Editor's note
General Secretary Xi Jinping pointed out: "Every civilization continues the spiritual blood of a country and a nation, which needs to be passed down from generation to generation, and more importantly, it needs to keep pace with the times and be brave in innovation." "Since the 18th National Congress of the Communist Party of China, General Secretary Xi Jinping has put the promotion of the creative transformation and innovative development of China's excellent traditional culture in a prominent position, and promoted the inheritance, development and rejuvenation of China's excellent traditional culture, including intangible cultural heritage.
To this end, "Wei Jiazhou" has launched the town (street) series of "Keeping "Memory" Time". By focusing on intangible cultural heritage inheritors or folk craftsmen, we will explore the past and present of traditional skills, as well as the protection, inheritance and innovative development of traditional skills, so as to form a pattern of participation of the whole society, so that Chinese traditional culture can continue to be carried forward in the continuous inheritance.
Today, let's explore with Jia Meier
The extraordinary world of dough sculpting craftsmen
In the fast-paced modern life, there is such a group of craftsmen, who use their fingertips as pens and dough as paper to paint vivid and expressive artistic pictures. They are dough sculpture craftsmen, a group of artists who use traditional skills to shape dreams and make intangible cultural heritage shine with new brilliance. Liang Jianguo, a native of Leshan, is such an artist, as the inheritor of the municipal intangible cultural heritage "Xianliang" dough sculpture, he has always practiced the inheritance and development of intangible cultural heritage skills with practical actions.
On the basis of inheriting the traditional dough molding skills, Liang Jianguo devoted himself to research and formed his own unique style. He uses a pair of skillful hands to knead, knead, knead and press the dough to create lifelike works of different shapes, from the mythical and legendary dragon and phoenix unicorn, to the flowers, birds, fish and insects in real life, all of which show the unique charm of dough sculpture art.
Behind every dough molding craftsman, there is an unknown story of ingenuity. Liang Jianguo and dough molding were born out of a beautiful "unexpected encounter". At the beginning of the millennium, he took his one-year-old daughter to the park to play, and happened to meet a foreign artist who was setting up a stall to pinch noodles, and the lifelike dough figures not only attracted the attention of his daughter, but also made Liang Jianguo, who likes handicrafts, feel curious, and since then he has firmly embarked on the road of inheritance and development of dough sculpture. Liang Jianguo once spent two months in Shanxi, Hebei, Shandong, Beijing and other places to learn skills from famous local dough sculpture artists.
In recent years, Liang Jianguo has been invited to participate in cultural and tourism activities such as Sichuan International Tourism Trade Fair, Sichuan Fine Arts Calligraphy Exhibition, Sichuan's First Rural Art Exhibition, Jiazhou Temple Fair, Shangzhongshun, Dongdajie and other cultural and tourism activities, and won the title of "Excellent Rural Craftsman in Leshan City" with his excellent dough molding skills.
Liang Jianguo conveys warmth and hope with his works, and his vivid works embody the local life of Leshan and the perseverance of the people of Leshan.
With the intensification of the protection of intangible cultural heritage and the importance of traditional culture from all walks of life, the art of dough sculpture is ushering in unprecedented development opportunities. Liang Jianguo said that he looks forward to more young people joining the ranks of dough molding craftsmen to learn, inherit and innovate this ancient and beautiful art together, so that this precious cultural heritage will shine more brightly in the new era.