Yixing Zisha Pot Master-Hua Xueqin: Break through the shackles, be a living Zisha Pot

The presentation of Yixing teapot, clay, design, production or firing, which is the most important?

There is no doubt that it is design.

For every masterpiece handed down from generation to generation, design must come first.

Tens of thousands of Yixing purple sand pot-making artists in Ding Shu have become masters without exception, and all of them have profound design skills.

This issue of "Retaining Artists" talks with Teacher Hua Xueqin and listens to her "Zisha" road.

Hua Xueqin, a senior one student in Dingshu High School.

According to her grades, she should have been admitted to a university and entered a big city. Maybe her life is different now.

But to the surprise of many people, after graduation, she took the initiative to enter Yixing purple sand industry.

"When my family was a little poor, my sister had been admitted to college. In order to relieve the pressure, I heard that Yixing Zisha made money and took the initiative. "

Unintentionally inserted willows into the shade.

Hua Xueqin, who is somewhat stubborn, chose it, which is a lifelong matter.

"At that time, there were many people who studied with me. If it was too bitter, I retired. Later, the industry declined for a while, and many people changed careers. "

"But I have always insisted because I have strong feelings for this land." Of course, now it seems that I have chosen the right industry.

I am most afraid that talented people are still working hard.

Hua Xueqin studied under Song Shunying, a purple sand artist, and Mr. Wu Ming, a master of arts and crafts in China. She also studied design at Nanjing Normal University, advanced course of ceramic humanities and arts at Tsinghua Academy of Fine Arts, and studied body art in Shanghai.

In addition to systematic study, she also plans to visit major museums every year, participate in or watch curatorial exhibitions, and travel around the world.

"I have also been to Dunhuang and visited those murals, which touched me a lot." In Hua Xueqin's view, the horizon determines the height, and artistic creation is not imaginary, but a lot of accumulation.

Before 20 14, her works were deeply influenced by master Wu Ming. "The shadow of a master is often inseparable from her works", such as Athena Chu and a winding path leading to a secluded place.

"In the future, I will focus on designing something with my own unique personality." During this period, her talent was released like a rabbit.

"Reading at Night with Five Lights" takes purple mud and black star soil as purple mud, with four cups in a pot.

Green lanterns and candlesticks are put into the pot to reproduce the scene of "studying hard at a cold window for ten years" The red light is the fire of hope in the hearts of lonely and boring readers, and all efforts are only to look forward to "becoming the first".

Bitter before sweet, life is always like this.

Four cups of delicate and graceful, five sets of engraved themes of Wang Guowei's life. "When I suddenly look back, that person is there, and the lights are dim." This point also contains profound meaning.

In the last two years, "I am learning from the bronze symbol elements of Han Meilin style and expressing my understanding with Yixing Zisha".

She showed us some recent works, among which "Missing the Moon" attracted everyone's attention almost instantly.

Three pots are a set, abstracted from many elements such as crescent moon, ancient jade and phoenix tail.

Some people say that the pot is like a person reciting poems to the moon, with charming and steady lines.

It is also said that Sanguo is more like three age groups in life, with "teenagers" thriving, "middle-aged" persistent and "old" dying.

Teacher Hua said, "You know, he knows, I know." That's all.

Good works can really arouse the hearts of creators and audiences.

But compared with making pots, Hua Xueqin is now doing more creative design of Yixing purple sand.

There are many things in my mind, and I don't know how they jumped out.

"I want to eat and sleep, and I want to repeatedly conceive how these things are expressed in purple sand and how to do it in actual operation."

And these designs, she bluntly is not purely pursuing interests, "I hope to do something for Zisha".

"Our precious purple sand resources have enabled countless people, including me, to achieve themselves, so I must repay the society."

The first floor of her studio is for personal use, and the second floor is a public welfare teaching room, "to teach more people their own accumulation and experience and let them enjoy these achievements".

Even she will tailor works for students, "designing works that meet their cognition according to different personalities, and giving young people more opportunities to try".

Students will also take part in the competition with their works. "Last year, seven people went to the competition and six people won the prize, which gave them a different sense of accomplishment, no matter what the number was."

In addition, she will do a lot of charitable social work, and this selfless feeling is destined to be a person's realm.

Sure enough, when we asked her about her future career plan, her answer was not unexpected.

"Yixing Zisha should not just follow the tradition. I want to do something different seriously. Like my master, he has been doing something different from tradition. " .

"I hope that the works that can be done well in the future will break through the previous form, and the works that can be left have their own marks."

I believe that Mr. Hua Xueqin, who combines talent, hard work and brains, will be able to achieve his goal.

Huaxueqin archives

senior artist and craftsman

Famous Ceramic Artists in Jiangsu Province

Member of China Democratic League

Representative inheritor of Yixing intangible cultural heritage

Tao Dou, one of the top ten young ceramists in Yixing in the 3rd session.

Tao dou yi xing famous pot maker

Winner of the first prize of three handcraft pottery competitions in 2007, 2008 and 2009.