The wood carving factory of the Farm Tool Repair Society is now in full swing.

There are those who work, and there are those who learn.

After all, wood carving is different from carpenter's work, it belongs to joinery work, which requires "cultural" literacy.

Because many wood carving works come from classical literary works, such as "Romance of the Three Kingdoms", "Water Margin", "The Legend of the West Chamber" and other books, there are also various dramas and folk tales as the theme, portraying characters such as Yue Fei, Guan Gong, Eight Immortals, Birthday Star, Guanyin.

In addition to the characters, there are also landscapes, peach blossoms represent spring, lotus flowers represent summer, chrysanthemums represent autumn, plum blossoms represent winter, camellia flowers in January, orchids in February, and peach blossoms in March...... These rough carpenters know so much there.

Zhang Xingxing doesn't need them to know everything in detail, but he must slowly and imperceptibly let the master take them, improve their cultivation in that aspect, know what they will do in the future, and free them from the idea of hoeing and raking to do carpentry work.

What is profound, what is the carving, hollow carving, wearing flowers...... Some impressions.

Then it is to focus on the carved camphor wood box, now they want to create things, the carving on the camphor wood box, there are two forms, one is the entire box surface is carved all over the ground, and the other is only carved on the back of the box and the main part of the four sides.

For ordinary camphor wood boxes, many people will see camphor wood boxes more or less in the old life, which are basically used to store clothes and the like, because camphor wood contains aroma, which can prevent insects, moths, mold and moisture.

With the reform and opening up in 1978, some places carved camphor wood box is a must to marry a girl, camphor wood box has the name of the daughter box, the domestic market is wide open, Xiyang is riding this wind up, that is really a pig standing on the tuyere, because Xiyang County compared to Dongyang wood carving is simply no heritage ah, it lasted until the end of the nineties, some places even to the beginning of the century, camphor wood boxes are very popular, and later social changes, camphor wood boxes were eliminated because of the ancient style, but also because the old camphor wood boxes are very expensive, because the manufacturers of the camphor wood boxes for delicate carving treatment, looking high-end also has a collection value。

It has become a high-end wooden craft, and in addition to simple collection, it is also decorated by artists and collectors.

Some calligraphy or calligraphy and paintings are stored in the air, not in the process of transporting will lead to the lack of paper corners, affecting the overall feeling of the whole page, and even many paintings will be brittle due to the chemical reaction between some paper and ink and air or other components, which is a pity.

Many ancient paintings have not been well preserved because they have been eaten by insects.

A one-for-one way to preserve paintings, calligraphy, and valuable clothing once and for all is to put them in camphor wood boxes.

And to do ordinary camphor wood box and high-end carved wood box, the profit difference is too much, not to mention the future generations, for example, now Dongyang here ordinary camphor wood box is only more than 20 yuan, and carved camphor wood box export can be sold at a high price of 280 yuan!

As long as you sell fifty of them, it will be a net profit of more than 10,000 yuan!

How big the profit is in this is completely a money grab.

Make a hundred, Zhang Xingxing will return the money from the Wood Factory of the Institute of Learning.

This is a second dog, Second Master Zhang, Teacher Luo thinks that he is going to lose to death, and they know that Zhang Xingxing will die soon.

And then it has been sent, and after the arrival of tea eggs and fried melon seeds in the spring of 1978, there are more people who are upside down, and the profit dilution can not be as violent as Zhang Xingxing's first three years, for ordinary people, it is still rich, but for Zhang Xingxing, the back must not satisfy his appetite, and the transformation of the wood factory This is the most correct decision he has made, and it is not a fool's behavior.

After the ancient camphor wood is transported to the wood carving factory, it is cut and planed into smooth wooden boards, the wood is delicate, the grain and patterns are very beautiful, and the aroma is strong.

Zhang Xingxing took the old artists to the county iron props factory to customize the guy who ate at this time.

Better tools make good work.

Wood carving, big tools such as axes, saws, polishing knives, embryo knives, these wood factories naturally have.

Zhang Xingxing to customize is the carving knife, the carving knife this thing don't look at three words, but due to the size, shape and use of different functions, a set of carving knives of a wood carving artist often reaches more than 100, of course, often used only a small part, dozens, later generations of processing, is the same carving knife for each process, everyone just does this part, this process greatly accelerates the carving speed, otherwise a person is to turn these dozens of carving knives, a morning has passed, but after the process, the speed is leveraged, some parts can be replaced by the machine。

However, wood carving still requires manual work, and the use of machines in most places is not so flexible, which has the advantage of accommodating a lot of local employment, such as Xiyang in the previous life, an industry to feed the people of a city.

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Then the tools began to be handed over to the Repair Society.

The wood carving factory of Pengbu Town Repair Society started today.

Zhang Gaoxing delivered a mobilization speech.

"Our ancient poplar wood carving has a fine tradition, in this new era, we want to take its essence to inherit it, carry it forward, but it has long been in the old society, controlled by the feudal ruling class, therefore, it is inevitable to be affected by the semi-feudal and semi-colonial society, we want to take its essence, to its dross. ”

Zhang Xingxing is to dispel the workers' doubts about wood carving, thinking that this is a feudal thing, he wants to guide them to question not wood carving, but some of the dregs of the feudal era in wood carving, the old artists and masters invited by our wood carving factory, this glorious task will be handed over to you, we are to create socialist wood carving handicrafts. ”

"Good!"

The mobilization meeting resounded with warm and passionate applause.

After a long time, Zhang was happy that he had such a majesty in his previous life, and it took him half a sound to get used to it.

After getting used to it, he waved his hand slightly, and the workers slowly quieted down.

He spoke again, "As you know, I went to Huhai with the deputy factory director and Master Hou this time, and learned about the business of wood carving camphor boxes from the Huhai Arts and Crafts Export Company, which is sold out of stock overseas, that is to say, if we do well, we can do a lot, and we can also generate foreign exchange for our country!"

The workers laughed.

Zhang happily knocked on the table where he spoke." You don't have to laugh, this is a very serious matter, since we are doing export business, then the quality of our camphor wood box must be good, otherwise, foreigners are not fools, they will not want our products, when the time comes, we bamboo basket water is empty, will be looked down upon by the people of the island country, do you know, now the overseas wood carving business, such as this camphor wood box is monopolized by the island people, they will carve the camphor wood box called a work of art, we do also a work of art, in the future is also to compete with the island people for the market, wood carving is the inheritance of our ancestors, they learned a little from us back then can do well, Of course, the descendants of our ancestors are not as good as the descendants of those ancestors and apprentices, I am not convinced, I don't know if everyone is convinced?"

"Unconvinced, unconvinced!"

"That's right if you're not convinced, let's do it next, do you fuck it well, comrades, do you have the confidence to do it well?"

"Yes, yes, yes!"