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Su Qingwu, who was born in 1993, is 29 years old this year.
In her words, to describe her current state, it is: "People in the mountains, there are live orders, no live pavilions, and the revenue is dismal." ”
However, Su Qingwu did not have much desire for material things, and after returning from Hangzhou to the mountains where he grew up, he had no intention of returning to the city to work, and he was even more reluctant to work for others.
She plunged headlong into China's ancient traditional culture and craftsmanship, hoping to spread the beauty and subtlety of their traditions to more people through her own lens.
At the beginning, the people around me did not understand, thinking that a young and beautiful girl, after graduating from college, did not work well, stayed at home all day, and did not find a partner, it was too unreliable.
But in the gossip, Su Qingwu always closed the door and did what she liked, and when everything she insisted on had an echo, the haze in front of her eyes was gradually dispelled...
In 2019, Su Qingwu made a "red wall of the Forbidden City" in his own courtyard.
This wall is one of her own bricks and bricks, scraping puty and then brushing color, there was no experience at that time, the wall roots are not straight, the wall surface is not flat, fortunately, the dignified Forbidden City red, was restored eight or nine points.
Standing here in a traditional dress and taking pictures is really like traveling through a thousand years of time.
In addition to taking pictures, usually shooting videos are basically relying on this red wall, for a long time, she found that it seems a little lonely in her backyard, she thought of equipping it with a Forbidden City pavilion, the requirements are not high, as long as it does not collapse.
"At first, I saw a photo of the Pavilion of the Forbidden City on the Internet, and I felt that the structure should be quite simple, and I thought that if I didn't try it, I really wouldn't learn it."
So in May 2020, Su Qingwu began to build another wooden pavilion in the courtyard.
As the essence of ancient Chinese architecture, the Forbidden City mainly uses the oldest technique - tenon and tenon.
The convex is "mortise", the depression is "卯", the two chimeras, complete splicing, no need for nails and glue, can be firmly bitten together, forming a stable structure.
In order to maximize the restoration of the Forbidden City, she began to teach herself the bucket arch and mortise.
When encountering places that he did not understand, Su Qingwu stayed until the evening when he was not working, and all the information was source networks and books.
In her words, "There are no drawings, they are all fooling around." ”
Because the structure and connection details of the pavilion cannot be fully seen in the picture, in September she also made a special trip north to the Forbidden City to carefully observe the brackets, beams and columns and intersections of the ancient buildings.
Traditional colors, elegant ornaments, exquisite structures, everywhere she can not open her eyes.
This trip to the Forbidden City was full of harvests, and Su Qingwu found that the mortise and mortise structure of the Pavilion of the Forbidden City was actually very simple, as long as it was patiently polished according to the shape and size, it could be buckled together.
Although the structure is not complicated, the process is extremely cumbersome.
In the midst of the flying sawdust, she made more than a dozen of the same bucket arch structures, each of which had to be measured in size, sawed exactly according to the shape, and then polished one by one.
The force is light, and the wood cannot be chiseled; the force is heavy, and the shape will be destroyed.
In order to grasp the force more accurately, she did not wear gloves the whole time, hammered and sawed how many days and nights, her hands were broken, and the main structure was finally ready.
When the two pieces of wood clicked and snapped together, the infinite wisdom and wind bones of the ancestors appeared in front of them.
In addition to the mortise and mortise structure, the next series of processes such as sealing the roof, using "ground battles" for corrosion and moisture protection, and painting pavilions are not easy.
If any step is not done well, it will be difficult to reproduce the soul of the Forbidden City.
But Su Qingwu gritted her teeth and persevered, 150 days, 10,000 yuan cost, a Forbidden City pavilion, just appeared in her sixty or seventy square meters of courtyard.
Looking at the pavilion in the once photograph that was now built by his own hands, Su Qingwu had an indescribable sense of accomplishment in his heart, it was like the swallow in front of Wang Xietang, so that the ancient technique hidden in the books had entered the ordinary people's home.
She sent the construction process to the B station, and it exploded at once:
"Worthy of carving beams and painting pillars, direct industry closed loop!"
"Real craftsman, amazing."
"This is a fairy."
Not only netizens have worshipped the gods in the bullet screen, but even official V such as the People's Daily have come to praise her.
In fact, for Su Qingwu, the "out of the circle" of the Forbidden City pavilion video and his sudden exposure are somewhat unaccustomed.
She has been doing handicrafts for a long time, and she has long been accustomed to a simple and quiet life.
Born in a small village in Wenzhou, Zhejiang Province, this girl grew up surrounded by mountains and rivers, and her parents are the most ordinary and simple farmers in the local area.
In 2012, she was admitted to Zhejiang Wanli College, because she did not know what she wanted to do in the future, she randomly chose an advertising major, photography, shooting micro-films and other skills are learned when participating in activities in school.
After graduating from university, she joined a third-party company in Ningbo that worked for a real estate company, and overtime was the norm.
Although she is not afraid of overtime, she has never been able to adapt to the crowded and noisy big city, nor does she want to live a boring life that can be seen at a glance.
So at the end of 2016, after only working for half a year, she resolutely resigned, leaving zhibu in these four words, and then turned back to the countryside.
Su Qingwu's parents did not understand their daughter's decision at first, "A 28-year-old person who still hides in the mountains all day and doesn't know what he is doing? ”
But they were open enough not to stop her from doing what she wanted to do, "Although I don't understand, but since it is what my daughter wants to do, let her do it." ”
With the support of his parents, Su Qingwu was able to study traditional architecture and cultural skills without any worries, and his persistence echoed.
Today, Su Qingwu is completely famous by relying on the Forbidden City Pavilion, and some people think that she is lucky, but in fact, the circle of the work is not her temporary luck.
Since starting short video production in 2018, she has been sharing her process of making traditional handmade objects such as ceramics, stools, kites and so on on the Internet.
"I especially like traditional things, I think they represent cultural self-confidence, but also convey the beauty of a traditional Chinese culture, which is the original intention I want to share with everyone."
"In fact, I made the pavilion to let everyone know that traditional culture and traditional architecture are not so lofty or niche."
The success of the Forbidden City Pavilion gave her a firmer belief and confidence to try to learn to build more traditional buildings.
So she built another Tang Feng Pavilion, which was about twice the size of the Forbidden City Pavilion.
She bought professional books recommended by netizens and learned more comprehensively the techniques of mortise, bucket arch, ground battle and color painting.
When encountering obscure professional terms, go to Baidu one by one, and sometimes you can't read a few pages of books a day.
However, compared with learning skills, the bucket arch structure of tangfeng pavilion is many times more complex than that of the forbidden city pavilion, because some of the bucket arches in the Ming and Qing dynasties do not need to bear weight, and the tang and Song dynasty buildings not only have to meet the load-bearing function, many of which are 30 ° and 45 ° oblique angles, but also must be carefully calculated and then spliced according to proportions.
Sometimes the data is understood, but the practice is not good, and the problem can only be overturned and redone.
But now that we have started, we cannot easily say that we have given up. Su Qingwu got up at six or seven o'clock every morning, built a pavilion during the day, practiced words and supplemented the gold at night, and finally spent 200 days and 30,000 yuan to get this Tang Feng pavilion at the beginning of this year.
Previously, due to lack of experience, the problems of painting cracking and discoloration, unstable tenon docking, and easy rain on the roof that were too small to enter the rain have all been improved this time.
Under the blue sky and white clouds, the breeze is gentle, and this pavilion stands quietly in the courtyard, suddenly showing the prosperity of the Tang Dynasty in front of the eyes of the world again.
Speaking of the next plan, Su Qingwu said that he intends to recreate a replica Song Pavilion, as for where everyone cares about where the funds come from, she said that although there is no traffic realization at present, she does not exclude commercial cooperation with interested products.
She needs to find a path between reality and dreams that she can live on and can continue to walk.
Treating mortise, calligraphy, and gold doughnuts as more everyday things is Su Qingwu's current wish, and she hopes that these skills that have been passed down for thousands of years and hide the wisdom of ordinary people's lives can be preserved forever.
Even if you can do very little and can do very little, you will still stick to it.
A few months ago, in the village where Su Qingwu lived, a centenarian died, and after everyone had done a funeral for the old man, they came to cook and chat under the Forbidden City pavilion of her home.
When history and modernity, locality and civilization, intertwined in front of Su Qingwu's eyes, she suddenly recalled a day when the Forbidden City Pavilion was built.
At that time, she was preparing to cover the tiles of the pavilion, when she boarded the table, she accidentally stepped on the air and fell down, her hands were broken, and her whole body hurt, but when she looked up and saw the sunlight sprinkled on the glazed tiles and the ridges of the eaves, refracting the brilliant light, she suddenly smiled.
"No matter how hard it is, it's worth it."