The countryside has a memory, and the "intangible cultural heritage" has a heritage. Located in Hejialou Village, Fengtai Street, Pingdu City, the clay pottery firing technology 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.
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.
"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, 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". In order to vigorously inherit the intangible cultural heritage of the motherland, effectively cultivate students' aesthetic sentiments, and comprehensively improve students' comprehensive literacy, the Second Experimental Primary School of Pingdu City looks to the future and makes comprehensive planning, and in November 2021, the first pottery museum in the education system of Pingdu City was built and put into use. The pottery hall covers an area of more than 400 square meters, and is divided into six areas: teaching area, electric blank drawing area, hand kneading area, work display area, ceramic product firing area, and clay mixing area. It provides a big stage for teachers and students who love pottery to display their talents and improve their skills.
While doing a good job in the inheritance of "intangible cultural heritage", the pottery generation of Pingdu Pottery Museum developed an incense smoker in 2019, and the incense powder used was synthesized from 16 kinds of traditional Chinese medicines such as mugwort leaf and mountain chrysanthemum, which has the functions of sterilization and disinfection, anti-influenza, air purification, etc., and is favored by the majority of consumers.
(Dazhong Daily client reporter Li Yuan correspondent Zong Xuchang reporting)