[Explanation] The work of art in front of me, which is embroidered with fine steel needles and silk threads, is actually created on a thin piece of rice paper.
On October 20, a reporter from China News Agency walked into the "Chinese Rice Paper Embroidery Research Institute" located in Xihu District, Nanchang City, and met Gu Yuchun, the inheritor of the Jiangxi Provincial Intangible Cultural Heritage Protection Project "Xuan Paper Embroidery".
Gu Yuchun introduced to reporters that rice paper embroidery has been a traditional technique of Gu's ancestors since the Ming Dynasty, but it is mainly used for sacrificial ceremonies within the clan, so it has always been "passed on from daughters to daughters".
After the founding of New China, Gu Ende, the eighth-generation heir of paper embroidery, moved to Nanchang, Jiangxi, and passed on the skills of paper embroidery to his son, Gu Yuchun, the ninth-generation heir.
After years of research and contemplation, Gu Yuchun combined traditional embroidery with ink landscape painting and created the art of ink embroidery.
At the same time, he continued to improve the paper used for embroidery, and went to Anhui several times to contact the manufacturer. After repeated experiments, he jointly developed and produced rice paper more suitable for embroidery. The embroidery art and the art of rice paper calligraphy and calligraphy were integrated to form a brand new one. Art category.
[Concurrent] Gu Yuchun, the inheritor of rice paper embroidery
The works on rice paper, including calligraphy and painting, and works in various aspects, are all flat.
After we embroider for the second time, its texture will be more obvious, which means that this is also a characteristic of rice paper embroidery.
[Explanation] When embroidering on rice paper, each pinhole should not exceed two stitches at most, otherwise the rice paper will be easy to crack. The biggest difficulty is that the paper is fragile and irreparable. Therefore, the closer the work is to completion, the more careful cautious.
[Concurrent] Gu Yuchun, the inheritor of rice paper embroidery
After all, this paper is fiber. After all, it is paper. It cannot be as strong as cloth. So what is most afraid of in the embroidering process, that is, the last piece of embroidering, if it is broken, This work is scrapped, it is irreparable.
[Explanation] After decades of hard work, Gu Yuchun's rice paper embroidery has not only obtained a national patent, but has also successfully "goed out". His works have been collected by many experts at home and abroad.
In order to better inherit and develop the art of rice paper embroidery, Gu Yuchun told reporters that he broke the rules and taught this skill to the outside world. Not only did he have more than 20 young apprentices, but he also cooperated with domestic universities to make his mastery better. College students with knowledge of art and aesthetics will learn about rice paper embroidery, so that more people can understand the cultural charm of rice paper embroidery.
[Concurrent] Gu Yuchun, the inheritor of rice paper embroidery
Because the country promotes intangible cultural heritage, not only skills, but mainly a kind of culture and national culture, and the material of rice paper itself is the carrier of culture, making paintings and calligraphy, making history and written records, then I (hope) in me To highlight our culture in the rice paper embroidery is my biggest wish.
Reporter Huashan Luo Xianmei reports from Nanchang, Jiangxi
Editor in charge: [Li Yuxin]