The flowers of life blooming splendid

In the early spring, the rain and fog were covered, as if wearing a mysterious veil for the beautiful West Lake. At a dock in Yanggongdi, my classmates and I took a flat boat to the quiet lake and immersed in the charming lake and mountains.

Through the dense cluster reed, the boat arrived at Maojiabu. Ascending to the pier, I stopped to appreciate the couplet of the archway: Duhu Haijiang River ascended the shore of the Buddha; In ancient times, the foreigners went to Lingyin Temple through the water road to the incense, and there were abandoned boats ashore. This is the only way to go to the famous temples of the ancient temples of Tianzhu, so it is called "Shangxiang Ancient Road".

I walk on the ancient lake. Seeing the wall of the white fence in a courtyard is embedded with a beautiful Lishu carved stone carved stone "the old site of the metropolis silk weaving factory", which aroused my curiosity. Ten steps forward, see the five characters of "Du Jin Sheng's former Residence" on the lintel beam. Who is Du Jinsheng? I want to explore it. This old house embraced by the West Lake is a typical Jiangnan courtyard. The antique wooden structure tile house is full of traditional culture. The courtyard was divided into two small courtyards by partition walls, exquisite and colorful. There are Metropolis Memorial Hall, ancestral house, display room, workshop. In front of the main courtyard memorial hall, a bronze statue of the capital is erected, with a clear face, a suit and leather shing, wearing a pair of glasses, a coat of the left forearm, and holding the silk weaving manufacturing trademark designed by himself in his right hand. The statue is elegant and handsome. Behind the bronze statue, there is a tall pine and a green green bamboo. Earlier, I was unfamiliar with Du Jinsheng. After admiring his former residence, the admiration of the owner was born.

△ Dujin Sheng's former residence

Du Jinsheng, born in Maojiabu in February 1898. The name that his father gave him him became the career he pursued his life. During his period of studying at the Department of Overseas Caishan, Zhejiang Province (predecessor of Zhejiang University of Technology), he promoted the revitalization of the revitalization of the national industry. Essence Du Jinsheng loves photography and likes to take pictures of many attractions on West Lake. His footprints on the mountains and rivers of the lake. One day in late autumn, he came to Jiuxi Yanshu to play. Shuotou, camphor, red maple, tea gardens, streams, overlapping views, and clear colors, it seems to be a natural landscape painting with ink. Du Jinsheng pressed the shutter, and Jiuxi's beauty was fulfilled. When he returned home, he appreciated these beautiful pictures, inspired, chose a landscape photo that best represented Jiuxi, and conceived a brocade of the landscape. First draw the artisan map, and then rolled the flower version of the school experimental workshop. With unique creative methods, it integrates the artistic conception of ancient landscape painting, and woven it on the knitting machine with real silk. The first test was successful, and the world's first landscape brocade "Jiu Xi Eighteen" was born, which can be called a milestone in the history of modern silk technology. That year, Du Jinsheng was only 22 years old. I don't know if it is an impulse or confidence. He decided to resign from the school's faculty and founded the silk weaving factory. This move was supported by parents, so he started to buy the Silk handle machine and hire workers. On May 15, 1922, the "Du Jinsheng Silk Weaving Factory" was listed on Maojiabu. The city court is full of novel and unique silk landscape paintings on the wall. Visitors and Fragiles are racing to buy. At the same time, the prosperity of the ancient road was added. Du Jinsheng seized business opportunities, focused on corporate operations, and developed new techniques and new varieties. In addition to characters and landscapes, daily necessities, such as table blankets, bed masks, headscarves, shawls, etc., the business is getting stronger and more prosperous. Therefore, he used an open space in his home to expand the plant. Elected a new site, build new factories in Gengshan Gate in Hangzhou, and expand enterprises. There are also business departments in Hangzhou's most lively Huashi Street and other places to expand the market.

Most of the real silk brocade created by Du Jinsheng is mostly the main body of the West Lake's victory, such as "Santan Yinyue", "Quyuan Fenghe", "Pinghu Autumn Moon", "Leifeng True Trace", "Qianjiang Liuhe Tower", "West Lake Panorama", etc. Taking ancient Chinese painting or photography as a powder book, through the real silk as the classic and weft lines, it perfectly expresses the water and mountains, the fog and rainy, and reflects the artistic effect of Chinese ink painting. According to Tang Yin's "Gong Fei Night Tour Map", the brocade is weaving. The images are realistic, the color is strong, and the characters are lifelike. This work participated in the World Exhibition held in Philadelphia, USA in 1926, and won the gold award, which made China's brocade art in China and foreign countries. In 1929, Dujin Sheng's brocade craftsmanship participated in the first West Lake Expo and won special prizes. The "West Lake Expo Bridge" weaving brocade artisan map, art reproduces the grand occasion of the expo.

After more than ten years of hard work, the Dujin Shengsi weaving factories have developed rapidly, and the business houses opened all over Shanghai, Nanjing, Hankou, Peiping, Guangzhou, Hong Kong and other cities. The products are exported to Southeast Asia, Europe and the United States and other places. Its federal brocade has become a wonderful work in Chinese crafts and is known as the "flower of Oriental Art". However, the good times did not last long. Japan launched a comprehensive war of aggression in China. The Japanese army bombed Hangzhou. The silk weaving factory was forced to stop working. Some machinery moved to the French Concession in Shanghai to maintain small -scale production. In December 1937, Hangzhou fell. Du Jinsheng is famous for his brocade brand and has two experiences of crossing Japan twice. The Japanese invited them as pseudo -positions to play for the pseudo -government. Du Jinsheng heard it, and temporarily avoided Tianzhu Temple. When his brother took a newspaper with a list of pseudo -government members, he did among them. In his anger, he immediately burned the newspaper, and then moved his family to move to Shanghai. Then, the factories and equipment in Hangzhou were burned by the Japanese army. In 1941, the Japanese army occupied the Shanghai Concession, and the Silk weaving factories in Shanghai closed down. In addition, the stores in Chongqing, Guangzhou and other places were also blown up by Japanese planes. Seeing the hard -working enterprises, once they were destroyed, Du Jinsheng had a sad and angry intersection. An industrial superstar just raised instantly. In the old China, the old China, the weak ethnic industry could not stand the torture of internal and external problems, and the Silk weaving factory of Du Jinsheng gradually shrinks in the late Republic of China, and the illness is in the cream. Until the founding of New China, with the support of the country and the local government, Nirvana was reborn. In the 1950s, Premier Zhou Enlai visited the Silk Weaving Factory three times, instructing: "Dujin Shengjin is a national treasure, and people must be retained. Weaving craft production base. The magnificent, graceful and luxurious silk weaving crafts and real silk satin are deeply favored by guests at home and abroad. Its factory name was awarded the "Chinese old name" by the state. In the early days of the founding of the People's Republic of China, he undertook the design of the brocade portrait "Marshal Stalin" and was visited by Chairman Mao Zedong as the Soviet Union as the national ceremony. According to the brocade created by the Southern Song Dynasty painter Zhao Yan's "Jiangshan Wanli", it became the first large -scale landscape weaving craft in history, and is now treasured in the Dujin Shengjin Museum.

△ West Lake Lotus

Du Jinsheng was born for splendid. From a person's name to a factory name, he eventually became the "business card" of a city. How many legends and glory are hidden in his life, blood and tears and sadness. The brocade art that condensed Du Jinsheng's life -long heart was not ended because of the end of his life. The silk road is long and beautiful. Du Jinsheng uses the colorful brilliance of life, which is even more gorgeous and never faded. I feel improvised poems, praise:

Spring silkworms are spit on silver silk, and the rainy flowers are splendid.

The thieves were unhappy, and the volunteer festival praised the old.

The industry's saving spirit is not paid, and future generations continue to continue the new score.

The splendid and gorgeous blooming, the Chinese craftsmanship worldwide. (Text/Wan Xingkun "Green China" 2022.5B)

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