Largest wooden statue
Hien Village People is a land has many talented carpenters in the architecture of buildings, building palaces, temples and pagodas ... Historically, the definition of carpentry talent has made the reputation of carpenter village famous throughout the capital city, people had been invited to the Ly dynasty business, work together to build the capital city of Thang Long flowering.
Born into a family with traditional carved wood, 20-year-old Nguyen Van Truc start learning and studying wood carving with the skilled workers in the village Hanoi.
Learning by doing 10 years from 1978 to 1988, Nguyen Van Truc has many valuable experiences. Nguyen Van Truc, while learning, reference, to collect opinions of customers and other cultural studies.
He regularly went to temples to see the statues, learn the basic characteristics, the cultural values underlying the Buddha statues to the regulations, each bearing a statue to its own value.
In 1989, Nguyen Van Truc with you in starting a business family. Artisan Nguyen Van Truc want to build a brand associated with upper and lower Quang Tin.
Prestige is reflected in the quality of products, besides compliance with the prototype, each statue must have cultural values and art history, just how "not only the audience," but in the also has a "life" to attract viewers ...
Chu Quang is the clarity of mind. When the pure soul, love my job attitude and respect for their work product, the new workers are "predestined" to touch the sharp mental state of the statue, blowing the soul of the character of the wood itself. "
Shakyamuni Buddha statue in the temple placed the Red (Hai Phong) carved by artisans Bamboo is considered a large wooden statue of Buddha in Vietnam. The statue has a height of 8.4 m wide by 6m. To accomplish this work, artists Truc and 10 minor workers processed within 10 months, 60 timber-consuming meetings.
Reconstruct the face of the Mac King 5
Currently, Bamboo artist is embarking manipulated the five kings ruled the Mac first country in Thang Long. This is the order of the Council of the Mac family and cultural, sports and tourism in Hai Phong.
The finished statue will be placed the power in the Memorial of the monarch, the Mac is built on the old regional economic Ocean (now paragraph commune, Kien Thuy district, Hai Phong). This is great work towards celebration of 1,000 years of Thang Long-Hanoi's Hai Phong City People.
Indeed, so far no official statues of the kings of the time the Mac. To overcome this difficulty, Truc artists along with their descendants and other Mac professionals of cultural, sports and tourism in Hai Phong, to go to discuss unification.
Bamboo artisans along with their minor workers were up five statues of clay according to size, creating lines, costumes, thrones in the documents available. Bamboo artisan skills learned behavior, demeanor of each emperor through the materials used to sculpt each stroke the Mac King became true "is god." In addition, he also refer to the flower pattern text, while the Mac vignette from a research specialist court costumes of the feudal dynasty in Hanoi Vietnam.
Artisan said: "Many sleepless nights I had to think, imagine trying to do well up to the character, spirit and kings face each time both the Mac culture ..."
Apply wood carvings on the nerve
In addition to the methods of traditional carvings, Nguyen Van Truc also dig into the application of wood carving nerve areas. If drawing and expressing nerve, a mechanic can repair nerve but with carved the other hand, only a small mistake is enough to make the statue of the logs removed.
From direct photographs, the artist must have the imagination to shape lines, deep heat, thickness of the characters, in addition they also need a special sensitivity and a love for his character the new sculpt is the person's mental state.
It is "another person" is Bamboo artisans carved nerve only at night by the time he concentrated most sense for each tunnel that is not dominated by others.
One of the pictures Bamboo nerve fully agree that most artists are portraits of the First French master Buddhist Church of Vietnam, Thich Duc Peter (1897-1993), the statue by the Venerable Thich Tam Hoan, the abbot Chew Hoe temple place and be completed in about 50 nights. The statue in the temple is an Chew Hoe (Hanoi), where the Venerable Thich Duc Nhuan been abbot before he passed away.
Currently, the base of artisan Nguyen Van Truc always from 15 to 20 students are children of the school and local jobs. When each student to reach his or acquire additional experience will bring happiness in him.
"To conserve, preserve and promote the traditional craft is the most practical expression of love for the land that gave birth to her is my philosophy" - artisan Nguyen Van Truc confided.
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