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Woodblock printing workshop in E. China Photo taken on March 22, 2012 shows books introducing Shizhuzhai published in Switzerland in 1940s...


Woodblock printing workshop in E. China


Photo taken on March 22, 2012 shows books introducing Shizhuzhai published in Switzerland in 1940s in Shizhuzhai Print Art Corporation in Hangzhou, capital of east China's Zhejiang Province. (Xinhua)

Wei Lizhong views at a porcelain bottle in front drawings printed by him in Shizhuzhai Print Art Corporation in Hangzhou, capital of east China's Zhejiang Province, March 25, 2012. (Xinhua)

Wei Lizhong views at a duplicated painting on computer screen in Shizhuzhai Print Art Corporation in Hangzhou, capital of east China's Zhejiang Province, March 25, 2012. (Xinhua)

Wei Lizhong view at parts of woodblock printing work "Dwelling in the Fuchun Mountains" in Shizhuzhai Print Art Corporation in Hangzhou, capital of east China's Zhejiang Province, March 22, 2012. (Xinhua)

Wei Lizhong carves a woodblock in Shizhuzhai Print Art Corporation in Hangzhou, capital of east China's Zhejiang Province, March 22, 2012. (Xinhua)

Photo taken on March 22, 2012 shows part of woodblock printing work "Dwelling in the Fuchun Mountains" and a block in Shizhuzhai Print Art Corporation in Hangzhou, capital of east China's Zhejiang Province. (Xinhua)

Located in a business street filled with stores and showcases in downtown city, a woodblock printing workshop seems strange and incongruous.
Nearly ten persons are concentrated on carving or printing in semi-darkness in a 300-square meters semi-basement, regardless of the noisy and rush outside window.
Among those, a middle age man with Chinese style dress is carving a wood plate of Buddhist figures under lamp. He is Wei Lizhong, founder and president of Shizhuzhai Print Art Corporation.
Sizhuzhai, literally means "Ten Bamboo Hall", was created in late Ming Dynasty (1368-1644) by Hu Zhengyan who is a great master of pictorial color woodblock printing in China. His virtuosity is still evinced at the present day by his two books, the 16-volume "Writings and Pictures of the Ten Bamboo Hall" and the 5-volume "Collection of Decorated Letter Paper of the Ten Bamboo Hall", which are regarded as the oldest east-Asiatic specimens extant of polychrome woodblock prints.
Later, the prosperity of Shizhuzhai has gone and its special woodblock techniques have almost lost.
Until in the 20th century, the books of Shizhuzhai were published again, but it is Wei Lizhong who revived the timehonored brand. Wei Lizhong was born in 1968 in Shengzhou, east China's Zhejiang Province.
In 1990, he was enrolled in China Academy of Art, one of China's top art colleges, and began his art career. Although his major was drawing, once learned about woodblock printing at a lesson, he was infatuated with it and decided to spend his life on it.
In 2001, Wei Lizhong funded Shizhuzhai Print Art Corporation with all his savings, despite his whole family's opposition. In most people's eyes, woodblock printing cost much and gained less, but he has insisted in his work for more than 10 years. "The efficiency and output of woodblock printing cannot be compared with modern way, but its value and tradition is worth admiring and appreciating.
This is the reason I insist till now." Different from oil on canvas, most Chinese tradition drawings are ink and wash painting on paper, so it is more difficult to duplicate Chinese paintings with woodblock printing.
Thanks to historic accumulation of Zhizhuzhai and his Research, Wei dominated the perfect replication skills. At present, he is engaged in woodblock printing "Dwelling in the Fuchun Mountains", a great scroll painting made by Huang Gongwang of Yuan Dynasty (1271-1368).
The huge project, with more than 1,000 pieces of wood plates and four years' work, is expected to be completed shortly. "The wood plates can only be used 200 or 300 times in printing, so the woodblock printing works are limited and valuable, can be considered as luxury."
Wei Lizhong has just received an order from a club which want to purchase his duplicated paintings with price of 2,000 U.S. dollars each. He believes that the woodblock printing can not only be stored in museum, but also survive in the market.

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