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孔府印阁:千载印信传古今

2023-08-19孔大儒

走向世界 2023年31期
关键词:孔府印章篆刻

孔大儒

方寸之间显千年传承

承载印信文化的尼山石,因产自孔子出生地尼山而闻名于世,是优质砚石,且稀有珍贵,尼山石印章也因此具有浓郁的儒家文化特色,承载着特殊的文化意义。以尼山石印章为特色产品的孔府印阁,坐落于曲阜市林前社区,自成立以来便致力于传播和弘扬中华优秀传统文化。

刻刀飞旋、石屑腾起,孔府印阁创作室里,篆刻师孔令佳一手用刻刀在尼山石上刻画着刚劲而隽秀的字体,另一只手的拇指迅速拂去刻掉的石粉,动作如行云流水。

“其实,对于熟练的篆刻师来说,大多是可以直接盲刻的,因为笔法已经烂熟于心了。”孔令佳19岁入行,从事篆刻已有10多年,刻制一枚精美的印章,不過是信手拈来。“在字体选择、章法布局上,前期要花点心思琢磨。设计好了,会更加得心应手。”孔令佳介绍。

如今的孔府印阁,在传承篆刻技艺的基础上,确定以弘扬中国传统工匠精神、传播中国国学文化为建设目标,立足曲阜儒家文化资源,成立了篆刻文化研究和传播小组,与西泠印社、山东书法家协会等开展交流学习,在多所高校联合开设篆刻课程,把篆刻教学融入旅游产业,与研学游紧密结合,让全国乃至世界了解中国独特而绚丽的印章篆刻文化。

目前,曲阜市也正在加快推进“中华印信城”建设,推动篆刻书法艺术走向社会大众、惠及基层群众,同时繁荣发展文旅产业,打造“圣城有礼”手造品牌。孔府印阁这一特色品牌,将持续为当地文化事业添火加薪。

古老技艺的华丽转身

在孔府印阁的产品展示柜里,放着一枚黑色的檀木与青铜镶嵌在一起的印章。与人们传统印象中带着各种神兽图案的印章不同,这枚铜木结合的印章十分简约,而在一旁,是一个同样极简风格的小木盒。

“这种设计让印章便于携带,而且极简的风格很受现在年轻消费者的喜欢。”孔府印阁产品部经理张志伟介绍,“如何让传统文化焕发新的活力,让年轻人喜欢上古老的篆刻文化,是公司近年来一直在探索的,我们希望用传统文化与流行元素相结合的形式,让越来越多的年轻人去尝试用一枚印章来标榜自己的青春气息。”

“萌版”十二生肖印章是近年来颇受市场欢迎的孔府印阁新品。“这款产品主体是黄铜材质,外层采用24K金电镀,上面的印钮是十二生肖造型。既是印章,又可当作挂件或钥匙扣,迎合了当下年轻人的喜好。”张志伟说道,“融合现代创意和设计,以创新的方式传承传统工艺,才能让传统工艺走得更远、传得更久。”孔府印阁现已开发出玉石类、金属类、木制类、塑胶类印章产品2000余款,拥有外观专利等相关专利500余项。

随着近年来人们对中华优秀传统文化的热情不断升温,又给这门手艺添了把“火”。作为中华优秀传统文化的符号,篆刻印章成了新时尚,从刻有二维码的装饰用玉玺到兼具照明功能的印章台灯,再到可以把胎毛加入印石的印章吊坠,孔府印阁的产品种类越做越多,创新赋予篆刻新的活力。

“互联网时代,印章需要被赋予更多内容。”孔府印阁总经理刘鹏表示,孔府印阁将在做精传统印章的同时积极开发新产品,实现传统工艺的华丽转身。

“小印章”做出“大产业”

随着电商的兴起,传统的销售模式受到影响,孔府印阁第四代传人张凯决定改变经营思路,将林前社区百余位老篆刻工匠聚在一起,一边以老带新培育新鲜血液,一边在网络平台进行宣传,通过注册同名网店“孔府印阁”,开启了网销之路。

“欢迎各位新朋友、老朋友来到我们的直播间,请大家点点关注,加加粉丝团,传统手艺不失传……”在孔府印阁篆刻电商基地直播间,主播陈绯绯正积极和直播间观众互动,一方方精美的印章在她的推荐下掀起一波波抢购热潮。

“以前我也没想过会在网上直播。”陈绯绯说,“现在通过直播不仅能扩大产品的销路,更能向广大网友普及印信文化,与大家分享印章典故,我觉得很有意义。”

“对印信文化的喜爱其实深藏在每个人心中,这是我们中国人与生俱来的文化基因。”在刘鹏看来,印章的市场潜力远远大于现在的供应水平,“从古代的玉玺到现代书法作品印章,从小学生喜爱的功能印章到成人用的印章,社会发展从古到今,个体需求从小到大,‘印信文化可谓无处不在。”

对传统手艺的坚守,与现代互联网的拥抱,在孔府印阁的成长历程中体现得淋漓尽致。小小印章,搭上互联网的快车,让孔府印阁从2007年的小工作室发展成为年销售额破1.8亿元的印石生产基地,现日产印章2.5万枚左右。而今,孔府印阁在电商平台上拥有自营网店6家,众创网店100多家,篆刻印章产品占全国市场份额的30%,石印产品网上销量全国第一。未来,孔府印阁也将顺应时代发展,让印信文化走进千家万户。

编辑/刁艳杰

Kongfu Seal Pavilion: Millennia-old Seals Spread across the Ages

Adjoining the Cemetery of Confucius, not far from the Kong Family Mansion and the Temple of Confucius, Linqian Community in Qufu is a well-known “Handicraft Village”, where villagers generally master woodcarving, seal cutting, Han Chinese costume making and other traditional crafts. Among them, seal cutting is their most outstanding craft. Almost every household has a good command of seal cutting. Kongfu Seal Pavilion is located in the community.

Since its inception in 1956, Kongfu Seal Pavilion has been committed to spreading the fine traditional Chinese culture, and actively recruiting skilled craftsmen with continuous development and growth. Only by integrating modern creativity and design and innovatively inheriting traditional crafts can we make traditional crafts survive longer and spread further. So far, the pavilion has developed more than 2,000 seal products concerning jade, metal, wood and plastic products, and owned over 500 patents related thereto, including design patents.

The rise of e-commerce has had an effect on the traditional sales model. Zhang Kai, the fourth-generation inheritor of Kongfu Seal Pavilion, decided to change their management concept, brought together over 100 senior seal cutting craftsmen, and publicized the pavilion on online platforms while cultivating fresh blood by the mode of skilled craftsmen guiding new comers. Now, he has embarked on a road of Internet sales by registering an online store of the same name – “Kongfu Seal Pavilion”.

Taking advantage of the Internet, small seals have enabled the pavilion to develop from a small studio in 2007 into a seal stone production base with annual sales exceeding RMB 180 million, and a daily output of 25,000 seals. At present, the pavilion has six self-operated stores and over 100 Zhongchuang (mass innovation) stores on e-commerce platforms, where its seal cutting products account for 30% of the national market share, and stone seal products rank first in online sales. In the future, the pavilion will follow the trend of the times, and allow the seal culture to approach innumerable homes.

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