[Explanation] With sharp eyes and realistic brown fur, the three "wolves" seem to jump out of the inkstone.

This is the work of the inkstone master Jia Jie. This "Wolf Inkstone" was also selected as the 6th Fine Inkstone Gold Award by the Chinese Yanhuang Culture Research Association Inkstone Culture Association.

  Jia Jie, who is 70 years old, lives in Changchun, Jilin. The reporter walked into his studio recently and saw this "Wolf Inkstone".

This "Wolf Inkstone" is also one of Jia Jie's most satisfying works in his creative career.

  Inkstone carving, that is, carving patterns on the inkstone platform. The material needed to make the inkstone platform is pine flower stone.

Tigers, cats, pandas...In the showcase of Jia Jie's studio, every inkstone sculpture is lifelike.

  Although it has been carving for 40 years, Jia Jie's enthusiasm is still high, and he has created more than 300 works in these years.

He himself has also won the titles of the first Chinese art master in the art industry and the Jilin Province art master.

In 2017, Jia Jie's Songhua inkstone work "Yongle Palace Mural Inkstone" was sold at the auction house for 1 million yuan.

  The old man introduced that since he was a child, he likes to paint. When he was in junior high school, he bought some stone materials for research and production. It was from that time that he never put down his tools.

  [Concurrent] Inkstone Carver Jia Jie

  Since I was a child, I like to engage in portraying and painting, so I got used to it and started carving since middle school.

So I have been engraving it until now, and I will do it for a lifetime.

No matter what material it is, I will try it as long as it can be processed. That includes Songhua inkstone.

  [Explanation] Speaking of his most satisfying work "Wolf Inkstone", Jia Jie introduced that it was inspired by the song "Wolf" by singer Qi Qin. He chose the pine flower stone with gray and black as the main color and searched it on the Internet. I created a lot of renderings of wolves and completed the creation in a week.

  Phase stone, finalization, production, polishing, waxing...According to him, he designs different patterns according to the different layers of colors on the surface of the stone, and then performs other steps. A work takes an average of four or five days to make.

  [Concurrent] Inkstone Carver Jia Jie

  I like small animals myself, but the things I create are not all small animals, there are all kinds of flowers and birds, but animals are more, because this kind of stone skin expresses animals, and the creation is vivid and very realistic.

  [Explanation] Because of this love, the old man's mentality has become younger and younger.

He bluntly said that even if he sits in a chair for a day, he will not feel bored, but enjoy it.

  [Concurrent] Inkstone Carver Jia Jie

  (Inkstone carving) is not only a job I love, but also a career I love, so I don't bother to do it (all).

  Reporter Sun Boyan reports from Changchun

Editor in charge: 【Luo Pan】