Making Wadang topiaries

On September 11th, the museum held a public service activity to experience the practice of "making Wadang topiaries".

For children nowadays, understanding the words "wadang", "topiary", if they are not allowed to see it with their own eyes, just hearsay, they may not know what is going on? Xiangcheng Museum held this public welfare activities, is to guide the children hands on the production of topiary, feel the fun of the production process, let the children understand the history of the play, feel the history and culture of the motherland.

First of all, the narrator first explained to the children what is Wadang? Wadang, commonly known as the head of the tile, it is China's ancient architecture used in the top of the eaves of the tube tile on a building component, refers to a specific part of the top of the tube tile sagging. A "tile" is a piece of pottery with a rounded arc, used to cover a roof; a "dang" is a bottom. "Tile covering the eaves of the interiors, just as the bottom of the tiles, and section than in the eaves end, tile tile shield, so when the name".

Due to the Han Dynasty, strong, vast territory, economic prosperity, the people's standard of living is higher, so the Han Dynasty is the peak of the art of Wadang, but also the creative emergence of the text Wadang. Due to the high development of culture and art in the Han Dynasty, the original patterns and decorations on the wadang could not fully, completely and accurately reflect the cultural thinking and spiritual outlook of the people at that time. Qin Shi Huang's burning books and burying scholars imprisoned people's thoughts, to the Han Dynasty, people's thoughts have been unprecedented liberation, in the context of this social and cultural ideas, people make the pattern on the wadang also reflect. From pattern decoration to text, is also the inevitable development.

"Topography" refers to the shape of inscriptions, stone carvings, bronzes and other cultural relics, as well as the text and patterns on the top of the sheet of paper, is an ancient traditional craft in China, is the use of rice paper and ink or dyes, the inscription, the text on the vessel or pattern, a clear copy of a skill.

By experiencing the process of making Wadang topiaries, children learn about the history of Wadang and the knowledge of topiaries. Regaining a brick and tile, spreading a paper and ink, the children in the staff's guidance, although it is said that in the process of making, some topiaries production is not perfect, due to mastering the force, some even the paper are damaged, but can not stop their curiosity, still do very seriously, brown brush lightly, vermilion half a dish, revisit the romance of the history of the river is far away, in the topography of the motherland to feel the connotation of the culture.