【Explanation】 Batik is an ancient ethnic minority traditional textile printing and dyeing handicraft. Generally, a wax knife is dipped in melted wax to paint flowers on the cloth, and it is dyed with blue indigo. The cloth surface shows a variety of patterns of white flowers on a blue background or blue flowers on a white background. Ma Jian is a Miao batik craftsman from Liuzhou, Guangxi, and a professor at Liuzhou Vocational and Technical College. On July 2nd, at Liuzhou Vocational and Technical College, Ma Jian is instructing students to make batik crafts, teaching them how to use wax to draw patterns on fabrics for dyeing, fixing, and dewaxing.
[Explanation] Batik, as a folk skill, is widely distributed in Rongshui Miao Autonomous County, Liuzhou City. It is a kind of cloth dyeing technique of the local Miao people. Ma Jian, who grew up here, often painted some flowers and birds for his grandmother and mother. So I like this national skill. However, most of the inheritance methods are family inheritance, or ancestor inheritance, etc. There is no complete written record of skill inheritance, and the inheritance method of oral transmission is easy to lead to loss or disappearance.
【Same period】Ma Jian, Professor of Liuzhou Vocational and Technical College
At the beginning, it was our protection of traditional skills. Many teachers will have their own awareness of protection. His traditional skills, especially the dyeing skills, he did not talk much, and then he needed to explore and explore by himself. The other is that because we do not have a deep understanding of traditional patterns, it has many meanings in it, so we are indeed confused.
【Explanation】 Ma Jian said that today's batik materials, wax materials, fabrics, etc., the traditional methods of folk crafts do not meet some of the needs of modern society. Therefore, he created "batik painting" through long-term practice, that is, using a watercolor brush dipped in wax paint to draw patterns on rice paper, combining modern painting with traditional skills, and injecting new colors into the traditional skills.
【Same period】Ma Jian, Professor of Liuzhou Vocational and Technical College
Flowers, birds, insects and fish are related to our traditional people. (Before) it painted some totem patterns. Now what we want to express is to express something, then we often express it through characters. It also took a lot of time to study some totem patterns of our nation, and then how to combine it with modern art painting.
【Explanation】Retirement is approaching. Ma Jian hopes to publish batik-related books before retirement and write the skills he has learned for many years into the book so that more people can learn and inherit.
【Same period】Ma Jian, Professor of Liuzhou Vocational and Technical College
Pass on the skills I learned in my life to new teachers, younger teachers, the second is how to pass it on to my students, and the third is how I want to create some of my own in the past few years Better works, leaving some works to society.
[Same period] Yong Jia, Deputy Dean of the Art College of Liuzhou Vocational and Technical College
First of all, batik and tie-dye are the seven majors serving the art college. Nowadays, a lot of costume design pursues the feeling of national fan, so batik has a lot of room to play. The other is that it serves other majors, such as interior art design, as well as advertising and film and television majors.
Wang Yizhao Huang Lian reports from Guangxi Liuzhou
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