Meng Fanfei, a non -remaining wood carving artist in Linyi County: interpret the rhyme of craftsmanship with a knife as a pen

Meng Fanfei in creation

Taking wood as a paper, a knife as a pen, the interpretation of the knife tip between the square inch

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Woodcarving is an ancient folk skill in China, an intangible cultural heritage. There is such a handicraft in Linyi County. He uses wood as a paper and a knife as a pen.

At 9 am on June 30th, Meng Fanfei, a non -remaining wood sculptor artist at the Mujia Furnishing Cultural Museum in Linyi County, was focusing on carving the cultural creation "Jiu Da Tian Yan". The prototype of the archway is presented.

Fine practice of hard work, see the real skills

37 -year -old Meng Fanfei is a native of Xinglong Town, Linyi County. It has been engaged in woodcarving for 20 years. When talking about woodcarving, his mouth smiled, and his eyes flashed in his eyes: "I have been interested in woodworking craftsmanship since I was a child, engraved some small wooden guns and small wooden swords as toys, and have special emotions for wood."

In 2002, 17 -year -old Meng Fanfei came to a famous carpentry furniture factory in Langfang City, Hebei Province to learn art. "Learning woodcarving must work hard." Meng Fanfei remembered the master's teachings. Starting from the polishing, the selection of materials, design, carving, repairs of light, polishing ... Every link learns it carefully, and it is common to practice until late at night. Meng Fanfei, who was rewarded by Tiandao, learned the most as soon as possible. It took only 3 months from entry to independent production of finished products.

One year later, Meng Fanfei went to Beijing to improve his skills. There he saw more woodcarving raw materials and came into contact with more advanced design concepts and production processes. During the creation, Meng Fanfei pondered with the heart and followed the characteristics of different wood. According to the subtle changes such as color, texture, structure and other subtle changes, the ax and cut knife method showed the unique aesthetic meaning.

In Beijing's 3 -year calendar, Meng Fanfei's woodcarving skills are more advanced. In 2006, he established the woodcarving studio and participated in the restoration of woodcarving buildings in the Forbidden City, Yonghe Palace, and the old Beijing courtyard.

For Meng Fanfei, the fortune of the cultural relics of the Forbidden City is the most proud of the experience experience. In June 2013, the Palace Museum launched the cultural relics rescue repair project of the collection. Meng Fanfei joined the furniture team with its excellent woodcarving skills to undertake the task of repairing some cultural relics of Cining Palace. "Most of the Forbidden City's clearing furnishings are yellow rosewood and leaflet rosewood. The carving skills represent the highest level of Chinese woodcarving. The difficulty of our repair lies in how to restore its essence and integrated with the original part." Meng Fanfei recalled. To this end, he consulted a lot of information and found the sculpture pattern of the same period for reference. He also asked experts in the industry many times, and finally determined the plan.

Meng Fanfei introduced that the restoration of cultural relics must first determine the style of sculpture and the level of carving, and determine the content and artistic conception that needs to be repaired through comprehensive analysis. After the abdomen draft, choose the same wood as the carvings to supplement. The original traces can be retained as much as possible during repair, and the fine places and rough places must not exceed the original. It is far more difficult to repair a piece of woodcarvan than carving a new work. It requires more patience, imagination and imitation. The real dragon's dragon leader only took half a month to complete it.

Returning to the entrepreneurial culture and creative works

In 2014, Meng Fanfei, who completed the restoration of cultural relics, chose to continue his studies. He went to Nantong City, Jiangsu Province to follow the arts and crafts master Shao Yadong to learn the Silk Sandald Conduct.

Silk Sandalog Condor is a major innovation in the woodcarving industry. It perfectly combines the Chinese painting and the art of woodcarving. At the same time, the exquisite and delicate characteristics of the gongbi Chinese paintings are presented. The state of vivid charm ". Following the master's learning to broaden Meng Fanfei's vision, his works involved many fields such as flowers, birds, landscapes, etc., and also covered elements such as round carving, relief, and lettering.

In 2019, Meng Fanfei returned to his hometown, founded Muyi Trading Co., Ltd., and established the Mujia Furnishing Cultural Museum. He puts on the market for woodcarving products such as the characters, flowers and birds, and handlebars he designed. Because of its delicate and realistic transmission, he is loved by customers.

"Woodcarving originated from life, and only when returning to life and conforming to the times can carry forward the light." Meng Fanfei passed on the technique of woodcarving, keeping up with the pace of the times to innovate, allowing art into life and serving life. He uses the unique locust wood of Linyi as the raw material and the local culture as a carrier to create woodcarving products with local characteristics. Among them, "The Rise of the Cow" is based on the urban landmarks of Linyi County, showing the urban culture in the form of woodcarving, and conveying the meaning of the people's work and simplicity and the changes in the city. The four -fan screen, wooden desktop screen, hanging screens, etc. are based on Xing Ye's calligraphy. Traditional art and home decoration are integrated to show Qilu charm.

In recent years, Meng Fanfei has studied the aesthetic needs of modern people, especially young people, and has launched more than 30 types of home cultural and creative works such as woodcarving paintings, tea trays, fruit plates, and paper boxes. The favors of business are also sold to Italy, the United Kingdom, France and other countries.

With the continuous improvement of skills, Meng Fanfei emerged in the industry. "Dapeng Wings" won the Gold Award of 2012 China (Hangzhou) Arts and Crafts Expo, "Family Huan" won the third prize of the eighth China (Dongyang) Woodcarving Bamboo Crafts Expo. Essence

Promote art to attract more human beings

Meng Fanfei believes that he is a handicraft, and it is valuable to make a piece of wood from sculpting. Despite the popularity of machinery and computer carvings, he still insists on hand -carved. "The biggest difference between hand -crafted carving and computer carving is the knife set. The hand -carved knife is mainly blade knife. The computer carving is mainly rotating knife. With life, he said. Meng Fanfei was enthusiastically spreading woodcarving culture and connected with the Hongyu community of Linpan Street. He regularly went to the community to carry out public welfare activities, taught the children's knowledge, on -site demonstration and production to the children, and designed small woodworking courses such as chopsticks, hair buns, and Luban locks to attract children to participate in production and experience the charm and fun of woodworking skills.

Earlier this year, Meng Fanfei learned that due to the impact of the epidemic, some Linyi handicrafts could not go out to work, local employment, and lack of counterparts. He invested 3.5 million yuan to plan and build a woodcarving research base in Xinglong Town. Base production of traditional woodcarving crafts and wooden home cultural and creative products, direct supply of e -commerce sales, integrating design, research and development, process extension, production and processing, can absorb 45 handicrafts employment employment. The main body of the workshop is currently under construction. It is expected to be enabled in mid -September. Essence

"Woodcarving is the essence of traditional Chinese culture. Non -genetic inheritance needs to consolidate social forces. I hope to gather more professional talents through research and innovation bases to promote the culture of woodcarving together. At the same time More people understand Linyi and Texas through my work. "Meng Fanfei said.

□ Reporter Tang Xiaoying Jiang Wei Sun Geng's Newspaper Correspondent Ren Qingsong

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