New Hunan client On February 12 (Huayuan County Rong Media Center reporter Yang Zejiang) "Such a cute wood carving 'ice pier', who can not like it? Recently, someone put the wooden carving version of the "ice pier pier" hand-carved by Shi Yuanqun, the non-hereditary inheritor of the Huayuan Miao wood carving technique in the West Hunan Tujia and Miao Autonomous Prefecture, and went to the circle of friends, and the picture of the "wooden pier" with the snow as the background instantly received a lot of praise and praise.
At present, the Beijing Winter Olympics are in full swing, and the mascot of the Beijing Winter Olympics, "Ice Pier", is surrounded by countless fans, and the fire is "difficult to find". In Huayuan County, Xiangxi Prefecture, the first place of targeted poverty alleviation, Shi Yuanqun, a county-level non-hereditary inheritor of Miao wood carving skills, used wood and carving knives to achieve the freedom of "ice piers".
"As the mascot of the Winter Olympics, I saw it on TV and thought it was very cute, so I carved an ice pier myself to help the Beijing Winter Olympics, cheer for The Chinese athletes, and wish them good results on the field!"
A passion, a carving knife, immersed in the conception, turning the decaying wood into magic, only for the deep love in the bones.
Along the steep bluestone slab road, come to the Shiyuan Qun family in Shuanglong Town, With carved doors stacked with stones and thin brick and lime cornice walls, you will know that this is an ancient house with a history of hundreds of years. As soon as he entered the door, there were more than fifty of them, and Shi Yuanqun, a native of the Miao family's wood carving and wood carving craftsman, sat in the courtyard and carefully carved a piece of wood with the chisel in his hand. In the courtyard, a variety of finished wood carvings are on display.
The wood carving process pays attention to "three points of artificiality, seven points of natural". From the age of seven, he watched his father carve wood carvings and grew up in a long stone, and he deeply loved this craft. Most of his works take the autogenous form and deformed form of tree roots as the object of artistic creation, and through the conception, artistic processing and processing, he creates lifelike works of different forms such as characters, animals and utensils. The eldest son, Shi Shenglin, grew up with his father Shi Yuanqun to learn wood carving, and the works he carved out after four years of study were comparable to those of his father Shi Yuanqun, many ordinary people looked inconspicuous tree roots, but in the eyes of their father and son, they were rare carving raw materials.
Shi Yuanqun has won the honors of "Xiangxi on the Fingertips", "Technical Expert", "Intangible Cultural Heritage Productive Protection Expert" and "First Prize of Wood Carving Staff Group of National Cultural and Creative Skills Competition" in Xiangxi Prefecture. In Shi Yuanqun's heart, he hoped to continue the craft of root carving better. "I want to run a training class so that more young people can learn this craft and better inherit and carry forward our Miao wood carving skills."