[color=#000080] Chen Junling told reporters that every step of making clay sculpture should be extra careful. [/color]
when modern life is flooded with high-tech networks, cars, and mobile phones, the successors of some traditional skills are silently cultivating them. They are far away from the uproar, they work hard to create and revel in their own world. Many of them are the inheritors of the intangible cultural heritage of Ji'nan or Shandong. Chen Junling, at the age of 50, began to clay sculpture, made more than 500 insects, and so on.
[b] made clay sculpture to record the disappearance of [/b][b]'s old line [/b]
10, the reporter came to Chen Junling old man's home in Ji'nan North Road. The clay sculptures of all different forms make the reporters dazzled, and the half meter size of the Tsing Yi is intoxicated in the opera, and the bronze colored antique utensils may look false by the naked eye; the big man in the well, the old woman selling the cloth shoes, and the characters of various forms of the city are more distinctive. Many of the city figures, some of which are now invisible, "these are folk characters in the old society, and some old ones, many have disappeared, I hope to use the mud man to record it, to leave a material for the future."
"this tea burning stove, I am stuck with glass panels, ready to take part in the exhibition of intangible heritage. This is the old Ji'nan in the 50s and 60s of last century. At that time, every street and alley in Ji'nan sold water, that was, it was burned with this tea stove, one or two cents a bowl of water. You look at the expression of this burning tea stove, crooked head, dislike the choking people, if low head burning, can not see the face, so I designed such a scene expression! " As Chen Junling tells the story, the reporter emerges in front of a street picture of a city and a city of water, a towel that is burning water, so busy that he has to fill a bit of charcoal from time to time to the stove.
Chen Junling told reporters that, as he was older, he began to pay attention to these City figures, and decided to record the old ones that had disappeared or were disappearing. Now 80 pieces were carved and more than 100 pieces were ready to be engraved. "Take my memory, know, all of them!"
Chen Jun Ling's mind is very thin, with a mud man, many people may not know what is going on, so he gave the characters to these city characters. He brought out a book for reporters, which was written in his own written explanation. "With clay sculpture and a small paragraph of text, others can see it at a glance!"
[b] twenty-six years of infatuation the Yellow River clay sculpture [/b]
in 1984, Chen Junling retired to the University for the aged, and began to learn calligraphy and painting. A chance, a friend suggested that he change his way of expression, try clay sculpture. "It was a work of Lu Zhishen drinking. At that time, there was mud in my friends, so I took it back and carve it. It turned out to be good. I felt confident. Since then, Chen Junling has been unable to accept and devote himself to the life of clay sculpture.
later, Chen Junling attended the sculpture class held by the University for the aged, and was taught by Professor Qingquan, a famous sculptor. "The first picture is" Ji Gong ". It's not bad. It's quite a sense that Professor Chi didn't say anything at that time. I carved the second works of prime minister Zhou Enlai, Professor pond, after seeing to reminding, too like, but not beautiful, then I know that the sculpture should not be just the same, more to show the beauty of this man, the works come out more beautiful than real! "
from the age of 50 to now, Chen Junling has been sculpting for twenty-six years. In order to embody the beauty and beauty of the mud man, he taught himself anatomy and aesthetics. "The traditional Chinese sculpture is the character of the gods. The modern Western sculpture is exquisite, that is, shape beauty, but the facial expression is not vivid. I was engraving." It is to blend in the Western texture, not only to make every clay figure vivid, but also beautiful and expressive.
[b]500 multiple pieces of clay pieces can be called [/b]
twenty-six years of infatuation. Chen Junling has a great harvest, and the name of "mud man Chen" has been famous in Ji'nan. His works attract people from all over the country to visit. Some people have asked how much money can be sold. Chen Junling refused. "If you really like it, I can copy one, but I don't sell it because I have only one!" In his mind, these mud men are as precious as his children, each of them has a great deal of blood, and an exhibition has moved bad, and it hurts the old man for a while.
"I am very strict with myself. I have done a lot of works, and I have been divided into several categories. According to my career, I can divide into mythological characters, opera characters, folklore characters, historical figures and abstract characters, as well as some cultural relics and insects. To be vivid, folk characters should have both form and spirit, and abstract characters should be ingeniously conceived.
Chen Jun Ling asked for perfection. Every one was crafted and badly done. It was repeated three times. "All my work one only one, do not repeat, finish this to conceive the next, so when a Taiwan merchant asks the price, I say how much money do not sell, if I really like to copy it!" From this, the reporter saw Chen Junling's love for clay sculpture.
twenty-six years ago, Chen Junling's house was filled with a room full of mud, boxes and cupboards filled with more than 500 pieces of clay sculpture. (Cui Yanhong Lv Tingchuan)