my black moonlight girlfriend

Chapter 7 I Like It

At that time, Xiao Xinwan had just come out of the studio with her grandfather, and Mr. Xin got a new batch of orpiment, a rare good thing. He was so excited that he spent several days beating and grinding in the studio. with him.

Grandma Xin changed her "work clothes" for her, washed her face and hands, and complained to Grandpa Xin, "Don't let Wanwan stay with you in the studio all the time, those things of yours are poisonous, and Wanwan is still young , don’t get poisoned by mistake.”

"It's okay, I'm watching!" Mr. Xin looked at Xiao Xinwan with satisfaction in his eyes, "Jing Ting doesn't like this job, maybe we Wanwan can become heirs!"

Grandma Xin shot him a sharp look, "Let Wanwan take over your class? With the current market conditions, can Wanwan have enough to eat when she grows up?"

After hearing this, old man Xin's face darkened.

The ancestors of the Xin family made mineral Chinese painting pigments, and it has been a difficult road ahead to pass it on to Mr. Xin's generation.

The so-called mineral pigments are naturally produced from natural ores. Of course, there are also plants and animals.

Some natural ores are very rare, distributed in deep mountains and old forests, and they are also extremely scattered.

For example, malachite is mainly distributed in Hubei and Guangdong, and is produced in the oxidation zone of deposits in the contact zone between granodiorite and Paleozoic carbonate rocks, while azurite is accompanied by malachite, which is oxidized by copper-containing sulfides. Secondary organisms;
For another example, orpiment is mainly distributed in Hunan and Yunnan, and is produced together with realgar in low-temperature hydrothermal deposits and chalcovolcanic fumaroles;

As another example, the main producing areas of cinnabar are limestone, slate and sandstone in Guizhou and Xiangxi, while muscovite mainly comes from NMG and XJ.

In recent years, Mr. Xin has traveled thousands of miles in search of mineral raw materials, and encountered danger several times, but even so, sometimes he found nothing.

After hundreds of years of mining, natural minerals are decreasing day by day. Some rare ores are hard to find anymore. The shortage of materials makes this industry increasingly difficult. In addition, the prevalence of cheap chemical raw materials has squeezed out mineral pigments. In the market, Mr. Xin no longer produces pigments on a large scale, but still sticks to the last inheritance, making some colors for gifts from friends, and some museums will come to find colors when they need them.

He also tried to force his only son, Xin Jingting, to follow him to learn color making, but not to mention the hard work, it is really not profitable. Xin Jingting has studied it seriously, but he is naturally unwilling to engage in this kind of behavior for a living.

Seeing his expression, Grandma Xin couldn't bear it anymore, and comforted him, "However, our family doesn't need Wanwan to make money to support the family. If Wanwan likes it, it's good to learn to play with you. Mineral color is not a chemical pigment after all. What can be replaced, if it is really lost, it would be a pity.”

Grandma herself is a master of traditional Chinese painting, so she naturally understands the advantages and disadvantages of colors.

Mr. Xin snorted, "People nowadays, how do they know that mineral colors are good? The map of thousands of miles of rivers and mountains, from the Song Dynasty! The green mountains are still there, undefeated for thousands of years! Dunhuang Mogao Grottoes! It has been 600 years! The colors are still so bright and beautiful! I Who doesn't say that the paints made by Huaqingtang are light and thin, and they blend immediately on paper, and the colors are bright! These ordinary people, what do they know!"

"Yes! The color you make is unmatched! I don't know yet?" Grandma Xin knew that the old man would feel aggrieved whenever the color was mentioned, so she smoothed his hair for him with a smile.

Old and young, old and young, the older and the younger, they have to be coaxed.

Xiao Xinwan had been listening to her grandparents talking, and now she found a spare time and said hurriedly, "Grandpa and grandma, I like it! I like it! I will help grandpa make colors in the future!"

　Some readers said they couldn’t understand~~ The heroine of this article is a color maker, that is, making mineral Chinese painting pigments. It is an auspicious work to pay tribute to traditional intangible cultural heritage culture, so there will be so many colors~~Update presets every day How about an 12am post?Or is it [-] o'clock in the morning?
　　
　
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