Dear international faculty:
The Office of International Cooperation and Exchange from XMU invites you to visit Huihe Stone Cultural Park, a thematic park of stone culture. We will also experience stone-shadow carving.
DATE & TIME: May 3rd , 2022. 14:40-19:00.
14:40-15:00 Gather at the gate of the park and take group photos
15:00-15:30 Visit Stone Carving Art Museum
15:30-16:00 Visit red brick house (红砖厝)-the representative traditional building in Southern Fujian
16:00-18:00 Experience stone-shadow carving-Chinese character “Fu”(“福”) (year of the tiger edition)
18:00-19:00 Dinner- stone pot rice
PLACE: Huihe Stone Cultural Park 惠和石文化园
ADDRESS: No. 148, Zhonglunshe, Lvling Road, Huli District,
Xiamen 厦门市湖里区吕岭路忠仑社 148 号
The office will provide dinner and vehicles for round-trip transport. If you are interested, please sign up, fill in the form attached and reply to this email: kellychan19515@xmu.edu.cn before 10:00 am on April 26th. We sincerely welcome you to participate in our activity. Thank you!
Here is a brief introduction of Huihe Stone Cultural Park and stone-shadow carving:
Xiamen Huihe Stone Cultural Park is a thematic park of Southern Fujian stone culture comprising the stone carving museum, stone-shadow carving exhibition, stone culture corridor, etc. Stone culture corridors and skillful stone carving works blend perfectly into the elegant landscape. The Park showcases the enduring history of Southern Fujian’s stone culture and is a testament to the co-development of stone culture and human civilization. Stone-shadow carving, which originated in Qing Dynasty, has been enlisted in Fujian Intangible Cultural Heritage. It is a unique and innovative carving technique incorporating the art of painting into stone carving based on the traditional “black-and-white stitch”
technique. In 2017, President Xi Jinping and Russian President Vladimir
Putin visited the Exhibition of Intangible Cultural Heritage of Southern Fujian in Xiamen. Li Yahua, the inheritor of stone-shadow carving, demonstrated her carving skills at the exhibition and won the appreciation of both heads of state.
