Rare! Have you ever seen a woman working as a carpenter? Graduated from Qingdao University of Technology also gave up high-paying jobs, how is the current situation?

Who says women are not as good as men, Qingdao Polytechnic University girl graduated as a carpenter

China is a manufacturing country, China's handmade famous all over the world, carpentry is a long history. Carpentry ancestor Lu Ban, not only can build buildings, but also invented the ladder, in the war to attack the city, the invention of carpentry tools ink bucket, quill and zigzag used for thousands of years, as well as the Kongming lock mortise and tenon structure, but also China's best.

Carpentry is not only technology or art, but the old saying goes "old Mr. less carpenter", carpenter is a force work, scraping and pulling chiseling and grinding, all need strength, old age is not appetizing, so carpenters are men, but today we talk about a girl carpenter's story.

01 Shandong girl Wang Hetong

Wang Hetong is Qingdao, Shandong, since childhood, love to do hands-on production, but are not related to carpentry. When she was in elementary school, she had a brainstorm and used a tea can and an umbrella handle to make an erhu, which was not well-made but decent, and won the first prize in the school competition. In middle school, she began to learn art, more interested in tinkering with some of the gadgets, often do some small things to give to classmates, the so-called dexterity, that is, this kind of girl. The art has also opened up the world of art to Wang Hetong, who has a broader perspective.

02Woodworking

Wang Hetong studied human resources at Qingdao Polytechnic University's Qindao College. Originally, she would have been like most people, after graduation into the office building, sitting in front of the computer, dressed beautifully, become a white-collar, but fate is always wonderful. Wang Hetong entered the university, more free time, often go to the handicraft store shopping, will choose some good handicrafts, but also often go to the handicraft experience store, have done their own ceramics, silver jewelry, to meet their own mobile small hands.

In early 2017, a friend asked her to go to the carpentry handicraft point to play, her first time to see the production of woodworking, a moment of fascination, the store can be personally experienced, she could not resist, spent three hours to do a hand-made antlers, the owner of the store looked at them all greatly appreciated, said the little girl has talent, and took the initiative to accept her as an apprentice.

03 Carpentry master and apprentice

In ancient times, carpenters and comics, like a strict master and apprentice inheritance. Carpenters without a master to break out on their own were called "self-drilling masters" and "Yu Sheng masters", and did woodwork without a fixed pattern and without industry rules. Carpenter's master is to hand over to the apprentice industry rules, inheritance of the craft, and teach people.

The apprentice lives and eats at the master's house, the master teaches the skills, the apprentice follows the master, followed by the master to go out to the employer's home to work, the master hand in hand. Chinese technology has a lot of can only be understood not to say the wonderful place, carpentry is no exception, sometimes this "intention" in the master's family, in the gossip, often in the master around, in order to realize the subtleties of it.

Now people floating in fame and fortune, few people can follow the master down to earth to learn the art, a lot of woodworking skills difficult to pass on.

04Wang Hetong: A Carpenter for a New Era

Wang Hetong has not only made great progress in her carpentry skills, but she has also learned to incorporate CAD modeling into her own techniques, designing her work with the computer and combining science with traditional skills. Now, she was hired by a university as a teacher of woodworking elective courses, because of the novelty of the course, very popular with college students.

In the class, she explains the theory of woodworking and brings people together to do woodworking, where students can make their own guitars, pens, and small gifts for themselves, as well as architecture students to customize the course on modeling. During the week, she also lectures at elementary schools, bringing children together to learn about this traditional culture.

The so-called craftsmen craftsmanship, Wang Hetong bones with, she would like to be a new era of craftsmen, the carpentry skills inherited, is a good girl ZanZanZan.