(MASTER OF CRAFTS) CHINA-HENAN-ZHENGZHOU-HIGH RELIEF RUBBING-INHERITOR (CN)

(MASTER OF CRAFTS) CHINA-HENAN-ZHENGZHOU-HIGH RELIEF RUBBING-INHERITOR (CN)

(221121) -- ZHENGZHOU, Nov. 21, 2022 (Xinhua) -- Li Renqing shows how to apply ink on rubbing paper at an exhibition hall of Zhengzhou Shang Dynasty Ruins Museum in Zhengzhou, central China's Henan Province, Nov. 17, 2022. Making rubbings for tablet inscriptions is a craft with a history of over 1,000 years in China, invented as a way to copy documents even before the art of printing. Upgrading the traditional rubbing craft which can only be applied to flat surface, Li Renqing, born in 1963 in Xinyang of central China's Henan Province, has been working for a whole life on rubbings of high relief cultural relics, making the once impossible task a mature craft. Different from flat rubbings, high relief rubbings require the craftsman to cut the Xuan paper into pieces according to the convex and concave of the sculpture, and then splice hundreds of pieces of paper together to reproduce the artwork. Such a craft can not only copy unmovable cultural relics in equal size, but can also record cracks and erosion o

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