Black Tao Xing: The "Song of Mud and Fire" by ingenuity

In the morning in the rain in the summer, Rizhao Old Town raised the wet and wet water vapor. Drive into the depths of Fuyang Road, but in the streets that are surrounded by green, a brick -colored building with "black pottery Xing" inscribed is hidden in it, and the city is noisy, and it is a quiet and simple cultural cave.

This is the first black pottery special museum in China -Rizhao Black Pottery Xing Culture Museum. Pushing in the door, the curator Xing Yantong stepped out of the exhibition hall. Under his guidance, we followed the stairs, and our eyes brushed through the old utensils that could not be counted in the exhibition halls. We could feel the history and waiting of the history thousands of years ago.

For decades, as the representative inheritor of the provincial non -heritage project "Rizhao Black Pottery Burning Skills", Xing Yodong has always piously diven the black mysterious sea area, and strives to build his belief and order about art in his heart. For many years, the "black pottery Xing" from the name of Xing Yantong has gradually been extended by a title to a cultural symbol and sounds through the industry, representing the skills of the pure green furnace of the Rizhao Black Pottery furnace.

"Being black pottery is the return and completion of himself." Speaking of his persistent career, his resolute eyes flashed with crystal tenderness. In the studio on the top floor, he began to talk about the "song and fire" that had always been lingering.

The quenching of mud and fire

Xing Yantong picked up the black pottery clay billet on the case, embedded the carved knife into the pottery body, and carefully carved the texture of the portrait of Confucius. The complicated lines and composition are smooth and smooth as flowing in his hands.

The direction of manipulating lines and the mood of planning has become his daily life. Regarding black pottery, the production skills that have long been familiar with his heart, after decades of study and polishing have become a realm.

"From mud to pottery, it needs to be pulled and repaired, and then more than twenty processes such as leveling, engraving, lighting, drying, and firing. Production process.

After a half -lifetime exploration, he started from each subtle place and gradually became a "all -around artist" who rarely mastered all processes from design to gulf, carving, firing, and other processes. The titles of the "Top Ten Masters of Folk Art in Shandong Province", "Master of Chinese Folk Arts and Arts", "Master of Chinese Pottery Art" and other titles.

I don't know if it is difficult. From the "elementary school apprentice" to today's "black pottery Xing", the hardships are only the people who have tried to know their taste. "For decades, I am obsessed with the world of black pottery in the world of black pottery and strive to explore the development direction of the context of the context of the current era." Worship, study hard, and start bold innovation.

First, it improved the technique of pottery processing, so that the finished product rate of the ceramic body reached more than 90%, and then improved the engraving process. Starting from a single -knife engraving, the double -knife was invented to make the pattern lines smoother and three -dimensional. In terms of firing, the kiln -type single cigarette tube was changed to a three -body smoke tube. Standard black pottery.

Since the childhood, the young artists, Wang Yiyang, Master Black pottery, Kou Weijun, and the director of the bloggers, have also made Xing Yodong's black pottery with strong aesthetic background. He cleverly blends Chinese painting, portrait, calligraphy, painting decoration, etc. with black pottery design, and flexibly uses the perspective relationship and light and shadow changes in modern art creation. Daily life.

In front of a calligraphy work in the exhibition hall on the first floor exhibition hall, Xing Yantong pointed at the inscription of the off -money office and fell into memories: In 1993, his pottery work "Fushou Gourd" won the best work award of the first gift prize in China, the teacher Wang Yiyang immediately wrote the words "Black Pottery Xing" to give him the words "Black Pottery Xing", to show praise, which means the ingenuity of persistence. Since then, the words "Black Tao Xing" have been deeply engraved into his genes.

"It is accompanied by the black pottery for a lifetime, and the most happy moment is the long and embarrassing waiting after the mud sent to the kiln." For Xing Yodong, the happiness of those soil and flames brought about it. Experience throughout your life.

Go to the heart of the heart

Perhaps it is destined to have fate with black pottery. The local masterpiece of Xing Yodong is the famous masterpiece of black pottery art in Hebei Province. Like Rizhao, it is an important birthplace of Longshan culture.

When he was young, he followed his grandmother to learn folk art, and when he grew up, he learned and refined painting. Until he met the teacher Wang Yiyang, he began to enter the world of black pottery and explore a brand new world. Starting from the pottery, Xing Yodong has been supporting and opening up the establishment of pottery factories in Qihe County, Zhangqiu Longshan Town, and other places.

Until 1989, under the recommendation of the teacher Wang Yiyang, Xing Yodong was invited to Rizhao to study the "Black Tao Hollow High -Halfunc Cup Eggshell Pottery" unearthed at the Donghaiyu site. This was the representative utensil of Longshan culture. The industry has shocked the industry, and the characteristics of the Rizhao Black Pottery "black paint, bright as mirror, thin as a paper, sound like porcelain, hard like porcelain" have become the rules of every black pottery artist.

At that time, Xing Yantong did not expect that this occasional city that came by chance would become his hometown of his life, and what retained him was the shock of seeing the black pottery of the eggshell: the instrument of the high -handled shape was dark and shiny It is thinner than the eggshell, only 0.2 mm, and has a hollow pattern engraved on the pottery. Crossing the history of more than 4,000 years, such a peak of ingenuity legend made Xing Yantong can't help shed tears. He finally found the scenery in the heart that he had been looking for. Since then, he started to take root in the sun, build a black pottery art factory, trained a large number of students, and created early masterpieces such as "Eight Immortals" and "Fushou Gourd".

For decades, he has created a few works, but the most memorable thing is the 1.997 -meter -high "Shengshi Dragon Bottle" in the exhibition hall on the first floor.

In 1997, Hong Kong returned. Xing Yantong, 35, specially created a giant black pottery weighing about 200 kilograms, injecting special meanings into the shape of the instrument and pattern: the height of the bottle symbolly symbolized in 1997, the top sphere height was 0.71 meters symbolizing the return day on July 1; It symbolizes the condensation of 56 ethnic groups, and the idea of ​​the entire bottle body reflects the top of China's "dragons" to fly the top of the world.

"It took 7 months to make more than 40,000 mud strips, one by one. With a long time, I have always polished the art fines. This is the ingenuity I understand." Xing Yodong introduced. The following year, the work won the Gold Award of the First China International Folk Art Fair.

Since then, he has gradually developed a masterpiece of "Confucius Bamboo Slip", "Dragon and Phoenix", "Liu Ye Bing" and "Mei Han Sanyou Tu", which are popular in the market. The crystallization of art, coloring light and shadow, coloring fine sand and other modern art craftsmanship have reshaped a solemn and romantic life aesthetics, perfectly interpreting "colorful black".

The way of exploration

"As long as these art aesthetics that followed for thousands of years are still inherited, the veins deep in our hearts will always be beating." Xing Yodong talked about the persistence and worry in his heart in the studio full of paintings and drafts.

As a black pottery of life utensils, its functionality gradually declined with the turbulent wave of modern life. In the context of the times, how to let the black pottery return to the public's horizon and enter the ordinary people's home have always been a subject of Xing Yodong's continuous cultivation.

The Black Tao Xing Culture Museum is his most powerful attempt. "So far, there are more than 30 years of collection in the museum, and there are 1,600 sets of the state's filing of the national collection." Each of all kinds of items, each one is quietly telling the vicissitudes of the historical and cultural changes of black pottery.

In a secluded place in the museum, he also set up a black pottery production laboratory to cooperate with several primary and secondary schools to provide materials, venues, consumables, and public welfare courses for free. The seeds of non -heritage culture are deeply rooted in children's hearts and shaped their fertile spiritual world.

He has always cultivated the backbone of youth as an important direction. Over the years, he has maintained cooperation with Shandong Vocational University of Foreign Languages ​​and Rizhao Technician College, offers the arts and crafts courses in the direction of black pottery, established the Black Tao Master Studio, and conducts part -time professors to train trainees.

Recently, he began to explore the new direction of non -heritage inheritance, and made a "three -year plan" for it -sorting and publishing and publishing "Simple History of Chinese Black Pottery Culture", "Story of Eggshell Pottery", "Black Pottery Style" Pattrophone design "" Professional books such as "Filtering in the industry's blank, and attracting more black pottery artists into the way to the door of art.

On the desktop, the manuscripts of various black vessels are carefully described as thick and thick, and there are 100 scatters. The lines and light and shadow are accurate to the incomplete edges of each pottery, which is amazing. This is the accumulation of Xing Ladong for a year. Numerous nights, he was deeply cultivated in the studio until 3 am, and he painted his eyes with blood and shed tears.

He said: "After decades of black pottery, he inherited the craftsmanship and wisdom thousands of years ago. Nowadays, you want to keep the craftsmanship for another thousand years."

It is his long -term popularity to make more people feel the culture of soil and flames. As the phrase once confirmed in the notebook: the root of the soil, the root of life; the foundation of fire, passion; ; Art, Nirvana. (Rizhao Newspaper All Media Reporter Li Xiaomeng Li Bing, this issue of photographer Li Bing)

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