The Dilemma of Dry Paint Sandwiching Bamboo

At present, Tang Chunfu and his artists Zheng Bingrui and Jinhong Primary School are the main inheritors of dry lacquer bamboo art in Tiantai Mountain. Its products have been collected by 49 countries and regions, and won many international and domestic arts and crafts gold medals. The painting technology of bamboo and wood in Tiantai Mountain not only has important technical and artistic value, but also has irreplaceable practical value in restoring ancient buildings and cultural relics, and can achieve the effect of correcting the old.

Bamboo dry paint technology is a traditional handicraft skill used by Tiantai folk craftsmen for a long time It can fully embody the artistic charm of artists in sculpture, painting and other fields in one work. As a stunt with a long history, it witnessed the history and played a certain role in promoting the development of Buddhist culture in Tiantai Mountain. In a sense, it is an integral part of Buddhist culture in Tiantai Mountain. It has complicated procedures from raw material selection, processing and refining to process production, and each process has certain requirements. It embodies the wisdom of ancient craftsmen and contains rich scientific and technological connotations. It is an extremely valuable historical heritage and plays an irreplaceable role in the modern restoration of ancient buildings and cultural relics.

As a unique skill with a long history, dry paint on bamboo slips has witnessed history. From raw material selection, processing and refining to process production, the procedures are complicated, and the first process has certain requirements. It embodies the wisdom of ancient craftsmen and contains rich scientific and technological connotations. It is an extremely valuable historical heritage and plays an irreplaceable role in the modern restoration of ancient buildings and cultural relics.

However, due to the difficulty of dry painting, the craftsman's technical requirements are high and the learning period is long, so it faces the dilemma of lack of successors. Young people don't want to learn. As veteran artists get older, fewer and fewer people will master this skill. How to inherit the unique skill of dry-painted bamboo and wood has become an urgent and important issue.

It's not just the lack of successors. Due to the artificial destruction of the origin of raw materials used in this process, the supply of raw materials is in short supply, which makes this process face an endangered situation. In addition, driven by interests, some workshops do not strictly follow the traditional process and use modern chemical synthetic materials in the production process, resulting in counterfeit products flooding the market, while real handicrafts are difficult to sell and the development space is shrinking day by day.

However, it is gratifying that since the 1990s, governments at all levels have begun to pay attention to the excavation and protection of this traditional craft and adopted various measures to protect the dry-painted bamboo and wood craft. Since 2003, China Buddhist City in Tiantai Mountain has invested 500,000 yuan every year for the innovation and transformation of this technological process.

The ancient traditional handicraft skill of Tiantai-bamboo slips dry paint will be endowed with new life and exert its unique value and infinite charm.