Co-building a cultural heritage protection platform for the Guangdong Hong Kong Macao Greater Bay Area
Professor Chen Ping from Jinan University visits Hong Kong
Exchange and interact with the cultural heritage protection community
From November 4th to 6th, 2024, Professor Chen Ping, Dean of the Institute of Cultural Heritage and Creative Industries at Jinan University and Chief Chair of the UNESCO Chair on the Inheritance and Innovation of Traditional Handicrafts, was invited to attend an event in Hong Kong.
“Celebrating the 75th Anniversary of National Day
The Dialogue between Chopin and Luban”
In order to deepen cultural exchange and mutual learning, strengthen cultural heritage exchange and cooperation, implement cultural heritage policies, and increase public education efforts, the Greater China Intangible Cultural Heritage Society recently held a piano sawing concert with the theme of Celebrating the 75th Anniversary of National Day: Dialogue between Xiao Bang and Lu Ban at the Hong Kong City Hall Concert Hall. Through the cross-border interaction between sawing and piano, promote the dissemination and development of sawing, a non-material cultural skill.
Live piano and harpsichord concert of Chopin and Luban's Dialogue
Sawqin player Li Yuanqing and young pianist Li Yihao performed famous ancient and modern music together, which was well received by a wide audience. As the primary guest, Dean Chen Ping had an exchange with Mr. Lu Yongsheng, President of the Greater China Intangible Cultural Heritage Association, colleagues in the Hong Kong cultural heritage protection industry, sawing artists, and young artists after the concert. Both sides discussed the protection and inheritance status of sawing skills in Hong Kong and even the Greater Bay Area. Chen Ping stated that Jinan University is very concerned about the development and dissemination of cultural heritage in the Greater Bay Area. In recent years, it has maintained good exchanges and interactions with the education sector in Hong Kong, working together to promote the protection and inheritance of cultural heritage and intangible cultural heritage in various parts of the Greater Bay Area.
Mr. Lu Yongsheng, President of the Greater China Intangible Cultural Heritage Art Association, and the sawing artists
Sawqin artists perform live
Sawqin artists perform live
Colleagues in the Hong Kong cultural heritage conservation community
Visiting the Art and Culture Foundation
On November 5th, Dean Chen Ping and his delegation visited K11 Craft&Guild Foundation Art and Culture Foundation at K11 MUSEA in Hong Kong. KCG was founded by Hong Kong entrepreneur Mr. Zheng Zhigang in 2018, committed to inheriting and revitalizing traditional Chinese crafts, integrating crafts into modern life, establishing a cultural ecosystem of crafts, and ensuring sustainable protection and development of traditional crafts. Dean Chen Ping met with Ms. Mo Cuiyu, a director of the foundation, and had in-depth discussions on the exchange of research cooperation projects on Chinese palace crafts, in-depth research and promotion of cloisonn é crafts, and the application and promotion of high-end crafts such as mother of pearl and silk thread in contemporary times.
Ms. Mo Cuiyu, Director of K11 Art and Culture Foundation
Ms. Mo Cuiyu, Director of K11 Art and Culture Foundation, Dean Chen Ping, and Project Manager Feng Jiaying of Public Welfare Industry Association Foundation
During their stay in Hong Kong, Dean Chen Ping and his delegation made a special visit to the head and editors of the Hong Kong China Tourism Publishing House. Both parties had in-depth discussions and communications regarding future cooperation projects. Both sides believe that tourism is the highest carrier for spreading the value and significance of cultural heritage, and tourism magazines not only introduce and display the style and content of cultural heritage and natural heritage to readers through pictures and texts, but also attract and guide readers, especially young readers, to feel the charm of cultural heritage and understand the cultural value it contains through words and articles. At the same time, it discussed how to carry out diversified activities in the increasingly powerful era of new media, turning readers into participants and strengthening interaction; Both sides also discussed future cooperation in organizing handicraft markets and creative workshops, allowing Hong Kong youth to experience and participate firsthand, and understand the profound heritage and unique charm of intangible cultural heritage.
Invited “Home of CPPCC Members”
Speech at the Committee Lecture Hall
On November 7th, the Tianhe District Political Consultative Conference of Guangzhou held the 14th lecture of the Committee Lecture Hall at the CPPCC Members' Home. Dean Chen Ping was invited to give a special coaching lecture on the theme of Contemporary Application and Communication of Cultural Heritage. Yue Chaoyang, Vice Chairman of the District Political Consultative Conference, presided over the lecture, and Zheng Guijin, Director of the Proposal Committee of the District Political Consultative Conference, as well as some members of the District Political Consultative Conference and officials of the Political Consultative Conference attended.
Special lecture on the contemporary application and dissemination of cultural heritage
Dean Chen Ping integrated a large number of examples from ancient and modern times, both domestic and foreign, vividly describing the main types, carrying connotations, inheritance and protection, and revitalization and innovation of cultural heritage. He shared his experience and insights in the field of cultural heritage research, and put forward suggestions on how to innovate and inherit cultural heritage, tell the story of China well, and other topics.
