Brick, wood walls, stone road, Xiaoqing tile-roofed house, which is unchanged Qingshen Hanyang town building the Millennium Images. Town located in the Minjiang River, the town fire raging in the blacksmith's shop, simple workshops and fine carved walking stick hand scale workshops, to outsiders eyes lit up: blacksmithing, carving, hand scales, rarely seen outside the three craft in Hanyang Town maintain the most natural of the original ecosystem.
July 23, Hanyang town's vice mayor, visiting craftsmen here.
Blacksmith's forge, the "Sound of Music"
Not yet entered the Zouxiang Yun master blacksmith, Doraemon has been a lot of sound. The door, saw the flames warm stove in red jumps, side of the bellows is stretched too Zou master fast, and anvil hammer beat pier came in a red-hot iron on the rhythmic sound. Chow is the master arm, blue veins completed, the head has been cropped thin sweat.
Zouxiang Yun, 39, from the age of 15 will follow the town's old blacksmith Zhongyou Fu learning blacksmith, 5 years after her own company. After a wife, and his wife take care of Blacksmith Ku Yung wholeheartedly. "Apart from the occasional city to buy materials, I stay in the shop all day, the store can not no one would watch." Zou Xiangyun speak with reporters, did not stop little hands. "I am responsible for choosing materials, calcination, hammering, quenching, the wife is responsible for grinding process, can do 30 a day to a finished product."
"Master Chow, to help get the knife sharp point!" Yuehua Jian, a farmer holding the machete at the door. Zou Xiangyun took machetes, neatly put into a furnace and, after such red-hot blade, immediately into the pier on the anvil, picked up a hammer and beat up Ding Dong Ding Dong, instant spark scattered.
Hear people say, Master Chow is playing the most good craft knife. Brought knives, Zou master unique experience. "Though it is simple, but have 78 processes, it is particularly eye examination blacksmith, to keep banging on the steel materials. The key is quenching, must have spotted the opportunity early and late, iron scrap it."
Sales of hand-carved walking stick Qiao
Out from the blacksmith's shop, climb the stairs on the latter to Centre Street. In the depths of this alley, a walking stick made specifically for hand-carved wood craftsmen - Liao Xiaoyong.
Sitting on a bench to move the door, Mu Xiazai are stacked or long or short, or thin or sharp carving tools to more than a decade, next to a ground wood chips. "First draw a pen in a wooden dragon, you know where the cut where the left. Then there was sculpture, which is the examination of people's patience." Liao master said that "carving a walking stick to about 5 hours , carved to account for four fifths of the time, then sanding and painting. "
Liao Xiaoyong day to carve two crutches, his favorite is to stick on the pattern Diao. In the town, selling hand-carved walking stick, only Liao Xiaoyong 1. Earlier, Liao Xiaoyong the crutches are generally sold to customers traveling here, big reputation, the number of wholesalers who came to look for Liu master of Hanyang order. Rough estimate, 20 years, Liao Xiaoyong carved walking stick has sold 40000. "Most of the time, sold more than 200 one-time roots." Liao Xiaoyong said, because selling well, he himself completely overwhelmed, intends to bring a disciple, to own along the way.
CCTV scale handmade unique skills Recitals
Then turned to two blocks, that is, the hand-scale workshops Chen Yan. Stains inside thing of the past, the system scales the special iron table studded with all kinds of tools. One just do the scales on the table especially prominent. Perfectly smooth, light green of the weighing pan does it feel, Chenggan painted shiny black, very beautiful.
In Hanyang three Jueyi in the most complex hand-scale processes, do a steelyard to spend two days work. Chen Yan told us, "do weigh the less there are hundreds of different processes, from initial felling sawing wood, and later scale production of hooks, weights of, polishing, painting lines on Chenggan on the varnish, from start to finish all DIY The. "
Not only craft unambiguous, Chen Yan doing scales also follows the sentence: "Balance fair to level to do prototyping." Said Chen Yan, Cheng Gan child representative is fair, "for a balance of artisans to do, we must always keep calm attitude can really make a steelyard. "
September 2003, Chen Yan With this door into the CCTV ancestral craft "to retain skills" program performance hall, and from all the barber, cutting bowl, sugar, painting and other arts and crafts by way street of the audience in the same stage. This year, Chen Fang from her father to learn to steelyard, just 30 years. Source: Sichuan Daily
