"That's natural!"

After seeing Tang Chen's "superb" ability, Zeng Lao was 10,000 convinced of Tang Chen from then on. Even if Tang Chen pointed to a barren mountain and said, "This is a treasure land of feng shui", I'm afraid Zeng Lao would believe it without even thinking about it. Of course, Tang Chen would not do this, it was too unprofessional.

After a short time, Tang Chen had already drawn the runes on a blank piece of paper and handed it to Master Zheng.

"This is the sigil you want to carve?"

Master Zheng really hadn't carved this kind of rune, but he thought it was very novel: "Is this going to engrave Yin or Yang?"

At this time, it was Tang Chen's turn to be stunned: "English, Western, this is a rune?"

"It's not English!" Lao Guo was amused, "The so-called yang script refers to the red characters printed on a white background, also known as Zhu Wen, and the Yin text is printed in white characters on a red background." ”

Tang Chen smiled awkwardly: "So that's ......"

Master Zheng didn't laugh, he knew that many young people nowadays don't understand seals, let alone what Yin and Yang scripts are. In order to make Tang Chen better understand, he explained: "There are two types of characters on the seal, the concave one is called Yin Wen, also known as the female character, and the opposite is called Yang Wen. However, the ancient name is the opposite of the present, because the ancients called the yin and yang script according to the seal seal on the sealing mud, and the yin script presented on the sealing mud was yang on the seal, and the yang script on the sealing mud was yin. Therefore, in order to avoid misunderstanding, the Yin script is called Baiwen, and the Yang script is called Zhuwen. Some seals are mixed with white and Zhu Wen, which is called 'Zhu Baijian Wen Yin'.

Generally speaking, most of the ancient seals are white seals, the font is elegant and ancient, the gesture is strong, and the turning point should be done in one go. The white text printing font is generally fat but not lost in bloated, thin but not lost in withering, handy, wonderful in nature, the most avoid pretentiousness. Zhu Wenyin began in the Six Dynasties, prevailed in the Tang and Song dynasties, the font is elegant, the pen is exposed, but the handwriting can not be coarse, and the coarse is tacky.

Hearing you say this, this sigil is used to suppress evil spirits and drive away evil spirits, so naturally it is Zhu Wen. If it is written in plain language, I am afraid it will backfire. ”

Tang Chen understood, and hurriedly said, "This must be Zhu Wen's ......"

To be honest, he really hadn't seen any talismans carved in white script, unless the man really didn't understand anything about it. But anyone who understands Taoist culture knows that the rune is engraved in Yang, and only if the rune is stained with cinnabar and engraved on yellow paper, it will have a miraculous effect, otherwise it will only be a piece of yellow paper.

Master Zheng looked at the runes carefully and said, "This kind of rune is not difficult, but the kind of charm you drew is a bit difficult to imitate......

Zeng Lao asked a little nervously: "Master Zheng, you are the best seal carving master in Quanzhou Prefecture, if you can't even do it, who can we go to?"

Master Zheng shook his head again and again and said: "There are talented people in the country, what is my little ability? I am the first in Quanzhou Prefecture? I am afraid that I will laugh off the big teeth of the connoisseurs! Of course, I will go all out, and I can't guarantee whether it is good or not." ”

"Actually...... As long as the runes are carved out, it doesn't matter what Shen Yun is...... "Tang Chen naturally wouldn't say that he was able to reach the realm of "one stroke of aura" because he was diligent in practicing drawing runes. If ordinary people want to reach this state, they have to practice hard thousands of times, tens of thousands of times. Master Zheng is new to this kind of rune, and it is not easy to carve them all, as for other things, there is no need to force them.

"In that case, I am very confident," Master Zheng smiled...... "It's just the lion on the button, and it will take a lot of effort." ”

Zeng Lao was overjoyed: "Master Zheng, when will you be able to carve it?"

"One day...... Master Zheng didn't dare to boast about Haikou, although the woodcut seal was not difficult. But he had never taken such a sigil, and it was good to be cautious.

Tang Chen said a little unexpectedly, "Just one day?"

Master Zheng smiled: "If it is the material of jade, then of course it will not work. Chiseling copper and carving jade, the force is difficult and deep, and the process is more complicated. If the jade is a good jade stone, it is very suitable to be forced, just like the fine paper is contaminated with pen and ink, and the iron pen engraved by the seal goes, the stone chips are draped, showing the effect of natural cracking, and the traces of the lines left have the ancient and vigorous gold and stone atmosphere.

The knife method of seal carving can be roughly divided into two types: punching knife and cutting knife. The knife travels quickly, a thousand miles, much like the calligraphy in a straight stroke, can show the vigorous momentum; the knife is slower, with a short-range knife continuous cutting, step by step, just like the astringent pen in calligraphy, can show the strong condensed, thick and steady atmosphere. Sometimes the combination of the two knife techniques is more effective.

Of course, if it's made of wood, that's fine. After all, wood is not as good as copper jade, and the difficulty of carving cannot be the same. ”

Zeng Lao smiled and said: "Then you have to have this kind of wood! Master Tang said, it's best to take peach wood and jujube wood, do you have this?"

Master Zheng smiled: "Coincidentally, jujube wood is a hardwood, and it happens to be able to carve seals, so I bought a batch before, and now I haven't used it up." However, I still recommend boxwood, ginkgo wood, these two kinds of wood material elasticity is good, is the main material for wooden seals, boxwood is good carved and beautiful, both good knife and make the wood enhance toughness, carved with a thin knife cut without removing sawdust, after the knife wood grain naturally closed. It is this feature, there is no need to consider leaving a knife at the junction of the carving, even if a knife goes straight to the junction will not make the sawdust at the junction fall, it doesn't matter how the knife is made, the chapter method, it doesn't take much time. It seems that some people use sandalwood in India, but I don't think it can be done......"

This is really when I want to fall asleep, someone sent a pillow, and Boss Zeng was overjoyed: "Haha, just have jujube wood, and other wood will not come in handy!"

Tang Chen sighed and said, "It's a pity that there is too much time, otherwise the copper sigil is the best." ”

Master Zheng nodded and agreed: "Yes, copper has a strong metal texture and plasticity, is easy to preserve and maintain, and is very suitable for seals." But the seal carving, it is a bit troublesome, not to mention the extreme time-consuming, in case a knife carved wrong, you have to change a piece of copper surface and then engrave. If you're in a hurry, it's better to be wooden. When you have time, just add another copper one. ”

Lao Guo said: "This is a solution. ”

Master Zheng smiled: "There is another way......

He didn't say it explicitly, but cast his eyes to another corner of the store. In that corner, there is a machine.

"Master Zheng, don't be joking. If you want to carve by machine, why bother looking for you?" Lao Guo deserved to be mixed in the calligraphy and painting world, and soon came to his senses and said a little complainingly.

(End of chapter)