Chapter 293: Basic Skills
Yu Lifei took the disc stone and broke the stone as he walked out. Although this stone is extremely hard, in his hands with internal strength, it is as brittle as plaster, and he can break it as much as he wants. The outer shell was quickly peeled off, and a crystal clear and delicate imperial green glass jade appeared in Yu Lifei's palm.
"Hua Lao, I am younger, I have a piece of imperial green of about three kilograms in my hand, can you please take a look?" Yu Lifei dialed Hua Lao's phone.
Although he is short of money now, with Hua Lao's three million, his problem has been solved. Although Mo Zhenjun's five million can't be returned for the time being, as long as he goes back, it will be easy to solve. And asking Hua Lao to carve a piece of jade for him is a rare opportunity.
"Of course, where are you, I'll come to you." Boss Hua was overjoyed, but he didn't expect Yu Lifei, this kid, to still have imperial green on his body. Where did he think that this was what Yu Lifei had just picked up, and he didn't cover it himself.
"How dare you come, I'll send it." Yu Lifei said with a smile.
"Less, this piece of jade is a little strange." After Hua Lao saw the jade material, he said strangely.
Although this piece of jade has not been polished, the internal situation is already clear at a glance. It was just strange to him that this piece of jade was neither cut nor polished, and the surface was irregularly shaped, as if the shell had been knocked off with a hammer. However, if you hit it with a hammer, it is easy to break the jade inside.
"Something wrong with jade?" Yu Lifei asked nervously.
"Not really, I'd love to know how this piece of jade was taken out." Hua Lao is a master carver, and the places he observes are naturally different from others. Yu Lifei's jade, most people will only notice the water, the glass is imperial green, who will observe the surface of the jade? Moreover, these superficial layers will eventually be removed.
"I took it myself with a hand grinding wheel. Not very professional, Hua Lao smiled. Yu Lifei said.
"What do you want to carve this imperial green?" Hua Lao didn't believe Yu Lifei's statement. But since Yu Lifei didn't want to say it, he didn't delve into it anymore.
"Is it okay to make a few cups or plates?" Yu Lifei asked.
"Cups? Plate? Are you going to bring the day's supplies? Hua Lao immediately understood what Yu Lifei meant.
"Yes, there are still a few jade supplies missing at home." Yu Lifei said.
"Less, it's too extravagant to take imperial green products of the day, right?" Hua Lao was very dissatisfied and said that the things he carved were all works of art and were used to appreciate. If it is used as a daily commodity, it will feel insulted.
"Why don't you carve a set of wine glasses?" Yu Lifei asked. The glow-in-the-dark glass of grape wine is to be drunk in an imperial green cup. It's definitely something different.
"Small, I carve things, and I have always carved them according to the characteristics of jade." Hua Lao said lightly.
"Then ask Hua Lao to watch it, but Hua Lao, I am also very interested in carving, I don't know if I can learn how to carve jade from you?" Yu Lifei said sincerely.
"Learning carving is very hard, cutting, learning, cutting, grinding, every process. Must have a solid foundation. Hua Lao said that many people only have three minutes of heat when they learn carving, and they have no art foundation, if they can't sink down to learn. How can you succeed lightly? And from this piece of jade, he can see that he is out of Lifei, and he has no talent. Yu Lifei is already very rich, and it is impossible for him to calm down. Learn how to carve with yourself.
The ancient jade-making technique originated from the making of zuò stone tools. Cutting, discussing, polishing and grinding are the technological procedures used in jade tools. Cut, that is, unraveling. To solve the jade, add the jade sand with a toothless saw to separate the jade material. It is repaired with a circular saw dipped in mortar. Cutting is to use drills, cones and other tools to carve patterns and drill holes. Grinding is the last process, using fine wood chips gourd skin, cowhide dipped in pearl mortar, polished, jade will emit a clotted luster.
This set of jade-making techniques has been mastered by craftsmen in the Shang Dynasty. Today's jade carving techniques generally adopt four methods: cutting, learning, pondering and grinding. The first Qin called the jade, the Song people called the jade, and now it is called the jade.
"Hua Lao, then I'll learn some basic things first." Yu Lifei felt that it was useless to say more, if he was really talented, he believed that Hua Lao would not spare his skills.
"That's no problem, if you want to learn, you can play here for a few days tomorrow, see how the people below do things, and you can learn the basic skills of jade carving from them." Hua Lao said, after all, Yu Lifei was able to sell him that piece of high green ice, which could be regarded as giving him face. If Yu Lifei just learned some basic skills, he would still not refuse.
Yu Lifei originally wanted to rush back to Yangcheng overnight, but when he heard Hua Lao say this, he stayed in Zhouping that night. Early the next morning, he arrived at Hua Lao's carving factory. Yu Lifei was authorized to visit the factory at will and ask about the workers.
Yu Lifei put down his means in the factory, took the initiative to make friends with the workers, and soon understood the process of jade carving. The general requirements of jade production are: pay attention to the phase material, make the material, and work color fracturing and thallium. Techniques include cutting, grinding, starting line, rolling groove, hollowing, pipe drilling, punching and hooking, rolling, jacking, bumping, digging and ring removal. The jade carving process is usually divided into five processes: material selection, design, pondering, polishing and waxing, with the design and carving process being the most complex.
The selection of jade carving materials should pay attention to the quality and size of the jade materials, and there should be no large cracks and flaws. Designers should not only understand art design, but also understand the characteristics of various jade, such as toughness or brittleness, hardness, heat sensitivity, chemical stability, crack development, defect elongation, etc., in order to truly ensure the final realization of their design, otherwise it is likely to die halfway.
The design of jade carving is generally divided into two processes: rough painting and fine painting. Rough drawing is the direct painting of shapes and patterns on the jade before starting to ponder. Fine painting is to draw out the local detailed requirements in the making, so that the maker can understand the design intent. Once the design is drawn on the jade, the processing can begin. Design, pay attention to talent, if there is no good creativity, even if the carving is good, carved things, there is no aura.
Pondering is a major process of making shapes according to the design requirements. The operation is usually divided into two processes: cutting and engraving. Cutting tools are used to remove leftovers other than stone skin and design contours. The carving and grinding process is to design the modeling, and its basic techniques and steps are punching, grinding, rolling, hooking, etc.
Punching refers to grinding over a large area. Grinding is to grind a large sample with different sizes of grinding blunt. That is, to grind out the contour form of the main parts of the design, such as the head, hands and body of the figure, etc. Rolling refers to deep grinding. That is, the three-dimensional effect of rolling out the finer parts is rolled out by rolling blunt, such as opening the face of the character's head, rolling out the mouth, nose, ears, etc. Hook is the use of hook thallium to outline the details of the subtle patterns, such as the hair of the character and the scales of the bird feather dragon.
After pondering the design of the jade, it is also necessary to polish it. Finally, it is wax and decoration, when the jade carving products are raised from the wax liquid, the excess wax liquid, especially the recesses of the jade carvings, etc., should be carefully wiped clean, so that the jade carving handicrafts shine. For jade carving handicrafts, waxing is not the end, but also need to be equipped with a proper wooden seat and brocade box, that is, to complete the decoration of jade, which is the real end.
In the morning, Yu Lifei devoted himself to asking everyone for advice, he has a martial arts foundation, and the dexterity of his hands is unparalleled. As long as you master various skills and carve them, the skills will progress by leaps and bounds. Guanyin is the most common pendant, the same jade quality, the quality of the carving, the value will be more than ten times different. Yu Lifei learned from a master in the afternoon and carved a small Guanyin.
Because Yu Lifei was carving for the first time, he didn't choose too good jade. Maybe there is no need to worry about any losses, Yu Lifei is very relaxed. His movements were a little rusty at first, but slowly, the speed became faster and faster. Starting from three o'clock in the afternoon, one fill in to six o'clock in the afternoon, Yu Lifei finished carving this Guanyin in one go.
Originally, Yu Lifei wanted to show it to Hua Lao, but Hua Lao was looking at his piece of imperial green, and he had already locked himself in the room and ordered that no one should disturb him. Yu Lifei had no choice but to leave his works here and ask Hua Lao to give some advice. This is his first work, and he originally wanted to keep it for himself, but he really wanted to let Hua Lao guide him. At the same time, he also told the people here that he wanted to buy this Guanyin pendant, and the money was paid in advance.
After returning to Yangcheng, Zheng Falei and Lao Wang had already packed all the antiques that Yu Lifei bought. Including 30 additional antiques from the Yangcheng Cultural Relics Company. Lao Wang took Yu Lifei's two cigarettes and returned at least two boxes of cigarettes to Yu Lifei. In the evening, after Yu Lifei invited Huang Wenqing and Dong Tianlin to have a meal, he escorted five vans back to Tanzhou. There are more than 3,000 antiques, and the reason why five cars are loaded is mainly because some antiques, such as beds and chairs, take up more space. There are also some bottles that can neither be squeezed nor pressed, and he paid more than 10,000 yuan just for packing.
When I set off from Yangcheng, it was more than eight o'clock in the evening, but I didn't arrive in Tanzhou until eleven o'clock in the morning the next day. Every three hours, Yu Lifei asked for a half-hour break. And the speed of the car was strictly limited, he sat in the first car, Zheng Falei was in the last car, and the speed of all cars could not exceed sixty yards.
And at two o'clock in the morning, he asked all the drivers to go into the service area to rest. It wasn't until after six o'clock that I got back on the road. After entering Tanzhou, Yu Lifei did not let the truck go to the antique market, he entered more than 3,000 antiques at once, if he was seen by his peers, I am afraid that the price of antiques in Tanzhou would be lowered.
"Lifei, last night's three million has arrived, and I took twenty thousand. In addition, I made an appointment with the bank today to withdraw a million cash tomorrow. Huang Yan was waiting for Yu Lifei in the villa. Five trucks entered Tanshanhua, and there was a lot of movement.
"Good. The room is all cleared, right? Yu Lifei asked.
"Of course, twenty people were invited to help, and I was responsible for checking with Brother Lei." Huang Yan thought very thoughtfully, and had already thought about what should be done properly. (To be continued......)