Haopin Shandong ｜ Introduced by handmade pipa for 25 years, watching how folk artists promote traditional culture

Speaking of the famous pipa songs such as "Yangchun White Snow", "Ten Faces", "High Mountains and Water", I believe that many people are not unfamiliar. Its delicate and tension sounds have become the highlights of ancient Chinese music. "The big strings are noisy like rain, and the string is cut aspiginal; noisy is cut and miscellaneous, big beads and small beads fall into the jade plate." String instruments have been held on the altar. For thousands of years, it has been fascinating.

"If you want to be good, you must first benefit your instrument." There is a pipa that has an elegant appearance and a better audio. There is a "pipa" production artist named Zhao Yanfu in Gaji Town, Donga County, Liaocheng, Shandong. It has been obsessed with the piano for 25 years, saying that he is "hidden in the mountains" because he is not an exaggeration, because in his words, "Some young people in the village are all young people in the village. I don't know if I will do Pipa. "

In 1997, Zhao Yanfu went to work in Beijing for his livelihood. By chance, he met a pipa making handicraft master. At that time, he learned to make pipa while working, starting from the most basic woodworking skills such as sawing wood and planing wood. With a passionate enthusiasm, this learning is 13 years.

"At that time, we were only in the early 20s, and I didn't understand anything when I first came into contact. The professional and professional process of tuning was even more unknown." Recalling the days when I lived in Beijing when I was young, Zhao Yanfu showed a smile on his face. He admitted frankly After seeing a complete pipa production, my heart was quite proud.

In early 2010, Zhao Yanfu took this craft to his hometown and walked into the fields. He was an artist and a farmer. Today, his pipa is loved by many professionals, and nearly 60 works are sold to Xiamen, Guangzhou, Ningbo and other places each year.

In the more than 40 square meters of studios built by Zhao Yanfu, the reporter noticed that all kinds of tools for making pipa are all available, and most of them are hand -made by Zhao Yanfu. "To be lonely to be lonely, you can't rush to achieve achievement. Production to fine polish, tuning, polishing, and hot wax. As an ancient ethnic musical instrument, the pipa production must go through more than 100 processes of large and small.

It is especially important to choose pipa materials. "The harder the wood, the better the sound quality," Zhao Yanfu said that in order to ensure the quality, he will choose a more dense wood, old Tongmu and the old bamboo in the south as raw materials. The material of the pipa back panel will affect the tone. Most of the backboards are selected from saffron, red rosewood, and rosewood.

When assembling, you need to stick the back panels and tung wood boards together, and then stick the prepared piano heads, panels, piano shafts, Yamaguchi, 6 phase, 24 grades, fastening hand, Phoenix table, strings, head flower and other components in turn. In all positions of the back panel, then use the sandpaper with unequal thickness to polish it. After polishing with beeswax, the finished pipa is created.

Today, after years of exploration, Zhao Yanfu has continuously improved and innovated the pipa production technology. "Pipa production is an old craft. Next, we must make bigger and stronger boutiques, inherit this skill, and be a communicator of excellent traditional culture." Zhao Yanfu said.

Source: Poster News

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