Artists of the national tradition start from the puppet show

Chapter 60 The Sculptor's Inheritance (please collect, please recommend)

Lin Mu couldn't help being a little surprised when he saw the new task given by the system.

Let me go, 100 billion likes, why don't you go to heaven?

Fortunately, the system is very considerate and said that it is not that one video needs 100 billion likes, but that all videos add up to 100 billion likes, which is enough.

However, the number of this video cannot exceed one hundred.

In other words, every video needs at least [-] million likes.

Although it was a bit difficult, Lin Mu still agreed in his heart.

With [-] million likes, you can get the inheritance of woodcarving master Zhu Youxiao.

Ok?
Zhu Youxiao?
Lin Mu couldn't help but blinked, I'll go, isn't this the carpenter emperor of the Ming Dynasty?
Zhu Youxiao, Ming Xizong, Emperor Tianqi, reigned for seven years and was the second last emperor of the Ming Dynasty.

The emperor loved carpentry and was a master with superb carpentry skills.

The reason why Lin Mu knew about this emperor was precisely because the patriarch of the Lin family's puppet show was the carpenter emperor.

The puppet show of the Lin family has only been passed down for seven generations, but the ancestors of the first generation of the Lin family learned puppet show from a man named Ke Wei.

And this guest guard is said to be the descendant of the Hakka family, the wet nurse of Emperor Tianqi.

When Zhu Youxiao was in the palace, he specially built a stage for a puppet show, and made wooden puppets for the show himself.

At that time, one of the Ke family's nephews was proficient in puppet theater and often performed for Zhu Youxiao in the palace.

Later, after Zhu Youxiao's death, the nephew escaped from the palace, passed on the puppet show, and treated Zhu Youxiao as a patriarch.

After all, an emperor became his own family's patriarch, and it would be very face-saving to say it.

Tang Minghuang is still the patriarch of opera!

After the ancestors of the Lin family learned it, they found a new way and became the inheritance of the puppet show of the Lin family today. However, in the ancestral hall of the Lin family, there is still a portrait of Emperor Tianqi enshrined.

Don’t forget the well digger when you drink water. In the ancestral hall of the Lin family, there are not only the portraits of Emperor Tianqi, but also the master of the first generation ancestor, the ranking of the guest guard. After all, the Lin family can continue to this day, thanks to the people who gave the Lin family a iron rice bowl!

When he saw the name of Emperor Tianqi Zhu Youxiao, Lin Mu couldn't help but feel a strange feeling in his heart.

One billion likes, won the inheritance of nuclear carving master Wang Shuyuan.

Wang Shuyuan was the most famous engraving master during the Tianqi period of the Ming Dynasty. He is not only famous for his ivory carvings, but also his nuclei carvings are even more amazing.

I believe everyone still remembers an article that was learned in the junior high school Chinese textbook, "The Story of the Nuclear Boat".

This article was written by Wei Xueying, a writer of the Ming Dynasty, to describe an exquisite miniature handicraft.

And this exquisite handicraft is the boat carved by Wang Shuyuan himself out of peach pits.

Wang Shuyuan carved this walnut less than an inch long into a small boat, and carved five people, eight windows, a bamboo canopy, oars, a stove, a kettle, a hand scroll, a rosary each, couplets, inscriptions and rosaries. There are 34 engraved characters in the seal characters of the seal.

Especially the number of rosary beads on the wrist of the monk Foyin can be clearly counted, which shows how powerful Wang Shuyuan is.

Lin Mu couldn't help being moved. Although he had obtained the ability of micro-carving after starting a new profession just now, he felt that the micro-carving he had obtained was not enough for him to complete such an exquisite work.

At most, he now uses the technique of micro-carving, combined with his own calligraphy, and it is no problem to carve a poem on a grain of rice.

However, a more refined carving should be difficult to complete with my current level.

And when the number of likes reached 100 billion, he could actually get the inheritance of the jade carving master Lu Zigang.

As Lu Zigang is the most famous master of jade carving in China, if he thinks that his level of jade carving is second in the world, no one will dare to say that he is the best in the world.

In the Qing Dynasty, the jade craftsmen in Suzhou enshrined Lu Zigang as the patriarch of the industry and worshiped him.

Therefore, the entire Qing Dynasty was also the peak period for imitating Zigang jade.

By the time of Qianlong, Zigang was no longer a personal name, but a brand.

What shocked Lin Mu the most was that in the final reward, there was even the legendary Kunwu Sword.

The appearance of this knife made Lin Mu a little overjoyed.

You know, jade carving is very different from other carvings, the most important thing is the carving tools.

The main carving tool of jade carving is called mound machine, also called water stool, which is composed of platform, hemp rope, pedal, rotating shaft, wooden barrel, curved side plate, and mound tool.

It only needs one person to use two feet to pedal the plate to rotate the thallium tool, drive the corundum dipped in water, turn the hands to the jade material, and repeatedly grind it with a mound.

Camel tools are further divided into large mounds for cutting, thin mounds for engraving narrow and thin Yin lines, line mounds for shallow and wide lines, oblique mounds for carving wide lines on slopes, and flat mounds for pressing the ground with positive lines. .

The power source of such a jade treatment tool is a human foot.

However, it is recorded in "Taicang Zhou Zhi" in the Ming Dynasty: "All jade wares are sand milled. Fifty years ago, the people of the state had Lu Zigang, who carved them with knives, and they are good at today. , a piece worth fifty or sixty gold. Zigang dies, and the skills are not passed on."

Because of this section of Taicang Prefecture's state records, people in the future will know that Lu Zigang has a different method of carving jade from others, using a knife.

However, there is no record of this knife in history, and most people still think it is a rumor.

The Kunwu knife is exactly the carving knife used by Lu Zigang in the legend.

The magic of this knife is unknown to future generations.

Lin Mu's heart was beating wildly. You must know that Lu Zigang is not only a master of jade carving, but also a leader in other carving fields.

And this Kunwu knife must be extraordinary. If I can get this knife, I will become a generation of master carving masters, and it is a certainty!

Lin Mu and his uncle first sent his grandfather and father to the hotel, and then Lin Mu also returned to his rental house.

Seeing this rental house full of puppets, Lin Mu decided to buy a bigger house after a while.

Now Lin Mu can be regarded as a half-rich man. Although 500 million RMB is not enough for him to buy a house, the down payment is definitely enough.

When he was leaving just now, his grandfather and father had both expressed that they would let him develop well in the capital. It would be best if he could promote the puppet show. However, the most important thing is to teach the Peking Opera learn well!

Looking at Lin Mu who nodded earnestly, Lin Yushan also showed a kind smile. He was a little disappointed that his son could not inherit the puppet show, but he didn't expect that his son's puppet show level is now even higher than his own.

Although my son will not be able to return to his hometown and become a full-time puppeteer like himself in the future, with Lin Mu's current occupation, it will be easier to promote puppet shows!
"Okay, it's getting late, Xiaomu, go back and get some rest early, we'll be flying home tomorrow morning, so you don't need to use it!"

"Remember, study hard with Teacher Yu, and don't be fooled by foreign things. Although our family is not a rich family, we don't lack your money. Puppet shows, Beijing opera, these two things, you can't let me go. Otherwise, I'll fly over from Hu Jian and break your leg!"

In the end, Lin Yushan still used his most accustomed tone to express his father's love like a mountain!

Hearing these words, Lin Mu felt a burst of emotion in his heart.

(End of this chapter)