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After a major thing in his heart landed, Li Le suddenly felt a lot more relaxed, and the wood carving ornaments were more handy.

In fact, the history of wood carving ornaments is very long, and its cultural heritage is also profound.

Wood carving ornaments are folk art varieties classified by carving materials. Generally, the tree species with fine and tough texture and not easy to deform are selected, such as nanmu, red sandalwood, camphor wood, cypress, ginkgo, agarwood, mahogany, longan, etc. The artwork of carving tree roots in a natural form is called "root carving". Wood carving has round carving, relief carving, openwork carving or several techniques combined. Some are also painted to protect the wood and beautify.

In the Warring States and Han dynasties, there were a large number of wood carvings and animal carvings, and in the Tang and Song dynasties, there were wood carvings of figures, immortals, Buddhas, birds and beasts. In the Ming and Qing dynasties, small wood carving ornaments, architectural wood carving decorations and wood carving daily utensils were greatly developed. and form local characteristics.

Chinese wood carving, widely distributed, one decline and one rises, the tide rises and falls. Due to the folk customs, culture and resource conditions of various places, the materials are different and the craftsmanship is different, and many schools with strong local characteristics and their own merits have been formed.

In China, most of the current wood carving schools are distinguished by region. Among them, the most famous and influential genres are Dongyang wood carving, Yueqing boxwood carving, gD Chaozhou gold lacquer wood carving, and FJ longan wood carving. These four schools are known as the "Four Great Chinese Wood Carvings".

First of all, Dongyang wood carving is a wood carving art belonging to Dongyang, zJ Province, which has a long history, and is known as the "hometown of carving" for the traditional folk crafts of Dongyang.

The emergence and development of Dongyang wood carving art is first of all because the place is rich in wood suitable for carving, such as camphor wood. The characteristic of his works is that the color of the material is basically maintained in the original color, and then polished on it to make the surface more smooth and shiny.

Dongyang wood carving technology began in the Tang Dynasty, developed in the Song Dynasty, and flourished in the Ming and Qing dynasties. The subject matter of expression has also been very extensive, birds and animals, landscape characters are involved, and the decorative content with historical stories as the theme is also carried out.

As an art genre, it is formed through long-term artistic practice according to the respective modeling characteristics of architecture, furniture and various furnishings.

It has a unique and complete set of carving techniques, including relief carving, round carving, hollow double-sided carving, yin carving and colored wood carving.

Relief carving is the essence of Dongyang wood carving art, and it is also one of the unique craft forms of Dongyang wood carving. It draws on the traditional method of scattering perspective or bird's-eye perspective composition, and then hollows out double-sided carving, or then through colored wood inlay. The depth of the picture is generally between 2 and 5 mm, and the expressiveness of the engraved lines reflects the subjectivity of the object.

This kind of bas-relief, the most praised is the "full carving", that is, on the surface of the utensils, full of carved ornamentation, both three-dimensional, and dense, forming a unique artistic style. The embossed camphor wood box is a representative product of this technological feature.

The second boxwood carving is named after the use of boxwood as the material used for carving. Boxwood grows slowly, and is commonly known as "thousand-year-old dwarf". The texture is tough and smooth, the texture is fine, the color is yellow and warm, it has an ivory effect, the darker the color is over time, and it is simple and beautiful. It is suitable for carving small furnishings. zJ is a traditional key production area of boxwood carving, mainly distributed in Yueqing and Wenzhou. zJ boxwood carving originated in Yueqing County, about 150 years ago. Originated from the small wood carved Buddha statue decorated on the skeleton of the dragon lantern, it developed into an art appreciation in the late Qing Dynasty.

The third gD gold lacquer wood carving has also become Chaozhou wood carving, originated in Chaozhou, gD Province, the surface of the work is pasted with gold, is a feature of Chaozhou wood carving, which is completely different from the style of Dongyang wood carving, so it is also called "gold wood carving", "gold lacquer wood carving".

It is said that "gold lacquer wood carving" is because there are all kinds of ingredients, and this lacquer is specially configured for the gold leaf to adhere to the wood, and at the same time it plays a role in moisture-proof and anti-corrosion. There are two main forms of lacquer in Chaozhou wood carving: one is the common "black lacquer lacquer gold", that is, black lacquer is used as the base, and then paved with gold leaf; The second is "colorful gold", this kind of style is mostly architectural decorations, with green or purple red, pink and yellow, and then set off with gold, producing a brilliant effect.

The traditional techniques of Chaozhou wood carving can be mainly divided into Yin carving, relief carving, round carving, carving and so on.

The nature of the carving is close to painting, and it is mostly applied to the screen, and the subject matter is plum, orchid, bamboo, and chrysanthemum. In addition to the Buddha, Bodhisattva, immortals, and traditional figures, the themes of relief and round carving are also often used.

Carving, also known as carving, is the artistic expression technique often used in Chaozhou wood carving, when carving, the craftsmen not only win at multiple levels, but also strive for ingenious structure and vivid shape.

Therefore, the figures expressed in Chaozhou wood carving have both form and spirit, the scenery is scattered, the lines are smooth, and the sense of rhythm is strong, reflecting the southern carving style of "multi-layer carving, clear and exquisite".

Chaozhou wood carvings can be traced back to before the Tang Dynasty. The Qing Dynasty was the heyday of the development of Chaozhou wood carving art.

In terms of technique, it has developed from single-layer hollowing to multi-layer hollowing; In terms of composition, it has developed from "reflection of reality and reality" to "coexistence of virtual and real", and the picture reflects the artistic effect of strong contrast between distance and size.

Gold lacquer wood carving was originally a kind of architectural decorative art in ancient China, and after it spread to the south, it was formed into a wood carving school under the influence of some local artistic characteristics.

This kind of wood carving is made of camphor wood, camphor wood is hard, and contains camphor, ants can not be eroded, after carving, it needs to be painted in multiple layers, and finally pasted with gold leaf. In this way, the finished wood carving product is not easy to decay despite years of wind and rain, and can remain golden and shine.

The last Fuzhou wood carving, also called longan wood carving, is also a kind of wood carving art developed on the basis of architectural decoration, furniture decoration and temple statue carving, which matured in the late Ming and early Qing dynasties.

Fuzhou wood carving uses longan wood as the material, so it is also called "longan wood carving". Longan wood is mainly produced in southern Fujian. The texture is slightly brittle, the texture is fine, and the color is ochre. The trunk of the old longan wood, especially the roots, is strangely shaped, which is a good material for sculpture.

Wood carvers use its roots and its creases and scars, because of the situation, carved into all kinds of figures, birds and beasts, the shape is vivid and steady, the structure is beautiful, not only in line with the anatomical principle, but also moving, exaggerated. Knife technique or axe chopping knife chisel, or delicate carving, round and skillful.

The subject matter of Fuzhou wood carving is mainly human and animal images. Root carving is a unique variety of Fuzhou wood carving, so in the past, some people called Fuzhou wood carving "FJ natural scar root carving", which is not unreasonable.

The appearance of Fuzhou wood carving is characterized by the fact that after the work is polished and covered with lacquer, it can never fade, and always presents a simple copper yellow or orange grapefruit yellow color; If you rub it with beeswax or Sichuan wax again, it will be more polished.

In some animal-themed works, artists often use bone to make teeth and glass to make eyes, so that the works are more vivid.

In fact, the genres of carving have their own characteristics, but they are inseparable from one word, "artistic conception".

Lao Tzu said: "The Tao is the way, the very Tao is famous, the very famous." The beginning of the nameless heaven and earth is the mother of all things. Therefore, the wonderfulness, beauty, and highest state of art lies in expressing the unspeakable, nameless, and intangible" "Tao" in nature with words that can be said, things that can be named, and forms that can be liked.

Art is originally a kind of "Tao" that cannot be expressed, and a person's creative inspiration comes from many factors, such as environment, thought, reality, etc., but these things are soft and Tao, and a unique artistic conception will be formed on top of a work.

It is impossible to tell the truth, one person may create a work with thousands of artistic conceptions, and thousands of people can see thousands of artistic conceptions from the same work.

It is something that changes over time, in the mind. It is also the heart of wood carving, its soul.

Just like the Lianghe tea table that has been sold, the meaning in the mountains is an artistic conception, Shui Yunyao is still an artistic conception, and the wood carving ornaments created by Li Le at this moment are also an artistic conception.

Two sections of slightly decayed wood, one hollow and the other somewhat rotten on both sides.

The hollow wood, Li Le has already cleaned the rotten wood in it. In this section, he is going to carve an ornament of a Buddha cave. The hollow is surrounded by the sharp edges of the rocky cliffs, and a path up the mountain is left underneath.

The difficulty of this ornament lies in the structure of the cave, the rock hangs from the cave wall, and in the deepest part of the cave, there is a statue of Manjushri, which is carved out of the decaying cave wall using the technique of relief.

And under the statue of the Bodhisattva, there are spacious steps with incense burners and futons for worship.

Everything needs to be carved in that hole, completely integrating a miniature little world into it.

On the other piece of wood, which was somewhat rotten on both sides, Li Le was ready to conceive a picture of a pine crane to prolong its life.

When the decaying wood on both sides is removed, the layers between the top and bottom are clearly distinguished. The lower layer is carved with stone, carved with the stone at the top of the mountain, which has been eroded by wind and rain, and still has edges and corners, which seems vicissitudes and deep meaning.

The upper layer is an old pine that extends from the cracks in the stone, and the branches like a dragon firmly grasp the stone. Some of the epidermis on the branches has been cracked, apparently the fruit of long-term exposure to wind and sun. The other end winds out from the edge of the cliff, cloud-shaped needles, from bottom to top, standing proudly in the wind.

Between the branches and leaves, there are three cranes, one is about to spread its wings in the wind, and the other two are playing with their necks, and their posture is calm and graceful.

And around it, the misty clouds and mist are gently wound like silk ribbons, which seem to be between illusion and illusion, and reveal a trace of hazy beauty.

The form depicted in the whole conception is a combination of old and new, dynamic and static. The ancient stone and old pine are the scenery of the eternal years of heaven and earth, and the crane perched on the branch is a rare accidental scene, and the two are blended with each other, and they are beautiful.

The reason why it is said that the pine crane prolongs its life is because the pine is a symbol of immortality in Taoist mythology. In some books, there will also be monks who have attained the Tao and become immortals, abandoning their physical bodies and choosing to feed on pine leaves and pine cones.

The crane is also introduced into the myth by Taoism, and the people who have attained the Tao take the crane as a ride, going back and forth between heaven and earth, so the crane is also regarded as a fairy, and naturally it also means immortality.

Under the combination of the two, it also takes the meaning of pine crane to prolong life.

But now when Li Le conceived this work, there were other meanings. Hanging between the cracks of the loose stones, it is the meaning of perseverance and desperation. The crane and pine branches want to fly high is the meaning of yearning for freedom and unfettered. Under the combination of the two, there is also a state of life, in the face of the difficulties of life should be persevering, like the old pine let the wind and rain blow but still stand proudly against the wind, and at the same time do not forget their dreams, not bound by reality, break free from the shackles and soar in the clouds.

Just like his own current situation, no matter how difficult it is, he will try to get through, and when the day comes, he will no longer let people be able to play so easily, no matter who it is.

While Li Le was carving, the four people led by the scar on the corner of his head and eyebrows were also investigating Li's.

This lasted for four days, and Le had already completed a wood carving, and at the same time, the information that the four men had collected was almost complete.

In a hotel room, four people were sitting around a coffee table, and on top of the coffee table were a bunch of photos, materials, and other things, which they had collected for Li Le in the past few days.

The inch-headed man flipped through the information, while making notes on a small notebook, and making the final sorting and induction. But the further he wrote, the deeper his brow wrinkled.

From the information collected, Li Le grew up with his mother, and his father's information is unknown, and like children of the same age, he studied all the way, and there is nothing special about it. It's just that he doesn't study hard, and he likes to make trouble at school. But it is such an ordinary person who first discounted Sun Yilong, a black belt in karate, and then let himself lose an elite swordsman, which is not so simple.

"When you assassinated him that day, you really killed Ruan Chun with just one punch?" The Nguyen Xuan mentioned by the inch-headed man was the Vietnamese who was seriously injured and killed by Le Le's punch, and his eyes were sharp at the moment, staring straight at the person who had escaped by luck and questioning.

It's no wonder he doesn't believe in such a thing, it's like an adult bullying a child, but being beaten down by the child, no one will believe it.

"It's true! That day, Ruan Chun was seriously injured by his punch and fell to the ground. The Vietnamese looked a little nervous, he knew very well the horror of the inch-haired man in front of him, if he believed that he was cheating on him, then waiting for his result would definitely be uncomfortable.

"Since what you said is true, then it's also true that your Ruan Chun stabbed him, right? One in the chest, one in the thigh, right? ”

"Yes...... Yes! "The backs of the Vietnamese have begun to sweat, not because it is hot, but because they are scared.

At this moment, the inch-headed man's eyes were like sharp knives, constantly scraping on the Vietnamese body, making him feel a sense of panic.

Hearing the words of the Vietnamese, the inch-headed man's face suddenly became gloomy, and he yelled directly at him: "Since what you said is true, then tell me, why is he still alive these days, in a week, two knife wounds can be completely healed, why don't I stab you and see how about it?"

At this moment, the inch-headed man decided that the words of the Vietnamese were false, and the stab wounds of the two toothed sabers were completely as if nothing was right after only a week, and he really didn't believe it.

The Vietnamese were speechless at this time, and the inch-headed man's aura was too strong, which had already made his hands and feet tremble a little. He didn't know how to answer, such a thing was indeed a bit weird.

Li Le's strange body naturally they don't know, if they know that the wound only took a little more than an hour to heal, I don't know what the two of them will think in their hearts.

The atmosphere in the room began to become depressed under the angry roar of the inch-headed man, and the two people who followed him were also sitting upright at this time, staring at their feet and keeping silent. No one dares to touch the mold at this moment.

The eyes of the Vietnamese are also completely lowered, and they dare not look directly at the inch-headed man. His heart was also depressed, it was just an ordinary job, but it had reached this point.

"What was it like that night? Did you stab him? I'll only ask this once, and if I fool me again, don't blame me for being ruthless! The inch-headed man questioned again, and in his heart he also believed that the Vietnamese were useless, so he said that he stabbed Le Le in order to reduce his responsibility.

He had heard about Sun Yilong, but he was also a little scoffy at such things. At most, a student who can fight and brawl on the street can have much ability, and he believes that there is someone behind Li Le.

In the investigation these days, there have been a lot of unknown people around his girlfriend Liu Yunyao, and he believes that this is the work of the people behind Li Le, so he did not act rashly.

At the same time, he also thought that someone was behind the assassination of the two that night, otherwise how could he lose one person on his side with just Li Le, a student studying at school.

Although Ruan Chun's outstretched hand is not particularly good, there is absolutely no problem with ordinary three or five people. That's why he decided that the person in front of him was lying.

The Vietnamese are only complaining in their hearts at the moment, he is really depressed, why no one always believes the truth, and he has to make up a lie.

At this time, the situation could not help but make him up, the inch-headed man was staring at him with a tiger's eye, and a wrong sentence might greet him is a terrible end, after being stunned for a moment, he said with some trembling: "It was quite dark that day, and I didn't see it too clearly, maybe there were others helping him!"

As soon as he finished saying this, he was greeted by a glass ashtray on the spot, and with a muffled "bang", the Vietnamese suddenly felt that their eyes were dark, and their heads were also smashed, and they were drowsy.

For a moment, he only felt ringing in his ears and his head was swollen, and there was a feeling of coldness on his head. He knew it was blood coming out, and although his consciousness was a little confused, he didn't dare to reach out and wipe it. After straightening his body immediately, he didn't dare to move.

“…… If this happens again, it won't be the ashtray that beckons you next time. The Vietnamese did not hear the previous words clearly, and were smashed by the ashtray, and their ears were a little out of order, and it took a while to hear the last words of the inch-headed man.

He kept nodding his head to show that he understood that although this matter was a little strange and strange, it was good to only receive it like this. If the inch-headed man uses the knife, it is not only a matter of bleeding, but his knife will not stop until the parts on his body fall!

Maybe it was a lack of manpower, so after the inch-headed man got angry, he didn't do anything else with cruelty, but just gave a warning to the Vietnamese. (A good event for pie in the sky, cool mobile phones are waiting for you!) Follow the ~ point / Chinese network public account (WeChat add friends to add the public account and enter qdread), participate now! Everyone has a prize, now pay attention to the qdread WeChat public account! ）