the Beijing Organizing Committee for the Olympic Games chose the Capital Museum in the grand release of the 2008 Olympic Games medal style. The use of gold and jade, the medal diameter of 70 millimeters, 6 millimeters thick. The front of the medal for the IOC unified regulations for the pattern - inserted wings standing Greek Goddess of Victory and the Greek Panathinaiko Arena; the back of the medal is inlaid with jade jade jade from the ancient Chinese dragon pattern, the back of the metal in the middle of the graphic engraved with the Beijing Olympic Games emblem. The hook of the medal is evolved from the traditional Chinese jade double-dragon bushy-patterned Juan. The whole medal is dignified and elegant, with strong Chinese characteristics, which not only reflects the tribute to the winner, but also graphically interprets the value of the Chinese nation of "jade" over "virtue" since ancient times, which is another "East-meets-West" combination of the Chinese civilization and the Olympic spirit in the image landscape project of the Beijing Olympic Games. This is another "East meets West" of Chinese civilization and Olympic spirit in the image landscape project of the Beijing Olympic Games.

The medal boxes and ribbons released at the same time with the medals also have the aesthetic interest of traditional Chinese culture, highlighting the distinctive Chinese characteristics and national style. Beijing Olympic Games medal box for the Chinese traditional craft of wooden lacquer box, quadrilateral shape, heaven and earth cover slightly curved on all sides, a metaphor for heaven and earth, four sides, the meaning of the hexagonal beauty. The ribbons are woven by machine, with cloud pattern on vermilion ground, which is festive and auspicious.

Approved

On January 11, 2007, the Executive Committee of the Beijing Organizing Committee of the Olympic Games (BOCOG) considered and approved the design of the medals for the Beijing Olympic Games. On February 8 of the same year, the physical samples of the Beijing Olympic medals were sent to the IOC, and at the Executive Committee chaired by President Rogge, the IOC Executive Committee approved the design of the medals for the Beijing Olympic Games. In the confirmation letter they sent, they praised: "The Beijing Olympic medals will prove to be a work of art. They are noble, a combination of traditional Chinese culture and the Olympic spirit. We congratulate the Beijing Olympic medal design program!"

On March 27, 2007, the Olympic medal pattern was first introduced in the Capital Museum. Its scientific name is "Rui", because the back is inlaid with jade and called "gold and jade". The design of gold and jade, so that the jade this has Chinese characteristics, can be called the Chinese symbol of the special items, all of a sudden from the "warm" become dazzling, become the focus of world attention. The front of the medal of the Beijing Olympic Games uses the pattern unified by the International Olympic Committee, namely, the standing Goddess of Victory and the panoramic image of the Greek Panathinaiko Arena. The back of the medal is inlaid with jade jade, with the emblem of the Beijing Olympic Games engraved on the metal figure in the center. The medal hook evolved from a traditional Chinese jade double-dragon bushy juan.

An allusion

The phrase "having eyes but failing to recognize gold and jade" is a popular saying in China, and is often used as a metaphor for shallow knowledge and a lack of ability to recognize things. However, if you think about it carefully, it is not difficult to find this proverb quite puzzling.

"Gold and jade" originally refers to a special gold and jade processing technology (i.e., inlaid in gold on a variety of jade), and sometimes also refers to the use of this processing technology made of gold and jade objects. For example: The Plum in the Golden Vase, 20th time: "The rest and then play a piece for me, according to the gold and jade Goddess of Mercy full of pools of delicate distractions worn on the front of his damsel." Seventy-two: "Lin's and early wearing a head full of beads and emeralds, wearing a big red robe with sleeves, waist tie gold inlaid jasper belt, under the Xuan brocade hundred flowers skirt." This "gold and jade" artifacts was originally very easy to recognize, how people will "have eyes not to recognize" it?

In fact, to trace the roots, "have eyes but do not know gold inlaid jade" this proverb is by "have eyes but do not know Jingshan jade" harmonic blackmail. The saying "you can't recognize Jing Mountain Jade" is from Han Fei Zi - He's: During the Spring and Autumn Period, Bian He, a Chu man, saw a phoenix landing on a piece of green stone in Jing Mountain (located in present-day Nanzhang County, Hubei Province). Since people at that time believed that the phoenix would not land in a place without treasure, Bian He thought that the phoenix had landed on a green stone. So, Bian He decided that there must be some precious jade in that piece of green stone, and offered it to King Li of Chu. King Li of Chu ordered the jade worker to recognize it, but the jade worker said it was just a stone. King Li of Chu was furious and ordered to cut off Bian He's left foot. After the death of King Li of Chu, King Wu of Chu succeeded to the throne, and Bian He went to offer the treasure again. King Wu of Chu again ordered a jade worker to identify it, but the jade worker still said it was just a stone. So, Bian He lost his right foot again for the crime of deceiving the king. After the death of King Wu of Chu, King Wen of Chu succeeded to the throne. Bian He hugged the jade and wept bitterly under the mountain of Chu until his tears ran out and blood dripped from his eyes. When King Wen of Chu heard about this, he felt very strange, so he sent someone to ask him, "There are many people in the world who were tortured and had their feet cut off, why are you so sad?" Bian He replied, "What I am sad about is not having my feet cut off, but the fact that beautiful jade is treated as stone and loyal men are treated as liars." Upon hearing this, King Wen of Chu ordered the jade worker to cut open the jade and found that it was really a rare piece of precious jade inside. Later, in order to emphasize the name of Bianhe, King Wen of Chu named the jade "He Shi Bi". Because He Shi Bik comes from Jing Mountain, so later people also called "Jing Mountain Jade", such as the Three Kingdoms - Cao Zhi "and Yang Zu De book" that there is a sentence in the cloud: "Everyone said that they hold the pearl of the snake, family said that they hold the Jade of Jing Mountain."

As the story of Bianhe's jade offering was widely circulated in the later generations, "having eyes but not recognizing the jade of Jingshan" became a well-known proverbial allusion with the circulation of the story. For example, in the twenty-first chapter of "The Plum in the Golden Vase", "I, Simon Qing, was in a moment of ignorance, and did not know your good advice, and failed to live up to your good intentions, and it was precisely 'having eyes but not recognizing the jade of the Jing Mountain', and looking at it as if it were a stubborn stone."

After the Ming Dynasty, perhaps because people feel that the "Jingshan Jade" is not popular enough, and the allusions involved are not clear to everyone, the word "Jingshan Jade" in the colloquialisms is gradually being pronounced as "Gold and Jade", and "Gold and Jade", the word "Jingshan Jade". The word "jinxiangyu" in this proverb was gradually replaced by the similarly pronounced "gold and jade", and the phrase "having eyes but not recognizing gold and jade" was thus spread in the folklore by blackmail.

Production process

"Gold inlaid jade" is also known as gold-plated tin inlaid process, that is, in jade, ceramics, alabaster, glaze and other artifacts on the surface of the tin wrapped in gold process title.

According to reports, "gold and jade" in the jade craft on the scientific name is called "gold and silver inlaid gemstone jade", its history and and the Bik quite a source. Legend has it that after Wang Mang usurped the throne, coerced the Empress Dowager to hand over the jade seal, the Empress Dowager in a fit of rage will be the jade seal on the ground, chipped off a corner. Later, Wang Mang ordered the skilled craftsmen to carry out renovation, with gold inlaid with the missing corner, known as "gold inlaid with jade seal", "gold inlaid with jade" will thus get its name. "Gold inlaid jade" process on a "set" word, to rely on continuous hammering, the gold wire or gold inlaid into the pattern.

The technique of gold inlaid with jade was first seen in the Qing Dynasty during the Qianlong period, and was brought to the Central Plains by Qianlong's favorite concubine Xiang Fei, and was gradually lost at the end of the Qing Dynasty. At that time by the foreign tribute to the jade, some of the Islamic style of "traces of Dustan" jade which has a few pieces of gold inlaid jade. Looking at these Ying thin as paper, embedded with gold and silver wire and various colors of gemstones, glass vessels, the Qianlong Emperor loved, immediately made a decision: gold and jade inlaid only for the palace all, not to spread out, and ordered the Ministry of the Interior Office of the manufacture of imitation. Jade masters in the palace with their wisdom and sweat, combined with the Qianlong work of the court skills, and finally created a symbol of the royal gold inlaid jade jade jade. Qianlong also wrote many poems to praise its exquisite workmanship.

At the end of the Qing Dynasty, the royal family fell, a large number of court skills were lost in this period, Qianlong work gold inlaid jade is one of them; in the 1940s, one of the "four monsters" in the jade world, Pan Bingheng masters once restored the production of gold inlaid jade production methods, but Pan Bingheng did not want to spread the craft, around 1978 However, Pan Bingheng did not want to pass on his craft, and around 1978, the production of Jinlangyu was lost again. At present, a master jade cutter spent 3 years and finally made his first gold inlaid jade artifact. A string of 108 hollowed out gold and jade beads estimated at 16 million.

After several storms, silent for hundreds of years of gold and jade. In 2003 reappeared in the world. This has a "Qianlong work" techniques of jade treasures, not only reproduced the court art, and its craftsmanship level has been than hundreds of years ago there has been a huge improvement. For the first time, gold and jade were used in jewelry that required a higher level of craftsmanship. These gold and jade jewelry is hundreds of years ago, the emperor dreamed of crafts.

The Beijing Olympic medals use "gold inlaid jade" technology, in recent years, the processing of jade jewelry is relatively common, but the details are slightly different. Currently on the market common "gold inlaid with jade" products, which the "gold" is mostly 18K gold or platinum, and "jade" is mostly jadeite. Gold and jade inlaid, meaning "gold and jade", symbolizing wealth and talent. Due to technical reasons, the market is now the main "gold and jade" products are mainly jade, the price determinant is the texture of the jade itself.

Gold and jade mooncake commemorative chapter

Authorized by the Beijing Organizing Committee for the Olympic Games approved, a century of the Olympic Games and the Chinese Mid-Autumn Festival culture combined with the "Olympic flower-shaped gold and jade, gold and silver commemorative chapters," the country's first.

-- "Silver and gold Olympic mooncakes" synchronized listing, packaging form novel and unique popular.

The Olympic torch is about to be lit, and the Olympic Games are getting closer and closer to us. With the arrival of the 2007 Mid-Autumn Festival, the preparation for the Olympic Games has entered the final stage. To this end, the Beijing Organizing Committee for the Olympic Games in time to authorize the issuance of the "Olympic flower-shaped gold and jade, gold and silver commemorative medals" (also known as "Olympic moon cakes"), not only for the Chinese Millennium Mid-Autumn Festival culture to add color, but also for the 2008 Beijing Olympic Games to offer a generous gift. Collectors recognize that it can be collected and can be "gift" multiple functions, after the issue of hair will set off a new round of "Olympic and Mid-Autumn Festival" of the Olympic Games and Chinese culture discussion of the craze.

"Olympic flower-shaped gold and jade, gold and silver commemorative chapter" combines the traditional Chinese Mid-Autumn Festival culture and Olympic culture, is the artistic crystallization of the two cultures. Using the modern "gold inlaid jade" and "silver inlaid gold" technology, the multiple combinations of precious metals, coupled with the Olympic cultural elements, making the "Olympic flower-shaped gold, jade, gold and silver medallions", has a double Appreciation space. One of the "Olympic flower-shaped gold and jade commemorative medals" for the "gold and jade" collection. On the front side, there is a colorful gold modeling of the ancient Chinese myth of "Chang'e running to the moon", and the top grade Fei material is used to create a full moon. On the back is the emblem of the Beijing Olympic Games. Contains 8 grams of 999 pure gold. Another "Olympic flower-shaped gold and silver medals" for the "silver and jade" collection. On the front side of the printed Chinese ancient myth "Chang'e running to the moon" colorful silver shape, using pure gold to create a full moon. On the back is the Beijing Olympic Games emblem logo. Containing 999 pure gold 0.3 grams, 12 grams of pure silver. The two collections of "Chang'e to the moon" picture, the creative beauty of the yarn, as thought.

It is understood that the Olympic flower-shaped gold and jade commemorative chapter of the global limited edition of 3400 sets, the Olympic flower-shaped gold and silver commemorative chapter of the global limited edition of 16,680, divided into a variety of packaging forms, to meet the different levels of the collection and the demand for Mid-Autumn Festival gift, the Olympic flower-shaped gold and jade, silver commemorative chapter of the combination of the set of the global issue of 3400 sets, extremely rare and precious.

Olympic collection experts believe that the "Olympic flower-shaped gold and jade, gold and silver medals" is a rare humanistic Olympic collection. In terms of significance, the Mid-Autumn Festival is a traditional Chinese festival since ancient times, symbolizing the unity of the Chinese nation, the 2008 Olympic Games, China's Olympic dream, is a major event in China, the Olympic flower-shaped gold jade, gold and silver commemorative medallion "cohesion of the Mid-Autumn Festival culture and Olympic culture, while highlighting the" dream "a beautiful vision. It carries the cultural connotation is definitely more valuable than its own value, can be called the Olympic collection in the "leading stock". More importantly, it will change the routine of Chinese mid-autumn rituals for thousands of years, allowing the Chinese people to have a real "Olympic Mid-Autumn Festival".

Design team

The Central Academy of Fine Arts, the winning unit of the medal design, and the China Banknote Printing and Minting Corporation, which has rich experience in minting coins and sophisticated equipment, formed a team to revise the perfect team. The Central Academy of Fine Arts, according to the requirements of the program to do further refinement perfect, China Banknote Printing and Minting Corporation from the minting process technology to have cooperated, in order to solve the final molding process of the medal.

Designers:

1. Prof. Wang Min, Dean of the School of Design of the Central Academy of Fine Arts (CAFA)

2. Prof. Xu Ping, Vice Dean of the School of Design of the CAFA

3. Prof. Wang Yipong, Associate Professor of the Second Studio of the School of Design of the CAFA

4. Prof. Xiao Yong, Associate Professor of the Seventh Studio of the School of Design of the CAFA

5. p>5、Central Academy of Fine Arts, School of Design, Associate Professor Hang Hai

6、Central Academy of Fine Arts, Xue Mei

7、Central Academy of Fine Arts, Liu Yang