Wild grass may seem ordinary, but it has tenacious vitality. Bai Ju changed his famous sentence: "Wildfires can't be burned, and the spring breeze blows and grows." "It's about the weeds. Not to mention the roots of weeds, which symbolize strength and hope, and are full of positive energy that has been striving for progress.

Using "grassroots" to describe Yuan Yingde, a purple pottery arts and crafts master who passed on his disciples to Fugong and grew up in the village of Jianshui Wanyao in the ancient city, is the most appropriate.

Yuan Yingde was 14 years old when he entered the factory that year, and he clearly remembers that in the autumn of 1962, he walked through the rice fields with rolling golden rice waves into the Jianshui County Pottery Factory. He was fortunate to be apprenticed under the master pottery master Xiang Fengchun's son Xiang Fugong.

In order to learn the unique skill of drawing the blank, under the oral transmission of Xiang Fugong, Yuan Yingde "played with mud" and became addicted, his hands cracked, regardless of the cold winter, I don't know how much mud I touched, how many blanks I pulled, and finally I was able to move with my heart and realize that the blank came out.

One by one, the high-quality purple clay clay pieces magically conjured out of his hands, and then flowed to the hands of customers through the follow-up process.

Two years later, the pottery factory was divided into a clay pottery factory and an art pottery factory, and he moved with the art pottery factory to a place more than ten miles away from the original factory, and soon moved back to the original place. In 1983, when he reached retirement age, he reluctantly left the Arts and Crafts Pottery Factory.

People don't retreat from art. After returning home, he showed off his skills in pottery and later opened a family purple pottery workshop in his home in Wanyao Village.

He opened the pottery workshop he guarded the character of the purple pottery artist, and the purple pottery he made was not only beautiful in shape, generous, high quality, loved by everyone, but also the price was in the middle of the way, and it was worth the price.

The most important thing is that he is low-key, his style is steady and down-to-earth, not vain, although he has reached the level of perfection in pottery skills such as blank drawing, but he does not show off, but quietly freezes himself in the simple pottery workshop, and turns those prepared clay into purple pottery works of art magically.

His purple pottery store is not as big and magnificent as some pure businessmen, on the contrary, the area is only nearly 100 square meters, because what he pursues is not the maximization of profits, but the perfection of art. Especially in the production skills of the "traditional four bottles" (garlic bottles, straight-mouth bottles, Bogu bottles, and beauty bottles), it is even more superior, and it can be said that it is like seeing the true chapter of his teacher's blessings.

Based on this, his pottery products are also popular with customers inside and outside the province, and the worry is not about sales, but because he is busy and can't do it.

After a customer from Shandong visited his pottery workshop, he was immediately impressed by his exquisite pottery skills, and was deeply attracted by his exquisite purple pottery works.

When the wheels of time rolled into September 2015, Yuan Yingde, a potter whose artistic vitality was as vigorous as the grassroots, was already 67 years old.

It is gratifying that his family's purple pottery shop also opened this month of this year, following the opening of firecrackers, gongs and drums on Zitao Street in Manjin Bay. What made him have mixed feelings was this purple pottery street, which was built on the original site of the Jianshui Arts and Crafts Pottery Factory where he worked for decades.

From being an apprentice in the factory to now opening his own purple pottery shop here, although it seems like a long decades, it seems to be in a blink of an eye when I look back. It was in such a blink of an eye that he experienced the transformation of a purple pottery factory into a pottery workshop and a pottery shop.

However, no matter how changeable the world is, his pursuit of purple pottery art remains the same, and his deep affection for this land remains the same. At the beginning of the opening of the pottery workshop and pottery shop, he and Chen Shaokang, Ma Chenglin and other purple pottery masters carried out a concise kiln opening and opening ceremony in accordance with the tradition, in order to radiate a more beautiful light in the new development of purple pottery art.

He plunged into the pottery workshop and deserved to be the leader of the pottery industry. His purple pottery works are simple and sophisticated, which not only retains the elegant and heavy beauty of the traditional shape of Jianshui purple pottery, but also has the smooth charm of showing his own personality.

Looking at his works, the shape and lines of the vessel are soft and harmonious, like ink paintings, with infinite charm and beauty; Grasp his works, smooth and round, the grip is friendly, and people can't put it down.

Just a stone's throw away from Zitao Street in Manjin Bay and only one street away from Wanyao Village is Yuan Yingde's new home, and most of his homes are surrounded by potters.

In the past, has been accustomed to family workshop management, these years, in all levels of party committees, the attention of the government, Jianshui millennium purple pottery has been paid enough attention, the entire purple pottery industry has developed rapidly, and more and more people have joined the production and sales of pottery.

And his original home is located in the depths of Wanyao Village, although there is a saying that "wine is good and not afraid of deep alleys", but the inconvenience of traffic and the practice of hiding in the deep alleys can not keep up, coupled with the participation of his son Yuan Zhiguo, who graduated from Yunnan University, he discussed with his wife, he decided to go out of the deep alleys, bought a piece of land opposite the entrance of Wanyao Village, and built a four-story new building, in addition to living, the first and second floors became a pottery workshop for making mud, drawing blanks, calligraphy and painting decoration, carving and firing purple pottery.

When I saw Old Master Yuan, in his new pottery workshop, the blank drawing machine was spinning in the corner of the first floor, he looked gray-faced, his clothes were covered with mud, but his face was thick and smiling. I saw him sit in front of the blank drawing machine, and took a piece of clay to the machine plate, and the clay gradually "grew taller" on the rotating machine plate, and finally "grew" into a clay billet - a small plum bottle.

After the blank was drawn, he gently polished the bottle surface and bottle mouth with his fingers, until he saw that the pottery blank was pleasing to the eye, and then he stopped. He said that although he has been pulling blanks for decades, he must not relax for a moment and must be meticulous. Because he remembered his master's teachings to Fugong, art is endless, and he must always be an "apprentice" on the road of art.

Using "grassroots" to describe Yuan Yingde, a purple pottery arts and crafts master who passed on his disciples to Fugong and grew up in the village of Jianshui Wanyao in the ancient city, is the most appropriate.

He opened the pottery workshop he guarded the character of the purple pottery artist, and the purple pottery he made was not only beautiful in shape, generous, high quality, loved by everyone, but also the price was in the middle of the way, and it was worth the price.

The most important thing is that he is low-key, his style is steady and down-to-earth, not vain, although he has reached the level of perfection in pottery skills such as blank drawing, but he does not show off, but quietly freezes himself in the simple pottery workshop, and turns those prepared clay into purple pottery works of art magically.

His purple pottery store is not as big and magnificent as some pure businessmen, on the contrary, the area is only nearly 100 square meters, because what he pursues is not the maximization of profits, but the perfection of art. Especially in the production skills of the "traditional four bottles" (garlic bottles, straight-mouth bottles, Bogu bottles, and beauty bottles), it is even more superior, and it can be said that it is like seeing the true chapter of his teacher's blessings. Based on this, his pottery products are also popular with customers inside and outside the province, and the worry is not about sales, but because he is busy and can't do it.

After a customer from Shandong visited his pottery workshop, he was immediately impressed by his exquisite pottery skills, and was deeply attracted by his exquisite purple pottery works.

When the wheels of time rolled into September 2015, Yuan Yingde, a potter whose artistic vitality was as vigorous as the grassroots, was already 67 years old.

It is gratifying that his family's purple pottery shop also opened this month of this year, following the opening of firecrackers, gongs and drums on Zitao Street in Manjin Bay. What made him have mixed feelings was this purple pottery street, which was built on the original site of the Jianshui Arts and Crafts Pottery Factory where he worked for decades.

From being an apprentice in the factory to now opening his own purple pottery shop here, although it seems like a long decades, it seems to be in a blink of an eye when I look back. It was in such a blink of an eye that he experienced the transformation of a purple pottery factory into a pottery workshop and a pottery shop.

However, no matter how changeable the world is, his pursuit of purple pottery art remains the same, and his deep affection for this land remains the same. At the beginning of the opening of the pottery workshop and pottery shop, he and Chen Shaokang, Ma Chenglin and other purple pottery masters carried out a concise kiln opening and opening ceremony in accordance with the tradition, in order to radiate a more beautiful light in the new development of purple pottery art.

He plunged into the pottery workshop and deserved to be the leader of the pottery industry. His purple pottery works are simple and sophisticated, which not only retains the elegant and heavy beauty of the traditional shape of Jianshui purple pottery, but also has the smooth charm of showing his own personality.

Looking at his works, the shape and lines of the vessel are soft and harmonious, like ink paintings, with infinite charm and beauty; Grasp his works, smooth and round, the grip is friendly, and people can't put it down.

This skill is of course due to the extraordinary skills he has forged over more than 50 years of drawing and pottery. At the same time, he has also gained a lot on the road of art, becoming a master of traditional Chinese crafts, a provincial master of arts and crafts, a contemporary purple pottery master, and a representative inheritor of national intangible cultural heritage.

His purple pottery works have also won the gold medal and bronze medal of the "Gongmei Cup" Arts and Crafts Boutique of Yunnan Arts and Crafts Industry Association. In 2005, CCTV's Chinese Civilization Column Group used him as the representative of Jianshui Purple Pottery to carry out the program filming and publicity of "Yatao Out of Jianshui".

The following year, Yunnan TV took him as a representative figure and carried out the filming and publicity activities of the "Watching Pottery" program. In May 2012, he once again participated in the filming and publicity of CCTV's Nongguang Tiandi column - "Yunnan Jianshui Tao".

Just a stone's throw away from Zitao Street in Manjin Bay and only one street away from Wanyao Village is Yuan Yingde's new home, and most of his homes are surrounded by potters.

Walking into the "Yuan Yingde Purple Pottery Shop" on the purple pottery street of Manjin Bay, I saw a few calligraphy works hung in the store with the words "Virtue and Virtue" and "Heaven rewards diligence", and he said that the customer bought his purple pottery and wrote it to send. There is also a plaque issued by the County Industrial and Commercial Bureau with the words "Jianshui County Commodity Consumption Satisfaction Demonstration Store in the Circulation Field" issued on the wall.

More than 3,500 years ago, human beings began to live here in Jianshui. During the Han and Tang dynasties, Jianshui became an important passage from the southwest to Annam, and was in a prominent position on Tonghai Road and Butou Road. In the mid-60s, dozens of ancient tombs of the Western Han Dynasty were found in the lower reaches of the Longcha River in the southern Potou territory of Jianshui, that is, near the Red River Wharf where Yunnan unearthed Annam during the Han and Tang dynasties, and many stoneware fragments of the Han Dynasty were scattered in the tombs.

The dragon kiln is formed in the Central Plains area of the kiln type, Jianshui County Wanyao Village from the Song Dynasty began to use the dragon kiln to fire ceramics, the Song Dynasty blue glaze, the Yuan Dynasty blue and white technology and the shape of the bowl, plate, pot, jar, basin and jar that have survived in the world so far, all leave the imprint of the Central Plains ceramic culture.

Jianshui is one of the birthplaces of human ceramic civilization. Jianshui purple pottery is the product of the blending of the Central Plains culture and the border culture, in 1998, in the late Neolithic ancient human site of Yanzidong 30 kilometers away from Jianshui County, 4 pieces of net pendants, 1 piece of pottery projectiles, 7 pieces of sand plain red pottery fragments were unearthed. So far, in the Dai area on the north bank of the Red River in Jianshui, there are still local aborigines who use slow wheel forming and pit piling to burn sand red pottery.

At present, Jianshui purple pottery is widely circulated in the shape of Bogu bottles, Hani bottles, Yi bottles and other utensils, as well as the patterns and patterns decorated on different shapes, which obviously absorb the cultural elements of the local indigenous peoples, and retain the shadow of many indigenous peoples' sacrificial vessel shapes, totem images, national characters, and auspicious symbols. The teapot of Jianshui purple pottery is thick and heavy, and the decoration is very strong, and the style is obviously different from other ceramic teapots.

Jianshui purple pottery is a living culture, a materialized history, Jianshui purple pottery special production process, has a strong compatibility with different cultures, from a cultural perspective to interpret, Jianshui purple pottery is a materialized history. The production and development process of the traditional craft of Jianshui purple pottery, as well as its decorative content and decorative style, all retain the traces of political, economic and cultural development and changes in different historical periods.

From the Qing Daoguang period more than 170 years ago to the present, we can interpret the vicissitudes of Jianshui history and culture for more than hundreds of years from the works of Jianshui purple pottery in different periods. Take a look at the latest chapters of "Dream Claw Book House in the Great Era" and read it for free for the first time.