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Carving is a traditional art, which requires extremely fine eyesight and dexterous handicrafts. Whether it is ordinary shells or hidden jade, under the carved knife of craftsmen, it can be transformed into beautiful artworks. Even a nucleus can show incredible beauty after suffering thousands of hits.

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Burmese eggplant carving is the art of micro -carving, which integrates elements such as art, carving, literature, and folk crafts. It is a beautiful and rare artwork. Process.

Gaozhou folk artists use the seeds of a 490 -year -old tree in the west bank of Gaozhou City, the seeds of the Burmese tree tree, which are known as the "Middle -earth Warriors", to make a seal or exquisite crafts. Birds and beasts are meticulous and realistic; the characters in the story are wonderful and lifelike.

For more than 400 years, the Burmese eggplant sculpture crafts are loved by the masses, or they are hanging on the body, decorating, or appreciating, collecting, or gifts to relatives and friends. Burmese eggplant carving art content sources are folks, and they are based on life; its micro -carving knife method comes from the creation of beautiful and comes from the pursuit of art. After the inheritance, reform and development of the past, Myanmar's micro -carving technology has formed a unique style and is unique in Lingnan folk handicrafts.

After the founding of the People's Republic of China, the Burmese eggplant carved developed faster. Its craftsmanship participated in the provincial, national, and international cultural exchanges and exhibitions for dozens of times. In recent years, 13 crafts such as "Five Sheep", "Shouxing" and "Shuanglong Opera Pearl" of Burmese eggplant were collected by the Guangdong Museum.

In 2012, the Burmese eggplant sculpture was included in the fourth batch of provincial intangible cultural heritage project list in Guangdong Province. Liang Yuyi was selected as a representative inheritor of the nuclear carving (Burmese eggplant carving) in Guangdong's intangible cultural heritage project.

Liang Yiyi has specially focused on learning Zhang Wenzi's wet carving methods from the older generation of Burmese eggplant sculpture artists. In continuous research, Liang Yuyi formed his own unique carving art.

▲ Liang Yuyi, representative inheritor of the nuclear carving of the intangible cultural heritage project in Guangdong Province

Liang Yuyi is good at sculpting characters and animals. The laughed Luohan, the Guan Gong of the long knife, the Guanyin of the palm, and the beautiful human body are his classic themes. He is also good at carving "double dragon drama beads" with hollow method and carving dragon films with "rice dots". Because of the delicate knife method and exquisite craftsmanship, each piece of eggplant art created by Liang Yuyi is lifelike and wonderful, and has a collection value. His works are exported to domestic and foreign.

Huazhou Orange Red has precious collection value, and its carving crafts are very precious. It is understood that the processing of Huazhou Orange Red originated from the Qing Dynasty. In the eleventh year of Qing Jiaqing (1806), Lai and Li's orange red gardens began to process the Huazhou orange red. According to Li Jinchang, the old man of Lijiayuan Crafts: At the end of the Qing Dynasty, Huazhou Orange Crafts won the silver award from the Paris Craft Exhibition in France. The processing method is only mastered by a few people, and its development is very slow. Beginning in the 1990s, the process of processing of Huazhou Orange Red has only achieved great development.

▲ Hua Orange Red Crafts

The varieties of production are: bottles, cans, pots, pipes, and other types. The patterns are exquisite and meticulous. In addition, some individual households or factories in Wenlou and Pingding have also produced some orange -red crafts. These crafts have been souvenirs for tourists and gifts to relatives and friends.

Lai Junxin is a representative inheritance of orange -red Chinese medicine culture in Huazhou City, Guangdong. At the age of 16, he began to produce the orange red bottle. His ancestors and father were good at making orange red bottle. The production of the orange red bottle is a process that requires patience and craftsmanship. After picking fruit from August to October each year, use boiling water to kill the green, then remove the flesh, and then fill it in layers with grass and white ash. Use a hemp rope to tie the bottleneck shape and dry it. After the second year, after soaking with water, draw patterns on the bottle, and suppress the shape over and over again with iron sheets. The production of orange bottle takes a lot of energy. Lai Junxin produced a Hua orange bottle for 6 days. In the past, he did three or four hundred people a year. As the age became higher, he had inherited all the craftsmanship to his daughter.

Chen Zhongming is a handicap of Huazhou's orange -red production craftsmanship. His grandfather and father are also orange -red craftsmen. He began to produce Hua red craftsmanship in his 20s. It is, with the efforts of these craftsmanship, Hua Orange Culture can be passed down from generation to generation.

Xinyi Jade carving technology originated from Xinyi Jinyu Town, and has a history of at least more than 160 years. According to the "Xinyi County Chronicle": "In the six years of Qing Xianfeng (1856) in June, heavy rain, Deeliangwei (now Jinye) landslide, jade, green and green, less moisturizing, soil people to make the device."

The first tool materials used by jade carvings were river sand and stone tools. Later, Jintangsha and iron were gradually evolved from the original handicraft industry to semi -mechanized production and developed to the application of electronic ultrasonic equipment. The production process uses a series of new production processes such as drilling, absorbing, digging, and cars, so that Xinyi Jade carving industry has developed to a new level.

Jade carving skills are very tight, mainly including materials, precision and polishing. Select the material, so as to "get materials", and conceive the design of novel and cleverness; refined carving, making reasonable and vivid styling, rigorous structure, delicate carving skills, and good production process; polishing, fully reflecting the sense of layering and texture. After the hard work of artists of all ages, Xinyi jade carving products are richer in products. They mainly include jade carving ornaments. Various listings, pendants, weips, various antique jade and practical utensils, products are exported to Japan, the United States, Canada, etc. Countries and Hong Kong and Macau. In particular, the return of Hong Kong in 1997, using the "smooth sailing" dragon ship made of Nanyu Seiko, was presented to Hong Kong as a permanent commemorative gift as the Guangdong Provincial People's Government.

In 2012, the project was included in the fourth batch of provincial -level intangible cultural heritage representative projects in Guangdong Province. Luke was selected as a representative inheritor of Jade Carving (Xinyi Jade Carving) in Guangdong's Intangible Cultural Heritage Project.

Lukelie makes full use of the unique color, texture, texture, and form of South Jade itself, and constantly try and change the original technique, and slowly explore a set of excellent techniques to show the southern jade sculpture -thin The fetal thin intention relief method. It can not only show the green image of the southern jade, the green image containing the beautiful pattern and pattern, but also make the carving form in the carved tire endless, make it novel, rich and diverse, and greatly improves the appreciation of the artistic appeal and craftsmanship of the work. A unique road to innovation has injected new vitality into Xinyi Jade Carving.

▲ The representative inheritor of the jade carvings of Guangdong Province in Guangdong Province

Best carving skills have a long history. The use of shells can be traced back to 50,000 years ago. In the following development, people began to carve the shells simply, and the craftsmanship of "snail" and "shell stickers" gradually appeared in people's lives. Best sculpture has developed into modern times. Artists have continued to innovate in inheritance, absorbing all families such as jade carvings, wood carvings, and Chinese paintings, and innovating the development of shell carving art.

Bagine is a traditional folk crafts in Guangdong. It is electric in the sea and sea. It is full of seafood and other seafood such as shellfish, snails, mussels, clams. Electric white shellfish artists usually use landscapes, flowers, birds, and characters as the theme to draw pictures, and then select natural shells, use shells of natural color, texture, shape and other shapes, and repeatedly polish on the sand wheels to obtain the shape used. After being carefully made through polishing, stacking, inlaid, etc., it is finally formed. One carving is good, one instrument, one thing, and one thing. For example, stone mussels are mainly used to make goose heads, crane heads, crane wings, cranes, etc.; White mouth snails are like petals, and they are like white peony after polishing; green mouth snails can be used as pine leaves ...

In the early 1990s, it was the heyday of the development of electric white shellfish. These crafts were exported to all parts of the country and exported to Southeast Asia, Europe and the United States. However, in the mid -to -late 1990s, shell sculptures entered the silence of nearly two decades.

In order to inherit and develop the art of electric white shellfish, Mo Shanyu, the person in charge of Yongle Village, Xiandai District, Xiandai District, actively declared the intangible cultural heritage, and re -invested funds in 2019, restored the production of shellfish, expanded the plant, and opened it at the same time. From the online store, promote the culture of electric white shellfish in multi -channel, reproduce the glory of the beautiful shell carving, and create a unique cultural charm of the good city of Shanhaimao.

Text, Tu/Maoming Daily All -Media Reporter Ke Liyun

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Edit: Zhong Zhencong

Preliminary review: Ke Zhuji

Review: Zhu Wujun

Source: Maoming Evening News

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