1born in February 1937, senior arts and crafts artist, master of arts and crafts in China, member of China Artists Association, director of China Ceramic Art Association, and librarian of Jiangsu Provincial Museum of Literature and History. From 65438 to 0954, he studied pottery carving under the famous zisha pottery carving artist Ren Ganting (Shuo Shuo), received the basic training of China's painting and calligraphy, and entered the purple sand craft class of Shushan Ceramics Society (predecessor of Yixing Zisha Factory). 1955 Joined Shushan Ceramic Production Cooperative (predecessor of Zisha Factory). 1958 participated in the training of China folk sculpture seminar jointly organized by the Ministry of Light Industry and the Central Academy of Arts and Crafts. After that, he transferred to the studio of clay figurine Zhang (Zhang Jingzuo) of the Central Academy of Arts and Crafts to study, and returned to Zisha Factory on 1959. 1959 The Sculpture Department of Jiangsu Huaihai Campaign Martyrs Monument was transferred to participate in the creation and design of the floating round sculpture of the monument, 1962 returned to Zisha Factory. 1968 presided over and successfully trial-produced the large-scale purple sand pottery sculpture "Chairman Mao went to Anyuan" with a height of 2.8 meters. 1972, various creative design research work was resumed, and clay materials suitable for sculpture production were successfully trial-produced, and methods such as coloring, inlaying and shearing were adopted. , and fired the sculpture with "Huifa Glaze", and created "Group Carvings of Journey to the West" for the first time, which was loved by merchants at the Canton Fair. 1973 presided over the overall design of Quinn's tea sets, water pots, fish-shaped stationery, fish-patterned bottles and other works, and skillfully combined porcelain, bamboo and metal materials with purple sand techniques, such as porcelain bead inlay, silver thread inlay, colored mud, brocade pattern, hair cutting and so on. 1977 Copying with Jiangsu sculptors 18 Suzhou Dongshan Bauhinia Nanluohan clay sculpture and Zisha pottery firing samples, which were filed by Jiangsu arts and crafts units respectively. 1978, he created vivid works, such as Xiao Yi's Making Orchid Pavilion, Cao Cao's On Heroic Brewing, and Sesshū Tōyō's Learning Painting. Participated in Yixing Ceramic Exhibition and National Ceramic Art Exhibition held in Beijing, and won the National Art Design Award. Among them, "Sesshū Tōyō Xue Hua" has been selling well for 8 consecutive years after it was put into production. Yixing Zisha Craft Pottery, written in cooperation with Gu Jingzhou, published by Jiangsu Ceramics 1979. Later, he successively created a number of works with the theme of group harmony, cultural celebrities and folk allusions, such as Jian Zhen and Chao Heng, Liu Hai's Golden Toad, Rain Long and Happy Beads, Sitting on Eight Monsters, Four Generations of Writers, Eight Immortals Drinking, etc. Among them, "Sitting Eight Monsters" won the first prize in the national ceramic art design appraisal. 198 1 year, Gu Jingzhou and others attended the Asian Arts Festival organized by the Hong Kong Urban Council. 1986, Yixing Zisha No.2 Factory was transformed into a Zisha Sculpture Branch, during which the design of Zisha furnishings pottery "Ice Seal Daji" won the first prize of national ceramic design appraisal. 1987 to Zisha No.2 Factory as the director of sculpture art branch, enthusiastically cultivating young people. He also created large-scale pottery, such as the pure bottle Guanyin statue with a height of 162 cm and a weight of 172 kg, as well as large-scale Wan Wen furnishings such as peanuts, winter bamboo shoots, ganoderma lucidum and Shi Ding incense burners. In addition to creating pottery sculptures, he also designed and created a number of distinctive teapot, including Dragon and Phoenix Pot, Tianwei Pot, Lingbao Pot, Time Bag Pot, Daping Pot, Zhubao Ping 'an Pot and so on. And understand the inscription to make it timely, timely and affectionate. During this period, he published a paper "On the Art of Zisha Pottery Carving" and won the first prize of "Zisha Culture Essay Award" organized by Wenhui Daily. He also co-edited Yixing Zisha Zhenjian with Gu Jingzhou, which was published by Hong Kong Sanlian Bookstore. From 65438 to 0990, he created sculpture artistic images with humanistic themes from Yixing, mainly including "Learning Art for Spring" and "Purple Sand Artist Shao Daheng". Published his new work "Eighteen Arhats" at the second Purple Pottery Art Exhibition in China. These works highlight the humanistic spirit and show the overall image through the re-creation of artistic functions, which is unique in charm. 1989 visit to Japan. 199 1 year, I visited Tokyo University of the Arts, Takeno University of the Arts and the Ceramic Department of Star University at the invitation of Japanese Ceramics Star University, and visited many exhibitions and museums. 1992 at the invitation of Taiwan Province National Culture Foundation, he and his brother Xu Hantang visited Taiwan Province Province to carry out cross-strait purple sand cultural exchange activities. 65438-0994, Yixing Changle Red Ceramics Co., Ltd., a Sino-foreign joint venture with Mr. Hong Gao as the technical director, was established. 1996 was invited by Taiwan Province National Culture Foundation to visit Taiwan Province Province again and publish "On the Artistic Expression of Zisha Sculpture". His works were highly praised by colleagues in Taiwan Province Province, and he won the Chinese National Culture Award in 1996, and initiated and hosted the "First China Modern Ceramics Exhibition". From 65438 to 0996, Changle Tao Zhuang, covering an area of 30 mu, was established and continuously improved.
Engaged in purple sand craft for more than 40 years, I not only have profound artistic attainments in purple sand craft, but also have studied China's paintings and calligraphy, and integrated them into the creation of purple sand craft. He created more than 200 excellent purple sand ceramic sculptures, which perfectly combined traditional skills with modern styles. Many works have been collected by Victoria Museum, Palace Museum and Shanghai Museum in London, England.