I'm colouring for Sanxingdui in Jingdezhen

"Coloured Sanxingdui", a Chinese culture global promotion presented by SICC coordinated with Chuanguan News, Sichuan Provincial Cultural Relics and Archeology Research Institute, and Sanxingdui Museum has been officially launched. Having learnt about the event, the ceramic artists from Jingdezhen, Jiangxi Province participated in and showed their great skills.

"Coloured Sanxingdui"has taken as its inspiration the idea of coloring the line drawings of unearthed Sanxingdui cultural relics, and invites people around the world to demonstrate their talent by taking part. In this way, the relics are endowed with renewed vitality, and Sanxingdui's glamor is spread to the world through the art. Ma Zhongju, Liu Zhiying and other six artists from Jingdezhen participated in this event by creating porcelain painting, increasing the charm of Sanxingdui cultural relics by glamourous glaze and colors.

Liu Zhiying is honored as a national "May 1st Female Pacesetter"and the ceramic art master of the first session in Jiangxi Province. She presented the porcelain painting of the Sanxingdui Bronze Bird. With the white porcelain plate as the canvas, she sketched the outline with light ink, colored it with glaze, and fired it with 800 degrees for 6 hours in the kiln.

The bronze bird in the porcelain plate was lively and colorful, as if a real bird travelling through time and space to us. "Sanxingdui cultural relics reflect the Shu’s ancestors’ wild imagination and great creativity. Their various presentations of culture were romantic and breathtaking."Liu Zhiying said, porcelain and bronze are both the quintessence of Chinese culture, while the former can stimulate more possibility of Sanxingdui cultural relics with diversified techniques and types of ware.

In her point of view, this is also the significance of "Coloured Sanxingdui". "Sanxingdui is the brilliant treasure of Chinese culture. I hope people can know more about Sanxingdui and promote Sanxingdui culture through this event."Liu Zhiying said that she hope she can come to Sanxingdui site in this summer to experience the mysterious ancient Shu’s civilization.

Ma Zhongju, the First-level Technician and the representative inheritors of intangible cultural heritage in Jiangxi Province, checked the materials of Sanxingdui cultural relics and was inspired by the Gold Mask. "The porcelain painting presents the prehistorical civilization in a new way by integrating cultural relics and modern designs. It brings about unexpected effects."

Ma Zhongju said that porcelain is similar to the bronze in some way. He hoped that the artistic dialogue transcending time and space can explore the tradition deeper and invite more people to promote Chinese culture in modern ways.

Another six ceramic artists in Jingdezhen including Zhao Guoxue, Jie Jinping, Zhang Jianping, Yuan Shaoqing, Yao Hui and Yi Mengxun represented the representative Sanxingdui relics like Bronze Standing Figure and Vertical Bronze-eyed Mask by porcelain painting and traditional painting techniques, etc. In this way, the porcelain and bronze met each other transcending time and space and burst out unique artistic glory.