In a compound on the Cooperation Road in Shijiazhuang, there is a small green brick courtyard called Hu Yunju, and when you push open the door, you will find that the area is only a few dozen square meters, but inside it is a winding path, a piece of exquisite mountain stone, a piece of vigorous calligraphy and painting, quite the style of Jiangnan garden. The two protagonists we are visiting today are here. One is Zang Zhenli, executive director of the Hebei Jinshi Society, and the other is Wang Xiaocheng, a member of the Provincial Artists Association. The two of them spent 700 hours to produce a unique artistic masterpiece in the village, the Han Brick Painting, and named it "Insert Plum Blossoms for the New Year".
The picture shows the inner hall of Huyunju
Wang Xiaocheng: "New Year's Day, cutting plum blossoms will be the New Year, appreciate the first spring wind, this is the meaning." ”
Zang Zhenli: "It has plum blossoms, peonies, chrysanthemums, etc., and the theme of this time is to insert plum blossoms for the New Year, so I painted plum blossoms." ”
Wang Xiaocheng
Zang Zhenli
Tuo is an ancient traditional skill in China, using paper and ink to clearly reproduce the words or patterns on inscriptions and utensils. Over the years, the tiles have been treasures in the academic, art and Tibetan circles, and the Han brick rubbings have also become a "treasure" that is difficult to find. Speaking of the technology of "topology", it is an age.
Zang Zhenli: "This record was first recorded in the Han Dynasty, who wrote well, gave you a banner, could not afford it, carved it, made a rubbing, and gave it to you." In the Tang Dynasty, it was even more powerful, and the emperor gave many rewards to the ministers, and sometimes needed to reward you, giving you the rubbings of famous calligraphy. In the Song Dynasty, including the Ming and Qing dynasties, the scene of the emperor giving the minister rubbings also existed, rubbings are not something that everyone can get, and the heavy ministers can get a rubbing, and the ordinary people can't see it. ”
Han bricks, also known as Han portrait bricks, are architectural bricks carved with painted or images in the Han Dynasty. Tuohua is also very particular about the choice of tuo bricks, generally han bricks.
Ancient Han bricks
Jing Bo: "This is the auspicious pattern of the ancient Han brick, we are expanding this, this is the old Han brick." ”
Reporter: "This is all a brick with an age?" ”
Zang Zhenli: "Well, in the Han Dynasty, the Eastern Han Dynasty lasted for more than a thousand years, and the Western Han Dynasty lasted for two thousand years." Qin bricks are also OK, but too few, but there are very many Han bricks. ”
However, if you want to develop good works, only good bricks are not enough, and a piece of rice paper with full flexibility is very necessary.
Wang Xiaocheng: "This requires paper to have fibers, fibers are longer, there is tension, but the types of extension are different, the types of paper that need to be different, bronzes must be thin, good kind of even history paper, toughness, you can expand the word mouth very clearly, the requirements of the extension is that the words are clear, the ancient details must be shown, if it is to expand some monuments, it is relatively rough, you have to use thick paper, thin is not OK. ”
Zheng Banqiao has a poem written like this, the Han family has nothing to do at the end of the year, and the plum blossoms will be new year. People use red plums to pray for food and clothing in the coming year. In addition to seeing the "Insert Plum Blossoms for the New Year" created by the two teachers at the scene, the reporter also saw the process of making rubbings on the spot. In ten minutes, a topography came out vividly.
Reporter: "This ink is going to be very light." ”
Zang Zhenli: "Yes, very light, very light." ”
On this piece of stuff, who is different from who is expanding, some things have trade-offs, so it is different to expand.
Zang Zhenli: "This brick, spread the rice paper, wet, compact, the top is uneven, and gently expand with ink." This dragon can't see clearly now, and it will be clear after it is expanded. ”
To paint, it is necessary to cover the rice paper on the pattern of the Han bricks, and gently press with a semi-wet towel to make the paper and the Han bricks fit together. After that, the pattern on the brick surface begins to appear. When the rice paper is 80% dry, use the rubbing bag to dip a small amount of ink, gently ink, and repeat many times to ensure that the uneven places of the rice paper are in place.
Zang Zhenli's painting process
Zang Zhenli is good at expanding, Wang Xiaocheng is good at painting, the two are old friends in life, but also artistic confidants.
Wang Xiaocheng: "I paint things are relatively simple, not complicated, more ethereal, the size is also here, can not paint more, painting more to seize the limelight of rubbing, have to let them contrast with each other, so the painting is simpler, but the simpler the more difficult it is to draw." ”
Where the seal is covered, the brimming, the modern, the traditional, all considered.
In the past, Han brick painting was only the favorite of literati and inkers, but with the improvement of life and the improvement of appreciation taste, this once high-end artwork has also begun to fly into the homes of ordinary people.
Jing Bo, the creative person and promoter of Han Brick Painting, said with emotion that Han Brick Painting is to let tradition integrate into fashion and inherit into life.
Jing Bo: "Modern people lack the leisure of the ancients, the ancient people must be in addition to the Spring Festival, Fu zi, New Year prints, there will be a Qing offering in the hall, a pen, a vase, a plum blossom, even if this year is over, the year of the literati must be very elegant." (Reporter Cao Rui)