Hot! Who grabbed the "ceiling among ceilings"?

"Who grabbed the 'ceiling among ceilings'?"

Recently, the Tiangong Caijing refrigerator magnet in the Beijing Ancient Architecture Museum has become popular and has quickly become one of the most difficult cultural and creative refrigerator magnets to buy. Some tourists said that they had rushed to the museum at 5 a.m. to queue up to buy it. What is the charm of this cultural and creative product and why is it so popular?

△ Netizens showed the Tiangong caisson refrigerator magnet on the social platform

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The prototype of this refrigerator magnet is the "treasure of the museum" , the Tiangong caisson in the Wanshan Zhengjue Hall . The Beijing Ancient Architecture Museum is located in the Xiannongtan Temple, and the Tiangong caisson is located in the Taisui Hall of the Xiannongtan Temple. It is known as the "most beautiful caisson" and is also called the "ceiling among ceilings" by netizens.

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The Tiangong Caijing refrigerator magnet is divided into five layers, each of which is designed and drawn according to the real structure of the caisson. The five layers of patterns can be placed separately or stacked to restore the complete caisson shape. The bottom layer of the starry sky is also designed with a luminous effect. When night falls, the starry sky part will emit a soft light.

△ Netizens show the structure of refrigerator magnets

In fact, this refrigerator magnet has been on the shelves since April this year. With the successful application of Beijing's Central Axis for World Heritage status and the peak of summer tourists, the average daily visitor flow of the Beijing Ancient Architecture Museum has hit new highs, and the sales of cultural and creative products represented by Tiangong Caijing refrigerator magnets have risen accordingly.

During the National Day holiday this year, the Tiangong Caijing refrigerator magnets were once sold out. After the supply was restored, people's enthusiasm for buying seemed to be ignited, and people lined up outside the museum to buy them. At present, the museum has changed the offline queue for Tiangong Caijing refrigerator magnets to "online reservation ", and users can enter the museum to purchase them with the reservation QR code.

At present, the Tiangong caisson refrigerator magnets are still "hard to come by", and many netizens said: "I have been waiting for several days to get a number" and "Who got the 'ceiling of ceilings'?" According to Xue Jian, director of the Ancient Architecture Museum, two production lines have been added and it is expected that the purchasing needs of more tourists will be met in mid-to-late November .

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The reason why the Tiangong caisson refrigerator magnet is so popular is not only because of the exquisite workmanship of the cultural product itself, but also because of the shock that its prototype - the Tiangong caisson of the Wanshan Zhengjue Hall brings to tourists.

△The caisson in the Heavenly Palace of Wanshan Zhengjue Hall. “Caosson” generally refers to the dome-shaped “ceiling” in a building.

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This caisson was originally a building component of the Longfu Temple in Beijing. In 1976, the Longfu Temple was severely damaged by an earthquake, and the caisson was dismantled into pieces. Later, these pieces were transported to the Beijing Ancient Architecture Museum for preservation. After five years of restoration, it was basically restored to its original appearance .

The caisson is golden in color as a whole, with six layers from top to bottom. Each layer's frame is engraved with exquisite cloud patterns. On the cloud pattern brackets, there are varying numbers of architectural models in various shapes, connected by corridors. The buildings are magnificent and meticulously crafted .

The most special thing about the whole caisson is its cover layer, on which is painted a very rare astronomical map, with a blue background and more than 1,400 stars . It was drawn in the Ming Dynasty based on the star map of the Tang Dynasty. An expert said, "Based on current astronomical observations, this star map is drawn quite accurately, representing the superb skills of the ancients in observing celestial bodies."

Standing under the caisson and looking up, you can see the "Four Heavenly Kings" holding up the central circular well. The star map and the caisson are integrated into one. The whole caisson is square within circle and circle within square, showing the ancient Chinese view of the universe that the sky is round and the earth is square.

The twenty-eight constellations painted around the caisson echo the star map, showing the ancient people's understanding and imagination of the stars.

The Beijing Ancient Architecture Museum also has another important "treasure of the museum" - the Panlong caisson in the Pilu Hall of Longfu Temple . It is made of precious golden nanmu wood, and the dragon image on the well core is majestic, swooping down, and lively. The Panlong caisson refrigerator magnet based on it is also one of the museum's best-selling cultural and creative products.

△Refrigerator magnets posted by netizens

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In addition to the Beijing Museum of Ancient Architecture, the two phoenix crown refrigerator magnets recently launched by the National Museum of China have also triggered a buying frenzy. Inspired by the phoenix crown of Empress Xiaoduan of the Ming Dynasty, it is exquisitely made and has been called "one of the most desired cultural and creative products at the moment" by many netizens.

Liao Fei, deputy director of the National Museum's business development department, said, "Many people think that refrigerator magnets made the phoenix crown popular, but that's not the case. Since last year, we noticed that many people came to the exhibition hall to take pictures of the phoenix crown exhibits. After capturing this information, we began to develop peripheral products related to the phoenix crown."

Some experts said that various forms of cultural and creative products are not only a kind of "spiritual nourishment" pursued by collectors, but also undoubtedly achieve cultural dissemination in the process of traffic blessing. "It promotes the close integration of cultural heritage and modern life, and enhances the public, especially the younger generation,'s strong interest in traditional culture."

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