Sichuan Skills Contest Bamboo Art Champion: Inheritance tradition requires innovation to engrave new cultural symbols for bamboo carving

Cover reporter Zou Ajiang Photography Report

On August 27, the 5th "Sichuan Craftsman Cup" and the Vocational Skills Competition of the first technical college in Sichuan Province closed in Yibin City. For three days of competition, there were 62 teams from 21 cities (states), provincial departments, and Chongqing City, 377 players from Sichuan Province, and 377 players participated in the competition competition. 233 experts were responsible for the technical work of the competition. 156 Volunteers provide comprehensive services for the competition, and the scale of the event is among the top in the national provincial comprehensive vocational skills competition.

In the end, the Fifth "Sichuan Artisan Cup" Vocational Skills Contest and the first prize of the Vocational Skills Competition of the Sichuan Provincial Technician College were produced 1 first prize, 2 second prizes, and 5 third prizes.

He Liquan from Jiang'an County, Yibin is 47 years old. In the bamboo art project of this competition, he has won the first prize. "One and a half hours of the game, 12 hours, this technology needs patience." After the game, He Liquan introduced his award -winning work to the reporter. This is a bamboo carving about 70 centimeters high. Two birds carved by synthetic bamboo are opposed to the sides of the bamboo carvings.

Talking about the raw materials used in this competition, He Liquan revealed that the bamboo he brought was the remaining corner material when he was decorated with indoor bamboo decoration. It was a pity that it was a pity, so he put it in the warehouse. He Liquan introduced that Yibin is the largest bamboo gene library in the world, and it is also China's largest bamboo, juvenile bamboo, and mixed bamboo growth base. From the selection of bamboo, digging bamboo roots, sawing sections, cleaning, removing bamboo cores, boiling boiling, and other dozens of processes, each raw material used for bamboo carvings has been carefully polished by craftsmen. It is not easy.

He Liquan was named "Bamboo Spirit" to the award -winning work. In his opinion, a boutique bamboo carving not only wants the material and delicate material, but also has clear texture, vivid and natural shapes, and unique ideas. Elegant, profound, accurate, vivid, interesting, and eternal requirements. He Liquan recalled that the inspiration of "Bamboo Spirit" originated from 1 month ago. When he carved a piece of work, he suddenly thought of it. In a early morning bamboo forest, the bird stood on the picture of the branches. "Such artistic conception, vivid and natural, beautiful and harmonious. I painted my mind on the drawing at that time."

It is not accidental to get the first prize of the competition. He Liquan started to learn bamboo carving since he was 12 years old. When it comes to the person who has the deepest impact on himself, he answered his father.

It turned out that He Liquan's father was the representative inheritor of the national intangible cultural heritage "bamboo carvings (Jiang'an bamboo spring)", the master of art and beauty industry in China, and He Huayi, a master of Chinese bamboo crafts. In 2021, He Liquan followed his father to participate in the shooting of the representative inheritance of the National Intangible Cultural Heritage in 2021 in the Sichuan Intangible Cultural Heritage Protection Center.

"Bamboo art is first included in the 'Sichuan Artisan Cup' for the first time this year. The vitality, Jiang'an's bamboo spring craftsmanship is the embodiment of national culture, the precipitation of historical and cultural, and the integration of art and life.

"Inheritance traditions must have innovation, influence others, affect others, and let others like this art. At the same time, inheritance art must also make production, so as to last long."

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