THE National Day Golden Week has seen a highlight, with tourists flocking to New Town Plaza in Sha Tin, the eastern New Territories, to see for themselves another new Guinness World Record.
Here a long scroll of the “Along the River During the Qingming Festival,” an iconic painting of Northern Song Dynasty (960- 1126), unfolded and has been on display, ingeniously constructed straight from lego bricks.
Covering 47 square metres, the world’s largest lego exhibit, shown from 25 September through 31 October, has been the latest weekend and holiday hotspot, delicately piecing together a marvellous world where the old and the new converge.
For viewers, the exhibit is impressive in a way that it blends two vastly different cultural representatives from the East and the West: a masterpiece of ancient Chinese painting and a classic toy igniting childhood memories of Westerners.
“We rolled out this exhibit mainly to promote traditional Chinese culture through creative events, in a way that is more relaxed, entertaining and appealing to young people,” said Tania Wan, deputy general manager of Personal Banking and Wealth Management with Bank of China (Hong Kong), which initiated the programme.
As people walk along the 26-metre-long and three-dimensional diorama made from up to three million lego bricks, they can picture themselves in bustling streets centuries ago, where vendors were selling melons and kids were playing hide and seek.
“There were myriad depictions of people in all walks of life going about their daily activities and no two objects are identical,” Hong Kong local surnamed Chung told Xinhua. “Everything seemed to be brought to life within seconds”.
Pointing at a two-storey building with a front door decorated with colourful ribbons, Li Chun-tung, an art lecturer at the University of Hong Kong, said, “This was one of the busiest restaurant then, with decorations typical of taverns and bars in Nothern Song Dynasty. It was among many buildings and structures that were vividly restored in this model.”
Xinhua
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