Inherited the five generations, do you know the old boatman of Hong Ze?

Knowing Liu Zhaoxiang started with his work. Entering Liu Zhaoxiang Ship Model Studio, at first glance, a ship model was sailing and voycted. Take a closer look at the shape of each ship model: there are lone sails, there are many sails; there are large, small ones; there are transport ships, and fishing boats, exquisite image, Jiangsu Province's intangible cultural heritage wooden boats The inheritance of the production skills is vivid.

The ability is hone by time

Liu Zhaoxiang's ancestor carpenter. In 1905, his great -grandfather moved his family from Weishan Lake to the east bank of Hongze Lake and began to make a living. After generation, one generation was done.

Liu Zhaoxiang, male, born in August 1946, from the Deng code community of Gao Liangyu Street. After graduating from junior high school in 1964, he followed his father Liu Qinbo to learn agricultural and fishing gear and wooden boat manufacturing skills. For more than 50 years, Liu Zhaoxiang has worked in enterprises such as Laozi Mountain Agricultural Tidial Factory, Gao Liangyu Shipbuilding Factory, Hongze County Agricultural and Fishing Gear Factory.

Liu Zhaoxiang diligently learned, worked hard, and continued to grow in technology and experience. He said: Shipbuilding is scientific and regular. Generally, the width does not exceed a quarter of the length, the height does not exceed one tenth of the length, and the arc cannot be less than 50 cm. Many ships have a lot to do with unscientific hull design and irrational hull design.

The demand is the best teacher. Liu Zhaoxiang can build whatever the ship you want according to the needs of the customer. For example, when a rotary net ship, he will consider that the people on the Saxuan.com have a good stability standing on the ship. When building a ship, he will consider the hulls to be small and fast, and the passenger ship must consider factors such as high buoyancy, fast speed, and strong wind resistance. He has manufactured more than ten types of fishing boats such as large net boats, jumping boats, hook boats, old crow boats, guns, shot boats, rotary boats, and rotary net boats, and complex wooden ships, large transportation rebar, etc.

Liu Zhaoxiang is the preaching of the ancestral carpenter's craftsman, and is famous in the local carpenter circle. On weekdays, whether it is a local carpenter or a folk, he calls him "Master Liu" when he sees him.

More than thirty processes are required to make ship models

The times are developing, science and technology are progressing, and people's lives are changing. Those rotten and damaged wooden boats have been replaced by cement ships, steel boats, etc. Liu Zhaoxiang did not want to give up his craftsmanship and did not want to let himself be idle. He rented a house of about 20 square meters in the former Hongze County Textile Machinery Plant as his own ship model studio and continued to adhere to the traditional skills.

A ship model is placed by the studio wall. Looking closely, the workmanship of the ship model is extremely sophisticated. All the masts, sails, rudder, cabin, etc. are delicate and delicate. As large as the wheels on the sail, the small as small as the mast, it is made strictly in proportion.

Before the production, Liu Zhaoxiang had painted drawings in his heart. The best selection of materials was cypress, but this kind of wood was more precious. The local shipbuilding selection was mostly mulberry, locust trees, and elm tree.

From the beginning to the final completion, generally experience more than 30 processes, hundreds of parts and components, need to cut, combine, correct, polish, and paint. It took more than a month to complete.

It is such a spirit of craftsmen that Liu Zhaoxiang's ship models have been recognized by experts and outside world in terms of craftsmanship and form. He has brought his works many times to participate in the display of intangible cultural heritage works in the provincial, municipal, and districts. In September 2010, he was awarded "Jiangsu Provincial Department of Culture of Jiangsu Province in Jiangsu Province's Intangible Cultural Heritage Traditional Wood Ship Production Skills".

The show is not only craftsman, but also happy

The ordinary world contains rich treasures, and one side can also become magical. Life has become delicate and warm because of craftsmanship.

Liu Zhaoxiang said: Choosing a carpenter has no regrets in his life, and happiness is endless. Within a day, the studio turns around and does not work hard. There are no troubles when you get the plane, chisel, and the saw, all of them are happy and enjoyable.

In June 2019, he entered the classroom of Huaiyin Middle School, Jiangsu Province as an intangible cultural inheritor, and explained the experience, skills and fun of becoming a craftsman for students and teachers. Huaiyin Middle School of Jiangsu Province collects four traditional wooden boat crafts produced by him.

In 2012 and 2019 CCTV's "Traveling to China" and "Far House" column group team came to shoot related TV films. In May 2022, Zhejiang Satellite TV also came to Hongze's ship model studio for shooting.

Under the influence of the elderly, all his three sons will make ship models. The grandson graduated from the Department of Civil Engineering of the University of University. Now a company in Nanjing goes to work. In order to make the traditional wooden boat production skills inheritance, Liu Zhaoxiang plans to write two books "Hongze Lake Wooden Boat Manufacturing Technology" and "Dahu Yangfan". At present, the first book manuscript has been published, and the second book is being written. He hopes that the wooden boat manufacturing skills will continue. Let the younger generations know that the vast smoke Hongze Lake had a beautiful figure of Bai Fan thousands of years.

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