Dahe Bao Yu video reporter Liu Ruichao photography Bai Zhoufeng
How to carve flowers, birds, insects and fish characters on walnuts? What's the difference between a surname card made with a bird bug seal? How are the hundred clothes that basically disappeared from people's lives made? These questions can be found in the square in front of the Wenmiao Temple in Zhengzhou.
From February 14th to February 16th, for three consecutive days, the representative project of intangible cultural heritage of Guancheng Hui Nationality District came to the Zhengzhou Confucian Temple, and 20 intangible cultural heritage booths were lined up on the west side of the square in front of the Temple of Literature. Although the weather in Zhengzhou city is cold under the influence of cold air, it is still impossible to stop the enthusiasm of citizens to come to see the liveliness.
The Ming Dynasty literary scholar Wei Xuehuan has a "Nuclear Boat Record", and I believe that many people have studied this article. "There are strange people who know that Wang Shuyuan can use the diameter of the wood for the palace, the utensils, the characters, and even the birds and beasts, the wood and stones, and they are not affected by the situation, but each has its own mood." Such a delicate skill, is there anyone who can do it now? At Gao Hualin's nuclear carving technology booth, there are many nuclear carving works installed in specific installations. There are beasts, there are characters, there are landscapes, there are subtleties, and the details are vivid.
"The basis of nuclear carving is walnuts, and in the early stage, it is necessary to select walnuts with sufficient hardness and no insect eyes, and then carefully carve them under a magnifying glass." He said that what was brought to the scene this time were some relatively simple and portable nuclear sculptures. They also have a nuclear tide nuclear sculpture art gallery on Pingping Street, which contains more elaborate crafts. For example, there are nuclear boats, and each door on it can be opened and closed.
I have heard of a hundred family clothes, but I have never seen what a hundred family clothes look like. Wei Zhen, a representative inheritor of the production of Baijiayi (quilt), introduced to the Dahe Newspaper Yu video reporter that in the early stage of making Baijiayi, it is necessary to first do a good job of small pieces of cotton and linen, accumulate them piece by piece, and when it is time to make clothes, then start to splice, cut and sew.
Baijiayi and Baijia quilts are a kind of Han culture, derived from folk traditional customs. In the past, when there were newborns in the countryside, the child's grandfather or grandmother would announce the good news to relatives and neighbors, ask for a piece of cloth by the way, and then build the cloth head that was begged for a square, spliced together, and then cut into clothes, or made into a small quilt, for the use of dolls, hoping that the child could entrust everyone's blessing, get everyone's protection, blessing, and the child can grow up safely and healthily.
Now, wearing a hundred clothes for children has become a traditional custom, and more of a ritual and nostalgia. Wei Zhen said that it is just that the folk basically do not have the custom of wearing a hundred family clothes, so the hundred family clothes (quilt) have completely become handicrafts.
At the scene, in front of the bird and insect seal booth, from time to time, parents brought their children to inquire and wanted to make a zodiac painting for their children. Accompanied by grandparents, a pair of twins came to Wang Xiangyun's booth. The two dragon and phoenix fetuses were born in the Year of the Horse, and Wang Xiangyun let the children first roll paint on a tool similar to a roller, and then spread a piece of paper on the engraved plate of the Yang, and after a while he created a picture of a bird and insect seal.
The reporter of Dahe News Yu Video noticed that Wang Xiangyun's booth also had cultural and creative products similar to playing cards. He introduced that each card has a bird and insect seal with a certain surname, which has a certain degree of artistry and ornamentation. He selected the first 104 surnames of the hundred family names and made them into playing card cards, which have the function of treasure.
At the scene, cultural and creative products derived from intangible cultural heritage were quite popular with the citizens who came to play, especially products related to the theme of the Winter Olympics. Dahe Bao Yu video reporter learned that a total of 20 intangible cultural heritage items were exhibited here, namely sugar painting, brand painting, clay sculpture, monkey jiaguan, face sculpture, hundred family clothes (quilt), incense cloth bags, bird and insect seals, Lian Delin paper-cutting, nuclear carving techniques, egg carving, handmade paper lanterns, traditional lacquering techniques, guqin cutting techniques, fabric stickers, shou peach making processes, metal engraving, ancient legal incense craftsmanship, crystal stone making tools, and traditional wooden folk paintings.
Source: Dahe Newspaper Yu Video Editor: Qu Ke