History of mounter

Mounter is an ancient profession. 1973 silk paintings of emperors and dragons unearthed from Chu tombs in the Warring States Period in Hunan Province and silk paintings unearthed from Han tombs No.1 in Mawangdui, Changsha, are all on T-shaped silk paintings, wrapped with bamboo poles and tied with brown ribbons, and the two lower corners in the middle and lower parts are decorated with cylindrical tapestries woven with blue fine linen. These characteristics show the origin of ancient painting and calligraphy mounting. It has a history of more than two thousand years. The earliest record of mounting historical materials is Zhang Yanyuan's "Famous Paintings of Past Dynasties" in Tang Dynasty. It mentioned: "The Jin Dynasty has passed and the back is not good. Song put it on his back and laughed. Fan Hua, the author of the Book of the Later Han Dynasty and a historian of the Southern Song Dynasty, was an early famous figure in the history of mounting in China. Emperor Taizong made great efforts to collect Wang Xizhi's calligraphy and famous paintings of past dynasties, appointed Wang Hang to mount them directly, and Chu Suiliang and Wang Zhijing supervised them, which shows that the Tang Dynasty attached importance to mounting paintings. At that time, Nakagawa from Nara came to China to study mounting technology, and Emperor Taizong personally ordered Zhang Yanyuan to teach mounting technology. Since then, China's mounting technology has spread to Japan, and has taken root, sprouted, blossomed and borne fruit in foreign countries. In the Five Dynasties, mounting technology was further developed. In the Northern Song Dynasty, the Song Dynasty established the Painting Academy, which became one of the six outstanding imperial edicts of the Academy. Under the advocacy of the royal family, and on the basis of careful exploration by painters and mounters, painters Mi Fei and Mi Youren often study mounting design with the mounters, and invented technologies such as washing and finishing of ancient silk and ancient paper. Because it was built in the Xuanhe period, it is called Xuanhe Mounting, which has been passed down to this day. Finally, the famous "Xuanhe Mounting" format was formed. This also marks the beginning of China painting and calligraphy mounting technology entering the folk. Especially in the five hundred years of Ming and Qing dynasties, mounting technology became a specialized industry. In Suzhou, Yangzhou, Beijing, Shanghai, Hunan, Hubei, Kaifeng and other places, there are many famous painting and calligraphy mounting shops and professional mounters. In modern times, the appearance of machines made the traditional manual mounter technology almost lost, and the mounter became a veritable craftsman. Without a machine, he can't mount calligraphy and painting. Although machine painting is fast, there are also many inevitable problems, such as traditional charm and uncovering. A good mounter is called a "good worker". When mounting calligraphy and painting, especially when re-mounting ancient calligraphy and painting, we should be cautious and consult experienced craftsmen. Zhou in the Ming Dynasty said in the Book of Ornaments: "The previous generation of calligraphy and painting has been passed down to this day, and no one can leave it. If you want to modify it, it will be easier to get sick and delay medical treatment; If the doctor is not good, he will die with the medicine. The so-called' no medicine like Chinese medicine', if you don't meet a good worker, you would rather keep the old things. " The paintings and calligraphy of the previous generation have been passed down by many dynasties and have been preserved to this day. If you want to reinstall it and change the decoration, it's just like seeing a doctor for serious illness. Doctors with good medical skills can get rid of diseases and recover quickly. If the doctor is incompetent, the patient will die after taking the medicine. Therefore, it is a mild treatment to keep patients intact without medication, and it is best not to use drugs indiscriminately. By the same token, ancient paintings and calligraphy treasures have never met excellent mounters, and they prefer to preserve the old paintings that have been removed so as not to be exposed and destroyed by bad workers when they are re-mounted. Re-mounting of ancient paintings and calligraphy is like delaying the treatment of diseases, which shows the importance of re-mounting of ancient paintings and calligraphy. It is an important contribution to the protection of ancient paintings and calligraphy that the old paintings and calligraphy that need to be re-mounted should be repaired and mounted by traditional mounting technology so that they can be preserved for a long time. If you meet a mediocre worker and make an operation at random, you will die, so the skill of mounting is the key to the survival of ancient calligraphy and painting. Only when the mounter improves his skills to a certain height can he better mount ancient calligraphy and painting, so as not to destroy precious historical sites by himself. For example, in the process of uncovering and repairing, old calligraphy and painting are often rinsed with bleaching powder in order to be clean and beautiful. A little carelessness will cause more serious corrosion to the drawing paper. This will do great harm to the protection of historical sites. Gu Shuhua, which is very precious, can be re-framed, and its value can be doubled. If it is not reinstalled, it will become waste, so be careful. Manual machine mounting Manual machine mounting is a quick and practical mounting technical scheme developed on the basis of traditional manual mounting and modern machine mounting, which makes calligraphy and painting mounting very easy and simple. It not only solves the problem of slow speed of traditional mounting, but also solves the problem of uncovering the cover of modern machine mounting. A few days ago, an innovative painting and calligraphy mounting technology based on traditional mounting and modern machine mounting came out. This perfect combination of traditional and modern mounting technology is called "manual machine mounting" in the industry. According to the person in charge of Cultural China Painting and Calligraphy Mounting Training Center, this technology is a quick and practical mounting solution based on more than ten years' practical experience, which enables students to master traditional manual mounting and modern machine mounting in just one week. In particular, the center's original "manual machine mounting" technology makes calligraphy and painting mounting very easy and simple. It not only solves the problem of slow traditional mounting speed, but also solves the problem that modern machine mounting is not easy to uncover. As this technology is easy to learn, Cultural China Painting and Calligraphy Mounting Training Center decided to make it public and train students for the whole society. Those who have no foundation or foundation can come to learn and communicate.