China News Agency, Guangzhou, June 26th, title: Guangcai Master Tan Guanghui: Cross-border integration makes 300-year-old Guangcai "young"
China News Agency reporter Cheng Jingwei
"We must actively explore the combination of Guangcai and vocational education, try to cultivate professional technical talents, and inject new vitality into Guangcai." The representative inheritance of China's national intangible cultural heritage project "Guangcai Porcelain Firing Skills" Tan Guanghui, vice-chairman of Liwan District Federation of Literary and Art Circles in Guangzhou, and master of arts and crafts in Guangdong Province, said at the "Master Afternoon Tea" event held in Guangzhou Literature and Art Civic Space recently.
Guangcai is the abbreviation for the art of overglaze colored porcelain in Guangzhou. It integrates traditional northern porcelain art and Lingnan painting techniques, Chinese colored porcelain craftsmanship and Western porcelain art and painting techniques. And it is unique, and it is also unique with the technical characteristics of "piling gold and jade", which is very popular at home and abroad.
"The production of Guangcai began in the Kangxi period of the Qing Dynasty, and formed a unique artistic style during the Qianlong period. It has a history of more than 300 years." At the event, Tan Guanghui, who has passed his sixtieth year, introduced the origin and development history of Guangcai.
According to reports, during the Qianlong period, Guangzhou, one of the starting points of the Maritime Silk Road, became China's only port open to the outside world. A large number of merchants from all over the world who were engaged in Chinese and foreign trade gathered here. The darling of the eyes.
"Since the Qing Dynasty, Guangcai has been selling well overseas, expanding the influence of traditional Chinese culture, and at the same time integrating Western art elements in the exchange. This is a vivid example of cultural exchanges between China and foreign countries." Tan Guanghui said.
From the end of the Qing Dynasty to the beginning of the Republic of China, while continuing the traditional style, Guangcai porcelain developed another style due to the intervention of the painters of the Lingnan School of painting—the technique of integrating Chinese painting into the porcelain color painting.
In the 21st century, Guangcai porcelain has gradually turned to the production of fine crafts and works of art. The types of products are more diversified, and the artistic techniques and techniques are also more colorful and expressive due to the extensive absorption of nutrients from other colored porcelain and crafts. Make Guangcai production enter a period of diversified development.
In 2008, the firing technique of Guangzhou Guangcai Porcelain was included in the national intangible cultural heritage list.
Tan Guanghui believes that this has made a big step forward in the protection, inheritance and promotion of Guangcai porcelain firing skills.
For more than 40 years, Tan Guanghui, who has witnessed and participated in the ups and downs of the Guangcai industry, has been upgraded from an initial factory worker to a well-known Guangcai master in the industry.
In May 2018, Tan Guanghui was identified as the inheritor of the fifth batch of national intangible cultural heritage projects (Guangcai porcelain firing skills).
As an excellent representative of Lingnan folk literature and art, how can Guangcai be further inherited and developed to rejuvenate in the new era?
In this regard, Tan Guanghui described his exploration and practice of "intangible cultural heritage into the campus" over the years. He often went to primary and secondary schools to let children contact, understand and love Guangcai, and promote the cultivation of Guangcai technical talents. "Young people It is very important for the future of Guangcai.”
In addition to promoting the cross-border integration of Guangcai inheritance and development and modern vocational education, Tan Guanghui also adopts cross-border thinking to create new works that integrate cultural creativity, intangible cultural heritage and other elements, and selects some patterns and patterns that young people like. Make Guangcai porcelain works younger and more attractive.
"As inheritors, we need to continue to work hard to create Guangcai works that are loved by the public, especially young people." He said.
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