Dry Lacquer

The craft, continued.

当代传承:天台的制作与教学

In Tiantai, Zhejiang, dry-lacquer and ramie sculpture is practised through making, documentation and teaching.

汤春甫

Tang Chunfu

Tiantai, Zhejiang · born September 1952

Tang Chunfu is a national representative bearer of the Tiantai Mountain dry-lacquer and ramie craft. His official profile records that he began learning from the monk-artisan Shi Guanghong at Huading Temple at the age of eleven.

汤春甫为天台山干漆夹苎技艺国家级代表性传承人。官方档案记载,他11岁师从华顶寺艺僧释广弘。

The profile describes his work recording procedures, restoring workshop practice and training successors. These activities connect the making of sculpture with the transmission of practical knowledge.

官方档案记述了他整理工艺流程、恢复传统作坊和培养传承人的实践。

Official bearer profile ↗

Passing on the process.

Learning involves modelling, building the lacquer body and completing its surface. Documentation helps preserve the sequence; workshop practice develops the judgement needed at each stage.

工艺记录保存制作顺序,工坊实践培养每一道工序所需的判断。

Follow the process

Hehe Erxian.

Two Immortals of Harmony · reported in 2019

A Tsinghua institutional report records the unveiling of Tang’s Hehe Erxian at a lacquer-art alliance exhibition. It describes jiazhu construction with vermilion, turquoise green and gold leaf.

清华美院2019年报道记述汤春甫《和合二仙》的展出,介绍了夹苎结构及朱红、松石绿与金箔装饰。

Institutional exhibition report ↗

Making and teaching.

The Tiantai heritage record describes a craft with 48 stages. Reports on training and workshop organisation show how modelling, lacquer work and surface finishing can be taught and shared among practitioners.

天台非遗档案记载48道工艺流程。培训与工坊报道可进一步说明塑形、漆工及表面装饰如何传授。

Official heritage project record ↗