Lacquer painting technique (Chu style lacquer painting technique)

Name of China's national intangible cultural heritage: lacquerware painting technique (Chu style lacquerware painting technique)

Applicant: Jingzhou City, Hubei Province

Project No.: 910

Project No.: VIII - 127

Time of publication: 2011 (the third batch)

Category: traditional art

Region: Hubei Province

Type: Extension Project

Applicant: Jingzhou City, Hubei Province

Protection unit: Jingzhou Mass Art Museum (Jingzhou Art Research Institute)

Brief introduction of lacquerware painting technique (Chu style lacquerware painting technique)

Applicant: Jingzhou City, Hubei Province

Jingzhou is located in the Jianghan Plain and the Jingjiang section of the Yangtze River. It has been the origin of high-quality wood, lacquer and gold since ancient times. It is the birthplace of Chu culture.

Chu style lacquerware painting technique was mature in the spring and Autumn period and Warring States period. For more than 2000 years, this unique Eastern culture of Jingchu traditional technique has been inherited from generation to generation in Jingzhou area, with tenon and mortise lacquering, painted wood carving and gold lacquer basin and plate as its main categories. Over the past 40 years, more than 5000 pieces of lacquer ware have been unearthed from Chu tombs in Jingzhou. Among the unearthed cultural relics, the "holding box", "tea tray" and "tea food box" more than 2000 years ago are exactly the same as the living objects used by local people in the early days of the founding of new China. The Chu style lacquerware has a fantastic and magnificent shape, rich and diverse decorative patterns, and saturated and elegant colors. Mortise and tenon combination is one of its major features. The whole object is often made of mortise and tenon combination of parts carved separately, which is vivid and firm. Chu style lacquerware is made of raw lacquer, and its color is natural mineral plant pigment. The color paint must go through many processes, such as grinding, drying, mixing and sealing. To make a utensil, there are nearly 20 processes, including material selection, carving, mortise and tenon molding, polishing, scraping, sanding, cleaning, painting, painting and gold depiction. At present, several inheritors of Chu style lacquerware in Jingzhou not only highly imitated the unearthed Chu style lacquerware, but also made inkstone boxes, pen hangers and other stationery.

At present, although there are nearly 10 lacquer workshops in Jingzhou area, only a few inheritors of Chu style lacquerware have mature technology, and it is difficult to make achievements due to the lack of funds and skilled craftsmen. Old artists, lack of successors and the establishment of a sound protection mechanism are the main problems to be solved.

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