The two talked and laughed, and walked along the crowd for about twenty minutes before walking a little distance.

Tang Chen said with emotion: "I've seen traffic jams, but I really haven't seen 'people' in traffic jams, fortunately, there is no dense phobia, otherwise goosebumps will rise." ”

Zeng Lao laughed dumbly: "'Cypriot'? Master Tang, you are really humorous......

"But isn't it?Look at this team, it's been half a minute to move so much......" Tang Chen thought that he was still a relatively patient person, and now he couldn't stand it a little. Especially in densely populated places, the air seemed to become thinner, making Tang Chen's breathing a little uncomfortable. "When is it a head......

Tang Chen regretted coming here a little, he didn't expect it to be more than five o'clock in the afternoon, why was it still so lively here.

Zeng Lao was no longer surprised: "It's almost fast, just turn a corner in front of you...... There aren't many people now, and if you wait until seven or eight o'clock in the evening, it will be crowded, and you can't get by. It's not dark yet, so this alley is crowded with people...... Actually, most people come to buy souvenirs. ”

"Souvenirs?" Tang Chen was stunned for a moment, "Elder Zeng, you mean, these are tourists from other places?"

"Almost......" Zeng Lao said with a smile, "Although authentic Quanzhou people also come here to shop, they usually come in the morning, so there are fewer people, and everything is more convenient." By noon, there were so many people that it was difficult to walk. The main business in this alley is paper weaving paintings, Quanzhou carved paper and Quanzhou embroidery, which are in great demand, so it is normal for there to be many tourists. In addition, the alley is not big, so many people squeezed in, so naturally it was jammed. ”

Tang Chen asked a little curiously, "Where did this paper weaving painting and Quanzhou carved paper come from?"

Zeng Lao explained with a smile: "Let's talk about the embroidery in Quanzhou first. Quanzhou embroidery was called thorn tung embroidery in ancient times, in the Song Dynasty and Yuan Dynasty, thorn tung port is the world trade port, thorn tung satin is world-famous, thorn tung embroidery is also gradually popularized for this reason, when the monopoly embroidery shop began to appear. In the east corner of the city of Quanzhou in the Song Dynasty, there is a 'Gong embroidery shop', which is said to be the concentration of the embroidery industry. The Southern Song Dynasty moved to Quanzhou, and the imperial family concentrated in Quanzhou, which led to the prosperity of the embroidery industry in Quanzhou. Since the Song Dynasty, Quanzhou has the reputation of 'this place was called the Buddha country in ancient times', and in the Ming and Qing dynasties, the local opera was prosperous, and the demand for religious embroidery and embroidered costumes and props was large, which promoted the further development of the embroidery industry. At the end of the Qing Dynasty and the beginning of the Republic of China, there were more than 10 embroidery shops in Quanzhou area, and there were hundreds of embroiderers, and there were three or four thousand people at the most.

Quanzhou embroidery is especially famous for its golden embroidery. Jin Cang embroidery is a popular religious embroidery in Fujian and Taiwan since the Ming and Qing dynasties, using a kind of special embroidery technique in the embroidery of thorn tree; Jin Cang embroidery and the Tang Dynasty 'gold embroidery' process is the same, that is, on the bottom of the grosgrain with gold thread embroidered a variety of wonderful patterns. Because the embroidery thread is wrapped with gold leaf, it is like an onion, and the "onion" in the Quanzhou dialect has the same sound as "cang", and the folk also call it golden onion embroidery. Jin Cang embroidery is mostly used for religious supplies, mainly temple embroidery, dojo embroidery and array embroidery, such as what Buddha clothes, embroidered Buddha, umbrellas, banners, dragon python table skirts, embroidered flags and so on, in addition, costumes, festive embroidery banners and so on are also used in Jin Cang embroidery.

Jin Cang embroidery originated in the Tang Dynasty when the 'golden embroidery', according to legend, the Empress Wu Zetian of the Great Zhou Dynasty once had a meal, felt that the legs and feet of the table were exposed, extremely unsightly, so let the eunuchs who served on the side order a table skirt to decorate it. At that time, the eunuchs took a table skirt using the golden embroidery technique to cover the ugliness of the dining table, and since then this rule has been passed from the court to the people, and it has been followed to this day. ”

Tang Chen heard it and felt a little funny. It stands to reason that the capital of the Tang Dynasty was in Chang'an, and it was separated from Quanzhou by 108,000 miles.

“...... As for paper weaving paintings, they are a specialty of Yongchun. Yongchun paper weaving painting began at the end of the Sui Dynasty and the beginning of the Tang Dynasty, according to legend, during the Sui and Tang dynasties, many peach trees were planted on both sides of the Yongchun peach source, every time the spring flowers are brilliant, the peach blossoms are purple and red, the mist is light and veiled, faintly shrouded, attracting a lot of people who come to enjoy the flowers, watching the flowers in the fog, this unique scenery stimulates the creative thinking and inspiration of the artists at that time, and the paper weaving painting comes into being in this specific environment. In the Song Dynasty, paper weaving paintings were exported to various ports in Nanyang and became treasures in the cabinets of rich and noble families. In the book "Liuqing Journal" written by Tian Yixuan of the Ming Dynasty, it is recorded that among the items copied by the traitor Yan Song's family in the Ming Dynasty is a paper weaving painting. Qing dynasty Yang Fuji's "Menglan Zuobi" once had an account of 'weaving paintings in Yongchunzhou in Fujian'. Now, the Palace Museum still treasures the treasure of paper weaving during the Qianlong period of the Qing Dynasty - the twelve screens of the imperial poems of Gaozong of the Qing Dynasty. ”

Zeng Lao is worthy of being a collector of antiques, and he is open to these things. "Paper weaving painting is a hazy work of art, once with Hangzhou (hang) Zhou silk weaving painting, Suzhou (Su) Zhou silk painting, Yizhou bamboo curtain painting, known as China's four major weaving. The artistic effect is such as admiring the moon through the curtain, watching flowers in the fog, and looking at people in front of the veil, faintly. It can give people the impression of illusion and ghosting. Paper weaving painting is the interior decoration and gifts, the variety and specifications are varied, the content has people, landscapes, flowers and birds, animals, calligraphy, etc., the color is elegant, the style is fresh and generous, and it is hung in the hall and study for appreciation. ”

After a pause, Zeng Lao sighed: "Due to the difficulty of making paper weaving paintings, they have risen and fallen several times, and they are still on the verge of being lost. If it weren't for the current tourist fire, I'm afraid that paper weaving paintings would not have escaped the fate of extinction. ”

Tang Chen nodded, he didn't see the real thing, and he couldn't be sure what kind of "good" method this paper weaving painting was.

"Finally, there is the Quanzhou paper-cutting ......," Zeng Lao said, "in fact, it is a kind of paper-cutting, which is said to have begun in the Tang Dynasty and flourished in the Song Dynasty." Quanzhou (Quan) Prefecture and southern Fujian are also popular in the Spring Festival to engrave the custom of 'red note', such as 'Fu Fu' is generally pasted on the lintel of the hall door, five sheets of a hall, four inches wide, six or seven inches long, engraved with the unicorn, carp jumping dragon gate or 'Fu', 'Shou' words, decorated with ancient money patterns all around; 'Changjin' is two inches wide, six inches long, carved as magpie Dengmei, five grains and so on, generally pasted on the door lintel. This custom is a relic of the Tang and Song dynasties, and it is the profound cultural accumulation of Quanzhou Prefecture. People who come to Quanzhou to travel may not be able to afford paper weaving paintings, and they can't afford to embroider thorn trees, but they must be able to afford to carve paper in Quanzhou. ”

Tang Chen suddenly realized: "So that's the case!"

Zeng Lao smiled: "Of course, there are still people who come to buy other things, such as 'Eight Treasures Seal Clay', handmade brushes, and even Tieguanyin, Dehua porcelain, Hui'an wood carving, etc." Hmmm, we seem to be at ......."

While talking, they have come to the door of a small shop with a bit of history, and the decoration of the shop is a little quaint and unpretentious. There are two words written on it: "Bizhuang".