On February 25, at the Kuqa City Cultural Center in Xinjiang, folk artists from various townships in the city gathered together to paint on gourds with electric soldering irons, and in a few moments various images such as ice piers and turtle murals have taken shape and come to life.
In the training room, I saw folk artists, clutching a hot soldering iron in their right hand and holding a gourd in their left hand, and painting and creating with ease in the gourd. The gourd has a beautiful shape and means auspiciousness. By using an electric soldering iron to iron the natural gourd to iron out the brown tone picture, you can make a variety of graphic works, after the completion of the painting with hand polishing, the finished gourd branding painting is simple and elegant, deeply loved by the masses.
Mageyamu Alimu, a folk artist in Qiman Town, Kuqa City, said: "This is the third time to participate in the gourd painting training class of the Cultural Center. Here we mainly learn gourd hot painting, and I like the technique of gourd flowers. Through several trainings, my gourd painting level has also improved. After returning to our township, I will play my part in teaching this craft to more people and let this technology flourish. ”
In the classroom, the branding gourd teacher explained the key points and keys of the hot gourd painting in detail, and emphasized that we must remember the three degrees of the hot gourd painting, that is, "temperature, speed, and strength". While operating, explaining the strength of each hot plate and the matters that need attention, the students listened attentively.
Branding gourd art, also known as hot painting gourd, fire pen painting gourd, is the use of fire soldering iron on the object iron burning iron burning iron burning burning gourd painting, is a precious rare painting species in the mainland. In recent years, Kuqa City has continuously strengthened the protection of traditional skills, on the basis of the introduction of institutional safeguard measures, has successively carried out technical training for grass-roots cultural backbone personnel, the protection and inheritance of folk artists, the management of folk artists, the training of peasant paintings, the training of "intangible cultural heritage" projects, etc., invited the inheritors of traditional skills to teach on the spot, inherit and protect intangible cultural heritage, deeply implement the cultural enrichment project, continuously enhance the awareness of protection of all ethnic groups in the city, and enrich the amateur cultural life of the masses.
(Fan Kai, Wu Le) (China Daily Xinjiang Reporter Station)