Gaoyi | folk artists 12 years drilling skills

The engraving is a traditional manual skill of the people in my country. It is a variety of crafts made of hand -made and tied with mature crop straws, bamboo sticks and other materials. Zhang Zhanli, an artist of Cao Liun villagers in Gaoyi County, has worked hard for 12 years and is determined to inherit the intangible cultural heritage of Gaoyi County.

On September 1, Zhang Zhanli was converging at home to make antique building models with bamboo strips. After selecting, cutting, cutting, carving, engraving, bite, sticking, etc. In the display rack on the side, the placed works are lifelike, antique, and ancient rhyme from traditional cage and lanterns to various antique building models. When it comes to the reasons for the creation, Zhang Zhanli said: "When I was a kid, I often watched Grandpa insert a cage with sorghum straw, but I didn't know that this was engraved. In 2010, I had no intention of seeing the video on the Internet before I knew this. It is our traditional skills. So, after work, I started my own carving creation. "

It is understood that the manufacturing process from design, material selection, and feeding, cutting each bamboo strip, and then combining assembly. The material is the thickest but thicker, the thinnest is the same as the steel needle. The angle, material length, thickness, locks and other links are carefully carved and not bad. After 12 years of long -term training, Zhang Zhanli continued to innovate in the materials selection, and used a stronger and longer -preserved bamboo strips for production. At present, he can create ancient architectural models and various craft cages. It usually takes 6-10 days to engrav the work, and it takes half a month or even longer.

Today, various types of handicrafts produced by Zhang Zhanli are welcomed by everyone. While selling offline, he showed his work through the Internet. The price of each work ranging from tens of yuan to thousands of yuan. While increasing his income, more people also let more people know Traditional skills.

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