Olive pit, walnut, apricot pit, peach pit are all discarded things, nuclear carving can be turned into a magical handicraft, where the core or elliptical or oblate, and the pecan is the most wrinkled ridge intricate, so the shape and layout of the nuclear carving are ten times more difficult than the plane carving.

The fruit pit, in the eyes of ordinary people, is the discarded after tasting the fresh fruit, but this small fruit pit (peach pit, apricot pit, olive pit) to the hands of the miniature carver, will turn decay into magic.

In ancient times, the miniature carving craft in southern China has always been distinctive. Especially in Jiangsu and Zhejiang regions, traditional craftsmanship has always focused on exquisite and elegant, micro in the macro, between the size of the display of the world and all kinds of life of the world. Among all kinds of craftsmanship, the art of carving with fruit pits can be said to be unique in the art of Chinese craftsmanship.

During the Ming and Qing dynasties, China's large-scale sculpture art did not develop greatly, but the decorative production of small sculptures and handicrafts was vigorous and creative.

Among them, the peach pit, apricot core carving and olive core carving is a quite distinctive variety, and the conception and carving of its works have reached a very high level of craftsmanship and artistic realm, which is called "miniature carving magic skills, artistic wonders".

Ming and Qing dynasties this kind of nuclear carving of the miniature carving art can be called a must, at that time, the official eunuchs and merchants in Jiangsu and Zhejiang were popular to enjoy the bamboo, wood and tooth carving and other antique treasures, exquisite and exquisite nuclear carving artwork is one of the popular ones that people collected at that time.

It is understood that the earliest nuclear materials of the nuclear carving in the Ming Dynasty were peach pits and apricot pits, and there were no items carved with olive pits or walnut pits at that time.

According to the extant nuclear carvings, after the Ming Dynasty to the Qianlong period of the Qing Dynasty, there were nuclear carvings such as flower boats and figures carved with olive pits and walnut pits. Most of the peach and apricot carvings in the Ming Dynasty are fairy figures, evil beasts, mascots and so on.

As a pendant hanging under a clothing belt, a fan or an embroidered bag, the small nuclear carving can be used as a decoration and embellishment, and it can also be enjoyed on the one hand. Later, in the middle of the Qing Dynasty, nuclear carving items were not only used as pendant decorations and decorations, but also many olive pit and walnut pit carving handicrafts were specially designed for literati or rich children to rub and play.

If you want to do a good job, you must sharpen your tools. The nuclear eagle is no exception. Whether it is a master or a beginner, you must have a good set of tools, let's talk about nuclear carving tools.

Due to the small size of the small nucleus on the carving master's knife flexibility and vision requirements are higher, it is not easy to take and not easy to carve, and the basic ones that can be created are also the leaders in the miniature carving industry.

The olive core of the origin is a three-flowered tree on the top, and the lower tree is generally a three-flowered core! And if a tree has four flowers on it, it is generally four cores! As for the price of four flowers is so much worse than the price of three flowers, you have to consider it carefully! In addition, from the structural point of view, the four flowers are not as stable as the three flower nuclei, and the four flower nuclei are more likely to crack, and the triangular structure must be understood by everyone!

Having said so much, I also hope that everyone will look at nuclear carving reasonably, and hope that nuclear carving can develop for a long time and stably, so that everyone can understand more about nuclear carving, understand nuclear and love nuclear, and collect good nuclear carving works! You can't blindly follow the trend, look at the work in the future collection, and understand more about the charm of nuclear carving works and the soul of nuclear carving given by the carver!

If the olive pit will not be jade pulp if it is played, will you still like it?

The olive core prokaryotes themselves are the seeds of subtropical trees that grow in a coating. Now is the golden season of harvesting, the wild olives produced in each hill of Guangdong and Guangxi have some differences in density and oiliness, but the simple point is that they are all wooden structures, as long as the right way to play can play with perfect jade and pulp.

The price of black olives has been speculated by merchants year by year, and the high price of thousands of yuan a catty has discouraged us. We all know that the reason why black olives are loved is because of their high density, oiliness, strong plasticity, and jade-like changes after pulping. If he was like other ordinary wood, the carver would have long since chosen pear, red sandalwood, camphor wood, boxwood and other materials, and it was cheap and did not have the harsh carving requirements of size and thickness.

If you want to know how black olives are grown and harvested, you can take a look at the posts compiled before

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Nuclear weapons, like people, are easy to dehydrate in the north, so they can use more oil, and in the south they can be appropriately less. Playing on your own, there will be changes every day, the nucleus itself, climate, temperature differences, etc., whether the nucleus is dry or greasy on the surface, it is easy to distinguish.

Simple formula: the nuclear stem must be oiled and evenly absorbed; The surface is greasy and then kneaded, and the body temperature becomes transparent, and the slurry is already up to you! (Repeat)

If you still have doubts, you can find me, and we will share our experience and experience in the process of playing pulp.

Three. Concentration is the essence, Sumeru mustard, the core of the universe

A small fruit core, a small carving knife, only then can the micro carving skills have been passed down to this day.

Everyone should go out to travel every year, and have seen the Buddha statue of the Daxiong Treasure Hall and the relief stone murals on the mountain rock in the scenic spot, which gives people a solemn and artistic feeling.

The strong plasticity of black olives, coupled with the wonderful micro-carving skills (national intangible cultural heritage), is convenient for us to wear with us, which is the string culture under the micro-carving skills.

The production of nuclear carving is basically the same as other carving techniques, first of all, we must be good at selecting materials, because there are many varieties of black olives, they must be classified according to their size, shape and color, generally with large grains, thick cores, red colors, and fullness; Then there is the design, which needs to be conceived according to the shape of the nucleus, and the image to be carved is outlined on the nucleus; The third is to set the shape, that is, to make a blank according to the outlined pattern, that is, preliminary processing; the fourth is rough engraving, that is, the details of the whole work; The fifth is fine carving, that is, the detailed improvement of the carved works, especially the important parts such as the face and hands of the characters are adjusted to make them more vivid; Sixth, polishing the work with thick and fine sandpaper to make it smooth and delicate; The seventh is polishing, the nuclear carving works after the polishing of the cloth wheel are delicate, lubricated and full of feel.

If you carve such conventional works as Luohan head, you don't need to sketch on the core, since the beginning of Yin Genfu has formed the skill of five knives "positioning", which has been handed down to this day, that is, one knife on the nose, two knives for the eyes, two knives for the ears, the key is to be accurate under the knife. It is true that it is also a carving of Arhat head, and its image portrayal is also divided into high and low, and there is a difference between literature and wildness.

There are three types of nuclear carving tools: chisels, files, and drills. There are many kinds of chisels, such as round chisels, line chisels, flat chisels, etc., which need to be made by yourself in order to be handy.

Round chisel, the fast mouth is arc-shaped, there are sizes, the large round chisel can be used to carve the blank, the small round chisel can not only perform the function of replacing the large round chisel on the raw materials of the smaller nucleus, but also dig deeper, especially the openwork, often need to be treated with a small round chisel.

The line chisel can be used to carve fine lines, such as hair, eyelids, eye black, fine lines of folds, etc., the character is generally completed with a line chisel, and in some subtle places that need to be cleaned, the small round chisel can not be used to replace it.

It is widely used because of the flexibility of the wire chisel and the depth of engraving. The flat chisel is used to carve the surface of the block, to outline the outline of the object, and to shovel off some of the surface layers of the olive core to highlight the three-dimensional sense of the layout. The burr uses its fine steel thorns to correct the shape of the olive pit to make it round, and the drill is used to drill holes.

Suzhou nuclear carving absorbs the essence of stone carving, jade carving, wood carving, bamboo carving, miniature carving and other arts, under the premise of maintaining the shape of the core, no matter the relief, round carving, openwork are all "fine, fine, strange, ingenious" to win, showing a unique local characteristics.

Fine, fine, embodied in the nuclear carving works of the subtle process, the finishing touch is as fine as a needle, but also vivid. The carved Arhats and other characters have simple knife skills, both form and spirit, even if they are magnified dozens of times, they are still lifelike.

Strange and ingenious, embodied in the nuclear carving works have the miraculous effect of ingenuity, such as the nuclear boat, not only can show dozens of people between the subtleties, but also the doors and windows of the boat can be opened and closed freely, and its tenon is calculated by millimeters, which is incredible.

Although the size of the nuclear carving is small, but the idea is meticulous, the design is exquisite, the craftsmanship is fine, to see the big in the small, its works can be used as a neck, clothing belt, folding fan or embroidery bag pendant, if worn into a string of beads, can be used as a wrist, neck ornaments.

It was the main source of income for generations of artisans and has been passed down from generation to generation and is still true today. Today's quietly emerging nuclear carving market not only enables the inheritance of traditional Chinese skills, but also will continue to expand, showing the strong vitality of the intangible cultural heritage of the Chinese nation.

Kneading walnuts is a kind of fitness and entertainment thing for nuclear carving in the Ming and Qing dynasties, generally a pair. Choose only a circle turn type wrinkled ridge and the shell is thick and the kernel is few, and the shape of the two pecans carved on the pattern, the palm of the plate plays, "smack" sound, the people at the time as a fashionable thing. The literati bachelor sat in the courtyard, and the prince was noble

Enjoying the flowers in the backyard, playing with a pair of kneading walnuts in his hand, can not only help elegance, but also highlight the high and clear.

The Palace Museum collects more than 10 pairs of kneading walnuts, there are carved immortals to celebrate their birthdays, there are natural connections and stalks, most of them are accompanied by "Dambelle preparation", "Gong Jin" and other ink books, indicating that the princes and nobles pay tribute to the royal family, with extremely exquisite brocade box.

The last emperor Pu Yi mentioned in the book "The First Half of My Life" that the Forbidden City Palace preserves a "treasure box" of the Qianlong Emperor, in which a pair of walnuts are kneaded and carved with mythological figures.

Qianlong loved nuclear carving and other miniature carvings, and once issued an order to summon Du Shiyuan, a famous nuclear carver at that time, into the palace office. But in the batch of hand-rubbing walnuts treasured by the palace, there is no carved dragon carved pine, bamboo and plum patterns.

"Three friends of the cold year" rubbed the walnut in an irregular oval shape, purple and brown in color, bright and shiny, and the maximum diameter was less than 4 cm. The artist uses the two sides of the circle turn type wrinkle ridge to carve a pine and a plum, the pine tree is vigorous, the plum tree is ancient, and the bamboo is luxuriant in the rocks.

In the square inch, the cold plum blooms, the pine needles are clean, the green bamboo shakes the wind, and the common character of being fearless to the cold has forged their eternal "Three Friends of the Cold".

The artist skillfully uses the staggered knots and wrinkles on the walnut to apply a knife and pen, the plum petal core is clear, the pine leaf needles can be counted, the bamboo leaves are swaying, and the flower stacks and leaves can be seen in five or six layers, so it is often accompanied by poetry and picturesqueness, and the walnuts and peaches are good to rub their hands.

Walnut lines are different, carving is a very test of the carver's skills, need to be able to follow the shape, at will, because the failure rate is too high, can be completed in pairs of works are rare, "fortune treasure" is carved in pairs of walnuts, the four sides of the use of gold toad treasure, Pixiu Nacai, brocade lithium luck, wishful prayer of the traditional theme with the shape of carving, implying fortune and treasure, wealth and auspiciousness.

The second is the "garden baby play" olive core carving. The carving is 3.4 cm high, purple and brown in color, smooth and ripe. On both sides of the nucleus carved a coniferous tree and a broad-leaved tree, the green leaves are waving, and the branches are straight.

Is there a boy under the tree? Name, a child holds another child's legs to make a handstand, a child stands on the shoulders of another child is about to climb up the tree, others or squatting, or watching, or helping, childlike joy jumped under the knife and pen. Adopt relief and carving techniques, use knives to cool ropes, the shape is vivid, the layers are rich, and the atmosphere is warm.

The infant play picture is one of the most common patterns in the decorative craft of the Ming Dynasty, which is an expression mode for the people of the time to sing praises to the country and the people, but it is still rare to use it in olive core carving. Playing between the fingers, the purple and brown ruddy ancient style and ancient rhyme can be touched, and the childish voice of the playful play seems to be able to be heard, and some small abandoned cores have become a children's paradise!

The third is the "Eighteen Arhats" walnut carving. The nuclear carving is 3.6 centimeters high, pear-shaped, brown-red and oily in color, full of old spirit. The author relies on the intricate faceted facets of the hard-core wrinkled ridge back to the valley to follow the trend, and the arhats are either sitting upright, or standing on the shore with the howling wind, or clasping their palms together, or laughing heartily, with different expressions and postures. The knife is delicate, the technique is old-fashioned, the rough place outlines the strength, the subtle lines are soft, and the meaning is in hand, and the eighteen Arhats in the sea of clouds and fog are in one core.

The "Eighteen Arhats" walnut carving is hung on the waist, enjoying the play on the desk, imagining that the Arhats with the "highest fruit position" will dispel your troubles and greed for you, fight for you to have no worries about food and clothing, and let you get out of the cycle of life and death.

The fourth piece is the peach pit carving of the Qing Dynasty "Spring Palace", which is only 3 cm high, brownish-red, ripe and old.

"Spring Palace Map" peach pit carving side carved forest hut, tile ridge can be counted, the small window on the wall is bright, there is a rooster and hen under the window to touch the beak intimacy. On the other side, a naked man is carved with the same ** begging for love, eyebrows and eyes are affectionate, and his heart is lingering.

The composition layout focuses on the farmhouse, the mundane is difficult to get rid of, the hidden is not secret, and the artist must have intended to express his longing for living and working in peace and contentment. The swordsman has rounded lines, and the design is ingenious, using a variety of carving techniques at the same time.

People love to use chicken joy as a backdrop, and the most honest expression of this truth: the mystery of nature is condensed in the four words "inheritance". Therefore, it can be said that the nuclear carving is not too small, but it is a metaphor for an immortal code of nature.

The fifth piece is the "Fu Lu Shou" peach pit group carving. Fu Lu Shou three stars are no more than 2.8 cm tall, all ripe, smooth and bright, brown and red in color. Among them, the birthday star carving is the most expressive, the eyebrows and eyes are kind, the beautiful hair hangs down the chest, the spirit is strong, and the robe and dress are loose and decent.

Fuxing is fatter and bigger than Shouxing, with a thick body and a lovely smile, although the knife technique is obviously simpler and crisper than Shouxing's craftsmanship, the wealth is still pressing. Lu Xing is fat, thin, tall and short between the two stars of Fushou, and the simplicity of his knife is as simple as that of Fuxing, but the smiling face is more clear, could it be that the author wants to leave him a laughing stock when he sees money? And in the three-star only the longevity star has eyebrows and folds of clothes, and the other two stars are freehand, is it not that the knife catcher laughs at himself and has no chance with Fulu, only seeks to be indifferent in order to live a long life? On the day of Samsung's knife loss, I want to see about a hundred years, and the hard core is like ancient porcelain, and the thickness is staggered, but the lines are not cracked, adding a few old fragrances.

In the end, I don't know which one bought the "Samsung", playing in the palm of the hand is enough to be pleasant, hanging on the waist is especially nourishing, set "Fu Lu Shou" in one, although small and small, but it contains the great wish of life.