Wenzhou University of Technology Party Secretary Qian Qiang and Others Visited the Lacquerware and Ou Kiln Inheritance Base in Wenzhou:

Recently, Wenzhou University of Technology Party Secretary Qian Qiang, Party Committee member and head of the Organization Department Jin Qingliang, Vice Dean of School of Design Arts Liu Minggang, Vice Dean Ye Fang and others investigated the Wenzhou Lacquerware Museum and Han Chen Yue Kiln Inheritance Workshop, two intangible cultural heritage research bases.

First stop: Wenzhou Lacquerware Museum

The first stop was the Wenzhou Lacquerware Museum project, a provincial-level traditional craft workshop. As a provincial-level intangible cultural heritage workshop, the Wenzhou Lacquerware Museum has an integrated operation process of exhibition, research and development, production and research-education. He Bikuo, director of the Wenzhou Lacquerware Museum and teacher of Wenzhou University of Technology, introduced the history, culture and skills of lacquerware, and led everyone to visit the exhibits in various exhibition areas of the Wenzhou Lacquerware Museum. He Bikuo vividly told the stories behind the collections in the museum, introduced the museum's philosophy, lacquerware crafts, social activities and planned how to realize the industrialization of lacquerware, research and development of new materials and lacquerware, and explore the digital protection and promotion of lacquerware skills inheritance.

In the Wenzhou Lacquerware Museum, the delegation from Wenzhou University of Technology had a discussion with Nan Ge, director of the Propaganda Department of Longgang Committee, and Master He Bikuo, discussing the development of the Wenzhou Lacquerware Museum and the value of lacquerware. Party Secretary Qian Qiang affirmed the cultural value and future development potential of Wenzhou lacquerware, and combined the relationship between lacquerware, museums and universities, pointing out that Wenzhou lacquerware will have huge development space in technical innovation, cultural and creative industries, local industries and university research.

Second stop: Han Chen Yue Kiln Inheritance Workshop  

In the afternoon, the research team visited the Han Chen Yue Kiln Inheritance Workshop in Taoshan Town, Ruian City. The Yue Kiln Small Town in Zheng Village, Taoshan, Ruian is an important rural site that the Taoshan Town Government has developed in recent years to drive rural development and revitalization through Yue kilns. Lou Lin Feng, an intangible cultural heritage inheritor and teacher of School of Design Arts of Wenzhou University of Technology, led everyone to visit the Yue kiln workshop and the construction and operation of the dragon kiln, introducing the thousand-year-old skills of firing Yue kilns and systematically introducing them in combination with the development of ancient towns and Yue kilns. In the exhibition hall, his works were on display with rich shapes and types. He introduced the firing techniques of firewood burning Yue kilns, explaining the advantages of firewood burning over electric and gas kilns in terms of glass fusion on the glaze surface and temperature. Party Secretary Qian Qiang had an in-depth understanding of Lou Lin Feng on the firing techniques, materials, firing period and temperature of the exhibits. 

In the Han Chen Yue Kiln Inheritance Workshop, the delegation from Wenzhou University of Technology had a discussion with Lin Na, head of Taoshan Town, on the development of the Han Chen Yue Kiln Inheritance Workshop and the value of Yue kilns. Party Secretary Qian Qiang affirmed Lou Lin Feng's craftsmanship spirit, and pointed out the value of Yue kilns in industrial chains, social activities and cultural research in the future, proposing that intangible cultural heritages need to leverage development and cannot go it alone, and Yue kilns need to form cultural aggregation to have major development.