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Seeing these exquisite and rustic, colorful lacquerware, and emitting a warm luster, I believe that you, like me, will love it.
Lacquerware is an important invention in ancient China in terms of crafts and arts and crafts. Mr. Wang Shixiang, a famous cultural relics expert and lacquer art expert, roughly divides the history of Chinese lacquer art into: the origin of the Neolithic period, the peak of the Shang and Zhou dynasties, the prosperity of the Warring States to the Western Han Dynasty, the complete variety of the Tang, Song and Yuan dynasties, and the new prosperity of the Ming and Qing dynasties.
Today, we pay more attention to the beauty of lacquerware, but the original use of lacquerware by the ancients undoubtedly stemmed from its water-separating and anti-corrosion properties.
Lacquer, also known as "raw lacquer", it is from the natural sap cut from the lacquer tree, recognized by the world as the "king of paint", both moisture resistance, anti-corrosion, acid resistance, heat resistance and other characteristics, the application is very extensive, it can be said that everything can be "paint". The lacquer bow excavated from the Xiaoshan Cross-Lake Bridge and the lacquered wooden bowl excavated at the Hemudu site confirm that the ancient Chinese people 8,000 years ago had mastered the technology of lacquer.
From ancient times to the present, whether it is architecture, furniture, or eating utensils, musical instruments, entertainment utensils, the application of lacquer can be seen everywhere. It is recorded in the "Han Feizi Ten Passes" that "Yu made a sacrificial vessel, black painted the outside, and Zhu painted the inside." In addition, the Book of Poetry, Guofeng, and The Wind also mentions the planting of sumac trees to make the qinser. Today, ancient lacquerware can be seen in major museums.
The Hubei Provincial Museum has lacquerware excavated from the tomb of Zeng Houyi in Suixian County, Hubei Province in 1978. These lacquerware are known to be the early, complete and exquisite treasures in the Chu tombs, and reflect the charm of ancient Chu culture. The lacquerware is colored as Black or Black With Black, depicting a beautiful world on the surface of the utensils in beautiful abstract patterns.
This ancient skill, after thousands of years of inheritance, is still intact in the land of China, mainly distributed in Beijing, Jiangsu Yangzhou, Shanxi Pingyao, Guizhou Dafang, Gansu Tianshui, Jiangxi Yichun, Shaanxi Fengxiang and other places.
Among them, Beijing carving lacquer is decorated with dozens or even hundreds of layers on wooden tires or copper tires, and then embossed, the color is mainly vermilion, and the style is rich and luxurious. Yangzhou lacquerware is characterized by inlaid screws, which are exquisite under the light. Fujian lacquerware is known for its bright color, light and beautiful. Sichuan lacquerware, mostly using the polishing technique of pushing light, is either known for carving and filling, or is famous for grinding and painting. In addition, there are Xiamen lacquer line decoration, Tianshui carving and filling, etc., all have different artistic characteristics.
The process of making lacquerware is usually a long time, months or even more than a year. An ordinary lacquerware needs to be made of ground, scraped ash and framed cloth, paint polishing, pushing and polishing and other more than ten processes. A large part of it is repetitive and meticulous work, only in the painting process, brushing 10-15 lacquers, the thickness of which is only 1 mm. Lacquer making will slowly polish an acute seed into a chronic seed.
Not long ago, I met Chen Xiuguo, a lacquerware artist, in a studio near the Drum Tower in Beijing. He said: "I debuted halfway, and making lacquer began by repairing high ancient porcelain... Gradually experience the nature of lacquer. Indeed, it is in the seemingly long and tedious production process that lacquerware artists continue to try and innovate to spark art.
The characteristics of lacquer make everything "lacquer". It can rely on almost any material, even some items that can be seen everywhere in life, combined with lacquer, can achieve unexpected artistic effects. Lacquerware is old, but fashionable, and its all-natural features make it more acceptable to modern people. This traditional artistic gem is being revived in inheritance and innovation.
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New Media, Chinese Global Program Center, China Central Radio and Television Corporation
Producer/Hong Lin, Yang Fengtao
Producer/Wang Xin, Yang Xiuwen
Editors-in-Chief/He Yu, Wang Ran
Author/Liu Yanfeng
Editors/Lin Chun, Li Minting, Wang Aofu
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