Sunny March. In front of a glass window facing the sun in Zisha No. 1 Factory. There are pots of delicate flowers. The spring breeze is like a naughty child, "gathering up, twisting slowly, and picking up Chu Caiqin's short hair" flying up and down, with her crescent-like lips, a bamboo stick knife in her right hand, The half-finished pumpkin pot in the left hand composes a picture of spring blossoms. And Chu Caiqin's face is filled with not only the spring light, but also her happy mood flowing like music.
Wash your hands. Change tea. Make tea. She proceeded in an orderly manner. The pot in her hand is a "colorful pumpkin pot", the spout is rolled with melon leaves, and the handle is melon vine. The lid is a melon, and the body is decorated with vines. The rich mud color of the purple sand mud is used to create the image of a pumpkin. The whole is natural, very realistic and interesting, reflecting the strong atmosphere of rural life and people's yearning for the indifferent pastoral life.
Chu Caiqin is good at making all kinds of flowers. She said that the pumpkin leaves on the pumpkin pot will be pasted, and the other leaves will not be a problem. But for the pumpkin pot, the important thing is that the shape should be crisp and plump, the Guati cover has the spirit, the melon vines should be stretched, the melon leaves should be natural and realistic, the pot handle should be smart, and it should echo the spout.
Everything has a process, and no one will make an instant success without hard work, especially making a famous pumpkin pot that is difficult to make. Speaking of the experience of learning to make pots, Chu Caiqin said, that should start from the source. When she was a child, she grew up next to her grandmother, who was a Chinese-style Xiaojiabiyu, who was smart and clever, and was good at making embroidered shoes. The theme of flower shoe embroidery comes from life, and the decoration techniques follow the aesthetic fashion of oriental decoration. The colorful silk threads are embroidered with rich and gorgeous patterns from the toe to the heel and even the sole and insole. Among the juniors at that time, there was no girl who could embroider, but the filial Chu Caiqin saw that his grandmother was getting older, and he took on the task of helping her grandmother make embroidered shoes. The embroidered shoe patterns were blue rather than blue, especially claws. Decorative patterns such as pedicle flowers and fruits.
's ingenuity and patience and meticulous mentality have brought her unexpected gains in her future work in purple sand art. After finishing high school in 1980, she learned the art of pot making from folk artists. Worked in Yixing Zisha Factory in 1986, and later went to Shugu Zisha Factory to engage in pot-making craftsmanship. In recent years, he copied celebrity masterpieces and received guidance from many famous masters such as Shen Jianqiang, and kept innovating ideas. His works are mainly for making claw pedicle flowers and fruits. , Formed its own unique style.
I squinted, smelled the fragrance, and was enjoying this rare happy tea feast, but I was overwhelmed by the chattering voices. It was not a guest here, but a student who Chu Caiqin went to give a lecture in the pot-making class (pumpkin pot) of Yixing Ceramic Training Base last month. The course is over. Teacher Ke Chu's voluntary pot teaching activity will never end in this life. An apprentice of
Chu Caiqin told me that in order to learn how to make pumpkin pots, she used to go to a teacher, but after a year and a half, she still couldn’t learn well. However, with Teacher Chu, she learned it in one month. . Chu Caiqin said that it was really not easy to learn pot back then. At first, I learned it from a classmate. The classmate made a "fishing dragon", a semi-handmade pot made of models, commonly known as "xiang billiards." As the years went by, her classmates had already given up on this job, but she was still insisting, and she became a national craftsman.
Hardship is inevitable on the way to learn art, but Chu Caiqin survived. It is for this reason that she is willing to pour out her skills. She said: "Pumpkin pot symbolizes prosperity and is popular with many pot friends. The market demand is so great that I can't satisfy it alone. Sharing and exchanging my artistic achievements is always a happy thing. In an instant, I feel at ease with everything I do. The purpose of owning the "Qin Yi Yuan" studio is to share this happiness, and it is not as good as all."
Zisha art needs "talents", and skills need to be passed on from generation to generation. As a national-level senior craftsman, Chu Caiqin regards the inheritance of purple sand craftsmanship as an unshirkable responsibility, and constantly pursues and strives for perfection. At the same time, we must make the right choice and study the traditional purple sand craft very hard. She said that she believes that all artists in the entire Zisha world have the obligation and ability to protect this intangible cultural heritage and make it flourish.
Spring is warm. The flowers were blooming, bright and fragrant, scattered lightly between Chu Caiqin's eyebrows and heart. She still sits in front of the window every day, with a pot of demure, a pot of gentleness, a pot of light, a pot of gentle, a pot of tea, drunk half the window with clouds...
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