About four years ago, during the summer of his sophomore year, after a month of learning at a Shaanxi paper-cutting workshop, Tang Mingxing fell in love with this traditional art. A knife, a piece of paper, a few chiseling, a few changes, will form countless lifelike, delicate works, he felt very magical. Half a year later, he brought this hobby together with his passion for serving the country through aerospace to the Yuanan area of Hongyang Company. Although the construction of the new third line is always going on, the cultural life in Dashan is still monotonous compared to the metropolis. In the peer partners for no large shopping malls, no modern libraries, no commercial street and other recreational facilities agonized, he silently took out the carving knife, began to learn from the first time to do the creation.
Two months later, the first piece of work, "Auspicious and wealthy" came out: a wide painting, a gorgeous peacock stunning open screen, large feathers on the pattern of each one appear, the texture is clear. This painting basically cohesion of his just joined all the leisure time, every night at 7:00 pm, to 11:00 pm, when the square dance sweeping the country in the mountains raging attack, he quietly farming in the desk, silent and paper-cutting dialogue. That day, Tang Mingxing solemnly held the paper cuttings in the street for a long time, looking for an elaborate store meticulously framed into the frame, and then carefully hung on the wall. The paper-cutting painting settled down at the same time, he also settled down: three lines, paper-cutting, and aerospace is really a good match.
Paper-cutting is a particularly meticulous manual work, in addition to patience, careful, on the tools, the environment have considerable requirements, such as sharp and smooth knife, the environment should be neat and clean. Although it is hollow modeling art, but want to do a good job, but there are a lot of addition to do. In order to operate more handy Tang Mingxing modest to the team of master pliers to teach, homemade a complete set of operating tools, scissors, carving knife of various types of various openings, have everything. Used to fix the work of the wax plate, sold on the market only 45 centimeters wide and 1.2 meters long specifications, the operation is a little cramped. Tang star homemade hot pot stove baking wax, and then the melted candles a little smear to find the plywood, over and over again to scrape the flat, hard a little bit to create a 80 centimeters wide and long 1.8 meters of large workbench. It is also this workbench, let him produce a more ambitious creative goals - to make a 2 meters long and 80 centimeters wide Qingming Shanghe Tu paper cutting. He said, trench workbench must have trench works to match the right.
The process of creation is enjoyable, but not always easy. Due to the toughness of the paper itself, there will often be a knife is not careful, the situation is lost. I remember once spent half a month carving a dragon, I did not expect to close because of the pursuit of the details of the dragon's whiskers perfect more than a knife, dozens of lines connected to the steep break two. Such a detailed outline of the paper cuts and can not be glued, can only look up to the sky sighing and kneaded into a ball and thrown away. In a fit of anger, Tang Mingxing threw over the carving knife and ruthlessly plunged it into the wax panel. After the knife rotated on the panel for a week, he silently smoothed out the marks, washed his hands, and started all over again. Two years down the road, the originally smooth wax panel is full of holes, and each mark has a story of settling down and fighting against impatience. In order to make his works more aesthetically pleasing as a whole, Tang Mingxing has also taught himself PS techniques to further reflect the contrast between yin and yang and strengthen the outlines of his works through the processing of drawings. Now he is also practicing calligraphy in tandem, "A good paper-cutting drawing with good calligraphy can be the icing on the cake." For Tang Mingxing, choosing this hobby not only allows him to bring the aerospaceman's spirit of research and hands-on ability into play in every aspect, but also chooses a clean and elegant habit of life. In order to house his beloved works, the hut of less than twenty square meters was packed by him in a well-organized manner and divided into two: the living area is compact and simple, and the working area is open and sparse.
"I didn't expect a boy, hands so skillful!" "Young man, have tenacity, really good!" Four years of accumulation, Tang Xingxing's works not only in all kinds of professional exhibitions, but also turned his cabin into a work exhibition room, filled with a variety of exciting works. Influenced by him, some of his buddies also joined the sequence of paper-cutting: "It is also a contribution to the inheritance of traditional culture." Paper-cutting, cut off the corners of the beardless, but get a variety of nourishment. Remove the excess, scraping putty, many assembly assembly in the detailed and trivial work, Tang Mingxing are doing a decent job and even have flavor. "All this is nothing compared to carving out the mane of a horse's tail." Perhaps this is the contrast with the extreme, Tang Xingxing is also extraordinarily grateful for the work and do their best.