Urban non -survivors ③ "run into the market" with life -long leather carving products, so as not to allow non -heritage to "exceed" to "sing"

Elephant Journalist Cold Jiwei/Wen Li Yalin/Picture

【Editor's Note】

Walking in Henan and reading China.

In Henan, in Luoyang, there are many intangible cultural heritage (referred to as non -heritage). These excellent traditional culture not only constitute the profound cultural connotation of the Chinese nation, but also carry the cultural origin and internal cultural genes of the Chinese nation. Non -heritage, born in farming civilization. With the rapid progress of urbanization, some non -heritage is losing the space for inheritance.

What are the status quo of these non -heritage in the process of irreversible urbanization? How do they cope and adapt to this process? In the inevitable trend of urbanization, these non -survivors will naturally become urban people. How to survive and develop non -heritage in the city, how can non -survivors perfectly integrate with the city, take root, and rejuvenate a new life?

To this end, Elephant News and the Protection Association of the Intangible Cultural Heritage Protection of Luoyang City, sorted out the non -survivors of Luoyang, and launched a series of reports "Luoyang Story · Urban Anti -Book", revealing the current situation of urban non -survivors, difficulties, and opportunities. Focusing on the future inheritance and promotion, it is a non -heritage sound and a continuity of culture.

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"You see, the edge of this petal is more fully grinded, is it more full?"

"I think the dyeing of the flower stains is lighter, and it looks more fresh!"

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On July 8th, I walked into the studio in the ancient city scenic area of ​​Luoyang, Luoyang. Early exposure.

"You stand on the bridge to see the scenery, and the people who watch the scenery look at you on the bridge." At this moment, in the eyes of outsiders, the scenes of the two generations of father and daughter's concentration of creation are just a harmonious scroll of non -heritage generation inheritance.

The knife is like a pen, and the wonderful pen on the cowhide "painting"

When it comes to non -legacy, many people will feel strange.

"Popularly speaking, it is carved on the leather. Through tools or squeezing the leather, it is raised or depressed to form patterns and shapes." Zhou Wei explained that usually, the molding of a leather carving product must experience the idea, conceived, and conceived, Drawing, drawing lines, carved knife lines, knocking, coloring, anti -dyeing, hand sewing and other dozens of processes, the process is complicated.

In Zhou Wei's studio, peony, flowers and birds, portraits, portraits and other leather carving products are dazzling. Watch it carefully. These works are smooth, layered, and full of three -dimensional sense.

"The artistic source of leather carving is long, and its artistry is reflected in the details of the picture, and the superb craftsmanship has achieved extraordinary artworks." Zhou Wei said that according to his verification, in my country, leather products first appeared in the Shang and Zhou dynasties. Making saddle and leather armor is military supplies and rough craftsmanship.

Later, in order to enhance the aesthetics, people began to process the leather, carved patterns, dyed bright colors or inlaid gems, jade, and leather carving products gradually evolved to art. Door art.

Zhou Wei's leather carving craftsmanship is the inheritance of his father's mantle.

The leather carving is difficult to dye and use water, just like smelting grasping the heat

Zhou Wei, 50, inherited the leather carving craftsmanship for generations. He is the fifth -generation inheritor.

Creative masterpieces have always been the simple pursuit of craftsmen. Innovation in inheritance will give traditional skills a stronger vitality. Zhou Wei ’s most proud work in the near future is a huge leather carving called" Martial Arts Peony Painting ". It is 2.5 meters long and 1.5 meters wide. It takes more than 3 months from him and his daughter. Pure hand -painted leather carving works are now displayed in the immersive experience hall of Mengtang Pavilion in the ancient city scenic area of ​​Luoyi.

When creating this work, the two made bold innovation in techniques. They used a variety of leather carving techniques such as leather plastic, cowhide staining, and leather stitching. The difficulty of making has doubled.

Zhou Wei introduced that leather carving, dyeing and water are the most critical steps. The color of the cowhide will become darker, and the color difference will occur during dyeing. You need to dye again and again to make the leather fully infiltrate the dye, so that the color can be uniform.

Followed by water. The role of water is to make the leather softened and more convenient to engrave. The leather carvings are used to control the heat like smelting. It is very particular. The water is too much and the carved edges are not round;

"Tedicated craftsmanship is ingenious, which is also the charm of traditional skills." Zhou Wei said frankly.

The life of leather carving products and youthful inheritance can not be "lost" without the tradition

Talking about the inheritance and development of leather carving non -heritage culture, Zhou Wei, executive vice president of the Luoyang Intangible Cultural Heritage Protection Association, is conducting two aspects of exploration: one is the living of leather carving products, and the other is to inherit the youthfulness. Essence

Jiu Xiang is also afraid of deep alleys! In Zhou Wei's opinion, the non -carving non -heritage project requires the public to understand and understand. The living of leather carving products is a daily necessities that use leather carving technology to produce both ornamental and practicality, such as key bags, wallets, card bags, belts, etc., so that they can enter the public consumption vision at low prices and practicality. Improve recognition, "with the market, there is inheritance."

As for the youthfulness, like other non -heritage inheritance, Zhou Wei also targeted the young people. In addition to cultivating his daughter into a inheritor, he had cooperated with a school's special education college in the early years, and gave more than 300 more than 300 schools. The deaf students conduct leather carving technical training. In May of this year, he also cooperated with the immersive cultural tourism project in the ancient city scenic area of ​​Luoyi to integrate non -heritage elements such as leather carving into the "script killing" that young people liked to popularize the non -heritage culture.

Non -heritage into communities, entering schools, and free training of leather carving production skills for the disabled. In recent years, Zhou Wei has not stopped the promotion and inheritance of leather carving skills."Manual is a kind of attitude. Focusing on a belief. Do a good job of making the leather carving project so that more young people like leather carving skills and let more people participate in the inheritance. It is our mission of our inheritance." Zhou WeiSay.

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