Qilu Evening News Qilu one-point reporter Tian Ruye
A table lamp, several carving knives, and a homemade workbench have accompanied Zhao Zhengsheng's dream of micro-carving in recent years. Zhao Zhengsheng is the inheritor of Jinan micro-carving, an intangible cultural heritage of Shandong Province, and has been studying micro-carving for four or five years.
The Year of the Tiger has arrived, and Zhao Zhengsheng carved a Shangshan Tiger and a three-hundred-character Tiger Poetry Tiger On a Ping'an buckle with a diameter of 22 centimeters. He used extremely small and sharp carving knives and needles to carve the delicate tigers and verses on the surface of the jade, and the ordinary jade glowed with new life in Zhao Zhengsheng's hands, giving the jade another beauty.
Zhao Zhengsheng's home is where he creates
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Zhao Zhengsheng's home is where he creates. On the side of the living room, there is a square table, the tablecloth is white, the carving knives and carving needles and other objects are arranged in an orderly manner, and behind him is a table, where his miniature carving works are placed - in this square inch, Zhao Zhengsheng is working hard.
Zhao Zhengsheng embarked on the road of micro-carving, which originated from a chance experience. He liked calligraphy and painting since he was a child, "When I was in school, others loved to go out and play, but I liked to draw on the table. Although interested in being a companion, Zhao Zhengsheng's calligraphy and painting have not received systematic training, after participating in the work, Zhao Zhengsheng conducted professional training and practice at the Jinan Municipal Cultural Center, which was six or seven years. Five years ago, a teacher brought a miniature carving work, so that Zhao Zhengsheng's eyes lit up, it turned out that there is this kind of "small to see the big" artwork, a flower and a leaf on the micro-carving, can be called a ghostly work, how is this carved? The teacher said that the creation of micro-carving requires a certain foundation in calligraphy and painting, and also to know the art of carving. If you like it, why don't you try to do it? Since then, Zhao Zhengsheng has made up his mind to master this micro-carving skill.
The beauty of micro-carving lies in its condensation of calligraphy, painting, sculpture, etc., hidden from the human eye. A fine micro-carving work, sometimes even needs a magnifying glass or a microscope to see the content of the micro-carving work, which can reach the level of subtlety and subtlety, which is not an easy task.
Zhao Zhengsheng is creating a miniaturely carved peace buckle that combines the mountain tiger and poetry
"Micro-carving is different from other techniques, and even its difficulty is higher, because the area of the creative carrier is too small, and it is difficult to complete without a very strong calligraphy foundation and microscopic carving skills." Zhao Zhengsheng said that one of the most prominent features of micro-carving is to use a knife to replace the pen, forming a unique carving that suppresses the ups and downs, rigidity and softness, but the material of the micro-carving creation carrier is generally relatively hard, and the carving knife is not as soft as the brush, and the charm, lines and structure of the calligraphy can be expressed, and the difficulty of this carving can be imagined.
At the beginning of the practice, after Zhao Zhengsheng went down with a knife line, the line of the second knife was easy to overlap with the first knife, and in order to make the lines clear, only the ability and technique of constantly practicing the knife control were constantly practiced. There is no so-called talent for creating micro-sculptures, what is needed is a solid basic skill, and it is obsessively liked and repeatedly practiced.
People say that the song does not leave the mouth, the micro-carving is about the knife does not leave the hand, just like a Confucius teaching map, Zhao Zhengsheng carved no less than a hundred times, is to form muscle memory and conditioned reflexes, as long as you pick up the carving knife can be carved, without thinking and looking at the drawings. "Mr. Kong's beard is very much, and it needs to be very even and flowing to draw one by one." Zhao Zhengsheng often sits for hours, once the production process stops and rests, the effect of the work before and after docking may be affected, and the whole process should be concentrated, holding breath, and the degree of spiritual concentration and willpower are a great test.
To be a craftsman, you must have ingenuity and endure loneliness that ordinary people can hardly imagine. Especially in the dead of night, Zhao Zhengsheng worked hard under the lamp, and even the sound of the carving knife carved on the jade could be clearly heard.
Innovation: The technique of seal engraving and the technique of micro-carving are combined
Zhao Zhengsheng is a careful person. The production of micro-carving works requires more than 20 processes, from material selection, to polishing, to carving, polishing, coloring, each process he personally does. The selection of materials is carefully selected by themselves in the market, the engraving knife is sharpened into a triangular needle tip that is easy to seal engraving, and the tip of the engraving knife is the tungsten steel material selected by himself, in order to create a micro-carving work with "the font is as small as mustard seed, and the stroke is as fine as a millimeter". Jade, bamboo pieces, wood, lacquerware, porcelain, ivory products... Zhao Zhengsheng has tried all kinds of carriers, and each work carries his painstaking efforts and efforts.
Zhao Zhengsheng's miniature sculptures
Golden stone bamboo wood, thickness and thinness are wonderful. Jade porcelain tooth horn, square inch can be Qiankun. Zhao Zhengsheng carved countless bad works, he used some scraps to practice repeatedly to achieve the transmission and refinement of the works, he maintained his original intention of micro-carving, but also in awe, he has always regarded micro-carving as a career to do.
In Zhao Zhengsheng's view, micro-carving craftsmanship is a kind of inheritance, which is taken from the hands of the older generation of artists and must continue to be passed on. After absorbing traditional techniques, Zhao Zhengsheng also wanted to innovate. "Only after innovation can we have a better living space."
The engraving method on jade and porcelain is relatively simple, and it is not easy to innovate due to the limitation of hardness. At first, Zhao Zhengsheng thought of innovating on tools, but the carving knife of the micro-carving itself was already very small and it was difficult to make a breakthrough, so he thought of innovating in the technique - the perfect combination of the knife method of seal carving and the technique of micro-carving. Tiggo Yingchun, which has just been completed on the jade safety buckle, is the masterpiece of his innovative technique.
Objects such as knives and needles used in micro-carving are arranged in an orderly manner
"This year is the Year of the Tiger, and the meaning of the peace buckle is also very good, peace and security." With this idea, Zhao Zhengsheng spent five days creating a miniature sculpture of the mountain tiger and poetry to greet the Year of the Tiger. In this hand-sized peace buckle, the texture of the left side of the mountain tiger is created with the knife method of seal carving, the flat knife method and the cutting knife method of the seal carving are different from the micro-carved lines, through the change of the knife, the width and narrowness of the lines are more abundant, and after the color, so as to achieve the artistic conception and charm of freehand Chinese paintings, and the poems on the right side of the peace buckle are using the traditional micro-carving technique, "The organic combination of the two knife methods and techniques can also achieve mutual contrast and contrast. Zhao Zhengsheng explained.
Zhao Zhengsheng studied under Wang Tianming, the representative inheritor of Shandong's provincial intangible cultural heritage of "Jinan Micro Sculpture". Wang Tianming can not only carve on jade, pots, rice grains and other materials, but also on the hair, he once carved eight words on the white hair 3 mm long and 0.2 mm wide - "peaceful reunification of the world is just." "Master finished with the naked eye and the sense when he made the micro-carving, relying on the feel obtained by practicing day after day, and I was also trying to practice the feel." Nowadays, Zhao Zhengsheng's miniature sculpture works have a unique artistic temperament, whether it is carved kai, seal, grass has the pen and ink charm of traditional Chinese calligraphy, and the pictures are also depicted beautifully. He also tried to carve more of the world's things in a tiny space.