China News Service, Shenzhen, November 3 (Reporter Suo Youwei) The national launch ceremony of Chang Shana's enamel bronze sculpture "Silk Road Lucky Sheep" was held at the Shenzhen Art Museum on the 3rd. The countdown to the 2026 APEC Year of China and the Asia-Pacific event is entering. This time, the product is launched in Shenzhen, the core city of the Guangdong-Hong Kong-Macao Greater Bay Area, adjacent to the thousand-year-old city of sheep, Guangzhou, allowing the auspicious animal context of the Dunhuang Silk Road and the auspicious sheep culture of Lingnan to share the beauty.
Chang Shana, a 96-year-old master of Dunhuang art, has been deeply involved in Dunhuang art research and cultural heritage for more than 80 years. Following her father Chang Shuhong's original intention of guarding the desert, she systematically sorted out mural patterns and reconstructed the oriental aesthetic system. She is the founder of contemporary Dunhuang pattern studies.
As the Year of the Sheep in Dingwei approaches in 2027, Chang Shana takes the classic auspicious animal of the Western Wei Dynasty "Running Yellow Sheep" from Cave 249 of the Mogao Grottoes as the creative prototype, extracts the free and romantic artistic charm of the "winged horse" mural in the same cave, and integrates it with the classic Dunhuang patterns. , using a number of national-level intangible cultural heritage techniques such as bronze carving, filigree, hand-painted painting, and enamel, to create an enamel bronze sculpture "Lucky Sheep on the Silk Road" and promote the creative transformation of Dunhuang's two-dimensional mural art into a three-dimensional intangible cultural heritage product.
Zhu Jianjun, Director of Shenzhen Art Museum, said in his speech that this launch is a vivid practice of the creative transformation and innovative development of China’s excellent traditional culture. Coinciding with the opportunity of the "Flowers Blooming in Dunhuang" exhibition in the museum to promote people-to-people and cultural exchanges at APEC, "Silk Road Lucky Sheep" landed in Shenzhen and was permanently stored in Tibet.
Cai Jinsun, president of the Shenzhen Intangible Cultural Heritage Protection Association, said that the auspicious animals of the Dunhuang Silk Road echo the cultural context of Yangcheng in Lingnan across time and space, which is an auspicious fate unique to the Greater Bay Area. Intangible cultural heritage is a dynamically growing cultural force. We look forward to the Dunhuang intangible cultural heritage IP continuing to take root in the Bay Area, and relying on the international window of the Greater Bay Area to bring oriental traditional aesthetics to the world.
Song Shengdong, co-founder and CEO of Shana Enamel Brand, said that "Silk Road Lucky Sheep" is a benchmark masterpiece of the brand's integrity and innovation. The choice to be released in Shenzhen and on the eve of the APEC event reflects the deep resonance between the millennium Silk Road context and the innovative spirit of the Bay Area.
Chang Shana's remote video message was played at the event. Mr. Chang asked the team to adhere to the orthodoxy of the context and strictly adhere to the quality of workmanship, so that the thousand-year-old beauty of Dunhuang can be passed down from generation to generation and continue to exist.
The enamel bronze sculpture "Lucky Sheep on the Silk Road" unveiled at the scene has two main models in the collection, suet white and glowing purple, which complement each other in simplicity and elegance, and have both charm and charm. A series of culturally creative cute animal images of Flying Sheep, Love Sheep, and Le Sheep were simultaneously launched, which brought together the beautiful connotation of "Three Sheep Kai Tai" and used youthful and life-oriented expressions to rejuvenate the millennium auspicious culture with contemporary vitality.
Zhu Junmin, inheritor of national intangible cultural heritage bronze sculpture skills, said that "Silk Road Lucky Sheep" not only has the calm heritage of Dunhuang murals spanning thousands of years, but also is full of high-spirited vitality in the new era.
Bai Yuntao, former deputy director of the National Museum of China, said that "Lucky Sheep on the Silk Road" is not a simple reproduction of the mural pattern, but an artistic reconstruction based on the Dunhuang pattern system. It completely inherits the romantic and free artistic temperament of Dunhuang in the Western Wei Dynasty. It has rigorous research, exquisite craftsmanship, and auspicious meanings. It has high academic and artistic value.
