"Silk people" is also called

"Beijing Juanren", correct name

The art of "silk sculpture". It is a kind of silk soft deformation process, which is a very long-standing manual skill that has been passed down in our country, and has a history of more than 1,000 years.

Beijing Juanren is China's traditional national handicrafts, this kind of handicrafts shaped by silk, the whole body of the characters from top to bottom clothing, clothing and silk flowers on the head, palace lamps in the hands, silk fans, etc. are all high-quality silk, silk yarn and silk.

Therefore, the raw materials for the production of silk people are very exquisite. Because most of the works of the silk people are based on the maids, drama characters and folk dance models in Chinese folk tales; Therefore, it has an extremely strong traditional style and national style.

In addition, the early stage of the production of a silk figure pays attention to the creative motivation, the background of the times and the historical significance, each work (like: 56 ethnic three-dimensional silk people) also involves all the skills of the silk sculpture process, which embodies the difficulty and highest level of the silk sculpture art, and is an outstanding representative of the silk sculpture process.

Silk man, that is, an art humanoid made of silk, silk, yarn, silk, Luo, silk and other materials. Juanren art originated in the Northern Song Dynasty of China and has a history of more than 1,000 years.

Folk cloth toys

"Needle prick",

Handicrafts such as "Caiza" are inextricably linked with it. The birth of Beijing Juanren was in the mid-50s after the founding of New China.

At that time, our country was invited to participate in the International Doll Exhibition in New Delhi, India. Ge Jing'an, Li Peifen and several other arts and crafts artists collected information, on the basis of absorbing the traditional Chinese and foreign art humanoid production technology, tried to produce five works that expressed the image of ethnic minority women to participate in the competition, and for the first time the silk yarn was applied to the head and face of the figure, forming a lead wire to make bones, cotton to muscle, yarn to make skin technology.

Later, they tried to produce many new works, and in this way, they restored the skills that had been lost.

The production of the silk people has to go through more than a dozen processes such as carving, head making, hand making, clothing painting, headdress, props, etc., and finally assembled into three-dimensional shapes.

Every process requires exquisite and superb skills, and each piece of work requires silk yarn to be given life and silk to spirituality.

The most charming thing about a silk figure work is the display of the momentary demeanor of the characters, and countless smart details achieve the moment of expressiveness.

Among them, the production of the head and hands is the most powerful. To make the head, you must first sculpt a head shape, paste silk fabric on the face, wait for drying, and then paste the second layer of silk fabric, and finally paste silk fabric, and dry it again.

The key is to grasp the drying time and the wetness of the silk fabric. The moisture content of the head silk fabric is moderate to ensure the face

The "skin" is smooth, delicate, and vivid. After the head is dried, draw the eyes, eyelashes, lips, blush and eye shadow.

Finally, in the head made of

The "empty shell" mold is filled with cotton and other materials. In addition to superb skills, the production of silk people with unique hands requires great skill, but also patience.

Five thin wires are tied to form the bones of the fingers, and then each of them is wound with absorbent cotton to form the shape of the fingers.

The best part is the next step: sew tiny gloves out of soft silk fabric and turn them over.

How do you flip each finger of each glove when each finger is less than 2 mm? Mr. Slip smiled mysteriously: "This is a secret. There were Japanese craftsmen who came to Beijing to learn from them, but this is our unique job, and we must not let them learn it. "After the gloves are sewn, the thin metal wire is twisted and bent to make hand shapes such as orchid fingers and Buddha fingers, and some of them need to be dyed red nails and have rings.

All of this is done on a silk fabric of less than 2 centimeters, and the threads and stitches are not exposed.

The shape of the silk figure is relatively simple to make. First, use metal wire to make an adult-shaped skeleton and limbs, and locate the three-dimensional size of the human body according to the scale.

When filling the body with cotton and paper wool, it is necessary to have a slim figure, round shoulders and back, and a full chest and hips to reflect the physical beauty of the figure.

If one person completes the entire production of the silk figure, it will take as little as a month, and even two or three months for the complex characters.

The shape of the silk people is exquisitely introduced by Mr. Slip, and the Beijing Juanren are mostly based on ancient Chinese folk tales, literary masterpieces, and characters in excerpts from Peking Opera.

The most common is the image of an ancient lady. Mr. Hua believes that no one will favor the handicrafts without characteristics, in order to create more characters, he reads history books, visits places of interest, and finds inspiration for creation from the precipitation of history.

Now, the main characters in the four famous novels, the four ancient beauties who sink into the fish, the geese, the moon and the flowers, as well as more than 100 characters such as Mulan and Mu Guiying, are vividly displayed in front of people.

Mr. Slip's proudest work is

"Yang Guifei", this character is based on the story of Yang Guifei's visit to the garden. The concubine is holding a peony round fan, with a plump body, long-sleeved neon clothes, and a swaying hairpin ring, showing her grace and luxury.

In ancient times, bamboo and paper were popular among the people in China to make various handicrafts. When Emperor Yang of the Sui Dynasty went down to the south of the Yangtze River, flowers bloomed along the way.

When he returned to the palace, he ordered all the palace ladies to tie silk into flowers, dye them and place them in the court, so that they could feel the full spring spirit all year round.

In 1973, archaeologists found silk wood maids (the head is made of wood, and the clothes are made of silk cloth) among the unearthed cultural relics in Astana, Turpan, Xinjiang.

After research, it was made for the seventh year of Zhenguan in the Tang Dynasty (633 AD). It has also become the earliest original form of the silk man that can be traced.

In the Ming Dynasty, the production of silk people has been quite extensive among the people. In the Qing Dynasty, the old birthday star and Magu who were tied with silk silk yarn were together with Shou Tao Shou noodles and became a good product to congratulate the birthday.