Qianjiang Evening News hourly news reporter Li Wei
On January 14, 2022, the 3rd Chinese Folk Craft Biennale and the 15th Chinese Folk Art Mountain Flower Award and Excellent Folk Arts and Crafts Final Evaluation Activity were held in Liangzhu Mengqi Town, Yuhang District, Hangzhou.
The Chinese Folk Art Mountain Flower Award is a national folk art award approved by the Central Propaganda Department and jointly issued by the China Federation of Literature and Literature and the China Nationalities Association. The award is selected every two years and is divided into four categories: outstanding folk literature works, excellent folk art academic works, excellent folk arts and crafts works, and excellent folk art performance works.
This award is the highest award in China's literary and art circles, along with the film "Hundred Flowers Award", the TELEVISION "Golden Eagle Award", the opera "Plum Blossom Award", and the dance "Lotus Award".
A total of 7 works (groups) in Zhejiang Province were shortlisted for the final evaluation of the Shanhua Award and Excellent Folk Arts and Crafts Works, and together with 80 finalist works (groups) from 29 provinces and municipalities across the country, they competed for the only 8 Shanhua Awards and Excellent Folk Arts and Crafts Works in each session.
On the afternoon of January 14, the final evaluation activity was officially opened in Liangzhu Mengqi Town.
The entry of arts and crafts covering wood carving, stone carving, bamboo carving, ceramics, paper-cutting, embroidery, batik, clay sculpture and other categories has made the huge space of Hall 7 in the North District suddenly become beautiful.
Let's take a look at the works from Zhejiang and their authors.
Li Zhen
Senior Arts and Crafts Artist, Distinguished Professor of Chinese Min University, Representative Inheritor of Longquan Celadon of Lishui Intangible Cultural Heritage, Fifth Generation Of Li Shenghe, And Object of Zhejiang Province's "Literary and Art Masters Incubation Program" (Arts and Crafts).
There have been major breakthroughs in the exploration and research of azure glaze and antique porcelain in the Southern Song Dynasty official kilns, especially the inheritance and development of the "Li's glaze water" and "branch nail firing" techniques, making it an outstanding representative of the contemporary young and middle-aged Longquan celadon firing. Many works have been collected by Chungnam Purple Light Pavilion, the Korean National Assembly, the Capital Museum, the Chinese University Museum, etc.
Celadon "Yesterday, Today, Tomorrow"
Jin Jiahong
Senior Arts and Crafts Artist, The First Master of Chinese Embroidery Art, Master of Arts and Crafts of Zhejiang Province, Representative Inheritor of Hangzhou Embroidery of Provincial Intangible Cultural Heritage, Leading Talent of Traditional Crafts of the First Ten Thousand Talents Plan of Hangzhou, And Object of "Incubation Program of Literary and Art Masters" (Arts and Crafts) in Zhejiang Province.
Engaged in embroidery art for 36 years, he has been committed to the collection, research, boutique creation and inheritance and popularization of traditional stitchwork in Hangzhou embroidery. The creation of the work continues the embroidery style of the Hangzhou embroidery boudoir while fully absorbing the strengths of other art styles, converting the different expression techniques of painting into embroidery stitches, making creative presentations, and successfully developing the embroidery "one gold" disc nail technique. His works are in the collections of the Japan Alpine Festival Museum, the Chinese Women and Children's Museum, and other places.
Hangzhou embroidery "Silk Road Splendid Embroidery" (a group of five pieces)
These 5 embroidery works, Jin Jiahong used more than 20 kinds of stitches, of which the crane used a set of needles, relatively simple, but after embroidering these nine cranes, it also took her a month, the whole set of works lasted two years, from the beginning of 2020 to the end of 2021.
The lock needles on the city wall are embroidered with a thick texture of city bricks; the layers of clothes on the Hu people are full of three-dimensional feelings, using needles; the crossed needles can become a rich pattern on the ground under her stitches and embroidery, and can also create a hazy feeling of the fur in the felt room; look closely at the works there are also pan gold, coil silver, beating seeds, yarn, triangular random needles... More than 20 kinds of stitching, some embroidered on thin silk, some in the form of splicing to participate in the display of the theme. "Different stitches are means, and in the end, it depends on what kind of texture effect the work needs to present, and the same stitches can also change into different looks."
Ge Zhaolong
Representative inheritor of Ninghai traditional stage construction skills of Ningbo Intangible Cultural Heritage, guardian of the most beautiful ancient building in Ningbo, five-star rural construction artist of Ninghai County folk talents, cultural talents of Ninghai County, and famous craftsmen of Ninghai County.
He has been engaged in the restoration, protection and construction of ancient opera stages and ancient buildings for more than 20 years, and has presided over the repair of more than 160 ancient opera stages and ancient building complexes, and is the backbone and leader of the ancient opera stage and ancient building repair and protection industry in Ningbo.
Aoi Craft "Life Stage"
Lin Shunkui
Representative inheritor of the fifth batch of national intangible cultural heritage Yueqing jewelry dragon, the fifth generation of inheritors of the Lin family.
From more than 40 years of art, Lin's jewelry dragon lantern has been reported by CCTV many times, and has been reported by Xinhua News Agency, Xinhua Network, People's Daily Overseas Edition, and People's Daily.
Illumination "Yueqing Jewelry Dragon Lantern"
This huge jewelry dragon can also move, turning the handle on the side of the dragon, and the whole jewelry dragon immediately "comes alive", and the sound and light technology makes it more glittering.
Wang xiangdong
Senior arts and crafts artist, the first Chinese wood carving art master, the first batch of Jinhua intangible cultural heritage Dongyang wood carving representative inheritors, 2020 Zhejiang Province "Ten Thousand People Plan" traditional craft leading talents, Zhejiang Province plastic arts talent training "Xinfeng Plan" (craft) talents.
Engaged in Dongyang wood carving art for 30 years, his works have a distinct Dongyang wood carving Huangpai technical style. He has created more than 600 works, won nearly 80 awards such as "Hundred Flowers Award" and "Hundred Flowers Cup" of Chinese Arts and Crafts, "Excellent Award" of Zhejiang Provincial Arts and Crafts, and won more than 30 national patents, leading the development of the industry.
Wood carving "Splendid Prosperity"
Mourning guards
Senior arts and crafts artist, master of art in China's arts and crafts industry, representative inheritor of blue printed cloth of intangible cultural heritage of Zhejiang Province, and leading talent of traditional crafts of "Ten Thousand People Plan" in Zhejiang Province.
Engaged in the traditional skills of blue printed cloth for 31 years, he is committed to the excavation, protection and inheritance of traditional crafts. His works have won more than 50 national, provincial and ministerial awards, and have been collected in the Museum of Chinese Nationalities, the Art Museum of China Arts and Crafts, the China Silk Museum, the Zhejiang Provincial Museum, the China Wood Sculpture Museum and other places. At the same time, he has also published books and papers on blue printed cloth.
Blue print mural "Hanging straight from the clouds and sails to the sea"
He Wenbin
He is an expert member of the Lantern Art Committee of the China Folk Writers Association, a member of the Zhejiang Arts and Crafts Industry Association, a member of the Zhejiang Arts and Crafts Society, and the main person in charge of the Taizhou Intangible Cultural Heritage Xianju Flower Lantern Inheritance Base.
From 39 years of art, the system has completely mastered the complete set of handmade techniques of "Xianju Flower Lantern", and absorbed the essence of traditional folk cultural elements and modern aesthetics in the pattern and shape design of Xianju Flower Lantern to form its own unique artistic style. The design and production work "Turning boneless flower lamp" won the utility model invention patent certificate of the State Intellectual Property Office.
Illumination "Bamboo Blessing"
The arts and crafts works from other provinces and cities are also very eye-catching.
The folk costume "The People of All Ethnic Groups Toward the Party" recommended by the Hebei Folk Writers Association was created by Zhao Bo, an expert in costume culture, using silk and ramie with Chinese characteristics as raw materials, and based on the traditional costumes of the Manchu, Han and Hui ethnic groups.
The 100-meter-long paper engraving volume "Grand Canal" recommended by the Jiangsu Folk Writers Association was led by Yang Zhaoqun, a national non-hereditary heir of Jintan carved paper, and jointly created by 11 paper-cutting artists from 8 provinces and cities along the Grand Canal. The long scroll is on 100 meters of engraved paper, starting from Tongzhou in Beijing, which has a profound canal culture, to Hangzhou, which is full of smoke and waves, passing through six provinces and two cities, showing many historical cities, scenic spots, folk customs and cultural relics along the coast.
From Heilongjiang Province, "Shengshi New Elephant" is a group of four fish skin paintings completed by the Hezhe fish skin engraving technique, and the author Yang Mei's creation carries the original and rough atmosphere of the northern forest.
The silverware work "Rice Ware" from Jiangsu is full of modern art tones, and under closer inspection, the details of several pieces of silverware vividly restore the shape of the rice grains, and it seems that you can still smell the fragrant rice in the New Year.
There is rice and noodles. The noodle flower work "Dragon And Phoenix Jujube Mountain" from Shaanxi Province, there are dragons and phoenixes and lions, full of dazzling, and the grains of red dates dotted on them are like rubies, dazzling.
Bamboo root carving "Zhong Kui Marrying Sister" from Hubei Province, the author Xu Haiqing created a group of 68 pieces, a long send-off line lined up a whole long booth, 68 pieces of bamboo root carvings with different postures, interesting expressions.
There are also dazzling, stunning two sets of furniture, what powerful arts and crafts techniques are used by each of them, can you recognize them?
This Chinese Folk Craft Biennale, there will be a live webcast, and netizens can follow the anchors to "watch the exhibition online".
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