The words are not rough, and the big teeth are also to the point, good work is hard to find, and good materials are even more difficult to find! In recent years, although he has not been as sharp as when he was young, he has almost stopped doing it himself, but his interest in good materials has not diminished in the slightest.

The older people get, the more they cherish their reputation, and he still has concerns about being named in Zhongfu Jewelry, and he still doesn't know what kind of foundation this little-known company is.

That is, because Brother Liu is famous as an endorsement, he thinks it can still be reliable, and when I see it today, I think these children are still very good, Wu Chen needless to say, he is not very old, but he is wise and steady, and he speaks and talks without leaking, as for this kid called Big Tooth, although he looks a little frizzy, he is also a smart person, and he has a good heart!

Of course, it can't all depend on a few of their mouths to say, and you have to go back and investigate on the spot.

"Well, come with me and take you to the workshop." Seeing that everyone had almost drunk their tea, Gu Gu stood up and said to them with a smile.

Although the matter has not yet been discussed, Wu Chen and the others have a little bottom in their hearts when they see the ancient appearance, and they all stand up when they hear the words, just in time to see the jade carving workshop in Yangzhou.

As one of the birthplaces of jade in China, Yangzhou has a long history of jade craftsmanship, which has a history of 5,300 years according to historical records, and is known as "the world's jade, Yangzhou worker".

Gu led them to the ground, which was different from the factory they imagined in Wu Chen, but it was a courtyard with high walls and green tiles, red pillars and red gates, and two large stone lions stood at the door.

Walk to the front, feel the majesty and magnificence of the façade more, there is a plaque on the gate, on which is written "Imperial Workshop" three large characters painted with gold, and the big pillars on both sides are engraved with a pair of wooden couplets, respectively: "Skillful craftsman crafts beautiful jade" and "jade product passes on the soul".

"Old man, is this your family's workshop?" Seeing this scale, Big Tooth sighed in his heart, if this old man has his own industry, why bother to make a false name for others?

"Hehe, it's all about some of the younger generations." Gu nodded, and there was a kind of pride in his tone, as if he was still very satisfied with these juniors.

Big Tooth is thinking in his heart, this old man is also very good at fooling people, yesterday he said that he was a lonely person, and today he is a granddaughter and a junior, looking at this scale, the old man's "juniors" are afraid that they will not be old or young!

Entering inside, it was really lively, people came and went, and when they saw the ancient, many of them hurriedly ran over to say hello, the ancients laughed, and responded one by one, letting them all go to their respective places, leading Wu Chen and them to the backyard.

The whole courtyard is divided into two large entrances before and after, each with left and right wings, the front yard should be the display area, and the courtyard in the center is full of various large jade carving products. When you get to the backyard, it's the real processing area, except for the raw material warehouse, and every room is full of processing workers.

A few of the older men had already heard the sound and ran out of the rooms to greet him, but it was his relatives and apprentices who had led them to a place that looked like a parlor and sat down.

Wu Chen glanced at it slightly, and saw that most of these people were between forty and fifty years old, but they did not have an ancient "son", and the so-called granddaughter was not there. Although he is strange, but he is afraid that there is any privacy in this, and he does not ask, I really listened to the introduction of this imperial workshop, only to know that it is still so famous, in addition to the ancient works, the works from the workshop are also award-winning, and there are more than 30 top awards in the industry, which can be described as a smile!

"Alright, get busy, don't brag here! Hehe. ”

It can be seen that the ancient is still quite proud, and over the decades, not only have the works won countless awards, but also the more rare is that the peach and plum are all over the south of the Yangtze River, and many of them have become famous.

"Renkui, you stay for a while." Gu shouted, and a middle-aged man turned back from the crowd that was walking out, and answered.

"Come here, you guys get to know each other." The ancient smile beckoned him to walk in and introduced him to Wu Chen. Don't look at this is one of his most proud disciples, he followed his apprenticeship in his teens, more than 30 years, and has now become a national first-class master of jade carving, and his representative works "Taibai Inviting the Moon" have also won the national gold medal.

Wu Chen and the others saw that this Feng Renkui was swarthy and had a sad face, and he looked like a person who was not good at words.

Gu didn't say much, just let them know each other, and told Feng Renkui to take them to various factories to have a look.

"Yes." After Feng Renkui responded, he took Wu Chen and the others out of the door, walked from room to room, and explained to them.

It seems that the business of the Imperial Workshop is doing well, and it looks like it is in full swing, and the workers and masters who are working also raise their heads to greet them when they see them walking by.

Wu Chen paid special attention to it, it is really very different from the south, among the materials being processed, it is still mainly Hetian jade, white jade, green jade, jasper, etc. account for about eighty percent, among which there are some fine products, occasionally some Xiuyu and jadeite, but there are not many, and the texture is relatively poor. In addition, you can see many other stones, agate, topaz, crystal, green seedlings, pine ear stones, etc., and even lapis gold from Afghanistan, jasper from Canada, and coral from Japan.

Wu Chen and Kong Si sighed when they saw it, it was really a big business, and no matter what the craftsmanship was, these materials alone were enough to be called the complete set of the jade world! In comparison, Zhongfu Jewelry really lacks heritage!

"What kind of jade is this, such a big one?" Daya and Xu Jing didn't understand it very well, so they just looked at it strangely, and saw that in a room, a guy called by Feng Renkui as a senior brother was carving a piece of jade material with a few apprentices.

"This is Xinjiang green and white jade." When they came in, several of the people who were working stopped.

"Good craftsmanship!" Kong Si then praised loudly, and Wu Chen had to laugh in his heart, the craftsmanship of the master in this imperial workshop is really good, the carvings they saw just now, furnace bottles, figures, flowers and birds, animals, antique, Shanzi carving, etc., have a complete variety and a wide variety of colors. or thick and round, or elegant and beautiful, all of which are good, but Kong Sifen clearly has a soft spot for this kind of large material.

The jade carving in front of me, nearly more than two meters high, is only less than half of the carving, looking at the scene should be a mountain dwelling map, which is covered with small bridges and flowing water, pine trees and cranes and many other elements.

All the people present heard Kong Si's praise, although a little polite, but the demeanor and tone were so proud, this "Songshan Jushi" carving, is led by the ancient disciples, the Yin line carving, deep and shallow relief, three-dimensional round carving, hollow carving and other techniques into one, the pursuit is the composition is novel, beautiful shape, exquisite workmanship, a good display of "Shanzi carving" and "Lian Zi live" of the process characteristics.

The so-called "Shanzi carving" refers to the production of the shape, color, light, cracks, according to the shape of the concept, remove the flaws, cover its cracks, along with the color, to achieve the perfect unity of quality, color, type, in accordance with the "Zhangshan ruler tree, inch horse division people" law, or relief, or deep carving, so that the landscape, trees, birds, buildings, figures, image composition, etc., or far or near alternating changes. On the other hand, "practice work" refers to a process with a chain.

These were originally the main features of Yangzhou carving, and now they are gathered in this large-scale carving, no wonder although only part of it has been completed, and it has not yet been finely crafted, its complexity has made Wu Chen and them admire.

"That's all this stuff for?" Big Ya saw that there were large and small tools around the jade that was standing, and this way was too primitive. Except for a large cutting machine and a machine that looks like a water spray, the others are some small tools: files, saw blades and other cutting tools, line carving tools for priming, grinding stones of various shapes and specifications, as well as soft and hard brushes, bamboo skewers, leather strips; polishing materials such as polishing powder, sandpaper, polishing wax, etc.; It's a bit like a renovation site, and it looks like it's modern at all!

"Just rely on these tools, when will you get it?"

"It's been three years since the composition started, and if it goes well, it should be another four or five years before it can be completed." Feng Renkui seems to be very clear about this work of his senior brother.

"......" Although the old saying goes, slow work makes careful work, Wu Chen and the others also knew that this jade must be time-consuming, but they didn't expect that it would take so long, eight or nine years of hard work, this still has to be "smooth", and it is said that life can be several decades. It seems that I still think about jade carving too simply!

In fact, this is not to blame a few of them, for the real "carving" or Xiaobai, even if Wu Chen and Kong Si, in the workshop of Zhongfu Jewelry, they have also seen the masters process those jade pieces, but they are all bracelets or pendants and other small pieces, basically all of them are fixed, no need to compose, plus the materials used are also relatively low-end, so those skilled masters carve naturally quickly, and one can be produced in two or three days.

But this large-scale jade carving is not the same thing at all, the so-called material art, the first thing is to imagine and composition, starting from the material, color, shape, etc., to maximize the use of jade, especially in the creation of figures, flowers and birds, flowers, animals is designed according to the material, a unique way.

Because it is not easy to get big good materials, each piece is a treasure in the eyes of these carvers, and it is naturally very cautious, and the early composition often takes a long time, changing again and again, and even because the design can not always meet their own ideas, the material is put in the hand for decades.

If you don't have the ability to make it a masterpiece, you'd rather keep it in the form it has been created for hundreds of millions of years than destroy its original beauty.

This is the festival of jade workers!