In the Nanjing Yuhuatai scenic area, a man wearing a "ponytail" is a black marble painting, people, animals look different, lifelike portrait is more comparable with the photo, painting tool actually is a self- 2 kg weight of the stylus.

Stylus to knock out small dots composed of paintings

Recently, the Yangtze Evening News reporter in the cemetery to see Dong Lei, he was sitting attentively holding the umbrella of the following a hold up portraits of stylus engraving a workbench in a square stool-like, relying on a magazine the size of the marble slabs, stood next to a painting-like, Dong Lei, sitting in the work of stage, left hand back close to the marble slabs, right hand holding the pen and pen rack at the left tiger's mouth, right hand is constantly driving the pen back-end, with the tip in stone on the knocking out a small dot, numerous small dots into a picture, the onlookers, visitors to look into God said you want to send photographs of themselves to please He Figurine.

The tour of the cemetery so that he fell in love with the "shadow carving"

Upon inquiry, the reporter learned that this technique called shadow carving. One day in 2002, Dong Lei went to the cemetery trip to see the lifelike portrait on the monument, the former thought it was computer generated, but was surprised to learn that turned out to be artificial, like a chicken with a stylus to eat m as little by little, by the numerous tip size dot combination, originally in glass painting Dong Lei suddenly fell in love with this painting, that the name of shadow carving, he went to the Xinhua Bookstore to buy a number of related books.

Not only that, he also self-made a stylus - barrel diameter of 2 cm over 20 cm in length and weighs 2 pounds, tip tungsten steel welded together, whenever the board to paint him in black marble, can listen to the "da da da" sound.

For the Arts has seven apprentice

In order to progress faster, Dong Lei, seven go Fujian Hui Park coach. The previous four visits in the process, the teacher told him to apprenticeship can, but have to pay annual tuition of more than 10,000 blocks, and at least five years in order to graduate, no money of Dong Lei had to go home, but he did not give up learning, outside of normal work, still spend a lot of time in the shadow carving art, closed-door training hard in their homes.

Self-study for a long time, he took the works destined for Hui Park, this work is the teacher fancy promised his close followers. Five years later, by virtue of his shadow carving technology, to find a job. Today, he chose to rely on this technology entrepreneurship within the scenic area of ​​the Yuhuatai filled his various works on the facade of his small, the dealings visitors often lamented his highly skilled, for his own painting, His greatest wish is that the Confucius Temple is one of their own studio.