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The countryside has a memory, and the "intangible cultural heritage" has a heritage. In Hejialou Village, Yufengtai Street, Pingdu City, Qingdao, the clay pottery firing technique has a history of more than 600 years and is known as "the first village of clay pottery in China". There are two kinds of clay pottery, red pottery and green pottery, which are divided into three categories of life, architecture and handicrafts, with more than 1,000 varieties. In 2018, the pottery firing technique of Hejialou Village was included in the list of representative projects of "Intangible Cultural Heritage" of Qingdao City.
Fengtai "intangible cultural heritage" pottery entered the campus
According to Zhang Yongwei, the 19th generation of pottery in Hejialou Village and director of the Pingdu Pottery Museum, the biggest feature of Hejialou pottery is "breathing", completely relying on hand-made, firewood and grass firing, becoming the best commodity for green environmental protection, its raw materials are made of underground deep special clay, no other materials are added, and clay products have become daily necessities that people give to each other.
In July 2015, with the care and support of the local party committee, government and cultural authorities, the Pingdu Ceramics Museum was built in Chaoyang Community for three months, covering an area of 810 square meters and a construction area of more than 600 square meters. In 2017, it was named "Qingdao Social Classroom" by the Qingdao Municipal People's Government.
According to reports, the history of pottery making in Hejialou Village began in the second year of Hongwu in the Ming Dynasty, and has been more than 600 years now, which can be called "the first village of clay pottery in China". In the process of inheritance and development, the traditional pottery making technique has formed a unique clay pottery culture in Hejialou Village. Among the clay pottery collections displayed in the museum, from pottery pots and hearth basins to bowls, plates, bowls, and pots, not only building supplies such as bricks, tiles, cornices, etc., but also daily household items such as hatched chicken pots and baby seat basins, which are everywhere in the daily life applications of local people.
Students are involved in pottery making
"The ancestral craft of pottery making cannot be lost, and we must retain our 'roots' and 'souls' and pass them on from generation to generation." According to Zhang Maolin, a pottery maker and folk pottery artist, in recent years, under the care and support of the Party Working Committee of Fengtai Street, the Pottery Museum has opened to the public for free and held exhibitions, but also started from dolls and carried out interactive activities for "intangible cultural heritage" to enter the campus to study and study, so that the "intangible cultural heritage" can be brought alive.
Since 2015, every year on Children's Day, "Intangible Cultural Heritage" has been organized into the campus, and traditional culture has been passed on from generation to generation, which has played the role of "social classroom" and received a good effect of inheriting cultural education. Since 2021, Fengtai Street "Intangible Cultural Heritage" has entered the school and walked into 8 schools such as the Second Experimental Primary School of Pingdu City, the Primary School of Pingdu Economic Development Zone, the Primary School of Xiamen Road, and the Fengtai Kindergarten, and held 9 sessions of on-site production training for pottery and face plastic skills, with 1751 trainees.
"Pottery" is a flowery fragrance, and there is a covenant with "mud". Nowadays, clay pottery has almost become synonymous with Hejialou Village, which not only makes the village full of tourists and famous, but also undertakes the important task of cultural inheritance as the second classroom of many schools.