Wang Jianfeng concentrates on curium porcelain
□ reporter Lu Ruirui, correspondent Deng Meiping, Huo Qizhi
Ballasting, cleaning, nailing, punching, leakage...... On May 5th, the reporter came to Jindu Huacheng Community, Xiajin County, baked porcelain craftsman Wang Jianfeng was busy at home, after 6 hours of fine work, a broken purple clay pot in his hands "broken mirror reunion".
Benefiting people by creating and making up for the gaps. Curium art, spanning thousands of years, is an ancient folk craft. Through the links of ballast matching, positioning point marking, punching nails, etc., the craftsmen restore the original appearance of each piece of damaged porcelain, glow with vitality, and interpret a different kind of "perfection".
Wang Jianfeng, 40 years old this year, is an employee of the State Grid Xiajin County Power Supply Company, his ancestors were silversmiths, and opened a silver building called Fuxiang. In addition to making gold and silver jewelry, some high-value porcelain will also be restored through curium art. Since he was a child, he often saw old objects such as hammers and silver solder sheets, and his grandfather would also mention some curium porcelain craftsmanship from time to time.
In 2005, when the old house was being renovated, an old blue and white bowl was found, with dozens of special nails embedded in the cracks of the bowl, and his grandfather told him that these cracks were made by his great-grandfather. He filled an old blue and white bowl with water, and it didn't leak. It was also found that a large scale, erected more than 2 meters high, and the scale body was engraved with the mark of "Fuxiang", Wang Jianfeng's pride arose, and he was determined to learn and inherit this craft.
Grandpa is very old, he has not made curium porcelain for many years, and the knowledge he can impart is limited. Wang Jianfeng studied hard and learned to hold porcelain (reassembling porcelain fragments and tying hemp rope), which once made him feel broken. He held the tea bowl according to the method of holding the teapot, and the tea bowl at home was secretly smashed by him, but he couldn't hold it up, and he was very frustrated by the failure for a month. One night, he tossed and turned, unable to sleep, and suddenly got up from the bed, "The mouth of the teapot is small and the belly is big, tie hemp rope from above, the two strands of rope are tighter and tighter, and the stress point is retracted from all sides, so naturally there is no problem; The mouth of the tea bowl is large and the belly is small, and it will inevitably break if it is used in this way, so the rope should be tied from the bottom. Wang Jianfeng, who had drilled the tip of the bull's horns, finally saw the light of day.
If you want to make curium utensils not leak, you must be one heart and hand, concentrate on it, accurately grasp each link, and achieve interlocking. The most difficult level of curium porcelain is to punch holes, drill deep to penetrate the wall of the pot, damage the body of the pot, cause new water leakage, and the shallow drilling of the curium nails is easy to fall off. Wang Jianfeng once made a Lang black tea cup, the thickness of the fetus was only 2 mm, and more than a dozen nails were punched on the body, and the difficulty of punching can be imagined.
Curium porcelain is not only a cumbersome procedure, but also has extremely high requirements for tools. The most important tool is the drill, as the so-called no diamond diamond, no porcelain work. The second is the curium nail, the curium nail is divided into gold, silver, copper, iron and other types, the style has willow leaf nail, rice grain nail, fish spine nail, etc., the size can be divided into more than 500 kinds. Just a small nail requires seven or eight processes to make.
With the continuous improvement of curium art, first relatives and friends came to him, and later, many people inside and outside the province came to visit. Some people want to pay tuition fees to worship him as a teacher, but he said that when the mountains and rivers meet bosom friends, they don't need to pay tuition, and if they encounter problems in the process of curium porcelain, they can communicate by phone at any time, and they must know everything.
"Curium art repairs not only cracks, but also memories and emotions." In Wang Jianfeng's view, curium utensils have gone beyond practical functions, and the unique cultural aesthetic value has injected a colorful soul into them to help them achieve nirvana.