At present, there are more than 3,000 brush production enterprises and workshops in Wengang Town, Jinxian County, Nanchang City, Jiangxi Province, and more than 500 related stationery enterprises such as printing clay, pigment painting materials, fountain pens, ballpoint pens, and water pens, forming a distinctive cultural goods industry cluster. The rapid development of the stationery industry in Wengang and the prosperity of calligraphy and painting art trading have provided suitable development conditions and good development opportunities for the emergence of double-dimensional printing clay. Recently, Wengang printing clay making technology was included in the seventh batch of nanchang municipal intangible cultural heritage representative list.
Zhang Weiguo, male, 43 years old, engaged in brush production and sales in 1994; in 1997, he learned the printing clay production technology with The Eight Treasure Printing Clay Production Technician in Zhangzhou, Fujian Province, through more than ten years of study and research, skillfully mastered the production process and a full set of technologies of traditional printing clay, and established Shuangdi Printing Clay Co., Ltd. in 2001, on the basis of inheriting the traditional handmade printing clay production, created a series of two-dimensional printing clay products. Zhang Weizhong, male, 41 years old, engaged in brush production and sales in 1996, learned the printing clay production technology with his brother Zhang Weiguo in 2003, and has now mastered the process and operation of traditional hand-printed clay production, and is the main producer of the double-dimensional printing clay series.
It is understood that the brothers in the inheritance of the traditional handmade printing clay technology, from the materials, ingredients, production process to improve and innovate, the development and production of two-dimensional printing mud series of products, of which the ancient method of bleaching vermilion printing clay, gongsha cinnabar printing mud, with its delicate and deep quality, bright color, fragrant smell, water does not melt, rainy days are not moldy, summer does not seep oil, winter does not freeze, the printing is clear and godly, the longer the time, never fade and other characteristics, well received by the majority of calligraphers, and registered in the State Trademark Administration of the two-dimensional printing mud, Fifteen trademarks, such as double-dimensional literary room, 100,000 pestles, and pestle printing mountain houses, fill the gap in Jiangxi Province without the production of traditional high-end calligraphy and painting printing clay, and the products are sold to the whole country and Singapore, South Korea, Japan, etc.
Printing clay is a medium for conveying and marking seal art in the mainland, and is an indispensable item in the creative activities of calligraphers and painters, and is known as the "fifth treasure of the study room". Starting from the creative tone of the work, the color of the printing clay can play the role of "finishing touch" to the greatest extent. Good printing clay helps to fully restore the knife method and chapter method of the printing surface on the paper, present the beauty of the seal and calligraphy to the greatest extent, and greatly enrich and highlight the creative style and interest of the art of calligraphy and painting. Zhang Weiguo told reporters that from the perspective of the integrity of calligraphy and painting works, printing clay can play a role in "filling", while reflecting the blank space and gaps, it can make the entire work more perfect, through the two-dimensional printing mud stamp and icing on the cake, vividly showing the wonderful taste and charm of Chinese calligraphy and painting art, thus forming the overall beauty of seal art and calligraphy and painting art.
According to reports, the two-dimensional printing clay production process is technically complex. The precision and high requirements of each process are incomparable to those of ordinary traditional skills. Mainly reflected in the selection of materials, exquisite production, fine operation specifications, the prepared cinnabar powder, aged castor oil in a certain proportion into the stone mortar for full stirring, the formation of color paste, must be uniform, delicate, not thick and not thin. The weighed mugwort one by one into the color paste, with a porcelain pestle pounding must be gently carried out in one direction, in order to prevent the mugwort fiber pulling off, the more times the better, every 100 grams of printing clay must be pounded for about 4-5 hours, until the oil, Zhu, ai has been fully mixed, to achieve the mud delicate and soft glutinous, bright color, fragrant smell, clear imprint, no freezing disease in winter, no vomit oil in summer, immersion in water does not retreat, the longer the time, never fade.
However, Zhang Weiguo also had his grievances, "Because the production output is not high, in addition to supplying gold stones, calligraphers and painters for use and a small amount of export, the amount of supply to society is limited." The production process of double-dimensional printing clay is complex and delicate, and it is lonely and trivial, and the average young person is reluctant to ask for it. The reporter learned that at present, only Zhang Weiguo, Zhang Weizhong brothers adhere to the inheritance of this traditional skill, so the two-dimensional printing clay production technology is facing the dilemma of no successor.
The reporter saw that in the two-dimensional printing clay production technology exhibition hall, there are 60 ancient seals, 5 boxes of old seals in the Qing Dynasty and the Republic of China, 46 seals, 12 wadang and Han bricks, and 10 epitaphs.
Zhang Weiguo said that the brush culture block of Wengang Town has a double-dimensional printing clay studio, sales stores, and production workshops throughout, with a total area of 520 square meters. Fengxian District, Shanghai has a 350 square meter printing clay production plant, and has a relatively complete production equipment and means of production.
Zhang Weiguo said that the Wengang Town People's Government arranged for the construction of a double-dimensional calligraphy and painting printing clay studio and sales store in the central area of 260 square meters, and invested 900,000 yuan in the lobby of the store department to establish a two-dimensional calligraphy and painting printing clay production technology exhibition hall, through policy inclination and economic subsidies, etc., to mobilize representative inheritors to protect, inherit and develop the double-dimensional calligraphy and painting printing clay. The enthusiasm and initiative of production skills, pay attention to the cultivation and follow-up of inheritors.
Shuangwei Calligraphy and Painting Supplies Co., Ltd. and Wengang Wenfang Sibao Association, as co-organizers, held the Jiangxi Provincial Seal Engraving Invitation Exhibition, and Zhang Weiguo and Wu Guohua cooperated in editing and publishing the "Jiangxi Provincial Seal Engraving Invitation Exhibition Collection". Since 2010, it has participated in the National Four Treasures Expo for ten consecutive years, displaying the two-dimensional printing clay production technology and the double-dimensional calligraphy and painting printing clay series products.
Zhang Weiguo said that at present, the most urgent thing is to strengthen learning and exchanges with domestic brand industry units, discuss the inheritance, innovation and development of double-dimensional calligraphy and painting printing clay production skills, strengthen the construction of talent teams, and cultivate a group of reserve talents for double-dimensional printing clay production techniques, so as to accelerate the inheritance and development of double-dimensional printing clay production techniques, continuously improve product quality, and strive to create domestic famous brand products. (Wang Jian Photography)
(China Daily Jiangxi Reporter Station reporter Wang Jian)