The highest award of national folk literature and art - the 16th China Folk Literature and Art Mountain Flower Award has recently bloomed, China Shoushan Stone Development Research Center, Fujian Province Arts and Crafts Experimental Factory Second Workshop Director, Fujian Province Arts and Crafts Master, Fujian Province Intangible Cultural Heritage Inheritor Yang Ming's work "Ancient House New Rhyme" is happy to pick a "mountain flower", becoming one of the eight most dazzling "mountain flowers" in the national arts and crafts industry in the past two years. What's even more amazing is that less than two months ago, Yang Ming's work "Dragon Teng Shengshi" won the first prize of the 10th Hundred Flowers Literature and Art Award in Fujian Province, the only comprehensive literary and artistic award in Fujian Province, and he himself won the honorary certificate issued by Zhao Long, the governor of Fujian Province.
On January 18, 2024, Yang Ming (fourth from right) at the 16th Chinese Folklore "Shanhua Award" award ceremony.
On November 20, 2023, Zhao Long (third from right), Governor of Fujian Province, presented Yang Ming (second from right) with the first prize certificate of the 10th Hundred Flowers Literature and Art Award of Fujian Province.
Harvest in two monthsThe literary legend of "Mountain Flower" and "Hundred Flowers".
In less than two months, two works have won the highest award of national folk literature and art and the first prize of the province's only comprehensive literary and artistic award, which is also rare in the national arts and crafts circles, "mountain flowers" and "hundred flowers" reflect each other is a high degree of affirmation of Yang Mingshou mountain stone carving art, but also let it flourish in the New Year, famous in the industry. This is the unanimous evaluation of Yang Ming by many experts who are familiar with the literary circle.
The Shanhua Award is a national literary and artistic award jointly sponsored by the China Federation of Literary and Art Circles and the China Folk Literature and Art Association, and is the highest award in China's folk literature and art, and is the highest award in China's literary and artistic circles along with the film "Hundred Flowers Award", the TV "Golden Eagle Award", the opera "Plum Blossom Award", and the dance "Lotus Award", which is held every two years. Since 1999, it has been successfully held for 16 sessions. The 16th China Folk Literature and Art Shanhua Award covers outstanding folk art performance works, outstanding folk literature works, outstanding folk arts and crafts works, outstanding folk literature and art academic works and other fields, and a total of 12 selection activities have been held in various forms, and 160 works have been shortlisted. In the end, 20 works such as Yang Ming's Shoushan stone carving "Ancient House New Rhyme" won the award. Pan Lusheng, vice chairman of the China Federation of Literary and Art Circles and chairman of the Chinese People's Association, commented that these award-winning works are the latest achievements of Chinese folklore creation in the past two years, vividly demonstrating the profound heritage and extraordinary charm of folklore, and are the in-depth practice of the creative transformation and innovative development of China's excellent traditional culture.
The "Hundred Flowers Award" (Fujian Hundred Flowers Literature and Art Award) is sponsored by the Fujian Provincial Party Committee and the Provincial Government, and is the only comprehensive literary and artistic award in Fujian Province, which is held every 3 years. Since the first award was held in 1994, it has been successfully held for 10 sessions, and has launched a large number of masterpieces that show the great achievements of the party, reflect the call of the times, eulogize the people's struggle, inspire the national spirit, and cultivate noble sentiments, creating a good literary and artistic environment, vigorously promoting Fujian's literary and artistic creation, and constantly contributing literary and artistic strength to the new glory of socialist culture. Yang Ming's Shoushan stone sculpture "Dragon Teng Shengshi" and other 15 works won the first prize. Zhao Long, governor of Fujian Province, commented that the award-winning works fully demonstrated the important practical achievements of Fujian's propaganda, ideological and cultural front in the past three years, highlighted the richness and diversity of the artistic creation of the "Min School", and formed a wide range of communication and influence in the whole society.
Won the 16th Chinese folk literature and art "Shanhua Award" Yang Mingshou Mountain stone carving work "Ancient House New Rhyme".
Yang Mingshoushan's stone carving work "Dragon Teng Shengshi", which won the first prize of the 10th Hundred Flowers Literature and Art Award in Fujian Province.
The legend comes from the perfect combination of traditional skills and classic lanes
The traditional Shoushan stone carving skills are ingenious, turning decay into magic, and the classic three lanes and seven lanes are unique, outstanding people, and the perfect combination of the two major Fujian business cards has achieved the literary legend of Master Yang Ming. This is a senior Mindu cultural research expert's high appreciation for the two awards awarded to Yang Ming.
Since the Jin Dynasty, formed in the Tang Dynasty, to the Ming and Qing dynasties, and now the style of the alleys and alleys of Fuzhou is basically continued in China, the three lanes and seven lanes of Fuzhou are the existing large-scale, relatively complete historical and cultural blocks for China, and have the reputation of "living fossils of China's urban Lifang system" and "China's Ming and Qing architectural museums", in 2006, it was listed as the sixth batch of national key cultural relics protection units by the People's Republic of China, and has been rated as "China's top ten historical and cultural streets" and "the first batch of Chinese historical and cultural blocks".
Originated before the Northern and Southern Dynasties, matured in the Tang Dynasty, flourished in the Ming and Qing dynasties, Shoushan stone carving is one of the representatives of Chinese traditional excellent culture, known as "the world's stone Fuzhou Gong", in 2006 was approved by the People's Republic of China to be included in the first batch of national intangible cultural heritage list, and has been rated as "Fuzhou Top Ten Business Cards" and "Fujian Top Ten Business Cards".
Coincidentally, Yang Ming's works "Ancient House New Rhyme" and "Dragon Teng Shengshi" are all works with the theme of three lanes and seven lanes created by Shoushan stone carving skills, and the two are perfectly combined to achieve the effect of "1+1>2": "Ancient House New Rhyme" uses traditional Chinese Spring Festival elements such as Spring Festival couplets and red lanterns to freeze the time, combines the saddle wall shape in Fuzhou's ancient houses with the elements of the ancient banyan tree, and depicts the scene of children setting off firecrackers for the New Year, so as to express the lively New Year's atmosphere in the market and alleys, which evokes people's strong memories of the traditional Chinese New Year; "The Prosperous Age of Dragons" shows the scene of the Lantern Festival in three lanes and seven alleys, with bustling street scenes, swirling golden dragons, lively lion dances, and nearly 100 vivid characters, which vividly express the scene of prosperous China. Both works are large-scale Shoushan stone carving works, integrating round carving, relief carving, hollow carving and other Shoushan stone carving techniques, with clear layers, movement and stillness.
In this regard, Master Yang Ming said that the historical and cultural city of Fuzhou has a heavy historical and cultural heritage, especially the Fuzhou ancient house represented by the three lanes and seven lanes is one of the representatives, as a native of Fuzhou who has been shuttling between the streets and alleys of Fuzhou since childhood, I have long wanted to use my good Shoushan stone carving to create some hometown theme works, the two works have won the award is an encouragement to my years of efforts, but also a spur to my future development, I will continue to work hard to create more Shoushan stone carvings that are in line with the aesthetics of the times and have Fuzhou characteristics, so that more art lovers can appreciate the unique urban cultural charm of Fuzhou.
Master Yang Ming's mobile phone saves the ** of various three-lane and seven-lane buildings that he photographed or searched on the Internet.
Perfection is inseparable from the effort of eclecticism and accumulation
The perfect combination of Shoushan stone carving skills and the essence of the classic three lanes and seven lanes is not a momentary explosion of inspiration, but the result and achievement of its eclectic and accumulated over the years. This is the unanimous evaluation and recognition of many industry bigwigs who are familiar with Master Yang Ming's innovation and inheritance of Shoushan stone carving skills in recent years.
Yang Ming, who has been in the art for more than 30 years, is good at traditional themes such as Maitreya and Tongzi, and has successively held solo exhibitions in Los Angeles and Milan, Italy, and his works have been collected by national museums such as the National Museum of China, the China Arts and Crafts Museum, and the National Art Museum of China. At the beginning of 2020, Yang Ming changed his original creative style and began to explore large-scale theme creations that show contemporary aesthetics and reflect the achievements of the times.
In less than two months, it has won the highest national folk art award and the first prize of the province's only comprehensive literary and artistic award, which is the recognition and affirmation of the characteristic phenomenon of "Yang Ming stone carving", and also its achievements and fruits accumulated over the years.
How perfect? Eclectic.
Master Yang Ming's large-scale works in recent years have not been created behind closed doors, nor have they been conservative, but have been inclusive and innovative. For example, he created a variety of theme works, have repeatedly gone to the field to learn, while around the experience of other industries, all night to think about how to deliberate on the layout and creation of large-scale works, especially rare is that he also broke the traditional arts and crafts industry word of mouth drawbacks, invited experts, scholars, collectors to come to "pick thorns", in the "spark of thought" collision humbly listen to a variety of opinions, for the innovation and development of its works to provide rich nourishment and more possibilities.
How perfect? Accumulation is to be.
In the past 4 years, Yang Ming has innovatively launched nearly 100 large-scale Shoushan stone carving works using ordinary Shoushan stone: some praise the development achievements of the new era, some show the beauty of the splendid rivers and mountains of the motherland, some show the soul of classic traditional culture, and some reflect the ...... of the people's taste for a better lifeThese Shoushan stone carving works not only integrate the aesthetics of the times and modern aesthetic expressions into the traditional skills, innovate and open up the "Shoushan stone language" in the new era, but also make the Shoushan stone carvings that have been inherited for thousands of years bloom with the unique artistic charm of the new era. In particular, it is worth mentioning that his work Shoushan stone carving "Dragon Teng Shengshi" has become one of the 21 gold medals of the 2023 China Jewelry and Jade Hundred Flowers Award with the highest gold content, and was selected by Liao Jun, the leader of the expert group of the "Hundred Flowers Award" jury, as one of the three works for on-site comments at the award ceremony, and was highly praised by the judges; Shoushan stone carving "The Girl of Dabancheng" won the Hundred Crane Award of the 3rd "Hundred Crane Cup" Arts and Crafts Design Innovation Competition, and 4 Shoushan stone carving works were invited to enter the 44th World Heritage Conference, accounting for more than half of all 7 Shoushan stone carving works; 9 works were exhibited in the Fujian Provincial Revolutionary History Memorial Hall, China Shoushan Stone Museum, etc., "Ingenuity to the Party Praise a Centennial" Shoushan Stone Carving Exhibition ......
The tide rises in the southeast, and the moon swells in the river. After the "mountain flowers" and "hundred flowers" reflect each other, how to shoulder the cultural mission of the new era, show the new atmosphere with high-quality works, and highlight new achievements? Yang Ming believes that first, we must maintain continuous innovation and constantly launch works that meet the aesthetics of the times; Second, we must provide high-quality products, so that collectors can see classics.
I believe that as long as we strengthen our cultural self-confidence and adhere to integrity and innovation, we will win a better future and write a new glorious literary and artistic chapter of socialist culture.
Won the 3rd "Hundred Crane Cup" Arts and Crafts Design Innovation Competition Hundred Crane Award Yang Ming Shoushan stone carving work "The Girl of Dabancheng".
In July 2015, Yang Mingshoushan's stone carving exhibition was unveiled in Milan, Italy during the Milan World Expo and was awarded the "Sino-foreign Cultural Exchange Award".
In October 2013, Yang Mingshoushan Stone Sculpture Exhibition was awarded the "Outstanding Artistic Achievement Award" by the National Cultural and Arts Council of the United States at the first American Oriental Culture and Arts Festival.
Shoushan stone carving master Yang Ming at the 16th China Folk Art Mountain Flower Award Ceremony.