What is the experience of consuming pastries with a Luoyang shovel? Yesterday, the Erlitou Site Museum unveiled a new iteration of the “Earliest China” series of cultural and creative pastries, whose design inspiration stems from the museum’s national treasure-level cultural relic – the turquoise-inlaid animal face pattern bronze decoration.
The reporter witnessed at the conference venue that the item created pastry for the gift box packaging, with the main body of the box in “ancient bronze green”, and its surface featuring the image of the product IP and the outline of the turquoise-inlaid animal face bronze decoration. The interior of the gift box contains cakes and mooncakes designed in the shape of the turquoise-inlaid animal face pattern bronze decoration, which combines precious cultural relic elements with traditional Mid-Autumn Festival food, inheriting Chinese culture and enriching the assortment of cultural and creative products of the museum.
It is worth noting that aside from pastries, the box also encompasses a Luoyang archaeological “artefact” – the Luoyang shovel. Beyond being a cultural and creative product, the Luoyang shovel also functions as a knife and fork in the previous pastry gift box, serving as tableware for consuming pastries and bringing a distinctive experience to the dining process.
In recent years, to enliven cultural relics, the Erlitou Site Museum has joined forces to actively explore novel models. The integration of cultural relics into pastry production is yet another innovative exploration of the museum’s effort to animate cultural relics, with the aim of enabling more people to know about Luoyang and understand “the Earliest China” Erlitou through the delectable taste. (Reporter Li Xiaonan Correspondent Jia Zhongbao Text/Photo)
