Speaking of face sculpture, many people have such memories: the noodle master sits on the street, takes materials according to needs, pinches, rubs, kneads, and lifts several times in his hands, and uses small carving knives to deftly place, cut, carve, and scratch, and in an instant, a delicate and vivid noodle person is presented in front of him.
Now a scene like this,
Also in my county young face sculpting craftsmen
Zheng Cheng's fingertips staged.
The indissoluble relationship with the face sculpture
Entering Zheng Cheng's studio, rows of colorful and uniquely shaped face sculptures come into view, such as Guan Erye holding a green dragon crescent knife, a birthday star with a cute smile holding a peach, and a bold and innovative cat with colors or lifelike or beautiful and cute, making people dazzled and loved.
When the reporter met Zheng Cheng, she was sitting at the table and pinching a mascot for the Year of the Tiger, but in a few minutes, a delicate and meticulous little tiger was completed, and this kind of kneading person's craftsmanship was obviously not a day's work. "The reason why I got acquainted with face sculpture is mainly due to the influence of my father Zheng Zhichao, who likes traditional Chinese culture very much, has been engaged in the creation of Chinese painting for a long time, and has a wide range of hobbies, and has a strategy for micro-painting, micro-carving, micro-carving, etc." Since the age of 8, Zheng Chenggong studied painting with her father, and in the process of growing up, her father has always brought her into contact with various traditional arts such as clay sculpture, sculpture, and paper cutting.
In 2019, Zheng Cheng accidentally learned that the famous Chinese face sculpture master Xiao Zhanxing was going to teach a class in Guangzhou, and after she told her father the news, Zheng Zhichao encouraged her to learn from all her strengths and tireless learning. In this way, Zheng Cheng and the face sculpture formed an indissoluble relationship.
"At that time, we started at 8 a.m. every day, sat on the face molding until 2 a.m., washed and washed and basically went to bed at 4 a.m., and rested for three or four hours a day." In such a high-intensity study, Zheng Cheng has a deeper understanding of the plastic. In her view, the good and bad work of the face sculpture is inseparable from the personal aesthetic skills, aesthetic taste, and innovation ability, which makes her feel the infinite charm of the face sculpture.
Return from school to inherit the intangible cultural heritage
After returning from study, Zheng Cheng continued to teach Chinese painting interest while insisting on practicing facial sculpture to improve his skills. Face sculpture is a folk art with a long history, how to make face sculpture win the love of young people in the new era, and have more space for face sculpture craftsmen to survive and inherit? With this kind of thinking, Zheng Cheng created the Series.
"There are already more than 300 originals in this series, and the main feature is that the shape is cute, the colors are bold and colorful, and I hope to be both traditional and innovative." By participating in various exhibitions and markets such as the Lake Fair, Hangzhou International Charity Week, and Yongjin West Lake Market, Zheng Cheng actively showed this traditional folk art to the public, and his works were also recognized by the market.
Regarding the future, Zheng Cheng is full of hopes, hoping to explore and cooperate with various art forms such as silk, brown weaving, bamboo weaving, etc., integrate and innovate, collide with more sparks, and actively cooperate with relevant government departments to carry out intangible cultural heritage experience activities, so that face sculpture can go further and spread more widely.
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Reporter: Fu Lubo, Liu Yang
Editor: Huang Peiwen
Executive Editor-in-Chief: Gui Li Zhe
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