My identity as a collector was exposed by the village flower

Chapter 210 The Roots of 5 Yuan
In Yunwu Village, with the gathering of a large number of master carvers, someone found a strange tree root at the door of a villager's house, and bought it for [-] on the spot.

This matter caused many villagers in Yunwu Village to discuss it.

5 yuan is not a huge sum of money to the villagers of Yunwu Village.But a pile of tree roots sold for 5 yuan, and everyone had to be surprised.

"It's only [-]. Believe it or not, after being carved by others, it can immediately rise to hundreds of thousands, or even millions? In recent years, root carvings are very popular, especially large-scale root carvings." A knowledgeable tourist laughed.

Root carving takes the natural form and distorted form of tree roots as the object of artistic creation, and creates works of artistic images such as figures, animals, and utensils through conception, artistic processing, and technological processing.

As early as the Warring States Period, the art of root carving had appeared in the history of Chinese civilization.

In 1982, the root carving work of the Warring States Period "Repelling evil spirits" was unearthed in Mashan No. 300 Chu Tomb. , Full of momentum, showing that more than [-] years ago, the root carving art of the ancient Chinese working people had reached the level of natural form and ingenious combination of artificial carving.

During the Ming and Qing dynasties, root carving skills have matured.In the Ming Dynasty, there were the Jinling School represented by Pu Zhongqian, who is famous for bamboo root carving, and the Jiading School represented by Zhu He.

During the period of the Republic of China, the production and production of root art declined day by day, many artists changed their careers or changed jobs, and root carving skills were on the verge of extinction.

Two or thirty years ago, the art re-emerged.

In the past few years, large-scale root carvings have been very popular, but the roots originally used for cooking pots have come in handy. After the ingenious workmanship of carving art masters, the dead wood has become a precious lump, which can easily cost millions or tens of millions of yuan.

"It seems that holding this kind of carving festival is really beneficial to our village. The opportunities and surprises brought by outsiders are sometimes so caught off guard." Some villagers said.

At this moment, they were very grateful to Fang Xing.

They can earn so much money now, all thanks to Fang Xing.

"That's right! Things that are useless in the first place, but in the eyes of outsiders, they may be treasures."

"It made me want to dig up roots."

"Just save yourself! People have said that not all tree roots are valuable."

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Fang Xing also looked curiously at the wooden root that was purchased for 5 yuan.It was found that it was just a piece of camphor tree root, and logically speaking, it was not worth so much money.

But the shape of the root is very strange, resembling a lion's head.

He knows that a valuable root carving work must first be very sophisticated in material selection, full of inspiration and connotation in the creation process, precise production techniques, and the final effect is what determines the excellence of a work. The key to badness.

"In fact, in the past two years, root carving has cooled down a lot, not as popular as it was a few years ago." Liu Shijun said.

In the early 80s, the art of root carving was in full swing. Since such collections had the attribute of "rare things are more expensive" at that time, and each piece of root carving work can be called a unique collection, the price is naturally high. Fei, a piece of work can cost as little as a few thousand yuan, as much as tens of thousands of yuan, or even tens of thousands of yuan.

However, since root carving has been accepted by the public, coupled with the marketization of cheap root materials, the team of root art creation has become popular, and the field of creation is no longer monopolized by art masters. It seems that anyone who is interested can create something on tree roots.

The utilitarianism and mechanization of root art creation, the inferiority and commercialization of root art works have caused the value of root art works to plummet.

"The sharp drop in value is also for ordinary root carvings. For works carved by real masters, the price will only rise, not fall." Fang Xing shook his head slightly.

In the past few years, not to mention root carvings, many antiques, such as Wenwan walnuts, Wenwan gourds, various car beads, etc., have been heavily hyped and their value has soared.

When the market cools, many things drop in value.

But in fact, ordinary people only see the surface, and the real good things have never been reduced in price.

"That's true. Someone sold a root carving worth more than 1000 million yuan this year." Liu Shijun didn't refute.

Let's just talk about this tree root in front of you!After being sculpted by that engraver, it might become hundreds of thousands, or even millions.

This is the charm and value of art.

Sometimes, artificially added art is far more valuable than the material itself.

"This one, I think [-]% is going to be carved into a lion." Liu Shijun dared to vouch for it.

Root carving pays attention to "the unity of man and nature".

The so-called "harmony between man and nature" refers to the combination of the shape of the tree root and the art of artificial carving.Only when this is achieved, will the root carving be truly valuable.

In Liu Shijun's opinion, there are four points to evaluate whether a root carving work is worth money:

One is the works that can fully show the natural beauty of tree roots in various poses and with different expressions; the other is works that can fully show the beauty of scars, tumors, holes, and holes on the roots; the third is works that can fully show the author's original conception and artistic conception; A work that can fully demonstrate the artist's finishing touch and rejuvenation skills.

"Then do you know what the posture of this lion is?" Fang Xing asked with a smile.

Liu Shijun thought for a while: "Should he be lying on his stomach? It's not reasonable to stand at this height!"

"That's not necessarily true. Do you want to take a gamble?"

Liu Shijun was a little surprised: "What are you betting on?"

He felt that his guess should be correct.

Standing or squatting lions are not at this height, so I think the crouching lion is the most likely.

"I bet it is standing, and it is still looking up. If you lose, I will give you a treasure."

"What if I lose?" Liu Shijun became more interested.

He misses Fang Xing's treasures very much.If you can win one from him, if you don't say anything else, at least you have bragging rights.

"If you lose, do a good deed for the village and add some basic livelihood facilities!"

Upon hearing this, Liu Shijun agreed without saying a word on this condition.

Then, they went to the carver who bought the root, and asked him about his idea.

When the old man learned of the bet between Liu Shijun and Fang Xing, he immediately smiled and said, "Mr. Liu, you may lose. The design of this work is just as Mr. Fang thought.

Actually, you are looking in the wrong direction.You look at it horizontally, but I plan to design and carve vertically. "

"Standing upright?" Liu Shijun looked at the root of the tree again, suddenly realized, and sighed.He lost too much.If it is carved vertically, the height must be enough!

"How do you know?" He couldn't help asking Fang Xing.

The old master also looked towards Fang Xing.

"Didn't you notice? Standing the sculpture vertically can better express the look of the lion looking down on the world."

The old master nodded.

(End of this chapter)