Representative figures of Zhangzhou puppet head sculpture

The representative inheritor of Zhangzhou puppet head sculpture is Xu Zhuchu. Xu Zhuchu was born in a puppet house, and his early bamboo art is regarded as a living cultural relic, a treasure of oriental art, a world-class art, a must in China and a national art treasure. Xu Zhuchu said that puppets have four uses: performance tools, toys, handicrafts and art collections. As early as 1950s, Chu Zhu's puppet sculptures were famous at home and abroad, and his puppet sculptures were presented to international friends as national gifts for many times.

He has been an artist for more than half a century, inheriting the excellent carving skills of his ancestors, but also innovating and developing, forming his own unique style. There are more than 600 traditional opera characters designed by him, which are full of life, beauty, purity, ugliness and so on. Among them, there are not only famous figures in traditional dramas, but also fairy and monster images in myths and legends. Each face is different, frank, exquisite, beautiful, with different expressions and vivid expressions, and is known as the treasure of oriental art.

Xu Zhuchu's puppets are commonly known as northern puppets, and their techniques come from the style pattern of northern Han opera. Xu Zhuchu creatively combined the style of the original work, emphasizing the emotionalization and individualization of puppet shows, and he mastered the essence of China's excellent sculpture tradition-vivid with form. Therefore, before he dropped his knife, he always studied it carefully and carefully tried to describe the life, identity, personality, likes and dislikes of the characters. Once you are mature, you can be sure of the underground knife. Based on the characters in real life, according to the artistic principles of symmetry, balance, contrast and harmony, he used artistic languages such as modeling, lines and colors, and used artistic means such as exaggeration, deformation, emphasis, weakening, refining and generalization to imitate the content, take its heart and vividly depict the object.

Through the rescue and protection of Xu Zhuchu's traditional puppet carving, the precious cultural heritage can be continued and passed on to the world, and the art of puppet carving can be passed on, thus promoting cultural exchanges with Taiwan Province. Zhangzhou Xuzhuchu traditional puppet sculpture is an outstanding representative of China puppet sculpture art. He is world-renowned for his long history, special ancestral craftsmanship and rich and exquisite personality, and is distributed in Xiamen, Zhangzhou, Quanzhou and surrounding areas. Xu Niansong, a puppet head sculptor in Zhangzhou. Its statue is realistic, slightly exaggerated and full of life. Such as "The Old Man with White Beard", the face is mostly "Guo", mainly portrait, highlighting the brow bone and chin, the eyebrows are loose and long, and the forehead wrinkles are meticulous and vivid. Wen Wusheng and Wen Wu Dan are his representative works, which are characterized by realism, delicate facial features, plump appearance, soft tone, proper anatomical relationship and accurate proportion. There are 100 kinds of headshots with different expressions and characteristics, forming the artistic style of "Northern School".

1955, Zhangzhou craft club was established, and Xu Niansong was responsible for training a new generation of sculptors. His son, Xu Zhuchu, once had three puppet sculptures to participate in the national exhibition of children's scientific and technological works, and was awarded the special prize. 196 1 The Provincial Department of Culture and the Department of Light Industry rated Xu Zhuchu as a puppet head sculptor. From 65438 to 0962, Xu Niansong entered Zhangzhou Puppet Troupe to design and sculpt puppets, and his Boudoir Wendan and Wen Wusheng won the National Excellent Award. 1964, won the special prize of puppet stage design. 1987 10, Xu Zhuchu's puppet sculpture art exhibition was held in Hong Kong. It has also trained a group of puppet carving talents for Beijing, Shanghai, Guangdong and Sichuan.