Tengchong is the jadeite distribution center in China. The jadeite and jade carving industries have driven the economic and social development of Tengchong City and have also become a beautiful local cultural business card.
As a famous jade carving master, Yang Shuming has been walking on the road of inheriting and developing jade carving craftsmanship.
Humble gentleman Gentle as jade
Dressed in a simple and elegant Tang costume, with a gentle and elegant smile on his face. When talking about his proud works, Yang Shuming, who is usually not good at words, has become talkative.
A piece of cotton-rich, speckled "waste" was carved by Poplar Shuming and transformed into a fine jadeite worth up to 3.6 million. This "Snowy Night Return", which has never won an award, is still one of his most proud works so far.
"I found out it was a scrap, but I decided to buy it back. After that, I played with it every day, and one day I suddenly thought of the song "Shibamon smells the dog barking, and the wind and snow return to the people", so I have this work. ”
Yang Shuming's work "Returning to people in the night of wind and snow"
Another work, "Fish And Dragon", is also the result of Yang Shuming's long-term conception and repeated thinking. An ordinary piece of rough carved out a scene of a fish dragon swimming on the clear sea.
Yang Shuming's "Fish Dragon"
From an ordinary farmer to a famous jade carving master, Yang Shuming has spent more than twenty years. Today, his value judgment of jade has become familiar with the road: "The value composition of jade is mainly divided into five parts: species, water, color, bottom and work. The seed is to see whether its texture is delicate and tight; the water is to see its permeability; the color refers to its color; the bottom is to see whether its bottom is clean; the work refers to the carving, which is also the most important link. ”
The jade carving changed Yang Shuming's life and even changed his personality. Yang Shuming introduced that when he was young, he had a lively and active personality who was good at expressing communication. After engaging in jade carving work, slowly, I calmed down and became a character who now prefers to be quiet and say less. When asked what kind of self he liked more, Yang Shuming said: "Now that I can sink down, my quiet personality is more suitable for me, suitable for studying jade carving, because the most important thing as a jade carver is perseverance." ”
Craftsmanship and craftsmanship
With more young people joining the industry, jade carving has undergone many changes in terms of design process, production composition, sculpture concept, etc., but the inheritance of jade carving technology has never stopped.
Since engaging in jade carving work, Yang Shuming has been inspired by many older generations of jade carving masters. At present, his main energy is on creation, and he wants to give more help and advice to young people who are learning jade carving. Yang Shuming, who has guided more than 600 students, said: "I hope that through my help, I can make up for the shortcomings of young people's lack of jade carving design experience and help them create more jade carving works." ”
In Yang Shuming's view, after people become rich, in addition to material needs, they also need to be satisfied at the spiritual level. The diversified aesthetic needs of modern life make the jade carving craft constantly updated in the inheritance.
Yang Shuming's jade carving "Butterfly Loves Flowers". People's Daily Is often photographed in red
Jade is like a gentleman, and there are also five virtues: benevolence, righteousness, wisdom, courage, and purity. "If you want to complete a good jade carving work, you must be like making friends,
Read this piece of jadeite first, understand its characteristics, and then create it. Each piece of jadeite is unique, so it is important to pay attention to the art of adapting to the material.
Talking about the longest carving time, Yang Shuming said that the work has been carved for more than ten years, has not yet been completed, or a semi-finished product, "some jade, is to use a lifetime to carve."
Yang Shuming introduced to foreign friends how to identify jadeite. Shoot to the stars
Speaking of the vision of Tengchong jade carving industry, Yang Shuming believes that Tengchong's jadeite and jade carving industry will get better and better. Since Japan and Korea are influenced by Han culture, Yang Shuming has received many customers from Japan and Korea before. In the future, he hopes that Tengchong's jade carvings can influence tourists from more countries, so that Tengchong's jadeite and jade carvings can spread faster and more widely to the rest of the world, so that the world can like Chinese jade carving culture.