The young man's name is Liu Qinghe, and he is 27 years old. His ancestral home is in the northeast and he grew up in Changzhi. His favorite helmet has a history of more than 2000 years.
Helmet ornament, also called helmet head, is the crown hat worn by actors in China traditional opera, and it is also an important part of costume props in opera. Helmet decoration includes: crown, helmet, towel and hat. The most common crowns are the Kowloon crown worn by the emperor and the phoenix crown worn by the queen. General, handsome helmet, handsome helmet; Wensheng towel and Vu Thang towel worn by literati warriors; Male hat, waiting hat, etc. Different categories have different functions. Helmets of different colors and styles can also show different roles, ages and personalities.
The production of helmet head has a long history. Judging from the unearthed cultural relics, there were helmets in the Han Dynasty. There are also figures wearing fine clothes and helmets on pottery figurines, jade articles and porcelain in the Tang Dynasty. In the murals of the Yuan Dynasty, you can also see zaju actors wearing helmets of different shapes. In the Ming Dynasty, Kunqu opera in Suzhou and Kunshan, Jiangsu Province gradually developed and matured, and the production of opera helmets also rose in Suzhou. There is still Helmet Head Lane in Nanjing, Jiangsu. Perhaps helmet decoration is so popular here that it is named after the helmet head, just like hutongs in Beijing use industry names as hutongs. In the Qing Dynasty, due to Peking Opera, helmet head production also rose in Beijing. Today, there are four or five companies in China that produce helmets.
I saw that Liu Qinghe was the second day of the second lunar month, which happened to be the weekend. In a quiet little yard surrounded by the second floor, Liu Qinghe volunteered to give technical guidance here. This small courtyard belongs to Shanxi Shanmodao Culture Co., Ltd. and is decorated with "Qingyun" helmet. There is a chopping board for making clothes on the first floor of the yard. Several doors are closed, and words such as winding, brushing red soil, discharging powder and assembling are written on the doors. Liu Qinghe said, "This is the place to decorate the helmet. The first floor is a workshop, and the second floor is a place for office and painting. " The manufacturing process of helmet head is complicated, with more than a dozen processes. Every step needs to be very detailed, from molding, carving and winding to yarn combination, bonding and ironing. Wrap the seam and attach the tube, and you will have the prototype of the helmet head. After that, brush red soil, drain powder, color, stick gold foil and dot silk. When everything is ready, it can be assembled and shaped, and a beautiful helmet head is ready. However, the most important part must be done by Liu Qinghe himself, that is, making the model.
Pushing open a door to go in, several female workers are busy, seeing us come in and continuing their work. A female worker asked Liu Qinghe to check the part to be wound. Liu Qinghe looked at them and pointed out to her, "This handle is too long. Cut it short and let your teeth follow your teeth. This place needs to be excavated. " When the female worker understood the main points, she pondered her role.
When he walked through every workshop, everyone was absorbed in his work.
How did Liu Qinghe become attached to the "Qingyun" helmet? Things have to start from six years ago.
The story of "Qingyun" began on 20 12. At that time, Liu Qinghe went to Nangou Village, Yang 'an Township, Qin County as a college student village official. In this small village with scattered living conditions, Liu Qinghe visited every corner of the village. During the visit, he saw that the villagers were living in poverty and felt uneasy. What ordinary people care about is how to enrich their lives with real money and how to make villagers have more income. Liu Qinghe thought about many plans, but the villagers had so much land. Who wants to take out their land for experiments? If you want to be rich, you have to make another fuss.
Liu Qinghe knew that the villagers liked opera more or less. He likes opera himself, and he has accumulated a little work experience in running a club at school. I used to make clothes with my classmates to make money. Now can we use the same method to make villagers earn some money in this respect? But the costume is too difficult to make, but the helmet is relatively simple to make. Making opera helmets in slack season can increase villagers' income, which will not affect production and labor, but also improve villagers' lives. With this initial intention, Liu Qinghe took thousands of dollars raised everywhere and embarked on the road of learning helmet accessories. Go to Hangzhou, Shanghai, Henan, Baoding, and learn art.
By chance, Liu Qinghe got to know the authoritative helmsman in the industry, and then rushed to Beijing non-stop. However, the traditional old craftsmen are more or less conservative. How can a young man who has only met once easily approach an old artist and learn his dream skills? Craftwork is often handed down from the inside out. Liu Qinghe visited the teacher five times, but they were all refused. Unfortunately, Liu Qinghe met a thief again. He lost his mobile phone, his money and even his ID card. Looking at the only 20 yuan money left in his hand, he froze. Being caught in the hardships and embarrassment of life instantly made him feel unprecedented pain. What shall we do? Go back. What about the villagers? Ask your parents for help? How should parents worry? Finally, he decided to stay. Although you can only eat a bag of instant noodles, drink some cold water and go to a self-service bank, subway station or fast food restaurant that is open all night at night, the money will soon be gone. Finally, he had to wash dishes for the restaurant and work for the food.
Liu Qinghe still insists on waiting for more than ten hours at the Hutongkou every day. Liu Qinghe stood outside the door of the old artist again and again, waiting again and again, and finally arrived in good faith. The old artist accepted him and began to teach him skills. He used the sensitivity and persistence of a craftsman to understand every work, from proofing to plate making, from winding to powder arrangement, step by step, bit by bit, never letting go of every detail. Sometimes some places need to be pondered by himself, so he secretly practices in the middle of the night, extremely attentive and extremely emotional. Finally came back from school.
In the village, villagers who have no experience in making helmets gather together. From curiosity to hard work, from doubt to affirmation, I finally believe that this young man is a person who really helps them get rich. Liu Qinghe's initial heart, the villagers understand. Those villagers who have nothing to do have their own jobs. Also established the "Qingyun" drama helmet production cooperative. They carefully handle the helmet ornaments in their hands, learn step by step and operate bit by bit, from "playing with children" to "carving", from "arranging powder" to "pasting foil" to "polishing silk". Professor Liu Qinghe is careful, patient, and strictly controlled. Members of Qingyun make helmets out of ordinary paper and wire. From the initial simplicity and clumsiness to the final combination of form and spirit, they succeeded. Gradually, they are good at making customized headgear for fine operas, headgear for film and television dramas, imitation headgear for cultural relics and high-end headgear crafts.
The first work was sold to Shanghai Theatre Academy with the help of friends. Exquisite helmet ornaments have been made. The appearance of "Qingyun" made people discover that there is such a beautiful thing in the world, and people accepted it and began to like it. Troupe companies from Changzhi County and Gaoping City came here and asked members of Qingyun to make helmets. Because of the beauty of "clear rhyme", people in the opera cultural circle understand beauty. Familiar and unfamiliar people saw the beauty of helmet accessories and forwarded them crazily. Even famous celebrities said: I didn't expect such a good thing now. It is not easy! It's so rare!
Internet publicity and sales of helmet accessories are gradually opening up. Then, Liu Qinghe applied to register the account of "Qingyun" helmet on Weibo, opened a micro store, and took products to many exhibitions. The market has opened, and the products are sold all over the country, even as far away as Hong Kong, Singapore and Australia. Liu Qinghe registered the trademark and copyright for Qingyun, and the cooperative gradually got on the right track. Liu Qinghe was also selected as "the most beautiful person in China" and broadcast on Shaanxi TV. Grandma cried when she saw that the baby grandson on TV had experienced so many hardships and twists and turns. At this time, the family knew that Liu Qinghe had done a great thing.
Liu Qinghe used his responsibility to ignite people's enthusiasm for getting rich. In his twenties, he won numerous awards, but Liu Qinghe kept a low profile and went on silently. People know that Changzhi City has "excellent university student village officials", "excellent village officials who emphasize education and enrich the people" and "Top Ten Good Rural Youth". At this time, something unfortunate happened.
Liu Qinghe's father is ill, which is an abominable cancer. Although the distance between Qinxian and Changzhi is not very far, he can't be filial in front of his father's bed. Liu Qinghe still works in his post with thoughts of his father. Busy village, busy village, busy county. Like a spinning top, it can hardly stop. It was during his father's seriously ill hospitalization that more than 50 sets of helmet decoration drawings were drawn at his bedside.
Liu Qinghe, who was transferred back to Changzhi, still cares about the members of Qingyun. He is not only reluctant to part with this project, but actually wants to "serve more people through this project and make more so-called socially disadvantaged groups earn money, that is, get rid of poverty". I left my job, but Qingyun can't give up halfway, and the project will continue. Liu Qinghe is more willing to pass on this helmet culture, carry it forward, and make "Qingyun" a brand, so that more people like it and love it. Because of the beauty of helmet ornaments, I like opera and our traditional culture. He docked the project with the company and handed Qingyun to Shanxi Shan Mo Dao Culture Co., Ltd.
"How can I give my own rhyme to others?" I asked him.
Liu Qinghe smiled and said, "In fact, I have been hesitating and uneasy. I've thought a lot about whether members of' Qingyun' are comfortable, nervous and accustomed to the company's system management after entering the company. I just don't think much about myself. Such a good thing, why do you have to care about personal gains and losses? A person's greatest value is a sense of gain. "
He often thinks of a sentence that grandpa warned himself: don't lose your pocket when buying rice. Yes, no matter when, how can you forget your initial heart?
With such a simple idea, Liu Qinghe began to think after becoming the office director of Zijin Street: Can he help the residents in his jurisdiction in the same way? He has worked for many times for low-income households living in poverty, families of demobilized soldiers and relatives of petitioners, so that they can learn to make helmets. Although it experienced twists and turns, "Qingyun" finally settled in Changzhi.
In order to teach new employees, he basically has no rest days. Every day after work is more than eight o'clock in the evening, and then come to "Qingyun" to continue working; On weekends, new employees will be trained to guide the operation. However, for the time being, only he can make the first step. He needs to make a sample and hold it well before the following employees can start working. And this step requires high precision. Although there are occasional art students from Changzhi College to help draw drawings, a lot of work has to be done by themselves.
In order to better master the production of helmet ornaments, he has to read a lot of materials every time he makes them, so as to understand the personality and identity of the person who will wear them. On one occasion, he repaired the helmets worn by traditional opera actors in the past, learned traditional patterns from these abandoned helmets, and innovated new patterns on this basis, but every time he received a new production task, he had to carefully and repeatedly scrutinize the helmet style. He said that because he likes it, he wants to have a look and pass on the helmet culture. Sometimes when I wake up at night and see the helmet there, I will laugh happily. Our Changzhi red classic "The Red Lantern" is also a helmet and costume made here! At present, the drama in the south is developing very well. For example, there are 300 troupes in one city and eight counties in Jinhua, Zhejiang, while there are only 10 troupes in one city and 13 counties. Southerners should also invite a troupe to sing big things at home. Only the rural areas in the north will invite theatrical troupes, and young people in the city seldom go to the theatre. What I have to do is to decorate the helmet so that more people can see the beautiful helmet decoration. If the helmet is well decorated, others will look twice. If you watch more, you will naturally like opera and understand the stories inside. More people like it, are you still worried about the mistake of the play?
Lan Ling, the Warrior, staged at Shanghai Peking Opera Theatre is a new drama, and Qingyun undertakes the task of making helmets. Exquisite helmet ornaments once again show its beauty and charm to those who like it! "Qingyun" helmet accessories are getting more and more exquisite and better. From south to north, Qingyun entered a troupe and became the favorite of opera people. Zhang Aizhen, a famous Shangdang Bangzi, and Chen Suqin, an Shangdang Bangzi artist, especially like the "Qingyun" helmet. On the 17th day of the first month, the helmet of Qingyun was opened, and Wang Hongli, an actor of Henan Opera, became the first guest this year.
At present, "Qingyun" has effectively docked with Zhejiang Zheng Long Garment Co., Ltd., the largest garment manufacturer in China. He hoped that the enterprise would become bigger and stronger until it occupied the national market, and he only gave free technical guidance.
Liu Qinghe said: "The development of Chinese civilization has nurtured excellent traditional culture. The reason why Chinese civilization continues to this day and is full of vitality is because it has the same spiritual pursuit and enduring cultural self-confidence. Therefore, it is more necessary for us to inherit intangible culture and carry forward Chinese culture. I hope to build the first production base of traditional Chinese opera helmet ornaments with the most categories, the most complete styles and the best quality in China, so that this intangible handicraft art can be better passed down. " Today, Changzhi, Shanxi has become a recognized model and helmet cultural landmark in the industry. He also won the bronze award in the practice group of Changzhi National Entrepreneurship Competition of "Upward Kindness and Good Youth" and "Creating Youth", the nomination award of the 17th Stars Award of the State Council Ministry of Culture, and the first "Contemporary Rural Sage" in Changzhi.
This is Liu Qinghe, who, with his simplicity and responsibility, silently released his energy in opera culture and poverty alleviation feelings.
"The swan's ambition lies not in the moment when its wings are about to soar, but in its unswerving and continuous action and progress." Liu Qinghe perfectly explained his ideals and beliefs with his wisdom and persistence.
"Clear rhyme" will become a persistent and enterprising spirit, and more and more people will be infected and driven by Liu Qinghe.