On December 29, 2017, the Linhai Museum was officially opened to the world, and the exhibits in the museum are ten thousand years old, which makes people feel the speed of time. However, the exhibition of 100 crafts held in the Linhai Museum yesterday slowed down time with the faces of old artists and the meticulously carved old objects.
It was New Year’s Day, and there were many citizens who went to the Linhai City Museum to “read history”. In the Linhai Hundred Crafts Exhibition Hall on the first floor, there are more young people and parents with children who come to the literary and artistic style, and the design and layout of the exhibition hall is full of literary and artistic style.
Exquisite wooden “green cake print”, bamboo chairs with the fragrance of bamboo, dark red heavy handmade hoop buckets, and small pu fans with large brown bandages…… These objects seem to be getting farther and farther away from our current lives, but they can immediately bring back our childhood memories.
At the invitation of the organizers, 20 veteran craftsmen who made these exhibits came to the scene to explain these slowly fading skills to the citizens.
This year’s 60-year-old craftsman Peng Jiaxue, 14 years old began to learn the arts, and bamboo has been dealing with almost a lifetime. Lao Peng has accepted 7 apprentices, and the one who has insisted the longest also changed his career more than ten years ago, but for Lao Peng, who has been a craftsman for a lifetime, these calloused hands have long been inseparable from bamboo.
The initiator of the exhibition, “Uncle Ge”, is a post-80s generation, who brought together a group of young people with different talents but the same ideals, looking for veteran craftsmen, collecting information, and shooting feature films, presenting this unusual exhibition to the public.
“Uncle Ge” said with a smile that these skills, if they are not discovered and preserved, will definitely slowly fade out of our field of vision, “Just imagine, no matter how good the craftsmanship is, who will buy a handmade robe?”
“Uncle Ge” said, “Recording these is not only for nostalgia, but to show a better waterfront.” According to reports, there are now more than 30 craftsman videos recorded by the Baigong Exhibition team, and according to the plan, they will find 100 craftsmen in Taizhou to record their perseverance and inheritance in various ways.