This Spring Festival, the "Teacher Xiao Xu" in the children's mouth is a little busy. As the representative inheritor of the intangible cultural heritage project "dough sculpture" in Xuhui District, Xu Yi's "class schedule" at the Community Party and Mass Service Center of Tianlin Street, Xuhui District is full. In addition to the auspicious dragon face sculpture class on the occasion of the New Year, there are rubbing dragons on the first day of the new year, paper-cutting dragons on the sixth day of the new year, and dragon lanterns on the fifteenth day of the first month. Her handicraft skills are constantly expanding for the children, but she still smiles, "The children like this, and I am the happiest." ”
Xu Yi is best at dough molding, commonly known as "dough pinching people" - through pinching, rubbing, kneading, carving and other hand movements, pinching and shaping all kinds of folk handicrafts of people and animals. "In the New Year of the Dragon, it is natural to pinch a small auspicious dragon. Xu Yi said that the dragon is an animal in ancient Chinese mythology and has a special status and meaning in Chinese culture. "I hope to use the technique of intangible cultural heritage face sculpture to make auspicious dragon Xianrui, and wish the country prosperity and the people live and work in peace and contentment. ”
Three-dimensional painting, silent play
Before pinching the dragon, we can imagine how the dragon hovers over the ball. At the scene, Xu Yi patiently told the children. She studied under Chen Yu, the representative inheritor of Shanghai's intangible cultural heritage project, and has always remembered her teacher's words: Shanghai-style dough sculpture has the reputation of "three-dimensional painting and silent play". Although the plastic characters are static, they pay attention to a living state, and they must fully grasp their expressions and dynamics.
The children followed Xu Yi step by step to pinch, rub and pull, shaping the various parts of the dragon one by one. The lifelike dragon head is done, followed by the dragon body and dragon scales. An hour and a half later, the vivid little auspicious dragon was born in everyone's skillful hands. Looking at the dough sculpture work completed by themselves, the children were the happiest, holding it to their parents on the side, and shouting to "take a photo" with the work.
Xu Yi was also happy when he saw it: "I very much welcome more people to understand and contact the art of dough molding." In order to attract more children to participate, she also integrates the current emerging material ultra-light colored clay, which is more convenient to use and natural drying is more suitable for modeling. She also found that there are more young people who love intangible cultural heritage, and young mothers bring their children to experience the charm of intangible cultural heritage.
Passing on the "noodles".
Despite the rapid development of handmade modeling materials, and the use of ultra-light colored clay in small classes in order for children to get started quickly, Xu Yi has always kept in mind Chen Yu's teachings and insisted on "noodles" in his works: "The real raw materials for intangible cultural heritage dough sculpture must be made of noodles." ”
After class, she immediately went to the upstairs studio to make a face. She said that at the beginning of each year, they will start to meet. After the Spring Festival, the first dish is steamed, the ingredients are kneaded and steamed together, and a ball of dough is formed and then dried in the shade, sealed and stored separately. Before making it, add the stored "primary color" to the color, mix and steam, and if the flexibility of the dough is not suitable, it will be steamed a third time.
There are many post-95 young people who like this kind of art, and after participating in a production activity with Xu Yi, they took the initiative to ask to follow the "further study", and gradually they can get started with noodles to make them, and regard it as a kind of inheritance.
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Reporter: Yao Limin.
Correspondent: Wang Wanyi
*Courtesy of Tianlin Street.
Editor: Chen Haixiao.
Reviewer: Wei Li.
*Please indicate that it is from the official account of Shanghai Xuhui.