[Explanation] The thousand-year-old ruts of Yanmen Pass, the stacked rocks of Songshan Mountain, and the music statues of Yungang Grottoes. On November 7, an art exhibition of works by Chen Xuchuantuo, a scholar of Shanxi merchant culture, was on display at the Shanxi Art Museum, with more than 100 works on display. Involving porcelain, bronze, oracle bone inscriptions, Chinese finance, Shanxi merchant culture, Songshan geology and other series.
Chuan Tuo is an ancient skill, known as the "camera" by the ancients, and has played an important role in the fields of archaeology, cultural exposition, and ancient books.
In history, many scattered cultural relics, documents, etc., have been circulated due to the works of biography.
In 1995, Chen Xu became attached to Chuantuo and learned Chuantuo skills from the ancient philologist Zhang Xie.
A piece of Chuan Tuo works needs to go through multiple links such as collection, production, and mounting.
Among them, the material collection is mostly outdoors.
[Concurrent] Chen Xu, a scholar of Shanxi merchant culture
This piece of work is from Songshan Mountain, because Songshan Mountain is a very unique geographical stratum. The earth was formed 4.6 billion years ago. Then, it was 3.6 billion years when Songshan rose from the sea level for the first time. There must be some The magnificent nature must have left some spectacular traces.
Every time (I) go, it takes about a month. You have to collect first. There are several levels of collection. For example, when you first observe it for the first time, you feel that this place looks like something. Does this place have anything to do with our Chinese culture? When they are combined, they cannot be done at one time, because they are all made in several layers. Like this work, there are at least fifty or sixty fragments. Character.
[Explanation] Among the works on display, there is also such a "picture scroll", where the wheels follow the wheels, and several ruts are endless.
[Concurrent] Chen Xu, a scholar of Shanxi merchant culture
One by one, these dark backgrounds, this is the imprint of the ruts pressed by the wheel in the past in Yanmenguan, which is more than 2,000 years old. The deep imprints of the ruts are 30 centimeters deep.
After thousands of years of grinding and pressing, this trace is very touching.
The wheel above is from the Ming Dynasty to the Qing Dynasty.
The combination of these two forms a very far-reaching sense of history, which mainly reflects the long history of China, as well as our past history and the current prosperous China.
[Explanation] Chen Xu has been studying Shanxi merchant culture for a long time. He has made dozens of couplets, font names and plaques of Shanxi merchants into the biography of "Hongru Boshang".
[Concurrent] Chen Xu, a scholar of Shanxi merchant culture
Let’s look a little farther. You can see that there are two lines on one street. In the past commercial street, there are two lines on one street. The signs hanging in front of the door reflect the glorious process of Shanxi merchants in the past 500 years.
[Explanation] Chuan extension skills not only take pictures of objects, but also provide historical evidence and cultural heritage.
In Chen Xu's view, this ancient skill needs to be developed and innovated at the same time of inheritance.
He integrated flat extension, three-dimensional extension, software extension and living extension into one, so that Chuan extension can be better integrated into modern life.
[Concurrent] Chen Xu, a scholar of Shanxi merchant culture
In these caves carved in Yungang Grottoes, there are nearly 50,000 statues. These 50,000 statues are immovable heritage displayed on the earth. How to make it move, I will use my rubbing skills to do it first. did a test.
How to make it move and come alive, I plan to choose about 500 to do a topic.
Reported by Qu Lixia and Gao Ruifeng from Taiyuan, Shanxi
Responsible editor: [Luo Pan]