The Songshan Wood Sculpture Art Research Institute held a meeting this afternoon to revise its constitution and add to its board of directors at the foot of Songshan Mountain, the father of China.
Present at the meeting were Five people, including Chairman Wang Zhenbei, Vice Chairman Guo Xiaoli and Zhong Songwei, and Directors Wang Jianjian and Geng Xiaowei. The head of the cultural market section of the Dengfeng Municipal Bureau of Culture, Radio, Television, Tourism and Sports, the business supervisory unit, was invited to attend. The meeting was presided over by Wang Zhenbei, chairman of the board, and Vice Chairman Guo Xiaoli read out the revised charter of Dengfeng Songshan Wood Carving Art Research Institute, and revised and changed the charter and directors according to the new annual inspection system arrangement.
The main problems of the meeting were: First, the change of the professional supervisory unit was changed from the original Dengfeng Municipal Bureau of Culture, Radio, Television, Tourism and Sports; second, the change of the members of the board of directors was changed from the original three to five; third, the new charter added two chapters, information disclosure and party building work, from the original eight chapters to eleven chapters. The new bylaws and changes in directors were approved by a show of hands. The nature of the Songshan Wood Carving Art Research Institute is mainly a non-profit folk cultural activity organization voluntarily held by using non-state-owned assets to protect the inheritance and innovation of Songshan wood carving, the display of achievements, theoretical research, external processing, publicity and promotion. The purpose is to carry forward the core values of socialism, inherit the excellent traditional Chinese culture, and add luster to the orderly inheritance and brilliance of Songshan wood carvings, one of the representatives of the northern sect.
Songshan Mountain, the source of wood carving in the "heavens and the earth", began in the pre-Qin, formed in the Tang and Song dynasties, and matured in the Ming and Qing dynasties. From the Republic of China to the reform and opening up, war and poverty, ten years of catastrophe and other reasons, directly led to the Songshan wood carving technology cold and silent. After the reform and opening up, with the restoration of the temples and temples in the Central Plains and the Fudi Residential Project, the Songshan wood carvings have revived and sprouted and revived. In 2004, Songshan wood carving was announced by Henan Province as the first batch of ethnic and folk culture protection projects. In July 2021, it was announced by Henan Province as the "Fifth Batch of Intangible Cultural Heritage" projects.
Located in the center of the Great Central Plains - Songshan, temples and temples, mansions and residences, through the Han, Wei, Tang, Song, Yuan, Ming, Qing, stretching endlessly, forming a two-thousand-year visual architectural history in the Great Central Plains of China, providing a good development space for the inheritance of Songshan wood carving. Cultural heritage is the soul of a region, as an important part of the regional culture of Songshan, Songshan wood carving culture is its soul and roots, but also the crystallization of human wisdom and culture.
The styles of wood carving in the north and south of the mainland are very different, as the representative of the north school, Songshan wood carving, set the essence of the north and south, and integrates the techniques and forms of expression of multiple schools, and the knife techniques and techniques are unique and unique. It not only has the roughness and thickness of the north, but also has the exquisite and beautiful richness of the southern wood carving. After several generations of inheritance and innovation of wood carving masters, a unique art recipe has been formed: "The size of the use is the premise, the content of the material looks at the reality, the design is clear, and the copy drilling is not in a hurry." Saw hollow flat bottom line walk, rough outline should be clear, fine carving cultivation light enlightenment, out of nothing to rely on the program. "Songshan wood carving pays attention to high and informal, close-range fine carving, the invisible spiritual connotation into a tangible material image, the production process is to first determine the size according to the actual needs, and then choose soft and hard moderate materials, design the corresponding content." In the production process, the designed pattern is copied on the corresponding material, using a variety of techniques such as line carving, yin carving, yang carving, through carving, deep relief, bas-relief carving, hollow carving and double-sided carving, which are visualized and displayed, and under the action of light and shadow, a lifelike stereoscopic sense effect is formed.
The main characteristics of Songshan wood carving are diverse themes, rich content, uniform layout, smooth lines, clear layers, unique shapes, exquisite craftsmanship, simple and elegant, and are famous for "the essence of the north and south of the technology, which contains the aura of the craftsman", which is recorded in the annals of history. In order to better protect the intangible cultural heritage project Songshan wood carving, Dengfeng Songshan Wood Carving Art Research Institute came into being in 2006, and in August 2021, it was announced by Henan Province as a provincial intangible cultural heritage project Songshan wood carving protection unit, so that the inheritance and development of Songshan wood carving has a solid foundation platform! (Photo: Wang Zhenbei; Editor: Zhou Ying)