Recently, the news that Chen Wanlong, a master of ceramic art in Fujian Province and a non-hereditary inheritor of the "Xianyou Celadon Porcelain" in Fujian Province, has been collected by the Palace Museum, such as the Celadon Dharma Statue and the Celadon Guanyin Statue, has attracted the attention of authoritative news media such as Fujian Daily and Putian City Television Station, and has reported on them one after another.
Xianyou County, Putian City, has a long history of ceramics, dating back to the late Neolithic period 4,000 years ago, there were ancestors engaged in handmade pottery in the county, and so far there are 6 ancient kiln sites in the Song Dynasty, Yuanming, and Ming Dynasties.
Putian Xianyou County Yuanzhuang Tulou Village on the Xiwei Mountain, has collected carved patterns, reticulated, checkered pattern of soft clay pots, clay pots, etc., after examination as the late Neolithic site, to the Song and Yuan Dynasties Xianyou County porcelain industry has reached a certain scale, there are bowls, plates, cups, washing, dish, jars and other daily utensils, compared with the same era of Longquan kiln, Jingdezhen and other famous kilns, the process pays more attention to simple and easy technical measures, vigorously pursue the tendency of the number of goods, to meet the daily use of porcelain in the county, while exporting Egypt, Persia, Japan, Southeast Asia and other countries and regions.
On January 29, 2022, the traditional firing technique of celadon in Xianyou County was successfully selected into the list of 188 representative projects of the seventh batch of provincial intangible cultural heritage announced by the Fujian Provincial Department of Culture and Tourism.
△ Chen Wanlong, a master of ceramic art in Fujian Province
Chen Wanlong, arts and crafts artist of Xianyou County, is the director of the Tulongquan Celadon Research Institute of Xianyou County and the founder of the Bao Porcelain Zhai Craft Ceramics Factory in Xianyou County.
His celadon works are simple in shape, generous in shape and very different in style, and many of his works have won awards at domestic and foreign exhibitions.
In December 2015, his works "Free Guanyin" and "Guan Gong" won the gold medal of the 17th China (national) Arts and Crafts Masters Exposition;
In May 2016, the work "Maitreya Buddha" won the gold medal of the 2016 China Arts and Crafts "Hundred Flowers Award" works competition;
In May 2016, his works "Colorful Pen Holder" and "Celadon Jade Bi" won the gold and silver awards of the 11th China (Putian) Strait Crafts Fair, respectively;
In May 2017, his works "Imitation Longquan Kiln Dharma Ancestor", "Imitation Longquan Kiln Big Plate" and "Imitation Brother Kiln Rulai Buddha" won the gold, silver and bronze awards of the 12th Straits Craft Expo in China, respectively;
In May 2019, his work "Xianyou Celadon Zen Enlightenment Master" won the silver medal of the 10th Fujian Provincial Arts and Crafts Fine Arts "Competition for Beauty Cup" Competition, and won the gold medal of "China Art Cup" in China (Dalian) in 2021.
His works are collected by the Palace Museum, Fujian Provincial Art Museum, Fujian Provincial Art Museum, China Mintaiyuan Museum, Xiamen Museum and many other museums.
△ Chen Wanlong celadon works
The discovery of archaeologists has brought the putian ancient kiln industry back to the world. Cultural relics are a silent history book, and it is the first-line professional and technical personnel who decipher the historical code.
At present, the cultural relics protection units in Putian City implement territorial management, and the county-level cultural relics departments have undertaken the management tasks of a large number of cultural relics protection units. Secondly, many movable cultural relics are also preserved in the cultural relics department at the county level, and the county level is forming a contradiction between fewer people and more things due to the lack of professional and technical personnel in the cultural and cultural engineering. In addition, professional talents are discontinued, and there is an extreme shortage of talents related to cultural relics archaeology and cultural relics appraisal, which is not conducive to the development and progress of the current cultural relics archaeology and cultural relics appraisal.
At present, Putian is actively applying for a national historical and cultural city, and it is imperative to cultivate a high-quality team of cultural and cultural talents. Relevant departments should strengthen the construction of a talent team for cultural relics research and management in light of actual conditions; formulate talent introduction plans, strengthen the allocation of professional talents, and strive to create a team of cultural and museum professionals who are "refined, relevant, and understanding the neighborhood".
According to the "Chronicle of Xinghua Province", "There is a celadon kiln near the Wanshan Litan in Xianyou County, and the firing vessels are quite good. "Folk also spread the Xianyou 99 kiln saying. In recent years, a large Song Dynasty kiln site newly discovered in Youyang Town, Xianyou County, has been well preserved as a whole. Several hills are lined with dragon kilns (multiple kiln bases can be found), with a distribution area of 100,000 square meters. The kiln site has the characteristics of large scale, rich types of firing, diverse shapes, excellent production level and more types of decoration. Some scholars believe that the discovery of such a huge ceramic relic from the ancient kiln sites of Zhuangbian Town and Youyang Town shows that the ceramic manufacturing industry in Xinghua County in the Song Dynasty can represent the ancient level of porcelain making in Putian.
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