These two Putian people, master of Chinese arts and crafts!

Author:Putian Evening News Time:2022.08.07

Recently, the Chinese Light Industry Federation announced the list of the eighth China Arts and Crafts Masters. Putian Song Chunguo and Wu Wenzhong were successfully selected with their superb skills and ingenious work, and Putian added two national masters!

1. Wu Wenzhong

Wu Wenzhong, born in Putian, Fujian, the capital of woodcarving in 1968, is a master of Chinese arts and crafts, senior arts and crafts, master of Chinese woodcarving art, and the third batch of intangible cultural heritage protection projects in Fujian Province. The top ten leaders of the arts and crafts industry have been engaged in woodcarving Buddha statues for forty years. The works are well -known at home and abroad, especially large -scale Buddha statues, which are favored by many temples.

Wu Wenzhong's works

At the age of 14, he followed the famous folk master, and his elder brother Wu Wenwu learned woodcarving skills. He devoted himself to studying woodcarving skills. The large woodcarving Buddha statues were simple, solemn, skilled, and smooth. The use of fine carving techniques was used to pass on a bright aesthetic orientation, exuding vivid artistic vitality.

2. Song Chunguo

Song Chunguo, Master of Chinese Arts and Crafts, Senior Arts and Crafts Artist, Model of Labor in Fujian Province, Workers and Artists in Fujian Province, Executive Director of the Council of the Chinese Arts and Crafts Association, Deputy Director of the China Arts and Crafts Association Dental Eagle Professional Committee, Vice President of the Fujian Arts and Crafts Association, The "typical figure" of the Chinese arts and crafts industry in 2012, the winner of the world records of the flag.

He graduated from Xiamen University in 1990 and has been engaged in sculpture culture and art. It has been inherited for more than 40 years. It has trained dozens of outstanding talents such as provincial and municipal masters for the carving culture and art industry. Dental carving skills representative inheritance. The works have been awarded in national and provincial exhibitions many times. Many works have been collected by the Chinese Crafts Museum, Capital Museum, Xiamen Museum, etc.

Song Chunguo works

Song Chunguo has been engaged in the inheritance of dental carving culture and art for more than 30 years, and has trained dozens of outstanding talents for the carving culture and art industry. His works have won 40 "gold awards" and 8 "silver awards" of the China Arts and Crafts Expo and Art Expo.

List of Chinese Arts and Crafts Masters (Putian)