Lin Yan, a restorer of modern lacquer art cultural relics, accidentally traveled through time while repairing a lacquer coffin with branching patterns from the Warring States Period, and became the cold-shouldered son-in-law of the Su family in Gusu. Faced with the desperate situation of being squeezed out of second-class apartments and the family paint shop on the verge of bankruptcy, he abandoned the floating gold finger and relied on his thousand-year skills accumulation to break the situation.
He restored lost ancient methods such as rhinoceros skin paint and dry paint with ramie, and created a long lacquer painting scroll "Thousands of Miles of Rivers and Mountains, Thousands of Miles of Silk Road"; he broke the feudal shackles of "women not teaching skills" and opened a free craftsman school; he united the world's craftsmen to abolish the craftsmanship system that had lasted for hundreds of years and liberated millions of low-level craftsmen. After the earthquake, he rushed to help calm the people with craftsmanship, took the lead in establishing the Alliance of Craftsmen of All Nations, used lacquer as a bridge to open up cultural exchanges between the East and the West, and spread Chinese lacquer art throughout the world, and was revered as the "Sage of Craftsmen."
He and Su Qinghuan, the legitimate daughter of the Su family, used lacquer as a matchmaker, got to know each other, and worked together to pass on the cultural heritage. A lifetime of guarding art and protecting the people has come to a successful end. Thousands of years later, the two reunited as cultural relic restorers and inheritors of intangible cultural heritage. In front of the same lacquer coffin from the Warring States Period, they completed a reincarnation of ingenuity across time and space.
The full text takes the intangible cultural heritage lacquer art as the core, integrates family counterattacks, craftsmanship and family and country righteousness, interprets the craftsman spirit of "lacquer does not deceive others, and the heart does not deceive light", and writes a hymn of inheritance that spans thousands of years.
Reader comments
"The Lacquer Art Son-in-Law" is a love letter I wrote to all lacquer artists. I don't want to write about a cliché son-in-law who can crush everything with his golden fingers. I just want to write about a real craftsman - he has no unparalleled martial arts skills, no scheming against heaven, only a paint brush in his hand, and only eight words in his heart: "The paint does not deceive people, and the hands do not deceive the heart."
All the exciting points in the book are rooted in real lacquer techniques, from rhinoceros leather lacquer to dry lacquer to clip ramie statues, from ecological lacquer forests to the All Nations Craftsmen Alliance. I want readers to see that craftsmanship is never the last skill. It can make a living, save people from fire and water, connect Eastern and Western civilizations, and support the cultural heritage of a nation. The love between Lin Yan and Su Qinghuan has never been about attachment and being attached. It is a two-way rush of the souls of two craftsmen, and a resonance of original aspirations that spans thousands of years.
Maybe it's not cool enough or bloody enough, but I hope people who read it can remember the scent of lacquer that has traveled through thousands of years and those craftsmen who only do one thing in their lives.
"The Lacquer Art Son-in-Law" is a love letter I wrote to all lacquer artists. I don't want to write about a cliché son-in-law who can crush everything with his golden fingers. I just want to write about a real craftsman - he has no unparalleled martial arts skills, no scheming against heaven, only a paint brush in his hand, and only eight words in his heart: "The paint does not deceive people, and the hands do not deceive the heart." All the exciting points in the book are rooted in real lacquer techniques, from rhinoceros leather lacquer to dry lacquer to clip ramie statues, from ecological lacquer forests to the All Nations Craftsmen Alliance. I want readers to see that craftsmanship is never the last skill. It can make a living, save people from fire and water, connect Eastern and Western civilizations, and support the cultural heritage of a nation. The love between Lin Yan and Su Qinghuan has never been about attachment and being attached. It is a two-way rush of the souls of two craftsmen, and a resonance of original aspirations that spans thousands of years. Maybe it's not cool enough or bloody enough, but I hope people who read it can remember the scent of lacquer that has traveled through thousands of years and those craftsmen who only do one thing in their lives.