Live broadcast: My courtyard is a treasure chest

"You mean, this is lacquerware?" To this day, Zhang Ruixuan has to admit that these craftsmen are really capable.

Although I am a bit blind, but if you didn’t put this bottle here and take it out specifically to talk about it, who would have known that it was actually made of lacquerware?

Looking at Sister Tang's proud eyes in the museum, Zhang Ruixuan still raised his own doubts even though he was unwilling to offend others: "But is this thing useful?"

"Or does it exist just for the sake of existence? To show superb skills?"

Zhang Ruixuan didn't understand. It was like eating mooncakes on the Mooncake Festival or eating rice dumplings on the Dragon Boat Festival. You said that a few decades ago, everyone couldn’t afford anything. Who can’t afford these things now?

Take these mooncakes for example. When I was a freshman at school, I was given three pieces of mooncakes each. Zhang’s parents and Zhang’s mother’s workplace also gave one box to each other. You gave it to me, I gave it to you, and finally I bought it at home. The kind that goes around and is sent back... The family was so stunned that they barely finished it until the next year's Qingming Festival.

At this time, you don’t want ham mooncakes, flower mooncakes, green and red silk, and five kernels, not to mention all kinds of strange fillings. One more bite of mooncakes is considered a burden. Who doesn’t like to eat them?

"This kind of work has collection value first, and the aesthetic enjoyment it can provide us is one of its values." Sister Tang can understand what Zhang Ruixuan means.

Once upon a time, when there were no sales and no successors to inherit the skills, Sister Tang never doubted whether what she was doing had any practical significance - or was it simply a useless effort to preserve a 'culture'?

However, utensils made of natural lacquer are durable and will not cause harm to the human body and nature caused by plastic. Although plastics can achieve similar results at a lower cost, the devil is in the details.

Sister Tang told Zhang Ruixuan about her struggles back then. The latter seemed to have some understanding, but still did not give a satisfactory response: "But as I just said, there are many things that are useless and should be gone."

"For now, even if we don't have holiday parties, we will still keep our holidays... But have you ever thought that what many people are looking for is holiday gatherings."

"We are willing to use the May Day holiday and the National Day holiday to travel, but we are not willing to let the Spring Festival become a time when we all go our separate ways." What Sister Tang said is just something she has experienced personally, so she is naturally sincere, "It's like She’s my cousin.”

"We usually play here and there, but during the Qingming Festival, we go home to worship our ancestors with our parents. During the winter vacation, we always make a trip back and forth for a few days to see the elderly at home... In fact, the value of festivals is indeed changing now."

"Huh?" The floor screen in front of him looked like it was engraved with the Riverside Scene during the Qingming Festival, but the bright colors had nothing to do with the Riverside Scene during the Qingming Festival. Zhang Ruixuan was looking at it with a frown, and was about to ask the system if this could really arouse someone's memory. ? Sister Tang's words kept coming to my ears.

"It's easier for us to go home now. If we want to buy moon cakes, glutinous rice balls, rice dumplings, and green dumplings, we can buy them anytime and anywhere. So it seems that the festival is not so important, but what we really protect behind the festival is the spirit and customs."

"Even if we don't celebrate during the festival, such customs and spirit run through us every day, which is the real value of these festivals becoming 'intangible cultural heritage', isn't it?"

Sister Tang explained the 'intangible cultural heritage' in her mind from another angle.

This made Zhang Ruixuan, who originally expected to hear clichés from the former, such as what is 'culture' and should not disappear, suddenly understood Ding Xuan's persistence at that time.

"Okay, I've talked to you too much. Let's continue looking down. Below is our Yangzhou engraving printing..."

"Oh, by the way, look at this, it's the guqin from Yangzhou, the guqin used for playing chess, calligraphy and painting. It's gotten much better in recent years..." Sister Tang always seems to be helpless in speaking, maybe it comes from the years when she was more 'alone' , “In the early days, there was no distinction between qin and zither, and there were many cases where people didn’t know that qin refers to guqin.”

"Guqin is also related to lacquerware?"

"Of course." Sister Tang didn't care that Zhang Ruixuan asked questions as if he didn't understand anything. She explained everything she knew to Zhang Ruixuan, "Many Tang Qins can be preserved until now. In fact, it is inseparable from the fact that they are lacquerware. .”

"Otherwise, pure wood might not be able to survive for a year in a humid environment... You know, the famous old pianos like the Great Sage Yiyin can still be played normally."

While chatting and walking down, Zhang Ruixuan finally broke away from the points themselves and tried to look at everything in this museum with appreciation instead of rejection... On both sides of the corridor, there were paper-cuts of the "Plum, Orchid, Bamboo and Chrysanthemum" four gentlemen, and even the whole Zhang Ruixuan was finally a little dazzled by the long scroll.

"Holy crap, system, is this hand-cut?"

【if not? If your feet are cut off, does that mean you are even more useless? 】

"But what's the use?"

[Have you never hung window grilles in your home? 】

"What's the use? It's not for eating or drinking!" Zhang Ruixuan seemed to have forgotten that he had taken art classes when he was a child, and when he came back, he took his grandfather to cut the window grilles for him.

I couldn't find suitable red paper, so I took out a piece of red rice paper that my grandfather used to write New Year's blessings. I cut out a window grille that wasn't very pretty, but my grandfather pasted it on the window near the bedside - —A place where grandpa can see it as soon as he gets up.

[There is no difference between wearing designer clothes and ordinary clothes! If I gave it to you for free, which one would you want? 】

"I don't want this for free. I want both!" Knowing that he couldn't quarrel with the system, Zhang Ruixuan simply found another way and used his messy skills to pretend to be stupid.

[Then there are neither]

"I would rather fight with a sensible person than say a word to a bastard." The system is very civilized and does not intend to continue to deal with Zhang Ruixuan.

"Personally, I'm not very familiar with engraving." Sister Tang never talks randomly about things she doesn't understand. "I can only say that this edition can only be used a limited number of times, so the engraving printing you see on the market Books are relatively expensive, and if there is not a real demand for them, sometimes they will inevitably go out of print.”

"Then who has nothing to do to collect this?"

【Your grandfather】

"Block printing once promoted a lot of cultural exchanges and promotions, and then led to movable type printing and so on. In many cases, this antique flavor is very attractive."

"If one day there is a problem with resources, woodblock printing will actually once again become the cornerstone of the spread of civilization."

Many times, the work of intangible cultural heritage is like what Sister Tang said, 'the work is in the present, and the benefit is in the future.' Maybe you can't see its inevitable value to everyone now, but the service scope of many things is limited. ——Not for the rich and powerful, but for the long-term inheritance of civilization.

① Guqin art (Guangling Qin School), a national intangible cultural heritage.

②Paper-cut (Yangzhou Paper-cut), a national intangible cultural heritage.

③Engraving and printing skills, national intangible cultural heritage.

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Digression: The illustrations have been added. If the picture is too big to be posted, I have used Easter egg stamps to post it.