development planning

                          by Chaozhenqing and Tianshenghui    

         Since Huangyuan Lamp Row been succeeding in applying for national intangible material culture protection inheritage, it receive the concern from many parts. But the development of the Lamp row was still a stranger to the public. We go to the county lamp row for the records, but is a pity that there is nothing about this. Until our teacher finally find the information about applying for national intangible material culture protection inheritage, we have the access to the lamp row development.

           Huangyuan, historically known as Dan Ger, locates the key place at the “ancient corridor of Tang Dynasty and Minority group” as well as “the silk southern way”, which is also the main settlement of Han, Zang, Hui, Meng people. Since the ancient time, it is known as “ the throat of the Qinghai and Tibet”, which is also the gate of the middle area. During the prosperous period of the Tang Dynasty, It become the place for the exchanging of the tea and horse and until the end of Ming Dynasty and early Qing Dynasty, the foreign business starts at there covering the all country. Huangyuan Ancient city enjoy the reputation as “Little Peking” for its milk and honey with talent people and rich soil. At that time, the traders from Shanxi province and Shan’Xi province settled in Huangyuan for generations. It was them who bring the advanced culture and business idea and strengthen the local economy to the Sun and Moon Mountain, which locates near there. During Qianlong emperor ruling period, they introduce the center area lamp row to Huangyuan combining the culture element of Han, Zang, Mongo, Hui group and people from the Hehuang area as well as the optimistic spirit from the Huangyuan, which constitutes a special folk scenery view for generations. We can see “Little Peking” pervious prosperity for its perfect combination of center are culture and Hehuang culture. It was Dan Ger which is the origin of Qinghai Lamp Row and now is the most attractive point in the Huangyuan County local national folk culture.

          In order to let more people to enjoy, we have invested a lot, both on man power , material and money, to purchase the appliance, collect the material, perfect the data and organize the professors, folk artists and craftsmen. We also use the modern tech and new materials, such as the electric, light and sound, to improve the traditional lamp row: from the outer shape, we replace the original lamp row to the hanging and ground lamp row and introduce many other styles: closet style, screen style, hall style and wall styles with the shape of fan, oval and quincunx; from the art category, we add the barbola, stitchwork, shadow movie, and paper cutting to the tradition. A lot of lamp row new generation artists and craftsman have been cultivated. We are working on setting up the brand sense by submitting the national patent and registered marks. In so doing, we managed to drive the lamp row to the market mechanism and succeed in becoming the candidate of the national intangible material culture protection inheritage.

        When we walked into 21th century, the Huangyuan Lamp Row meet its new era of reforming and renovating. Under the direct arrangement of the Chinese Communist party Huangyuan Committee and Huangyuan government, financed directly to research and organized by the county culture  agency, the lamp row received its reforming. By using the modern tech of light and electroic, not only looks the design more vivid and true, but also the content are added by shadow movie, embroidery, sweet-bag, and paper cutting etc. based on the original history character, legend story, masterpiece and painting, relic and ancient site as well as the tourists attraction. The style of the frame are also various and well craved to to let the people to enjoy, collect and research. In this way, the Huangyuan Lamp row was brought into the new vigor and have every reason to be built as a famous culture brand, which lay a solid foundation to make it popular from county , city, province or even abroad.

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