source: Qilu Evening News reporter Wang Guangying Zhou Qing first
Liu Yuchao was absorbed in making face plastic work.
"post-80s" and computer professionals, many people think that this should be an office white-collar, but Liu Yuchao has become a small celebrity dough master. In order to realize the dream of childhood, he became the provincial capital of a few face plastic inheritors, still inherit the old generation of artisans on the basis of the new elements, the production of the life of the star is more famous overseas.
watching others knead a face to ignite childhood dream "snake entangled rabbit, generation generation rich, snake year must be lucky." Recently, in the Ji'nan folk art museum, Liu Yuchao is concentrating on his own work, and his face is full of fear and reverence from his childhood. The jade rabbit is very majestic, and the snake snake rabbit's mascot has become a hot commodity.
for most of the "post-80s", dough figurines are only memories, but Liu Yuchao, who was born in 1983, has made a great difference in this skill. He majored in computer science, and from rigid programming to imaginative modeling, the crossover was incredible.
"others may not understand, but this is a dream I love to do, and I must realize it." Liu Yuchao said that when he was young, he lived near the wall of Baotu Spring, where he was full of street and street pick up artisans. In the hands of the face of the face of the face of the face of the plastic, a piece of face turned out to be a variety of characters, which made him feel so amazing that he often saved some toothpaste to change and tried to pinch the face.
in 2002, Liu Yuchao entered a computer major in a university. Although he was in touch with the popular specialty at that time, Liu Yu Chao never gave up the hobby of the opposite plastic. When he was a sophomore in his sophomore year, he met a craftsman who used to knead his face, and spent the whole day watching it.
heard that the Ji'nan folk art gallery has a dough figurine, and Liu Yuchao went forward to "rush to" and learn from Deng Junqiu, Wei Shanhua and other older generation. After graduating in 2005, Liu Yuchao formally joined the Ji'nan folk art museum, which came into contact with more facet artists and Chinese facet and soup masters, and became a pro - disciple of Dong Fengqi, the second generation of the national intangible cultural heritage soup facet.
a pinch is a day's fingers become stiff. "Like is one thing, really engaged in this line, only to realize the hardships inside." Liu Yuchao said that when he was a beginner, he usually asked students to choose to learn.
himself is a pig. Liu Yuchao began to learn to knead piglets. "The master leads the door and practices in the individual". In order to make the pig's dough figurines well, he teaches himself to draw the outline and design the shapes. Later, these works were taken place by a lover from Taiwan.
"the most difficult thing to do is to be a birthday star. Just learning the stage, I did more than 1000." Liu Yuchao told reporters that each dough man must have his own skills. He set the main goal on the birthday star. After the teacher's advice, he began a long hard work. The birthday star did not satisfy, kneaded dough to do it again, sometimes it was a day before he did it, and his fingers were stiff at night.
after making thousands of birthday stars, Liu Yuchao finally felt a little bit more and more smoothly. The reporter saw that he pinched most of the longevity stars between 10 and 30 centimeters, the biggest was 1 meters tall, and the production cycle lasted for one year. Old Shou Xing was wearing a yellow robe, holding crutches and holding flat peaches, which was very vivid.
"this technology can not be passed down, but also has to go abroad to enable foreigners to understand Chinese folklore." Shou Xing is Liu Yuchao's creative feature, and the price is not bad. The production cycle of the general specifications is two or three weeks, and the selling price is over 1200 yuan. Today, Liu Yuchao's birthday works have been sold overseas. In an exhibition in Singapore, his birthday star was sold out two days later.
it is a difficult problem to explore new materials in the hope of bringing out the new "face plastic", and many masters have spent their lifetime hard to save the work for a long time. Liu Yuchao said that ordinary works can only be preserved for three to fifty years, and over 100 years' dough works are rare. During the late Qing Dynasty and the Republic of China, many dough masters were found, but few works were preserved.
, unlike the old maestro, Liu Yuchao likes to think about the use of a variety of new materials in order to make it more plastic and preserved, one of which is now used in face plastic work.
"space mud is relatively light, strong adhesive, but also crisp." Liu Yuchao said that the new material avoided the problems of traditional plastic sculpture such as chapped and worm eaten, but there were also new problems. In order to make the work more plastic, he repeatedly tested the formula to make the dough works innovative in materials.
the number of "80's" dough makers is numbered. The next generation will be completely broken. Liu Xuebin, director of the Ji'nan folk art museum, said that although many people like face plastic after the "post-80s" and "post-90s", few are really learned as a cause.
now, Liu Yuchao is already the third generation of Chinese intangible cultural heritage of the Tang Dynasty.
"a lot of people are just making dough as a hobby. I hope I can bring out a group of people and let this handicraft flourish." Liu Yuchao said that the childhood dream brought him to this road, and he hoped to bring out a group of younger people to make the industry meet the needs of the market, not to break the line of childhood dreams.