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在广州恩宁路一家4平方米的店里，陈列着上百件铜器，泛黄的灯光下，这些铜器的锈迹和光泽，掩饰不住制作的精美，和这精美中蕴藏的光阴和故事。打铜人叫苏广伟，土生土长的西关人，也是广州西关打铜工艺的市级传承人。
There is a 4 square-meter shop on Enning Road in Guangzhou, where lies hundreds of bronzes. Under the pale light, the delicacy and the stories of the craftsmanship cannot be covered up by the rust and gloss on the bronzes. The craftsman’s name is Su Guangwei, who is a native of Xiguan and a municipal successor of bronze process in Xiguan, guangzhou.
1949年，苏广伟出生在恩宁路骑楼下的一间屋子里。在他幼时，铜匠“叮叮当当”的声音一直出现在苏广伟的世界里。因为在1958年以前，西关人民的家里多多少少都有一件铜器皿。尤其是有钱的大户人家，通常都会制备一套铜制的锅碗瓢盆。因此，在恩宁路密密麻麻地布满了各色铜器店，当时特别流行一句话：“苏州样、广州匠”。说的就是苏州的技术，广州的工匠。最多的时候，广州城里的工匠超百人。
In 1949, Su Guangwei was born in a room under the arcade on Enning Road. In his early years, the sound of clank had always existed in his world, because every family in Xiguan had more or less bronzes in their houses before 1958, especially the rich families, who usually prepared a set of bronze pots and pans. Therefore, there was a popular saying goes that Suzhou’s mold and Guangzhou’s hand, which means the skills were from Suzhou while the craftsmen were from Guangzhou. There were nearly one hundred craftsmen in Guangzhou when it reached the peak.
其实在古代，中国的家家户户基本都有铜器皿，但是现在却没有多少人见过真正古代流传下来的铜器。1958前后，为了响应“大炼钢铁”的号召，许多居民捐出家中的铜器用于支援国家建设。铜器渐渐淡出西关人的生活，“西关打铜”的传统手艺也随着众多师傅的改行而失传。而自幼受铜器影响的苏广伟并没有放弃这项手艺，他的心中一直有制作铜器的愿望。
In ancient time, every family uses bronze containers, but few people have ever seen the real ones. Around 1958, people donated their bronzes in order to be in coordinated with the policy to support the nation construction. From then on, the bronzes faded out of people’s families in Xiguan, and with the craftsmen changed their careers, the traditional craftsmanship had been lost, while Su Guangwei didn’t.
时光荏苒，1988年国家重新对民间开放了打铜工艺，这对苏广伟来说，梦想就在眼前岂有不抓住的道理？于是，在一家租来的仅有４平方米的铺面里，他开起了铜器店，并以父亲的名字命名“天程铜艺”。
Time flies, in 1988 there was a policy to set the bronze free, which was a perfect opportunity for Su Guangwei. So he started his dream in a 4-quare-meter shop and named it after his father as “Tiancheng Bronze”.
店铺开张的那天起，苏广伟就时常提着口袋，探访恩宁路的老住户，旧货市场淘铜器，回到店里，把这些宝贝擦洗干净，照着旧样子重新做了一套锅碗瓢盆。这么多年过去了，广州西关终于又响起了叮叮当当的打铜声。
From the first day when his shop was born, Su Guangwei took his bag visiting the old neighbors on the Enning Road and going to the flea market for bronzes, then he went back to his shop and scrubbed the bronzes as moulds. Years have passed, the clank of bronzes emerges again.
花甲之年的苏广伟做起铜艺来开始吃力了，儿子苏英敏不忍看年迈的父亲再如此操劳下去，开始学习铜艺。 一老一小，父亲行事谨小慎微，儿子喜欢特立独行，因此他们父亲之间纠纷不断。 令苏广伟没想到的是，随着店铺生意越来越红火，他慢慢地放下了一颗吊着的心。毕竟，让更多的人认识、了解到这门手艺，才是苏广伟更希望看到的事情。
He has passed the sixty of the stages, which cannot fully support his labor, so his son started learning it. The ways of doing things are totally different between them. The father is cautious on everything while the son is quite mavericks, so there are always disparities. While to Su Guangwei’s surprise, the business has been better and better, which assured him a lot. After all, his aim is to let more people know this craft.
和苏广伟一样还有很多人，他们对于器物制作的执着与坚守，或执着于百年不变的操作工艺，或勇于开拓创新，将经典发扬光大，或在艰难中苦苦支撑。工艺之美与人生经历的交织后，所流传下来的，就是手艺。
There are numerous people who are just the same with Su Guangwei, holding faith on bronzes, and persisting in doing it with toughness, or bold enough to put their new spirits in it with spread and flourish. The arts of process mingling with the life experience are the things can be built to last, which we call it craftsmanship.
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