Ingenuity ｜ Dao'an's silver years ⑥: Silver flower silk behind the scenes of hard work and welding, almost burned the house when welding

Daoan's silver flower silk works

Cover reporter Li Yuxin Liu Kexin

"In the foreign guest reception room, I saw those silver -flowering silk crafts on the display table. It can be said that it is dazzling, and it is delicate and beautiful at a glance. Later, I told myself in my heart that I must learn this thing for my hands. And inherit. "

If time goes back to the 1980s, it returns to the most prosperous time in Chengdu's silver flower silk technology industry, and there are more than 300 craftsmen in Chengdu's gold and silver product factory. Process. At that time, Daoan was just a green girl who graduated from high school, but was fascinated by the soft, exquisite silver flowers. In the next 40 years, the years will be tightly tied with this millennium skill. It's quite bumpy, but the twists and turns of hardships.

From the prosperity of the 1980s, and gradually declined after the 1990s, Chengdu's silver flower silk skills have been in the dilemma of the succession of no one afterwards. Is this traditional skill that has gone through thousands of years, will it disappear in modern society? Seeing that the development of silver flowers stepped into the "downhill road", Daoan stood out. "If no one is engaged in this industry. This thousands of years of skills have been lost in today's society. I think this is a pity. I have the responsibility to protect it."

From prosperity to decline

"I only insisted on the 30 people who entered the factory at that time."

Chengdu Yinhua silk, with Shu embroidery, Shujin, lacquerware, and bamboo editor, also known as the "five golden flowers" in Chengdu's non -heritage, has a history of more than 1,700 years. Chengdu Silver Flower is known for its "Flatfill". In the hands of Dao'an, this seemingly flat silver silk, after filling, barrier, shredded, rubbed welding, etc. The complicated silver flower silk crafts were born under her hands. Looking at these crafts, the shape is unique, elegant and noble, and transforms a single silver into a thousand gestures. And Dao An was fascinated by such beautiful silver silk.

After graduating from high school, Dao An entered the Chengdu Gold and Silver Products Factory at the time and became one of the 30 apprentices of the factory. At that time, it was the period when Chengdu's silver flower silk skills were the most prosperous. Not only did the factory have 300 craftsmen carefully carved silver silk skills, but also more than ten countries exported to Europe and the United States, and they were highly sought after overseas.

However, the good times did not work well. The exports of the product at the time depended on the foreign trade company. After this sales were cut off, Chengdu Silver Silk quickly fell into trouble. "Silver flower silk crafts, at that time, in the country, ordinary people could not afford to consume and belong to luxury goods. So after the 1990s, after the foreign trade line was broken, Chengdu Silver Flower Silk was equivalent Fall. "

But since entering the gold and silver product factory in 1980, Daoan has been full of thoughts on learning silver silk. "I studied with the master for 3 years before they were basically apprentices and learned some basic production techniques. If you want to make some large decoration crafts, you will not be done without 5 to 10 years."

In the nearly 20 years of studying skills in the factory, Dao'an saw that this craft was from talent, to the academic artists, and gradually went to "downhill". Such a scene also made her feel helpless and pity. "I have been in the factory for more than 10 years. In 1999, the factory restructured. Later, there were fewer and fewer people. Many teachers died one after another, and some of them changed their careers. Only me is making silver flowers. "

Self -standing portal founding studio

"Let the silver flowers fly into the home of ordinary people"

When it is passed down for thousands of years and the skills that have been fascinated by themselves, they will gradually lose their own skills. What should I do? When this problem was spread to Dao An's hands, she also passed through the tangles and confusion of a thousand times. When she wanted to give up, the silver flower silk crafts that shone shining in foreign guests would break into her mind again. These exquisite utensils always asked Dao An's heart at all times. Is it really willing to give up? Under thinking, she has the answer.

Dao'an

In 2003, the Yinhua Silk Studio founded by Daoan was officially established, taking the first step in the self -reliance portal. Recalling the time when I was initially entrepreneurial, the words that appeared in the high frequency in Dao Anzui were: hard work. Indeed, when the industry is gradually micro, the development path of the silver flowers seen by Dao'an is extremely unclear. "At that time, I really felt that no one came to inherit (silver flowers), and I thought of opening the domestic market and determined to come out of the factory. Where can I go out? step."

The first thing to be encountered is the problem in the process. A complete silver -flowering work has to go through more than ten processes, whether it is the most basic drawing link, or subsequent welding and color washing links, Dao An encountered many difficulties. "After the production of a crafts, it should be hot and contracted during the welding process. For example, a quadrilateral or circular crafts may be different every time. At this time, it must be based on your experience Going to school, it depends on how to repair it. If the repair is not good, it will be scrapped. You need to re -make it. There are a lot of abandonment like this. "

It took a year or two, and Dao An gradually touched all the processes and equipment, but followed by the issue of sales. In the past, a good silver flower silk craft was very valuable, and it was not what ordinary people could afford to consume. There is no sales, you can't support yourself, how can this skill be maintained? In fact, as early as the 1990s, Daoan started to develop the craftsmanship of silver silk painting. This kind of utensils not only did not make the cost, but also the workmanship was relatively simple. It can solve the problem of silver oxidation in the frame. After the self -standing studio, Daoan began to develop and produce this category. As time passed, the orders in Tiannanhai North were issued from all over the country. The sales of silver silk have been greatly improved. Although there are a lot of gains, the hard work of entrepreneurship can not be exhausted in a few words. Dao An said that in order to complete the order in the prescribed time, overtime has become the norm. Even once, in a hurry, when the welding steps were done, the house almost burned. "We welded gasoline. Once in order to catch up, I accidentally knocked the gasoline, and then ignited the gasoline. At that time, I almost burned the house. At that time . But in order to be able to deliver, we wore a slippers with your feet and make this batch of goods. "

More than 40 years of "love" silver filament

"Ingenuity is to persevere"

From the beginning of entrepreneurship, Daoan's studio has also gone through almost 20 years, and she has "associated" with the silver silk, and has passed more than 40 years. At the most difficult time, Dao An did not want to let go and give up this skill. But I did not expect that her daughter was also fascinated by the beauty of silver flowers and supported her all the way to the present.

"For a while, the employees I recruited basically gone, and in the end, there was a person left. At that time, the incident also had a great impact on me, and it was very discouraged. It was also the support of my daughter. She was studying art from high school. She said she liked this, she was going to design, and she always encouraged me. Then her daughter graduated and started to help me. Later, she gradually recruited a group of apprentices, basically on the road. "

"One Sailing Big Dragon Boat"

On the way with Silver Flower Silk, Dao An also received some honors, such as the representative inheritance of the national non -heritage of silver flower silk skills, but behind this seemingly glory title, Dao An felt it, Dao An felt it, Dao An felt it. It is not easy and urgent to inherit. Dao An said that although apprentices recruited in the studio now have been able to produce silver -flower silk crafts independently, most of them are limited to some jewelry and small objects. "Like silver -flowering decorations, it is necessary to face loss. But I think this must be protected. The essence of silver flower silk crafts is on the decoration. This is what I am most worried about now."

During the interview, when Dao An mentioned several times when he was a young girl in the 29th year, he had seen the ingenious silver silk crafts in the foreign guest reception room. More than 40 years have passed. In Daoan's studio, a work she made by himself, "One Sailing Dragon Ship", is not only a combination of silver wires of tens of thousands of meters and components of different sizes of different sizes and sizes. In order to accommodate dozens of techniques including "inlaid", "no childbirth", "burning blue", and unique ingenuity. The exquisite crafts I saw at that time were finally inherited and carried out through their own hands. Although they were hard all the way, they also got their wishes.

In Chengdu in July in midsummer, Daoan sat next to his work "A Sailing Dragon Ship", accompanied by the cicada sounds, and said his "ingenuity" that he had ended over 40 years. "In my opinion, ingenuity is to be engaged in our line, we must persist, and we must persist. The skill of Silver Flower is endless. This needs to play ingenuity. And there is a good innovation and creativity to make it better develop, this is ingenuity. "

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