Pieces of objects are glued together with natural lacquer or gaps filled, and the world's most precious gold is applied to the broken wounds, as if kissed by the sun's rays.

Deng Bin said: "The use of gold is actually an attitude. Defective things often give people a dilapidated and gloomy feeling, and in the face of defects, we should use the most upright substance in the world, the most like the light of the sun, that is, gold, such a thing as the most yang to repair the yin. It is a respect for the imperfection and an acceptance of the impermanence of life. ”

The golden thread is to restore the "injured" artifact, but in the process, the goldsmith will also be injured.

Jin Yi uses natural lacquer as a binder, and lacquer is very easy to cause skin allergies, which is what the masters say is "bitten" by lacquer.

Deng Bin said that the first time he came into contact with Jinyi, in order to prevent being bitten by paint, he wore two layers of masks and gloves, and he was unharmed. After all, the gloves felt wrong, so they boldly removed the protection.

When he completely relaxed his vigilance, he suddenly developed a rash all over his body, which was itchy and unbearable, and the doctors were helpless.

I heard a home remedy that said that crab juice can cure lacquer bites. But it was only May, where to find crabs? Deng Bin wanted "shrimp and crabs are not separated", so he bought fresh shrimp and mashed it on his body, but the weather was hot and sweltering, and the whole body smelled, and the rash still did not go away.

I had no choice but to carry it. After two or three repeated episodes, I felt better with antibodies, but my arm was left with a snakeskin-like scar.

Why is he still so determined to do it after being bitten by paint?

Deng Bin said: "If you like it, you can do it." The golden silk is very charming, and the general restoration is to cover up the defects and beautify the defects, but the gold threads calmly accept the defects, abide by the original intention of beauty in the impermanent world, and turn the defects into beauty. ”

From flawless to incomplete, and then to nirvana rebirth, it is a practice of things.

The scars that flashed with golden holy light were like eyes, quiet and silent, and they were the Yunshui Zen heart that had been trained in the years of suffering.

"What is more important than repairing artifacts is repairing people's hearts. If the object has an emotional meaning to the owner, the value is immeasurable. ”

In Deng Bin's view, every defect hides a piece of the past; Each piece of utensils carries a deep feeling.

"Some of my friends sent things to me out of the blue. I think their psychology is probably the same as seeking medical treatment, hoping that a doctor will accept it, otherwise it will be equivalent to a death sentence, so I try my best to fix it. ”

Repairing utensils is actually to repair the feelings between people and things, and to replenish people's "heart of cherishing things".

Since self-study, Deng Bin has successfully restored more than 2,000 artifacts. What impressed him the most was an ordinary supermarket bowl with the words "microwave oven only" printed on the bottom.

This bowl was worth only twenty or thirty yuan, but the owner spent dozens of times the price to repair it, and Deng Bin was very curious at that time.

Later, the owner of the bowl told Deng Bin that her parents divorced when she was a child and grew up with her father. Once when she was sick, her mother knew that she had traveled thousands of miles to take care of her, and this bowl was bought by her mother at that time. After her mother went back, she accidentally dropped the bowl and was very sad, hoping that Deng Bin could fix it.

It took several months to repair, during which the relationship between the mother and the stepfather broke down, and coincidentally, when the bowl was repaired, the mother reconciled with the stepfather. She felt that this bowl was so meaningful, giving people the surprise of a broken mirror reunion.

Always be grateful, always cherish things, even if life is impermanent, the world will be gentle to you.

Some people have always hoped that Deng Bin would artistically process the broken parts and make them into flowers, lotus leaves, butterflies and other shapes, but Deng Bin refused.

"The original intention of Jin Yi is to face up to the imperfections and face the imperfections calmly. Any change in the original appearance of the mutilation is disgusted, and the gold thread changes from 'respect' to 'whitewashing', deviating from the original intention of the gold thread, which I am not willing to do. ”

Deng Bin's repaired utensils, the broken scars are clearly visible, like calligraphy-like lines with a strong Chinese charm, or like a frightening swimming in the nine heavens, or like lightning whistling through the dark night, or like a stream trickling in the empty mountain, or like falling leaves in the autumn wind......

Such agile lines are Deng Bin's greatest kindness in the face of incompleteness. So how to grasp the priority of the line? Deng Bin said that it comes from the wisdom of the ancients.

In this era, there are so many people who insist on what they insist on, but what they are doing, maybe 99% of people, have not paid attention to.

For the title of craftsman, Deng Bin has always felt that he is not a traditional craftsman.

At that time, the Internet forum was popular, and Deng Bin named himself "Shi Weiyungen" and exchanged various interesting cultural relics at home and abroad with everyone in the forum.

One day in 2013, Deng Bin saw a golden Longquan kiln vase when he was visiting the forum, and he was fascinated by it at a glance.

It is a Japanese craft that uses gold to repair and repair defects with the most precious gold, which is intended to express the attitude of facing imperfections: to accept them without trying to hide them.

For rookies who are new to Jinji, lacquer allergy is the first difficulty.

Deng Bin, who had just started to learn Jinji, was so allergic that the skin on his arms looked like snake skin, and there are still marks on his hands.

However, the short-term fear of allergies is no match for that curiosity. The lacquer, which can "bite", has become more and more obedient in Deng Bin's hands.

After successfully repairing one piece after another, Deng Bin tried to post the photos on the Internet to communicate with everyone, but he didn't expect that this biography would make everyone remember this golden cowman.

Some people who were reluctant to lose the pieces that they were broken before finally have a way to live; Some people don't have anything to repair in their hands, and they will also send a private message to chat with Deng Bin, in case something at home is broken one day.

After that, more and more artifacts were sent to Deng Bin for repair, and his wife quit her job in order to help and followed Deng Bin to learn gold.

On the occasion of her mother's birthday, a little girl wants to repair her mother's broken bracelet as a birthday present. She found Deng Bin in turn.

In order to finish the project before his birthday, Deng Bin started a new round of overtime. The lacquer is used to make a stick, apply a thin layer on the bracelet, and then carefully stitch the two broken sections together.

Mixing different pigments with lacquer creates different colors of gold glue paint. This step is called gold glue and needs to be smooth and full of lines.

Once he entered the working state, Deng Bin sat at the table with his neck bent for several hours, although his neck would be very uncomfortable, but he only raised his head and twisted a few times before continuing to dry.

In addition to lacquer allergies, choosing the timing of gold paste is the second difficulty of gold thread. Because the crafts are self-taught, there is no historical reference. Deng Bin could only write down a lot of numbers, about the humidity and humidity, about the time it took to dry in the shade.

If there is less time, the gold dust will be eaten, and if there is more time, the gold dust will not be able to attach. To deal with this, Deng Bin could only stay in front of the cabinet all night, paying attention to the extent to which the bracelet was dry.

After a long wait, Deng Bin found the right time to put gold on it. The purpose of taking a breath on the bracelet is to increase the humidity, and then slowly and evenly apply gold dust to the top, wipe off the excess on the edges, and the bracelet is finished.

Gold silk is a kind of repair process of utensils, using lacquer as a binder, bonding the fragments, and repairing them with gold dust and gold leaf, so that the worn utensils can be rejuvenated and dazzling again.

The old and broken utensils have been golden, and above the dull and gloomy, there is an extra layer of dazzling brilliance, as if reborn.

The art of gold lacquer, which originated in China, was developed in Japan. Some people say that Japan's wabi-sabi aesthetics gave birth to a unique aesthetic craft, such as gold, which is not ugly in brokenness, but in beauty. In the midst of the devastation, the mourning of life and the sound of nature are presented tactfully, tortuous and dense.

In China, it means making the best use of things and choosing their disadvantages.

The gold thread is not only repaired, but also perfect.

During the Southern Song Dynasty, a bowl from the Longquan kiln traveled to Japan in the Edo period and was treasured as a national treasure. In the Muromachi period of Japan, the bowl was acquired by the powerful shogun Ashikaga Yoshimasa.

Ashikaga Shogun loved it very much, but because of the long time it has been circulating, there is still a crack at the bottom of the bowl. Ashikaga sent a special envoy to bring this bowl to our country, and begged the emperor of the Ming Dynasty to give another one as it was, but after visiting the folk kilns, he could not imitate such a glazed object, so he had to order the craftsman to repair the bowl with curium porcelain and bring it back to Japan.

Why did you choose such a precious metal as gold for your porcelain wedding dress? It is because of the display of "wabi-sabi aesthetics".

The original meaning of "wabi" is simple, which can be simply understood as a simple and quiet thing, and at the same time, it is also an attitude of embracing the natural cycle of life and death.

In addition to the meaning of "silence" on the surface, "silence" also has another meaning - a kind of beauty full of a sense of age revealed under the old appearance.

Therefore, spending a good moon is a universally recognized fulfillment, while the golden thread that integrates the spirit of wabi-sabi presents another attachment, representing a posture of facing incompleteness.

That is, to take care of the scars with the most expensive material in the world, to repair them carefully, not to try to cover up the wounds caused by the passage of time, but to accept the imperfections in life and treat them with great value.

Metallic process:

(1) The broken porcelain is glued together with natural lacquer or the chips are filled

(2) Leave it for a few days to dry and then polish it flat

(3) Apply gold powder or gold leaf to the lacquer for decoration

(4) Polishing is completed

The repair cycle takes about 20 days or more, so that the broken items can be restored on a good basis

Perhaps the price of a piece of porcelain is not more than Erer, but the frozen years are loved by people who love things.

When you really love this artifact, when it is scarred, how can you abandon it, but pity it. Carefully repair it with the most precious materials, so that it can be restored to its former appearance, and the broken parts will become more and more radiant.

Look at the slender golden lines stretching along the cracks, like a swimming dragon, like the caress of willows in the spring breeze, or the lightning galloping in the dark night, or the trickling of the stream in the clear mountains.

It is in contrast to a kind of impetuousness in modern people, the object is broken and abandoned as soon as possible, and the shortcomings of the lover are found to break up, and it has to be something that cannot be obtained to be called perfect.

When you love something, why bother to make it new and beautiful, and when it deals with the years and leaves a mark, you will feel that it is so beautiful when you think of the days you have spent together.

It fills the gap in the history of Chinese gold threads, so he is also known as the first person in China's gold thread restoration, and he has been involved in learning since 2003.

Walking into Zhu Mohao's studio in Jiashan County, in a space of less than 10 square meters, there are workbenches, display cabinets, toolboxes, and all kinds of old objects of different sizes such as ceramics and wood carvings. Zhu Mohao at work often stays here for a day.

Because he majored in ancient ceramics restoration in college, Zhu Mohao once followed his teacher to many cultural relics restoration sites and participated in cultural relics restoration work. This handsome guy in 94 talked about the restoration of utensils, and his eyes were full of light. "In the past, the utensils focused on practicality, and they were generally lost when they were broken, and there were not many people who really bothered to repair them." Zhu Mohao said that professional knowledge taught him that restoration is not about creation, but about repairing the old as before, restoring the original authenticity of the artifact without destroying the artifact itself.

The gold thread gave Zhu Mohao a new understanding of artifact restoration. What is Golden Thread? This is a restoration technique that uses natural lacquer as the main repair material. During his college years, the golden technique entered Zhu Mohao's attention as a course content.

"Different from curium porcelain in traditional ceramic restoration, gold threads do not need to be drilled and repaired, and will not damage the original artifact." Zhu Mohao said that there are three principles in the restoration of modern cultural relics, the principle of recognizability, reversibility, and minimal intervention, and the golden silk is the perfect interpretation of these three principles.

What's even more surprising is that through the skillful hands of the craftsmen, the cracks are covered by gorgeous real gold, and the different materials of the original artifacts complement each other, forming another unique beauty, the beauty of the mutilation.

Invisibly, the craftsman's understanding of the utensils has also been poured into the restoration, not only gold, silver, copper, lacquer art can be used as a means of decoration, can be repaired many materials, in addition to ceramics, purple sand products, can also be used for the restoration of bamboo, ivory, small pieces of wood, jade and other utensils. Created in the restoration, which made Zhu Mohao even more eager to stop the golden technique.

In Zhu Mohao's studio, surprises can be seen everywhere. Brilliant gold climbed up the body of the object, some like fine lines of flowing water, some like ink spots, and the random fragmentation of the illusion of a thousand strange forms.

The process of giving new life to an object is not easy. In Zhu Mohao's view, Jin Yi was born from lacquer art, and lacquer is the soul of Jin Yi. In the repair, the pieces are glued together with lacquer as a binder, and the lacquer is used as the base to polish properly, and then repaired with gold powder and gold leaf, so that the old and broken utensils can be rejuvenated.

Lacquering, this process alone is extremely cumbersome. The lacquer can not only be applied once, depending on the damage of the utensils, increase or decrease as appropriate, one layer on the other, dry one layer, and repeat until the satisfactory thickness is reached. Drying takes time, and the environmental impact cannot be ignored, the temperature must be maintained at 25 degrees Celsius and the humidity must be controlled at 80%.

These healed "wounds" have allowed the already lifeless artifacts to regain their souls and change their "way of living". This is probably the meaning of curium porcelain and gold thread. Take a look at the latest chapters of "Dream Claw Book House in the Great Era" and read it for free for the first time.