Chapter 891: Playing Jade

Su You said with a smile: "They are all two-year-old adult cattle, and I will also keep fifty heads for crossbreeding with local cattle breeds, and you can take the rest to Liangzhejiang Road and hand them over to the pasture, so that they can try to cross them with Erlin breeds." ”

In addition to the cattle and horses in this ranch, there are also a few big donkeys that Zhang San brought back this time, Su You is ready to be used to breed big mules with horses.

According to statistics, there are only 30,000 elephants in Jiaozhi Road, and they all belonged to the army in the past.

Su You thought it was not necessary, so they were all turned into civilian use, and they were used to improve the transformation of road traffic and engineering construction in various places.

The arrival of the rainy season brought many constructions to a halt, so Su You returned to Jiaozhou and took Shi Wei to the Shugong handicraft processing base to inspect the handicraft production.

Su You was a poverty alleviation cadre in his previous life, and the way out he found for his counterpart village was to restore the intangible cultural heritage technology, develop products that meet the market demand, and lead everyone to embark on the road of poverty alleviation and prosperity, so this is his profession.

I never get tired of work.

For example, the craft knife is not as simple as a knife strip, if it is sold to the big food, the knife strip should be etched with scriptures, and then the knife should be golden, and the gold should be plated on it, or it should be cast in brass, inlaid with precious stones, and the grip and scabbard should be covered with Jiao skin, or beaded fish skin, or even decorated with antler ivory, and now it is a more ornate material, and even the head of a toucan and whale teeth, and the handle is a wolf's head, a bear's head, and an eagle's head in silver or brass.

Each shank is finely carved with an engraving machine after being cast, and the animal eye is inlaid with coal spirit, amber or cat eye, just a beast head, are valuable handicrafts.

Oriental knives are even more exquisite.

If the Western swords are inlaid with gold, silver, and gemstones, full of nouveau riche atmosphere, the Eastern sword equipment is full of restrained, elegant, and subtle beauty.

The blade of the Oriental knife is usually kept in a hardwood sheath such as basswood and beech, and the handle of the knife is the same, which looks like a curved wooden stick.

The stalk sheath is all logs, usually maintained with coconut oil, and the light can be seen.

The real knife outfit is a different set.

The scabbard is covered with a layer of linen cloth made of solid wood, and then painted with ash, which is made of raw lacquer and glutinous rice flour, and is generally wrapped in more than ten layers.

After that, the outside is plastered with mortar, polished and formed, and the lacquer is started, and each upper layer must be finely polished, so that after ten or so layers, the luminous snails, abalone snails and clams that are polished as thin as paper are used to carve the petals and branches that are needed, and paste them on the scabbard with raw lacquer to form a beautiful pattern.

Then paint again, cover the raden, and then polish it, so that the raden and the lacquer layer are integrated, and a scabbard alone contains nearly 100 processes.

There is also an important decoration is the sword, the current sword, and the Tang Dynasty has a difference, into a square, round or peach heart type, basically made of iron and silver, but on the top is delicate landscapes, flowers and plants, and even seawater river dragons, down the mountain tigers, plum orchid bamboo chrysanthemum, and occasionally figures.

The color is generally black, white, gold, generally only two, exquisite bas-relief, only slightly in the finishing touch of another color, forming a subtle and elegant, never tired of the style.

The decoration of the rest of the parts, such as the handle roll and the thread, that is, the silk rope that is wound around the middle of the handle and scabbard, is also very complicated;

There are also millet and knife flutes, that is, the scabbard is fixed when the knife is tied to the waist to prevent it from slipping, and small pieces made of fixed blades and decorative horn teeth, which are no less common than a fine hairpin or ear palladium.

There is also a shark, that is, the fish skin wrapped on the handle of the knife, that kind of fish is called pearl fish, the surface of the fish skin is like a pearl inlaid on it, it is very peculiar and dazzling, called pearl scales.

Pearl squid skin happens to be a specialty of Cochin, and it has been cheap since ancient times, but it is a favorite handle material for samurai.

Such a high-quality sword, in the homes of the princes and nobles of the Great Song Dynasty, Japan, Goryeo, and Ryukyu, there are special swords to be enshrined and responsible for maintenance on weekdays.

During important ceremonies or when important guests are to be received, the sword worshipper will bathe and change clothes, ask for a sword from the storehouse, and then ritually knock off the nail on the handle of the plain wood, remove the blade, and reassemble and braided it into a richly decorated sword for the master's ceremony.

It's not something that ordinary people can afford to play at all.

The climate in Cochin is very hot, and folding fans are very popular here these days.

"Where red sandalwood, ivory, black, all eyes for the customary, but to palm bamboo, the bamboo is called the sleeve elegant thing, its face is not expensive enough, but the bone is fashionable."

Su oil generally only plays with bamboo fans.

After storing enough bamboo for more than eight years, after high temperature, fire roasting, grinding and polishing, and long-term play, the bamboo itself is as warm as jade, which is called jade bamboo.

Ordinary folding fan, the core bone of the general folding fan is a single skin, and even the folding fan used directly with bamboo meat and Su oil, the core bone is made of two pieces of jade bamboo skin relative bonding, that is to say, after opening, the folding fan bone is full of bamboo skin from both sides, this process is called "Heqing".

Now the side bone has developed to the relief, lettering, branding and other crafts, Su You only likes plain bones, and there are good Xiangfei purple cloud spots, which are also in the collection.

His folding fan is precious on the surface of the fan.

Now Su You is already a great literati, there will be a lot of letters and poems every year, he simply entrusts Cheng Sheren Printing Workshop and Su Jia Weaving and Dyeing to make a special batch of fan paper and silk every year, and send them in all directions, so that when everyone has poetry and painting, just write it on it and send it to himself.

Da Su Xiao Su, Cai Jing Mi Fu, Huang Tingjian, Qin Guan, Wang Anshi, Sima Guang, Wen Tong, Li Gonglin, Guo Xi......

Da Su and Huang Tingjian are very free and easy, and sometimes even simple greetings are written directly on the fan sent by Su You and sent back.

The calligraphy of the Song people is still meaningful, and this kind of casual calligraphy is often the best of the calligraphy of the two.

Mi Fu is a little worse, Su Shaobao silk paper is a good thing that is famous in the Song Dynasty, generally can get a little Bao gift, is to become a sign of calligraphy and painting, Mi Fu a small county order to get a little paper, use carefully, fan calligraphy on the next class.

Only once did he get drunk and scribble, and then Chengxing sent it to Su You, and after he woke up, he was half scared to death, and quickly wrote a letter to apologize.

The calligraphy Su oil is very fond of, cherished and heavily decorated, specially sent Mi Fu to twenty bottles of the best Yongchun dew, called "help health wine".

Then in the letter to Dasu, he proudly talked about this matter and called Mi Fu "Mi Brian".

Su Dazui felt that this nickname was very appropriate to Mi Fu's cursive artistic conception, and then everyone called it away.

Therefore, the folding fan process is no longer an ordinary craft of craftsmen, but a painting and calligraphy framing project.

is really a thousand words, Li Shunju is so envious that he is about to cry.

Su You only gave Li Daocheng, Li Wensheng and Yang Ying a few folding fans, on one side is the blue stone picture he painted, and on the other side is his own small poem, which pushed the wind of playing fans in Jiaozhi.

In today's spare time, Su You led Shi Wei to pick up her customized jewelry.

The Song people still have jade, but today's excellent jade production area is isolated in the north by the Tangut and Liao people.

Zhang San was fortunate to find a batch of Hetian jade in Central Asia this time, it turned out that the Eastern Silk Road was broken, but the Western Silk Road was not broken.

A large amount of jade flowed into Central Asia through the green mountains in the west of Western Xia, and from the few pieces of jade that Zhang San brought back, it seems that the style of "Xikun jade workers" has begun to form there.

This batch of jade materials is too precious, and it will also be the best carrier of the new school of jade carving in Shugong, Li Ruoyu personally grasped the project here, he managed the inner workshop, and now it is considered to be back to the old business.

Su You has little interest in these, and instead of chasing the trend, it is better to create the trend yourself.

Trends are jade.

The Song people did not like completely transparent jewelry, which was also an aesthetic tendency cultivated by thousands of years of jade culture.

Therefore, today's jadeite is not as valuable as jasper.

On the contrary, Su Yuanzhen found a solid red agate in the Erlin Department, which was still red in the Great Song Dynasty, and was worth a lot of money.

Therefore, the glass species of Zhengyang green jadeite, later generations called the dragon stone species, now there are more.

Su You customized five pairs of bracelets for Shi Wei, as well as three sets of head faces, including a series of handicrafts such as pendants, bells, pendants, and beaded shirts.

There are also some exotic ornaments such as inlaid peacock brooches and finger rings.

And he customized a set of stationery supplies, including a ruler, a lion, a pen holder, a pen holder, an inkstone, a pen lick, a wash, a series of things such as calligraphy and painting shafts.