Chapter 2 Heavenly Creation
A heavy book with a simple style and a yellowed cover suddenly appeared in front of him, and the four words of dragon flying and phoenix dancing were written on the cover: Heavenly Creation.
"Heavenly Creation?"
Xiao Zining was confused, what the hell is this, why did it suddenly appear?
With a little surprise and a little expectation, Xiao Zining hesitated for a moment, then raised his hand and touched forward.
Airplanes!
When he touched the cover, there was a pinprick-like pain in his palm, and blood flowed out of his fingertips, which was instantly absorbed by the big book.
Then the four words of Tiangong Kaiwu seemed to come to life, bursting out countless golden rays of light, enveloping him entirely, and bursts of roars rang out alternately in his mind.
When the first roar sounded, Xiao Zining's senses all disappeared, and when he woke up again, he found that the whole world had disappeared, and he felt as if he was in the vast galaxy, with only the book of Heavenly Creation in front of him.
Then the big book was windless and automatic, and the first page was opened.
On the yellow pages like gold leaf, three words are vigorously and powerfully imprinted: precision.
"Precision?"
Xiao Zining subconsciously muttered, and then those three words turned into a white light, rushing into his mind, and when he opened his eyes again, his face was full of shock that could not be concealed.
Xiao Zining knew what he was getting.
That "Heavenly Creation" turned out to be an ancient traditional secret technique, and every time a page was opened, it meant that the owner could get a corresponding skill.
Now that the first page has been opened, doesn't it mean that I have mastered this skill?
So what are you waiting for?
Awakened from the confusion, everything around him returned to normal, Xiao Zining held his head high and strode towards the direction of the store.
Is it necessary to hate Feng Pei and resentful Chen Nanxu?
In fact, today's breakup is not very sudden for Xiao Zining.
In the final analysis, it is still different and not conspiratory, Chen Nanxu is a woman who dreams of becoming a master, and the current Xiao Zining really can't give her this kind of glory and scenery.
Who said that two people who are in love can get married and stay together in the end?
If you are aware of it, the breakup will naturally not be painful.
It's a big deal, start all over again!
In fact, I should probably thank Chen Nanxu, if she hadn't broken up and returned the jade pendant, how could she have accidentally inspired the mystery of the jade pendant?
With this subtle feeling of gain and loss, Xiao Zining pushed open the door of his shop.
The store is located in the east of Yanyu Town, next to the bank of the Qiushui River, the environment is quite elegant and quiet, which is divided into a front hall and a backyard, the front hall is for placing and receiving objects, and the backyard is a studio.
After Xiao Zining came in, he went straight to the back studio, closed the door and sat at the desk, with a few Qingtian stones and a complete set of seal carving tools placed on the clean and tidy tabletop.
With full of fighting spirit and passion, Xiao Zining had already put the previous unhappiness of breaking up behind, and entered the live broadcast room after placing the mobile phone.
The live broadcast is of great significance to Xiao Zining.
In the year since he took over the shop, the business has been relatively quiet, and he has never sold a single carving.
Although the rewards he gets from live broadcast are limited, it's better than nothing, and after a year, he has become accustomed to this rhythm.
[Little White Rabbit who loves to dance: Ah, I also said that it's almost ten o'clock, why hasn't the little brother come yet?]
[The kitten in the old alley: Don't worry, the little brother can't be shaken at ten o'clock in the morning!]
[Da Mei: Little brother, what are you going to carve today?]
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A few people in the live broadcast room who can't be shaken are online one after another, although a few of them are soy sauce, but these old faces basically show their heads every time they broadcast live.
Just like Xiao Zining is used to live broadcasts, these people also subtly like this live broadcast room specializing in carving, if they don't come in every day to gag, they always seem to feel that something is missing.
Habit becomes nature.
"Hello everyone, I'm glad to see you in the live broadcast room again, yesterday I said that today I want to popularize the seal carving process to you, so let's talk about seal carving today. ”
"Before this, give you a small benefit, if someone wants this seal, just tap like, plus the text you want to engrave the seal to send, whoever has the fastest first seal is who's. ”
"Everyone, it's time to compete in hand speed, I announce that it will start now!" As soon as Xiao Zining's voice landed, the screen began to swipe.
The first is a kitten in an old alley.
"The kitten in the old alley, congratulations on winning the first place, so may I ask, are you sure that the seal is engraved with the four words "Flower and Full Moon?" Xiao Zining asked with a smile.
[The kitten in the old alley: Yes, I just want these four words, little brother, is it okay?]
Before Xiao Zining could reply, a bunch of self-righteous comments from passers-by popped up on the screen.
[I said the one upstairs is okay, right? Flower the full moon, when have you ever seen such a seal?]
[The seals are all engraved with names, and you are too layman to engrave the full moon, right?]
The kittens in the old alley were silent.
Regarding everyone's discussions, Xiao Zining hurriedly shook his hand and explained: "Friends, I think your understanding of the seal is a little wrong. ”
"The first seal is not called carving but is called seal carving, and the second is not to say that all seals are the name of seal carving, the kind of seal you are talking about is called the name seal, which is the most common one. ”
In addition to this kind of name seal, there are also idle seals and collection seals. The little cat in the old alley just now said that the flowers are good and the moon is full, which is one of the idle chapters called Yaqu Chapter, although this kind of seal is not common, but there are some of them. ”
After a short pause, Xiao Zining continued to add: "It has been there since ancient times!"
There was silence in the live broadcast room for a moment.
After a short silence, a new round of screen swiping came.
The main force is still a few die-hard fans who are permanent.
[The little white rabbit who loves to jump: Yo he, if you don't know how to pretend to understand, you're just slapping yourself in the face, right? ]
[Hungry Broadsword: Praise for the little brother's profound knowledge. 】
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was humiliated by such a frontal provocation, and the few passers-by who came in just now suddenly stopped doing it and began to fight back.
Seeing that what these people said was too filthy, Xiao Zining decisively kicked them out of the live broadcast room, which immediately won a wave of praise from several die-hard fans.
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To be honest, Xiao Zining doesn't expect the live broadcast room to make much money, but just hopes to have a clean and simple space that can promote traditional culture and display the art of carving.
"Friends, after the episode just now, let's move on now. Since the kitten in the old alley has proposed that he wants to spend the full moon on this elegant chapter, then I will engrave this. ”
"As I said before the beginning, today I want to popularize the seal carving process for everyone, so what is the first step? ”
When he said this, Xiao Zining picked up the tools on the table one by one and introduced.
"Beginners who are interested in seals, in fact, the materials that need to be prepared are not too advanced, that is, the simplest seal carving dictionary, carving knife, printing bed, printing stone, sandpaper, brush, printing clay and rice paper. ”
"When it comes to seal engraving dictionaries, this dictionary is for the seal body you want to engrave, which is very important for beginners, and it must not be missing. ”
When it was introduced here, some people began to swipe the screen to ask.
[Anchor, we all know the seal engraving dictionary you said, but what about the rest of the materials? Where to buy them? Are there any hard requirements?]
This friend's question is very good, in a word, I will continue to introduce, the carving knife is used to carve stones, it is recommended that you do not buy too cheap iron knives, it is easy to passivate, and the cemented carbide knives smelted with modern technology are made. ”
"This type of knife head is made of tungsten steel, which is very hard, and it can carve stone without grinding. ”
"But remember, don't sit idly by and hit a hard object with the tip of a knife, because it's very hard, but it's very brittle and prone to cracking. ”
"The stone is what I said about the seal stone, I believe you have all heard of it, there are four major seal stones in our country, namely Shoushan stone, Bahrain stone, Chang fossil stone and Qingtian stone. ”
"For beginners, it's good to use Qingtian stone, which is the easiest to buy and relatively cheap. But remember that there should be no sand nails in the Qingtian seal stone, otherwise it will be difficult to carve. ”
"It's like this piece in my hand, which is a polished seal stone, which is very suitable for beginners. ”
"Friendly reminder, there is a very white and good-looking stone on the market, called Kunlun frozen stone, never buy, this stone texture is very soft, the fingers can pinch out the mark with a little effort, whoever buys it suffers!"
"The printing bed is specially made, and it is available in antique shops. Sandpaper does not have to be too particular, the thickness of the sandpaper are prepared for a few, the brush is a small pen wolf hair or sheep hair. ”
"Brushes, ink clay and rice paper, have you seen them? are all very commonplace items, and you can purchase them as you like. ”
After a brief introduction to this preliminary preparation, Xiao Zining placed all the items in an orderly manner, and continued after vacating the air in front of him: "Friends, after the first step is to prepare the tools, let's start to do the second step, that is, the design and printing, the quality of this step will be related to the overall situation. ”
"After all, the design of the seal is to be carved out of the standard style, no one wants the final product to be four different. ”
[The kitten in the old alley: Little brother, is it time to engrave my flowers and the full moon?]
"Yes, it's your flowers. If you say that you have a special favorite or prepared seal, you can show it to me. ”
"If not, I suggest using the seal to engrave the Chinese seal, and I will use the Miao seal to design the print for you. Xiao Zining nodded in response.
[The kitten in the old alley: Little brother, look at the design, I'...... I don't understand]!
[The little white rabbit who loves to jump: anchor, ask for popular science, what is Miao Seal?]
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Xiao Zining picked up a wolf hair and said: "In fact, there are a lot of fonts for seal carving, if I say too much, you will also feel bored, here I will briefly talk about the Han seal, and we will use the rest later." ”
"There are three fonts of the Chinese seal, namely Miao Seal, Bird and Insect Book and Lishu. Among them, Miao seal is the mainstream, there are few bird and insect books, and most of the official books are used for funeral stone seals. ”
The Miao seal we commonly use is one of the six books set by the Han Dynasty Mang, and the so-called six books refer to ancient texts, odd characters, small seals, Zuoshu, Miao seals and birds and insects. The Miao seal is a copy of one of the eight bodies of the Qin book in the early Han Dynasty, so it is also called a copy seal. ”
"Next, I'm going to design the print now, which is the full moon of the Miao seal body. When the design is complete, I will work on the seal, and the process needs to be absolutely quiet, so I will turn off the sound for the time being, and please watch it quietly. ”
After that, Xiao Zining sat upright, holding his breath and concentrating, ready to start writing.
The show is about to begin.