On March 24th, the second China Arts and Crafts Expo, sponsored by the China Light Industry Federation, will open at the Nanjing International Expo Center. With 13 characteristic regional brands such as "The Capital of Classical Furniture in the World", "The City of Chinese Wood Carving", "The Capital of Chinese Silver Jewelry", "The Hometown of Chinese Gold Jewelry", "The Capital of Chinese Ceremonial Craft Supplies", "The Capital of Chinese Buddhist Artworks", "The Capital of China's Oil Painting Industry", etc., Putian will bring state-level intangible cultural handicrafts such as wood carving, green bamboo carving, wrong gold and silver, and xianzuo to the exhibition, reproducing the beauty of Putian's thousand-year-old craftsmanship and the style of famous craftsmen.
The relevant person in charge of the Putian Gongmei Exhibition Group told reporters that Putian is known as "literature famous state, coastal Zoulu". The long history and culture have bred putian arts and crafts with many categories and exquisite skills. Putian arts and crafts industry was formed in the Tang Dynasty, developed in the Song Dynasty, transformed into the Yuan Dynasty, brilliant in the Ming Dynasty, continued in the Qing Dynasty, and once again rose in the contemporary era, especially since the reform and opening up, the arts and crafts industry is accelerating on the "fast lane". In the new era, putian arts and crafts industry has been listed as one of the five major international brands in the construction of beautiful Putian, and is rejuvenating with new vitality. Nowadays, the arts and crafts industry has become a traditional characteristic industry, pillar industry and people's production industry in Putian, with more than 7,000 production enterprises and more than 300,000 employees in Putian City.
It is understood that just last year, Putian City issued the "Nine Measures to Promote the Transformation and Upgrading of the Arts and Crafts Industry", which increased policy support from the aspects of "expanding the industrial scale, strengthening industrial support, upgrading research and development design, implementing technological transformation, supporting the expansion of the market, promoting regional brands, promoting the promotion of the park, strengthening talent training, and strengthening quality assurance", aiming to further promote the transformation and upgrading of the arts and crafts industry, achieve high-quality development and transcendence, and build national characteristic craft furniture, gold and silver jewelry, wood carving, oil painting, Xiangye and other industrial bases promote the integrated development of industrial characteristics, greening, branding and digitalization, and expand the influence of putian arts and crafts international brands.
At present, Putian has formed many craft categories such as wood carving, classical craft furniture, incense, jade carving, religious sculpture, gold and silver jewelry, stone carving (including Shoushan stone carving), oil painting frame industry, craft weaving, copper carving, lacquerware, etc., and is one of the key production areas of national arts and crafts with the largest number of regional brands in the national arts and crafts, and is a traditional characteristic industry and a rich people's industry in Putian City. In the future, putian industry will graft high-end resources, gather talent technology, capital and high-end elements, and strive to build an industrial cluster of 100 billion yuan in arts and crafts.
At this expo, which arts and crafts works brought by the Putian Gongmei Exhibition Group can be seen? Follow the reporter to learn about the exquisite and kit-kat ingenuity of these arts and crafts works.
Subtle and transparent carving, leaving a thousand years of green
Putian is the "City of Chinese Wood Carving". Putian wood carving first arose in the Tang and Song dynasties, based on the unique style of ancient simplicity, mainly used for temple architectural decoration and Buddha statue carving. After thousands of years of inheritance and development, putian wood carving, in addition to the techniques of relief, circular carving and line carving, has also created the original "exquisite and transparent carving" of the peak of the pole, and has a profound impact on stone carving, copper carving, jade carving, green bamboo carving, gold and silver carving and other intangible cultural heritage skills. Among them, the national intangible cultural heritage of "using bamboo as paper and writing with a knife" - Putian Liuqing Bamboo Carving, is a wonderful flower in the field of traditional Chinese arts and crafts. Although it has been passed down for generations, it is still enduring.
"Immortals" are the best of the best, classical heritage
"Xianzuo", generally refers to the "capital of Chinese classical craft furniture" - putian Xianyou made of classical craft furniture, is a clever fusion of traditional Chinese painting art, carving art and furniture production skills, is the continuation and innovation of the classic style of Ming and Qing dynasty furniture. In 2014, it was rated as a national intangible cultural heritage, which occupies an important position in Chinese wood carving furniture, and with its unique local style, cultural concept and aesthetic taste, it is called one of the four major schools of classical furniture in the Ming and Qing dynasties in China, together with "Su Zuo", "Jing Zuo" and "Guangzuo".
"Xianzuo" accounts for more than 75% of the domestic market share in the high-end products of classical furniture, with more than 4,000 existing manufacturers and an annual output value of more than 40 billion yuan. The best of "Xianzuo" has made wonderful appearances at the Beijing APEC Summit, the Milan World Expo, the Xiamen BRICS Meeting, and the Fifth World Buddhist Forum, and has been selected as a national ceremony to help diplomacy for many times, which has received widespread attention from all over the world.
The beauty of the tradition
In addition to gold jewelry, Putian also accounts for 70% of the country's silver jewelry trade. Putian Xiuyu District was rated as "China's Silver Jewelry Capital", and the Shangtang Village to which it belongs has the reputation of "six tons of silver in, six tons of silver out".
Exquisite and chic silver jewelry products not only retain the traditional beauty, are used as decorations on the heads of princesses and ladies in costume plays, but also widely used in modern dramas because of their high sense of modern fashion.
Gold and jade meet The style is unique
Putian is the home of Chinese gold jewelry. 10 jewelers, 8 Putian people. The inheritance of the skills of the "gold diggers" in Beigao Town has knocked on a "golden road" to "the hometown of China's gold jewelry". Among them, especially "gold inlaid jade / wrong gold and silver" is the most eye-catching, which can be described as "gold and jade meet, the style is unique".
The "gold inlaid jade" process is delicate and complex, and first appeared on bronze ware in the Shang Dynasty, and was even rarer after the Qing Daoguang. But in Chongqin Village, Beigao Town, Putian, this craft stunt magically appeared. At present, this technique has been included in the representative project of national intangible cultural heritage.
Putian oil painting Foreign for Chinese use
Oil painting originated in the West and was introduced to Putian in the early 1980s. After more than 30 years of development and accumulation, Putian oil painting has created various painting schools while retaining and carrying forward the traditional Chinese painting art, while using the ancient for the present and the foreign for the Chinese. Products are deeply loved by customers in Europe, america, the Middle East and Southeast Asia, the output accounts for more than 60% of the global output, the export rate of 90%, with world influence.
In 2017, it was awarded the honorary title of "Capital of China's Oil Painting Industry" by the China Light Industry Federation, and became one of the three major oil painting industry bases in China.
The spirit of the incense contains Putian
Chinese incense culture has a long history and a long history, which is not only an elegant way of life, but also the spiritual atmosphere of the Chinese people. As an important port for trade with the countries of southeast Asia and a distribution center for spice trade, Putian has witnessed and participated in the trade of spices on the Silk Road for generations.
In the 1990s, Putian was a new trading agarwood distribution center, because of the collection of agarwood brought from Taiwan, based on this development into the largest domestic agarwood distribution center.
Wen | Xie Lei, an intern reporter of this newspaper
Editor-in-Chief | Zhao Xi
Edited | Qiao Jiaoge Wang Dian