The indissoluble bond between gold leaf and architecture | Kinnogold.com
Gold leaf paper used to shine with dazzling light in the long river of history. Today, we can still hear its echo from a thousand years ago in various buildings. Since ancient times, gold has been endowed with symbolic meanings such as mystery, magnificence, nobility, and sacredness. The gold leaf, which is less than one ten thousandth of a millimeter in thickness, is forged from pure gold through twelve complicated processes, and is made by nearly 30,000 beatings. Thin as cicada wings, soft as silk. In the long history, these thin gold foils have been widely used in palaces, temples, pavilions and other architectural decorative arts, absorbing the luxury and artistic essence of gold, and blooming with dazzling light. The gilding technique of ancient buildings in my country was first seen in the Dunhuang Grottoes, which contain frescoes from the Northern Wei Dynasty, which are decorated with gilding, which is very gorgeous. In the Tang and Song Dynasties, the method of pile...