"Carved" a good life between the squares -visiting Gansu Arts and Crafts Master Ruan Xiyue

Biography

Ruan Xiyue, a master of arts and crafts in Gansu Province, senior arts and craftsman, director of Gansu Arts and Crafts Association. Ruan's Gourd Art Museum, one of the fourth generation of Ruan's art. On behalf of the Lanzhou Provincial Non -Heritage Project Sculpture Gourd, he participated in the 2010 Shanghai World Expo and the 2019 Shanghai Expo and other places.

The work "Fishing Cold River Snow", "Drunk", "Drunk" and "Little Flowers" won the first prize and second prize of the 12th and 14th Gansu Provincial Arts and Crafts "Hundred Flowers Awards". The "Baihua Cup" bronze award, the work "Hexi Memory" won the gold medal of the Chinese Arts and Crafts Exhibition "Baihua Cup". The development of carved gourd derivatives to win the "first prize" at the Lanzhou Cultural Tourism Featured Commodity Competition.

Ruan Xiyue is the fourth generation of Ruan's micro -carved gourd art. Now she is both a craftsman and a guardian. Under the careful carving of stitches and knives, the craftsman created a variety of works with both traditions and current heritage, and also left many treasures that people worthy of treasures.

Gourd has a long history in our country, and it is close to "Fulu". People usually treat it as a mascot, called "auspicious gourd". Speaking of Lanzhou carved gourd, Master Ruan Wenhui is leading. In fact, in the history of Lanzhou, it was almost until the Qing Dynasty that there was a clear historical record about carved gourds. At that time, there was a talented talent named Li Wenzhai. For the first time, he contacted the carved gourd in Lanzhou, and then slowly continued it. Later, Mr. Ruan Guangyu (Ruan Wenhui's father) was inherited by Ruan's carved gourd, and he carried forward the carved gourd skills and let the traditional craftsman of the carved gourd ascended to the elegant hall.

Ruan Xiyue is Ruan Wenhui's granddaughter. Although she was influenced by family art literacy since she was a child, she did not systematically learn arts and crafts systematically.

"My mother thinks that the road to the artist is very difficult and niche, so I still insist on letting me complete my studies. I studied English in the university." Ruan Xi also smiled and told reporters: "After graduating from college, I Become a interpreter of the exhibition of the Intangible Cultural Heritage Heritage Museum in Lanzhou City. I was fortunate to understand the characteristics of many non -heritage culture and the local folk culture of Lanzhou. As a part of the family, he has the responsibility and responsibility to inherit the craftsmanship of the family nearly a century, and spread it in a new way. "

As a result, Ruan Xiyue took the mantle of the family from her mother Ruan Lin, and started her own inheritance of her art after work day after day.

"After art, I was pleased to discover that the accumulation of cultural knowledge and literacy in college has given me a broader and deep understanding in the process of learning skills, and then I have given me a new definition to traditional culture from the deep inside. "She said:" Make full -time craftsmen will inevitably breed utilitarian hearts, and it is easy to have paranoid paranoid. Part -time jobs always hold a "playing ticket" mentality, which ensures that daily life is in daily life Learn to figure out that you can calm down, and even look at this art inheritance while exploring, so that you can always maintain a sense of freshness of 'one period, one time ", and the thinking will be more open. At the same time, it is not the first pursuit of material foundation. My own creation will be more pure. Therefore, after graduating from college, I will return to the family career, but it is a re -hematopoietic and re -interpretation of old craftsmanship. "

The carving gourd is a kind of detailed work, and it is quite time to work. In this regard, Ruan Xiyue was also deeply touched.

"Shouyi is persistence, and the precipitation of time and experience." She sincerely told reporters: "Inheritance is continuing, it is a skillful innovation of skills. Non -heritage, with a filter with a "time to move", so inherited the handicraft to overcome the limitations, and keeping the tradition while continuously seeking integration and development is the correct path. Integration is to allow traditional handicrafts to enter contemporary life. Only this is like this. The inheritance, integration, and development are health and ecology. The carved gourd as a traditional craft must be from the people and then serve the people. Dual attributes. "

In recent years, Ruan Xiyue has accumulated a lot of experience through opening the non -remaining body of the carved gourd. Since 2016, she has worked with research institutions, travel agencies, corporate salons, unions, and many primary and secondary schools to complete the inspection of hundreds of carved gourds, and successfully used a "Meng Meng Da" The exquisite gourd opened the door to traditional Chinese culture, so that all viewers can get close to the beauty of Chinese tradition in the process of feeling the creation of gourds.

She believes: "Carving gourd is not just a craft, it is a process of divergent fields and levels that use carved gourd as the original point to the beauty of the traditional beauty, which also includes traditional cultural and art projects such as calligraphy, art, Chinese studies, folk customs, etc. It is a complete cultural system. Carving gourd is more like a window, which has opened a new dimension for myself. "

"My grandfather Ruan Wenhui is not just a craftsman, but a cultural scholar with a heart of red." Ruan Xiyue said with emotion: "His old man taught me not only craftsmanship, but also character, cultivation, and cultivation. Being a man, in his teachings, can only become an artist based on art -oriented and virtue as the first, just like those gourds, and the belly is capable. Each one shows the gentleman's style. "" And My mother can be regarded as a literary youth when she was young, and she taught me to invest and focus on the road of art. "She said:" From her, I learned about education, wind bones, fun, and patience, so that letting me make it, so that letting me make it. I can settle my heart more properly. Moreover, the process of art is the process of nourishing my life and borrowing things. It is the process of giving my works that have human temperature and soul. "

At the end of the conversation, Ruan Xiyue told reporters: "The development of related cultural and creative products can not only empower non -heritage, but also allow non -heritage to better serve the current life and cater to the aesthetic needs of more young people. Gourd tea cans, storage, sachets, and gourd inlaid bronze mirrors, gourd jewelry bracelets, etc., which have been developed, have been unanimously recognized by post -80s and post -90s. It is also the new force of Lanzhou carved gourd. Be sure to inherit the treasures of the Lanzhou farther and longer. "(Lanzhou Daily)

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