Dad's Pastoral Life

Chapter 204
On Sunday, Cheng He was going to the provincial capital, and Jiang Yutong had already told him the address and time.

This is an annual meeting of the art circle. Some old artists in the province gather together to make an annual summary.

Such gatherings are almost common in art circles.

Cheng He dressed very formally and drove to the provincial capital.

The weather was not good, so he didn't take the children with him.The child was put at Cheng Shi's house and his mother took care of him for a day.

He drove to the provincial capital.The road is not very good, driving is a bit bumpy.

When he arrived in Nanshan City, Cheng He saw people starting to build roads.

Although they were also building roads in the twelfth lunar month and did not stop work, the progress was really slow. How long did it take?
Forget it, it's useless to complain, Cheng He slowly left Nanshan City and headed straight for the provincial capital.

The new year is coming, and there are obviously more cars of all kinds. Many people who work in other places have returned by car.Although the Spring Festival travel season has not yet arrived, there are already more cars than usual.

The more you go to the provincial capital, the more the Chinese New Year slogans become stronger. Shopping malls, supermarkets, and stores have started to put up Chinese New Year promotional slogans, and people buying new year goods are also very busy.

This is the "New Year taste" in the city, which is different from killing pigs in the village.

After driving to the hotel that Jiang Yutong mentioned, there was a parking boy at the door to park the car for him, so after he got out of the car, he directly said that he was going to participate in the art exhibition today, and the waiter would take him there.

At this time, he suddenly remembered some online novels. A certain male protagonist, a billionaire, dressed in sloppy clothes, flip flops, and with hair like a chicken coop, entered a certain star hotel.

Then he was stopped by the guard, and after being ridiculed and kicked out, the male protagonist showed a terrifying price, which made the guard stunned, and quickly slapped himself to apologize" and so on.

Cheng He smiled slightly and shook his head.

Isn't it basic etiquette to wear appropriate clothes on appropriate occasions?He obviously has a prominent status, but he has to dress like a beggar, and even slaps someone in the face when he is kicked out——

Don't know what's so cool about that.

On the eighth floor, the waiter pointed out the location of the venue to Cheng He, and then asked him to go there by himself.

At the door, Jiang Yutong just walked out.

"You're pretty punctual," she said with a smile.

Today, she wore a sky blue suspender dress, which was a dress style. Her hair was slightly tied up, and she also put on makeup, making today's venue very formal.

When she was in Peach Blossom Village, she wore shirts and jeans almost every day. Cheng He had never seen her wearing a skirt, and he didn't expect her to be so good.

He smiled and said, "The occasion is so big today, how could I not be on time. Thank you for giving me the invitation card."

Today's venue is relatively formal, and you must have an invitation card to enter.

However, Jiang Yutong is Jiang Qian's granddaughter, so asking for an extra invitation card is not a problem at all.

She smiled and said, "It's all right. For my peach wine, can I do my best?"

She said earlier that she could introduce Cheng He to Mr. Lu and the others, but she wanted some more peach wine.

Her best friends pester her for it every day!
Of course, these were all excuses for jokes, and she would not refuse Taohua Village's request, which she could do.

Peach Blossom Village is also a very fulfilling thing for her.

After all, it was her idea to bring the bamboo weaving from Taohua Village to the exhibition.And Taohua Village has made some progress now, all because of bamboo weaving.In this matter, she is very involved.

If Peach Blossom Village can go further and more people can solve some economic problems, she is naturally willing to contribute.

In fact, there is no need to do anything, just introduce him to several old artists.

She greeted Cheng He gently, and said softly, "Go, let's go in."

The art annual meeting was very formal. In addition to the works of woodcarving masters, there were also many art masters from other industries participating. Various artworks were displayed everywhere, and various calligraphy, painting and photography works were also hung on the walls.

This is really a world of art. Even people who know nothing about art, when they come to such a place, they will not consciously raise a respect for these arts.

The people who came to visit were all dressed formally, and there were quite a few people in the venue, but it was not noisy at all, and it was quiet.

These are all infected by the artistic atmosphere of the scene.

Cheng He doesn't have much research on artworks, so he can only see whether they look good or not intuitively.

As for calligraphy, Danqing, sculpture, etc., it is not clear what techniques they use, what school they belong to, what makes a certain detail stand out, etc. These are all unclear.

However, in this kind of occasion, he can feel that the reason why each work can be presented to others is the hard work of the artists all their lives.

Without a lifetime of attainments, it is impossible to have such exquisite works placed here.

The road of art is lonely and hard.Before becoming famous, you have to go through the pain of long-term neglect, hard work, and countless failures to put such an excellent work here.

Looking at this pair of paintings and a pair of words, it condenses the artist's lifelong research efforts.

The so-called 1 minute on stage, ten years off stage.Without the hard training in the audience, there will never be the glory before others.

Being in such a place, Cheng He was full of respect.

Standing beside Cheng He, Jiang Yutong would sometimes whisper something to him, introduce the author of a certain work, and introduce the author's reality.

Some authors are here today, some are not, and the works are brought to them by others.

I looked around, but those old artists were not here. Jiang Yutong said that they were in another room, probably in a meeting or discussing something.

Anyway, as a veteran, I have a responsibility to the industry, and I have to look forward to the future plan. Young artists also want to take the opportunity to learn from them.

Don't worry, anyway, today's exhibition will take one day, so take your time.

After walking around again, the door of another room opened, and a dozen or so gray-haired old men filed out, all of them looked solemn and faintly worried.

Jiang Yutong said: "See? The one wearing a slightly longer woolen coat is Mr. Lu, let's go there."

Cheng He walked over with her.

He walked up, but he didn't say a word, because these old people were still chatting quietly, it seemed that something was not going well.

When others are talking, they don't want to rush forward to interrupt them, so they stay a little further away and wait.

It's not too late to say hello to them when they're done talking.

Cheng He followed leisurely and listened to a few casual words. They were talking about an old lady named "Qin Jinmei".

He is not from the art circle, so he doesn't know who this "Qin Jinmei" is, and he doesn't know why they want to talk about her together.

Jiang Yutong saw Cheng He's confusion, pulled him aside, and whispered some general information to him.

This old lady Qin Jinmei is the inheritor of Nanpai Duixiu. She retired five or six years ago, but she still can't let go of this inheritance that is about to be broken.

So, after retirement, there was nothing to do anyway, so the old lady rented a house and set up a training class for Nanpai Duixiu.

The idea is good, but it is so difficult to implement it.

Nowadays, how many old crafts are facing the problem of inheritance, why?Because people no longer need these old crafts.

There are many old arts that have been prosperous for thousands of years, but no one cares about them until now.Because these old arts can't make money, can't bring economic benefits, so no one wants to learn it anymore.

Perhaps many people will say that some things that should be eliminated should be eliminated. This is also in line with the development of the times.

But only people in a certain industry are watching the skills they have learned since they were young apprentices. The skills that have been vigorous for thousands of years are now broken and there is no successor. That kind of heartache is beyond the reach of others. understand.

Similarly, the old lady Qin Jinmei's family didn't understand her either.

An old lady, who has worked hard all her life, has retired, so she just needs to take a good rest.Is Tai Chi bad?Is it bad to walk cats and dogs?How about learning how to trim flowers and plants?Why do you want to die with your old craft?

After a few years, she took out her coffin and rented a house, recruited apprentices, and taught techniques.Unfortunately, apprentices are still not recruited, and only a very few people follow her to learn.

Others teach apprentices at least to charge tuition fees to maintain the operation, she does not charge a cent, and pays the rent herself, and all the facilities are her own.But just like that, there are fewer and fewer apprentices learning from her.

In the past, when there were many apprentices, there were almost a hundred, but now there are less than [-] or [-] apprentices left. Even with the current ones, I don’t know how many of them can persist.

The Chinese New Year is coming soon, I'm afraid that after the Chinese New Year, there will be some who won't come.

Because learning this thing requires a lot of patience and perseverance, and the time to practice is not short, it is not a crash course.

Many people think this art is beautiful at the beginning, and want to learn it on a whim, but they can't persist after half a year at most.

Mrs. Qin was very worried that after her death, the Southern-style pile embroidery technique she knew would be burnt to ashes along with her.

When she was working in the past, a friend who opened a publishing house saw her situation and published [-] sets of tutorial books for her, "Nanpai Dui Embroidery Encyclopedia".

[-] sets—a fraction of a fraction of the millions of copies sold for some of the best-selling online novels.

But for Mrs. Qin, this is her friend's contribution for her. If the book is sold, she will definitely have to pay back the printing costs-her old friend also has a large family to live on, and the money is all It's not floating.

However, the book has not sold many copies so far.

Listed for sale on seven or eight large online stores, almost all sales are zero.

Online store consumption must also be advertised to increase popularity in order to bring sales-but the advertising fee itself is a sum of money.

I have worked so hard to write technology into a book, take pictures, add text, typesetting, and pay attention to it. All the hard work has been replaced by a pile of books that cannot be sold, and the books still occupy rented books. place.

And now that the rent is owed, whether the training class can continue next year is a problem.

Such a situation made many people feel embarrassed.

Mrs. Qin had applied for assistance from the relevant departments more than once, but she waited endlessly except for being kicked.

Cheng He was a little sad and asked, "What is Nanpai Duixiu?"

Jiang Yutong took him to a piece of art and said, "This is it."

This is an embroidery work, a quadruple painting, the four gentlemen of plum, orchid, bamboo and chrysanthemum, which is very delicately embroidered.

Cheng He was amazed, this work looked very real and vivid, as if it was not a painting, but a real living thing.

Its colors are gorgeous, distinct, lifelike, and lively.

Jiang Yutong explained softly: "When people mention Chinese embroidery craftsmanship, most people know at most the four famous embroideries. The embroidery in these small places is not well-known at all. But Dui embroidery has also experienced thousands of years of reproduction and inheritance. Five generations and It reached its peak during the Tang Dynasty.”

During the Tang Dynasty, this craft was very popular.During festivals, people use five-color colored silk to cut into flowers and bird shapes, and paste them on screens or wear them on their heads to dress up their lives.

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