As an integral part of Chaoshan culture, Chaoshan folk houses have been recorded and frozen by enthusiasts in different forms because of their distinct architectural style and high aesthetic value, and have become unique craft works. Today, let's meet Lin Weibin, a craftsman who likes to make models of traditional houses.
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At the Rongjiang Cultural Studio in the downtown area, Lin Weibin is doing decorative finishing work for a model of a residential house, pasting couplets and writing door tower plaques. This is a model of the former residence of Huang Xuhua, a recipient of the "Order of the Republic" and an academician of the Chinese Academy of Engineering.
Lin Weibin, art craftsman of Rongjiang Cultural Studio: The main body is four points of gold, with outsourcing outside, which is a kind of building that integrates Chaoshan culture and Hakka culture.
In order to make this model, Lin Weibin visited the site many times to survey and miniature according to a certain proportion.
Lin Weibin, art craftsman of Rongjiang Cultural Studio: Go there to investigate, take pictures, take a ruler there to measure its length, width and height, accurately record it, draw your own drawings, draft, and then start operating, these materials are plywood and high-density extruded plastic board.
Lin Weibin said that the most laborious thing to make a model of a house is these old-fashioned door panels.
Lin Weibin, art craftsman of Rongjiang Culture Studio: Because the door is on both sides, not on one side, the two sides should be symmetrically balanced, and they should be constantly rubbed until the balance is stable, which is more difficult. These patterns should be restored to the same as reality, to be miniature, to use freehand, each freehand must be inspired, after many attempts to make the pattern on the door frame.
After almost two months of meticulous production, a complete and realistic model of the house is presented in front of the eyes, evoking a period of memory of the visitor.
Citizen Mr. Zheng: This building is quaint, with Ming and Qing style, and when we went to visit, we still ate rice in this place.
Huang Xuhua Academician Hall Nephew Huang Guoxiong: After looking at it, I feel very kind and very spectacular, tourists visit the academician's former residence, they come in from this gatehouse, and then they see the Chongde Hall, which is the exhibition hall of the glorious deeds of academicians, with a study room and other patriotic models. When the academician came this year, he came in from this gatehouse, and our relatives greeted us in front of the Chongde Hall, took a group photo, and then went to the back to talk with our relatives.
Lin Weibin, who likes to sketch, has a special love for Chaoshan houses, and the walls and tiles of traditional houses in his hometown, streets and alleys are the protagonists in his art works, and later, these protagonists gradually come out of the paper and present them in people's sight with models.
Rongjiang Culture Studio Art Craftsman Lin Weibin: The beginning is to do a cuo horn head, do gold shape, there is sent to the circle of friends, friends are liked, and then more interested and motivated, just do the gatehouse, a gatehouse plus two cuojiao head, do the flat side, there are also many people like to support, just keep doing, made a whole, there are many people to watch.
With his own persistence and the support of friends, Lin Weibin has built one traditional residential model after another in Chaoshan Province, which has made many people remember nostalgia, enhanced nostalgia, and become a way for young people to understand Chaoshan culture.
Lin Weibin, art craftsman of Rongjiang Cultural Studio: Those enthusiasts came to see it and felt very good and satisfied, and asked me to make miniature models of the old houses in his home, because those old houses have fallen into disrepair, and some of them have been divided and destroyed before.
Chen Xurui, head of Rongjiang Cultural Studio: It's like a bird's eye view, let's see at a glance. Teacher Lin condensed our traditional ancient buildings into models, penetrated into our lives, and became a kind of furniture decoration, which is very good for promoting our traditional culture.
Lin Weibin said that as a Chaoshan residential enthusiast, he will continue to visit and study, study and create, present this unique architectural style with skills, carry forward traditional culture, inspire the younger generation to love their hometown, and help rural revitalization.
Lin Weibin, art craftsman of Rongjiang Cultural Studio: I have a dream, that is, I want to make all these Chaoshan folk house series, including the Xiashan Tiger, the Four Points Of Gold, the Five Rooms, as well as the Lion, the Four Horse Trailer, and the Ancestral Hall, and make these so that the next generation can see that we once had this kind of house to live in and inherit the Chaoshan culture.
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