Jinhua Tuotao non -herediter: 800 ° C beside the fire next to the fire to adhere to traditional skills

Zhejiang News Customer Reporter Zhu Zheping Pan Qiuya Paidou Friends Yang Meiqing

"Open the kiln!" At 6 am on July 14th, next to a dirt kiln in Qiyao Village, Xipu Town, Jindong District, Jinhua City, 58 -year -old Song Kaiyou shouted, carefully smashed the kiln door, and a hot air fluttered. Come.

"At present, the temperature in the kiln is still 80 ° C, which is very hot." With the heat, Song Kaiyou drilled into the earth kiln and began to move the soil pottery to make it. A pottery weighed 50 pounds and in less than 3 minutes.

The ancient kiln culture of Qipu Village, Xipu Town can be traced back to the Ming Dynasty. It has a history of more than 600 years. So far, many handicrafts have adhered to the traditional craft kiln skills. Song Kaiyou has been studying ancient kiln at the age of 17. He has been more than 40 years. He is also a non -hereditor in the production technology of Tuotao production skills in Jindong District.

Summer is the good time of the ancient method. Ancient method to make a soil pottery, which requires multiple procedures such as soil, stirring, making blank, molding, air -dried, and firing. It takes at least one week to half a month from production to finished products. Song Kaiyou's Tuotao is mainly used for the furnace core of the oven. In addition to selling locally, in recent years, he has also gone abroad and exported to several countries such as Europe, America, Southeast Asia.

In the hot summer, the hardest is the kiln stage. The temperature in the kiln is as high as 800 ° C and it takes about 24 hours. Song Kaiyou insisted on the earth kiln. He needed to add firewood from time to time to check whether the temperature was normal and dare not be sloppy. The surrounding area of ​​the kiln was as high as 50 ° C. His clothes were wet, dry, wet and dry, and covered with salt flowers. Drinking water all day long, the old -fashioned home hot water bottle, he had to drink at least 10 bottles of water a day, and often felt dry mouth.

At high temperatures, the kiln is much harder than usual. From the hot kiln, move the pottery out, and then load the car. 60 furnaces are only 3,000 catties, which is very physical.

After the furnace kiln, Song Kaiyou could not wipe the sweat, so he checked the pottery with the merchants who had already waited for the pick -up on the side of the road. "Quality, we are very satisfied." When he heard the affirmation of the merchant, Song Kaiyou wiped his sweat, and a thick face appeared on his thick face: "The hard work in the past half a month is not in vain."

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