My system is not decent

Chapter 1277
The "Golden and Jade Yuanmingyuan Dashui Method" consumes 60 kilograms of imported thousand-foot gold.

Also selected are 2500 South African diamonds, 1200 sapphires, Burmese, and elephant reds and sapphires.

Others include 590 pieces of natural pearls and 210 pieces of high-grade emeralds.

Finally, nearly 2500 kilograms of fine white jade were selected from [-] kilograms of Xinjiang "white jade" raw materials.

The wooden base is made of century-old Burmese pears, and a total of 1.5 tons were used.

The gemstones are inlaid exquisitely, the white jade carving is exquisite, regular and flat, and the rosewood base is designed and carved with excellent craftsmanship.

It can be said to be a unique masterpiece, and it is indeed a treasure from the Garden of Ten Thousand Gardens.

The Old Summer Palace, known as the "Garden of Ten Thousand Gardens", is the crystallization of the wisdom of the Chinese nation and a model of world garden art.

Among them, the Western Building is known as the "Oriental Versailles" in the Old Summer Palace.

In the middle of the 18th century, Emperor Qianlong ordered Italian painter Castiglione Castiglione, French missionaries Jiang Youren, Wang Zhicheng and others who served in the palace to design according to the Western European garden style, and it took decades for craftsmen to complete.

Due to the concentration of landscapes, novelty and interest, it is called "the soul in the garden", and the law of Dashui is one of them.

The "Dashui method" that people often say actually includes three landscapes: the Yuanying Terrace, the Dashui method, and the water observation method.

They complement each other and rely on each other. They are the places with the most spectacular scenes and the most noisy atmosphere in the entire Xiyanglou scenic spot.

With the theme of the Western Building in the Old Summer Palace, "Golden Jade Dashuifa", a large craft ornament, is 256 cm long, 162 cm wide and 180 cm high.

Since the Yuanmingyuan did not leave any video data in its heyday, the designers could only realize this work through various researches.

Therefore, it took only 4 years for the entire conception process, and it took 1 year to make it in the end.

The whole work uses thousands of pure gold and Hetian jade as the basic materials.

Supplemented with jewelry diamonds and Burmese rosewood base, it is refined through various techniques such as metal chisel carving, filigree inlay, and hand-carved wood carving.

This is the latest attempt to reproduce the famous cultural landscape by using traditional Chinese crafts and techniques.

The work is scaled down to a ratio of 1:38. The whole work has a regular layout, a rigorous structure, a magnificent momentum, and is rich in rhythm.

From the point of view of each part of the work, such as Dashuifa, Yuanying Terrace, Water Viewing Fa, etc., can become relatively independent works of art.

Coupled with the perfect combination of gold, jade and wood, the crystallization of Chinese and Western architectural culture in the past - the Western Building can be reproduced.

After the production was completed, the filigree carving and chisel inlaying treasure "Jinyu Dashui method" was "an unprecedented art treasure in China" after the expert appraisal.

Of course, if Chen Wenzhe had to make this kind of treasure by himself, he didn't know how long it would take!
Because it is too big and uses too many crafts.

So, it's fine for him to just learn about the technology. If he really wants to do it, he still needs to imitate the bonsai made of gold, coral, and jewelry in the Qing Palace.

Looking at the various gemstones and red corals in front of him, Chen Wenzhe smiled.

According to the information he provided, recently, Gao Qijing and the others have really loved their babies a lot.

Their men were divided into three, and a team salvaged the sunken ship at sea.

Another group went into the mountains to search for treasures, and the other was looking for the ancient tomb that Chen Wenzhe accidentally discovered.

Of course, that ancient tomb may also be a treasure cave.

Chen Wenzhe doesn't care about these things. After all, he has accumulated wealth to his current level, and he doesn't care about ordinary things at all.

Like now, he wants to make some gem bonsai, and immediately a large number of gems arrives, and that's it.

Others are realizing wealth and freedom, but he can do whatever he wants!

Grab a handful of tourmalines. This thing was salvaged from the sunken ship. It should have been plundered from the Americas by those robbers in the West.

Unexpectedly, he was finally buried in the sea, and finally fell into the hands of Chen Wenzhe.

Putting down the tourmaline, Chen Wenzhe cleared out a section of mahogany, which is the heart of the tree, and of course there are some strangely shaped roots mixed in.

Besides the first time, there are all kinds of jade and precious stones, such as jadeite, sapphire, jasper, suet white jade, and blood jade.

There are pearls, agate, lapis lazuli, and so on.

If there was something special, it was the ivory, which was all old ivory, not too big, not too fresh.

This kind of thing is a bit of a side ball.

At the beginning of making gem bonsai, Chen Wenzhe did not choose too precious materials, but chose a section of natural root carving.

This is the root of a mahogany tree, small in size but very hard.

I cut it a few times with a knife, and I feel that the root of this tree is very old.

This is the case with mahogany, which grows very slowly, so both the roots and the trunk are very hard.

This should be the root of a piece of red sandalwood, which belongs to Vietnamese and Cambodian red sandalwood. There is still a small stump left on it, and there is no hollow. If it is used as a material, some wooden hearts can be taken out.

However, Chen Wenzhe wanted to carve wood, so he naturally wouldn't take a wooden heart, since things are not big after all.

"Let's make an old Qing palace collection first!"

What Chen Wenzhe made must be a relatively famous treasure. This is a bonsai made by the Immortal Chengcha.

The overall height is 39.5 cm and the widest point is 54 cm.

It is carved in the shape of a boat made of natural wooden roots, and the bottom of the boat is supported by painted clay sculpture waves. Holes are left on the waves to insert ivory-carved lotus flowers, lotus leaves, and lotus pods.

A gilded copper pot with four sunflower petals and chiseled enamel pots is placed on the head of the pot, and a small tourmaline peach tree is planted inside.

In the middle part of Cha sits an old man carved with dyed teeth, with a long beard reaching to his chest, with one hand on his knees and the other holding a painting scroll, with a peaceful expression.

On the front of the old man's body is a cloisonné enamel disc containing grapes, and behind him is a hexagonal bottle of chiseled enamel with ivory chrysanthemums inserted in the bottle.

Copper-plated vines are wrapped around the tail of the cha, which rolls up like a dragon's tail and covers the old man. Small white jade gourds and burnt blue leaves hang down, which are delicate and lovely.

This bonsai requires mahogany root carvings, white jade, tourmaline, and animal teeth. The animal teeth here must be ivory.

If it is in the country, it must break the law, but in South Vietnam, although it also touches the law, the management is not strict.

It is really not difficult for Chen Wenzhe to make such a bonsai.

After all, such a bonsai is just an accumulation of various ornaments, and it is just a clever design.

It's like a root carving, but it's just like a boat.

There are also small gourds, lotus flowers carved from ivory, and lotus leaves.

All of these can be done step by step, and when finished, they can be integrated through the filigree inlay process.

One of the most special crafts should be tooth carving.

Among the many arts and crafts in our country, ivory carving is one with unique elegance.

Ivory belongs to organic matter, the surface is smooth and clear like jade, the texture is fine and regular, and it is easy to be knifed.

Using it to carve exquisite utensils is a combination of natural and artificial beauty.

The original ivory products were just a practical tool. Later, with the passage of time, decorative items gradually appeared and became the mainstream of ivory carving.

(End of this chapter)