In Chaoshan Province, gold lacquer painting and gold lacquer wood carving often appear together, like a pair of twin sisters, but they actually belong to a completely different art category. Let's start with this gold lacquer painting.
Gold lacquer painting is to use gold and silver powder to paint on the paint surface, which is a very unique category in China's decoration process. The word "ornament" may be a little unfamiliar to everyone now, translated into the vernacular, can be interpreted as lacquer ornament. There is a cloud under the sixty-seventh chapter of the "Book of Han": "In the middle of the court, There is a zhu, and the temple is painted." The famous Confucian Yanshi of the Tang Dynasty, Gu Zhuri: "Lacquer and lacquer are called lacquer."
Lacquer is nature's gift to human beings. When the bark of the sumac tree is cut, a milky white viscous liquid flows out, which is filtered and treated, which is raw lacquer. Judging from the current archaeological evidence, Chinese should be the first to discover and start using natural lacquer. The oldest lacquerware unearthed in our country is a wooden tire painted bowl. From the Neolithic era of Zhejiang Yuyao Hemudu primitive cultural site 7,000 years ago.
In daily life, paint is a good paint, moisture resistance, high temperature resistance, corrosion resistance, not easy to fade, can also be formulated with different colors, very beautiful. It is also because of its beauty that Chinese made various crafts with lacquer, lacquerware and lacquer painting came into being and developed into a special craft category.
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The daily utensils and crafts, art products, etc. made by applying lacquer to the surface of various utensils are what we often call "lacquerware". China's lacquerware craft has been continuously developed for thousands of years and has reached a fairly high level.
Lacquer painting is painting with natural lacquer as the main material, and there are quite a few auxiliary materials used to paint lacquer painting, such as gold. Silver, lead, tin, shells, stone chips, wood chips, etc. The richness of the materials leads to a wide variety of lacquer paintings and a wide variety of techniques. According to the different techniques, lacquer painting can be divided into different varieties such as engraving paint, stacking paint, inlaid paint, paint painting, grinding paint and so on.
In the Chaoshan region, the most well-known lacquer painting work should be the "door god", painted with bright and dazzling lacquer, which is both beautiful. Eye-catching, but also able to maintain a relatively long time. Therefore, on the door of the traditional Chaoshan people's home, you can often see the majestic door god dedicatedly helping everyone to look at the door. According to Jieyang's jade carving master Lin Chaoming, who was originally a master of lacquer painting who was good at painting the god of doors, the Guangdong Folk Craft Museum also has his lacquer paintings in the collection.
Source: Haibin Zoulu is Haiyang
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