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Chapter 1797 Antique craftsmanship has a long history

In the local area, some farmers cannot make the original models they need, so they will buy them from other farmers who have such carving skills.

Depending on the size, the price ranges from several hundred yuan.

For example, in the shop just now, a bronze ware being made, the original wax model of which was bought from other farmers.

In Yanjian Village, although there are some people who make a living by selling original wax models, more farmers still make wax models by themselves.

This is because in Yanjian Village, which has a history of making antique bronzes for many years, many people have such craftsmanship.

They will make exquisite wax models for the production of their own workshops and will not sell them publicly.

This also makes the bronze ware made by ourselves more competitive in the market.

This is one of the key points of technology, and the other is antique craftsmanship.

Rust making is the most difficult technique to master in antique bronze ware, and it is also the technique that best shows the level of craftsmanship of each family.

In this place, only a slightly larger and better company or shop can master the formula of the chemical raw materials needed to make rust.

The workers in this kind of factory don't master it, they only know how to cast bronze.

In such factories, there are often some technicians who, at most, master a part of the formula, so that they can have a helper when they are too busy.

Of course, this formula will not fall on paper, it only exists in their minds.

Similarly, in some family workshops, the transmission of craftsmanship is limited to a small range of relatives.

If the workshop is large and has been in the business for a long time, then the family members plus a few hired workers will have a total of ten people making bronze ware.

Since he was engaged in the production of bronze ware very early, he has explored many production techniques over the past few decades.

If you live in such a family, you will be more familiar with bronze crafts after you have been exposed to it since childhood.

His family bought some bronze books and saw the more distinctive shapes in them, so they imitated them.

Not only the external shape, but also more complex techniques such as silver inlays, have also been gradually explored.

With this craftsmanship, its products are relatively distinctive, and the selling price is relatively high.

Of course, relatives also teach each other.

Although the craftsmanship of these bronzes is not classified, it can also be found in many materials.

But as far as producers in family workshops are concerned, it is still difficult to master many detailed methods.

In the village, each other still keeps secrets about the craftsmanship.

Only some relatives can teach each other. Generally, friends can only give some hints at most. Whether you can master it depends on your own understanding.

Things are rare and expensive, and only a few people can make money when they master them. If there are too many people who do it, they will lower the price, but they will not make money.

Everyone in the world has the same idea on this point, they all keep it secret, and plan to imitate the bronze ware as a long-term business.

Chen Wenzhe saw these secrets very clearly.

He is more aware that the imitation of cultural relics has a long history in our thousands of years of history.

In the history of our country, there have been four upsurges of imitation of cultural relics.

The first climax occurred in the Song Dynasty. At that time, because the imperial court adopted the policy of Yanwu Xiuwen, and the official salaries were generous, a group of literati and refined scholars were born to pursue antiques.

In that era when arty style was the fashion, imitation merchants and Zhou bronzes were the main ones.

The second climax was during the Qianlong period of the Qing Dynasty, when the imitation of cultural relics focused on calligraphy and paintings of celebrities.

What can reflect the "grand occasion" at that time is that Emperor Qianlong also collected a lot of fake calligraphy and paintings at that time, and regarded them as authentic works, and made imperial pen inscriptions and postscripts.

The third climax occurred from the late Qing Dynasty to the period of the Republic of China. At that time, folk artisans copied and imitated a large number of cultural relics in various historical periods in China, reaching the level of making and imitating everything.

The fourth climax is from the 20s to the present.

With the rise of folk collections, various cultural relics imitate workshops and factories, especially in traditional historical and cultural provinces.

They have sprung up like mushrooms after rain, and the types of counterfeit cultural relics are also varied.

Moreover, there has already been a certain division of labor among some imitators, realizing the specialization and division of labor in all links of the imitation chain of cultural relics.

Nanhe is the distribution center of imitation cultural relics across the country, but in other provinces and cities, there are also markets for different types of imitation or counterfeit cultural relics.

For example, Fanjiajing near the Jingzhen Railway Station gathered pottery and porcelain vendors from all over the country.

Some of the antique porcelain kilns of the local people can even be called ceramic scientific research units in terms of equipment.

From the formula of pottery clay, clay tire extraction, porcelain molding, configuration of colored glaze, painting method and firing method, it is completely based on the scientific test data of unearthed cultural relics as the standard, and every process is strictly operated according to the standard.

It is worth noting that these kilns use firewood kilns for firing, and at least four truckloads of pine firewood are consumed for firing one kiln of porcelain, which takes more than 20 hours.

Under normal circumstances, one firewood kiln blank can only be fired into one or two pieces of porcelain.

Therefore, the cost of this high imitation is very expensive.

The selling price of "official kiln wares" in Yuan, Ming and Qing Dynasties is generally not less than 20 yuan.

In some alleys in Sichuan, you can always see paintings and calligraphy by Zhang Daqian and Xu Beihong.

Most of these are imitation paintings, and their imitation methods are also strange.

For example, use tea fumigation, that is, hang calligraphy and painting on the wall, put a cauldron full of tea in the house, boil tea on high heat, use the gas evaporated from the tea to fumigate the calligraphy and painting yellow, make the rice paper and paint brittle and deteriorate, and accelerate aging. change.

Another method is to bring snakes, insects, rats and ants to bite new paintings and calligraphy. Some people think that the paintings and calligraphy are genuine when they see the traces of being eaten by insects.

At present, high-tech means have also been applied to the imitation of cultural relics.

For example, using [-]D scanning technology, the things made can be exactly the same as the original.

Silicone rubber overmolding technology is used to make the pattern on the imitation product no different from the original one.

Although these works are a bit rigid or soulless, they are really realistic.

This time when he came to Nanhe, Chen Wenzhe really gained his knowledge and learned a lot of antique craftsmanship.

Especially for the imitation of the bronze mirror, he can be regarded as a little bit of the way now.

Compared with other bronze wares, the bronze mirrors in ancient my country have some advanced technologies that can really shock the jaws of modern people.

The mirror he came to look for this time is a treasure, and it can be regarded as the most miraculous ancient bronze mirror in the country.

This "magic mirror" of the Han Dynasty is known as the pinnacle of ancient "black technology", and it cannot be replicated so far.

It is in this kind of bronze mirror that there is likely to be some information about the Jade Seal of the Chuan Kingdom hidden. This is some clues of the Jade Seal of the Chuan Kingdom that he found, and he does not know if it is true.

Fortunately, Nanhe No. [-] Imitation Bronze Village is very famous, so he knew that a bronze mirror was unearthed here a long time ago, and it was damaged.

(End of this chapter)