The phrase “The great beauty of Heaven and Earth is silence.” is cited from Zhi Bei You, Zhuang Zi, which indicates that Zhuangzi, the most important thinker in Chinese history believes that beauty exists in “Heaven and Earth”. This unique aesthetic concept, which is the pursuit of being natural, equality and harmony, is not only the essence of Oriental culture, but it also permeates into collective mind-set and individual life in the thousand-year-long inheritance, with its far-reaching impact. The harmonious coexistence between men and nature is not only an idealistic wishful thought, but a realistic pursuit and a state which triggered the ancient people to search for the law of life and make good use of it in their observation and perception of nature. Sanzao takes oriental aesthetics as its soul, tradition as its foundation, and modern aesthetics and fashion design as its driving motivation for the realization of the organic combination of art and life, aesthetics and pragmatism, techniques and textures, history and culture, thus eventually evolves into the Chinese technological wisdom and materials and cultural heritage that has been inherited for thousands of years. Thus it creates the exquisite artifacts that are suitable for contemporary metropolitan life-style and deduces the wisdom of symbiosis between ancient and modern China, as well as those foreign countries.
The Never-ending Source for the Livings
Materialism in this context means that all objects are spiritual.
Lacquer has been regarded as the most important material in China since ancient times, therefore it is also termed as “the Great Lacquer”.
The Great Lacquer is extracted from the sap of lacquer trees and therefore is naturally non-toxic.
After the solidification, it can be employed to process objects independently. The objects processed with it are light and durable, therefore after thousands of years, the objects still endure and are fresh-looking. The lacquer-processed objects can contain a wide range of things, with its changeable tinges it looks brilliant and luxurious. The way of nature and the meaningfulness contained in the artifacts of ingenuity are eternal and profound thus integrates obscure and noble, simplification and complication. Nothing can achieve it but the Great Lacquer.
The Great Lacquer’s inclusiveness and the special capacity enable it to achieve excellent tacit comprehending and resonating with the textures of ceramics, woodwork, glaze, silk, cotton and hemp, which possess profound materialistic and spiritual implications. Sanzao takes the Great Lacquer as the intermediary to integrate the techniques of its five major workshops, taking advantage of the natural Tao of mutual promotions and restraints to create its products under the six major brands, which in turn demonstrates its creative ideas.
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