Thousands of years

Chapter 35
"Hold on steady, and be careful of the bumps on the road. If it falls and gets soiled, it will be even more difficult to clean up." Although the sixth sister is already calm enough, when she is here as a master, she still has to give some instructions.

In the past few days of the Dragon Boat Festival, there are a lot of people who buy clothes to make new clothes. At this time, it is just right to start making clothes.

Therefore, Mrs. Li's shop sells all the dyed sura, and now they are rushing to the river to refine the sura, remove the impurities in it, and make the material soft and more shiny.

"Master!" Leaning the Jiangzhou car in her hand to the side, the sixth sister moved a little faster than her words.

The master just reminded his disciples, but he didn't pay attention to what was going on under his feet. The cart with barrels of natural dyes in his hand almost overturned.

If it wasn't for Sixth Sister's quick reaction, subconsciously helping her in time to make Master stabilize her figure, the indigo dye might splash and melt together.

Seeing her apprentice looking at her nervously, Mrs. Li was moved in her heart: "Master is not as careful as you are, but always nagging with you..."

After this encounter, Mrs. Li and the sixth sister stepped a little more carefully - although a fall would not cause any serious problems.But if the Sora is dirty, or if the dye is mixed, that's really important.

It's not that Mrs. Li doesn't know how to pay attention, sometimes it's because she's too nervous that something goes wrong.Fortunately, there was no major impact at the moment, so the master and apprentice continued to push the things on the cart to the bank of the Tiesha River.

"Oh, Tiesha River." An Ji heard about this Tiesha River from several uncles and aunts. They were all dyed here in the past. Now that the country advocates 'sustainable development', the factory has also changed the dyeing method accordingly.

In the Southern Song Dynasty, there were no chemical dyes. If natural dyes were used, the impact on the river would not be that great, but it would definitely cause a lot of trouble.

It's a pity that the extraction methods of many colors have been turned into dust in the thick soil with thousands of years of history, and even the pigments of those rock paintings have to go to other Asian countries to learn.

An Ji couldn't imagine that if the skills of dyeing, flowering Luo, Shuluo, and Zhijinluo could be restored one by one, if the thousands of years of inheritance of various ethnic groups could be gathered together... that would be the most capable of writing The author is indescribably proud!
It's a pity that all of this is An Ji's own imagination. To really realize it, it needs the selflessness of the guardian, the fearlessness of the inheritor, and the elimination of ignorance of the misunderstanding of cultural values.

There is a long way to go, and the road ahead is long, and those who have paid for it may face the same confusion as in "Rain Lane" where they are still stuck in the same place.

Maybe you will encounter setbacks and helplessness like Mrs. Li, or even malicious competition and market impact.But the road is at your feet, even if the fog is three thousand thick, with the soul of culture as the foundation and the spirit of perseverance as the star, you can still move forward.

Recalling that when I was writing my thesis, I checked a lot of information, but I still didn't have a definite guess about what kind of grand scene the Tiesha River would be in those years, so Li Anji just read along.

There is no rubbing of clothes, refining and dyeing, and the sun sets on the Qingjiang River in the dynasty.Chixia does not reflect the beauty of thousands of mountains, but it is one foot long at the point of Suluo.The Sixth Sister of the An family and the master are not the only ones by the Tiesha River, all the Zhiluo families in Lin'an City will come here to take care of the last two steps.

When the colorful dyes just entered the Tiesha River, it was as if the colorful clouds in the sky were caught into the river. They only waited for the intersection, but they made the Tiesha River so turbid that the green mountains and red clouds didn't even have the intention to fall into the waves.

In the end, even the shattered golden halo was picked up by Su Luo, making the refined and dyed Luo piled full of light and color, no wonder she wore a robe with a three-point moonlight...

It's a pity that most of the weaving people can't afford to wear it. Now they are all dressed in coarse clothes, which are stained with dye.

　①Refer to "Hangluo Weaving Technique" for refining and dyeing steps.

　　②Jiangzhou cart is a single-person cart, which was indeed used in the Song Dynasty.

　　
　
(End of this chapter)