Enter the craft workshop where Professor Haruko Matsumoto is.

There are a lot of hand-carved knives, straight knives, round knives, moon knives, shovel bottom knives, trimming scrapers, triangular knives, hand drills, wooden frustrations......

If you want to engage in the art of wood carving, you must first have certain tools, because "if you want to do a good job, you must first sharpen your tools", so as a sculptor wants to carve a certain product of your own to complete, if the tool is incomplete, then the final work is barely carved, and it will also be flawed.

As a former craftsman, Zhang Xingxing is very sensitive to tool knives, and there are obviously all kinds of carving knives in this craft room, and there is an environment for carving good works in such a place.

If the carving tools are complete and the quality is good, it can not only speed up the carving speed, but also make the knife chisel to be healthy but not stiff, soft but not decaying, free and easy, clear and round, and increase the artistic expression of the work.

Not only are these tools complete, but they are also polished and sharp, and they must be as easy to use as a painter's brush.

Therefore, Zhang Xingxing saw those tools, and couldn't help but have an itchy feeling in his hands.

"Mr. Yamada, I brought Zhang Jun here. Haruko Matsumoto appeared like a lark, and people felt joy when they heard her voice.

"Yo Xi, thank you Haruko, hello Zhang Jun. Professor Yamada greeted Zhang happily.

Zhang Xingxing also smiled and shook Yamada's hand.

"Mr. Zhang, our Professor Yamada is from the well-known woodcarving craft in the Jingami area, and in my teacher's hands, a piece of simple wood can be turned into a piece of art with profound meaning. Haruko Matsumoto said proudly.

"Haruko, you hold the teacher too high, don't be afraid that the teacher's old bones will fall apart!" Professor Yamada said modestly.

"Mr. Yamada, I really think that your work is the best in the world, and your work is the best. ”

"Haha, Haruko, there is this person in front of you who is above me in the attainments of wood carving art. ”

"Who knows if he is genuine, taking the credit for those master craftsmen. ”

"You kid. ”

"Zhang Jun, when Qingzi told me about you, I thought you were the same age as me now, I never thought you were so young, but you are highly skilled, Zhang Jun's works I have feasted my eyes at the expo, I have a wood carving work here, I hope Zhang Jun can guide me through the maze, please advise." ”

"Professor Yamada, you love the juniors too much, you don't dare to give advice, if you can have different visual suggestions, please don't laugh at me. ”

"Life is life, it can be plain as water, it can be magnificent, life is also life, it can be eternal, it can be fleeting, handicrafts are the work of craftsmen, and it is also the heart of craftsmen, this wood carving work must not be the work of Professor Yamada, because I don't believe that Professor Yamada will be so ......"

"How can that be?"

Haruko on the side said with a red face.

"Superficial. ”

"What, you say superficial...... Then you have what it takes to transform it into a perfect work!"

"Change it. ”

Zhang Xingxing has always been unable to rub sand in the matter of carving, which may be due to the decision of his work in his previous life.

A lifetime of carving, a lifetime of wood carving, that is the place where it has been dedicated all its life, perhaps with the kind of craftsmanship that the island people say.

Matsumoto Haruko's carver is actually still a little bit, maybe under the guidance of a famous teacher, the basic way is actually enough but lack of patience, lack of heat, she leaves some leeway when carving, such as carving the face, the face is wide, when opening the eyes, the eyes should be small, the nose is easy to open, the mouth should be large, with the deepening of the carving, you can slowly enlarge or shrink the smaller, if she is those conceited newcomers, he really can't change, no way to change, but now he has a lot of room to change.

......

Zhang Xingxing added blocks and lines of different lengths and sizes to Haruko's works, making the whole wood carving wood grain texture beauty stand out at once, and those wood grains and shapes organically form a varied rhythm, and the light and shadow flow, like "solidified" music.

Seeing that her work came to life in Zhang Xingxing's hands in an instant, Haruko Matsumoto felt that she was instantly slapped in the face.

Haruko Matsumoto was so angry that she left the professor's craft room.

Zhang Xingxing was speechless, he just said that this work, could it be that this thing was carved by Haruko, and he is too straight a man.

Zhang Xingxing's conjecture was confirmed.

"Haha, Zhang Jun is not a loss is a master who carved out the best Buddha shrine of the dragon, at a glance I can see that this wood carving work is not made by me, I also told Miss Haruko, the so-called traditional handicrafts, the connotation is a history passed down from generation to generation, it requires skilled technology, Miss Haruko's utilitarian heart is too heavy......"

Sure enough, it was carved by Haruko Matsumoto.,No wonder she's so angry.,I used to criticize her as if she was useless.。

"Miss Haruko may have pursued the modernization of traditional handicrafts and ignored the essence of traditional handicrafts. ”

"This is not just Miss Haruko's problem, this is the problem of our whole country, alas, we were in the Meiji Restoration era, a mind to Westernization, the destruction of traditional culture is not in a hurry, after the defeat to revive the economy, is the world's second economy, this is the restoration of national self-confidence, in 1974 formulated the traditional handicraft industry revitalization law, designated more than 200 kinds of traditional handicrafts, advocated the national rich to go out, national tourism, many traditional handicrafts as a souvenir to visit the revival of the revival. ”

"Isn't it good that national legislation and tourism drive the development of traditional handicrafts, so that craftsmen can survive and be more conducive to the inheritance of skills. Zhang Xingxing asked rhetorically.

"But Zhang Jun, our craftsmen all over the country often hold traditional crafts exhibitions, those dazzling handicrafts, it seems that they are no longer products or products, but works, expensive, which violates the definition of traditional handicrafts, that is, used in daily life, all works are made to use, handicrafts belong to the folk, belong to life, life lies in use. ”

This is not what Zhang Xingxing just said, traditional handicraft works lie in skilled skills, and the patience of carving can make the carved things vivid, whether it is birds and animals or flowers, birds, fish and insects, they can be lifelike......

With the deepening of the exchange in art, the two have become more and more resonant and spiritually compatible.

Professor Yamada couldn't help but say to Zhang Xing, "Zhang Jun, our country needs craftsmen like you, Zhang Jun, I can fight for it in our university and give Zhang Jun the position of your professor, but Zhang Jun needs to join our nationality." ”

“......”

"Professor Yamada, thank you for your love for me, I am a businessman who has no intention of dedicating myself to education, and the spirit of craftsmanship belongs not only to your country, but also to the whole world, doesn't it?"

"Yo Xi, Zhang Jun said it well, it was abrupt in Xia, because he did love Zhang Jun in Xia. ”