He Keming was influenced by ancient lanterns since childhood, and 13 years old began his artistic career of making lanterns. Taking animal shape as the skeleton structure, using lead wire instead of traditional bamboo to wrap corrugated paper, the lantern-tied colorful skeleton structure is accurate, the details are exquisite, the shape is vivid and the posture is vivid.
He keming carries a lantern
The base camp of He Keming Lantern Festival is in Shanghai Arts and Crafts Research Office (later upgraded to Institute). He Keming's A Hundred Birds Facing the Phoenix is 1 ft high, 6 ft wide and 4 ft deep. 65,438+000 birds with different postures are surrounded by a phoenix with purple crown and golden feathers, which symbolizes that people of all ethnic groups are closely United around the * * * production party. Chen Yi, Su Yu, Tan Zhenlin, Pan Hannian and other leaders were full of praise after watching "A Hundred Birds Float at the Phoenix". Chen Yi said, "Beautiful, this is the first time I have seen such a delicate lantern." "A Hundred Birds in the Phoenix" won the first prize of the conference, and also participated in the 60th birthday National Day Exhibition of President Mao Zedong as a gift. Now it's in the National Museum of History.
1956 established Shanghai arts and crafts research institute (then called "research room"), and hired He Keming and other folk artists as researchers. The following year, He Keming attended the National Congress of Arts and Crafts Workers and was cordially received by Vice President Zhu De. 1964 He Keming was awarded as a craftsman.
After decades of unremitting efforts, He Keming pushed the lantern art in the south of the Yangtze River to a new height and condensed the rich cultural accumulation in China. His animal lanterns are vivid, colorful, ornamental and decorative, and contain a long history of folk stories, forming a unique lantern school. His lantern-colored masterpieces, such as Deer and Crane Live Together and White Peacock and Rooster, were presented as national gifts to foreign heads of state, such as voroshilov, Ho Chi Minh and Sihanouk. He Keming also won the reputation of "Jiangnan Lantern King".