Dazhong Daily reporter Du Zhenqiang Jiang Bin Li Yuan Zhang Zhongde planned Liang Xuri
High-density clay sculpture
On the thirteenth day of the waxing moon, the taste of the year is getting stronger. Niexi Village, Jiangzhuang Town, Gaomi City, is bustling with activity, as a clay sculpture production gathering place in Gaomi Niejiazhuang, attracting many guests who come to buy clay sculptures. Coinciding with the approaching Year of the Tiger, one of the main varieties of Niejiazhuang clay sculpture, "Calling the Tiger", has become a sought-after commodity, and the increasing orders can be busy with many Niejiazhuang clay sculpture craftsmen.
In the clay sculptures of Niejiazhuang, the traditional "Calling the Tiger" works are bold and exaggerated, paying attention to the expression of the gods, they have raised their eyebrows, their heads are standing tall, their chests are hung with peach flowers, and their foreheads are painted with Zhu Pen large "king", and the form is both majestic and elegant. In recent years, the craftsmen of Niejiazhuang clay sculpture have innovated on the basis of traditional clay sculptures and created many novel shapes. Nie Peng, the inheritor of the "post-90s", is one of the best.
Nie Peng is making clay sculptures of tigers
Face molding
Face sculpture, commonly known as the kneading person, is one of the traditional Chinese folk arts originating in Shandong, also known as "dancing on the fingertips of life". On January 16, Kan Zongqin, a folk artist from Zaozhuang City, Shandong Province, created a face sculpture at home. As the Lunar Year of the Tiger approaches, some folk artists create tiger-themed facial sculptures to welcome the arrival of the Year of the Tiger. Xinhua News Agency (Photo by Sun Zhongzhe)
Binzhou Cloth Tiger
Luliu Village, Hubin Town, Boxing County, Binzhou, a small village on the banks of the Yellow River, the home of Liu Qinghua, the inheritor of the provincial intangible cultural heritage, is in an alley of this village.
Liu Qinghua, 67 years old from a craft family, has been designing and making cloth tigers for more than 30 years, and his father is good at making various crafts and opera costume props. Liu Qinghua said that the production process of cloth tiger includes more than a dozen processes such as proofing, cutting, stitching, filling, winding, lewing, embroidery, cutting and pasting, and her home is the workshop of cloth tiger processing and production. After more than 30 years of production of cloth tigers, Liu Qinghua is most proud of his works, which were selected for the 5 cloth tigers exhibited at the National Museum of China in 2020 at the "Remember Nostalgia - Shandong Folk Art Exhibition". The largest of these, the cloth tiger, is 2 meters tall and more than 3 meters long, and requires two adult men to be able to lift it.
Jiaodong flower steamed bun
As early as 2009, Jiaodong Hua rao folk customs were included in the list of intangible cultural heritage of Shandong Province. As a branch of Jiaodong Flower Dumpling, Laixi Flower Dumpling Technique has been inherited and innovated by the Chi family of Jiangshan Three Villages in Jiangshan Town, Laixi City for more than 150 years and 5 generations, and the skills have been perfected day by day, and it has become one of the representatives of Flower Dumpling in Jiaodong Area.
As the fifth generation of the Chi family's inheritors, Chi Jinyan has had the dream of carrying forward this ancestral skill since she was a child. In 2016, Chi Jinyan gave up the high salary in the construction industry to return to her hometown and devote herself to the research and inheritance of this ancestral skill.
On January 13, in the wheatgrass painting exhibition hall in Poli Town, Qingdao's West Coast New Area, this reporter met Xu Jiazi, 54 years old. Not long ago, the "Boli Wheat Grass Painting Handicraft Technique" with him as the inheritor successfully applied for the fifth batch of intangible cultural heritage representative projects in Shandong Province.
Wheatgrass paintings are based on the golden yellow color of wheat, light and shadow, text inscriptions, etc. are ironed by soldering irons, supplemented by partially dyed strips of wheat stalks. "This year, we made a little innovation, embedding the zodiac tiger wheatgrass painting in the wall calendar and distributing the picture frame. In this way, you can use one thing for two things, and when the wall calendar is used up, it can be installed in the picture frame to make ornaments or pendants. Xu Jiazi's words were tinged with a little pride.