Luminous cup carving

Name of China's national intangible cultural heritage: luminous cup carving

Applicant: Jiuquan City, Gansu Province

Project No.: 330

Project No.: Ⅶ - 31

Time of publication: 2006 (the first batch)

Category: traditional art

Region: Gansu Province

Type: new item

Applicant: Jiuquan City, Gansu Province

Protection unit: Jiuquan luminous cup factory

Introduction to luminous cup carving:

Applicant: Jiuquan City, Gansu Province

Suzhou District of Gansu Province was once called Jiuquan County in history. It has a history of more than 2000 years since it was established in the Western Han Dynasty. It is one of the four famous ancient Hexi counties and an important historical and cultural city on the silk road.

Jiuquan luminous cup is a kind of precious drinking vessel made of jade. According to the records of shizhouji, when King Mu of Zhou Dynasty was in the western regions, he offered a cup of "night light is always full" to the imperial court. The cup is the essence of white jade. The song of Liangzhou written by Wang Han, a poet of Tang Dynasty, said: "the wine of grape is a luminous cup. If you want to drink pipa, you will be urged immediately. Don't laugh when you are drunk on the battlefield. How many people have fought in the past Thus, Jiuquan luminous cup appeared at least in the Tang Dynasty. Grape wine is produced in Liangzhou (Wuwei), and luminous cup is produced in Suzhou (Jiuquan). The quality of wine becomes more and more obvious because of the cup, and the cup is more famous because of the wine. It complements each other and is famous for thousands of years.

The production of luminous cup has to go through 28 complex processes. First of all, we need to select the best jade materials in laoshanwozi of Qilian Mountain, cut into cylinders of different specifications according to the size of the wine cup, and then make the blank according to a certain size, then cut and finely grind the shape to form the initial shape of the luminous cup, and then cut out the bore to basically form the luminous cup. Finally, after 14 processes such as fine grinding, punching, grinding, extension, polishing, and waxing, we use horsetail net to polish the luminous cup Crystal clear luminous cup.

Jiuquan luminous cup is as thin as paper with smooth and delicate surface. After continuous improvement of the production process, it has been able to produce six categories and more than 30 shapes of luminous cups. All kinds of varieties attach great importance to maintaining the traditional production process, making the luminous cup more brilliant. The local government has organized the implementation of the five-year protection plan to excavate and sort out the original folk luminous cup production technology.

Chinese PinYin : Ye Guang Bei Diao