Li Qigan, Yichuan County: let bronze culture "live"

Newspaper (Reporter Huang Hongli Xu Jinan Correspondent Ge Gaoyuan Wang Station)

"Bronze today's ancient meaning, Jingxing Xingxing and Development." "Xu Xulian Crane pot, innocence and grace." On the afternoon of July 20, in Changyubao Village, Baiyuan Town, Yichuan County, Luoyang's antique craftsmanship development company in Luoyang The Bronze Skills Museum, accompanied by the ancient music "The State of the State of Etiquette", welcomed the guests of the rural rejuvenation and observation group of Yichuan County.

The actors here are workers who usually imitate bronze. When they encounter a reception or research group visit and study, the performance service becomes a "actor".

Luoyang Guangfa Bronze Antique Craft Development Company is a comprehensive production company that integrates research, design, production, and museums, and has a high historical and cultural heritage.

Li Qigan, the fifth generation of "bronze Zhang faction" and chairman of the company, said: "The cold bronze utensils have temperature and life, let the bronze cultural relics" speak ', and let the bronze culture "live' is the mission of the technical inheritance. ! ""

Zi Cheng's father's ingenuity inherits bronze

Speaking of Li Qigan, he will talk about his father Li Fajing.

Born in 1938, from 1958 to 1960, he worked at the Luoyang Cultural Relics and Archaeological Team at the Institute of Archeology of the Chinese Academy of Sciences. There are rich experience in copying imitation, pattern disconnection, and model design and production.

In 1987, Li Fajing missed the opportunity to enter the major of cultural relics for cultural relics in Peking University due to "farmers' identity problems". In the 1990s, after the national "policy" was released, Li Fajing regained his skills and set up a family workshop to use imitation ancient bronze.

Li Qigan has been interested in bronze technology since he was a child.

With his love for bronze culture, Li Qigan uses a knife as a pen to let each piece of copper from "sleeping" to "wake up", "cast" into the soul and give life. He restored the "ancient wax loss method" and innovated, so that the boring bronze turned into a artwork of the collection history and washing the lead Hua.

Ancient craftsmanship created a splendid bronze civilization thousands of years ago, and it was still used by people thousands of years later. "Each piece of bronze casting crafts must go through 6 steps of molding, shelling, melting, casting, forming, coloring, 108 crafts, and finally forming crafts." Li Qigan said, hand -made, each piece of bronze ware It's different.

30 years of craftsmanship, at present, the company has more than 70 employees. It has a complete model design, making finished products, casting, rust and making old production chains. Wait for trademarks.

Break through innovation and show bronze culture

In order to meet different consumer needs, the company has established a design and development team, and has established a good cooperative relationship with Henan University of Science and Technology, Luoyang Institute of Technology, Xinmi Sculpture College and other universities. Li Qigan closely combines ancient techniques with modern technologies, and designs one after another with personalities and emotions.

Li Qigan's works were collected or exhibited by more than 100 domestic museums. He also produced chops and props for the movie "Confucius", "Demon Cat Biography" and "Langya Bang". At the second Central Plains Art Casting Exhibition, the work "Golden Changxin Palace Lantern" and "Women's Good Respect" won the gold award and silver award.

"At present, the company is making a set of 'Zeng Houyi bells'." Li Qigan said that this set of bells lasted for 5 years before starting to produce. The length of the family, the finished product consists of 65 components, 2.75 meters high and 10 meters long. It is expected to cost more than 1.3 million yuan, which will be a comprehensive test of the company team. The characteristics of the bell are "Dingyin", that is, it can be played with modern musical instruments. The "Dingyin" chip bell should be more accepted by the public. In the future, it may enter museums, scenic spots, large -scale costume theaters, temples and other places.

Li Qigan said that "imitation" itself is inheritance and inheritance. Without breaking through innovation, he cannot better show bronze culture.

Let the bronze "live" with copper as a matchmaker

In the past 30 years, whether it is technology or production specifications, the "Guangfa Bronze" has been preferred in Luoyang. The deputy chairman of the Casting Association was listed by Henan University of Science and Technology and other universities as a research practice education base.

Li Qigan is antique but not muddy, seeking new but not new. In order to make copper antique products and skills accept it, spreading bronze culture has become his new mission.

"Bronze wares are one of the important signs of human beings entering the era of civilization. The ancient Chinese bronze wares have long flows, gorgeous and bright, and have eternal historical value, artistic value and social value." Activate the Civilization Code of Bronze in different forms.

In 2019, he started to build the Luoyang Bronze Skills Museum, with more than 500 collections, divided into antique cultural relic display area, literary performance area, experience interactive area, etc. Exquisite bronze wares such as car and horses, and horses and horses tell the history and culture of bronze.

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