However, the current society is not so exquisite, as long as it conforms to the artistic conception, you can carve as much as you want. Li Jingjing, a big girl's house, tiger buttons, dragon buttons, turtle snake buttons, etc., are obviously not suitable. Thinking about it, the sheep button is more appropriate, after all, the sheep is also a representative of peace and happiness, and it is Xue Yuying's genus, so it is naturally the best.

told the old man about his plan, and the old man nodded in agreement. However, seeing that Xie Bin was about to use the knife after just a little contemplation, the old man was very surprised and asked, "Xiao Xie, don't you need to draw?" ”

Xie Bin was a little embarrassed, strictly speaking, his approach, in the eyes of the older generation of craftsmen, is a representative of the high level of eyesight, especially Xie Bin is still such a young person. However, Xie Bin has real skills, and he is not afraid, explaining: "Teacher, I have been carving with my grandfather since I was a child, and I have never drawn drawings or know how to draw. ”

Li Jingjing helped on the side, "Don't worry, uncle, Brother Xie's craftsmanship is very good, no worse than yours!" ”

The old man looked at Li Jingjing, then at Xie Bin, nodded and said, "Okay, you continue, I'll take a look." ”

Xie Bin also glanced at Li Jingjing quietly, thinking about what happened to this girl today, and always helped herself speak. Is it because you have a good impression of yourself? But then Xie Bin laughed secretly, shook his head slightly, and put his mind on the bloodstone in front of him.

There were a few people watching, especially the old man, a big expert, Xie Bin didn't dare to use his ability, but carved with his own wrist strength alone. As soon as Xie Bin took the knife, the old man praised: "Okay, the basic skills are very good." Indeed, Xie Bin's wrist strength is very strong even if it is not blessed by ability, after all, so many years of training are not blown, especially in the past ten years, just this pair of wrists carved out of the work, not two thousand, but also one thousand eight, a work has to take hundreds or even thousands of knives to form. Calculate how many knives Xie Bin has made over the years?

The old man is an expert, so he can naturally see what Xie Bin's kung fu is good at. Like Li Jingjing, although she can also understand some carving, she can't see the cleverness of Xie Bin's knife.

Xie Bin was indifferent to the old man's praise and continued to go under the knife. I have to say that this bloodstone is really a natural seal stone, extremely comfortable when the knife is made, although it is a stone, but the material is delicate, and there is toughness, a knife carved up like a clay sculpture.

However, even if Xie Bin carves stone, the technique used is similar to that of carving wood, and he cuts it layer by layer according to his own ideas and layout, until he outlines a shape that he is satisfied with, and then carries out polishing and polishing and other processes. That is, the hardness of this bloodstone is not high, if it is replaced with jadeite, Xie Bin will grind this knife flat, and he will not be able to cut a small piece of jadeite, unless he uses his ability.

Soon, a cute little sheep appeared at the top of the seal. The little sheep is lying down, its head is bent to the left, its body is coiled together, and two immature and lovely horns are bent against its side, as if it is tickling, and if you look closely, you are closing your eyes and recuperating when you are full.

And combined with the blood color of the bloodstone, this little sheep has a little more brilliance. The old man just kept nodding his head, very satisfied with Xie Bin's performance; Qiao'er put her head on the workbench and stared at the little sheep, her eyes blinking. And Li Jingjing looked at Xie Bin, and her eyes also rippled, indeed, Xie Bin is different from all the men she has seen, at first glance it looks ordinary, but if you feel it carefully, you can feel that this man's talent is beyond ordinary people, and he is careful and serious that does not match his talent.

It is said that in this self-recommended society, if ordinary young people had such outstanding talent as Xie Bin, they would have been proud of not knowing what their surname was. But Xie Bin is more like a piece of warm jade, the essence is introverted, contained but not released, only by carefully appreciating it, can you feel his unique look.

Xie Bin himself can't feel these things, because he has been like this since he was a child, just like his grandfather. He didn't know that some things that he thought were normal had become very rare in this day and age. Otherwise, do you really treat Xue Yuying, Li Jingjing, and these girls as nymphomaniacs? There are countless excellent men they have seen, and if they don't have their own unique place, it would be a little difficult for Xie Bin to let them take a second look, let alone be so close to them.

Men like to compare women, and women like to compare men. And men are the most women's first impressions, while women want to feel the difference of men in the bits and pieces of getting along.

Xie Bin ignored the praise of the three of them, one old and one young, and changed to a carving knife to continue repairing. The treatment of this bloodstone is relatively simple, even simpler than wood. When Xie Bin finished the last step, a lifelike and vivid little sheep appeared in front of several people.

Even Xie Bin himself breathed a sigh of relief with satisfaction, this was in front of his teacher, if it was messed up, it would be a shame. Fortunately, Xie Bin feels very good, and his skills have grown recently, so he made a relatively satisfactory work for the first time in stone carving, which not only showed his hand in front of the teacher, but also lived up to this high-end bloodstone.

"Not bad," the old man clapped his hands and praised: "Xiao Xie, if you just talk about the craftsmanship of this carving, I am not as real as you." ”

"Hehe," Xie Bin really didn't need to be modest about this, he just gave the credit to his grandfather, "This is what my grandfather taught well, and at that time, I relied on this craft to eat." ”

In the old man's study, Xie Bin learned some of the most basic knowledge of Jinwen, and listened to some experience summaries, and when it was almost dark, Xie Bin left with Li Jingjing. Fortunately, the old man's daughter-in-law, who is Qiao'er's mother, arrived at the old man's place, otherwise Xie Bin would still be thinking about whether to help the old man make dinner.

Sitting in the car, Li Jingjing looked at the man, or the big boy, from the rearview mirror, and couldn't help but say, "It's difficult to learn ancient characters." ”

Xie Bin was stunned for a moment, nodded and said, "I know, the teacher has already said it." ”

"You," Li Jingjing choked on a mouthful, and then continued: "I mean, if you learn seal carving, there is no need to learn ancient characters, as long as you have two dictionaries, and a certain amount of painting skills are completely enough," said pursed his lips and said: "My uncle, a little dead-eyed, in fact, now the seal carving masters, few will really understand these ancient characters, and not engage in text research, you don't have to drill the horns like him." ”

Xie Bin listened to Li Jingjing's words, looked at her with some surprise, and shook his head for a while before he shook his head and said: "What I like is the old man, otherwise it seems that those who don't understand follow the crowd, so it's better not to learn, if you want to learn, you have to learn seriously." ”

Li Jingjing was a little blushing by Xie Bin's righteous reasoning. Indeed, in the past, teachers and parents would always take the trouble to tell every student and every child, but in fact, few people can really do it meticulously according to this requirement. Li Jingjing looked at Xie Bin's serious face, and suddenly felt that this boy was really different, and it was at this time that she figured out why Xie Bin, a poor child who had been setting up a stall for more than ten years, could still live so leisurely and happily.

Indeed, under Xie Bin's seemingly happy and indifferent face, he has a very serious heart. No matter what you do, you always have to do it with your heart, this is the motto of Xie Bin and the old man. Xie Bin has been like this all these years, he may not be able to do the best, but he must be able to do the best. When you do something and do it with your heart, that sense of accomplishment is not something that outsiders can experience.

Sometimes it's an exercise, sometimes it's a drawing, sometimes it's just a bowl of egg soup, but the great sense of accomplishment that comes after completion is happier than ever. Friends, when you encounter a difficult math problem and try your best to solve it, do you remember the happy mood after that? Do you want to look up to the sky and roar? Do you feel great? Do you want everyone to know? When you feel the admiration of your classmates, are you happy?

Xie Bin returned to the Luyuan community, looked at the stack of books he had gotten, and said that it was fake not to worry, but Xie Bin felt that he really liked this thing. Maybe it's because of the interest that his grandfather cultivated for him since he was a child, Xie Bin's interest in traditional culture is much higher than other things, otherwise he wouldn't be able to do carving every day for ten years. In other words, if you really want to change jobs, Xie Bin can ensure food and clothing even if he works in a factory.

The main text used in seal carving is the seal character, and the seal character is divided into large seal and small seal. The Great Seal is the script used throughout the country before Qin Shi Huang unified the Six Kingdoms in a broad sense, including the script used by the Six Kingdoms such as Qi, Chuyan, Han, Zhao, Wei, etc., as well as ancient scripts such as oracle bone inscriptions, Jin inscriptions, and Zhou inscriptions; The small seal is naturally the common seal character used by Qin Shi Huang after the implementation of "book with text". In addition to the appeals, there are also some ancient characters such as Ba Si Pa script, Miao seal, Tao script, currency script, mirror inscription, Wadang script, and so on.

And if you want to be a real seal carving expert, even if you can't write, you must know these things. If one day someone brings a seal to you for identification, but you can't even understand what the seal is, it will be a shame and a big loss.

However, according to the old man, the inheritance of Chinese characters is complete and orderly, and the simplified characters from the beginning of the oracle bone inscription to the present can be linked to each other. If you can grasp the main points, it is relatively easy to learn to write ancient characters. The most difficult side is some of the more remote scripts, such as the Ba Si Pa script used by the Mongols, and the script used by the Six Kingdoms during the Spring and Autumn Period and the Warring States Period.

In the Six Kingdoms era, the characters they used had some very decorative art fonts, such as the shape of birds and insects, dots, and long tails in the characters, which even went beyond the scope of words and became a kind of picture. However, this kind of writing is very popular with some literati and scholars, especially on the seals. In the Miao seal of the Han Dynasty, there is also such a font, adding the image of birds, fish, and insects on the seal script, or the strokes are bent and winding, this kind of text is vivid and dexterous, and full of pictures.

Of course, these are not the current Xie Bin can study, what he needs is to learn the big seal and the small seal, these two fonts in the inheritance of ancient Chinese characters, played a very important role, the role of connecting the previous and the next, if you can eat the size of the seal characters thoroughly, when learning other words, it will be easier. And this is also very easy to start, after all, Xie Bin has some skills in small seals.