From a bouquet of dirt to an elegant and atmospheric architectural decoration
From a tile to a lifelike work of art
"Wu's Brick Carving"
This intangible cultural heritage
In the hands of the inheritor Wu Deliang
It is crossing the river of thousands of years of civilization
"Fly" into the homes of ordinary people
In Zhuozhou City, Dongxianpo Town, Xihe Village
There is a "Wu's Brick Carving" studio
This folk craft has been passed down for 100 years
It is from this small courtyard that stands out
Wu Deliang, non-hereditary heir of "Wu's brick carving": "Every morning we come, the work is the most inspired time, the carved things are also the best-looking, with years of experience accumulated, first draw a good draft pasted on this brick, and then carve, you have no experience and no inspiration, the carved things are not good-looking." ”
The craft of brick carving is known as "hard flower work"
Pay special attention to the inter-finger force
In order to achieve excellence
Wu Deliang often buried his head
One sculpture is a whole day
More than a dozen tools on the console
At his fingertips
Wu Deliang, the non-hereditary heir of "Wu's Brick Carving": "This knife is mainly wide and narrow, there are more than ten kinds, all of which we do ourselves, different places do different work, we carve the hands you see now, the prominence is not the same, the two fingers are different, the dry time is called occupational disease." ”
Wu Deliang is the fourth generation of "Wu brick carving"
From the initial liking to the obsession with research
From elementary school apprentices to brick carving everyone
More than thirty years later
He has put more than a hundred specifications
And pattern of tiles, dripping, warped angles, etc
The techniques of ancient architectural components are familiar with the fingers
Wu Deliang, the non-hereditary heir of "Wu's brick carving": "In the carving, we must repair the angle, have the edges and have a sense of angular layering, and then polish it after treatment, just like this peony flower, like we are carving this from the blank, to the polishing and then to the end, carving into the current process and this hollowing out this state, we need three days to complete. These finished products are handed down from the older generation, we update step by step more than a dozen steps, slowly made, just this piece of the four of us, even polished and then carved down for about 15 days."
It is this condensation of the hundred years of experience and wisdom of the ancestors
Wu Deliang has always had a sense of awe
"Wu's brick carving" so far
Always pay attention to pure handmade
Just from the carved pattern
It is necessary to first according to the size and style of the building
Tailor-made and hand-drawn on paper
Wu Deliang, the non-hereditary heir of "Wu's Brick Carving": "These patterns are all my own, one stroke at a time on this paper, and then we follow this proportion, in terms of carving on the bricks, I have painted the largest pattern, two meters by three meters is a big project."
Pieces of exquisitely carved brick carvings
It's all in a stroke, a knife in a moment
Carved
For Wu Deliang
Brick carvings are charming
This perseverance of more than thirty years
From preference
From the heritage
More from responsibility
Wu Deliang, the non-hereditary heir of "Wu's brick carving": "When I learned the first step, let me polish, a polish is two years, and then grind the character all down, in order to learn this brick carving well, the first finished product is the beast on the roof ridge, about the time of carving is, half a month bar fifteen days, since then it has been out of control, has been dry until now for more than thirty years." After working on tens of thousands of works for so many years, it is this terracotta warrior head, which in my memory makes me the most inspired and most confident to do it. One that has been passed down, an industry of brick carving. ”
In Wu Deliang's perseverance and day after day of knocking
He used the carving knife in his hand
Chisel out the most moving movements
Also use the "exquisite" in ancient techniques
Created a "craftsmanship" after thousands of hammers and hammers
That's why
Under his influence
His son Wu Jinxin also embarked on the road of carving
Wu Jinxin, the fifth generation inheritor of the "Wu brick carving": "Since I was a child, my father did this, and then when I was out of school, I would come to him and watch him carve all kinds of flowers and birds, very curious, I thought, this ordinary green brick can be carved, so many beautiful patterns, and then I became interested in this, and now I have been learning this for three years, I want to learn all his craft, and then carry it forward, so that more people know our Wu brick carving skills." ”
Picking bricks, drawings, blanks,
Fine, polished, repaired, repaired, etc
This is a traditional process
In the "Wu's brick carving" inheritors by word of mouth
It has been inherited and developed
Today, for Wu Deliang and Wu Jinxin, who grew up in a brick carving workshop, life and skills have been integrated, and their inheritance of craftsmanship comes more from a sense of family responsibility and a pure handmade obsession. May this skill be even more dazzling in the hands of Zhuozhou non-heritage people.
Source: Zhuozhou TV Life Channel
Producer / Li Sheng
Audit / Mingchen Dai
Reporter / Zhang Yanan Luray
Correspondent / Wang Chang
Edited by /Skan
Zhuozhou Rong Media Center