Top news reporter Song Hongsheng trainee reporter Jin Ping Intern Liu Yuhuan.
What can you do with a piece of dough? In the hands of others, they may be made into noodles, dumplings, and buns, but in the hands of Liu Yuwei, the inheritor of the intangible cultural heritage dough sculpture project in Henan Province"dough"After skillful fiddling, in an instant, vivid characters are presented in front of you.
Dough sculpture, as a traditional folk skill, carries the memory of the nation, continues the blood of culture, and brings a strong New Year's flavor to the Spring Festival. Recently, Liu Yuwei released a big move and made a set"Yellow River Dragon Baby"Dough sculpture works.
The Year of the Dragon is coming soon, and I would like to use the 'Yellow River Dragon Baby' set of dough sculptures to wish you all a happy and prosperous life in the coming year! "On February 2, Liu Yuwei told a top news reporter.
on your fingertips"Yellow River Dragon Baby"to create a strong New Year's flavor].
Pinch, knead, rub, hold your breath and gaze, use a small carving knife to dexterously point, cut, carve, scratch, colorful"dough"Follow your fingers and fly. In the blink of an eye, a vivid face sculpture"Dragons"The prototype was displayed in front of the top news reporters.
Every year, I make a zodiac baby called 'Yellow River Baby'. This year's 'Yellow River Dragon Baby' is one of the 'Yellow River Baby' series. Its biggest feature is that it combines the simple state of Xinxiang local dolls, which is very pleasing. "According to Liu Yuwei, he also took a name for himself in traditional culture"Tiger head hat"Based on it, I made it innovatively"Faucet cap"It not only fits the theme of the Year of the Dragon, but also highlights the festive atmosphere of the New Year.
Yellow River Dragon Baby"The face sculpture is headed high and the tail is raised, the body is vigorous, the limbs are powerful, the clouds are as vivid as the fog, the doll wearing the dragon head hat rides on the dragon, the simple and cute, the overall shape is lovely. "The doll sits on the dragon, which also has the beautiful meaning of 'soaring into the sky'. "Liu Yuwei said"Yellow River Dragon Baby"The shape is free to play within the framework of traditional culture, and the color matching is selected red, yellow, green and other traditional colors, which are combined to convey the craftsmen's good wishes for life.
Pinching folk customs into dough molding, Liu Yuwei is"Veteran"。Previously, in order to welcome the Spring Festival of the Year of the Dog, he created a miniature sculpture "New Year's Customs in Walnuts". This set of works does not use any magnifying equipment to integrate the micro-plastic noodle people into the world of pecans, and the traditional customs of Xinxiang area"Pinch"into a walnut shell. from"Twenty-three priests"to"Fifteen or sixteen rushed to the temple fair", a total of 20 small and exquisite miniature sculpture works, each of which contains different national characteristics, the works have received wide attention from the masses.
This time, I made more than 10 works of 'Yellow River Dragon Baby', which are very popular in the market, and most of them have already been ordered. "Liu Yuwei said
He has visited nearly 30 schools and taught more than 150 lessons a year
In the past two years, in addition to constantly innovating in dough sculpture works, Liu Yuwei has put more energy into the inheritance of dough sculpture culture. In 2023 alone, he walked into nearly 30 campuses, large and small, to carry out"Dough molding into the campus"In the activity, the number of lectures exceeded 150, and about 5,000 students re-acquainted themselves with the dough sculpture culture through him.
As a carrier, dough sculpture has become a tool for emotional communication. In the dough molding class, everyone can interact, and they can also learn etiquette and culture, which is the significance of dough molding education. "Liu Yuwei said that his students include primary and secondary school students and college students. In order to arouse the interest of more students in dough sculpture, he has continuously improved the teaching methods suitable for students of different ages, and has also developed intangible cultural heritage courses with the publishing house.
In the process of inheritance, Liu Yuwei not only makes dough shape culture"Flowers bloom inside the walls", and many times"Incense"to a foreign country. In 2023"Family China tells you stories"In the online camp activities, Liu Yuwei showed the charm of dough molding to overseas students through online + offline methods. On the 2023 Sino-Foreign Friendship Day, he introduced dough molding to more than 1,000 Chinese and foreign guests from 68 countries and regions. Australia, South Africa, Japan, ......Liu Yuwei walked on the road of spreading intangible cultural heritage to the outside world, and more and more international friends were covered"Circle fans"。
Liu Yuwei also opened his own ** account (top number: intangible cultural heritage master Liu Yuwei) to record the process and production skills of his dough sculpture works, and shared traditional culture in the form of telling stories and kneading dough people, which attracted the attention of many fans.
In the next step, I will continue to carry out the 'intangible cultural heritage into the campus' in a continuous and in-depth manner, and carry out systematic curriculum development. At the same time, make good use of the self-leading platform to display dough molding more refined, systematic and professional, so that more people can understand and contact the dough molding technology. "Liu Yuwei told the top news reporter.