Re:'s old carpenter named "hope to find someone who really loves this craft."
hobbies and pursuit of
all kinds of tools are placed in Xu Guangxiang's work, including axes, hammers, wood drills, chisels, shovels, ink drones and so on. There are several erhu and a music score on the wall. There are different gears beside them. Although they are sawing tools, they are very much like gramophone records. Under the embellishment of these things, the studio does not have an artistic atmosphere. Over the years, Xu Guangxiang has developed a habit of getting up at 5 o'clock every morning to start work. Whenever he is tired, he sits down to pull erhu and sing Beijing opera. "
" there are not many people buying this kind of furniture now, many people still like modern furniture, so this is not a big market, and usually it will give a few sets of relatives. " He said, "it's not profitable," he said. "Every piece of furniture feels a sense of achievement. It's not just a piece of furniture but a piece of art in my eyes."
with the passage of time, Xu Guangxiang's skills are becoming more and more sophisticated, but he is not satisfied with the status quo, but rather that he can do a little better. He says it is not demanding, but in pursuit of progress, "people always have to pursue a little, or not much."
did not keep an apprentice
to study in an endless stream, and insisted on no one, Xu Guangxiang said with a bitter smile.
this is a rare handicraft, which is rare and expensive. Some people are interested in it. Some people want to learn the art of wealth. Xu Guangxiang said, it is no exaggeration to say that there are no more than 100 people to learn, but none of them are left behind. Nai. "
" this craft wants to do well, at least three years of basic skills, these years people all over the country to learn to follow, but look after the silent walk. " Xu Guangxiang regrets that this is a slow work, slow to learn, slow to do, to be urgent, "now the pace of life is fast, many people do not want to slow down to study carefully, especially the young people are not used to this slow rhythm."
, he said, there are many people who want to make money with him, and want to make money as early as possible to dispel the idea. This is not a money making activity. There were also some college graduates who wanted to start their own Ming style furniture, but they didn't know how to earn money. Xu Guangxiang has two sons and two children. He has always wanted the children to pass on the craft, but they don't want to do it because they are both physical and not making money. "There were still some people in the village who followed my grandfather to learn this craft, but later they did little." He said.
Xu Guangxiang was a carpenter for a while, and he had to sit down and rest for a few years. In the past few years he felt more and more hard to do, and the family advised him not to do it again, but he was sticking to it. Xu Guangxiang raised the saws in their hands and sighed the airways, just as the more used and finer the sawtooth, and one day it would break, hoping for a truly loved one to learn and inherit, so that the old ancestor could be found.