One unique spot copper Yunnan Han Traditional Crafts

One unique spot copper Yunnan Han Traditional Crafts

Spot copper is one of the Han Chinese traditional arts and crafts unique to Yunnan, has on more than 300 years of history. Spot copper production process complex and rigorous, high-grade copper-based alloy raw material, casting molding, Seiko polished, and complex post-treatment process and making it into a “wonderful in a spot, your in deep” red brown surface showing a bizarre flashing, bright mottled, subtle changes in plaque and unique flower, called the metal of the crown.

History of one of the traditional Chinese arts and crafts Name Address Yunnan spot copper type Han 300 years

Spot copper Introduction
Yunnan is China’s unique spot copper metal copper, and copper into Calcined fight plaque cast copper plaque categories. Called “metal gem” fumed hit Yunnan Huize spot copper technology is unique, not only in China but also on a global scale is a rare treasure. Its thick simple, elegant and ornate, shiny artistic effect, and attractive, in fact, high-end furnishings and appreciation of the arts and to share.

One unique spot copper Yunnan Han Traditional Crafts

Spot copper species
Spot copper is divided into “green spot” and “cooked spot” in two [2]. Students spot: that take natural copper ore processing, spot ore was rare, difficult material, very little product, known rarity. Cooked spot: The unique smelting processing casting process, although complex, but worry about raw materials, products more abundant. Spot copper process, regardless of the “green spot” or “cooked spot”, since the advent of the date when, with its beautiful shape, exquisite technique, beautiful people dumping charm.
Yunnan spot copper
Yunnan spot copper handicrafts not only inherit and carry forward in the shape of the traditional characteristics, but also to learn the art of Yunnan and the Central Plains bronze bronze culture of nutrition, combined with modern sculptural techniques and advanced technology, in full flower display plaque characteristics combined with simple and succinct premise decorative patterns, to reach the perfection and unity of art. Now shape including people, animals, flowers, bottles, stoves respect, decorative wall, utensils, and other six categories of spot copper products. Its vigorous simple, elegant and ornate, shiny artistic effect, and attractive, in fact, high-end furnishings to share the fun of the process. Hall in Beijing’s Great Hall of Yunnan spot copper demonstrated its timeless charm as a major art exhibit. Yunnan spot copper handicrafts numerous international awards, and as with foreign heads of state gifts national gifts, peacock bottle, rhino, antique cattle, five types of furnaces, mahamayuri, Buddha and other relevant state departments as permanent treasures collection.
1914 from Yunnan Huize Zhang coppersmith making “spot tripod” won the Silver Award at the Panama International Exposition.
Spot copper – production process
Copper Huize spot copper technology products factory Hui Guo Dehong master said:
“Health plaque production of special attention, it must use 95% of native copper, forged little by little, and then high temperature to burn (refining) spots. Some step program to be repeated several times, a dozen Road (step) we are relying on a hammer a hammer (knocking) play out, to burn a fire, call back. it can be said, a product of dozens of fire to burn, to fight tens of thousands to the final shape of the hammer. ”
According to Master Guo Dehong, burn spot is the most critical one process. Blush charcoal, oak charcoal must spend a good, a lot of the heap in the house, in which the workpiece is buried; then, let the natural Shaolian, ventilation, heating, the length of time to grasp the furnace, there are stringent requirements, no skilled technique and practical experience can not be competent. If the temperature is too low, some of the ingredients of the raw material is difficult to gather, form a crystal plaque free; high temperature melts the workpiece type ruined. Coppersmith past as a living force, a step which many of the key technologies, the master did not teach apprentice family names, as well as “male – female” is said, therefore, failed to spot copper technology promotion.
Since the spot copper need to use high-grade quality natural copper as a raw material, and it is difficult to find a copper content of more than 90% natural raw copper, while the hand-forged copper hit the spot can not be as large-scale production like batch casting, even piggy build such a small spot copper handicrafts, but also need a month’s time, which directly led to scarcity of spot copper finished. Coupled with spot copper is hand-built, each artist has its own “originality”, each piece is unique, and therefore calcined fight Huize spot copper has a very high appreciation and collection value.

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