'The sun is twilight, and the mountains are far away,

The weather is cold, and the white house is poor.

Chai Men smells the dog barking,

Wind and snow night return. ’

Qin Huai gently recited this quatrain, and a far-reaching and unforgettable picture was generated in his mind:

The green mountains are far away and misty, the twilight is vast, the mountain road is long, the poet travels, and stays at home in the middle of the night.

The host was very welcoming, led him into the hut, and settled down to sleep.

After a while, I heard barking from the couch.

At this moment, the poet turned over to the window and heard the sound of wind and snow, knocking on the door, the opening and closing of the wooden door, and the answer of his family in the silence......

It was supposed to be another owner of the hut who had slowly returned from the snowstorm.

It's a bit interesting, Qin Huai read it once, and he never forgot it.

Qin Huai's gaze crossed the whole Tang poem and fell on the ugly jade.

At this moment, the white flocculent in the jade seemed to turn into a sudden snow in the Tang Dynasty and hit Qin Huai's face.

The mottled distribution of Petty and white flocculent in the jade has found a home, and the dark green jade marks on the left that run through the jade face and open teeth and claws have become an old tree standing proudly in the snow.

Its trunk is narrow at the bottom and wide at the top, which defies the common sense of nature.

But it doesn't matter, you can carve an ancient vine around the trunk of the tree.

You can also carve an owl hanging upside down on a vine.

There are too many ways to deal with it......

Qin someone has a thousand ways to make it come alive.

And the blue jade on the right is connected into a ball, with a little polish, isn't it the peak of the shadow and the longing?

The middle strip is dark green, stretching to the top of the jade surface, which looks extremely difficult to handle.

But it can be divided into two parts, and the dark green carved on the bottom is carved into a night returnee with a hat and covered with snow.

The upper part is transformed into a long mountain road, with extra edges and corners, carved into a mountain stone and a house on the horizon......

Isn't that ingenious?

All these treatments are based on the trend of the jade itself.

Go with the flow and retain the natural interest to the highest degree.

——This piece of jade seems to have been born for the poem 'Returning to people on a snowy night'!

It's so similar!

The probability that a natural product can be coincidental with a poem is probably one in ten thousand.

"Look, this jade statue doesn't look like this poem?"

Qin Huai's fingertips rubbed on the jade face, and his heart was happy.

This is fate, since ancient times, swimming fish inhabit the water, and Puyu meets people who understand jade, all of which are tied by a trace of fate.

Shang Ya sat behind Qin Huai quietly, with a delicate body with a ball, pressed on Qin Huai's broad and thick back, and the fragrance in her hair was like honey and wine.

Hearing Qin Huai's words, Shang Ya shook her head.

Where is it like, or is it ugly and easy to cut?

Isn't she and Qin Huai looking at a piece of jade?

"Forget it, you'll understand when you carve it. ”

Qin Huai didn't care, this piece of jade was originally a piece of inferior jade with white flocculent and miscellaneous distribution.

Boss Li has used it to pad the corner of the table for seven or eight years, and several top jade carvers have seen it, but they don't care about it, and they don't want to see it a second time.

Even when Qin Huai saw it for the first time, he didn't expect to 'return to people on a snowy night'.

It's just that I happened to read this quatrain just now, and my spirit was in a trance and inspiration burst out, so I imagined the picture of returning to people on a snowy night in my mind.

The faint snow and fog are filled, and the artistic conception of the mountains and forests looms in plain clothes, and it also comes out.

Others don't have Qin Huai's step, so they naturally can't see the 'inner beauty' of this piece of jade.

For an ugly jade, if there is no jade carver who understands her, she can only pad the table legs, 'only humiliated by the hands of slaves, and died between stables'.

Qin Huai's appearance is crucial.

"Get out of the way, I'm going to create. ”

When inspiration is on the fly, it's time to do it. Don't miss the opportunity, and never miss it.

The book sage Wang Xizhi wrote the preface to the Orchid Pavilion, and it was also done in one go when the wine was still open, and it was natural.

Qin Huai pushed away Shang Ya, who was lying on his back softly, and stood up.

Take out the carved jade knife, finally sit at the desk, spread a clean snow-white paper on the table, hold your breath, sit upright, and then turn on the lamp......

Shang Ya quietly moved a small chair to admire Qin Huai's creative process.

I saw Qin Huai first take a look at the jade.

Then grasp the carved jade knife, carve off the stone with your hands, completely peel the ugly jade from the stone, and modify it into a jade pendant with a length of 76 mm, a width of 42 mm, and a thickness of only 19 mm.

The first step is the process.

A third of the 'material' was damaged.

The table was full of mottled jade-glowing scraps.

Shang Ya's face showed a hint of pity.

"It is recognized that jade carvers carve jade, and the less damage to the jade, the better.

In the world of jade carving, if you carve a piece of beautiful jade, if you only lose a small amount of jade chips, you can be called a top master.

For example, Lu Wei, a top jade carver in Jinling Province, once carved a 1,800-gram piece of jade, but after the finished product, only 32 grams were lost!

That work made him famous. ”

Qin Huai has not yet been officially carved, so while carving the outline of the jade pendant, he popularizes science.

"Of course, I was just unconventional, not my thing. ”

After Qin Huai finished speaking, he immediately added.

Shang Ya sneered and glanced at Qin Huai.

"Okay, okay, I know you're good, do you want coffee? ”

Qin Huai nodded, Shang Ya turned around and walked towards the kitchen, not forgetting to turn back:

"Sugar or vinegar?"

Vinegar?

Qin Huai laughed mercilessly:

"You can add some laundry detergent to me. ”

Shang Ya glanced at Qin Huai, and when he came up, he punched him.

"I'll add you computer accessories. ”

"How do you add computer accessories?"

Qin Huai looked confused.

"Hmph, you don't understand, just make your jade carving seriously. ”

Shang Ya arrogantly went into the kitchen, and soon, he brought out a cup of fragrant freshly ground coffee and carefully placed it on Qin Huai's right hand side.

Qin Huai took two sips, and sure enough, he was a lot more energetic.

……

Start carving.

Qin Huai picked up the jade pendant and grabbed the carved jade knife.

Let's start with the overview on the left.

On the left side is a dark green jade mark running through the top and bottom of the jade pendant.

The lowest part of this trace is clumped, the middle is straight, and the top is like a branch, and the branches are all white.

Qin Huai looked at it for a moment, and boldly carved the outline of the tree in the jade marks.

However, in this way, the green jade outside the tree will be 'redundant'.

Shang Ya watched with bated breath, a little puzzled, didn't she say that she would carve according to the natural pleasures?

Why is there an extra piece?

Qin Huai was still not in a hurry, and the next moment he suddenly held his breath, his face was solemn, his wrist turned, and the knife danced like flying, drawing six hair-thin lines in a row in the excess jade marks with a width of only 2mm......

At first glance, it looks messy, but when the lines are closed, Shang Ya suddenly discovers:

This branch is as if it was carved out, and it has a three-dimensional effect.

It's like in real life, when you see a tree, you can see not only the front of the trunk, but also the sides of the trunk!

This is the plane subtraction method.

It does not directly remove the excess jade, but folds the surface into space through the clever arrangement of lines.

Qin Huai deliberately left a part, and the ultimate goal was to show the three-dimensional effect of the tree.

Clearly, the design was a great success!

"Hoo ......"

Half an hour later, the left processing is over.

Qin Huai stopped his knife and admired the towering old tree that had just been carved:

Three or four old roots with clay snow in the snow are deeply rooted in the snow, and the scar-like pimples on the roots of the trees are clearly visible.

The bark on the trunk of the tree cracked, and traces of the wet surface of the thawed snow could be seen.

The bare branches unyieldingly lifted up the leaden and obscure sky, and the branches were piled with flickering snow.

Every branch is looking forward to life, and it is pregnant with vitality.

Under the Qinhuai knife, the thickness, charm, imagery, coldness, and vitality of the tree all jumped on the paper.

This tree has been awakened by Qin Huai's soul and has grown tenaciously from the jade.

If there is a spring breeze, it can splash a thousand green buds.

"Touch it, feel it. ”

"Is that okay?"

Shang Ya smiled shyly, and stretched out her two hands to rub Qin Huai's face.

It feels very good in the hand.

Qin Huai: "......"