Hand-made Huadiao jar process is facing loss

Everyone knows Hua Dian wine. There are not many people who know Hua Dian.

In the town of Kanshan, Xiaoshan District, farmer marriage, child-bearing, housewarming, and worshipping are all popular. After the wine was finished, the wine jars had to be preserved. Because of Hua Diao jars, it was a big family who showed off their own money and culture.

In the Xiaoshan and Shaoxing areas, wedding celebrations sent Huadian wine jars. This was a folklore that was handed down from generation to generation. However, it has been gradually reduced to modern times. The folk artists of the Huadiao Jars now have only one in Hangzhou, namely Dai Chunrong, a master of arts and crafts in Zhejiang. This year, Xi Chunhui and Dai Chunrong will exhibit more than three years of work, "Shengshi Liuhe Ruyi Winery". The altars are made of five types of crafts such as plastic, colored pictures, wood carvings, jade carvings, and gold foils. They are exquisitely beautiful, and the gold metal veneers with a purity of 99.9% are also used on the altars.

[studio view]

In the past, only large households were able to afford the town of Kanshan, a very humble private house with a number of large and small exquisite Hua Dan wine jars. Yesterday, the reporter visited the studio of Mr. Dai Chunrong.

From the moment he stepped into the room, the reporter was attracted by the colorful art of Huadang Jar. The altar is large and small, but figures, flowers, birds and beasts that are painted or embossed with leaching powder on the altar are all flying high.

“Now, even if there are patterns in many jars, they are mostly printed and not hand-carved. The real Huaduan jars are all painted by a specialized craftsman, and then they are made of plastic. The workmanship is very delicate.” Dai Chunrong, At the age of 68, the two fathers have already spent money and their spirits are good. When he talked about his "baby", he couldn't get it.

“In the past, not every family had the conditions to buy Huadiao jars. Only large households had this ability. Lao Ziji Winery designed designs and texts according to different needs such as life, children’s birth, and children’s official status.” Dai Chunrong said that every Huadang jar contains the good wishes of people at that time.

[complex process]

All hand-made process Huadiao jar production process is very complicated.

In the studio, the reporter saw Master Wu Aiqin, who was in his 50s, drawing a stroke of brush in his hand and sketched the base map of the old one.

"Sometimes it takes a whole day to sit and it can't be distracted. The quality of the base map determines whether the latter process will be successful." Dai Chunrong said.

The Huadiao Craftsmen must first select a variety of wine jars, create patterns according to their respective characteristics, then cool the raw copper frying pans, and knead the porcelain clay powder to “slime” — a bit like a child's playing rubber. Mud, but toughness and plasticity are much better.

Then it was "stacked" on the well-made wine jars. This is the most testable part of the Huadan wine jar.

“The 'stacking' is the use of oil sludge to pile up three-dimensional effects on the screen. There are figures, flowers, birds, landscapes, etc. This method was first used on the painting walls of Mogao Grottoes in Dunhuang.” Dai Chunrong said that he prepared it himself. The sludge is used as a raw material for plastics and plastics, hand-carved on the jars to form a three-dimensional high-relief art style, and finally paint colors to match the colors.

A Huadiao jar must undergo grinding, coloring, powdering, plastic molding, carving, and painting.

Huadang Wine Jar is purely handmade. It combines Chinese literature, history, calligraphy, fine arts, folk customs and other disciplines. It is a typical wine culture arts and crafts product.

"Unfortunately, many of the Huadang jars on the market are now printed and mass-produced. The craftsmanship of genuine craftsmanship has slowly been lost."

[Master's Puzzle]

More than 100 apprentices walked about talking about the inheritance of this traditional technique. Dai Chunrong shook his head and sighed.

In the early years, he had received more than 100 farmer apprentices, and now only 15 are left. The longest apprentice learned 23 years.

"To do this, not only should we have a good foundation in painting, we must also tolerate loneliness. In general, if you train basic skills in the first year and study the structure in the second year, you may be able to pick up brushes in the third year. Can not be the division." Dai Chunrong said that in order to cultivate more successors, he more than once went to China Academy of Fine Arts to ask professional teachers, teaching apprentices to paint basic skills.

However, after less than six months of training, many people have retired. Too difficult to give up.

Dai Chunrong said that he is very old and he would like to receive some more essays on his painting skills and creative ideas. After all, Huadang Jars process needs to follow the progress of the times and continue to innovate.

[History]

Now the farm has gradually become popular again. As early as the Song Dynasty, Shaoxing wine country has the habit of making wine. One family gave birth to a girl. At the time of the full moon, she would brew the best yellow wine and fill it in an earthen jar. Sealed and buried underground. When her daughter grows up, she takes out aged wine from the ground and invites local folk artists to paint red, green, and other colors outside the jars and writes a big “hi” word as a gift for a married marriage. . Called "Daughter's Jar", it developed into a "Hua Dian jar" in the middle of the Qing Dynasty.

Originating from the Spring and Autumn Period, the Huadiao jars, which flourished in the Ming and Qing dynasties, used to be the “flowering wall outside the wall.” The earliest exports were recorded during the late Qing Dynasty.

After the 1980s, the exquisite Huadian wine jar, which contained traditional Chinese culture, was once sold to Southeast Asian countries and was listed as a national gift presented by the Chinese government. It was deeply loved by foreign friends.

However, in the late 90s of last century, the situation gradually changed and it was mainly sold domestically.

The custom of sending Huadang jars began to return to the ancestors. “Especially in rural areas, someone in the family is married and always likes to send a few altars to the blessings of the wine. After the wine is finished, it’s very meaningful to leave the colored pottery jars for commemorative collection,” said Dai Chunrong.

Mr. Li, a local villager in Kanshan, told reporters that he had always collected the Huadiao wines from Huatan wine jars sent by his friends when he was married. He also said that he would always keep treasures and wait until the tenth anniversary of his wedding to pick a day and share with family and friends.

Now, Huadang jars are mainly for personal collections, or for large hotel furnishings.