Source: New Gansu
2024-01-25 17:14:00
The mallet struck the carving knife, and the sawdust fell as far as the carving knife went. A chisel, a shovel, a file, a grinding, a piece of wood in the wood carver under the careful carving, into a piece of exquisite handicrafts.
Wood carving as a treasure of the traditional craft of the Chinese nation, to do the knife is not wrong, and then to do more vivid and vivid, in the eyes of ordinary people, this has a high requirement for the experience and artistic attainments of the craftsman, and a stroke, a carving, for Li Yunyou, who has been engaged in wood carving technology for more than 40 years, is at ease, the knife leaves traces, the carving is a handicraft, but also his own life of tempering.
The 59-year-old Li Yunyou, who was born in Hedong Village, Hetan Township, Dongxiang County, has been fond of art and calligraphy since childhood, especially wood carving. At the age of 16, he began to follow his father to learn the craft, just as the craft is becoming more and more sophisticated, his father unfortunately died of illness, and then went to the Regong area of Qinghai to worship the famous teacher Jiang Guifan, a study is 6 years, laying a solid foundation for his wood carving skills.
Li Yunyou, who returned to his hometown, was not satisfied with the status quo, began to create and self-study, and at the same time absorbed the essence of each family, studied hard, studied hard, and greatly improved his carving skills, and successively presented the works "Dapeng Bird", "Nine Dragons Playing Beads Tibetan Tea Table", "Buddha Hall", "Birthday Star Map", "Vase Peony", "Rich Tea Table", "Pine Crane Longevity", etc., won provincial and ministerial, national and even international awards and collections, made outstanding contributions to the dissemination of local ethnic art, and won a high reputation at home and abroad. With its exquisite wood carving skills and belief in inheriting the excellent traditional Chinese folk culture, it has been awarded many honorary titles such as Gansu Provincial Arts and Crafts Master, Senior Arts and Crafts Artist, and "Hezhou Craftsman", and was successfully awarded the "Provincial Representative Inheritor of Intangible Cultural Heritage (Fourth Generation)" in 2022. At the same time, his self-created small family-style workshop of wood carving craft products was rated as "Lamachuan Wood Carving Craft Intangible Cultural Heritage Workshop".
Because of Li Yun's unique craft style and product reputation in artistic creation, more and more young people come to his small workshop. Through words and deeds, he has cultivated more than 30 outstanding technical talents, and young people who are keen to inherit traditional culture have been absorbed into the ranks of intangible cultural heritage. "I would like to pass on what I have learned all my life, and I hope that the wood carving skills will be passed on from generation to generation and carried forward. He hoped.
Reporter: Ma Lijun, Bao Xiaolong, Ma Zhenghai
Editor: Yang Yanqin
Editor in charge: Dong Shaobin
Source | Dongxiang County Rong Media Center
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