According to history books documented the sculpting job in Ha Tay (old) is from the Le profile and steering wheel is one of the villages have a very early hour. Technology is Pham Van Cuong, "his master" has decades of teaching profession "true communication" father to his young age in many areas.
In 10 career from childhood toArtisan Pham Van Cuong was born in 1960 in a family with a tradition of the law, horizontal board, and the question of worship. Currently he is one of the few people in the profession longer holds the secrets of traditional paint mixing of "land occupations hundred" Hanoi.
Pham Van Cuong been traveling throughout the northern provinces of the interior in charge of many temples including the famous temples of Hanoi as Quan Thanh Temple, Co Nhue, Lang Ha, to shock, White Horse Temple .. .
"The object 'with job sculpting since she was 10 years old his grandfather by the hand only, artist Pham Van Cuong to the job nature as breathing air. For him, sculpture or diaphragm sentences for non-church is a "professional psychic."
Once completed a carved Buddha statues, celebrity statues or contributed remodeling is a temple, he felt in his peace effort has been expended by yourself to inherit and develop the tradition of his father in the preserve "the spiritual symbol" of the village was destroyed during the war and the encroachment of the natural elements, man.
Intensity expressed in job sculpting, painting is the most difficult. Paint can also be seen as a particular job requires a period of no less than silver carving, carving ivory.
Each object has a size of a "tired" of its own. Large objects requires not only skillful workers that need to be supple and healthy, experienced, known for chiseling wood grain look how to have counterbalanced the savings of material and time.
The statue he or she requires precision to detail even the smallest. These small objects are to perfect as "stuck" (cover painting and sculpture) grinding, painting occupied the most time.
Worker needs "Buddha mind"
Not only that artist Pham Van Cuong family 50-year-old artists are devoted to the traditional craft of his father. In his home village only had strength to three workshops with about 50 workers.
Now even at the age of "intellectual natural being," but he's still the same willing workers to wherever the "voice" of the temple.
In his workshop from 10-15 work mainly in rural areas are the steering wheel. My son is new to the job chiseling for women, girls, then make the peeling paint scraper before. As the skilled worker is responsible for the important and the most complex patterns such as touching or patching, painting. The most difficult is painted gilded requires the most wonderful ingenuity of the profession.
Although not difficult to find workers to do but he is most attentive to those who have disciplined the employee. This is important because the team of his workers often constructed in place of solemn temples in addition to the more skilled workers must have good morals, no obscenity, no alcohol. Because while they are working to comply with the social principles of Buddhist temples. "So workers must have the heart towards the Buddha," he concluded strength.
He said that the training discipline also helps workers be more careful in their work, the profession has no room for sloppy workers as this not only creates products with disabilities, poor bowl with the losses of money, but people who keep training through the generations.
We are breathlessly by artist Pham Van Cuong bring vocational training to the steering wheel to the village to many regions of the country. There are people who have settled in Thailand, Cambodia, China.
For his contribution in preserving, promoting and teaching traditional crafts for the younger generation, Pham Van Cuong was awarded artisan June / 2005.
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