This article is from WeChat official account:Netease Upflow (ID: heyupflow) , author: Chuang Chuang, editor: not there, from the head of FIG: visual China
I was dragged by my family to the temple to worship Buddha, or I passed the park and saw various iconic sculptures, and there were stone lions squatting at the door of some big families. Have you ever thought about where these stone sculptures came from? Here?
In fact, if I want to invite the God of Wealth, I want to worship the old moon, I don’t care about the good fortune boy or the Pleiadian star, and I don’t care about the five thousand years of China or the ancient Greek Zeus, Athena, and Artemis. Yes, the sense of high-level is still grounded——
In short, I would like to invite God, Quyang, Hebei, it’s all.
△In 1995, the State Council officially named Quyang County as the “Hometown of Chinese Sculptures”
There are all you want to worship here
First ask, where is Quyang, Hebei? Don’t look at this is just dustyThe small county town of China has more than 2,000 years of carving history.
As soon as you enter the county seat, you will find gods and Buddhas, Confucius, Guan Gong, angels, and even Mickey Mouse on the side of the road.
Walk around for a few laps and feel like gods all over the world are waving at you enthusiastically.
△Source: Zhihu Netizen
As the demand expands, the statue becomes bolder. The people of Quyang are definitely a model of conscience. They can slap their chests to ensure that only you can’t think of it, there is nothing we can’t make.
From simple stone carvings to wood carvings, tooth carvings, jade carvings, bronze carvings, stainless steel carvings…whatever you want, the craftsmanship left by our ancestors is fully carried forward to all parts of the country.
Be majestic and serious, we have. The eight reliefs on the lower part of the Monument to the People’s Heroes on Tiananmen Square are the masterpieces of stone carving artists in Quyang County, Hebei.
△Source: Taobao
There are also some stone carvings that make people unable to summarize. It is recommended that the brand come to Quyang to have a look when they can’t figure out how to do a joint name. Maybe they can find unexpected sources of inspiration.
Because you can see-Niu, Shrek, the reform and opening up family, live in harmony, don’t forget that there is a gourd baby behind it, is this a universe cascade joint name?
△Source: New City and Old City
There is also Donald Duck who is suspected to have traveled to the Ming and Qing dynasties. Are the Disney series here?
△Source: New City and Old City
Bald-headed Qiang and Xiong Da, looking at each other among a piece of stone brick, felt that they were about to fight in the next second.
There is also a relief mural of this rat marrying, which is inexplicably avant-garde combining Chinese and Western.
When the stone lion meets the lucky cat, we don’t know which side is better.
Come to this land where creativity breaks the rules, just take two steps to liveThe source of living happiness and magical visual impact.
Quyang National Engineering Team
As soon as you enter Quyang, you will find that the road is unusually flat and wide, with heavy trucks carrying huge rocks one after another.
Almost every household here is in this business, and it is impossible to tell which one is which, and even a unified pattern: a yard with stone piles + a tall tin workshop + several light yellow bungalows on the ground. With a layer of dust, a cloud of smoke rises as soon as you step on it, competing to show off their superb skills and rich products.
The carving industry has become an important industry here. There are only 3 world-class carving masters, and the entire county has more than 24,000 employees. Sculpture art festivals, sculpture forums, sculpture competitions, etc., are also a lot of things, and the products have even gone to the world.
However, how did a small county in Quyang become a “national engineering team”?
This is inseparable from geographical conditions and carving history. According to the “Quyang County Chronicles”: Huangshan has white jade since ancient times, which can be monuments, so there are many masonry in the villages around the mountain.
Most of the marble used in the stone carvings we saw came from Huangshan Mountain in Yangping Town, Quyang. This mountain is only 302 meters long, and there are broken marbles everywhere.
This is also Quyang’s dilemma-The boutique is easy to copy, so it will fall into a price war instead.
Although the works sell well both at home and abroad, most of Quyang’s manufacturers are small family workshops, relying on traditional craftsmanship to be passed on from generation to generation, and most of them wait for customers to come. But the market is gradually expanding, and the production model of small workshops has also brought some problems, such as how to innovate, for example, how to ensure the interests of craftsmen.
Most of these sculptures will be sold through some channels, and some projects will be subcontracted to middlemen through two or three hands, so the bulk of the profits will generally be taken away by these intermediate channels, although Quyang’s stone carving craftsmen are well-known. , But the return received is relatively small.
△Many Quyang stone carvings are not shipped from Quyang|Source: Taobao
On the other hand, due to the fact that Huangshan, the former source of raw material supply, was heavily mined, everyone’s demand for raw material supply has gradually shifted to Hunan, Beijing Fangshan, Sichuan and other places. Quyang stone carvings are also used to some extent. Development has brought certain restrictions.
But despite many restrictions, the stone carving craftsmanship is still the pride of Quyang people, and they are still working hard to promote it, hoping that more people can see this small town in Hebei.