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At a quarter past seven o'clock in the evening, Wang Ding and Jin Long had arrived in the new # Jianxian County in a 211 air-conditioned car.

It's July now, and in Gancheng, a furnace city, if you don't make this kind of air-conditioned car, basically people will be wet from the heat.

And the new # Jianxian is a prefecture-level county and city under Gancheng, because it is very close to Gancheng, people who can't afford to buy a house in Gancheng choose the new # Jianxian city. This is the case with the Golden Dragon.

Jin Long's family is not rich, it is an ordinary family, when he got married, his parents helped Jin Long buy a house and paid a down payment, and then Jin Long and his wife took a monthly mortgage and needed to repay more than 2,000 yuan. Originally, the family was fine, both parents had pensions, and his father could still do odd jobs to earn money, but in the first year of Jinlong's marriage, Jinlong's mother got a strange disease and went to the hospital for examination, but there was no result. So Jin Long could only go to the doctor indiscriminately, not to mention spending unjust money, his mother's illness still had not been found to be pathological, and he was in constant pain.

In this way, Jin Long would take his mother to see a doctor every month, and the examination cost a lot of money, and some doctors prescribed some perfunctory medicines, and Jin Long couldn't see if he could cure the disease, but he still had to pay. Just like that, hundreds of thousands of dollars of money were thrown away.

The building of the Golden Dragon House is on the 2nd floor, which is a typical small high-rise building with a total of 12 floors. When they first bought this building, Jinlong's parents also considered that they were good to be active on the 2nd floor when they were old, so they bought the 2nd floor.

"Wang Ding, there are old people at home, it's messy, don't dislike me."

Jin Long walked to the door and said to Wang Ding while holding the key.

Wang Ding said with a smile, "Look at what you said, Brother Jin, I am honored that you can invite me to my home." What else do I care about the chaos in my house? Besides, even if it's messy, can it mess up my house? ”

Saying that, the door has been opened, and the living room is very spacious, and the pink and white floor tiles give people a feeling of fresh summer breeze. Sofa, TV, coffee table? However, the only thing that didn't quite fit this picture was that the coffee table in the living room was full of bottles of potion.

When the golden dragon finally slammed the door shut, Wang Ding's nose flew into the smell of the unpleasant drugs mixed together, making people crazy.

The golden dragon may have smelled it too, so he was so busy that he opened the door again, and then rushed to the window and opened it all.

"Wang Ding, I make you laugh, because of my mother's illness, there is medicine everywhere in the house, and it smells a little bad."

"It's nothing, it's nothing. It doesn't matter to me. "Wang Ding is a hard-working baby, so he is not squeamish, although the smell is not good, but Wang Ding can still bear it.

"Guizhen, my friend is here, you can cook some good dishes." Jin Long shouted towards the inner room, and after hearing the sound inside, Jin Long smiled and said to Wang Ding, "Wang Ding, let's go to my study, I have some works of art there, I think you will be interested." ”

For those who play collecting, there are inevitably some treasures in their own homes, and Golden Dragon is no exception. At this time, when he pointed to a room and asked Wang Ding to go there, Wang Ding nodded, and followed Jin Long to a room inside.

Pushing open the door, Wang Ding's eyes are dozens of carvings, it is obvious that these carvings are carved from wood, among all the carvings, there are two carvings that are more conspicuous, the first is the carving of an eagle near the left side of the door, this carving shows a goshawk with wings ready to fly, wings whistling, eyes unstoppable, very majestic. The other, and second-largest, carving is behind the goshawk carving, which is a carving of a wooden boy herding a cow.

Wang Ding knew very little about wood carving, and when he suddenly walked into the world of this carving, Wang Ding was really a little dizzy. Observing the two most conspicuous carvings, intuitively, Wang Ding can only see that the wood of these two carvings is different, but from this appearance, Wang Ding really can't tell what kind of wood these two carvings are, and suddenly feels his lack of knowledge.

"What, what do you think of my carving?"

Jin Long saw Wang Ding looking at the two works of art with great interest and asked.

"Root carving?"

Root carving, which is obviously easy to see in the literal sense, is that the two works of art are carved from the roots of wood. "Brother Jin, do you mean that the material of these carvings is the root of wood?"

"Huh. In a narrow sense, it can be understood in this way, but in fact, root carving in a broad sense also includes tree bodies, tree nodules, bamboo roots, etc. For example, this wooden boy herding cattle is a root carving completed by the roots and the body of the tree. ”

"Oh, I see. Brother Jin, I'm not afraid of you making fun of me, I'm a complete layman in the art of root carving. I just see that the wood of the two carvings is different, is there also knowledge in this area? ”

The carved roots of the wooden boy herding cattle that Wang Ding saw were brownish-yellow, while the carving of the goshawk spreading its wings was grayish-white, and the wood of the two was obviously different.

"You're right. There's a lot of learning here. Your brother Jin may not dare to say anything about other antique relics. However, I have been engaged in the study of root carving since I was a child. To tell you the truth, when I was a teenager, I learned the craft of carving with a folk master, so I am very familiar with root carving. It's just that he didn't learn the art well, so he gave up continuing to study carving. ”

said that Brother Jin Long had learned carving before, and Wang Ding really met Brother Jin again. In fact, Wang Ding did not know about the art of root carving, but he had also heard about the development of the craft of carving.

Far away, Wang Ding knew that a few decades ago, with the decline of root art production and production, people's material consumption has not yet reached that level, many artists changed careers or changed careers, and root carving skills reached the point of extinction. I'm afraid that Jin Long's later failure to learn carving is also related to this.

"Then Brother Jin, hurry up and give me a literacy."

"Very good," said the golden dragon enthusiastically, "as long as you are willing to listen to me, you will tell you." Appreciating root carving is the same as other antiques, you need to study its production first, which includes the material of the root carving and the age of the root carving. Because of a good root carving artwork, its selection of materials must not be casual. Generally, the root carving materials should be selected to be hard, stable, not easy to crack and deform, not moth-decaying, and can be preserved for a long time. Do you see the difference between this carving and the others? ”

Jin Long asked Wang Ding, Wang Ding will carefully appreciate the various carvings, and turn around these root carvings, these dozens of works of art have their own merits, colorful colors. But to say that the most antique, high-end atmosphere of the root carving is this boxwood.

"Is it because of the color of the boxwood?" Wang Ding made a bold guess.

"Yes, you are really smart, and you can see it at once." Jin Long smiled heartily, he smiled defenselessly in front of Wang Ding for the first time. "It's the color of boxwood, because the dark brown color of boxwood looks elegant and high-end, so it is also the most common root carving artwork, and it is also the most loved. Then there are red shirts and sandalwood, which are still of high grade. ”

"Wang Ding, I suddenly want to ask you, do you want to have a further understanding of the art of root carving? Because I think you're still very talented in root carving appreciation. ”

"Really?" Wang Ding was a little embarrassed by Jin Long's praise. "But Brother Jin, although you praise me so much, I also have to say that I am indeed very interested in Gendiao. Because in the furniture, the root carvings can be said to be uneven. Some inferior carvings made of wood are really going to be bought by me as good carvings, so I don't want to be struck hard, I think this is really useful. ”

"Yes," Jin Long sighed, as if he had a certain type of experience before.

After pondering for a while, Jin Long said, "Wang Ding, the collection of root carving has actually been around for a long time, as early as the middle and late Warring States period, the unearthing of the root carving "Evil Spirit" shows that the root carving art has appeared in our country. In the Ming and Qing dynasties, the root carving skills became more mature. Root artists not only use wood and bamboo roots to create ornaments for people to enjoy, but also carve furniture with practical value and other practical items such as tree root Taishi chairs and tree root crutches. Therefore, it can be said that in the Ming and Qing dynasties, root carving has been widely used in furniture. But since the Ming and Qing dynasties, the art of root carving has been somewhat sluggish, due to the limited production conditions during the Republic of China, many carving artists have changed careers, the Qing Dynasty can be said to be a dividing line of root carving art. If you can see the root carving artwork of the Qing Dynasty, it is usually worth a lot, and if it is after the Qing Dynasty, or after the Republic of China, the value of the root carving is basically not too high. Of course, this is not absolute. ”

"Oh? It's not absolute, so what else does it look at? Wang Ding asked puzzled.

"It's like I said it at the beginning. To appreciate the root carving, we need to look at the material of the root carving, and the value of the root carving artwork of the good material is slightly higher. Then we also have to look at the shape of the root carving, the shape of the root carving is "rare, strange, ancient, strange" and "good meaning". Generally, the more complex the shape of the root carving, it means that it condenses more wisdom and sweat of the carver, in the era of the lack of carvers, its value is usually higher, and there is a good root carving, such as the fish leaping over the dragon gate, spreading its wings and flying high, Fulu East China Sea, because it has a special meaning, it is generally very respected, so the value will also be coaxed up. ”

Wang Ding seemed to understand, listening to Jin Long's introduction to the knowledge of so many root carvings, Wang Ding had already been promoted from a layman to a circle.

"Brother Jinlong, I have one more question."

"Say."

Wang Ding smirked, "What I want to ask is where did you get so many root carving artworks from?" ”