Southern Zhu Rong, beast body human face, ride two dragons.
—— "The Classic of Mountains and Seas, Overseas South Classic"
There had been many nights when he was sleepless because of this sentence, and all of a sudden, the clouds rose, and the Vulcan God Zhu Rong came out alive and vividly.
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Noodle man, "Tokyo Dream Record" has a record: with oil noodle molasses to make like a smile.
Noodles are also called dough plastic, which use flour and glutinous rice flour as the main raw materials, plus color, paraffin wax, honey and other ingredients, after anti-cracking and anti-mildew treatment, made of soft dough of various colors.
The craftsman kneads, kneads, kneads and lifts the dough several times, and uses a knife to point, cut, carve, and scratch, and shape the body, hands, head, hair ornaments, and clothing.
Noodles come from the folk, kneading and carving, retaining the unique flavor of the city in each era.
Zi Yu's grandfather Lang Shao'an's work "Sima Guang Smashing Cylinder" Zi Yu's grandfather Lang Shao'an's work "Sima Guang Smashing Cylinder"
When the well-known writer Bing Xin saw the face people, everything in the streets and alleys of Beijing that she was familiar with in her childhood came to her mind, and she had an interview with Zi Yu's grandfather, Lang Shaoan, the first generation of face people in Beijing:
His relatively new works, such as "Chicken Feather Letter" and "Tea Picking Fluttering Butterflies", are realistic and delicate, needless to say; and what I love most is a small scene of the old Streets of Old Beijing in a small group, what sells sugar gourds - a man wearing a gray hat and a black robe, carrying a small basket with a variety of rock sugar gourds on his left arm; a shaved head - a person covered in a white cloth sitting on a red bench with a shelf and copper basins next to him; a tea soup seller; a casserole seller; a sugar blower ;All-in-one Wei Miao Wei Shaw! ("Little Orange Lantern·" Interview with The Face Man Lang)
Grandpa Lang Shao'an is making noodles
Now Ziyu will introduce himself like this: "My name is Lang Jia Ziyu, my grandfather is a noodle kneader, called Mian Ren Lang, my father is also called Mian Ren Lang, I am the third generation, so I am also called Mian Ren Lang." ”
"Mian Ren Lang" is a traditional naming method that names all the inheritors of this faction by the industry they are engaged in plus the surnames of the practitioners, and praises the inheritance of this person and his family in this business.
Everyone in the Lang family will engage in this craft, closely linked to each other and passed on from generation to generation.
According to Zi Yu's own recollection, the fascination of the person opposite began when he was three or four years old: "At that time, I often moved a stool and sat next to my father to watch him make noodles, and it was two or three hours at a glance. Every time I hold my breath and watch him complete a perfect operation, it is as if I see a diver complete a perfect water entry action. At that time, I admired my father's superb skills and fell in love with the craft of the noodles. ”
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1、3075
Zi Yu has never been an obedient person.
Inheriting the face of Yu Ziyu is not the only option. His parents had advised him to choose a profession that could support himself, and as long as the craft was not discarded, there was no need to live on it.
"But I just want to live on this, everyone says that noodle people can't make money, I just want to rely on this to support myself." 」 He replied.
When he was studying for graduate school, although his parents said that he let Ziyu choose by himself, they hoped that he could choose a school with a greater grasp, but he did not listen. After losing World War I, he still insisted on World War II.
The face-to-face work "3075" depicts his entire physical and mental state during World War II - "a deformed fat man who is struggling." ”
3075 is the number of the seat he learned during his self-study.
"This is the state in which I once returned from the canteen to myself. The white chair in the work is an element extracted from the library study room. It was my second time in the graduate school, sitting in the study room and feeling a strong desire to create, the whole picture appeared, and the work recorded the feeling of that moment. ”
After the success of World War II, Zi Yu entered the School of Art of Peking University.
2. Old lines
Because he is not very obedient, when pinching noodles, Zi Yu is more willing to explore new shapes by himself.
At the age of twelve or thirteen, in the face of traditional face-to-face themes, such as: Fu Lu Shou, "Dream of the Red Chamber", "Romance of the Three Kingdoms", etc., he was not very interested, so he frantically made some foreign or popular shapes.
"I think that traditional themes don't resonate with me at that time, and if I want to do something that everyone likes, it is to do modern, to do something new that has not been done before."
In the later period of aesthetic study, he gradually found that traditional shapes and experiences have extremely high value, and now although many things can be spread at the moment, they may not be passed on to the world. The traditional ones can be passed on.
He takes the example of "Wu Dai as the Wind": "We will see in some paintings the overall arrangement of very comfortable lines, such as the flowing clothes, like the wind." This is not achieved overnight, it has gone through the summation of many generations of experience, and slowly formed this form.
Traditional Chinese aesthetics, such as the arrangement of lines and the choice of colors, should continue to be applied in our modern creations. ”
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Artistic creation requires a high emotional state of the creator, in the words of Zi Yu: "It will move the true qi." ”
When the creation encounters bottlenecks, his insomnia will be particularly serious: "When creating, people will be more real. It is very painful not to think that it is very painful to think enough to impress yourself, and you need to put yourself in the corner until you force out the results that you are satisfied with. ”
Taking the artist as a label of life, Zi Yu seems to reject it, he really wants to be himself, and he longs to have a richer life experience.
Like many boys, he's an avid basketball fan, loves Kobe Bryant, collects sneakers, and watches Le xia, most recently enjoying mandarin's cover song "White Pigeon."
Face, music, and basketball are three things he loves, and there is no priority between them. He gives a very Gen Z-style response:
"I don't feel like I can't play with these things because I'm the heir, otherwise I'm losing my dignity or anything like that." The feelings I get from other hobbies can help me to create better. ”
So it's no surprise that he went to "The Strongest Brain" and gained a large wave of fans.
Lang Jia's face-to-face works fully reflect his personal preferences
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How to spread the noodles more widely is what he is currently working on.
In addition to participating in variety shows, he also established a personal Weibo, Douyin account (@Lang Jia Ziyu), and continued to update the vlog, hoping to let more people know about the face through short videos, and also wanted more people to know that he got a lot of happiness from it.
"If a hundred people know about the craft, ten of them like it, and one or two out of ten people are good at it, the problem of inheritance is solved."
Using himself as a carrier to spread the face of the craftsmanship is a small goal set by the three boys, but he has not forgotten the original intention of art: "In fact, I also have some works that are not so easy to disseminate, which may represent the higher artistic value I pursue." Style is a person's back, in fact, I am still groping. ”
Reflections on rumors: rumors & viruses
Zi Yu once sent such a dynamic:
"When I was in junior high school, when I was 13 years old, I came out labeled 'post-95 inheritors'.
Now that I have studied for two years and more than ten years, the 'post-95 inheritors' are still so rare.
I really want to see the post-00s, and the post-05s and 10s make the label 'heirs after 95' ancient. ”
Regarding the future, he also hopes to bring traditional aesthetic education to more children, "our own education part needs the nourishment of traditional culture, especially traditional art", just like the warmth he felt in childhood.