Revitalize the beauty of national style

Source: Global Times| Published: 2022-01-30

Countless failures complemented by the close-knit dragon kiln tempering can create each unique blue-and-white porcelain. For hundreds of years, the craftsman's skills and spirit have been polished and tempered again and again from one generation to the next. 

Now, in the world of League of Legends, a new story of inheritance and protection is being written by a new group of guardians.

This time, League of Legends has released a blue-and-white porcelain theme skin, allowing players around the world to experience the charm of Chinese porcelain culture. At the same time, the blue-and-white MV of "Sculpting Me" was jointly created by the League of Legends and Jingdezhen Municipal Bureau of Culture, Radio, Television, Press, Publication and Tourism, and dedicated to the heroes who have inherited thousands of years of history and firmly guarded the traditional Chinese porcelain culture.

In the blue-and-white MV of "Plastic Me", different kiln types such as Zhongzhen Kiln and Gourd Kiln in Jingdezhen Ancient Kiln Folk Customs Expo area, as well as scenes such as Gaoling and Chinese Village appear in turn, showing audiences the ancient porcelain industry architecture, the hand-made Jingdezhen in the Ming and Qing Dynasties. Porcelain craftsmanship, together to explore the context of China's millennium ceramic culture.

Combined with the launch of this skin, Xie Xiaoming, a famous modern ceramic artist in China, associate professor of Jingdezhen Ceramic University, and inheritor of Jingdezhen ceramic decoration, revealed the mystery of blue and white porcelain production by interpreting the production process of blue and white porcelain. After thousands of years of development, blue and white porcelain has also presented different appearances in different historical periods. The blue and white porcelain skin of the League of Legends embodies a variety of fine brushwork techniques, porcelain shape, glaze technology and other details, and contains the development history of blue and white porcelain craftsmanship.

The League of Legends and Jingdezhen Municipal Bureau of Culture and Tourism have cooperated together, aiming to interpret and promote Jingdezhen ceramic culture through the League of Legends IP digitally, promote the creative transformation and innovative development of ceramic culture, and showcase Jingdezhen's heritage to the world with cultural sculpture and tourism. The charm of ceramics for thousands of years conveys the beauty of the national style of blue and white porcelain and shows the charm of China.

The inheritance does not stop, and the culture does not stop. The League of Legends blue and white porcelain series skins combine game skins with Chinese intangible cultural heritage in the way of "innovative cultural inheritance", which is a "living inheritance" of the traditional blue and white porcelain culture. Using games as a platform will also be a new way and a new platform for cultural exchange and output. 

To illuminate traditional culture with science and technology, to magnify the historical value, cultural value and brand value of Jingdezhen, adhering to the dissemination of excellent traditional Chinese culture and innovative ways to tell more people the beautiful story of China in the new era.

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