China News Service, Langfang, July 4th (Song Mintao and Ma Minlu) "A piece of lacquer work has dozens of processes, and the production cycle ranges from half a year to three years, especially the lacquer process is the most complicated, as few as dozens of layers, mostly for Three to five hundred layers." On the 4th, Zhu Qingyuan, a lacquer carving craftsman in Gu'an, Hebei, said that there is no room for impetuousness and no error in the carving of lacquer. It is a "slow art" carved with time.
Zhu Qingyuan is nearly eighty years old, and his home in Nansong Village, Gu'an County is his lacquer carving studio.
On the indoor display stand, one piece of exquisite lacquer artwork, such as the five-petal flower and bird bottle, the red plantain disc, the red floating lush warm green pen holder, and the red lotus fish plate, have a solemn and generous shape, and the carving skills are mature and vigorous. The patterns are rigorous and delicate, full of changes.
Carved lacquer, also known as tick red, is the treasure and essence of traditional Chinese craftsmanship. Mosaic, collectively known as "Yanjing Eight Wonders".
Lacquer carving begins with lacquerware, which is a work of art that is made of lacquer as raw material, layered on the carcass to an appropriate thickness and then processed and carved.
In Nansong Village, Gu'an County, Hebei Province, Zhu Qingyuan, a lacquer carver, is carving lacquerware.
Photo by Men Congshuo
Gu'an County, Hebei Province is located in Gyeonggi, separated by a river from Beijing's Daxing District.
In the early 1980s, Zhu Qingyuan went to Beijing Carving and Lacquer Factory to learn lacquer carving from the old lacquer artist Zhou Shangxian.
Because of the foundation of woodworking and mechanical fitter, coupled with the ability to draw, Zhu Qingyuan mastered the operation of most of the process of carving lacquer in only two or three years.
Tire making, painting, engraving, grinding, polishing... Carving lacquer is made of natural lacquer as the main raw material, and the upper body of the utensil is painted layer by layer to reach a certain thickness, and then various patterns are carved on the lacquer surface with a variety of knives , in order to achieve the skill of exquisite relief art effect.
"The production process of carving lacquer is very complicated. It has to go through dozens of major processes and dozens of small processes, especially painting. 1mm of paint needs to be applied 20 layers. , the coating is as few as dozens of layers, as many as three or five hundred layers, and then carved with one knife and one knife, and the production has to be repeatedly in the process of mounting cloth, scraping paint dust, grinding, pushing light, and cleaning. Such a carved lacquer The production cycle of works ranges from half a year to two or three years." Zhu Qingyuan said that a good work will take at least three years to achieve the effect of acid resistance, alkali resistance and temperature resistance.
In Nansong Village, Gu'an County, Hebei Province, Zhu Qingyuan, a lacquer carver, is teaching students how to make lacquerware.
Photo by Men Congshuo
Zhu Qingyuan said that the craftsmanship of lacquer carving has not received much attention, because it is more complicated, time-consuming and labor-intensive, and there are very few people who learn it, and even fewer are learned by the younger generation.
In order to pass on the old craftsmanship, Zhu Qingyuan asked his son Zhu Jiang to follow him to learn lacquer carving skills since he was a child.
Under his father's words and deeds, Zhu Jiang mastered the craft of lacquer carving, and also learned to design and innovate on the basis of tradition. Today, he has become a provincial-level arts and crafts master in Hebei.
In Nansong Village, Gu'an County, Hebei Province, Zhu Qingyuan, a lacquer craftsman, introduced lacquer works to the guests.
Photo by Men Congshuo
Zhu Jiang said that he often takes lacquer carving works to various exhibitions in China, and also explains the knowledge of lacquer carving to the public through online videos, and learns to shoot short videos and regularly publish them on the self-media platform, so that more people can understand and understand this skill. .
Today, Zhujia Lacquer Carving Studio has trained more than ten lacquer craftsmen and produces many fine works of art every year.
Zhu Qingyuan showed the lacquer carving culture through his own skills, and used his own actions to support the better inheritance of handicrafts.
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