Cross the armor of the armor

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In the past, hoop buckets were considered as high technical technology. Today, it is difficult for the hoop barrels to find. On September 18th, the author saw a bucket master in a small house on the southern end of the public toilet in the southern end of the city Xinjie Street, Hushan Street, Jiangshan City.

The master named Zheng Chongzheng was 78 years old.

Carefully "hoop" Xintiandi

Zheng Chongzheng ranked fourth in his brothers and sisters. When I was a child, because of my bad health, my parents worried that he could not eat and work hard when he grew up. He asked him to learn a craft. At the age of 18, Zheng Chongzheng went to Fenglin Town to learn the bucket with a bucket master.

In the three -year apprenticeship career, Zheng Chongzheng learned hard. Under the master's teaching, he not only learned the technology of hoop barrels, but also learned the principles of honesty and trustworthiness.

After learning the hoop barrel, Zheng Chongzheng was a little worried about whether he could be alone. After trying to hoop a pair of wooden barrels at home, Zheng Chongzheng realized that the key point of the hoop wooden barrel lies in the "joint". He first divided the wood chip into the style required by the wooden chip with a saw and planer, and then put the bamboo nail on both ends of the wooden board. After the stitching was completed, then the edge was repaired with a planer. When making a wooden barrel, it is just right to loosen, so that the wood chips can be strictly sewed.

Under the introduction of a cousin, Zheng Chongzheng arrived at the then Dachen Commune of Jiangshan County, the Luxuwu Natural Village Bangbang Gangbang, and could only put a large wooden barrel with more than 50 kilograms of feces. In order to test the quality of the barrel, the day of his completion, the barrel was put into use. The quality of the barrel was good, and the captain of the production team was very satisfied. He asked him to continue to hoop a few barrels in the production team. The surrounding production team also heard the news, and Zheng Chongzheng's hoop market opened.

After 60 years of tempering, Zheng Chongzheng said that the thickness of the wooden pieces and the hug are tight.

Expect someone to inherit

"I love this business, and the farmhouse invited me to do less, and I went to rent a house in Jiangshan City." Zheng Chongzheng said that since the early 1990s, there are more and more plastic products and metal products on the market. Most of the hoopters changed their way out, but he was reluctant to let go of this skill.

In 1994, Zheng Chongzheng rented a house on the side of the Dongmen Bridge in Jiangshan City and started to enter the city hoop barrel. "At that time, there were many new hotels. It was best to sell meals. Zheng Chongzheng recalled that he was often busy until late at that time, and he could have one or two hundred yuan in income a day.

"Now the business is light, but my hoop bucket is not just to make money." Zheng Chongzheng said that he had a funding of farmers who lost land, his wife had retirement salary, and their lives were worry -free, but he liked the hoop barrels and did what he liked. , Life is more fulfilling.

In 2016, Dongmen Bridge was demolished, and the relevant departments set up Zheng Chongzheng in a small house in Shixin Street. What he now does is to repair meals, foot washing barrels and other utensils.

"I hope that society can pay attention to our veteran artists, and don't let the ancestors inherit the craftsmanship in our generation." Zheng Chongzheng hoped that the government could introduce some policies to inherit these old craftsmanship. He was also willing to contribute his own power for this.

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