source: Qilu Evening News
Li Lu and his plate. Reporter Gao Yun
newspaper November 28th news (correspondent Yuan Zhijia Gao Yun reporter Zhao Li) the dish is the dish, the kitchen table is their main position. But in the eyes of Li Lunji, 74 years old, plates are works of art and are his treasures. Since 1985, Li Lunji has collected more than 3600 art plates from more than 40 countries and regions.
to push the house of Li's performance, all kinds of plates "come on", his more than 100 square meters of home, on the wall, on the windowsill, on the table, and even under the bed.
74 year old Li Lunji's hometown is Zhangqiu Maoming Hui town, Licun, and worked in Shandong provincial agricultural machinery administration before retiring. His indissoluble bond with the plate began in 1985. At that time, he went to France to investigate agricultural machinery, and saw many porcelain plates in the home of a farmer near Paris. This left a deep impression on Li's performance. After he returned to China, he began to collect the porcelain plate.
after enjoying the plate, Li has almost run all over the country's major art ceramics production bases and research and development units for more than 20 years. The most frequent places are Jingdezhen, Tangshan of Hebei, Yuzhou in Henan, Liling in Hunan, Yaozhou in Shaanxi, Yixing in Jiangsu and Zibo and other provinces in the province. In addition to the major kiln factories in the country, many times to Beijing, Tianjin, Shenyang, Changchun, Shijiazhuang, Xi'an and other places of antique city and cultural market, to "Sha Li panning gold" to buy plates.
over 20 years in the past, the plates he collected had been spectacular. There were more than 3400 domestic plates, some of which were masters of Arts and crafts, professors, art celebrities, and more than 300 commemorative plates. In addition, there are more than 200 plates from 47 countries and regions, "the United States, Britain, France, Germany, Japan and other countries, the largest collection of foreign plates is the United States plate, including the president's head, Houses of Parliament, the statue of liberty, the Hollywood film city plate, the United Nations logo and so on." Li Lunji said.
at the beginning of 2002, Li Lunji set up the collection gallery of yuan yuan house in his home. He also wrote many years of appreciation experience, and published 3 monographs such as "Yuanyuan Jing house", "plate art hundred home", "ceramic wonderful flower - plate art" and so on.