In history, what is the story of Lu Yaochen?

Teacher Lu Yaochen, the founder of Lu's mud twisting method, a master of mainland technical art, and a famous purple sand artist; He is respected by collectors, art circles and authoritative figures as "Pot Art Master", "Grandmaster" and "Pot Art Magician".

He loved purple sand all his life, learned the traditional way, understood the contemporary method, and galloped the pot altar with the skill of "Lu's twisted mud"; He has blazed a trail and innovated with an eclectic romantic poetry, allowing Eastern aesthetics and Western art to blend and derive in the five-colored soil; He is ingenious, his creative ideas are extraordinary, and the "Lu Pai pot art" is very beautiful in the purple sand world. In 1940, on the cold Chinese New Year's Eve, Lu Yaochen, the fifth child of the Lu family in West Street, Gaocheng Town, Yixing, was born. In fact, his family can be said to be a big family, with six brothers and sisters, then his father, is a small business, so at that time, because the family is more difficult, can not find a job, after graduating from junior high school, then he participated in the town's art troupe amateur propaganda, as a result, the local government, think that they perform well, when the Great Leap Forward in 1958, sent themselves to the Dingshan purple sand factory to learn art, is this situation. Entering the purple sand factory to study, is undoubtedly a turning point in Lu Yaochen's life, he was assigned to one of the "purple sand seven elders" Wu Yungen as an apprentice, the first contact with the purple sand mud, a natural closeness and tacit understanding spontaneously arises, it seems that he is for the purple sand to come, the famine year starvation does not die craftsman, Yaochen, you must do a good job, before leaving, the father's words, spurred Lu Yaochen to study harder than anyone else, apprentice in the first grade, not only completed the master taught the "Begonia Pot" with high quality, and, in self-exploration, made the third-grade homework "Sifang Bamboo Pot". Cheng Hui said: "It should be said that in this environment, it is not easy to persevere, especially my senior brother Master Lu Yaochen, he, one, is relatively smart; Second, he studied harder, so in this case, his master attached great importance to him, because, after all, he was a young man, because he was younger than his senior brother, he was still a child at that time, and he still wanted to play in his head, so he was very serious and hardworking as him, so he was relatively good in this environment, and among our senior brothers and sisters, he was still a relatively good talent, outstanding talent. When the East China Sea Fleet Art Troupe came to the town to recruit people, Lu Yaochen, who loves music, was admitted as a literary soldier with a song "Good Night", however, the factory finally failed to agree to him to be a soldier, the news came, and the happy Lu Yaochen seemed to be poured a basin of cold water. Later, when I inquired, our secretary disagreed, why, he knew that Lu Yaochen's technology and teapot making technology were very good, and he had a future, so he didn't let him go, and as a result, I also gave up, and I didn't go anywhere for anything in the future, so I made teapots.

Since then, Lu Yaochen has embarked on the Zisha Road without hesitation, and even if this road has traveled thousands of miles, Lu Yaochen has always been indomitable. After the three-year apprenticeship expired, Master Wu Yungen intended to continue cultivating Lu Yaochen, and after a year of further study, Lu Yaochen's purple clay pot making skills have far surpassed his peers. In the early 70s of the 20th century, Lu Yaochen, who already has solid basic skills, came up with the idea of innovation, he entered the Zisha Factory Research Institute to work, and was carefully guided by Zhu Kexin, Wang Yinchun, Gu Jingzhou, Jiang Rong and other predecessors, and the pot-making skills advanced by leaps and bounds, creating a large number of literati pots, which laid a solid foundation for Lu Yaochen to form a distinctive "Lu's pot art". As a purple sand artist, Lu Yaochen has a unique view on the inheritance, seeking change and innovation from the mud mixing, and has a unique treatment in the mud color mixing, Lu Yaochen relies on the understanding of various clay properties, and fires a purple sand pot that presents a rare "gold" color, which reproduces the rich color of the purple sand, breaks through the simple style of the traditional Yixing purple sand, and adds a new palace atmosphere. Shi Shunhua said: "Inherit the tradition, but he also has his innovative things, innovative modeling innovation, decoration innovation, sometimes put his feelings, his own knowledge, creation into the pot, so his purple sand pot is good where, fortunately, the changeable shape and add a variety of decorations, plus what, a kind of cultural cultivation in it, so people say that he is a pot magician, he is actually all-round." "Originated in the Tang Dynasty, the twisting process can skillfully mix all kinds of mud materials, and complete the decoration process while the embryo is formed. Lu Yaochen skillfully borrowed it from the field of purple sand, stretching out the texture, no traces of carving, like pen and ink writing, the use of a variety of mud, ever-changing techniques, twisted mud skills, under the hands of Lu Yaochen, gave the purple sand a new vitality, in the abstract, mysterious, romantic between the fascination, natural. The new excavation of the purple sand process has opened a door for Lu Yaochen's purple sand decoration skills and opened up a new road with broad prospects. Xu Feng said: "Master Lu Yaochen in the mud twisting process of this kind of belief by the reins, thousands of boats racing, he completely got rid of the kind of craft on this dogma, is completely this kind of spontaneous come, is called spontaneous and go, that is, there is that kind of freehand, there is also that kind of small brushwork, some are called, what is called, we used to have a kind of words called what, called step by step. Some of it is the blood of the sword, some is the remnant sun of the western sky, some is the sunrise of this morning, this kind of artistic conception to him, he wants it to be what it is, it is what it is, then his proficiency in the clay twisting process has reached this state of supernatural perfection. Lu Yaochen continues to explore the expression of the decoration of the mud, from the depiction of natural textures to the creation of poetry and painting, the mud is endowed with magical oriental charm. "Jade Screen Moving Mountain Pot" shows the softness of Guilin's landscape; "Skyline Pot", a heroic faction of the great river to the east; On "Huajing Pot", the "Yuhua Stone" made of twisted clay is enough to be realistic. This "Water Town Pot" delicately decorates flowing water, swimming fish, and flat boats, flowing out of the south of the Yangtze River. This work is also a reflection of some of our Yixing landscape style, there is water, fish, there are boats, so I think about it, some of my personal decorative means, especially with the twisted mud to twist it into water, twisted into fish, there is a boat on it, so it is very interesting, very tasteful, so I am in the middle of the conception, some of my own ideas, integrated into my teapot, this is the culture of the purple sand teapot, this is the connotation of the purple sand culture in the teapot. If Zisha is a vast classic, the fine product of "Lu's Twisted Clay" undoubtedly adds the most vivid footnote to it. Among Lu Yaochen's many works, the most famous is undoubtedly his "Human Body Series", which is a theme that has never been seen in the history of Zisha. The softness and magnificence of the human body, in a realistic or freehand way, through the elastic curves, vividly displayed on the purple sand pot, the ancient Oriental purple sand art and the Western body art in the intersection of deriving a new meaning, but in the eyes of the traditional purple sand world, this seems to be a bit deviant. Qiu Chunlin said: "I think this idea is right, there is no forbidden area in artistic creation, there is no forbidden area in terms of modeling, that is, gossip is also far away from the elephants, close to the body, his form of extraction is also from the natural world, the most recent is from the human body itself, many of our porcelain shapes, like the general jar, like the plum bottle, are from the imitation of the human body, so why can't the purple clay pot imitate the human body, can also, so Master Lu Yaochen, you see as a master of arts and crafts, He has the courage to be a traitor to the art world, and he feels that he is a true artist's sincerity. ”

The persistent pursuit of art and the unique "rebellion" innovation of tradition have given birth to the graceful and colorful "human body series", the richness of "Sumo Pot" and the grace of "Guifei Series", reflecting Lu Yaochen's aesthetic photos of the human body, which embodies the value of "beauty", and deeply expresses the mood and taste of life in the universe, so that the purple clay pot art rises from the plump "hue" to the pure spiritual realm. Exploring all the way forward, enjoying the innovation, combining the perception of life, and Eastern and Western cultures, the "Lu School style", the purple clay pot art from the traditional "literati pot" to the philosophical realm, to reach the height of art, constituting a warm and elegant texture, elegant appearance, elegant appearance, round and vivid atmosphere, rich and far-reaching artistic atmosphere. Lu Junjie said: "In fact, I really think that the height of art, to a certain height, it is the same end, to a certain height, it is the same truth, so the works he makes, his rhythm, his taste, including his decorative means of twisted clay, he is refined by the years, the meticulous observation of life, and the love of life." Compared with others who focus on the cultivation of skills, he pays more attention to the cultivation of skills outside the pot, tunes the piano, reads the golden scriptures, reads the ancient and modern, dabbles in China and abroad, and kneades the sister art nutrients into the practice of purple sand art. Lu Yaochen, who is immersed in calligraphy, painting, singing, playing erhu and other hobbies that seem to be unrelated to making pots, has precipitated the realm of pots like people. I have made a purple sand pot for more than 60 years, and I have this experience, absorbing its essence from the tradition, and then jumping out to integrate some of the culture of our Chinese nation into our purple sand teapot, and then improving the gold content of the purple sand teapot culture, this is my own point of view. In Qiu Chunlin's view, "He is good at singing, he loves singing, and he can also play the huqin, huqin is still, it's the erhu, he likes to perform, he used to work with that Yue opera actor on the same stage, what can this say is that he, you look at his pot, reflect his multifaceted interest in his personal art, you will find a direct correlation, you see him come out, that spirit, he is 80 years old this year, he is not tired at all, not broken, He still dresses like a young man, isn't it, very fashionable, but his spirit has never fallen. ”