4 years of visits to create Songshan special wedding rituals silver jewelry

"Songshan foot silversmith, mouth blowing millennium silver welding lamp. Artistic name smile a Qin Tianlu, purple cloud silver palm court. Hearth fire pure green silversmith furnace, good to do the tiger's head handicraft fine ......" Songshan area circulated such a limerick, the main character is born in Dengfeng City, Dajindian Town Qin Tianlu. 1981, at the age of 17 years old, he followed his master to learn to play silver, began the traditional handmade silverware production road. Since 1986, he has trained more than 40 folk handmade silversmiths.

Learning to "hit the silver" in the heritage of innovation

Silver production techniques to go through the process of opening, whisking silver bars, quenching, wire drawing, welding and so on. Speaking of mastering all the production techniques, Qin Tianlu said: "silver playing skills are not outsiders, at first you can only learn the most basic open piece of the process, the master went out to lock the door of the inner room." But day after day, their own honesty and trustworthiness, down-to-earth character impressed the master, respectively, access to the key to the inner room and silversmith store account book, "until the master's deathbed, and the ancestral copper plate grinding tool to me, and to teach to fight the silver with the soldering secret formula".

1985, has mastered all the processes of silver production Qin Tianlu began to inherit the master's industry, alone to hold up the front to run the business. In the process of inheriting the traditional silver jewelry skills, he continued to incorporate the culture of other ethnic minorities in the neighborhood and processing techniques, retaining the ancient copper go silver, silver go gold, fried beads, gilt, filigree, hollowing, drawing and other traditional crafts.

mining songshan culture, good to do tiger head craftsmanship

songshan area since ancient times, there is a bride from the sedan chair take hold of the tiger head of the wedding culture. Qin Tianlu follow the master to learn to play silver, the production of the traditional hand takings tiger, and inspired him to innovate the development of Songshan tiger idea but from the customer's casual mention. "She casually mentioned a tiger head for why can not wear, I got on the heart."

Since 2012, Qin Tianlu studied Songshan wedding culture. He learned that the Songshan wedding customs "rolling mill into a marriage" legend circulated in the village of Tangzhuang mill ditch area, they will be 4:00 a.m. tram to the mill ditch to visit, under the guidance of the old village head, exploring the mountain interlayer naturally formed within the convex and concave texture of the mill fan stone, he worshiped the mountain people as a teacher, listen to the "grinding into a marriage" ancient legend. He studied with the mountain people as his teacher and listened to the ancient legend of "Rolling the Mill to Make a Marriage". After four years of folk visits, Qin Tianlu in 2016 created a series of wedding ceremonial silver jewelry with Songshan cultural characteristics.

Nowadays, the silver jewelry making technique is included in the intangible cultural heritage program of Dengfeng City. Qin Tianlu as the fifth generation of skills inheritors, continue to excavate the Songshan culture, with a unique production technology to enrich the connotation of Songshan silver jewelry, he "purple cloud Xiang silversmith furnace" as a training base, held skills training courses, has been systematically trained more than 50 students. He said: "The skills need more craftsmen to inherit, carry forward the traditional silver culture of Songshan region."