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reporter Chen Jianwei photography report
farm busy season, father and son also go to village string village to hit iron
March 6th, Zhang Qiuxiang Gong Zhuang village village village old blacksmith Niu Qisheng As soon as he got home, he called his son to make a fire and hammer. After this gathering, many neighbourhood neighbors let him play some farm tools, and have not received such orders for a long time. He had to hurry up to let everyone work, and the crops in the spring did not wait for others. Niu Qisheng is 67 years old and has been following his father since he was 14 years old. Zhangqiu blacksmith has a long history and is well known throughout the country. It once built the first machine gun in Shandong during the war of resistance against Japan, which effectively supported the war of resistance against Japan at that time. Niu Qisheng's father once made a rifle for the Eight Route Army on the front line of Jiaodong.
old bull is clever and ingenious and loves to study. Many complicated farm implements can be produced. He played the "ox slug hoe", sharp and brisk, and could hoe two mu of land all morning. The four pieces of falcons, spades, pouted and hoe are twice as expensive as others. Niu Dawei, son of natural strength, began learning iron from the age of 16, followed by his father to follow the village in the countryside, so far nearly 20 years "iron age." After the father and son joined hands, they fought all over the big village alleys and crossed dozens of miles along the coast of the Yellow River. But with the growing mechanization of agriculture, father and son gradually found that no matter how hard, how good and how high the quality of the two, the sales of farm tools are less than one day. The old bull began to fall into confusion.
Niu Dawei, the son of his son, has not been confused. He has been thinking and groping for innovation, and gradually from building farm implements to working arts and crafts, and successively the iron sword, iron tripod, iron incense furnace and other iron crafts such as shovel, rake, iron mill, iron windlass and so on. The efforts of the calf have been achieved, and there have been a mountain craft and the teachers and students of Tsinghua University. He came to customize his "Dawei iron art", and at the same time, a large number of fans who liked collecting "village memories" began to collect his iron art. The Mavericks also used the Internet to publicize Zhangqiu blacksmiths on the Internet and promote their brands. Gradually, "Dawei iron art" has a certain influence on the Internet. Not long ago, the "Zhangqiu blacksmith" also successfully selected the second batch of intangible cultural heritage list in Shandong province. The calf is looking forward to the future. He will carry forward the declining Zhangqiu blacksmith.
son Niu Dawei drawing, developing new product
father and son's hand