"Family Collection" continues to focus on the "I am an Inheritor of Intangible Cultural Heritage" weekend special. Today, our column group came to Jiujiang Gongqingcheng to meet Mr. Huang Guohui, the inheritor of the intangible cultural heritage of Gongqing City.
A large shelf, boxes of all kinds of charcoal powder, a magnifying glass, a bunch of brushes, and sketch paper are all the tools that Mr. Huang Guohui uses to create carbon fine paintings.
Mr. Huang Guohui introduced that charcoal powder is made of natural minerals produced after the combustion of raw oil, and the paintings made of charcoal powder can be kept for thousands of years without fading, especially easy to preserve.
Different from ordinary paintings, the characters depicted in carbon fine paintings are lifelike and do not fade, and they are very popular in ancient times, whether they are royal nobles or ordinary people, they like to use it to paint.
Carbon fine paintings come in both black and white and color, and each has its own beauty. For example, the black carbon paintings you see in front of you are not like black and white photos. As the creator of these works, Mr. Huang Guohui has no professional training.
Teacher Huang Guohui said that when he was young, he spent five years in the team headquarters, and this experience provided him with good help to learn and practice painting. Later, in the coastal area of Guangdong, he saw a master making carbon fine painting, because he had no money to learn from the teacher, he chose to rent next door, and went to observe every day how others were creating.
At that time, photographic printing technology was not advanced enough, and compared with photographs washed out of film, carbon fine paintings were more stable and not easy to fade, so at that time, carbon fine paintings were still very popular among the people.