On September 16, Forbes China released the 2021 U30 list. 300 young people from 10 industries were listed, and Lang Jia Ziyu, as the third generation inheritor of the national intangible cultural heritage Langpai face sculpture art, was listed in the field of fashion art and lifestyle. In this regard, Lang Jia ziyu wrote in the circle of friends: The list has never been the goal, but he is very happy to be able to give some comfort to the relatives and friends who have been partial and tolerant for many years. It is expected that more young people who will do old crafts will appear on the list in the future.
Not long ago, a video of Lang Jiaziyu's "Peking University Classmates Across Time and Space" became popular, and the video presented the face-shaping images of six outstanding Peking University alumni, Cai Yuanpei, Zhu Ziqing, Xian Xinghai, Deng Jiaxian, Tu Youyou, and Zhong Nanshan, which came to life. This allows the traditional craft of face shaping to get out of the loop quickly. Today, Lang Jia Ziyu has brought his new work "New Thirty-Six Elements", using a new professional face sculpture that is exquisite and exquisite to record and show the humanistic style of our time.
"Someone else's child" is not Versailles
From childhood to adulthood, in the eyes of parents, Lang Jia Ziyu is just an ordinary child, and there will be various small problems, but in the eyes of outsiders, Lang Jia Ziyu can be called "someone else's child".
Lang Jiaziyu, 26, graduated from peking university art school, is the third generation of the national intangible cultural heritage Langpai face sculpture art, in addition to a short video creator, has nearly 900,000 fans in Kuaishou (ID: 1443022911). For these labels on his body, Lang Jiaziyu feels that these are only a perception of himself, not to restrain what he does, the important thing is to do himself.
In 2008, Mian Ren Lang was rated as a national intangible cultural heritage, and his grandfather Lang Shao'an was the founder of Mian Ren Lang, who bing xin visited and wrote a work "Interview with Mian Ren Lang". Lang Shao'an died in 1992, and Lang Jia Ziyu learned everything about his grandfather from his family's story. In his home, there is still a work created by his grandfather Lang Shaoan in the 1930s, "Sima Guang Smashing the Cylinder to Save Friends". His father, Lang Zhichun, also inherited the superb craftsmanship of face molding.
In the process of Growing up as a dough kneader, his father played an indispensable role. "From the time I was three or four years old, I watched my dad do the dough kneading, and I could watch it for an hour or two." This greatly stimulated Lang Jia Ziyu's strong interest in face painting, and then his father's step-by-step, free and unrestrained teaching gave Lang Jia Ziyu a great sense of achievement in the success of the dough kneader. What makes Lang Jia Ziyu persist until now is the charm of the face sculpture itself. It is an art of "life is better than passion", a special beauty derived from the ordinary.
Although he will be regarded as "someone else's child", Lang Jia Ziyu does not feel that his life versailles. "If you look at the time marker point of age, the progress is relatively fast when it is relatively small, and some so-called phased goals have been achieved." But these are all in exchange for their own efforts and efforts in this field. It is precisely because of his love for this field that Lang Jia ziyu has only been running this road of inheritance and development for several years.
Do everything with the strength to not give up
No one's life path is smooth and carefree. Lang Jia Ziyu is no exception. When he was sixteen or seventeen, he would rebel and be irritable. At this time, the face sculpture gave this child in the rebellious period a good release. "My dad allowed me to use it to make all kinds of attempts, let me use this work to express myself, and at that time, the existence of the self was well released in this work, and I also gained a lot of sense of accomplishment." Turning an imaginary thing into reality, designing the emotions in his mind as a contradiction, and then turning this contradiction into a physical existence through his hand, this feeling of expressing himself at will gave him great pleasure. But he also said that as an inheritor, he should not only make himself feel happy, but also let everyone feel happy, which is the real transmission and inheritance.
Due to the influence of the growth environment, Lang Jia Ziyu will feel lonely at the beginning, "Except for those who are related to me by blood, I have not seen other people pinching noodles, I don't know whether I pinch themselves, no one can communicate with me in this regard, and no partners can discuss with me after school", this feeling of sitting on the cold bench is a bit of a blow to Lang Jia Ziyu. But Lang Jia Ziyu still persevered, "do not give up when it is difficult, believe that you can do it when no one can do it" This tenacious force has supported Lang Jia Ziyu to the present.
Lang Jiaziyu, who is 1.9 meters tall, also loves basketball, but he did not become a professional basketball player. In his opinion, basketball is just his hobby, he did not want to work hard and hard for this, but for face molding, he can try, create, and integrate his own personalized content. In order to better disseminate it, I am also willing to learn editing, talk about cooperation, and think about how to pass on the face sculpture better, "I think (face plastic) is a higher level of existence for me than hobbies." ”
New Era 36 Lines: This is a special mark of the times
Face sculpture, commonly known as noodle flowers, buns, flower cakes, kneading people, mainly based on characters, is one of the traditional Chinese folk arts originating in Shandong, Shanxi and Beijing. With the passage of time, the face sculpture slowly evolved from the original sacrifice to an ornamental handicraft. A complete dough sculpture begins with a careful selection of flour, then steames it, coats it with honey and salt to make it look more tense and shiny, then creates the image in mind, and finally air-drys it naturally for a week or so, waiting for it to be finalized.
For many old Beijingers, the stalls selling noodle makers in the streets and alleys are the most familiar memories in childhood, and the vivid Sun Wukong, the Eight Precepts of pigs, sand monks, rabbits, puppies, kittens, etc., will "jump" out like tricks in the hands of the noodle master. The 36 Lines of Old Beijing is one of the typical series of works of face sculpture. "There are pulling foreign cars, grinding scissors and sharpening knives, shaving heads, selling sugar gourds, etc.", these market phenomena let Lang Jiaziyu understand the character style of that era, "Then what are the emerging industries in our time"?
With this question, Lang Jia ziyu began his creation. "For example, ride-hailing drivers, stand-up comedians, professional athletes, two-dimensional cosers, etc., these are relatively new occupations, but also more distinctive, I want to record these occupations through face sculptures", this is the 36 lines of the new era.
"In fact, each industry has a different psychological state in its own professional environment. I want to make this the focus of this series, and I also imagine that one day when my grandson or my son looks at this work, he can feel the breath of the past era and the changes of the current era. "Using your own professional ability to record this era is also the basis for allowing face sculpture works to be often seen and renewed."
Short videos make the future of intangible cultural heritage possible
When Lang Jia Ziyu graduated from undergraduate, his father told him that he did not have to pinch the dough, "You can find a good job with your own ability, I am worried that it is difficult for you to support yourself with this thing", on the one hand, this is the parents' heart for their children to have a better life, on the other hand, it is also one of the dilemmas faced by traditional handicrafts. As an intangible cultural heritage, it is occasionally lonely and helpless because it is niche and unpopular. But technology empowers intangible cultural heritage, making face sculptures trendy and cool.
The creative content incorporates personal expression, making the face shape become trendy. Lang Jiaziyu not only pays attention to traditional culture, but also keeps up with the trend of the times, and the "Kobe Hall of Fame" that pays tribute to Kobe, "Ge Youliang" combined with popular culture, and "I", which expresses the psychological state of young people, are all his new reflections on his works. He admits that the biggest difference between himself and his father and grandfather is that he has integrated more personal things into his works, "because we have changed, so there are some changes in thinking, and we will require strong self-expression or individual existence in our works." If there are not many traces of myself in this work, it is possible that I will fail. ”
The rapid breaking of the circle of short video dissemination has made the face plastic cloud inherited. On the Kuaishou platform, of the 1372 national intangible cultural heritage representative projects, Kuaishou covers 1321 items, with a coverage rate of 96.3%, which is a well-deserved "intangible cultural heritage museum". People not only leisure and entertainment on the Kuaishou platform, learning knowledge, but also find a common circle of interest, intangible cultural heritage in the Kuaishou platform not only allows the value of traditional craftsmen to be reflected, but also affects more people. "(I clap my hands) The impact on this craft is similar to in the crowd, first let a hundred people see, ten of them like, and then one or two people are good at it, so that it solves the inheritance problem, if you have hundreds of thousands or millions of fans, you can also find those who are interested in this thing and have the desire to learn all the time", it is this interactive way that makes Lang Jia Ziyu feel that the face shape has the feeling of cloud inheritance.
For his father's suggestion, Lang Jia Ziyu especially understood his father, "On the one hand, (father) feels that this craft is very good, he is my master, on the other hand, I am his son, he still hopes that I can live a better life, maybe under such a choice, he prefers that I can embark on a path that is easy to live a good life." It was also at that time that Lang Jia Ziyu found that even though his father liked this craft so much, his father would still waver when faced with the choice of choosing a better life. This realization gave him more insight: "If it can become a very secure profession, very stable, with a better creative environment, then all the problems will be solved." 」
After this, Lang Jia Ziyu put all his enthusiasm on solving this problem. Through more innovative communication methods, attract more fans to understand, like face sculpture, and then explore the channels for craftsmen to monetize through their own efforts. "Give someone a sample."
For the future, Lang Jia ziyu "hopes that face sculpture as a traditional art form can have its own place in the field of modern and contemporary art in China." For himself, he hopes that he can create works that will affect more people or enter art history. This is not only Lang Jia Ziyu's expectation for the craft of Mian Ren Lang, but also the expectation of every traditional craftsman for the future.
Editing/Dynasty