Source: Quanzhou.com
Taiwan.com June 4th According to Quanzhou.com, Hui'an wood carving skills have a history of more than a thousand years and have been passed down from generation to generation. Behind each wood carving work, there is a craftsman who has turned decay into magic. They may not be good at talking in life, but they always have thousands of words to their wood, but they can always "talk in a leisurely manner". They use their infatuation to inject faith into their works.
is like the Quanzhou Municipal Intangible Cultural Heritage Project, Quanzhou representative wood carving inheritor Sun Xiaodong believes: including the touch of the hand, the observation of the eyes, the sounds heard by the ears, and the taste of breathing, without any missing, the information given to the craftsman by the wood is incomplete, and there is no way to obtain inspiration, and the creation can only be a defective product, which is disrespect for wood and oneself.
In recent years, Sun Xiaodong has "according to the situation" and cleverly used the phenomenon of natural combination of tree roots and stones to create the artistic masterpiece " bouldering ", injecting a clear stream into the wood carving world.
In this issue of "The Most Minnan", let's learn about Hui'an wood carvings and learn about Sun Xiaodong's carving career.
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"The Drama Toad"
Deeply Concrete
0 reporter interviewed the Quanzhou Intangible Cultural Heritage Protection Center and learned that Hui'an wood carving flourished in the Tang Dynasty and 5th generation , matured in the Song and Yuan dynasties, and reached its peak in the Ming and Qing Dynasties. It originated from the Central Plains culture and is a folk art that has been passed down to this day with architectural sculpture. The Hui'an Confucian Temple, built in the first year of Yuanzhen (1295), still retains intact "big wood" carving components such as pendants, lintels, brackets, and brackets. Early Hui'an wood carvings were mainly relief decorations of Buddha statues and buildings. The earliest existing Hui'an wood carvings are the carvings of 24 "Flying Girls" on the roof of the Kaiyuan Temple in Quanzhou, Zhang Shixun participated in the reconstruction of the roof of 24 "Flying Girls" in Quanzhou. It is an extraordinary work of art that combines religious culture, sculpture works, and architectural sculptures. In the 14th year of Guangxu in the Qing Dynasty (1888), Wang Yishun and his son of Chongwu Creek built the Fengwei Dongyue Temple and designed and produced a full-wood structure spider web caisson and carved various patterns of . This original technique became famous once it was published. Later, in famous Fujian-Taiwan temples such as Longshan Temple in Taipei, Nanputuo Temple in Xiamen, and Kaiyuan Temple in Quanzhou, all of them left behind artistic treasure relics that combine architectural "big wood" with carving and painting.
Hui'an wood carving skills are complex. Due to the different textures of wood, there are two categories: hard wood carving and soft wood carving. The decorative themes are roughly patterned and meaningful patterns. From the scope of application and decoration, there are three categories: architectural carving, furniture carving, and furnishing craft carving; from the form of expression, there are hollow carving, relief, shallow carving, three-dimensional round carving, hollow decals, etc.; from the carving techniques, there are mixed carving, clear ground carving, line carving, , transparent hollow carving, and sticking carving. Among them, picking the ground carving is the most basic carving technique in traditional wood carving, and putting carving is the result of later carving technology innovation.
Hui'an wood carving technology process requires seven processes, including chiseling a rough blank, digging a fine blank, polishing, polishing, carving hair patterns, shading, and configuring a base. Hui'an wood carvings have obvious traces of the Central Plains with rough, simple, simple lines, straight and simple characters, solemn and dignified characters, and delicate and complex craftsmanship components of southern culture. They are typical representatives of the Southern School carving art.
Today, Hui'an wood carving is closely related to the production and life of local people. It has become the most distinctive pillar industry and cultural tourism brand for local economic development. It has also been spread at home and abroad. Its ingenious skills have been widely recognized and praised by Taiwan and Southeast Asian countries.
In 2008, "Hui'an Wood Carving" was included in the second batch of Fujian Provincial Intangible Cultural Heritage Protection List.
Roots of Boulders' innovative work "Four Gentlemen"
Innovative work "Tea Ceremony"
"Wang"
Finely carved
humorous and free-spirited Jigong, holding the demon-slaying sword in one hand and carrying the wine jar in the other, Maitreya Buddha with a smile and a big belly, the boy Guanyin with a peaceful expression and a quiet and elegant expression... The exhibition hall of more than 300 square meters is filled with wood carvings carefully created by Sun Xiaodong in recent years, some of which are whole wood carvings, and some are natural root boulders. He is passionate about traditional culture and incorporates cultural allusions into his works, making wood carving art collectors and enthusiasts illuminate their eyes.
When he was a child, Sun Xiaodong often went to the home of Sun Dingkui, a Chinese folk wood carving master in the village to see him do wood carving. At the age of 15, he learned from the master. In his 20s, he was able to proficient in various processes of wood carving skills, including drawings, clay sculptures and carvings, becoming a "young master". Later, Sun Xiaodong followed his senior brothers Sun Wenhong and Sun Wenyong and to continue to study carving techniques and artistic creation theory. Both of them are now masters of arts and crafts in Fujian Province. To this day, Sun Xiaodong, born in 1977, has been working carefully in the wood carving industry for nearly 30 years.
sculpture production is a fine job. From conception, drawing, making clay sculpture models to carving and forming, it takes a long time to carve. Therefore, Sun Xiaodong often locked himself at home and focused on his creation, and sometimes even relatives and friends couldn't find him.
"I am very excited to create every work. I can't bear to buy it if someone asks me to buy it. Let the wood change its destiny, that's what it means." This is Sun Xiaodong's catchphrase.
On August 23, 2013, in the first Quanzhou carving industry employee skills competition organized by Quanzhou Federation of Trade Unions and Quanzhou Human Resources and Social Security Bureau, Sun Xiaodong's work "expresses Jigong's free and easy attitude of singing after drinking with flowing lines."
This not only gave him the joy of successfully making his works, but also gained the improvement of his own craftsmanship and technology, and also gained his understanding of the historical art of sculpture, which also strengthened his confidence in the creation of sculpture art.
"National Beauty and Heavenly Fragrance"
"Night Mooring on the Maple Bridge"
"Lotus Pond Heaven"
It is a natural
0 In Sun Xiaodong's exhibition hall, unlike elsewhere, there are many natural root bouldering works here. Root bouldering is also called root-built stone. As the name suggests, it is a plant, especially a big tree, that blends with the stone when it grows, and wraps the stone with roots. The precious work created by such materials is that every piece is an isolated product. However, no one has done this skill on the market yet, and there are good opportunities for expansion.
His work "Four Gentlemen": Using stones as the background, and using the original shape of the roots of the tree, carving plums, orchids, bamboos and chrysanthemums to express an elegant and clean image. The whole work weighs one ton, which is quite shocking. In addition, Sun Xiaodong has successively created a series of bouldering works such as "Spring Plowing" and "Yi Xin". The original several irregular boulders were transformed into artistic treasures with both spirit and shape and rich meanings through his carvings. The work "Quan" won the silver medal at the Xiamen Cultural Expo in one fell swoop.
Sun Xiaodong's wood carvings gradually become one of their own.
"Although it is hard to wash and trivialize thousands of times, you will only get gold after blowing out the yellow sand." The work of carving is complicated and hard, but it is also joyful in suffering. Sun Xiaodong felt very proud. His thoughts could be kept between carvings and chisels, thus demonstrating the all-encompassing Chinese traditional wood carving skills.
He hopes to create more works that are closer to the times, increase the added value of wood carving artworks, and at the same time, he devotes himself to teaching his apprentices and further inheriting his skills. (■Execution of this issue: Lai Xiaoling)
Wood carving production process
Step 1 Drawing: Design the shape of the work and draw the design ideas.
Step 2: Blank: Make the prototype of the wood carving and use an axe to split the basic structure of the work.
Step 3: Cultivation: Carve the wood carving body with dragons and phoenixes or carvings, and carve the required patterns, rely on different knife directions and knife techniques to carefully carve the body.
Step 4 Refining the face: Show the temperament and spirit of the wood carving characters.
Step 5 Paint the wood carving to make the wood carving more artistic value, so that a complete Buddha statue wood carving is completed.
