Huishan clay man Daafu production method and its specific research literature is what?

Huishan clay figure - commonly known as "mud mold mold", Wuxi's famous traditional folk colorful art, rumored to have more than 400 years of history. With oil gluten, "meat bones" (sauce moxibustion ribs) and known as "Wuxi three treasures". Because of the use of Huishan foothills black mud production and named. Wuxi Huishan Clay Figure Factory produces simple, concise, harmonious clay modeling, bright colors, with a strong sense of local flavor and Jiangnan style. The factory's products sell well in more than 60 countries and regions, is loved by people at home and abroad, the desktop furnishings crafts.

--From Fudan University Press "Wuxi Dictionary"

Huishan clay figure is one of the famous specialties of Wuxi, with a history of more than four hundred years. Whether it's the naive, joyful and peaceful Dafu, or the hand-kneaded playwrights with both color and shape and delicate workmanship, all of them have left a deep impression on people. But this rotten mud mold mold in the end how to do it?

A few days ago, the reporter asked a number of production of Wuxi Huishan masters of clay, from them to know the story behind the production of Huishan mud people.

Huishan clay: Baoshanqiao area is the best

"Huizhen mountain soil as moisten", which is the Song Dynasty poet Su Dongpo at the foot of Huishan natural clay praise. Huishan's clay is very unique, its color is brownish black or brown, good viscous toughness, not easy to crack, not easy to collapse, less sand content, is the best raw material for the production of Huishan mudman, its quality quality directly affects the formation of Huishan mudman style.

Chinese arts and crafts master Yu Xianglian told reporters that the production of Huishan mudman clay selection is very careful. Huishan north slope of the foot of a piece of soil for the production of Huishan mudman the main source, which in turn to the Baoshanqiao area of the black mud for the best. For "Huishan mudman clay is getting less and less" this statement, the master gave a completely negative. She said, with the development of the economy, the expansion of urban areas, and now many farmland are converted into industrial plants, streets, residential areas, available for mud less and less places, but this does not mean that Huishan mud storage less and less. Right now they use Huishan mud from Huichan Road Swan near the rice paddies, choose the ground 1 meter below the soil, every 500 grams of Huishan mud purchase price of about 1 yuan, but buy back can not be directly on the production of mud people, the need for repeated volts, pounding processing, the mud in the fire and alkali is almost released before you can formally used for the production of mud people, the general process takes about a year. "Huishan mud and aged wine, the longer the better quality, I have placed these mud more than half a year," said pointing to the corner of the studio piles of Huishan mud packaged in plastic bags for reporters to see.

Daafu: classic rough goods have "mold" style

Mudman according to the production process, art form and artistic style is broadly divided into two categories, namely, "rough goods" and "fine goods ". "Coarse goods" are generally printed with molds, and "fine goods" by the artists directly pinched. From modeling to painting, the style of "coarse goods" is rough and concise, while "fine goods" is more realistic, delicate and exquisite. Traditionally, hand-kneaded clay figures and hand-kneaded operas are called "fine goods". Nowadays, the expression form and subject matter of fine goods are much richer than in the past. Hand-kneaded opera text is a representative work of hand-kneaded clay figures, is a large category, its content is mostly based on the plot of the opera characters, so it is named. The well-known "Big Afu" is a classic coarse product among Huishan clay figures.

Rough goods does not mean rough workmanship, it is the Huishan clay figure of the strongest vitality, the longest history, the highest visibility of a major category. The "Big Afu" is the best choice for gifts to friends and relatives because of its peaceful shape, clear eyebrows, pleasant face and smile. Almost all the masters of the past generations have made "Daafu", but each one of them has a different flavor and splendor.

Wuxi Huishan clay figure factory chairman, senior arts and crafts master Shen Dajue told reporters that the artistic style and characteristics of the rough goods is unique, due to more than a single piece of mold or double piece of mold printed into type, forcing the creator in the shape of suitable for demolding and become rounded, and high relief lines to express the work of the undulating contours of the work, so that both to adapt to the production of printing blanks, but also adapted to the colorful painting of the brush smoothly. There is a considerable part of the work in the back is flat curved, and does not have any modeling. Such rough goods in the use of pattern color and line pattern selection is very careful, with color often break the limitations of the original hue, more bold, and some of the traditional myths in the color combination. The whole work is simple, naive, funny and exudes a strong local flavor.