God-level Golden Hand

Chapter 119
The old man in front of Xu Jingxing was the one who spent 1 yuan a week ago to buy a Wuzi Nao Maitreya ornament and a string of bas-relief three-dimensional Eighteen Arhat bracelets from him. Passed out from anger, it was he who hurriedly supported the old man to sit down, otherwise the old man might really get sick from anger.

So he felt that the old man's insistence on buying this Buddhist cabinet was not only to help him out, but also to repay his kindness.

It was also because of this that he was reluctant to accept the old man's kindness.

It would be fine if it was an ordinary gadget, but this is a Buddhist cabinet worth 50 yuan. 50 yuan is not a small amount, and it is a lot of money for most families in China.

The old man in front of him did seem to have some spare money, but he was definitely not rich enough to take 50 as pocket money.

Just taking away the old man's 50 yuan made him feel uneasy.

Seeing him hesitating, the old man blinked, and suddenly smiled, "Afraid I'll slap my face and pretend to be fat?"

Xu Jingxing's small thoughts were seen through by the old man, he was a little embarrassed, and coughed, "Well, cough cough..."

The old man said with a smile: "Then you can introduce it to me. This Buddha cabinet looks good to me, but I don't know what is so good about it."

"You can have this," Xu Jingxing nodded quickly, and introduced this Buddhist cabinet from bottom to top.To put it bluntly, this Buddhist cabinet is indeed his proud work, and it is the embodiment of his highest level at present, but it is a bit unpopular.

The so-called Buddha cabinet is just a combination of a cabinet and a Buddhist niche, mainly used to enshrine Buddha statues. This relatively unpopular furniture was quite popular in the past. After all, religious beliefs were very common in the past, and almost every household worshiped Buddha statues. If you don't have the conditions, you can just find a table and make do with it, but if the conditions are a little better, you have to get a Buddhist altar, and if you are more particular, you will find someone to build a special altar.

And because of different beliefs, Buddhist cabinets still have a lot to pay attention to. The Buddhist cabinets of Chinese Buddhism have one style, and the Buddhist cabinets of Tibetan Buddhism have another style. Of course, until now, the distinction between genres is not so obvious. But some of the most fundamental contents cannot be mistaken, for example: you cannot enshrine the patriarch of Zen Buddhism in a Tibetan Buddhist cabinet.

Tibetan-style Buddhist cabinets are generally painted with bright red lacquer, and Tibetan-style patterns are painted on them, which looks particularly gorgeous.

This Buddhist cabinet made by Xu Jingxing is completely opposite to the brightly colored style of Tibetan Buddhist cabinets. It has not been painted at all, and it directly presents the unique dark red and deep purple color of red sandalwood. After polishing and waxing , looking calm and elegant.

This Buddhist cabinet is relatively large, 1.2 meters long and 1.8 meters high. The lower cabinet has four doors, and the four gentlemen patterns of "plum blossom, orchid, bamboo and chrysanthemum" are carved on the cabinet doors; The drawer, the front of the drawer is carved with big ruyi patterns; above the drawer is the Buddhist altar.

To be precise, it is a Buddhist hall, because the general Buddhist niche is relatively small, just a box with an open front, but the Buddhist hall is more particular, and it is usually carved into a small house, similar to a small temple in an ancient building.

This is exactly the case for Xu Jingxing’s. The shape adopted is strictly in accordance with the ancient architecture, with five steps, hand-painted verandahs, vertical columns, carved doors and windows, raised frames and suspended mountains, animal heads with hanging fish, moon beams and corbels, hanging pavements, etc. There are all kinds of components, it is a physical model of an ancient building, and it is the one with the same structure and proportion. What is found in ancient buildings is available here.

If you observe carefully, you can see that the rafters on the roof are all clear and clear, and the patterns carved on the doors and windows are more realistic, just like the real carved doors and windows. Even the gaps carved out have been polished and waxed. No sign of perfunctory at all.

It can be said that this Buddha cabinet has almost no defects.

Hearing Xu Jingxing's particularity, the old man was a little puzzled, "Little Master Xu, is it really all made of mortise and tenon structure?"

Xu Jingxing smiled and didn't explain much. Instead, he turned around and walked to the side of the Buddhist cabinet. He first took out the statue of the Thousand-Handed Avalokitesvara enshrined inside, and then slowly pulled it out by pinching a pillar. Like a domino, more than half of it collapsed, and another pillar was pulled out, and the originally exquisite Buddhist hall was immediately scattered, turning into a pile of large and small wooden components.

This scene left the old man and the melon-eating crowd dumbfounded, and the audience fell silent.

After a while, the old man started to applaud, applauding while applauding: "It's really ingenious, Mr. Xu, your exquisite mortise and tenon workmanship is worth 50 yuan."

Xu Jingxing was also quite proud when he heard it, but he still said modestly: "You've always been too good at it. In fact, it's not difficult. As long as you are serious and careful, any carpenter can do it."

"Excessive modesty is pride, you can't be proud," the old man said with a smile, "General carpenters can indeed make similar objects after spending some time, but their level is definitely not as high as yours. Before you take it apart, I found so little splicing, that if I hadn't seen the slender rafters one by one, I'd have thought they were carved from a single piece."

"Khan, you are always joking. How can there be such a large piece of small-leaf red sandalwood? Regardless of the size of the small-leaf red sandalwood furniture, there is no single-piece carving. All of them are spliced ​​​​to form, but the splicing process is different."

"Really?" The old man still didn't quite believe it.

"It's absolutely true," Xu Jingxing explained in detail: "The growth rate of small-leaf red sandalwood is very slow. The diameter of small-leaf red sandalwood that is several decades old is only about ten centimeters. Generally speaking, if you want to grow to twenty centimeters, you need 100 centimeters. As the years go up, the larger the diameter, the longer the age of the tree, and now the ones over [-] centimeters are top-quality materials, the ones that are [-] centimeters can be sold for sky-high prices, and the ones that are [-] to [-] centimeters are about the same as the legends.”

"To make a large piece of material with a small diameter, it can only be spliced. If you meet someone in the future who brags to you that his furniture is carved from a whole piece of red sandalwood, you can just spit on him."

"That's it," the old man suddenly realized, and then he pointed to the Buddhist hall scattered into a pile of spare parts and asked, "What about this?"

"Simple," Xu Jingxing smiled, moved his hands together, his slender fingers flipped back and forth among the components, and after a while, the Buddhist hall returned to its original appearance, and motioned for the old man to check it out.

The old man stared dumbfounded at the Buddhist hall in front of him, and carefully reached out to touch it, as if he was afraid that it would be damaged if he touched it lightly.

Seeing this, Xu Jingxing said with a smile: "You don't have to be so careful, this thing is strong. There are many ancient buildings built with pure mortise and tenon structure. As long as the wood is not rotten, it will not collapse. This is made of lobular red sandalwood. It will only It is stronger than those buildings," he said, slapping the side of the Buddhist hall with a slap.

(End of this chapter)