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Chapter 1795 Confidential craftsmanship, fake ones

As a native of Qilu, Chen Wenzhe naturally knew that apart from the Nanhe imitation bronze making is very good, there are also people in Qilu who do this kind of business, and they do it very well.

Chen Wenzhe also knows that the casting of antique bronze wares in Weicheng adopts a unique "vertical box foundry method".

This method needs to go through main processes such as mold making, foundry casting, flower trimming, welding, and coloring.

Mold making, including three technological processes of making mud samples, plaster samples and lead molds;
Foundry casting, the process is complicated, and the materials used are exquisite;
Finishing and finishing, processing castings with carving, chiseling, filing, grinding, light emitting, etc., so that the pattern is clear and bright, and the yin and yang are orderly;
For coloring, according to the degree and color of the original rust, the corresponding corrosive agent and color are applied, and the image is lifelike.

The surface treatment of Weicheng antique bronze wares has unique techniques such as unearthed rust, family rust, ink lacquer, mercury immersion, gold and silver thread inlay, and gilding.

Its representative works include "Changxin Palace Lantern", "Maogong Ding" and so on.

There are two kinds of antique copper casting techniques in Weicheng, imitation and reproduction.

The requirements for imitation are relatively simple, while the requirements for reproduction are higher. The characteristics and demeanor of the original must be exactly the same even as small as a spot.

Copied bronze wares are mostly used for museum exhibitions, while imitated bronze wares are mainly used for collection and artwork display.

Weicheng antique bronze ware has a strong sense of concave and convex patterns. It is completed through multiple processes, generally five steps are required.

[-]. First use clay to make bronze molds, and then make plaster molds and tin molds.

[-]. Use yellow quicksand to pull out the device.

[-]. Casting with liquid copper to make semi-finished copper parts.

Four, grinding, chisel pattern, welding.

[-]. Use traditional Chinese medicine to react with copper parts to form copper rust, and then perform manual processing in the later stage.

The production process of antique bronze ware is complicated, and the light rust color needs to be sprayed with several kinds of traditional Chinese medicine water many times.

After going through multiple processes, a complete antique bronze ware is "called" by the artists from the dust of history.

Of course, the Weicheng side is nothing, after all, it is not as famous as the Nanhe side, and they have really become bigger and stronger.

Chen Wenzhe also thought that one day, his craftsmanship could become bigger and stronger.

There is even a museum he established. If you rely solely on him to find real antiques, how much can you get?

At the very least, he would definitely not be able to obtain some very famous treasures. In this way, imitation became the only way.

As for the imitation technique, it is natural to study it carefully. After all, you have already come to Yangluo, how can you give up the antique technique here?
When he came to the museum in the village, Chen Wenzhe found that it was really special.

It can even be said that the Yanyunjian Bronze Craft Museum in Yangluo is very special.

Because all the bronzes on display in this museum are made by craftsmen themselves.

These "freshly baked" bronzes have a high degree of similarity with the unearthed cultural relics.

Some foreign museums also come here to order replicas and display them as substitutes for cultural relics.

In addition, citizens can also appreciate the "intangible cultural heritage" project of Yanyunjian bronze ware production here.

Yes, this technology, or this ancient skill, has become an "intangible cultural heritage".

Now the world knows that Yanjian Village is an ancient village famous throughout the country for making antique bronze wares.

However, many people do not know that the village has a history of more than 3000 years of making bronze wares.

As early as the Xia, Shang, and Zhou dynasties, the area around Yanjian Village was listed by the royal family as a treasure land for sacrifices, and it was also the place where bronze sacrificial vessels were fired.

Bronze jia (jiǎ) and bronze jue from Xia Dynasty, bronze tripod and bronze chariot of "Zi Shen Fu Ji" from Shang Dynasty have been unearthed nearby.

In the 20s, Yanjian Village began to study the production technology of antique bronzes, which gradually took shape in the 60s.

Today, antique bronze factories, shops and markets can be seen everywhere in Yanjian Village.

The bronze handicrafts produced in the village are sold at home and abroad, making the village known as "the first village of antique bronzes".

In 2011, the production technique of Yanyunjian bronze ware became the intangible cultural heritage of Nanhe Province.

Here, Chen Wenzhe can watch the production of bronze wares live.

If someone else is watching it, it's just watching the excitement, but if he watches it, he can learn the essence of it.

In ancient times, the bronze casting process was mainly divided into two types: the combined model method and the lost wax method.

The antique bronze wares in Yanjian Village use the traditional lost-wax method.

The entire production process is manual, and it takes 16 procedures to complete.

This time, Chen Wenzhe saw with his own eyes how others imitated bronze wares, because he followed a tour guide to a basement.

At this moment in the basement, workers are pouring melted wax oil into a bronze tripod mold to make wax models one by one.

These molds are also made by workers according to some ancient bronzes.

Next, the finished wax model is covered with thick plaster, and then sent to an earthen blast furnace to heat and grill.

After the wax mold melted and flowed out, the molten copper juice was poured into the plaster mold.

After it cools down, the outer gypsum shell is removed, and bronzes with exquisite patterns are born one by one.

Due to the long production cycle of bronze ware, which generally takes half a month to 20 days, ordinary people may only see one of the processes when they visit.

Therefore, in the exhibition hall on the second floor of the museum, each process of bronze ware production is exhibited separately, which allows all tourists to understand the production of bronze ware through them.

This point is too friendly for Chen Wenzhe.

If he can't learn something after reading it like this, then it's really a waste of time.

At this time, he was also feeling that the people here are really professional, because even some workers with little reputation can make antique bronzes enough to "disguise the real ones".

The bronze ware just out of the oven is just a rough, and it has to go through processes such as grinding, polishing, waxing, and aging before it can become a finished product.

Whether the antique bronzes look good or not depends on how old they are.

The process of making old is the most secret process of every bronze factory.

Now Chen Wenzhe sees the antique bronzes on display in the museum, all of which look like unearthed cultural relics.

And what is next to these cultural relics?It turned out to be Yang Luoshovel.

I said before that the special products here include Tang Sancai and antique bronzes, and in fact there is Yangluo shovel.

This kind of shovel here is called Yanglin Tansho. Before liberation, there were four factories in Yangluo that produced Tansho. The quality of Yanglin's production was the best, so people called it "Yanglin Tansho".

After liberation, Yangluo was designated as a national key construction city. Luoyang is also an ancient city with many underground ruins and ancient tombs. The exploration shovel produced by Yanglin Iron Industry Co., Ltd. played a huge role in drilling work.

The shovel is semi-cylindrical, with a long wooden handle on the top, and it can be drilled down by hand. It is more than 20 meters deep. It is sharp in drilling, with a large amount of soil, and it is easy to use.

It is this kind of exploration shovel that uncovered more than a thousand ancient tombs in Luoyang, and later spread it to the whole country, and even spread to the Soviet Union, Eastern Europe and Asian countries.

I'm afraid to be professional in these things, but as long as they are professional, they will definitely be able to become bigger and stronger.

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