Reporter Li Hongyan reported:
After the beginning of the year, wander in and around Shek Wan Doll Street. He has walked into Foshan Nanfeng Ancient Stove Antique City many times, and has a deep exchange with ebony carving folk artist Li Rongbao to understand his entrepreneurial process of "no teacher and self-communication".
Ebony carving folk artist Li Rongbao
Speaking of Uncle Li, most of the shopkeepers and neighbors in Doll Street and Antique City know each other. Originally from Hezhou, Guangxi, his parents divorced when he was young, he was raised by his grandmother; he loved music and painting, but he was not taught in the countryside and studied locally. At the age of thirteen, he began to teach himself to be a carpenter, usually making some daily furniture for his neighbors, trying to eat food; after the age of twenty, he turned to a plasterer, and was introduced by others to marry Zhang Wenjiao, a good woman from a neighboring village, who was dignified and virtuous, diligent and thrifty. In 1999, Uncle Li and his family went south to Foshan, Guangdong Province, worked as handymen, set up stalls, decoration, porters, etc., and later met a high-ranking person, had a special love for ebony, and set up an ebony furniture factory, focusing on ebony furniture and wooden handicrafts. So far, it has become a scale.
Li Rongbao also plays music in his spare time, and is known for his guzheng, erhu and flute.
Li Rongbao exchanged skills with friends in wood carving and other aspects
Uncle Li is now the year of flower armor, engaged in ebony furniture research and production for decades. In order to promote the culture of ebony furniture, he has spared no funds to participate in exhibitions in Xi'an, Qingdao, Yantai, Xiamen, Guangzhou, Shenzhen and other places.
One of Lai Wing-po's wood carvings
The second of Lai Wing-po's wood carvings
The third of Li Rongbao's wood carvings
Li Rongbao's wood carving works are four
Li Rongbao's wood carving works are five
Six of Lai Wing-po's wood carvings
He usually makes full use of his unique natural advantages to "turn decay into magic", and his elaborate root carving works are famous for their "natural, strong, beautiful, high skill, and excellent art" and other specialties. On December 19, 2017, Li Rongbao's ebony work "Returning with a Full Load" won the bronze medal of the Shenzhen Cultural Fair.
Li Rongbao received the certificate of the Bronze Award of the Shenzhen Cultural Fair.
It is reported that the Shenzhen Cultural Fair is the only national, international and comprehensive cultural industry expo fair in China, with the expo and transaction as the core, to build a trading platform for Chinese cultural products and projects, promote and promote the development of China's cultural industry, and actively promote Chinese cultural products to the world, known as "the first exhibition of Chinese cultural industry". Since its inception in 2004, more than 3,000 exhibitors from more than 20 countries and regions in the world, as well as 31 provinces and municipalities across the country, as well as Hong Kong, Macao and Taiwan have participated in the exhibition.
Shenzhen Cultural Fair poster
(Reporter/Li Hongyan Editor/Fan Changtian Editor/Chen Wenkai Final Reviewer/Wu Desheng Intern/Zhang Lizhu)
Supported by:
School of Urban Culture, South China Normal University- Research Center for Cultural Creativity and New Media
School of Urban Culture, South China Normal University- Research Group on Intangible Cultural Heritage