Chinese Dream practitioner -Jin Yongcai's craftsman's pursuit

Author:Kunming Federation of Trade Un Time:2022.07.15

Bronze and silver are traditional Chinese copper crafts unique to Yunnan, which originated from Shiping County, Yunnan. It uses copper as a tire, carves various patterns on the tire, and then fills the melted silver water into the pattern. It shows the black and white decorative effect, antique, elegant and unique. It was once named Jingtai Lan in Beijing, and it was also called "the world's bronze skills." Jin Yongcai is the sixth generation inheritor of Wu Tongyin.

Jin Yongcai, male, Han nationality, was born in 1953, from Xiaobanqiao, Guandu District, Kunming, Yunnan. At the same time, he is also a member of the China Arts and Crafts Association, a member of the China Arts and Crafts Society, Executive Vice President of the Yunnan Arts and Crafts Industry Association, "Special Expert" of the School of Design of Yunnan Academy of Arts, visiting professors from the School of Arts of Yunnan University for Arts Director of the Cultural Heritage Protection Association and the founder of the "Jin Li Ji" brand.

Jin Yongcai has loved art from an early age, and has a soft spot for antiques. After 40 years of hard work, he has been proficient in the production of black copper and silver production technology. He has also created more than a hundred pieces of black copper silver crafts, and has been awarded the title of "Master of Arts and Crafts in Yunnan" and a title of "Senior Arts and Craftsman".

Wu Tong's silver technology originated from the accidental inspiration of Yue Fu, a craftsman Yue Fu in Shiping County, Yunnan, Yunnan. The series of opportunities coincides with Li Jiaru, the master of Jin Yongcai. Jin Yongcai began to study with Li Jiaru in the 1970s, and officially worshiped Li Jiaru as a teacher in 1982 to learn the production technology of Wu Tongyin.

The technology of Wu Tong's silver is very complicated. It can be called "the fierce fire melted gold and square bones, and you can go to the silver." First of all, you must use high -quality copper and a certain percentage of gold and pure silver to mix more than ten other precious metals. Bronze alloys are made of alloys into black copper sheets of different thickness by forging, crushing, etc. After designing and cutting materials, the pattern patterns or text required on the black bronze tablets should be described on the black copper tablet. The lines should be smooth, and then various patterns are carved with tweezers. The depth of the engraving depends on the thickness of the black copper tablet. The next silver is the best place for the black copper and silver process. The black copper and silver are filled with pure silver psorcoscopic or pure gold dander in the pattern to "walk" full. After high temperature treatment, psorians or gold dandruff and black copper are naturally melted into one, and then more than ten procedures such as cooling, polishing, polishing, and covering black, and finally become a black and white, copper -like black copper Take silver art.

Jin Yongcai was not upset after the unique skills of the black copper and silver, and always focused on the protection and inheritance and innovative development of Wu Tongyin, which greatly enhanced the popularity of Wu Tongyin.

At the age of 22, I was in contact with the silverware. As of nearly 70 this year, Jin Yongcai founded the first Urban Silver Skills Training Museum in Yunnan Province, with more than 500 sets of works, mainly Fang Ding, incense burner, vase, wine, tea, four treasures in the art room, etc. Essence The work "Five Blessing Holding Shou Ding" and "Fushou Wanzai Bottle" and other national gold, silver and bronze prizes have been won. In 2010, he was awarded the title of "Kunming Intangible Cultural Heritage inheritance" and the title of "Yunnan Arts and Crafts Master"; in 2011, the work "Five Blessings and Shoushou Walking Silver Ding" won the Fifth "Gongmei Cup" of the Yunnan Arts and Crafts Association. Master's Boutique Gold Award and China Arts and Crafts Association "Sky Craft Garden · Baihua Cup" gold award.

Inheritance is endless, the kiln is endless, and the craftsman's spirit is hidden in the sound of dumplings daily.

Except for the identity of the craftsman, Jin Yongcai is also a good master. His apprentices commented on him: "The master is very serious at work, and it is not good for one millimeter (production), but after get off work, he is as amiable as a grandfather." We are expensive, (we) have broken many times, but the master always tells us that we must be patient, slower "" "A day as a father for a day, the master is like a father for us."

"The spirit of the craftsman is meticulous and excellence. In my life, I have grown deeply with the banks of black copper. Now my work is getting less and less, but each one has precipitated the thickness of my life. Bronze and silver can allow future generations to understand our behavior and understand the history of Southwest cultural history. Records are the mission of craftsmen. "This is Jin Yongcai's evaluation and expectation of himself.