Xu Baoying: Making Leather Articles Manually, Focusing On "Craftsman Spirit"

The old two storehouse, the mottled counter, and the less than ten square meters of shops are full of old-fashioned colors, revealing the traces of time everywhere. The shelves of a roll of all kinds of leather surface is particularly conspicuous, although there is no sign, but also can be recognized at the moment is a home leather shop. In the old street of Kunming, this old leather store seems to be out of tune with the tall buildings around. But Xu Baoying, a shopkeeper, is a Kunming artisan who many people have come to look for.

There are many customers who have special feelings for craftsmanship, and there are many new leather shops. When it comes to these old customers, Baoying has a proud smile on its face. A knife, a hammer hammer, accompanied Xu Baoying for most of his life.

On the 30 day, just after the shop opened, some guests came to make it. Cowhide Belt. Xu Baoying took a roll of cowhide from the shelf and started it in front of the old glass container. He held the knife and pushed it forward. The length needed to be cut is cut off by cutting knife on the chopping board, then trimmed with a trimming knife, made with a circle, and a flat stick is drawn on both sides of the belt with two marks as a simple pattern. Then fasten the belt buckle and hammer the hole. Lao Xu was skilled in movement and skilled in making a leather belt more than 10 minutes before and after.

The leather shop without signs is called "new leather store", which is quite historic in Kunming. Guanghua Street Xu Baoying is 66 years old this year. More than 30 years ago, he took over the leather shop of two generations from his father. He had mastered this skill without studying deliberately. "I want to stick to it and not lose this skill." Xu Baoying said that the leather belt he made was made of real material and made step by step with the old technology, and not because the leather belt was slightly cheaper than the cowhide belt. "Craftsman craftsman, heart in doing things, will be reflected in the craft."

"All kinds of things our family used to do before. Leather goods There are a lot of saddles, leather bags, gun bags, and so on. But with social changes, these things have long been forgotten. " Remembering the old days, I can't help but feel sorry for Baoying. He said that most of the shops are now custom made leather belts.

Most of the tools Xu Baoying used were left by his father for some years. The shop is also not repaired for many years, and it is full of old breath everywhere. But such an old shop still attracts many young people to come. Xu Baoying told reporters that his belt has been accompanied by many people's lives. There are three generations of old customers and one generation who come here to buy leather belts, and young people find their stores through WeChat and micro-blog and make a customized belt.

Every belt has a story. Xu Baoying said that a long distance truck driver bought a belt of his family. In a sports car when the car broke down, the driver who got off the car was robbed and stabbed from behind, because he had been stabbed on the belt and escaped. Afterwards, the driver found his home with a belt and said that the belt saved his life. The leather belt of his family has even been sold abroad. There are foreigners who are running to buy leather belts and not new ones. They must buy Lao Xu's old leather belt.

"Now there are fewer and fewer things." Ms. Zhong, who came to buy leather belt, said that in her impression, this is an old shop which has been opened for a long time.

Nowadays, Xu Baoying has to make many belts every day, and his business is OK. Besides the belt, Xu Baoying also made some mobile phone shells, but he emphasized that he was "just doing things that could not be bought outside". Now, Xu Baoying's handicraft has been learned by his son. Although his son has his own job, Xu Baoying will pass the shop on to his son, so that he can continue his business, continue his family skills, and continue this "craftsman spirit".