"Tianxia jade, Yangzhou workers"

"Jade is not a jade, not a device", the jade processing and carving, making it an exquisite handicraft, known as jade carving. Since the founding of New China, the rapid development of jade carving industry, gradually formed a "North School" "Yang School" "Shanghai School" " "South School" four schools. Is the so-called "world jade, Yangzhou workers", Yangzhou jade carving formed over thousands of years of thick, rounded, elegant, elegant, sophisticated features, with giant eagles, Shanzi carving famous.

On August 22, this reporter visited Yangzhou, visited the Yangzhou Jade Museum, witnessed the history of Yangzhou's millennium millennium, and experienced the shocking aesthetics brought by the national treasure jade artifacts. In addition, the reporter was fortunate enough to have dialogues with Xue Chunmei and Gao Yijin, representatives of Chinese arts and crafts masters, Chinese jade carving masters, Yang sent jade carvings.

Xue Chunmei: The female master in the history of Chinese jade carving, specializing in the jade carving figure Shanzi carving, has formed a personal jade carving style of “freshness and gracefulness, delicate and delicate appearance”.

Gao Yijin: Specializes in the design and manufacture of jade utensils, antiques, beasts, and miscellaneous pieces, and promotes new ideas based on traditional models such as bronzes.

Reporter: Compared with other schools, what characteristics does the Yangpai jade carving have?

Xue Chunmei: Yang sent jade carvings mainly to giant eagles and shanzi carvings. There are many layers and the production is complex. It integrates various techniques such as embossing, round carving and hollow carving. Yangzhou’s Shanzi sculptors pay attention to phase jade, and do not destroy its shape, and do not damage its shape. It is a mountainous landscape. The theme uses many of our historical stories, poetic dictionaries, gods and immortals, and layers of sculptures, like a three-dimensional sculpture. Screen. In addition, Yangzhou’s skills in carving utensils, figures, flowers and birds are also leading the country.

Gao Yijin: First, Yangzhou jade carvings make full use of the raw materials and will not cut the cracks. Instead, they will give full play to their imaginations, and they will be able to maximize the use of jade by creating agile rocks, yellow leaves, and rugged mountain roads. Secondly, Yangzhou jade carving pays great attention to the performance of traditional techniques, and it is worth mentioning that the chains are widely used in utensils. The finely-made rings are delicate and neat, which is a representative example inherited from Yangzhou. Process.

Reporter: What are the requirements for Yangzhou Jade Carving on the selection of carved jade materials?

Xue Chunmei: The entire Yangzhou flagship Hetian jade, mostly use white jade, jade, jasper in Xinjiang, will also use Qinghai jade, Russian jade, jade and so on. Recently I was trying on agate sculpture to broaden my scope of creation. We can either buy raw materials locally or go to Xinjiang to purchase. I usually go to Xinjiang to personally choose materials that are of good texture and suitable for my creative style. Now people buy jade very seriously its geographical "identity card", if the "identity card" is wrong, the value will be greatly reduced, if the purchase of raw materials is not good enough, the next sale will be very difficult.

Reporter: What kind of image is Yangzhou jade carving in your mind?

Xue Chunmei: atmosphere! The large jade carvings in Yangzhou are shocking and imposing. The good Shanzi carving is like a Chinese painting, which is profound and delightful. Yangzhou has a jade carving profession. Many of the jade carving staff are born in the Koban and have good painting skills and carving skills. As a practitioner, you must have a good aesthetic before you can create beautiful works.

Reporter: In Yangzhou, I saw the Hetian Jade Plant and the Kunlun Mountain Jade Plant. I also saw a lot of jade processing workshops. In recent years, under the influence of marketization, what has changed in the jade market in Yangzhou?

Gao Yijin: At present, Yangzhou Jade Carving takes Yangzhou Jadeware Factory as its leader. At the same time, there are many self-employed businesses, and the industrial structure is reasonable. From raw materials to finished products, a relatively complete industrial chain is formed. In the past ten years, the market share of jade carvings has continued to expand. Yangzhou jade carvings have also focused on the design and production of small pieces of jade, and have formed their own styles. The main characters are realistic and vivid characters and animals.

Reporter: How is Yangzhou jade carving further improved in its art?

Xue Chunmei: First of all, the traditional giant eagles and mountain eagles of Yangzhou jade carvings must be inherited and carried forward as an outstanding skill. Second, we will complement each other and continue to forge ahead with innovations. In fact, there are many exchanges in the entire jade carving industry. There is a large number of people. There are both workers from Suzhou to Yangzhou and workers from Yangzhou to Suzhou and Shanghai. Modern people have higher and higher requirements for jade articles. Not only do they have good raw materials, good carving, but also good meaning, so the entire jade carving industry is also learning from each other. Suzhou's small pieces and antique pieces are doing well. We will also draw on Suzhou's craftsmanship and strive to make our carvings more elaborate.

Reporter: How to treat the future of Yangzhou jade carving?

Xue Chunmei: Constantly pioneering and innovating in variety and subject matter, he can design excellent works and meet the needs of the market.

Gao Yijin: Yangzhou jade carvings are complete in variety and strong in technical force. The future development should be flourishing and hundred schools of thought contend.

Knowledge Links Yangzhou jade carving organically combines the art of painting with the craftsmanship of Fang Zhi to accurately reflect the content and plot of the picture. Many jade carving art themes are based on famous paintings or poems. Then they are recreated according to the color and size of the jade materials, making full use of the three-dimensional image of the jade carvings and turning the contents displayed on the plane into a magnificent scene with a perspective effect. In the carving of the scene, it is adept at using high relief and round carving techniques to express far and near, high and low, and different levels of scenery.

At present, there are many varieties of jade articles in Yangzhou, and there are many colors. There are jade figures such as ancient ladies, children's birthday stars, gods and immortals, and traditional utensils such as stove towers, Kaoru, tripods, cups, bowls, bowls, pots, and other traditional dishes. Variety of birds, beasts, flowers, insert cards, jewelry, string strains, textural supplies and Shanzi carving and other varieties, its plastic art is vivid, rich and elegant. Whether it is the folding and folding of mosaics, the interposition of branches and branches, the turning of characters, the turning of clothing patterns, the thickening and regularity of traditional utensils, and the decorative charm, pattern patterns, deep and shallow floating, three-dimensional garden, and hollow. The application of such techniques has all inherited and developed the elegant, exquisite and fine art styles of the ancient Yangzhou jade wares without confusion and thickness.