In the history of Chinese cinema, 1988 is known as the "Year of Wang Shuo" – four novels, including Wang Shuo's "The Obstinate Lord", were adapted into films. Ge You and Zhang Guoli became popular with this film, and the "stubborn lords" in the context of "old Beijing" who did not seek progress, did not do the right thing, did not have four or six, but were extremely intelligent and eccentric, have also been widely known since then.
There is a big difference between "playing the lord" and "stubborn lord".
China's most famous "play master", Mr. Wang Shixiang recognizes the second, no one dares to recognize the first.
Born in 1914, Wang Shixiang's title is "famous cultural relics expert, scholar, cultural relics connoisseur, collector". However, the old man did not care about these "tall" names, and he was willing to give a damn about the folk title of "China's first play master". Elder Wang recalled in his later years: "Since I was young and strong, from primary school to college, I have always been a plaything and lost my mind, and my karma is absurd. Autumn fighting crickets, winter singing insects, dogs catching badgers, all enjoy themselves. And raising pigeons flying is a perennial habit that is not restricted by the season. "Others play crickets, after the fight is over, Wang Shixiang played crickets out of learning, his old man from libraries and bibliophiles across the country to find more than a dozen kinds of cricket genealogy, paragraph by paragraph, correction, errata, compiled into a cricket spectrum encyclopedia of cricket genealogy integration." The old man played with lacquer art, visited lacquer craftsmen everywhere, and spent ten years of effort to annotate the only existing ancient lacquer monograph in China, "Records of Decoration", and recorded in detail the tools, raw materials and techniques of ancient and modern lacquer art. Mr. Huang Miaozi, a cultural master, said that he "made a family from playthings", and Mr. Qi Gong said that he "studied things and aspired". Some people say that in the 21st century, there may be the next "Qian Zhong Shu", but there will be no more "Wang Shixiang"...
Around us, there are actually such people. They do not seek fame and fortune, have no quarrel with the world, regardless of time, regardless of cost, no reason, no result for what they like, and simply enjoy the fun. They have extraordinary imagination and creativity, act spontaneously, persistently and simply. They have fun, they play freely, they play and play, and they are famous for playing without paying attention.
Xinzhou has such a "play master", from childhood like telescopes, twenty years of collection of different countries, different models, different eras of the telescope hundreds, enjoy the play, play out a "Chinese telescope collection and appreciation", published by the Military Science Publishing House; like the slingshot handmade, play out 10 invention patents; like to drum and mortise traditional wooden structure, played with their own children into the "Wang Erwen play" traditional wood craft "intangible" inheritor, Xinzhou City arts and crafts master.
Today, introduce The Xinzhou "Play Master" Zhao Yonggong.
A "foreign musket"
Zhao Yonggong was born in 1972 in Shahuo Village, Loubanzhai Township, Yuanping City, and spent his childhood in this remote mountain village.
Yonggong's father was a primary school teacher in a mountain village, and his mother worked as a farmer at home, pulling four children. Shahuo Village is far from the county seat and the environment is isolated, but Yonggong's parents are very enlightened. There are many brothers and sisters, only the father earns a meager salary, and the parents still squeeze out money to give Yonggong a long-term subscription to "Primary School Students", "Children's Literature", "Juvenile Literature"... In the era when everyone was poor, this kind of treatment was rarely enjoyed even by the children of dual-career families in the county.
These magazines opened a window for Zhao Yonggong in his childhood to understand the outside world. "Elementary School Student" magazine often publishes some small inventions, small productions, Yonggong will "draw the tiger according to the cat": find a enameled wire, and work with a small partner to make a "motor". Using a discarded meter box, a "slide machine" was made - using the convex lens on the miner's hat as the lens, the flashlight as the light source, and the flowery candy paper to make a slide. The "slide machine" was moved to the school for screening, and on the pink and white walls of the classroom appeared Tang Monk riding a white horse and Guan Gong holding a large knife...
Zhao Yonggong's best skill is to make a "matchchain gun", which is what the children of Xinzhou called "foreign musket" - unexpectedly, decades later, he almost got into a "lawsuit" for this.
It is the nature of boys to play with guns, but when the "post-60s" and "post-70s" children were young, who had spare money to buy a toy gun for their children? Among the boys' toys of that era, the "foreign musket" belonged to the "top match" - one was that the process was more complicated, and the other was that raw materials were very scarce. The "bullets" of the "foreign musket" are easy to find, a box of matches is two cents, selling an empty toothpaste bag is enough, the key is that the chain of the bicycle is difficult to find. Although China was a "bicycle kingdom" in the eyes of foreigners, in the backwoods, a bicycle was the most valuable object for the whole family. Only when the car was too worn to use could the chain fall into the hands of the children who had already looked forward to it.
Make a "pistol" skeleton out of thick wire. Take the chain apart section by section, a chain, the dolls were called a basket. Tie seven or eight "篑" chains and wear them on wire to make a gun barrel. Use leather bands as a firing device. Pull open the firing pin, break the frontmost chain buckle, and squeeze the matchhead tightly into the small hole in the chain buckle. Pulling the trigger, the firing pin hit the gunpowder, making a "popping" sound and faint smoke...
A piece of wire, a pair of pliers, and seven or eight "basket" chains, it is necessary to make a decent look, the key is that it is not easy to fire the "foreign musket". A few years ago, Zhao Yonggong had a sudden idea, the little friends of that year are now forty people, who is not nostalgic? He took out his childhood craft and made a few "foreign muskets" - of course, he made many improvements on the basis of that year, and also equipped the "gun" with a wooden handle.
Try to hang the "gun" on Taobao, and it will sell out in a few days. Unexpectedly, a seller reported him, saying that Zhao Yonggong infringed his patent rights, and the other party also posted a patent certificate issued by the State Intellectual Property Office. The platform is also not sure, let Zhao Yonggong give an explanation. Zhao Yonggongxin said that this is really "living for a long time", when you were doing guns and guns, you didn't know where it was, why did you "infringe" your "patent rights"? The platform ruling said that as long as Zhao Yongfu came up with the proof that the date of his sale was before the other party declared the patent, it could be determined that there was no infringement. Zhao Yonggong checked the sales records, and then compared with the time when the other party obtained the patent certificate, he suddenly grew a sigh of relief - the date of sale of the first "gun" was more than a year earlier than the time when the other party was patented, and if you want to say infringement, you have also infringed on your rights!
Telescope Collection Appreciation "Guide"
Zhao Yonggong's obsession with telescopes stemmed from a book written by the writer Liang Heng: "Popular Interpretation of Mathematics, Physics and Chemistry".
When I was in junior high school, I bought this book by accident, which had a description of Galileo's invention of the first astronomical telescope. According to the telescope imaging principle introduced in the book, Yonggong found the convex lens used on the miner's lamp as an objective, folded the myopic lens used by his brother as an eyepiece, and inserted two cardboard tubes together to make a retractable lens tube, and actually made a monocular "telescope" with a real long-term effect. Holding this "telescope" made by his own hands, he ascended to the far horizon, and the original Pingcheng house dozens of miles away was vividly remembered, and the joy in his heart was indescribable, and his love for the telescope could not be received.
After graduating from university in 1995, Zhao Yonggong began collecting telescopes. After devoting himself to this extremely niche field of collection, Zhao Yonggong discovered that there was no monograph on telescope collection in China. The sources quoted by Tibetan friends are either German or British writings, or books written by americans and Japanese.
Collecting "burning money", so is the telescope collection. No matter how much money is reduced, Zhao Yonggong will take the road of "selling and raising Tibet", and in his spare time, he will ride a bicycle through the streets and alleys to sell telescopes. In the blink of an eye, the telescopes in his collection have become a grand view, and the idea of writing a monograph on telescope collection and appreciation has become more and more intense.
Telescope enthusiasts in Xinzhou sometimes take some telescopes for Zhao Yonggong to identify, collectors across the country through letters, the Internet to discuss and communicate with him, Zhao Yonggong often travels to and from Xinzhou, Taiyuan, Beijing antique market search for old telescopes, thus accumulating a lot of information. The former residence of Xu Shuai in Wutai County displays a telescope that Xu Shuai used in the past, and he went to take pictures several times. The telescopes in the Beijing Military Museum, the Wuxiang Eighth Route Army Memorial Hall and other exhibition halls have become the objects of his research and contemplation. One year, Zhao Yonggong found out that an engineer at the Taiyuan Optical Instrument Factory had a textbook for repairing telescopes. He ran to Taiyuan to borrow it, but the people refused. In the end, after renting 200 yuan to borrow the book, he spent 60 yuan to copy the main content of the book. After 2000, the Internet gradually popularized, and it became possible to purchase scarce pictures on the Internet, and Zhao Yonggong purchased a large amount of information about telescopes through CNKI.
Another 10 years have passed. In 2011, the first book, "Collection and Appreciation of Chinese Telescopes", edited by Chinese, was published by the Military Science Press. The Military Science Publishing House is a central-level publishing house that mainly publishes books on military theory. Zhao Yonggong said that the process of publishing the Military Science Publishing House is quite strict, and the review of his book manuscript alone lasted two and a half years.
"Chinese Telescope Collection and Appreciation" has a total of 260,000 words, with more than 300 telescope pictures from various countries and historical periods, full-color printing. The book is divided into three parts: the basic knowledge of telescopes; the atlas of various types of telescopes in China; and the collection and use of telescopes.
This is a "beginner's guide" to telescope collection and appreciation, the content is comprehensive and systematic, "military fans" and telescope "enthusiasts" in hand, you can completely follow the map, less detours. It has been another 10 years since the publication of this book, and there is no second similar book published in China.
Play out 10 invention patents
Zhao Yonggong currently holds 10 invention patent certificates, each of which is "played".
Floor slab village is the original flat walnut production area, many walnut trees are hundreds of years old, the height of the tree is more than 30 meters. When Zhao Yonggong was a child, he often heard his parents say that a certain person in his village or another village fell from a tree when he hit walnuts, and the light one broke his leg and foot, and the heavy one lost his life. When I grew up, when I saw walnuts, I remembered the sighs of my parents.
After work, I once went back to the village to spend the Mid-Autumn Festival, and at noon I sat idly in the courtyard after eating and eating, and a gust of wind blew through, and a few red dates fell from the jujube trees in the courtyard. This is a common occurrence, and no one cares. On this day, Yonggong stared at the jujube tree out of his mind: the wind blew the jujube tree, the branches of the trees were pulsed, and the jujubes were light in weight and fell to the ground with the swing of the branches. Why can't the wind blow down the walnuts? Walnuts are heavier than dates, and the pulsating swing of the branches is not strong enough to shake them off. But what if the wind is strong enough? If a "pulsed wind cannon" could be invented, as long as the wind was strong enough, the pulse frequency of the wind and the swing of the branches "resonated at the same frequency", and its strength was enough to shake the walnut down.
Immediately after returning to Xinzhou, he put it into action, drew sketches, made designs, and changed his manuscripts. Invention patent "a pulsed wind cannon for high-altitude walnut picking", including the frame, the air cannon assembly set on the rack and the walking device under the frame. Six months after submitting the patent text, the State Intellectual Property Office issued a utility model patent certificate. Zhao Yonggong said that if this kind of machinery can be mass-produced, it can be as safe and efficient as a harvester, and completely solve the problem of villagers beating walnuts.
The invention of the gun slingshot also responded to the phrase "unintentional willow shade".
After 2002, Zhao Yonggong's job was to write materials for the unit, writing for years and months, day and night, falling into the problem of neurasthenia. The mind is groggy, the eyes are tearful, and the bicycles are "off". Zhao Yonggong calculated that if he continued like this, people would be abolished, and they would have to change the status quo.
Work is a job bowl, and it is impossible to fight, only to divert attention. He bought sets of carpenter tools and made some handmade woodwork after work. At the beginning, there was no direction, one day when I was cleaning up my home, I found a slingshot made when I was a child, and I wondered if I could use the equipment to make a "gun slingshot" with high precision.
Find a pine plank, design and process it into the shape of a gun. Using the principle of leverage, the trigger was designed. A flat plate is added to the tip of the gun, and the plate is precisely drawn and drilled, and the slingshot door is designed. Screw a screw one centimeter thick and make a "gun slingshot" with three millimeters thick cowhide and eight elastic leather bands. There are "guns" without "bullets", and then picked a woven bag of round small stones on the river beach, and test-fired them in the empty factory area of no one, and the power and accuracy were beyond imagination. Later, it was continuously improved, and the wooden "gun slingshot" was improved into aluminum and stainless steel. I tried to apply for a patent, but I didn't expect that no one in the country had this invention. After the successful application for the invention patent, the "gun slingshot" has been produced by manufacturers and has become the "new favorite" of sports competitions and tourism and entertainment venues.
"A kind of efficient fish shooter", "a three-dimensional dining table", "Bagua sign chopsticks", "Bagua key chain"... The 10 patents owned by Zhao Yonggong include 1 invention patent, 4 new utility patents and 5 design patents. After playing these famous halls, Zhao Yonggong did not expect that on the road he played, there was another high person waiting for him...
Plaything inspirational
At the opening ceremony of the Sino-German Economic and Technological Forum on October 10, 2014, Premier Li Keqiang presented a delicate "Luban lock" to German Chancellor Angela Merkel. Premier Li said that this is a work created by teachers and students of Tianjin Sino-German Vocational and Technical College. Unlocking the "Luban Lock" is a difficult problem, and I send it to Chancellor Merkel, hoping that the cooperation between China and Germany will continue to innovate, and jointly solve the world's problems and open up a better future.
"Luban Lock", also known as "Kong Ming Lock", is said to have been invented by Lu Ban in the Spring and Autumn Period, and Kong Ming in the Three Kingdoms made this invention into a toy. The concave and convex parts of this three-dimensional patchwork are meshed together, and the shape and internal structure are different, and the types are various and strange. The core of "Luban Lock" is the essence of ancient Chinese traditional woodwork - mortise and tenon structure.
Zhao Yonggong became addicted to handmade wood, and the problem of neurasthenia was not cured. One day, Zhao Yonggong's friend Tian Yanming, who was engaged in property work in the Kailai community in Xinzhou, called him and said that Tian once went to a certain family and saw an old man dancing with saws and planing, and the various "wooden structures" made were filled with several cardboard boxes. Tian said to Yonggong, Don't you love to tinker carpenter, how about I take you to visit this old man?
This old man is the old man Li Dexian who "wants to leave his skills in the world" that was reported in the series "Masters in the Folk".
After seeing Li Dexian and initially understanding the wooden structure made by the old man, Zhao Yonggong seemed to see a treasure door slowly opening towards him. He was like a treasure mountain, dizzy, ecstatic. The ancient and exquisite skills that he had thought had been lost had been mysteriously revived here in Elder Li.
Zhao Yonggong regarded Li Dexian as a "hermit in the carpentry industry" - Li Dexian was the 50th generation leader of the "Ancestral Master Image Elite Transmission System", a branch of Chinese woodworking, which honored wang Er, a skilled craftsman in ancient times, as the ancestor. Over the past few decades, Li Dexian has invented hundreds of kinds of "Wang Erwen play" on the basis of inheriting the "six skills and eight bodies", which covers all the classifications of large wooden tenons and is also unique in the country.
The essence of Chinese wood structure architecture, the mortise and mortise structure, is now basically useless. As an intangible cultural heritage, how can it be passed on and carried forward? Zhao Yonggong said that the traditional tenon and tenon technique has reached its peak in the hands of the generation of master Li Dexian. Although the reproduction of ancient art can be a showmanship, if it cannot be given the vitality to adapt to modern society, it can only inevitably disappear. Only creativity, innovation, and creativity can save, protect and pass it on.
After worshiping Elder Li as a teacher, Zhao Yonggong, as the non-hereditary inheritor of "Wang Erwen Play" (Luban Lock, Kong Ming Lock), devoted himself to the excavation, protection, publicity and inheritance of "Wang Erwen Play". He built a studio, in addition to the traditional wood tools, but also purchased German Nord saws, Kaidron drilling and milling machines, Fersa band saws and other precision machinery. Zhao Yonggong designed the "Tenon And Tenon Stunt Wang Erwen Play - Luban Lock Book Town Series Three-Piece Set", which is not only a Luban lock, but also a book town (paper town), seal, seal carving works, which is both a literary play and a wise play. From the outside, the "three-piece set" is a tenon play made of safflower pear, on which the seal is engraved with famous sayings and aphorisms, which can be used as a motto, and the bottom is still a seal. From the perspective of internal structure, it is also a high-end "Luban lock", or a mortise and mortise and mortise, or a mortise and mortise, which controls other components and is controlled by other components, and there is a strong logical relationship between them, dismantling and installing need to use their brains to exercise people's geometric thinking, spatial imagination and logical thinking ability.
The "three-piece set" is made of jujube wood and mahogany, suitable for office and study desks, and integrates four functions: wisdom play (disassembly and installation), literary play (precious handle pieces), paperweight, and plutonium printing. It is not only an indoor ornament, a literary play piece, but also a collection and gift.
Similar creative works, has basically formed a series. The ancient tenon structure carries other cultural elements, highlighting traditional skills and culture at the same time, entering the life of modern people.
Under the careful guidance of Elder Li's ear, Zhao Yonggong's handmade woodwork skills entered the room, and the more he played, the more he played, the more he took a bunch of awards. People often say that "playthings lose their minds", and Zhao Yonggong's story tells us what "plaything inspirational" is all about.
Photography: Feng Xiaolei, Zhao Jing
Source: Xinzhou Online
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