As a local traditional skill of Nanping City, Jianzhan is one of the national intangible cultural heritage, with the continuous improvement of people's living standards, people's demand for spiritual and cultural life is more urgent, after Jianzhan culture is re-recognized by people, so that more inheritors of skills can display their talents.
In recent years, combined with the continuous rise of the tea, bamboo and wood handicrafts industry in our city, Junyu Arts and Crafts Promotion Center of Xudun Town, Jian'ou City, located in Xudun Town, the capital of China's root carving, has made full use of its own advantages and focused on expanding the traditional skills of Jianzhan, from engaging in the traditional skills of Jianzhan many years ago to returning to his hometown to build two firewood burning dragon kilns, focusing on the inheritance of Jianzhan craftsmanship, and in October 2022, he was rated as one of the representative inheritors of Jian'an Zhan firing skills by Nanping City.
Zhu Junyu, the representative inheritor of Jian'an Zhan firing skills and the legal representative of Junyu Arts and Crafts Promotion Center in Xudun Town
Engaged in the production of Jian'an Zhan for more than 10 years, from beneficiation to blank are hands-on, basically about 12 kilns are burned every year, each kiln 800 to 1000 pieces, its yield can only be 20%, we use the traditional dragon kiln firewood, the quality rate is 5%.
After years of baptism of wind and rain, the center has been maturing in the traditional crafts and skills of Jianzhan, in addition to the finished products are sold all over the country, including Hong Kong, Macao, Taiwan and foreign countries to the Philippines, Japan, Russia and other places, but also pay attention to its own intangible cultural heritage.
Jiang Mixiu, the most beautiful women's science and technology correspondent in Nanping City and the sales supervisor of Junyu Arts and Crafts Promotion Center
We adopt a combination of online and offline sales model. The amount of online will be higher than that of offline, but there will be more customization offline, and the products sold will be relatively high-end. We also have high-end customer collections for foreign customers. There are also some of their own collections, as their own development history, and also for the inheritance of intangible cultural heritage.
It is also reported that as of October 2022, our city has selected a total of 6 representative inheritors of Nanping municipal Jian'an Zhan firing skills. As one of the representative inheritors of Jian'an Zhan firing skills, the center has always focused on the inheritance and innovation of building the culture of Jianzhan with local characteristics in northern Fujian and Fujian Province, taking the inheritance of Chinese Jianzhan skills and culture as the foundation and responsibility, cultivating creative Jianzhan industry talents as the goal, and giving full play to the role of passing, helping and leading in the work in the way of mentoring and apprenticeship, and rapidly improving the skills of apprentices as the level, so as to further promote the continuous improvement of the Jianzhan industry in our city.
Source of this article: Huang Yongchao, Xu Dunzhen
Editor-in-charge: Fusheng