Face A Choice Qu Yang Traditional Manual Stone Carvings

People feel and enjoy the advanced industrial civilization,CNC technology change rapidly brings fast and convenient life,high-speed operation of the engine without hesitation,to promote the modernization of all walks of life nowadays.To synchronize with the world development is comforting,however a serious problem can not be ignored at the same time,that is the value of cognition,especially the excellent traditional culture of non-material cultural heritage and the attitude we take.Because,the role of we play influence the ranks of the world power of the national identity and cultural identity,not only related to the world’s cultural diversity and development,but also related to the fate and future of national culture.Materialist dialectics shows that the development of any thing has two sides,where behind the highly developed civilization,its influence has both positive and negative sides,the negative impact on the traditional handicraft is particularly evident.As the first batch of intangible cultural heritage protection project in Quyang,the traditional handicraft is the essence of culture,but the inheritance of traditional handicraft is now facing the dilemma.The essence of the traditional handicraft is the support of the cultural gene,which is the necessary precondition for the prosperity of the national culture and it is an important component of the national cultural soft power.But the stone carving art in the industrial civilization highly developed today,the modern stone carving tools of various types,complete functions,broadly speaking from the mountains to refine stone manual polishing manual electric tools almost completely replaced the handicraft production of stone step by step.Stone shape also presents a natural application of the corresponding effect of electric tools: the proportion of more accurate modeling,texture is more delicate and more close to the real form.There is no doubt that the power tools brought a new revolution in the stone industry.On the visit to Quyang,a number of sculpture practitioners and folk artists visit Quyang carving school and many of stone carving enterprises and workshops,and almost finished products are manually operated to complete the power tools.Pure traditional Handmade stone works rarely can be found in the modern industrial civilization at the same time affected the morphology and the status quo of stone carving,in the mean stone carving skills of traditional craftsmen in a choice situation facing.Handmade stone faded to traditional hand-made stone artisan craft gradually lost,so for thousands of years,carrying culture and humanities behind the transformation of the gene will rock the people of Quyang will also disappear?Traditional stone carving faces the choice which is to follow the trend of the times and the speed of development of the brutal power tools to efficiently deal with the work of stone carving,or follow the previous experience and return to tradition? In fact,stone carving not only will return to the traditional form of stone making copy,but the cultural stone carving handicraft gene passing down from generation to generation;return to the traditional industry is not backward,using electric tools are not purely traditional experience,so how in the industrial civilization under the influence of the ecological harmony is a choice of traditional handicrafts the path of sustainable development is the urgent need to solve the problem.Quyang traditional stone carving for continuous road stands on the point of inheritance--from "people",the stone carving skills of ontology,the stream of consciousness as a starting point,to rethink the "traditional" heavy,and from the present,start from the front,to dominate the heritage of the stone carving skills.In order to achieve the industrial civilization mechanical means as the carrier,deepen the understanding of the essence and connotation of traditional handicrafts,in order to bring the traditional cultural gene penetration stone carving art creation in traditional cultural vitality continue,out of a traditional art heritage of the ecological development of the road.