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Liu Xuanzi: a spreader of Qihe black pottery culture

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Black Pottery, from the late Neolithic Age, it has a history of more than 4000 years, It's another ceramics peak of humans after painted pottery. It is famous in the pottery altar with four features of black, thin, light and hard.

Qihe black pottery carries forward features of original black pottery, which is black, thin and bright, and owns its unique artistic styles and characteristics. Qihe Black Pottery selects unique pure and fine laterite on Yellow River Bed. After manual washing and embryo drawing and other dozens of processes, it is fired by sealing the kiln to smoke and infiltrate coal, black as paint, thin as paper, bright as a mirror, hard as porcelain and loud as a chime, called by Chinese and foreign historians as gems of primitive culture.

The decoration of Qihe black pottery is very characteristic. Different decorative patterns are applied to different ware types. The decorative patterns are mainly represented by positive and negative carving. The wet carving method is popular with modern black pottery making. This method has been brought into full play in Qihe. Long, short and blunt carving knives are used, fully reflecting the craft of modern black pottery, particularly the charm of Yellow River muds.

As a spreader of black pottery culture, since the early 1990s, Liu Xuanzi followed his father to participate in the national black pottery tours. Their footprints are spread throughout the north and south of the river and both sides of the Great Wall to promote and display black pottery art, sow the spark of black pottery culture, that has led to the development of the national black pottery industry. Beautiful pieces by pieces masterful black pottery, carrying the wisdom and sweat of generations of potters behind these works, it is the pottery makers' pursuit and development of Qihe black pottery culture.

Liu Xuanzi has made a lot of basic work on excavation and study of black pottery art. As one of the planners and organizers of important industry events of China Black Pottery Industry Association and China Black Pottery Art Festival, he is mainly engaged in inheritance of black pottery culture and production skills, innovation and popularization training. He now is Vice President of Black Pottery Art Professional Committee of China Ceramic Industry Association, Executive editor of "China Black Pottery" magazine, Director of Qihe LiuHao Ceramic Research and Development Center, Visiting professor of Jinan Institute of Science and Technology.

Qihe's black pottery works vary in shape, patterns are designed for content, layout is made by knife technique, the line is like calligraphy, valuing the coordination and unification of idea, air and hands. Liu Xuanzi inherits the changeable shape, beautiful decoration and carving of Qihe black pottery on the basis of other characteristics, he takes inspiration from avant-garde art like installations, values about ideology and humanistic feelings, created a batch of new black pottery with his own characteristics. In order to better publicize and promote black pottery culture, in recent years, he actively expands on forms and avenues, has achieved good publicity results in live streaming and other fields.

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