The post -80s guy in Shanxi squeezed out the "expression" with mud,

Shanxi Daily New Media Comprehensive Report to grab a handful of soil, put it in his hand, pinch, rub it, and use a wooden visa to sculpt on the mud ball a few times. They are all in line.

Recently, Zhang Rong, a young man in Pingyao County, Jinzhong City, Shanxi Province, became popular on the Internet because of pinching clay sculptures. In his hands, the clay of the ancient city wall roots seemed to be magic and became different. Face.

Zhang Rong is taking care of his works. Xinhua News Agency reporter Wang Jinyu Photo

Zhang Rong is an intangible cultural heritage inheritance of Pingyao Mud sculpture skills. He has squeezed for more than ten years. "I also created many characteristic characters and animal clay sculptures, which is also very popular." Zhang Rong said.

Zhang Rong's clay sculpture for tourists. Interviewee confidence

Zhang Rong was born in a clay sculpture family. "My father is mainly engaged in the work of temple statues. He always depends on him. He can learn more or less." Since childhood, he has enhanced Zhang Rong's artistic heritage.

The ancient city of Pingyao has a history of more than 2,800 years, and this cultural city also enriches Zhang Rong's creative heritage. "There are more than 2,000 paintings of different dynasties in the Shuanglin Temple in Pingyao. The artistic value is very high. I have seen these clay sculptures from an early age to have the opportunity to develop my unique method of pinch plastic." Zhang Rong said.

After years of study and research and the idea of ​​subject matter, Zhang Rong has formed his own unique style in the selection of materials and color matching. "The pinch of the pinch must reflect the character of the character. The exaggerated place is exaggerated. The characteristics of the magnification should be enlarged.

Since 2010, Zhang Rong has pinched portraits for more than 20,000 people. Now it only takes less than half an hour to make a clayman on the spot. In order to better inherit the protective clay sculpture, he also opened a clay sculpture art museum to promote ancient clay sculpture art to tourists. Zhang Rong believes that the combination of clay sculpture and portrait portrait is the inheritance and improvement of traditional clay sculptures. As a non -genetic inheritor, he uses innovation to inject new vitality into this craft.

Zhang Rong's tool for making clay sculptures. Xinhua News Agency reporter Wang Jinyu Photo

In recent years, Zhang Rong has begun to appear on the Internet."On the short video and other platforms, my work has been affirmed by everyone." Zhang Rong said that now I can pinch a face perfectly with only one photo. Although the creation is more difficult, it has given it.More connotations of the clay people.Source: Xinhua News Agency

Edit: Liu Cong

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