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At this time, Xu Wen was also shocked.
They had just turned a corner and walked up a mountain trail.
The trail was clearly groomed, with stone bricks on the ground, washed clean and tidy, and sprinkled with coarse salt to prevent the snow from freezing.
On both sides of the mountain road, one row on the left and right, the trees are full of ice sculptures of different sizes, colors, and styles, but all of them are extremely exquisite, which can be called peerless!
With so many ice sculptures piled on top of each other, the visual effect is quite amazing, not to mention that almost every one of these ice sculptures is extremely elaborate and a work of art!
So many ice sculptures, so many works of art, this can be called a magnificent spectacle, is it the handiwork of Liuyu Garden?
"That's amazing. Ni Tianyang, a person who doesn't have much feeling for beauty, also looked up in surprise and said in admiration.
Xu Wen and Lian Linlin looked at each other subconsciously as if they were awakened by him.
At this time, the sedan chair driver had already retreated, Zuo Teng stayed at the bottom of the mountain and looked at the horses, there were only four of them on the entire mountain road, and they didn't need to care about any image, so they took a closer look.
"It's so beautiful!" even Lin Lin was the first to sigh, covering his heart, his eyes full of little stars.
She was facing a clump of peonies, carved from ice and snow, crystal clear, the part closest to the center of ice was a little white, and the rest of the place was completely transparent.
This is a cluster of peony that is flourishing, with a total of more than a dozen flowers, some in full bloom, some half-contained, and some just a bud. They are set off by the leaves, dense, delicate and delicate, coupled with the unique transparency, as if formed in a dream, as if they will disappear with the wind at any time.
This kind of beauty directly hit Lian Linlin, and she couldn't resist at all.
"What a clever carver!" but then she awoke from the dreamlike beauty and turned her attention to something else.
Indeed, the carving of this peony is too meticulous.
An important factor in this effect is transparency. And this transparency is due to the fact that each of its petals is extremely thin, so thin that it feels like it is about to shatter at any moment.
The ice and snow material is special, very unstable, easy to melt and easy to break, to achieve this degree of ice carving, it is by no means an ordinary carving, general control!
An absolute masterpiece!
And the ice sculptures here are far more than this.
Xu Wen turned his head and saw Lian Tianqing looking at one place, and his gaze also followed.
Lian Tianqing looked at an eagle, an eagle that was falling on the rock.
This eagle is also an ice sculpture, but the ice it uses is not the kind of ice that is pure and flawless and transparent to the extreme, but a piece of dirty ice mixed with sediment and polluted.
The nature of this ice is not more stable than that of pure ice, but it becomes more fragile and easier to break due to the different properties of ice and sediment.
But this eagle carved is in no way inferior to the peony just now, and even surpasses it.
It takes the moment when the eagle strikes the sky and is about to fall back to the rock to rest.
At this time, the eagle's talons had landed on the rock, but the body had not yet fully leaned on it, so the whole eagle was in a posture that seemed to be hanging but not hanging, and was about to fall but not falling.
This gesture gives the sculpture a strong sense of dynamics, and even Xu Wen couldn't help but hold his breath a little when he looked at it, as if he was waiting for the eagle body to fall.
Ni Tianyang also quickly walked over and was attracted by this sculpture. Then, he took a breath of cool air, took a step back, and approached Xu Wen's side as if he was afraid of disturbing something, and whispered, "Have you found it? This sense of balance is simply amazing!"
Xu Wen nodded, of course he found out.
The eagle above was hanging in the air, almost separated from the rocks of the cliff below, and the only part connected was the talon.
But no matter how you look at it, you can't find the means for this eagle to hang in the air, it is not tied and hung by thin wires, and it is not supported by a bracket.
So how did it hang up? That's all it has to say.
A slender claw that seemed to break as soon as it broke supported such a half-human-sized goshawk, and it actually held it steadily, except for people's senseless worries, there was no sign of breaking and falling at all!
"A little tricky. Xu Wen immediately discovered the clue, and also whispered to Ni Tianyang.
The goshawk is in the air, black and gray throughout, and in order to adjust the color, the craftsman uses ice mixed with mud and sand that is relatively dirty and relatively close in color.
This adds to the instability of the ice, which is certainly more difficult in the overall sculpture, but also gives the master the opportunity to be tricky.
For the talon part, he directly used stones, although it still requires exquisite calculations, a strong sense of balance and stability to support such a large ice sculpture with such a thin stone, but in short, it is not so incredible.
"It's still pretty good. Ni Tianyang pondered for a while and said affirmatively.
"Yes, it's worthy of the Wandering Garden. Xu asked.
This clump of peonies and a goshawk are the two ice sculptures closest to the mountain crossing, and the further you go, the more ice sculptures there are.
Not all of them are so big, the smallest is only the size of a bowl, it is a simple and lovely Maitreya Buddha, grinning in the cave and smiling, but the dignified Buddha statue looks exquisite and lovely.
But no matter how big or small, no matter the content of the carving, all the ice sculptures are exquisite and wonderful, as if the aura of the world, all of them are for this!
"It's a pity ......" Lian Linlin walked not far behind him, and muttered very quietly at this time, Xu Wen was deaf and clear-sighted, and heard it.
He didn't look back, but as if he had a heart in his heart, he instantly understood what Lian Linlin meant.
These are just ice sculptures, it's a shame.
By the time the spring flowers bloom, no, maybe you won't have to wait that long at all, and in a few days, its edges will start to melt and the details will start to blur.
In a few days, it will be almost out of shape.
Ice and snow are such fragile materials.
At this time, Xu Wen even regretted not having a mobile phone camera. It's a shame that you can only watch this level of work disappear, and you can't even save the photos!
And how many of these works and the skills to complete them have disappeared in the long course of history?
When I think about it, I think it's a shame......
Xu Wen admired and sighed at the same time, and while carefully figuring out the skills in it, he walked very slowly.
Although the materials of ice sculpture and wood carving, stone carving and brick carving are different, there are still many things in common.
The others also walked slowly, but they finally came to the end.
Xu Wen suddenly saw that the ice sculpture next to him had turned into several huge, rough ice cubes, and he was stunned for a moment and stopped.
He looked up, and saw a man in his forties, with his hands down, standing next to the ice, and a row of wooden tables with various tools on them.
Seeing them coming, the man raised his hand and said very kindly: "The little one smells a lot, welcome all the masters, please leave the master with pen and ink." ”
He's talking about pen and ink, but he's talking about the tools.
Xu Wen was stunned, and suddenly looked at the ice sculpture group behind him.
The so-called brush and ink means, of course, these ice sculptures.
This huge group of ice sculptures is not the handiwork of Liuzhen Garden, but the work left by visiting ink craftsmen!