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eNorth(31
March from Hong Kong): In the "2001 Tianjin Week in Hong Kong--Public
Show" held in Hong Kong Times Square, the journalists saw the Chinese
Lady Wang Yongzhen, who is the famous folk artist and the third
generation of Wei's Kite. He told journalists that Wei's Kite will
import the system of large-scale manufacture and management instead
of the previous little workshop to adapt themselves into the developing
direction of Chinese folk arts.
Lady Wei said that it is the first time of her to come to Hong
Kong where she took part in the demonstration activities. As being
the general Director and Manager of Tianjin Wei's Kite Handicraft
Limited, Lady Wei also has another purpose: to find the commercial
cooperation in "Tianjin Week in Hong Kong". She believed that manufacturing
procedures, materials and theme of folk arts can be changed and
the folk arts ought to develop from the traditional foundation.
She told that once she went to visit in America and was asked to
make an owl kite. In Chinese traditional culture the owl means bad
luck, so the kites with style of owl is unbelievable decades years
ago. However American friends think the owl is beneficial bird and
doesn't mean bad luck in their culture. At last, Lady Wei broke
the former rules and made an owl kite for American friends.
During the journalists' interview, Wei was showing her handicrafts
in making kites in the public demonstration. She said that she has
trained over 40 excellent young artists and let them join in the
kite's making. What she has done is to finish her grandfather's
last wish that let Wei's kite develop and go to the world. She thought
the folk artists have the responsibility to inherit the traditional
culture and keep its vitality in future. Commercialization is a
direction of developing folk arts. And the most important is that
the folk arts will have prospects when the family and workshop management
ruled at will are replaced by modern large-scale manufacture-management
system. (Zhang Huijun and Wang Wei)
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