In life, we often say a saying: "Without diamonds, don't do porcelain work." "It's about curium porcelain, an ancient folk craft. Curium porcelain is the technique of repairing broken porcelain with a metal "curium nail" like a staple. With the change of the times, there are very few artists who have mastered this unique skill, and the curium porcelain technique is on the verge of being lost. However, in Gaomi City, there is a curium porcelain artist who can carve magical patterns on broken porcelain, and he is Hou Jian, the representative inheritor of Gaomi City's intangible cultural heritage.
Walking into Hou Jian's curium porcelain art studio, under the bright table lamp, Hou Jianzheng, the "curium porcelain man", concentrated on repairing a broken porcelain bowl in his hand, intercepting copper sheets, filing knives and repairing nails, making a "hammer" like a staple needle, and then gently tapping and fixing with a small nail hammer. Working like this, he works nearly 12 hours a day. Hou Jian told reporters that he had been playing with curium porcelain tools around his grandfather and uncle since he was a child, and when he heard about it, he fiddled and imitated some curium pieces and knocked some things, and also learned the production process of curium porcelain.
Hou Jian, a high-density municipal inheritor of curium porcelain making skills project, said: "When I was a child, my uncle often carried the burden to the countryside to give others curium pots and pots, when I was five or six years old, my uncle took me to walk the streets and alleys together, I watched him put the broken pots well, and after the curium was up, it did not leak, I felt that this thing was very magical, from that time I thought about what was going on in my heart, wanted to find out. ”
It is understood that the steps of curium porcelain are complex and cumbersome, and it is necessary to go through five major steps such as finding ballast, seams, positioning points, punching holes, and filling in curium nails to repair a piece of porcelain in good condition, especially the step of diamond drilling is a very big test for curium porcelain artists, because some porcelain is only a few millimeters thick, and if you are not careful, it is possible to explode or collapse porcelain. Since the formal practice in 1998, from the Jianzhan of the Song Dynasty, the blue and white flowers of the Qing Dynasty, the purple sand of the Republic of China period, and the modern daily tea utensils, in more than 20 years, countless fragments of utensils that have been reborn by hou Jianzhi's hands have been countless.
The work of dry curium porcelain must be calm and able to withstand loneliness. The difficulty is not to penetrate the porcelain that is too thin to penetrate when it is punched. Because the curium enamel drill has no blocking head, it all depends on the feel. Over the years, Hou Jian has been striving for excellence in curium porcelain technology, and has continuously innovated in engraving, inlaying and decaling. His curium porcelain technique not only retains the traditional handicraft method, but also adds cultural and creative elements that conform to modern aesthetics. He also developed novel shapes of flower nails, pieces of "injured" porcelain, in Hou Jian's hands dead wood in spring, once again blooming the charm of art.
Hou Jian told reporters that the skill is important in the inheritance, and he must not only be a craftsman, but also be a "shou artist" and keep China's traditional culture. In order to let more people understand this ancient skill, Hou Jian used the new media platform to display curium porcelain technology in many ways and from all angles in his spare time. In the future, Hou Jian will also open experiential courses to let more people understand curium porcelain.
Hou Jian, the representative inheritor of the intangible cultural heritage of Gaomi City, introduced that curium porcelain is a fine tradition and excellent skill of the Chinese nation. Curium art has a history of more than 2,000 years in China and is also an ancient chinese skill. When he repaired the artifacts and distributed them to various media, he also attracted many young people who liked this craft to come and learn. After that, he will also go to the school to give some lectures on traditional skills, so that children can better understand the culture of curium art.
Reporter: Guo Chengyan Tan Hao
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