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Millennium pottery village inheritance encountered difficulties innovative development of handicrafts to break the bottleneck

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2023-10-07 10:56

China New net Hefei, March 22 Pottery is one of the signs of the development of human society from the Paleolithic Age to the Neolithic Age. In Zim Township, known as the "hometown of pottery in southwest Anhui", there are still six thousand years of hand-made pottery and dragon kiln firing skills.
Zim Township is located in Qianshan City, Anhui Province, it is understood that the local due to sufficient sunshine, long frost-free period, deposited a large number of high-quality natural clay and rich pine fuel, with unique pottery conditions. Due to the high terrain in the south and low in the north, the area is also conducive to the construction of dragon kilns.

Cheng Baiquan, a non-genetic descendant of the city of Zemu ancient pottery, told the author that a large number of archaeological data found that the Zemu ancient pottery and Xuejiagang human site with a history of six thousand years have been a common furnace and passed on in one line, which is recognized as a "living fossil" in the history of pottery by the archaeological community. "At present, there is still a Gulong kiln in Zemu Township, the general length of the dragon kiln is 30-60 meters, and the length of the Zemu kiln is nearly 100 meters, the kiln is long, the kiln temperature is high, and the fired pottery is highly vitrified. Natural clay and Gulong kiln are important factors for firing high-quality tea sets. Therefore, the protection unit of the Dragon Kiln has been recognized as the 'Anhui Province intangible cultural heritage transmission base'."
There are more than 400 varieties of pom pottery according to different uses, which can be roughly divided into two categories: daily necessities and religious utensils. Entering the product exhibition hall, Tu Shengyou, 54, the provincial-level inheritor of Zim pottery handmade skills, is studying cultural and creative products. In 1980, at the age of 18, Tu Shengyou became a potter.
"I didn't learn either. At that time, there were no men who couldn't make pottery, and no women who couldn't carve applique." According to Tu Shengyou, the firing of pottery to go through mud, mud, painting, glazing and other more than 20 processes, complex pure manual process on temperature, humidity, lighting environment and other requirements are very high, "such as the blank is dry, can not be exposed to the sun, firing takes 72 hours, at least 72 hours of insulation." Under normal weather, it takes nearly two months to make a teapot."
"Last year, we held the 'First International Cultural and Art Exchange Activity of Qianshan · Qimu Ancient Pottery', which attracted artists and tourists from nine countries and regions including the United States and the United Kingdom to exchange views and spread Qimu ancient pottery culture through live streaming." Cheng Baiquan said that in order to inherit and promote the ancient pottery culture, the inheritors also combined the two core skills of the intangible cultural heritage, "Zimu pottery handmade technology" and "Zimlong kiln wood burning technology", cleverly used kiln techniques to develop hundreds of tourism handicrafts such as incense burners, clay pottery tea sets, tableware, and tea cans, and established relevant documentary image archives. For protection, inheritance and research.
However, at present, the development of Zymgutao is still facing difficulties. Cheng Baiquan believes that in recent years, it has become normal for traditional craftsmen to abandon their art and change careers, leave their posts due to illness or die one after another, and under the guidance of the government, proficient craftsmen should participate in it. In addition, we should also increase the investment in the facilities and services of the ancient pottery in order to meet the growing needs of pottery experience, research travel, and artistic creation. "We hope that the pottery can be passed down in protection and developed in inheritance." Cheng Baiquan said. (over)