Xiuyan Jade Carving

Name of China's national intangible cultural heritage: Xiuyan Jade Carving

Applicant: Xiuyan Manchu Autonomous County, Liaoning Province

Item No.: 328

Project No.: Ⅶ - 29

Time of publication: 2006 (the first batch)

Category: traditional art

Region: Liaoning Province

Type: new item

Applicant: Xiuyan Manchu Autonomous County, Liaoning Province

Protection unit: Xiuyan Manchu Autonomous County Intangible Cultural Heritage Protection Center

Introduction to Xiuyan Jade Carving

Applicant: Xiuyan Manchu Autonomous County, Liaoning Province

Xiuyan Jade carving is a kind of folk jade carving technology developed in Xiuyan area of Liaoning Province.

Five thousand years ago, jade dragon, jade pig, jade Zong with human face pattern, jade Cong with animal face pattern and other "plain" handicrafts made of Xiuyu were unearthed from the Hongshan cultural site, which shows that the jade carving technology here started very early. At the end of the Qing Dynasty and the beginning of the Republic of China, a jade street with more than 300 people engaged in jade carving was formed in Xiuyan area. The jade carving "eight craftsmen" led by Jiang Baotang and "suhuo Er Li" represented by Li Dechun appeared. At that time, there were five categories of jade carving products, including figures, flowers and birds, animals, flowers and vegetables. Especially, the crafts of vegetables and vegetables reached a high level. From the 1950s to the end of the 1980s, the suhuo craft has further developed. Its representative work Xiuyu pagoda Xun Huaxia Lingguang is 3.15 meters high. It is the largest bottle suhuo handicraft in the history of Chinese jade carving. It won the "gold cup award" in the National Hundred Flowers Award and is regarded as a national treasure and is stored in the Great Hall of the people.

Xiuyan Jade carving is rich in techniques, and is good at plain living. Soft ring and chain are its typical techniques, which are extremely difficult. Xiuyan Jade carving technology inherits the traditional techniques of Chinese jade, mainly three-dimensional round carving and relief carving, supplemented by line carving, engraving, through carving, and hook flower, hook scattered flower, collision flower and other techniques, especially good at gouging dirty to remove the thread, according to the material, defect into jade, scrap clever use, Qiao color clever use, thread combination and other techniques.

Born in 1942, Li Hongcai, a contemporary jade carving master, has been an artist for more than 40 years and has created many exquisite works. In 1964, his works were presented to the Central Committee of the Communist Party of China and Chairman Mao Zedong as gifts for Liaoning workers. There are two kinds of wine in the jade carving "Ruyi pot", which is his unique skill; in the pavilion of "jiulongbao Pavilion", there is a jade dragon spitting fog, and jade beads hanging in the air, never falling. On the occasion of Macao's return to China in 1999, Li Hongcai's master and apprentice designed and produced the jade carving "the round picture of September" as a gift of Liaoning provincial government to the Macao Special Administrative Region government, which was widely praised. At present, high-tech technology has entered the field of jade carving, and handicraft has been greatly impacted. There are few masters like Li Hongcai in Xiuyan area. The inheritance and development prospect of Xiuyan Jade carving is worrying, and measures need to be taken to protect it.

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