Gu Jingzhou, a figure of the Purple Sands Elite, knows that everyone knows.
△ Gu Jingzhou
Gu Jingzhou (1915-1996), one of the most accomplished contemporary ceramic artists, his works are exquisite in craftsmanship, elegant in temperament and diverse in form, and the combination of "work" and "art" has been achieved to the extreme. He raised the purple sand craft to a new height, and enjoyed a reputation comparable to that of Shi Dabin in the Ming Dynasty, known as "a generation of masters" and "pot art masters".
But if someone asks such a famous purple clay pot master, what kind of person is he? It is estimated that not many people can answer. For the master, people are always closer to the work and farther away from the person.
Xu Feng wrote a biography of Gu Jingzhou's life in the form of a novel.
Not only with the relaxed and vivid text, Gu Jingzhou's original thin character image is three-dimensionally full. In the book, the distance between the reader and the master is narrowed, and the inner world of a generation of masters is further entered, and the personality charm of the master is truly felt.
Xu Feng is a member of the Chinese Writers Association, a first-class writer, and a scholar of purple sand culture. There are fifteen kinds of novels, essays, literary biographies and other works, more than 4 million words. Important works have been repeatedly reprinted in "Novel Selection", "Novel Monthly", "Reader", "Prose Selection", or adapted into film and television dramas. In recent years, he has devoted himself to the literary writing of the theme of purple sand and is known as the leader of contemporary purple sand literature.
Wind bone into the pot · Pot is the wind bone
Gu Jingzhou's life is quite legendary, and it is still talked about by people. On each of his pots, there is his "uncompromising" grandeur.
Gu Jingzhou was born in cloth clothes, and when he was young, his family fell in the middle of the road, and his studies were interrupted. In order to support his family, he had to inherit his skills to make pots.
However, unlike other pot makers at that time, Gu Jingzhou loved to read books very much, and his ancient literary skills were profound, so his pot and his literati temperament were outstanding.
After reading the whole book, Xiaobian's biggest impression of Master Gu Jingzhou is that he is a high-ranking person, a Gengjie, and a very windy bone.
Such a person now seems to be a bit dull and does not know how to be flexible, but because of this, Gu Jingzhou is different from the average purple sand master.
Because of the pot, There were not many people who Gu Jingzhou had offended. Earlier, the adopted son Xie was released to the countryside, and the leaders of the "Zhiqing Office" let the wind blow, as long as Gu Jingzhou was willing to send a pot to drink tea, he could let Xie Zhi return to the city in advance. But Gu Jingzhou just doesn't give. He believes that the pot is the carrier of his personality, and he cannot trade it. The people of the "Zhiqing Office" are very angry, isn't it just a pot? You are proud, stay in the countryside!
In this way, Gu Xiezhi insisted on staying in the countryside until the care policy stipulated by the government was introduced, and he returned to Gu Jingzhou's side.
Gu Jingzhou is such a person who is unwilling to bow his head, insists on self-pride. He left a word to his disciples: Those who follow me, the uncultured get my skills, and the literate get my skills.
It is the "chosen son" and the "mountain look up" of many pot makers. Gu Jingzhou not only created many purple sand pots, but also represented a purple sand era.
A generation of Grandmasters
Gu Jingzhou's disciples and students, such as Xu Hantang, Shan Shufang, Zhou Guizhen, etc., have now become famous masters of arts and crafts.
The Gu clan was full of branches, but at first these disciples were very afraid of the teacher.
Gu Jingzhou has quite a literati habit, and the lawyers are very strict with themselves, and they are his apprentices, but anyone who has a little flaw and shows no mercy will definitely be scolded as a headache.
In the book, there is a picture of "Gu Jingzhou's horizontal pot model for his disciples", which is spread out in rows of large and small lines, fine to the home.
There are also several scans of Gu Jingzhou's sketches and notes, and readers can intuitively feel Gu Jingzhou's strict requirements, but at the same time, they can also understand that this is a pouring bag.
What the apprentices learn from their teachers is not only the skill, but also the way to deal with the world.
The uniqueness of Gu Jingzhou in the history of purple sand pots is not only the high status of his pot, but also the unmatched by no one after him.
His pot-making concept, the practice of it, is superior, and has long been deeply rooted in the hearts of a generation of purple sand artists.
The book intercepts many of his empirical words, covering all aspects of purple sand knowledge, but also contains the wisdom of life. Whoever it is, it will be of great benefit after reading it.
This book is the only officially authorized biography of Mr. Gu Jingzhou's family, with condensed text, macro layout and skillful details.
It is interesting to read, and many unknown stories have been recorded in the book, changing the reader's stereotype of a generation of purple sand masters.