From the lost to crazy the xiamen lacquer engravings

Hairline thin paint lines, have a Masters in the hands of the miraculous force. Strip, plate, heap, carve, engrave after galloping horses, indistinct earth enjoy the show with five thousand years of ancient Chinese culture. This is the modern image of the Minnan traditional craft paint line engraving, is known as the modern lacquer line carving.

    Carved lacquer line Fujian Xiamen's oldest crafts, set Jingdezhen Ceramic Fujian bodiless lacquerware and Beijing Cloisonne in one. As early as in the Tang Dynasty, 300 years ago, Xiamen lacquer line carving popular in Southeast Asian countries. Carved lacquer line with the fine line of paint, wound magnificent building special production methods, lifelike characters, as well as clothing patterns. But in the past, carved lacquer line mostly decorated in a woody, paint basket and theatrical props.

    Over the last decade, after the pioneering innovation of artists who paint line in one of the Chinese traditional craft materials and craftsmanship carved successful metamorphosis renewed vitality. Carved lacquer line development to the decorative porcelain, glass, some paint lines dyed various colors, lacquer carving figures, plates, bottles, furnace, small screen array. The new works of art every piece are pure handmade, Chinese folk art, religious art, ritual court art, ceremonial vessels, tributes eclectic.

    The paint line carving artistic legacy of ancient Buddhist sculptures pulse by the Song and Yuan line engraving process Lek powder and mud line engraving inspired. It formed in the late Ming and early Qing mature to the late Qing Dynasty, in the development of the Xiamen area folk religion flourished, and deities sculpture industry prosperity are inseparable.

    From 7 personal family workshop to 70 stores "

    Carved lacquer line in Xiamen, Xiamen, the only access to the arts and crafts of the national intangible cultural heritage.

    The State Sports General Administration, the Chinese Basketball Association gave Yao Ming's wedding gift 'Kowloon Star Swiss apple bottle' VIP lounge of the Beijing Olympics Bird's Nest decorative displays, as well as the forthcoming opening of the Shanghai World Expo 'United Nations Pavilion' Chinese pavilion furniture layout and displays are made. "excellent must Tak paint lines carved Although Art Co., Ltd. Deputy General Manager Fu Linlin Inner Mongolia, but excited to bring traditional crafts in Xiamen.

    "The initial prototype is only 7 personal family workshop, when the company was founded in 2000, carved lacquer line connected Xiamen people are poorly understood, master craftsmen can not go on, nearly lost traditional crafts. Constraints 3 hair once a month to wages, shortage of girls should lift the box. "after tough market integration, the company in the country has more than 70 stores. "We are not all MICE participate, but Fair is the preferred, can absorb a lot of high-end customers, including government, business, hotels and clubs."

    Although the company last year to enter the industrial track carved lacquer line products from South Korea, Japan and other overseas markets, and Shenyang, Wuhan and other domestic market ratio of 2:8, but Fu Linlin still worried: "First, the human resources, the young people less willing to do this, so we cooperate with schools and industry associations, craftsmen qualification; traditional technology innovation, last year invited the country to develop a new line of paint Masters carving, has applied for seven patents; three must spread of traditional crafts to the market, which needs such as Fair Exhibition. "

According to reports, this year the company will continue to the acquisition of the city's hundreds of handmade family workshops to expand its operations, the scale of production to prepare for the enterprise market financing.

    Tsai family to the 13th generation descendant. 300 years ago, the the carved lacquer line of production base in the Tongan Ma yuanxiangzhen Zheng Sakamura. Ma Xiang Chua the workshop originally called "Xizhu Landmark, Tsai, artist name test can be traced back to the 8th generation Yang Cai good age about Jiaqing years. 11 generation descendant of the the carved lacquer line before it is just a decoration of the deities who. To represent the history of the 11th-generation descendant of Cai Wenpei will workshop moved to Xiamen, carved lacquer line the the deities body down, get rid of the indifference decoration of deities, into a modern character who's patterns, he first carved lacquer line figures, and wide-enrollment, open house stunt.

    12th generation descendant of Mr. Cai Shuikuang arts and crafts masters, deities ornamented patterns at the time, especially the dragon patterns independent, complete, and let it become a form of expression that can be used as a separate crafts. Lacquer thread sculpture in Xiamen by deities of decorative stand out into the high-end gift. More open vision of his art works "Country" and "wave-dong Wukong subdue demons" as a classic by the Chinese Arts and Crafts collection. In 1972, Cai water conditions made of carved lacquer line pattern independent decorative arts, this decorative artwork soon become the mainstream of modern lacquer thread sculpture products, get great benefits. At this point, the lacquer line carving from a small folk art, walked into the palace of art.

    How to market from the hands of the workshop, the widely circulated turn from generation to generation, it is equipped with special stunt folk artists thinking. Years, generation after generation of the paint line carving arts people, continuous innovation, so that the lacquer thread sculpture performance genre richer fashion more times in the air, and thus make the market continues to move towards the prosperity of carved lacquer line.