Jinghua Tianjiao

Chapter 105 Silk Figures: From Tomb Figurines

"What's wrong?" Wen Xin walked in, seeing that Du Juan was about to fall in love with "Concubine Yu", she asked.

"No." Du Juan shook her head, "I always feel that something is missing."

"The painting is all that's left now, and we're going to get off work in three hours. If Amina can't do it again, we can only think of other ways."

Du Juan said, "I believe in her, it will be possible. What is missing is not her painted painting. I just sketched it in my mind. Even with the painted painting to paint the facial features, it is still a lot monotonous. I always feel that the face Something less."

"How about I let Master Li come in and take a look?"

"No need." Du Juan thought about it, "What I can feel now is the emotional stuff. Although this Concubine Yu said that she holds a long sword and can bring out the vigor of the overlord Xiang Yu, she lacks something of her own. .”

Wenxin was stunned by Du Juan and said, "I don't understand what you are talking about. The creation of silk figurines still depends on you. In fact, emotions are nothing more than emotions, but silk figurines don't move. Can it be expressed in other ways?"

Du Juan was thoughtful, and felt that what Wen Xin said was somewhat reasonable, "Well, it is indeed the case, and other methods can be considered."

The time passed by every minute and every second, and it was time to get off work.There was a knock on Du Juan's office door, "Come in."

It was Amina, who painted different styles of facial features on three pieces of silk cloth. It took a lot of time just to paint the eyes, mouth, ears and nose, "Mr. one time."

The styles of Amina's paintings are indeed different, there are three types: gentle, domineering, and calm.Du Juan immediately took a fancy to the domineering piece of silk cloth, "This one is fine, it's very suitable for Concubine Yu."

"Huh—" Amuna took a deep breath, relieved, "It's finally finished."

"Thanks for your hard work, Nana." Du Juan looked at her with a smile, "I believe you will be fine, my vision is right."

Amina is no longer impetuous, but this time she is much calmer, and a little bit of guilt wells up in her heart, "It's not hard work, I'm a drag on everyone's time. I'm impatient, and it's easy to make things bad when I'm in a hurry. The worse it gets, Teacher Du forgives me."

"Everyone grows up slowly, and these are not problems."

Hearing Du Juan's words, Amina felt much better, but she finished the silk cloth with painted facial features, what should she do next?She asked curiously, "There are colorful paintings on these silk cloths, what else do we need to do next?"

"Now we have decided on this version. When we come tomorrow morning, we will use fine gauze as the basis, and we need to copy and draw again, and then directly attach it to the silk figurine's head model. That's it." Du Juan said casually to Amina A few words about the skills of silk people.

After hearing this, Amina said, "It sounds simple, but it's hard to do."

Du Juan said, "Yes, the tulle is equivalent to the skin of a silk man. When attaching it, the accuracy of the fit and the angle of the fit will be considered."

"It's like I usually put on a mask."

"You're quite thoughtful." Amina's description is perfect, and Du Juan smiled, "The only difference is that there are holes in the mask, one radish and one pit; silk figurines are different, requiring very delicate operations. Now Many workshops that mass-produce silk figurines rely on numerical control, but workshops like ours are all done by hand."

"Indeed, I can learn a lot here. Teacher Du, why don't I stay tonight and finish the rest of the work before leaving."

Amina is willing to take the initiative to work overtime, but Du Juan just wants her to have a good rest, "Come tomorrow morning, let's do it together. I just have some details. I need to think about it. You have worked hard enough during this period. Your work is everything. In the process, the most difficult in the superficial sense, how a silk figurine’s face is made will directly affect its value.”

"I understand this, Mr. Du. I also made up a little bit of knowledge about silk figurines before. The earliest silk figurines are not easy to preserve? It seems that its origin is not very good."

As soon as Amina said this, Du Juan understood what she meant. No one knew the origin of the silk people better than her. "You are right, the origin of the silk people is not very good. The earliest origin of the silk people It originated from tomb figurines, or some puppet performers, which are often used for burial or sacrifice. Later, it slowly evolved into cloth dolls. Because in terms of skills, silk figurines are based on the techniques of needle piercing and color piercing It has been developed, and this is also the original appearance of silk figurines. In the Northern Song Dynasty, there were records of cutting silk for human beings, cutting brocade for clothes, and colorful knotting human figures."

"I understand, this is from "Tokyo Menghualu"."

"Do you still know "Tokyo Menghualu"?" Du Juan really underestimated Amina. She was originally a talented person who was good at Chinese painting, but now she has entered the silk art industry, and she has mastered this knowledge so much in a short period of time. Transparent, Du Juan did not expect.

Amina said, "Of course I know. In the thousands of years of culture, the earliest record of silk people is "Tokyo Menghualu"?"

Du Juan stood up. She hadn't talked about the past of the silk man with the people around her for a long time. Amina was so talkative today, which aroused her interest, "Then you know that in "Tokyo Menghualu" , how do you describe the silk man?"

Now that I asked Amina, she shook her head, "I'm not sure about that."

"On the mountain of lights, there are colors on the mountain, golden and green, and beautiful and beautiful. On the left and right of the colorful mountain, Manjusri, Samantabhadra, cross monkeys and white elephants are tied with colorful colors. Each of them points to five waters with their hands, and their hands shake... Nana, this is "" The most wonderful record of silk people at that time in Meng Hua Lu."

Du Juan in front of her looks like a woman from the Northern Song Dynasty. Amuna listened to her reading this passage, full of poetic flavor. It seemed that there appeared in front of her eyes the red lantern hanging high and the crowded Zhuque Street. At this time, everyone held silk Baby, singing those few familiar folk songs: The little silk boy holds it in his hand, and the colorful knot Chang'e smells the jade rabbit.

"Mr. Song, you really look like you came from ancient times." Amina's words touched Du Juan's heart, but she didn't know that in her dream, she had already arrived in ancient times.

Wen Xin pushed the door open and came in, seeing Du Juan and Amuna chatting happily, Amuna was speechless when she saw Wen Xin.Wen Xin asked, "How is it, finished?"

"Well, it's finished. It looks very good. Come and take a look." Du Juan took Wenxin to the table, slowly picked up the silk cloth, and compared it in front of the silk figurine, "Look, how is it?" , Isn’t it beautiful.”

"You did it, Nana!" Wen Xin didn't know silk art, but when he looked at the silk cloth, the facial features on the silk cloth and the head model were combined into one in his mind, which was perfect. !"

Du Juan boasted, "Our Nana has made great progress, and now we are also very good at painting on silk cloth. Nana, don't be impatient when working in the future, just follow your own rhythm. Practice makes perfect. You paint more, and the speed Just lifted it up."

"Okay, thank you two teachers." Amuna relaxed and smiled, and the smile of the Lijiang girl was as sweet as the water in the Erhai Lake.

Wenxin was nympho, "My God! She looks so pretty when she smiles."

　There is affection and love among the young people; rushing towards the future and career, how can the culture of old Beijing be explained clearly by a "baby"-inheriting intangible cultural heritage, silk and silk figurines-"Jinghua Tianjiao" is wonderful, thank you everyone's reading

　　
　
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