Da Venezia allo Hunan: alla scoperta della bellezza senza tempo dell'arte artigianale

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Da Venezia allo Hunan: alla scoperta della bellezza senza tempo dell'arte artigianale  A Venezia e nello Hunan occidentale, in Cina, gli artigiani mantengono vivi mestieri secolari, dalla creazione di maschere ai ricami Miao, preservando la tradizione in un mondo in rapida modernizzazione.  In collaborazione con CGTN  ALTRE INFORMAZIONI : http://it.euronews.com/2025/11/14/da-venezia-allo-hunan-alla-scoperta-della-bellezza-senza-tempo-dellarte-artigianale  Abbonati, euronews è disponibile in 12 lingue.

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00:00There's nowhere quite like Venice

00:04Once one of the richest places on earth

00:07For centuries this floating city

00:08Was the preeminent center for east-west exchange

00:11Something which may explain why Venice's most iconic symbol

00:15Has distant and quite unexpected origins

00:18Well we think we discovered that the lion is Chinese

00:22In western Hunan province we'll explore a craft

00:25That's woven into the local fabric

00:27The bride behind me is wearing a special Miao wedding dress

00:30And in Miao culture mothers weave their blessings

00:32Into their daughters wedding dresses

00:34Every stitch is a cherished memory

00:36Each pattern a wish for the future

00:38Welcome to Crossing Cultures

00:41Join us as we explore the very best traditions

00:44Of both China and Europe

00:46Nothing really prepares you for the majesty of Venice

00:54From its stunning architecture and picturesque canals

00:57To the sheer audacity of those who built it

01:00But delve beneath the surface and there's a darker side

01:03It's a story of power, seduction and sin

01:07But also creativity

01:09One that goes to the very heart of the Venetian soul

01:13One place that vividly brings that story to life is Samarkana

01:17For over 40 years it has turned the centuries old craft

01:20Of Venetian mask making into a true art form

01:24Davide, what are you working on right now?

01:26Well I'm creating a new mask

01:28So I have a negative form

01:30I have this special kind of paper called wallpaper

01:34That I'm going to combine in a certain way

01:36To register all the details of the mould

01:40Creating then the new positive mask

01:43And is this the process that would have been used centuries ago?

01:47For sure, yes, people used to use the same technique

01:50So a negative form and a positive form

01:53Made with a mask inside it

01:55And how do you choose the designs?

01:57Are you guided by tradition or do you create new styles?

02:00Well it depends

02:02There are some masks that have certain iconographies

02:05But then there are many masks that are fantasy based

02:08Or they are inspired by books, by films and so on

02:12Beautifully hand painted, many masks are playful

02:15Others are slightly macabre and unsettling

02:18The result is a wonderful, albeit weird world

02:22But who wore them and why?

02:25Well at the time of the Republic of Venice

02:27In the past centuries everybody could wear a mask

02:30Nobles and commoners to hide their identity

02:33Then there are other masks for carnival

02:35That everybody could wear as well

02:37That could have been any kind of mask

02:40Now from this family of mask makers here in Venice

02:45Let's uncover another ancient craft in China

02:48Igor, over to you

02:50The Miao are one of China's oldest ethnic groups

03:03In the misty mountains of western Hunan

03:06They weave their stories in thread and collar

03:09And what do you think of them?

03:37ma la loro storia e la loro storia

03:39e la loro storia

03:41Iniziamo a usare la forma di usare

03:43per la prima volta di 5,000 anni

03:45per la prima volta di usare

03:47importanti situazioni

03:49Per esempio, in molti

03:51degli occhi, vediamo

03:53due volte di usare

03:55due volte di usare

03:57per la prima volta di usare

03:59la prima volta di usare

04:01la prima volta di usare

04:03ma ora di usare

04:05In the Miao tradition, a wedding dress may take three generations to complete.

04:33A single thread runs through time, binding together the hearts of grandmother, mother and daughter.

04:41Their hands move at different moments in life, yet their stitches meet on the same piece of cloth.

05:03The red is actually the color of festivity in China.

05:29So back in the day, the wedding dress was actually not white.

05:33It was red, because red was always like shining with happiness.

05:37Generations ago, the Miao people carried their embroidery into the mountains, preserving color and memory through time.

05:50Now, through Yihua's hands, these threads of tradition journey outward again, sharing their story with the world.

06:02The tales of Venetian explorer Marco Polo, written some 700 years ago, are the first European account of the Orient.

06:09But to what extent were Venice's links already forged with the Far East and China before his journey there?

06:16The tales of Venetian explorer Marco Polo, written some 700 years ago, are the first European account of the Orient.

06:33But to what extent were Venice's links already forged with the Far East and China before his journey there?

06:39Could the city's symbol tell us more?

06:42Gilberto, what have you discovered?

06:44We think we discovered that the lion is Chinese.

06:47The original copper that was used for casting is from China.

06:52And what does this discovery mean for our understanding of Venetian history and Venice's connections with the wider world?

07:00Well, the lion was up there when Marco Polo left.

07:03He saw it up there.

07:04As a matter of fact, we think that, you know, given the aesthetics and the shape of the casting, it's probably of time period.

07:13So it goes back to at least 400 years or 300 years before Marco Polo left.

07:19Do we have any idea how it got here?

07:22No, but we know that the Silk Roads, not only the road ones, but also the maritime one, were open way before.

07:31So there were clearly exchanges to Southeast Asia and China.

07:36So, made in China, but a very long time ago.

07:40Absolutely.

07:45From the wonders of Venice to the beauty of Hunan province, what a fantastic journey it's been through centuries of art and craft.

07:51Until the next time, thanks for watching.

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