China News Service, Taizhou, April 3 (Reporter Fan Yubin) "The description of Huangyan fire pyrography can not be more aptly described by'stylus blooming flowers'. I am fascinated by this folk art, and I hope it can be carried forward." Yan Shaoming, the representative inheritor of the representative project of tangible cultural heritage "Huangyan Fire Burning Painting", said in an interview with a reporter from Chinanews.com.
Recently, the reporter visited the Chaoji Ancient Street in Beiyang Town, Huangyan District, Taizhou City.
This cobblestone-paved one-hundred-meter ancient street was historically an important waterway town and commercial port in the western part of Huangyan.
Since the 1950s and 1960s, the commerce in Chaoji Ancient Street has gradually declined, but fortunately, it has also inherited the next old craft-Huangyan fire pyrography.
Yan Shaoming is creating Huangyan fire pyrography "Orchid" Photo by Fan Yubin
In an old house on Chaoji Ancient Street, the reporter saw that 66-year-old Yan Shaoming was painting with a stylus in his hand. The linden wood under his hand was burned by the hot stylus so that blue smoke appeared. There was no sound, only a faint sound. The smell of woody coke permeated the air and became a different kind of scenery on the ancient street.
Inside the house, the fire pyrography works on the walls, from the lady to the shepherd boy, from the landscape to the flowers and birds, are lifelike.
When you walk in and take a closer look, you can distinguish the different textures of drawing boards, such as wood, bamboo, and even silk.
A corner of Yan Shaoming's Fireworks Studio Photo by Fan Yubin
According to Yan Shaoming, Huangyan fire paintings began in the Qing Dynasty. Craft paintings made with special stylus on fan bones, combs, wooden boards, bamboo and wood furniture, etc., are mostly traditional Chinese landscapes, characters, and historical allusions.
"I loved painting since I was a kid, and I came into contact with fire pyrography when I was a student, and then learned wood carving, paint, clay sculpture, etc., which laid the foundation for my future creation of fire pyrography." Yan Shaoming said.
Yan Shaoming introduced his Huangyan fire pyrography photo by Fan Yubin
In 2000, Yan Shaoming decided to devote himself wholeheartedly to the inheritance and creation of Firebrand paintings.
He said: "I really want to make more good works that are recognized by everyone and be able to pass on."
However, making fire pyrography is not easy.
Yan Shaoming said: “When I first tried to make fire-burning paintings, many of the styluses I bought failed to meet the creative requirements. For this reason, I specially customized the stylus with adjustable temperature, size and shape.”
For Huo Lao Hua, the importance of stylus is self-evident.
In the early days, fire-burning painting was just "oil lamp branding", using iron wire as a branding pen and broiling on the oil lamp for branding. Only small daily necessities such as chopsticks and wooden combs could be produced.
Since then, after continuous improvement by local craftsmen, electric soldering pens of different models have gradually been promoted.
Similar to many traditional intangible cultural heritages, the craftsmanship is worthy of careful exploration and perseverance by each inheritor.
With suitable tools, Yan Shaoming practiced on the wooden boards time and time again. By controlling the weight of the pen and judging the softness and hardness of the board, he constantly adjusted the temperature and pressure of the stylus to create fire-burning paintings with appropriate shades of color.
Yan Shaoming is creating the Huangyan fire pyrography photo by Fan Yubin
Yan Shaoming demonstrated to reporters with his masterful painting of shrimps, and made neatly without any hesitation. In a few strokes, a few shrimps with different expressions leaped on the wooden board.
"Don't look at just a few in the picture, how to combine them, how to make each shrimp appear in a different state, it is very difficult." Yan Shaoming revealed that in order to draw realistic shrimps, he used to paint for a long time. Carefully observe every move of the live shrimp, and now I can finally write down at any time without writing a draft.
The road to the inheritance of Firebrand painting is also a road of innovation.
Fire-burning painting used to have a single, dull layout, weak technique and lack of strength, lack of a "fire" taste, and was constrained by conventions.
After the 1980s, the inheritor Liang Siya innovatively used fire-spraying to make large-scale fire pyrography, forming an inkjet or rendering technique similar to Chinese painting, which solved the problem of difficult coordination between lines and blocks in the traditional craft of fire pyrography.
Passed to Yan Shaoming, for more than 20 years, he has continuously exquisite techniques and continuously expanded his creative themes.
From traditional themes to the scenery of Huangyan in his hometown, in the near future, he plans to create works on the theme of the 100th Anniversary of the Communist Party of China.
Behind the display of the beauty of folk art is the persistence of traditional culture.
As one of the few inheritors of Huangyan Fire Painting, Yan Shaoming said frankly: "Because of love, so inheritance. The seemingly boring process of engraving contains profound cultural essence and philosophy of life. I hope that young people can devote themselves to the art of Fire Painting. ."(Finish)