Source: Yuncheng Urban and Rural Collective Industrial Association

Updated: May 14, 2021  14:54

LV Renyi, male, born in Dongyaotou Village, Hejin City, Shanxi on August 15, 1957. He is the ninth generation of the ancestral family of colored glaze. He is now a member of Yuncheng Arts and Crafts Association, and he is currently a director of LV’s ancestral Colored Glaze Gray Pottery Brick Carving Center with a total assets of 18 million and 5 million registered capital. In 2017, it merged with Minghui Colored Glaze Factory under joint stock system. It invested 18 million building a new factory with environment-friendly equipment and large-scale machinery. It has 150 staff, among them 15 traditional technicians.

LV Renyi was deeply influenced by his grandfather LU Huanwen since he was a child and he learned to make handicrafts and sold them in the market. After the reform and opening up, he followed his father to build a kiln in the Meidaizhao area of Baotou, Inner Mongolia (to provide supply for ancient construction projects such as Baotou Meidaizhao, Lvzu Temple, Hohhot, Dazhao, Xiaozhao, Xilituzhao, Maixiangcai Hotel, etc. ). Being invited by Meidaizhao, they had been running a factory and training employees for three years, and their business covered more than half of Inner Mongolia. After returning home, with the expansion of the gray pottery sculpture market, they have successively become the supplier to many projects, such as Lingshi Wang Family Courtyard, Yangcheng Huangcheng Xiangfu, Yuci Changjia Manor, Yuci Old Town, Qixian Qiao Family Courtyard, Wanrong Li Family Courtyard, Beijing Nanchizi Courtyard, Taiyuan Kangzhuang Ecological Garden, Taiyuan Jiangnan Hotel, Quanjin Grand Hall, Jinci Park, Yangquan Baijiazhuang Forest Resort, Xi'an Guanzhong Folk Museum, Jingle County Wenfeng Tower, and Gujiao Wenfeng Tower. Among them, the Beijing Nanchizi Siheyuan was praised by foreign friends. In the past two years, a large number of products have been provided to ancient construction projects such as the city wall of Datong, Huayan Temple, Yungang Grottoes, Guandi Temple, and Fenglin Pavilion. In addition, 50 courtyard sculptures in Datong Natural Homeland were designed and produced by our factory. He also designed and produced a mountain-gate picture of the “Eight Immortals Crossing the Sea”, and a picture of Fuxi and Nuwa for the Hejin Gaoqi Temple. In addition, 90% of the repair products of each compound in Shanxi province are exclusively produced by the enterprise.

LV’s Coloured Glaze Recipe Document

In January 2015, CCTV "Unlimited Popularity" column visited LV’s Ancestral Brick Carving Factory to conduct special interviews for the folk treasure "LV's Ancestral Brick Carving Culture and Art", which lasted a week. At 22:00 on March 22 of the same year, it was broadcast at home and abroad. The feature film lasted for 55 minutes, promoting the historical origin and development of the LV family's ancestral brick carving culture and artistic products.