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Liu Dadong: The Inheritor of Chinese Steel Plate Engraving
Seetao 2022-08-17 10:39
  • Liu Dadong believes that an excellent hand-steel intaglio engraver must be both a craftsman and an artist
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      Liu Dadong, the third generation inheritor of Chinese RMB handmade steel intaglio engraving.

      The Great Hall of the People, the Potala Palace, the Guilin Landscape, the Three Gorges of the Yangtze River, Mount Tai, the West Lake in Hangzhou... The main scene of the fifth set of RMB fully demonstrates the magnificent mountains and rivers in China. To transfer these pictures from the painter's pen to the banknotes, the craftsmanship of hand-steel intaglio engraving is inseparable.

      The hand-steel gravure engraving technique essentially inherits the Chinese engraving and engraving technique, and is closely related to the Chinese printing technique of engraving metal and engraving woodblock for reproduction and printing. But unlike painting, steel intaglio engravers can only present content through points and lines. Some points even require more than ten knives to complete. The thinnest line is only 1 micrometer, and the lines cannot cross or overlap. Caution will fail.

      In his career of more than 14,000 days, Liu Dadong has injected human "spirit" into his works, as well as inseparable emotions. For Liu Dadong, every point and line engraved on the plate contains his profound emotion for this craft, "I have been doing hand-steel gravure carving all my life. Master passed on the craft to me. , I have the obligation to pass it on again. Skills should not be lost in our generation, and history must not be interrupted in our hands, which is not an insult to the mission. "Editor/Ma Xue

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