刀笔融中西，玉牌载天地——翟倚卫玉雕与人体工程学境界（一）

刀笔融中西，玉牌载天地——翟倚卫的新海派玉雕与人体工程学境界（一） Blade and Brush Bridging East and West, Jade Tablet Carrying Heaven and Earth — Zhai Yiwei's New Shanghai-Style Jade Carving and the Realm of Human Engineering (I)

李神琦（REX LEE）

人体工程学研究员｜美国纽约百老汇制作人

Human Engineering Researcher | Broadway Producer, New York City

毕业于伦敦政治经济学院金融与社会学专业

Graduate of the London School of Economics, Finance and Sociology

曾任纽约苏富比拍卖公司管理部

Former Management Department, Sotheby's New York

在上海这座传统与现代碰撞、东方与西方交融的城市，石库门的青砖黛瓦与陆家嘴的玻璃幕墙并肩而立，外滩的百年建筑与滨江的现代地标交相辉映。而在玉雕界，国家级非物质文化遗产（海派玉雕）代表性传承人翟倚卫（本名翟念卫），正以手中刻刀，复刻着这座城市的精神内核——在方寸玉牌之间，探索传统与现代、东方与西方、人文与科学的极致融合，其作品更暗合人体工程学“天人同构、以人为本”的至高境界，让千年玉艺在当代焕发新生。

In Shanghai — a city where tradition meets modernity and East embraces West — the grey brick walls of shikumen courtyards stand beside the glass curtain walls of Lujiazui, and the century-old buildings of the Bund converse with the contemporary landmarks along the riverbank. In the world of jade carving, Zhai Yiwei, a national-level representative inheritor of intangible cultural heritage and the founder of the New Shanghai-Style Scholar Jade Tablet, is writing a contemporary legend of East-West aesthetic fusion through the medium of a small jade tablet.

一、大师速写：从太空到英伦，新人文玉雕的破界之旅
I. A Portrait of the Master: From Outer Space to Britain — The Boundary-Breaking Journey of New Humanist Jade Carving

翟倚卫绝非守着传统的“老匠人”，他的艺术人生，本身就是一场跨越时空的融合之旅。早年游学日本的经历，让他跳出传统玉雕的桎梏，将西方美术的构图法则、版画的光影层次与中国古典诗词的意境美学熔于一炉，开创性地提出“新海派文人玉牌”理念，为古老玉艺注入现代人文精神。
Zhai Yiwei is anything but a conservative craftsman clinging to tradition. His artistic life is itself a journey of fusion across time and space. His early study in Japan liberated him from the constraints of conventional jade carving, enabling him to integrate Western fine art compositional principles, the light-and-shadow layering of printmaking, and the breathing space of Eastern ink painting — thereby pioneering his distinctive New Shanghai-Style Scholar Jade Tablet style.

他的艺术生涯，有两次足以载入史册的高光时刻，让中国玉雕走向世界、迈向苍穹：

His artistic career is marked by two watershed moments that carried Chinese jade carving to the world and beyond:

遨游太空，玉映星河：2014年，翟倚卫的《云台清曲》《云带钟声》两件玉牌，搭载中国探月飞行器遨游太空并成功返回，成为人类历史上首次“巡天”的玉雕艺术品。当温润美玉与浩瀚星空相遇，传统玉文化的浪漫与现代航天科技的硬核完美交织，让东方美学在宇宙尺度上绽放光芒。

Journeying Through Space, Jade Reflecting the Starry River: In 2014, his jade tablets Yunlai Qingqu (Melody from Cloud Terrace) and Yundai Zhongsheng (Bell Sound Through Cloud Veil) traveled aboard China's lunar exploration vehicle into space and returned safely — becoming the first jade artworks in human history to tour the heavens. When warm jade met the vast cosmos, the essence of Eastern civilization left its mark among the stars.

《云台清曲》Yunlai Qingqu (Melody from Cloud Terrace)

《云带钟声》Yundai Zhongsheng (Bell Sound Through Cloud Veil)

入藏大英，玉耀全球：2017年，他的《别寻方外去》《春之韵》被大英博物馆永久馆藏，这是现当代玉牌首次进入世界顶级艺术殿堂，标志着中国当代玉雕正式跻身世界主流艺术序列，打破了西方对东方传统工艺“仅为装饰”的刻板认知。

Acquired by the British Museum, Jade Shines Globally: In 2017, his works Bie Xun Fang Wai Qu (Seek No Further Beyond) and Chun Zhi Yun (Cadence of Spring) were permanently acquired by the British Museum — the first time contemporary jade tablets entered the world's foremost art institution, marking Chinese contemporary jade carving's formal entry into the global mainstream art canon.

《别寻方外去》、《春之韵》Bie Xun Fang Wai Qu (Seek No Further Beyond) and Chun Zhi Yun (Cadence of Spring)

二、刀笔如椽：传统根基与现代创新的玉雕交响

II. Blade as Brush: The Symphony of Tradition and Innovation in Jade Carving

翟倚卫的玉雕，扎根于传统子冈牌的形制根基，却以现代艺术的语言重构表达，如同上海的建筑，既保留中式风骨，又吸纳西式精髓，形成独树一帜的“东韵西施”风格。

Zhai Yiwei's jade carving is rooted in the formal tradition of the Zigang-style tablet, yet reconstructed through the language of modern art — much like Shanghai's architecture, which preserves the Chinese spirit while absorbing Western essence, forming his distinctive Eastern Soul, Western Grace aesthetic.

1. 形制守正，传承千年玉脉

1. Upholding the Classical Form, Inheriting Millennia of Jade Tradition

他坚守传统子冈牌“方寸之间、气象万千”的核心特质，以阳刻浮雕为主要手法，承袭“子冈牌”方正典雅的形制，保留玉牌正面刻画、背面题诗的经典范式，让作品始终扎根于中国玉文化的深厚土壤。同时，他深谙玉石材质特性，依据原料横切面随形设计，既最大化利用玉料，又保留天然玉皮的自然之美，实现“天人合一”的创作追求。

He adheres faithfully to the Zigang tablet's essential quality of boundless grandeur within an inch of space, employing bas-relief as his primary technique. He inherits the formal elegance of the Zigang style — retaining the classical paradigm of pictorial carving on the front and inscribed verse on the back — ensuring his works remain firmly rooted in the rich soil of Chinese jade culture.

《倩影》Qianying (Silhouette)

2. 题材革新，镌刻当代人文

2. Innovation in Subject Matter, Engraving Contemporary Humanity

打破传统玉雕“仙佛、花鸟、山水”的题材局限，翟倚卫首创“当代女性入玉牌”，将海派摩登女郎、民国名媛、现代都市女性的形象镌刻于玉面，开创“背影女性”的独特表现形式。作品中，女子或倚石而立、或抚琴而歌、或漫步弄堂，身姿婉约朦胧，既有传统仕女的温婉娴静，又有现代女性的独立自信，将上海的都市风情与时代精神凝于玉中。

Breaking free from jade carving's traditional repertoire of immortals, birds, flowers, and landscapes, Zhai Yiwei pioneered contemporary women on jade tablets — engraving the figures of Shanghai-style modern women, Republic-era socialites, and contemporary urban women onto the jade surface. He created the distinctive silhouetted feminine form, using restrained negative space to evoke endless imagination.

《雨巷》Yuxiang (Rainy Lane)

他更将上海建筑元素融入创作，石库门的门楣、欧式洋房的窗棂、弄堂的烟火气，都成为玉牌的背景，如《尚贤坊》以石库门为底，刻画牵狗女郎的闲适日常，让玉牌成为承载城市记忆的“文化载体”。

He further incorporates Shanghai's architectural elements into his work — the lintels of shikumen gateways, the latticed windows of European-style villas, the everyday warmth of alleyway life — as backdrops for his jade tablets. Works such as Shangxian Fang depict a leisurely woman walking her dog against a shikumen backdrop, transforming jade tablets into cultural vessels that carry urban memory.

3. 技法融合，中西美学共生

3. Fusion of Techniques, Coexistence of Chinese and Western Aesthetics

在雕刻技法上，他将西方透视原理、立体架构引入平面玉雕，运用薄浮雕、浅浮雕、阳刻、阴刻的组合，营造出强烈的空间感与立体感。画面构图讲究疏密、阴阳、虚实、方圆的对比，以点线面组织节奏，简约而不简单，“少则多”的现代设计理念与中国文人画“意在画外”的意境追求完美契合。

In carving technique, he introduces Western perspective and three-dimensional structure into flat jade carving, employing a combination of shallow bas-relief, low bas-relief, intaglio, and relief engraving to create powerful spatial depth. His compositional arrangements balance density and openness, yin and yang, the substantial and the void, the angular and the circular — the essence of classical Chinese aesthetics reinterpreted through the lens of Western golden ratio principles.

同时，他将书法艺术融入玉牌，背面题诗不拘泥于传统楷书，而是以灵动书体书写古典诗词或现代诗句，如《雨沥》配以泰戈尔诗句，字体左右不对称，尽显现代艺术的自由与灵动，让玉牌成为“诗、书、画、玉”四位一体的综合艺术。

Simultaneously, he integrates calligraphy into the jade tablet — the inscribed verse on the reverse is not confined to traditional regular script, but rendered in fluid, expressive styles. Yuli (Rain Drizzle), for instance, bears a verse by Tagore in an asymmetrical script that radiates modern artistic freedom, transforming jade carving into a unified art form of calligraphy, painting, and poetry.

《雨沥》Yuli (Rain Drizzle)

《樱桃树下》Yingtao Shu Xia (Beneath the Cherry Tree)

三、玉润身心：人体工程学视角下的玉雕境界

III. Jade Nourishing Body and Soul: The Realm of Jade Carving from a Human Engineering Perspective

翟倚卫的玉雕，不止是视觉艺术的盛宴，更暗合人体工程学“以人为本、天人同构”的核心，从物理触感、生理养生到精神滋养，实现“玉养人、人养玉”的双向奔赴。

Zhai Yiwei's jade carving is not merely a feast for the eyes — it also embodies the human engineering principle of human-centered harmony between Heaven and humanity, achieving a reciprocal dynamic of jade nurturing the person, person nurturing the jade across the dimensions of physical touch, physiological wellbeing, and spiritual nourishment.

1. 方寸玉牌，契合人体工学的把玩之美

1. A Jade Tablet in the Palm: The Ergonomic Beauty of Handling

传统玉牌多为腰间雅玩，而翟倚卫创新设计《腕佩》系列，将玉牌与腕表表带结合，让玉牌熨帖于手腕，抬眼可赏、抬手可触，完美适配现代人的生活习惯与佩戴需求。

Traditional jade tablets were typically worn at the waist as elegant accessories, but Zhai Yiwei's innovative Wrist Ornament series combines the jade tablet with a watch strap, allowing the tablet to rest warmly against the wrist — available at a glance, touchable with every gesture — perfectly adapting to modern habits of wearing and appreciation.

《腕佩》系列Wrist Ornament Series

他的玉牌多为方寸大小，厚度、弧度经过精心设计，握持时恰好贴合掌心曲线，玉质温润细腻，与皮肤接触时产生柔和摩擦，刺激掌心神经末梢，促进手部微循环。从人体工程学角度看，这种握持与摩挲，如同一场无声的“手部按摩”，能激活手部肌群，缓解疲劳，而玉石释放的4-14微米远红外线，与人体细胞共振频率一致，可促进血液循环、提升细胞活性，让“玉养人”从文化信仰变为科学现实。

His jade tablets are typically inch-square in size, with carefully designed thickness and curvature that fit perfectly in the palm's natural contour. The warm, fine texture of jade creates gentle friction against the skin, stimulating the nerve endings of the palm and promoting microcirculation. From a human engineering standpoint, this perfect conformity between object and human body represents the highest expression of the human body as the measure of all things.

2. 气韵生动，滋养精神的人文之境

2. Vital Spirit in Motion: The Humanistic Realm That Nourishes the Soul

人体工程学不仅关注生理舒适，更注重精神层面的和谐。翟倚卫的作品追求“气韵生动”，以简洁线条勾勒意境，如《别寻方外去》以寥寥数笔刻画古人漫步之态，留白之处引人遐思，让观者在凝视中获得精神放松与心灵宁静。

Human engineering attends not only to physiological comfort but also to spiritual harmony. Zhai Yiwei's works pursue vital spirit in motion — evoking mood with minimal lines. Bie Xun Fang Wai Qu, for instance, captures an ancient wanderer's leisurely gait with just a few strokes; the negative space invites reflection, creating a poetic realm where silence speaks louder than sound.

《别寻方外去》Bie Xun Fang Wai Qu (Seek No Further Beyond)

玉牌的温润色泽、细腻质感，能带来视觉与触觉的双重愉悦，缓解现代生活的焦虑与压力。当人们摩挲玉牌、品读诗画，不仅是欣赏艺术，更是一场精神洗礼——传统诗词的意境、东方美学的韵味、现代人文的思考，潜移默化中滋养心性，提升精神境界，实现“身、心、灵”的三重和谐，这正是人体工程学的至高境界。

The warm luster and refined texture of jade bring dual pleasure to both sight and touch, relieving the anxiety and pressure of modern life. When people caress the jade tablet and read its poetry and imagery, they are not merely appreciating art but experiencing a spiritual cleansing — the mood of classical poetry and the wisdom of Eastern philosophy quietly nourishing the inner world of modern people through a single jade tablet.

四、玉融时代：海派精神与当代价值的永恒回响

IV. Jade Merging with the Age: The Eternal Resonance of Shanghai Spirit and Contemporary Values

翟倚卫的玉雕世界，是上海城市精神的微观缩影。如同上海的建筑，在传统根基上不断创新，在东方底蕴中吸纳西方精华，他的刻刀始终践行“艺术当随时代”的理念，让千年玉艺不再是博物馆里的“古董”，而是融入当代生活、走向世界舞台的“活态艺术”。

Zhai Yiwei's jade carving world is a microcosm of Shanghai's urban spirit. Like Shanghai's architecture — constantly innovating upon traditional foundations, absorbing Western essence within an Eastern cultural core — his engraving blade always enacts the belief that art must move with the times, allowing the millennia-old jade art to continuously radiate with new contemporary brilliance.

从太空巡天到大英馆藏，从传统子冈牌到新海派文人玉牌，翟倚卫以刀为笔、以玉为纸，书写着中国传统工艺的当代传奇。他的作品，不仅是技艺的巅峰，更是文化的传承、精神的载体，暗合人体工程学“天人合一”的智慧，让美玉不仅温润肌肤，更滋养心灵，让东方美学在现代社会绽放永恒魅力。

From touring the cosmos to being enshrined in the British Museum, from the traditional Zigang tablet to the New Shanghai-Style Scholar Jade Tablet, Zhai Yiwei uses the engraving blade as his brush and jade as his paper, writing a contemporary legend of Chinese traditional craftsmanship. His works are not merely the apex of technique, but vessels of cultural heritage, carriers of spirit, and witnesses to an era.

《红霞映碧楼》Hongxia Ying Bilou (Crimson Glow, Jade Pavilion)

《松风涧水》Songfeng Jianshui (Pine Wind, Mountain Stream)

在快节奏的当代，翟倚卫的玉雕如同一股清流，提醒我们：传统并非僵化的过去，创新并非无根的浮萍，唯有扎根传统、拥抱现代，以人为本、融贯中西，才能让文化艺术在时代浪潮中生生不息，如同上海的城市建筑，在岁月更迭中始终焕发着交融与创新的光芒。

In the fast-paced contemporary world, Zhai Yiwei's jade carving is like a clear stream, reminding us: tradition is not a rigid past, and innovation is not a rootless duckweed. Only by being rooted in tradition, embracing modernity, centering the human, and synthesizing East and West can cultural art remain vibrant and ever-renewed amid the currents of the age.

作者简介（About the Author）：

李神琦（Rex Lee）是一位华裔美国演员、获奖剧作家与百老汇制作人，常驻纽约市。他本科毕业于芝加哥大学，主修历史与政治学，并于伦敦政治经济学院（LSE）获得金融与社会学硕士学位。

Rex Lee is a Chinese-American actor, award-winning playwright, and Broadway producer based in New York City. He holds a Bachelor’s degree in History and Political Science from the University of Chicago and a Master’s degree in Finance and Sociology from the London School of Economics (LSE).

李神琦拥有横跨艺术、金融与公共事务领域的广泛经验，曾于国际顶级艺术拍卖行苏富比（Sotheby’s）任职，并在华盛顿特区担任企业说客，代表多家跨国公司进行政策游说。

Lee possesses extensive experience spanning the arts, finance, and public affairs. He previously worked at Sotheby’s, the world-renowned art auction house, and served as a corporate lobbyist in Washington, D.C., representing several multinational corporations in policy advocacy.

他的表演生涯始于入围全美极具声望的 Jerry Herman Awards，这一经历点燃了他对舞台艺术的热情。其后，李神琦成为当年唯一入选的华裔男演员，受邀加入英国国家剧院（National Theatre Company of Great Britain），并展开国际巡演。他也曾参演美国国家级广告、影展短片，以及伦敦 Off-West End 的专业剧场演出，并受保加利亚文化部邀请，赴索菲亚国家剧院登台演出，展现其多语文化的舞台魅力。

His performing career began as a finalist for the prestigious Jerry Herman Awards. Subsequently, he became the only Chinese actor selected that year to join the National Theatre Company of Great Britain for an international tour. His credits include national commercials in the U.S., film festival shorts, and professional Off-West End productions. He was also invited by the Bulgarian Ministry of Culture to perform at the National Theatre in Sofia.

舞台之外，李神琦在学术领域同样表现出色。他曾在全美历史竞赛（National History Bowl）及美国地理奥林匹克（U.S. Geography Olympiad）中取得佳绩，并入选美国国家队。他对全球事务、文化历史与地缘政治的深厚理解，持续为其剧作与表演注入思想深度与跨文化的叙事视角。

Beyond the stage, Lee has excelled in academia, placing in the National History Bowl and the U.S. Geography Olympiad, and earning a spot on the U.S. National Team. His deep understanding of global affairs and cultural history informs the intellectual depth of his playwriting.

作为百老汇制作人，李神琦致力于搭建中美戏剧之间的桥梁——将美国戏剧引入中国，也让中国作品登上纽约舞台。他坚信戏剧能够穿越语言与国界，成为文化交流的窗口与心灵的共鸣。他的作品关注移民经验、身份认同与文化错位，通过艺术不断重塑“归属”的意义，推动亚洲叙事在全球剧场中的传播与再想象。

As a Broadway producer, Lee is dedicated to bridging the theatrical worlds of China and the U.S. His work focuses on the immigrant experience, identity, and cultural displacement, striving to redefine "belonging" and amplify Asian narratives on the global stage.

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