Under the warm hospitality of the vice president, Li Yi and the others did not leave until more than ten o'clock in the evening.

Through the vice president, Li Yi ordered dozens of dark-striped puffer fish as ingredients for the next episode.

Originally, Li Yi planned to rush to Taizhou tonight.

But it was too late, and after communicating with the program team, everyone decided to rest in Yangzhong for one night and set off early tomorrow morning.

Yangzhong is not large, so the hotels are also relatively concentrated.

After the program team booked the hotel, the group got in the car and rushed to the hotel.

The hotel is located on Cuizhu South Road, the name is Wenhua Garden, and it is a new hotel that has been opened for a few years.

After arriving at the hotel, the staff took everyone's ID cards to check in.

Taking advantage of the time to open the room, Li Yi took a tour of the hotel lobby.

The decoration of this hotel is very stylish, quite traditional charm, the overall design is obviously borrowed from the characteristics of traditional bamboo houses, the style is elegant and elegant, there is a combination of ancient and modern beauty.

But what attracted Li Yi was not the decoration of the hotel, but the several bamboo paintings hanging on the walls of the hotel.

There are several calligraphy works and landscape paintings woven with bamboo silk, and the craftsmanship is quite exquisite.

Liu Yifei and Zhao Jinmai were also waiting for the staff to check in, and when they saw Li Yi admiring the paintings, they also followed them to the front.

Looking at the fly-headed Xiaokai in the photo frame, Zhao Jinmai was curious: "In the ninth year of Yonghe, the age is ugly, at the beginning of twilight, it will be in the Lanting of Huiji Shanyin, isn't this the preface of the Lanting Collection?" ”

Liu Yifei looked at the photo frame and asked curiously: "Is there anything special about this pair?" ”

"It's not that the words are special, it's the paper that is special."

Li Yi pointed to the empty space next to the text and explained: "This is made of bamboo silk." ”

"Huh?"

When Zhao Jinmai heard this, he was taken aback, hurriedly approached, looked carefully, and found that this seemingly white and flawless paper was actually woven from bamboo wires.

"Really!"

She exclaimed: "It's so densely knitted! I didn't even see it just now. ”

Liu Yifei also took a closer look, and also found the fineness of the bamboo paper, and was surprised and admired: "Such a thin bamboo silk? How? ”

"It should be a machine, right?"

Zhao Jinmai said casually: "It's like a loom, weaving layer by layer." ”

"How can there be a machine for weaving bamboo?"

Li Yi smiled: "The machine is indeed very powerful, but some work machines are difficult to replace, just like bamboo weaving, the limitation of raw materials is a big problem."

The loom needs a very long and uniform thread to weave, but bamboo silk is a pure natural material, a bamboo, at most more than ten meters long, can not be used for weaving. ”

Zhao Jinmai thought for a while, shook his head and said: "The machine can still be replaced, I have a classmate who is studying mechanical design, he said that what people can do, machinery can do it all, even better than people, but it is not worth designing machines to do." ”

Li Yi nodded: "That's true, but this is going to involve the cost, the cost of mechanical design is very high, and the cost of developing materials similar to bamboo silk is even higher."

People can make progress independently through learning, produce creativity, bamboo silk can also be seen everywhere, can be used flexibly, increase and decrease, these are difficult to do with machines, even if they can be done, but the cost will be unimaginably high. ”

Hearing his words, Liu Yifei on the side nodded approvingly: "Creativity is the only advantage of human beings over machines. ”

Zhao Jinmai shrugged his shoulders and said with a smile: "Anyway, I think AI will replace humans sooner or later." ”

"We don't think we can see that day."

Li Yi smiled: "But in order to be replaced by AI later, we had better be more creative." ”

Listening to their conversation, Liu Yifei said with a smile on the side: "We can talk about AI from bamboo weaving, and there is no one." ”

While talking, the staff had already helped them check in and sent their ID cards and room cards.

Li Yi took the room card and instructed the staff: "Please call the hotel manager, I'll ask something." ”

Soon, the hotel manager came to the front and politely asked, "Sir, what can I do to help you?" ”

Li Yi pointed to the bamboo paintings on the wall and asked, "Where did you buy these bamboo weaving works?" ”

The hotel manager looked at the bamboo painting and explained with a smile: "This is the work of Mr. Geng Yuexin, he is the inheritor of the intangible cultural heritage of our Yangzhong bamboo weaving, and our boss likes his works very much, so he collected a few pieces and put them in the hotel." ”

As she spoke, she pointed to a few works on the wall and introduced them one by one: "This Lanting collection preface was collected by our boss for 150,000 yuan, this Lushan map cost 600,000 yuan, and the spring picture is 400,000 yuan." ”

Listening to her introduction, Zhao Jinmai's eyes couldn't help but widen: "These pictures are almost a million?" ”

"It's not expensive."

The hotel manager smiled: "These are just a few small works, and our boss said that Mr. Geng still has some big works in his hands, and even he can't afford them." ”

"Mom!"

Zhao Jinmai was speechless: "Are these bamboo paintings so expensive?" It shouldn't be that hard, right? ”

"It's hard."

Li Yi spoke, he pointed to the words on the bamboo paintings and the ink marks of the landscape paintings, and asked, "How do you think these bamboo paintings and calligraphy are made?" ”

Zhao Jinmai was stunned for a moment, and then said: "Isn't it just to weave the bamboo paper and draw it?" Even if the bamboo wire is a little thinner, it's not that difficult to weave, right? ”

Li Yi shook his head and said with a smile: "If you say so, then this bamboo painting can't be sold at such a high price." ”

As he spoke, he clicked on the blank space of the bamboo paper and explained: "The bamboo paper made of such fine bamboo silk already has a certain degree of hydrophobicity and oleophobicity, even if you pour water on it, it may not get wet." ”

"Won't it?"

Zhao Jinmai was a little unconvinced: "There are gaps between the bamboo silks!" ”

As soon as Li Yi wanted to speak, Liu Yifei on the side said: "Is it because of the tension on the water?" ”

"That's right."

Li Yi smiled and nodded: "Even if it is a filter, as long as the mesh number is high enough, it can ensure that there is no leakage, let alone such a thin bamboo silk paper?"

If you want to separate such a thin bamboo thread, you must use cooked bamboo, which must be roasted to dry the water in the green bamboo.

After the water in the bamboo silk is dried, it will form a film on the surface, and the water will not be retained when splashed, and the same is true for the ink.

Therefore, you just said that it is impossible to weave the bamboo paper first, and then write and paint on it, because you can't keep the ink, and after a while, the ink will fall off, and it will be difficult to keep it for too long. ”

Zhao Jinmai didn't seem to understand, and then asked: "Then how do these calligraphy and paintings come out?" ”

Li Yi looked at the bamboo calligraphy and paintings in the photo frame, and explained softly: "It is to dye a part of the bamboo silk first, and then weave it through a specific technique, and weave it little by little. ”

"Huh?"

Zhao Jinmai was taken aback: "Make it up? Really? I thought some special ink was used. ”

"There's no special ink, it's just pure craftsmanship."

Li Yi said with a smile: "The calligraphy and paintings made of this kind of dyed bamboo silk can be preserved for at least a hundred years as long as they can ensure moisture-proof." ”

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(End of chapter)