The leader of Yishui inkstone

Zou Hongli

Zou Hongli: Born on the banks of Yishui River, he loved painting and calligraphy, reading and listening to his father's stories about Yi Mo and Yi Yan. In primary school, he knew the status of inkstone culture in China, a big country with oriental civilization. In college, he was still attached to Yishui inkstone in his hometown, looking up information on famous inkstones and visiting famous sculptors. After graduating from college, I returned to my hometown. After work, I often studied Yishui inkstone, focusing on the revitalization and rise of Yishui inkstone.

In p>1992, Zou Hongli and his wife Zhang Shufen founded the Yanxiadu Yishui guyan Factory (the predecessor of Hebei Yishui inkstone Co., Ltd.). In order to inherit and develop Yishui inkstone and reproduce its brilliance, they set up the first Yishui guyan Technical School in Yixian County, which integrates training, production and exhibition, and invited the Central Academy of Fine Arts and famous sculptors and painters from all over the country to teach and spread their skills, so as to integrate modern sculpture, calligraphy and painting into traditional Yishui inkstone carving and inject new vitality into Yishui guyan. After more than ten years' study, Zou Hongli and Zhang Shufen became experts and masters of inkstone making. According to the situation that the practicability of inkstone is weakened and the appreciation is strengthened, Zou Hongli reformed and innovated, and the design and carving of Yishui inkstone highlighted artistry, appreciation and collection, which made Yishui inkstone develop into a series of varieties, and the products developed from a single dragon and phoenix inkstone into dozens of series and hundreds of varieties such as landscape, scenic spots, heroes, birds, animals, insects, fish, flowers and trees, which made Yishui inkstone out of the trough and grow stronger.

In order to improve the popularity and reputation of Yishui inkstone, Zou Hongli pioneered the production of Chinese giant inkstone, and developed and produced an unprecedented inkstone sculpture by using Yishui's unique giant inkstone materials and technical strength-in 1997, a 6-ton giant inkstone "Gui Yan" was produced to welcome the return of Hong Kong, and the Great Hall of the People.

In p>1999, in order to welcome the 5th anniversary of New China, he designed and produced a 3-ton "China Kowloon Giant Ink Stone" which was displayed at the China Millennium Monument in Beijing.

On the occasion of the Sino-French Cultural Year in p>24, Zou Hongli carefully designed and produced a superb "Gankun Chaoyang Ink Stone", which was presented to French President Jacques Chirac who was visiting China on October 1th. Yi Shuiyan's masterpiece Shuanglong Jubao was collected by South Korean President Lee Myung-bak. The masterpiece of giant inkstone designed and produced by Mr. Zou Hongli, Zhonghua Tenglong inkstone, has been carved in Hebei Yishui inkstone Co., Ltd. under his leadership. Its volume, weight and technology are the highest in the world, and it has been declared in Guinness Book of Records. It took three years from design conception, stone mining to the completion of the giant inkstone, which is called a strange inkstone in the world. Its birth marks that the carving skill of Yishui inkstone has reached a very high level, which is the icing on the cake for the Chinese inkstone art.

Yishuiyan's design and carving team headed by Zou Hongli:

Li Xiaofeng-master of arts and crafts design in Hebei Province, first-class sculptor of Hebei Yishuiyan Co., Ltd. Good at dragon inkstone carving.

Wang Haiyang is a master of arts and crafts design in Hebei province and a first-class sculptor of Hebei Yishui inkstone Co., Ltd. Good at carving landscape figures.

Cui wenlong is a master of arts and crafts design in Hebei province and a first-class sculptor of Hebei Yishui inkstone co., ltd. Good at flower and bird carving.

there are more than 3 design and carving masters, such as famous teachers and masters, and the fine inkstone has carved a superb Yishui inkstone.