Historical development of Huangyan bamboo carving

In 1869 (the eighth year of the Tongzhi era of the Qing Dynasty), Huangyan's Xixiang Township was rich in bamboo, and there were many artists engaged in bamboo and wood products in the countryside. A highly skilled gabion master in Caiyang Village, Dongshan Mountain, made bamboo baskets, trays and boxes that were especially delicate, and before selling them, they were sent to Chen Yaochen's workshop, where he was asked to carve patterns on the bamboo products, which increased the selling price greatly. Inspired by this, Chen Yaochen cooperated with the master to split the bamboo springs out of the moso bamboo and made palm-shaped palm fans, carved with figures and landscapes, and called the palm fans "elegant fans" to show that they were different from the futon fans, paper fans and banana fans, which sold well for a while. At the same time, Chen Yaochen also made bamboo couplets business, very popular. At that time, Huangyan County Sun Xi calligraphy is good, and a great writer Zhao Zhiqian for the staff, seekers such as clouds, Sun should be too much time, often make Zhao for the pen, Sun Xi see Chen Yaochen carving skills are very high, will be extended to the Yamen carving bamboo couplets, daily payment of 120 big Tin. This couplet elegant and simple, very popular. The calligraphic bamboo couplets written by Zhao Zhiqian and carved by Chen Yaochen can still be seen in Huangyan. At that time, two bamboo carving stores appeared one after another in Huangyan City, one was run by Chen Yaochen's father and son, and the other was named Zheng Yichang. The varieties of bamboo carving crafts were increasing, and plume tubes, Chaozhu boxes, book boxes and other products for the officials at that time were produced one after another. In this way, Chen Yaochen became the founder of Huangyan bamboo carving.

In 1929, Huangyan bamboo couplets were awarded a silver medal at the West Lake Exposition in Hangzhou.

After 1930, local artists began to produce products such as bamboo and yellow stamp boxes and photo frames.

In 1933, it won a special prize at the National Crafts Exhibition in Nanjing. After turning over the spring sales are not prosperous, the division bamboo hall barely maintained, Zheng Yichang after a few twists and turns after the closure. To the end of the 1940s, Huangyan turn reed bamboo carving artists less than 10 people.

In the early 1950s to "division bamboo hall" as the main technical force, including Chen Shanlian, Chen Fangjun father and son of seven people and Chen Baotong as a party to turn the spring store merged handicrafts society. Later, it merged with the lettering society to form the "Huangyan Reed Turning and Lettering Production Cooperative" In 1957, Chen Fangjun, a veteran reed-turning artist, participated in the National Arts and Crafts Artistes' Representative Meeting. 1958 to the early 1960s, the Huangyan Lettering Production Cooperative, because of the active support of all levels of the government, the Huangyan reed-turning business flourished. On the basis of the traditional line carving, but also created a thin relief Yang grain, and increased the square, hexagonal, round and flat shaped varieties, in addition to some of the products self-produced and self-marketed, most of the products and the country's largest handicrafts distributor Shanghai Arts and Crafts Import and Export Corporation hooked up, and by the distribution, the production of turning the reed a moment of the wind.

Chen Fangjun, a veteran artist, studied and skillfully transplanted traditional Chinese painting and celebrity poems, paintings and seals to the bamboo carving of the turning spring, which is more elegant and chic taste of bamboo carving of the turning spring. He created the palm fan "relief carving of ladies" and table screen "Shi Xiangyun drunken sleep peony map", in 1958 Zhejiang Arts and Crafts Exhibition, won the province's counterparts and visitors' praise, and in 1963, won the provincial "turn the spring carving of the old artist" title. Turning spring engaged in personnel from more than 50 people increased to more than 90 people, the output value rose to more than 40,000 yuan, varieties from more than 10 kinds of development to more than 30 kinds of. In 1964, the province's sculpture bamboo weaving observatory, Luo Qisong and other young people's works "three folded bamboo table screen" and "screen relief figures" was awarded the second prize for outstanding works, as well as a number of dissolved in nitric acid corrosion, combined with carving, scraping, filling and other techniques to express the ancient and modern themes have their own characteristics of innovative works, has been to participate in several exhibitions abroad, so that the Huangyan turn spring bamboo carving has reached the history of the never-before-seen brilliance, and thus lead to A good story of Guo Lao and the turning of the spring.

In May 1964, Mr. Guo Moruo, President of the Chinese Academy of Sciences, came to Huangyan, visited Huangyan bamboo carving and gave a very high evaluation: "Huangyan bamboo carving using Chinese painting techniques, painting techniques and carving knife into one, there are pictures, inscriptions, stamps, constituting a piece of poetic and picturesque artifacts. Really worthy of one of the three major carvings in Zhejiang." And the collection of the late Mr. Chen Fangjun, an old artist based on the works of Tang Yin carving of the "Autumn Wind Playboy Fan Figure" palm fan, later treasured in the Shanghai Museum. In the same year, the Central Radio and Television Station came to Huangyan to film the whole process of bamboo carving production process, broadcast to the whole country. But by the end of the 1970s, the rise of Western crafts led to the decline of Oriental crafts (bamboo carving).

In 1998, Huangyan flip spring products in Huangyan District Government support, production has been restored and has a greater development. 1998, has been engaged in the flip spring research in Zhejiang Province Arts and Crafts Master Luo Qisong set up the "Taizhou Huangyan flip spring research institute" and served as the director of several apprentices to learn the art. Under the efforts of Luo Qisong, Huangyan turning spring has played a song of triumph. 1999 Huangyan turning spring products won the "Zhejiang China Folk Art Exhibition" Gold Medal, 2005 won the "Sixth China Arts and Crafts Masters and China Arts and Crafts Excellence Fair In 2005, it won the "Sixth China Arts and Crafts Masters and China Arts and Crafts Excellence Expo" Gold Medal, and in 2000, 2001, 2002 and 2003, it won the Silver Medal of the First, Second, Third and Fourth National Hangzhou West Lake Expo respectively, and was praised by the relevant leaders at the Expo.

In order to make the Huangyan turn over the reed bamboo carving of this traditional craft has been rescued, protection and development, Huangyan District Government cultural sector in May 2004 to participate in the first China Folk Crafts Expo of arts and craftsmen to give a certain amount of economic support, and award-winning works were given awards, but also specifically set up a special protection fund.

May 2006, Taizhou City, Huangyan District, over the spring bamboo carving art museum was established, Luo Qisong, Gu Qimang become the museum's important two over the spring bamboo carving artists.