Engraving is a general term for the three creative methods of carving, carving and molding.

In Chu Nan's view, in life, it seems that as long as you see it, valuable things can be carved.

Among them, Chu Nan used to see wood carvings, bamboo carvings, ivory carvings, stone carvings, and some rice carvings on the street.

In the case of such a tiny piece of millet, it can be engraved, which is really not simple.

In fact, after Chu Nan learned about the real carving of rice carving, he found that it was when the rice carving master was wearing a magnifying glass, and then he could use a chemical potion to carve.

Back then, if possible, Chu Nan also wanted to carve the rice himself and give it to that girl as a gift.

However, because of that incident, Chu Nan never mentioned it again.

Now, when Chu Nan saw those carving materials again, he naturally didn't look at those materials and books of wood carving, bamboo carving, ivory carving, and stone carving, and directly looked at the jade carving materials and books.

Ruili is the center of jade, so among the carvings sold in the bookstore here, the most introduced are jade carving books, which is also what Chu Nan is looking for.

Speaking of which, jade carving is also the oldest carving method in domestic history.

In the Neolithic Age, there was already a place, and later in the dynasties, because jade represents beautiful goods and the standard of a gentleman, there is no country in the world that loves jade as much as in China.

Of course, jade, in addition to jadeite jade, there are other jades, and Hetian jade is the most famous of them.

However, because the jade is different in various places, and then there are different regions in various places, it is divided into two schools of jade carving in the north and south, in the north and south factions, the northern school of jade carving is mainly in the capital, and the southern school is dominated by the four factions of Su Guangfu.

Chu Nan didn't know what to say if he didn't look at those materials, and he was really shocked when he saw it.

The size of the faction dominated by jade carving can be divided into dozens or hundreds of factions, and each faction says that its own carving is the best.

If you want to fully understand those jade carving factions in China, from ancient times to the present, Chu Nan is afraid that he will not be able to learn it in his lifetime. There is another person's energy, after all, is limited, if you want to learn well, learn fine, you must want to do one thing wholeheartedly.

Only by doing one thing can a person do better, not in the case of insatiable greed, in the end, he will achieve nothing.

The Beijing faction, the skills of the Beijing faction have a long history, profound and exquisite, in the production of materials, according to the aptitude, especially the good color.

Because it has been used as the capital since the Yuan, Ming and Qing dynasties, more jade is concentrated here, and the jade carvings formed are naturally different.

Shanghai jade carving is one of the four major schools of jade carving in China, formed in the late 19th century and early 20th century, and has a strong influence on the current jade carving art.

Because a group of outstanding Shanghai-style jade carvers have come to the fore and created many highly collectible art masterpieces, injecting fresh blood into the art of jade carving.

Yangzhou does not produce jade, but the convenient transportation and wealthy citizens of Yangzhou in ancient times have created convenient conditions for the formation and development of jade carving, and precious jade from all over the country are processed here, and it is worth a hundred times.

Nanyang jade carving, after jade carving artists and scientific and technological workers excavate, sort out the traditional skills, absorb foreign experience, Nanyang jade carving technology continues to improve, and gradually formed its own unique artistic style, with the flexibility of skills and color is famous in the world......

As the saying goes, the major schools of jade carving have their own strengths, Chu Nan looked at those books, and for a while, he didn't know which kind of Taoism was better?

Chu Nanzhi said that the jade carvings of the northern school were mainly jadeite, and the jade carvings of the southern school were mainly nephrite.

Chu Nan knows even more that jadeite is a type of jadeite, and now it has become synonymous with jadeite.

Nowadays, Chu Nan is betting on jade and jade, and as for Hetian jade, which is dominated by nephrite, Chu Nan doesn't know when Lu Dao will have time to go to Xinjiang to have a look.

Although Hetian jade also has gambling stones, it is not as large as jadeite.

Now that there is such a difference, Chu Nan looked at the information books of those jade carving factions, and also looked at the northern faction.

"Young man, what kind of books do you read?"

When Chu Nan looked at those books and thought about them, he didn't expect that there was already one more person beside him, who looked to be in his fifties, wearing a set of Tang costumes, reading glasses, and some kind-faced old men.

"Sir, I want to know some information about those jade carvings."

When he saw this old man, Chu Nan felt that the other party should be an expert in jade carving, and if he could listen to his thoughts, it would naturally be good.

It's just that in the past, Chu Nan didn't know about the domestic jade carving masters, and he didn't know if the old man in front of him was one of the representatives?

"You also like jade carving?"

"Like. However, now is the first time I really came to understand, and I found that there were too many assignments, and I didn't know how to choose for a while. ”

When the old gentleman looked over, the young man in front of him was twenty years old at most.

If you hadn't been exposed to jade carving since childhood, you might not have much interest in reading those materials.

Because the art of carving is the most important thing to do, the environment, as well as the inner peace, and even to endure loneliness.

A person will often carve an object in a quiet place, even forgetting everything outside, and putting his body and mind on carving that object before he can carve a thing well.

Whether it is Michelangelo, the master carver of the West, or other master carvers in China, it is like that.

"Young man, tell me what you think."

The old gentleman looked at Chu Nan and said.

"Mr. Lao, I can see from the books that the domestic jade carving is mainly divided into two factions, the northern faction is mainly in Beijing, and the southern faction is divided into Shanghai, Suzhou, Guangdong, and Fujian. However, the northern school is dominated by jadeite, and the southern school is dominated by nephrite. Burmese jadeite is the representative of jadeite, so now I like to choose the northern style. ”

In fact, these are all materials that Chu Nan has learned before and now.

That distinction is made by the respective engraving experts.

The most important thing is that in the old gentleman's opinion, a person likes jade carving, and among them, the talent is the best. If you don't have the talent for it, then diligence is the most important thing.

There are most of the jade carving apprentices, most of them will follow their own masters to learn and ponder since they were young, and they have learned a lot for more than ten years, or even longer.

Nowadays, a person who only relies on interest to learn, and at Chu Nan's age, when no one takes it, he completely relies on books, I am afraid that it will not have much effect, and his future achievements will not be big, so it is better to be an apprentice first.

"Young man, since you like jade carving, do you want to do it as a hobby, or do you want to do it as a job for the rest of your life?"

"Hobby hobby. Because I am still a student, I naturally focus on learning, and as for jade carving, I also see that I have time to play here in Ruili and see those jades, so I think I will also carve some works in the future. ”

"Hehe, it's not bad to be interested in hobbies, it's better to start with the most basic jade carving foundation, as long as you are interested and persistent, maybe there will be a place for you in jade carving in the future."

The old gentleman looked at Chu Nan and encouraged.

"Mr. Xie Lu, Mr. Xie."

So far, Chu Nan didn't know which carving master the old gentleman in Lu Dao was, but when the other party left, he gave him two basic carving books based on the northern school before leaving.

Chu Nan saw the two books and found that the jade carving tools on them had detailed records of the jade carving process.

With Chu Nan's current situation, as long as you read those two books and learn all of them, the most basic should be laid.