My system is not decent

Chapter 1906

Although the ancient trees grown in the harsh environment are dead and lifeless, when you see them, you will still sigh the magic of life.

As a gift from nature to us, many root carving works are hard to come by.

Root carving is the art of subtraction, trimming and trimming according to the natural form of raw materials, without any extra decoration.

In the process of simplifying, it becomes an ideal work in the end, and during this period, there will be no room for regret.

Therefore, the formation of each root carving is a small miracle.

And good raw materials are the foundation of root carving.

Obviously, Inner Mongolia produces good raw materials.

So what kind of material is good?The most attractive thing about root art is its natural shape, which is definitely its characteristic.

Therefore, this is the essence of a root carving.

If there is no excellent root material that is naturally formed, it is impossible to make good root art works.

It is not easy for these root carving artists to find root materials.

Just like the boss in front of Chen Wenzhe, when he was in Inner Mongolia, he set off at 5 o'clock in the morning almost every day, took a water bottle, carried dry food on his back, and plunged into the vast grassland with one person and one motorcycle.

In the past 30 years, he has traveled to almost every corner of the Tumed and Urad grasslands.

It can be said that he traveled to every valley in Urad.

But the process of finding the ideal root material is very difficult, and it is often rare to meet a hundred trees, and it is rare to have a thousand roots.

With one in hand, you can see thousands of things, examine them repeatedly, and judge the situation according to the situation on the basis of protecting and not damaging nature.

Afterwards, it is very cautious to add, adjust and delete a little, to seek the artistic conception in the likeness and non-likeness, and to find the vividness in the knots, scars, and tumors of the roots. This is the root of the root art value.

Such a hard-to-form root carving is not expensive.

The price of good root carving products is only about 2000 yuan.

The price of root carving mainly depends on the quality of the tree roots, and the quality, shape, color, grain and meaning of the root materials are also important.

The first is quality. In today's society, people are pursuing high-grade, fine wood, such as mahogany (chrysanthemum pear, red sandalwood, red rosewood, etc.), golden nan
The dense and hard miscellaneous wood in the mountains and mountains, the high-quality materials themselves are expensive.

Then there is the shape, the tree roots with good shape, thin, leaky and wrinkled, all kinds of strange things, uncanny workmanship, very popular!
After that is the color, the color of the roots is divided into yellow, white, red, black, very beautiful, giving people a beautiful enjoyment!

If there is a good pattern, it will be even better. Generally, the wood grain has grimace pattern, landscape pattern, tiger skin pattern, water ripple, which is naturally beautiful!
The last is meaning, a good root art tree, like a landscape, like a person, like an animal, with a little carving, it can become an immortal work!

Of course, immortal works are rare, but generally root carvings still use pictographs and ideograms, and many unscrupulous merchants will use ideograms to fool people.

These are some ordinary root carvings, but there are some good root carvings at a high price.

Chen Wenzhe knew that a root carving was worth 600 million yuan. Of course, this is definitely not the highest one. Root carving works with tens of millions of pieces are actually not uncommon.

Recently, root carving has gradually stepped out of the incubation period of the previous years, and has begun to be sought after by a group of root carving enthusiasts, and the price has also begun to rise.

From the current point of view, the market price of root carvings has not yet shown a sharp rise, and its price has been rising steadily.

So at this stage, it should be the best time to collect root carvings.

The collection value of root carvings lies in a strange character.

In the 80s, a piece of root carving art could reach a price of 30 yuan.

In the early 80s, root carving art was at its most popular.

Because root carving artworks were rare at that time, and each root carving work had its own unique shape, the price was generally high.

At that time, the price ranged from a few thousand yuan to several 10 yuan.

At the beginning of 1998, a root carving artwork named "Eight Immortals Crossing the Sea" in Dahai was sold for 30 yuan.

After the 80s, root art creation became popular, and anyone who is interested in root carving can create it by himself. The number of root carving works has increased greatly, and the quality is generally not high.

For these reasons, the value of root carving works has plummeted.

The "root carving fever" is gradually cooling down, and the root carving market has entered an incubation period.

In recent years, the root carving market has become increasingly hot, and the prospect of appreciation has become extremely good.

For example, the number of root carving collections in antique markets across my country began to increase, and root carvings also began to attract the attention of some collectors, and even entered the auction market, and their prices rose steadily.

Root carvings that used to cost a few hundred yuan can now be sold for 8000 yuan. The prospect of appreciation is excellent, and the investment risk is small.

In April 2004, the "Century Elephant" giant root carving was successfully auctioned at a high price of 4 yuan;

In May 2007, the large-scale root carving work "Chinese Roots" made a high-profile appearance at the fair with a sky-high price of 5 million yuan;
In April 2011, the giant root-carved lion "King of the Forest" carved from golden camphor wood was sold at a high price of 4 million yuan at an exhibition in Xi'an.

Until now, root carving has increased by more than 40% every year.

Because in the future, the raw materials for root carving will continue to decrease.

Therefore, some good-looking and unique raw materials are even more rare.

Therefore, the market price of root carving will definitely continue to rise.

So, which root carvings have the greatest appreciation potential?
Root carvings with old roots and strange shapes are of high collection value.

Some root carving works with stories and history also have very high collection value.

Using a thousand-year-old fine-leaved red camphor wood root as the raw material, the camphor wood root carving created on the basis of "Along the River During the Qingming Festival" is worth as much as 600 million.

When choosing root carving works, we should start from the whole and beware of root carving products with many artificial components.

In recent years, there are more and more root carving products with less natural ingredients and more artificial ingredients.

But in fact, a large part of the collection value of a root carving work depends on the prototype of the tree root.

Therefore, when purchasing root carving works, you should start from the whole, try to buy original root carving works, and beware of root carving products with many artificial components.

Therefore, the value of root carving depends first on the artistic shape and then on the material.

Without good materials, high-priced works cannot be produced.

However, if there is a market, there will be hype, especially in recent years, garlic, onion, ginger, and coriander can all be hyped, let alone root carving.

Rotten roots and broken branches flow with the water, and the glory of life ends here.

Fortunately, I met a pity and a foolish carver, and the ancient wood will be born again in spring.

In just four sentences, the sculptor's transformation of decay into magic is vividly displayed.

In today's ever-changing era, traditional industries seem to have been forgotten by people, and inheritors who can persist in old craftsmanship are even rarer.

Fortunately, woodcarving skills were included in the national intangible cultural heritage list in 2008.

In this way, woodcarving has returned to the public's field of vision, and some woodcarving works have regained their vitality and are appreciated by people.

(End of this chapter)