[Explanation] Pottery is one of the earliest plastic arts in China, and China is also one of the earliest countries where pottery originated. Guantao County, Handan City, Hebei Province has a long history of pottery making.

"Guantao black pottery making skills" was included in the first batch of provincial intangible cultural heritage lists of Hebei Province in 2006.

Yin Junting, the inheritor of the black pottery making skills of Guantao and the master of Chinese arts and crafts, combined the black pottery culture of more than 4,000 years with the lacquer culture of more than 7,000 years, and filled the blank of black pottery without color.

　　[Concurrent] Yin Junting

　　In 1987, Qiao Shiguang (study), a student of Wu Guanzhong at the Central Academy of Arts and Crafts (xiang), was a pottery artist. In his studio, I worked for 7 years and learned his lacquer painting and lacquer craftsmanship.

I think black pottery is relatively single, so I thought about whether black pottery could be combined with lacquer painting, so I made a bold attempt.

　　[Explanation] In the Black Pottery Museum of Guantao County, there are exhibits of large and small black pottery, red pottery and colored pottery with excellent craftsmanship.

Yin Junting, who has been making pottery for many years, told reporters that while making pottery, pottery is very complicated and purely handmade. It has to go through dozens of processes such as washing, drawing, drying, trimming, and calendering.

　　[Concurrent] Yin Junting

　　In the first process, the mud is kneaded so that there is no impurities in it, it is very delicate, and then dried. After drying to a certain extent, it starts to pull the blank, and then waits for it to dry to a hardness of 80 to 90% before calendering. After calendering, engrave the flowers again, wait for the flowers to dry after engraving, and then burn them in the kiln. The firing temperature is generally controlled at eight or nine hundred degrees Celsius, which is very delicate.

　　【Explanation】Guan Tao Hei Tao is black as lacquer and bright as a mirror, and it is not fading, corrosion-resistant, and will last for a long time.

Nowadays, black pottery has been innovated and developed by several generations of pottery. The pottery black pottery integrates pottery and lacquer art, forming several series of hollow, relief, line carving, shadow carving, color painting, lacquer painting, etc., reaching more than 1,000 varieties.

　　[Concurrent] Yin Junting

　　Every piece of work has its own unique personality and aura, that is to say, an artifact, such as a general jar, it is the style of a general's soldier.

Therefore, in the design of every handicraft, we must carefully consider its shape, pattern and some breath of its spirit.

　　[Explanation] For many years, Yin Junting has been committed to spreading black pottery culture and increasing the practical value development of black pottery.

Yin Junting said that pottery was originally a living vessel, and now he is more researching how to make black pottery better enter the lives of the people.

　　[Concurrent] Yin Junting

　　It is the responsibility and obligation to pass on the characteristics of the national culture and its craftsmanship perfectly.

Now I have brought apprentices, and some apprentices have also been promoted to provincial masters of arts and crafts.

Our development in the area of ​​black pottery is to rely on the marketization of art and market art, so that the people gradually realize the height of art and the soul of national culture.

　　Xing Lu, Li Ao reporting from Handan, Hebei

Editor in charge: [Wang Kai]