Riding the wind of rebirth

Chapter 1497 Arriving Home

By the time of Wu Zetian, it was recorded that the big Buddha statues in the Mingtang were the big Buddha statues with ramie sticks on them. "The big one is nine hundred feet high, with a nose like a thousand dendrobium boats, and the little finger can accommodate dozens of people sitting side by side. It is painted with ramie sticks."

The pair of statues in the carriage are the city gods of the village. Because the brick carvings in the small memorial pavilion are very exquisite, they were dismantled together and prepared to be sent to the capital of Shu for restoration.

The statue itself has no value, it was thrown in because of a work error.

However, after seeing the inner tank filled with ramie, Zhou Zhi thought it was not that simple. After finding a tool to peel off part of the outer layer of clay sculpture, he found that what he expected was stuffed with dried ramie paint.

Judging from the part of the base that was peeled off, this should be a Buddha statue from the Tang Dynasty.

The Buddha was exterminated in the Tang Dynasty. Zhou Zhi estimated that some people were afraid that the Buddha statue would be destroyed, so they wrapped a mud seal around the Buddha statue and reshaped it into a crude statue of the City God. Then the villagers added clay and repaired the statue again and again, although in the end the repair was the most successful. The city god outside was ugly, but luckily it survived to this day.

"How about we peel it out? There's nothing to do in the car anyway." Liang Hong was eager to try with a knife.

"No, there is an easier way, but it can't be played in the car now."

"What method?" Zhang Lu has always been interested in these.

"The statues made with ramie dry lacquer are still lacquerware in the final analysis." Zhou Zhi said: "Lacquerware is not afraid of water. You only need to soak the mud on the outside with water, and the lacquerware inside can be exposed by itself."

"Bull in water?" Liang Hong couldn't believe it: "Do you dare to soak the cultural relics in water?"

"Blistering is a common method for protecting cultural relics." Zhou Zhi explained: "Especially for the eyeballs that came out of ancient puddles, this is almost the only way to protect them."

"For example, the famous Yunmengjian."

"Chinese lacquer is known as 'one drop for a thousand years'. When it hardens in the air, it relies on water molecules to form a complex state. Sister Hong, do you know how to speed up the solidification of lacquer water?"

"How? Bake?"

"No, paint on rainy days." Zhou Zhi said, "Or send the lacquerware to the paint room and put a water container in the paint room to ensure the humidity."

"Can it still be like this?" The characteristics of lacquer completely overturned Liang Hong's understanding. Dryness and wetness have always been a contradiction. Now there is something that "dries" faster in a wetter environment. It's too It's amazing.

"That's all." Zhang Lu took out the playing cards and said, "Come on, the three of us are just about to fight the landlord."

This gameplay doesn't exist yet. It was brought to this world by Zhou Zhi when he was bored on the road. As expected, it is as popular with friends as it was in later generations.

"Come on, come on!" Liang Hong immediately put away the knife: "Fighting Landlords is fun!"

There are no windows in the truck compartment, only a door. The door is half-opened and an iron chain is hung as a railing to allow light and ventilation.

The three of them gathered around a late Ming Dynasty Eight Immortals table made of Qinggang wood. Liang Hong and Zhang Lu sat on the mid-Qing camphor wood Taishi chairs, and Zhou Zhi sat on the marble-inlaid Begonia drum stool, and began to play Landlords in full swing. Come.

The punishment for the loser was to stick stickers on them. By the time the bus arrived at the West Railway Station, the faces of the three of them were almost covered with stickers. Yang Honghui, who came to pick up Liang Hong, was shocked when he saw this. When everyone showed their true faces again, he said: "I have been in Shu for so long, and I never knew that there is a West Railway Station in Shu."

The West Railway Station has been silent for too long. Previously, there was only a maintenance center for the front carriages and a dispatching center. The functions of the station have been completely eliminated due to the decline and transformation of the Timber Heddle Factory.

Now the place has become lively again, with a moving company and a permanent working group of the Department of History of Shu University set up to register and store things rescued by the Three Gorges Cultural Protection Bureau.

These things were all decided to keep after several screenings. The fine products from various places that are only lower than the third-level cultural relics. Zhou Zhi estimates that in ten years at most, many of them should be upgraded to the third-level or even the second-level.

But now, having demolition drawings and original photos, being able to register them, having a place to preserve them, and being able to restore them in the future is already the best treatment for them.

Zhou Zhi got off the car and went to the dispatch room to call Yuzhou. After a trip with the car, he discovered many problems.

For example, the screening of cultural relics revealed two problems with the Song Dynasty's ramie-lacquered statues. One was that the inspection was not careful and the inner tank under the statue was not found.

The second is that the car is not loaded carefully. Without these inner bladders, the statue itself is not good enough for car loading, and it ends up being loaded into the car again.

The third issue is packaging. Don’t save things that should be packed in foam wooden boxes, such as statues, Eight Immortals tables, Taishi chairs and drum stools. It is best to pack them.

For example, some old beds need to be dismantled into parts to facilitate transportation.

The dismantling and installation of old furniture is also a whole set of knowledge. The mortise and tenon structure of Chinese old furniture is extremely delicate. After it is assembled, wooden nails are wedged into several inconspicuous holes and polished smooth, and the entire set of furniture is completed. It forms a whole, extremely strong and seamless.

To disassemble it, you need to find the locations of these holes and cut out the wooden pegs, then you can break the entire set of furniture into parts like a cook untiing a cow.

This requires the guidance of an expert who is proficient in old-fashioned furniture and architecture. It is time for Mr. Wang to use his remaining energy.

We called a small truck, loaded the three statues on it, and headed to Suihuaxuan together.

Sui Huaxuan has not been idle during this period. After a holiday, the hall has been renovated.

After removing the wooden stairs, the space in the hall became much larger. However, the transparent north-south layout as a whole hall did not conform to the Feng Shui of the Hong Kong Island designers hired by Li Sange, so a new one was added in the center of the hall. The circular Feng Shui pool is filled with Feng Shui fish, and the hall is designed into two functional areas, one on the left and one on the right, in line with the meaning of Tai Chi.

The half with the glass garden on the right is turned into a leisure hall, and a corridor is designed to lead to the underground library and exhibition hall on the next floor. A built-in display window is also designed on one side of the corridor, and exquisite porcelain is also placed inside.

The part of the original large study room on the left has now been transformed into an "internal and external study room" layout. The original large study room has become a private area for the owner Zhou Zhi, while the semi-open large study room outside has become an open area.

Part of the large amount of precious wood obtained by dismantling the stairs has been turned into bookcases. The bookcases are filled with classics that were replaced from the "inner study" last week, plus a large Ming Dynasty red sandalwood case, and various The study room is well lit and is used for internal discussions and exchanges, as well as calligraphy and painting exchanges, which is excellent.

These projects have been completed for a long time, and now they can reopen to the public.

(End of this chapter)