Lotus sculpture

Lotus sculpture

Junzi lotus -- the landmark of Liancheng (Xiangtan City). Four graceful lotus picking girls, holding lotus pods, smile slightly; 50 fountains around the pool, flying in an arc to the center; under the blue sky, lotus, lotus pods and lotus picking girls complement each other, full of vitality. The noble character of "out of the mud but not dyed, clean water but not demon" in the sculpture inspires and inspires generations of Xiangtan people to march forward bravely towards a better future.

brief introduction

Junzi lotus sculpture is the most representative and characteristic city sculpture in Xiangtan city. This sculpture is named after the Song Dynasty writer Zhou Dunyi's love for lotus, which praises lotus as a gentleman in flowers. The base of the sculpture is black marble, simulating the color of sludge. A budding Lotus "out of the sludge" stands in the Qinglian pool. In the pool, four graceful lotus picking girls, holding lotus pods, smile slightly. Around the pool, 50 fountains are flying in the air towards the center, which are colorful in the sunshine. The whole sculpture decorated the South Gate of Xiangtan City, which is known as "Liancheng".

The sculpture is located in the construction square of Xiangtan city. It was built in 1985. The designer is Professor Xu Shuyang of Zhejiang Academy of fine arts. The sculpture of Junzi lotus adopts abstract artistic techniques. A budding lotus symbolizes a bright future. The main scene of the sculpture is 31.5 meters high, the lotus girl is 3.5 meters high, and the diameter of the pool is 30 meters. The whole group of sculptures is a solid color three-dimensional picture composed of people and objects.

The whole story of Jianxiang

In 1982, the South Jianshe Road in Xiangtan city was completed. The municipal Party committee and the municipal government considered building a sculpture at the beginning of the South Jianshe Road.

At the end of 1983, the Xiangtan Municipal Party committee entrusted Zhejiang Academy of fine arts to design the sculpture of the center of the city's construction square. Zhejiang Academy of fine arts attaches great importance to Xiangtan sculpture. It has sent professors, lecturers and art workers to Xiangtan three times for field investigation, held various symposiums, collected materials, discussed the theme, and consulted a large number of historical materials of the city. After returning to school, we designed 12 plans with different themes and styles, and selected 8 plans to send to Xiangtan after internal evaluation. Huang Zhengqiu recalled that after the works were sent to Xiangtan, the professionals and administrative leaders of Xiangtan city selected eight works respectively. As a result, Zhejiang Academy of fine arts, Xiangtan professional and technical personnel and Xiangtan administrative leading group unanimously chose the design of Junzi lotus.

Taking Xianglian, a special product with a long history in Xiangtan, as the main line, the sculpture connects the lotus, Xianglian and liannv, and forms a miniature picture of Xiangtan's history and current situation by using abstract artistic techniques between "like and not like", showing Xiangtan's past, present and future And the lotus unique "out of the sludge but not stained" noble character is displayed to the world, contains the dedication and noble morality of Xiangtan people, the whole work, set a benchmark for urban sculpture.

On May 7, 1985, entrusted by the municipal Party committee and the municipal government, the municipal garden department signed an agreement with Zhejiang Academy of fine arts on sculpture production and installation. After 80 days of hard work, the sculpture of the lotus of the gentleman was completed. On November 6, 1985, the lotus themed sculpture of Jianshe Road square was completed. The sculpture is composed of lotus in the main scene, lotus girl in Chu scenery, lotus pond and fountain. Its implication and modeling, classical beauty and modern beauty are integrated into one, which is novel and unique.

Around its name, Xiangtan City has carried out extensive solicitation and careful consideration. Li Renshen, then mayor of the city, was very concerned about this and put forward specific requirements for the name to be implicit, elegant and concise. Shan Zhonglu said that at that time, the names collected included "bud to bloom", "bud to bloom", "Lotus", "Lotus" and so on. After the summary, it shall be submitted to the Standing Committee of the municipal Party Committee for examination and approval. Then, according to the famous sentence in Zhou Dunyi's famous article "love lotus", it is proposed to be named "Junzi Lotus", which has been used since then.

influence

On June 9, 1986, after the completion of the sculpture of the lotus of the gentleman,

Publish the top view photos of the sculpture "Junzi Lian". For the first time in China, the sculpture of a prefecture level city was published on the front page of people's daily. In the same year, CCTV and Hunan TV successively broadcast the pictures of the sculpture. Subsequently, several magazines such as tourism, urban and rural construction, Party branch, and 14 print media such as China city appearance daily and Hunan Daily published photos and manuscripts on the sculpture to introduce the landscape and artistic value of the sculpture. The directors of Shanghai, Xi'an and Xiaoxiang film studios put the landscape of Xiangtan City Sculpture "Junzi Lian" on the screen of four films, including "difficult litigation", "inside and outside the court", "star · star", "industrial and commercial guard".

From a national point of view, only the "Wuyang" sculpture in Guangzhou and the "fishing girl" sculpture in Zhuhai can be compared with the "Junzi Lian" sculpture.

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