On special festivals such as dancing flowers and playing ga, the Miao people have to blow reeds, but the production of reeds is often only in the hands of a few people.
Ma Jinguo, a villager in the rice pile bag group of Rhino Cave Village in Longchang Town, is a Lusheng production "shou" artist.
Bijie Nayong Lusheng "Shou" entertainer.
Ma Jinguo's craft of making lusheng was passed on by his father Ma Shunyou to his brother Ma Jinxue, and then from Ma Jinxue to Ma Jinguo. Lusheng is the heirloom of Ma Jinguo.
When Ma Jinguo was 4 years old, his father died, and the knives, saws, planers, chisels, drills, hammers and other tools placed in the home, as well as materials such as bitter bamboo, birch bark, fir wood, and copper sheets, told him a basic fact: the family was making something. Gradually, Ma Jinguo learned from his eldest brother that this kind of thing is called Lusheng - why is it the sheng of "Lu" and not others? Because, at that time, the sheng bucket of the reed was made from the fruit of the vine plant gourd, the gourd.
Bi jie na yong lusheng "shou" artist set up a road to riches.
Ma Jinguo began making lusheng at the age of 13 and became a master at the age of 16. More than 30 years after the production of Lusheng, Ma Jinguo's son Ma De became a helper, Lusheng sales hitched a ride on the Internet "express", they continue to push Lusheng products outside the county or even outside the city, while inheriting the lusheng production skills, the Lusheng into a characteristic industry, the products in Hezhang, Qixingguan, Guanling and other places occupy an unshakable sales position. Today, Ma Jinguo's family has given up farming, and the class teacher Zuo Jiujia specializes in the production and sales of lusheng.
At present, Ma Jinguo has set up MuZhiyou Lusheng Series Product Development Co., Ltd., and his son Ma De followed the class, gradually allowing Lusheng sales to enter the Internet channel.
Lusheng "shou" artists set up a road to riches.
Ma De introduced: "This year, the most people working in our factory were about twenty, but most of the long-term words were around eight or nine. Our sales of Lusheng are still OK, and the sales volume of this month has been particularly good recently, probably more than a hundred sold this month. ”
Lusheng "shou" artists must have rich practical experience. The tools used such as hammers, chisels, saws, drills, and materials such as brass and bitter bamboo are only the lower limit for making reeds, while the experience in the mind is the upper limit for making reeds, the former gives the possibility, and the latter determines the quality.
NaYong Lusheng "shou" entertainer.
Lusheng production, the process is complicated, the production of artists using knives, saws, planing, chiseling, drilling, hammer and other tools, through the preparation of bamboo, reeds, do sheng bucket, reeds, tone and other major processes to make reeds, each link is manual work. Among them, polishing the reed and fixing the tone is the most important - the width of the reed gap determines the quality of the reed, so the lusheng production craftsmen must use their eyes and ears to listen, if there is no very skilled production experience, the quality of the reed will lose the guarantee.
Nayong Lusheng "shou" artists set up a road to riches.
In the rice pile bag group of Rhino Cave Village, the "Ma Jia Ban" represented by Ma Jinguo has created a portrait of the craftsman who makes Lusheng, and the producer has also been passed down to the second generation. The technical replication of "one life two, two births three" has strengthened the lineup of reed production in Rhino Cave Village, forming a "plateau" made of reed sheng, and Ma Jinguo is the "peak" on this "plateau". (Photo/ Wen Lu Xiangmei, Zhou Qigang, He Mei)