RedNet Moment reporter Li Dan reported from Changsha
It's another Chinese New Year. Recently, the reporter went to the grassroots level to find the "folk customs" inherited by folk craftsmen and lead everyone to feel the auspicious blessings brought by the traditional New Year's taste.
Yin Hu greets the spring, the tiger is naturally the protagonist of the Annual Ceremony, which is recorded in the "Fengshi Seeing and Hearing": "Since the Qin and Han Dynasties, the imperial tombs have had the genus of stone qilin, stone repellent, stone and horse, and the tombs of people have stone people, stone tigers, stone pillars and the like, all of which are decorated with tombs, such as the guards before they were born. Since ancient times, the tiger is one of the totems worshipped by the Chinese nation, it is a protective god, representing bravery and justice, the world believes that it can ward off evil and drive away disasters, it is in harmony with "blessing, wealth", implying that good fortune is at the door, and wealth is full.
"The ox wagged its tail and went away, and FuHu Xianrui came into the house." Zodiac signs, one year old and one beast, zodiac culture is the link that maintains the feelings of the Chinese people, and the zodiac code is the cultural imprint condensed by thousands of years of wisdom and thought Chinese.
In many places, during the New Year's Festival, people will take the clay sculpture tiger as a gift, hoping for the peace of the years and the expectation of a satisfactory life. The reporter came to Changsha Tongguan Kiln to experience the production of "blue glazed brown and green color Tiggo ornaments" at the home of Zhou Shihong, the inheritor of the intangible cultural heritage of Tongguan Kiln. There is a tiger lying in the family, the career is like a tiger, and the life is full of blessings.
Teacher Zhou is making the prototype of Fuhu.
According to teacher Zhou Shihong, Tongguan ceramics have a thousand years of history and continue the innovative spirit of the Xiang people. Its first underglaze colorful breakthrough in the single tone of China's Tang Dynasty celadon and white porcelain, can be called "a milestone in the history of ceramics", its products exported to 29 countries and regions in the world, opening up a "Maritime Silk Road" to South Asia to North Africa.
The original Fuhu prototype was finalized after several sample changes.
Teacher Zhou is glazing Fuhu.
The sculpture art of the Tongguan kiln is very successful, especially the image of people and animals, these sculptures are shaped in a concise way, although the fineness is insufficient, but it does not lose the form of accurate transmission of the gods, it is really vivid, loveable, and let people regain the childlike fun that has been obliterated by history.
Each tiger and each zodiac sign is handmade by Teacher Zhou Shihong, and mud, shaping, trimming, firing at a high temperature of 1250 degrees, and then applying green glaze, decorated with brown and green colors, after experiencing these tribulations, the pottery has become a vessel and completed nirvana.
Pottery is the art of time, the soil is too dry to crack, too wet to collapse. It needs to be carefully carved, polished with ingenuity, and carefully fired before there is a different textured glaze, and it is necessary to get a thousand hammers and a thousand hammers. The tiger shape of the craftsman Zhou Shihong is cute, simple and vivid, and the porcelain quenched by the wood firing process is very vivid in every color, showing the simple, thick and ancient beauty, and exuding the infinite charm of Huxiang culture.
Looking for roots in Chinese cultural traditions, seeking the source of innovation from classical culture, and "Fengzhen Fuhu", which contains the essence of Huxiang culture everywhere.
Ms. Jiang Yinchun, who came to look for the "tiger", said: "Integrate tradition into modernity, awaken cultural symbols, show the world a more exquisite oriental beauty, and feel the charm of traditional Chinese culture." This is our belief, and it is also the belief of Chinese. She integrates her cherished traditional culture with her own modern packaging design, searching for tradition again and again, inheriting and developing "intangible cultural heritage" and "empowering" rural revitalization.
"Distant wishes, sincerity and wishes, non-yin years and tigers, all things go smoothly." I hope that my broken thoughts can warm you year after year. ”