God-level Golden Hand

Chapter 996 Extreme Craftsmanship
It is said that Edison was a ruthless man who only slept for about three hours a day on average, and sometimes even only slept for one hour.

Of course, that was just a legend. After all, it happened a long time ago. Only the person involved knows the truth of the matter. People nowadays can only guess from the few words that have been handed down.

But Xu Jingxing's side is different, this is a real video recording, 42 days of video are here, the whole process from beginning to end can be seen clearly, so the degree of shock is far beyond the speculation of the sages .

As a result, Xu Jingxing's place became a consultation meeting for a while, and everyone asked him how to do this, but ignored the carving itself.

No way, ordinary people spend one-third of their life’s sleep time, and spend at least seven or eight hours on the water surface out of 24 hours a day. If the sleep time can be shortened by half, then everyone’s life will have a great impact Whether it is work or entertainment, it will be more exciting, even if it is playing games, you can play for hours more than others.

In the face of such a temptation, who can not be moved?

It's just that this kind of treatment is destined to be beyond the reach of ordinary people. Even experts like Tang Long can't do it. I can't say clearly, I can only vaguely attribute it to Ruyi Gloves.

Therefore, in the face of these people's inquiries, he could only fool him by saying that he was born this way.

After tossing for a long time, these customers shifted their attention from his ultra-short sleep time to his works.

A fat middle-aged man with a huge beer belly struggled to squeeze in front of the booth, and asked while wiping his sweat, "Master Xu, what is this carving?"

The problem of beer belly also represents the problem of most customers, because for customers who are not educated enough and have no ability to appreciate sculptures, the content of sculptures is really not easy to distinguish.You must know that because wood carving or jade carving works are limited by their materials, it is impossible for the specific content of the work to be as vivid as calligraphy and painting. A color, which greatly increases the difficulty of identification of such works.

If you come across some relatively out-of-the-ordinary subjects, it can really stump most appreciators.

Although the themes selected for this group of sculptures carved by Xu Jingxing are not very popular, and even the protagonist on the sculptures is known to everyone in China, and has a certain reputation abroad, but the details about this protagonist The plot of the story is beyond the scope of ordinary people's knowledge reserves.

So, who is this protagonist?
It was none other than the famous Lu Dongbin.

There is no need to say much about Lu Dongbin. Even an illiterate old man can tell a lot of stories about this name, but this name mostly appears in the legend of "Eight Immortals Crossing the Sea" with other seven immortals. On the contrary, the number of times is relatively small, and the story of "Lu Dongbin's three operas with white peony" has been widely spread.

But in fact, Lu Dongbin has a lot of content in both Taoist legends and historical records. According to historical records, he was not only a Jinshi in the first year of Tang Baoli, but also a magistrate with a good reputation. The situation was not good, so he hung his seal and left to practice Taoism.

Of course, just look at the historical records. After all, no one can tell what happened thousands of years ago. What's more, Lu Dongbin's presence in Taoist culture is much stronger than his presence in historical records. About Lu Dongbin There are also countless stories, such as the legend of the white crane entrusting the birth, the fire dragon passing the sword, Luofu's visit to the immortal, Huang Liang's dream, Du Liu Haichan and Chen Xiyi, Zai Lu Zhaoxiang, and the white peony of the Three Plays.

It’s just that these stories and legends are not very famous compared with the series of “Eight Immortals Crossing the Sea”. Ordinary people hardly know it, and even some educated people can hardly tell it completely and correctly. There are too many, and few people in the field of sculpture will use these short stories as themes. Compared with these short stories, sculpture creators prefer combined themes such as "Eight Immortals Crossing the Sea". After all, the name is louder and the recognition is higher. higher.

A short story based on a single Lu Dongbin is indeed not very conspicuous in the vast Taoist culture, and it is not surprising that ordinary people cannot identify it.

But Xu Jingxing did it anyway, presenting the short stories related to Lu Dongbin in the form of carvings in front of everyone. The picture facing everyone was the little story "White Crane's Rebirth". Although the story was small, the picture was full of It is full of fairy spirit, a white crane flying into the tent and its dense breath make people know that this is a Taoist story at a glance, and the white crane is particularly vividly carved by him, and the movements, postures and shapes don’t need much Said that the smart, intelligent and anthropomorphic eyes are the ultimate expression of strength.

Standing on the opposite side of the sculpture, the white crane even has a feeling that it will fly out of the sculpture at any time.

In order to achieve this goal, he not only adopted conventional openwork carving techniques, but also borrowed some creative concepts from Dongyang woodcarving, and added a certain amount of inlay carving and decal carving techniques, which made the whole picture have a strong sense of layering and changes. There are so many of them. The white crane alone is divided into ten layers. Almost a layer of feathers is a layer of picture. After layer upon layer, the current picture is formed. The thinnest layer is only about half a millimeter thick. , can almost transmit light, you know, it is rosewood.

Rosewood can be so thin as to transmit light, you can imagine how thin it is.

Moreover, red sandalwood is a hardwood. To carve out the lightness, softness and changeable feeling of hardwood is really not something that anyone can do.

But in his hands, such a technique seems to be simple and insignificant. Most of the sculptures are formed at one time, and there are as many as 100 pieces in the whole group of carvings that use this extreme technique.

When such a large number of components with superb skills are combined into a giant with a length of more than five meters and a height of more than four meters, the visual impact brought to people is conceivable. No wonder these customers and the previous ones All colleagues were amazed, in fact, his work is really extraordinary.

Although the vast majority of customers do not know what is carved on this sculpture, they have already been shocked by the techniques presented by the sculpture.

After he explained the subject matter and content of the carving, the fat general couldn't wait to shout: "Master Xu, I want this carving."

(End of this chapter)