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With family and reunion, she framed “home”.
Origin of Mid-Autumn Festival
Early Western Han Dynasty (206 B.C.-8 A.D.): According to legend, the Mid-Autumn Festival was first created during the Western Han Dynasty, when the moon was mainly worshipped in thanksgiving for a bountiful harvest and to pray for good luck.
Northern and Southern Dynasties (420-589): During the Northern and Southern Dynasties, the Mid-Autumn Festival gradually developed into a traditional folk festival, and people began to hold family dinners, moon and chrysanthemum viewing, and other activities.
Tang Dynasty (618-907): The Tang Dynasty was the peak of the development of the Mid-Autumn Festival, when it became an important court festival and began to be combined with poetry.
Song Dynasty (960-1279): During the Song Dynasty, the Mid-Autumn Festival was celebrated on a grander scale, with not only the traditions of enjoying the moon and eating mooncakes, but also events such as poetry sessions and dance performances.
Ming Dynasty 1368-1644: During the Ming Dynasty, the Mid-Autumn Festival became a festival for family reunions, and people also began to play the game of Pok Pok.
Qing Dynasty 1644-1912: During the Qing Dynasty, the traditional customs of the Mid-Autumn Festival were inherited and developed, such as viewing lanterns.
Modern Period: The Mid-Autumn Festival continued to be passed down in the modern period and became a legal holiday in China, celebrated by people through family reunions, enjoying the moon and eating mooncakes.
The history of the Mid-Autumn Festival can be traced back thousands of years.
Although the way it is celebrated varies from dynasty to dynasty
Mid-Autumn Festival has always been an important festival in traditional Chinese culture.
It represents reunion, thanksgiving and prayers for good fortune.
Happy moments with family
Are always hidden in ordinary days
Mid-Autumn Moonlight Night, Family and Country Together
Moonlight fills the courtyard, mooncakes are fragrant.
Families sit around and laugh
Reunion is more than mid-autumn, warm moments always happen in those ordinary days, the story of her and her family starts from that twilight moment with a hint of warmth.
When she returned home from work, the news was playing on a loop on the radio, and the smell of stir-frying was wafting from the kitchen. Her father and father-in-law were playing chess as usual, and the afterglow of the setting sun fell on both of them, a calm and beautiful image.
▲ At dusk, my father and father-in-law are playing chess.
Even if it was a scene that happened every day, the moment of watching it always made her happy, and on this twilight day, the plan of making a “man” came to her mind, and she decided that she would record this beautiful scene in the form of a statue for all eternity.
▲ Silicone statue work “In-laws
As a result, this group of silicone statues named “In-laws” was born, and the creator is the master of this story, the founder of Elephant Oriental Wax Art Co., Ltd, the founder of the Chinese brand “Curtain Up” Wax Museum, the art director of China Great Man Wax Museum, and the master of arts and crafts in Zhongshan City, Ms. Zhou Xuerong.
▲Mr. Liu Zhen, Founder of Elephant Art, Ms. Zhou Xuerong with the statue work “In-laws
Ultra-realistic visual DNA
Mid-Autumn
Festival
Make the statue “full” of emotion
Purely handmade, after measuring, sculpture, mold making, sculpture fitting, coloring and make-up, hair transplantation, make-up, finished product checking and other more than ten procedures, “in-laws” this group of works took eight months to complete the production.
▲ Silicone statue production process real shot
In this step of hair transplantation is all the use of reference to the character's hair, the two old men also shaved their heads for the work, and even the clothes on the statue are often worn by the two old men on the body, which is also known as Mr. Zhou's ultra-realistic “visual DNA”.
▲ Silicone statue work “In-laws
Whether it is from the details, or the look, have to go through many times of modification and refinement, so that even they can not recognize the real or fake is considered the ultimate.
Ms. Zhou once said that to make a statue, in order to make it realistic, you can't be sloppy in any detail, as meticulous as a pore, a hair, a spot. The most important detail lies in observation. Wax statues should not only be in form and spirit, but also have flesh and blood and full of emotion.
▲ Ms. Zhou's family and silicone statue work “In-laws
“When a wax figure is full of human emotions, it is truly lifelike and appealing.” It is with this unique “human touch” that the wax figure can “fool” everyone.
Always focusing on chess.
Mid-Autumn
Festival
There will always be questions from the sidelines
When the statue work was completed
Ms. Zhou sent a photo of the work to his husband
I didn't expect that even my husband wouldn't recognize it as a statue.
▲ Silicone statue work “In-laws
Mr. looked at the photo back to a disdainful expression and said, “Don't lie to me”, Mr. also said that he was zoomed in on the photo to see the shadow on the neck that this is the real person.
Later, after seeing the real thing, Mr. stopped talking, this time really is the wrong “person”.
Whether it's at an exhibition or in a wax museum.
From the moment the work is displayed
It's always interesting to be surrounded by spectators.
▲ Silicone statue work “In-laws
Visitors who have been to the wax museum under the Guangzhou Tower have seen a scene like this: an old man with a pensive face and another old man with a smiling face sitting casually playing chess.
When people are about to leave, they look back to see how these two old men are still playing chess. Waiting for someone to walk into a look pat the old man's shoulder, and rubbed his eyes to confirm, only to come back to his senses and exclaimed: “Yo, good guy! The original is two dummy ah.”
Deep affection for family
Mid-Autumn
Festival
It's the indelible mark of age.
In addition to her own father and father-in-law
Ms. Zhou also left her grandmother
Her grandmother, who raised her since she was a child.
▲ Ms. Zhou Xuerong with the silicone statue work “Old Grandma”.
In her heart, her grandmother is a special existence, in her grandmother's 90 years old, Zhou Xuerong began to tailor-made a silicone statue, while making and recalling the life of the bits and pieces from childhood, Zhou Xuerong and her family wear shoes and insoles on the feet of the cloth are grandmother sewed out of the needle and thread, the dynamics of this silicone statue of the grandmother's life is a portrait of the norm of hard work.
▲ Silicone statue work “Old Grandma” production process
The loose skin, the spots and capillaries on the skin are silky smooth, and the kind eyes sublimate the emotion of the work; every detail is worth scrutinizing, even more amazing than the paintings.
▲ Silicone statue work “Old Grandma
At the fast approaching New Year's Eve, in her hand is the red packet, Grandma is preparing the New Year's money to be given to her granddaughter.
“My grandmother and I have always slept in the same bed, and even after I grew up and started a family, my grandmother still treats me like a little kid, and gives me red packets on New Year's Eve.”
▲Mr. Liu Zhen, Founder of Elephant East, and Ms. Zhou Xuerong with the statue work “Old Grandma”
Because of her longing for her grandmother, she later took the silicone statue and placed it in her office, where she now sees her grandmother on the couch every day when she pushes the door.
With craftsmanship and love
Mid-Autumn
Festival
China has its own statue makers.
Telling China's Story with Silicone Statues
Telling the story of every ordinary person
This is Ms. Zhou's obsession as a craftsman.
▲ Silicone statue work “Yuan Longping
Mr. Zhou's selection of material is not only the flow of stars, but also focuses on the characters themselves to convey, emotions, education, historical significance, values, etc., a wide range of materials, there are representative characters in various fields.
▲ Silicone statue work “Zhang Jizhong
Mr. Zhou has also said, “I didn't earn much money through statues from '99 to now, but what supports me is not the illusion of great wealth, but a craftsman's heart and love, so even so, I'll still insist on going on, and at least let the people of the country know that China also has its own statue craftsmen.”
▲ Silicone statue work “Leng Jun
As a Chinese craftsman, it is all the more important to consciously become an art keeper first and keep the traditional Chinese culture, because it is the spiritual bloodline of a nation's unending life.
▲ Ms. Zhou Xuerong
I want the silicone statues to be a vehicle
If we can make people more willing and happy to learn about our traditional culture because of the silicone statue
Will make people more willing and happy to learn about our traditional culture.
I would be very lucky.
-- Zhou Xuerong
She's in a happy home.
She chose to immortalize the warmth of her home with a statue.
How did she manage to “make it look real”?
What is the visual DNA of hyper-realism?
Welcome to this issue of “Wax Statue Revealed”.
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