

Big Waves Left Gold, Yang Qinghu—— The Indispensab
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One. Study Craftsmanship, Build Childhood Dream

 Yang Qinghu's ancestral home is in Suzhou, he was born in Qinghai in 1974, raised beside Yangcheng Lake, Suzhou city, and his name Qinghu came from this. He is a craftsman and the guardian of craftsmanship. After years of experience, his every step is traceable, whether it is persistence, innovation, or breakthrough.

 Forty years ago, Yang Qinghu's father, rooted in Northwest China, depended on his sewing skill. Under the subtle influence, the idea of adequately leaning a skill was planted in the young heart of Yang Qinghu.


He went back to Suzhou city with his family when he was eight years old. Yang Qinghu was married in 1995, and he noticed the broad market future of mahogany furniture. He borrowed money from relatives and started the furniture business. He founded Millennium Dragon Mahogany Furniture Factory in 1996. As his company slowly developed, he has grown interested and inseparable attachment toward this craftsmanship. Yang Qinghu started to study how to make Ming Dynasty's style furniture with the tutoring of Xu Jianping and other intangible cultural inheritors, and folk craftsman.


 He was serious, persistent, and pursued perfection, those are the qualities he learned from his father when he was a child, and those qualities hung over him throughout his study of mahogany furniture. In 2012, Yang Qinghu became the representative inheritor of intangible cultural heritage( Ming Dynasty furniture) of Xiangcheng District. When he looks back now, the figure of his father cutting clothes under the dim light, which he saw many nights, was his first impression of the word craftsman.


Two. Create A Platform, Think In Internetized Way

  Yang Qinghu worked hard in craftsmanship and creation, but he found some issues of the handicraft industry were revealed in the early twenty-first century. At that time, not many people knew famous handicrafts in Suzhou; they didn't even know where to purchase such items. This phenomenon triggered his resolution, and he determined to build a transparent, honest, and practical handicraft platform to help it along.

  So he went to Shanghai Jiao Tong University to study EMBA, went to Pecking University to study art appreciation EMBA, became part-time Angle Investor, and invested internet companies. The traditional craftsman Yang Qinghu's internet-way of thinking started and spread from then. He loves to study and is good at accumulation, which improved his sensation of the business environment up.


In 2013, Yang Qinghu built a global handicraft e-commerce platform, Tiangong Arts & Crafts. He believes that art comes from life and a part of life. When Tiangong Arts & Crafts was founded, Yang Qinghu worked with many masters to fulfill his sentiment. He created close contact between those masters and ordinary customers, built a three-dimensional recommendation system, offered diverse customer services, and introduced traditional handicraft and craftsman to a broad market and group.

Now, Tiangong Arts & Crafts has signed over 500 national, provincial, and city-level master craftsmen. It is an e-commerce platform, which represents the highest craftsmanship level in China. It set down in Suzhou, where represents Jiangnan and eventuality will become nationwide, then worldwide.


Three. Innovation, And Answer Carefully

 Yang Qinghu has worked in the mahogany furniture industry for more than twenty years. The mahogany furniture factory, Millennium Dragon Mahogany Furniture Factory, has become stable after years of development. In 1998, it was a small workshop with five people; now, its warehouse is over 10,000 square meters, and it has three brands, which are Millennium Dragon, Yifengge, and Qinghu Manufacture. It's product designs, and production equipment is at the forefront of the industry. Its products are loved by costumers and rewarded by the government and professional department. It's safe to say that Yang Qinghu has a perfect score in the mahogany furniture industry.


However, he didn't stop there. He had been wondering about how to develop, innovate, and meet the young generation's taste. In 2016, he boldly combined Ming Dynasty's mortise and tenon with silver doting and lining skills, which are intangible cultural heritages, and created an original Contented Pen. This was his answer, and also a concrete manifestation of his re-creation by integrating Chinese tradition into modern consciousness.


He said, "the vintage elements of traditional Chinese scale is perfect for the body of the pen naturally. The silver decorations made the pen more than beautiful, and it has a sense of historical precipitation. Holding it is like holding the historical era; each mark determined a sense of value. The most special thing is that it represents the warmth of writing."


Four. Keep Going Forward Together, Accomplish Thousands Of Originality

 Through all those years, Yang Qinghu has never stopped fighting in the business world except innovating and accomplishing in craftsmanship.

  In 2014, he and the National Committee of the Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference released Arts And Crafts as the supplement of Tiangong Arts & Crafts.

  In 2015, Art Photo Circle, a new media and light social, mobile e-commerce platform, was released.


In 2016, he participated in the cultural and creative industry, initiated the China Folk Crafts Movement Of The Youth with Ijiwu, and incubated Art short video.

  In 2017, he founded Tiangong Arts & Crafts Building, created a new landmark of Suzhou's cultural creativity. It is a multifunctional cultural and creative industry campus that includes intangible cultural heritages, cultural and creative industry, technology, and finance.


 In 2018, he founded Handicraft Exposition Center; the first Suzhou Contemporary Handicraft Characters—— Jade And Emerald was published.


In 2019, he created the first handicraft original IP trading platform, Hundreds Craftsman. It is a platform that focuses on offering IP design, recreation,  security traceability, and credit system building for folk skill inheritor and craftsman. It aims to help intangible cultural inheritors to realize their design, product, and sell through industrialized market thinking and transform the intangible cultural handicrafts into industrialized way with the gift of technology+culture+design.


He initiated Hundreds Craftsman-Intangible Cultural's Reborn project to protect the inheritors' skill while letting all the industrialized handicrafts into people's home and life through industrialized thinking, and the power of design, cultural IP and internet.

  He promoted Guard Innovation: Protect Hundreds Craftsman to give intangible cultural craftsmen cultural symbols and IP of the museum, country, and locals to innovate; let them become the inheritors of good traditional Chinese culture.



 In 2020, under the invitation of Tencent to test Wechat live, he started The Craftsmen Say to interview 100 intangible cultural craftsmen live and search the meaning and value of the integrated development of intangible cultural skill and modern new oriental life aesthetics.


As a craftsman, he holds faith and improves his techniques, and as the guardian of craftsmanship, he fights for the active development of the industry and mixes craftsmanship with life. His passion accomplished his dream, and his dream pushes the constant development of traditional craftsmanship.


His sincerest hope, his direction, and why he explores in craftsmanship territory is to cultivate folk art IP, make it thrive, and push the active development of the craftsmanship industry.


In his opinion, keep craftsmanship, which is the warm memory of this era, alive requires more guardians of craftsmanship like him to push forward silently. Inheritance and protection is a theme that worth profound thinking, and it is eagerly waiting for young generations to discover and explore. He will lead his team to serve more craftsmen, pass on more originality, and continue to promote traditional culture and intangible culture.

The dream wont stop, and then the journey wont stop. He will always be on the road.


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