God-level Golden Hand

Chapter 219 Journey of a Thousand Miles
When Xu Jingxing returned to the hotel with four ancient city bricks, he happened to bump into Ding Shuhuai.

Ding Shuhuai saw the brick in his hand at a glance, took a closer look, and let out a "huh", "Good brick, are you going to make an inkstone?"

He smiled and nodded, "Send it to you? Don't you dislike it?"

"I can't wish for it. I've been coveting your craftsmanship for a long time, hehe," Ding Shuhuai said with a smile, "Can you set up your own theme?"

"Of course, what kind of pattern or inscription do you want?"

"Just engrave four words, 'A Journey of a Thousand Miles', how about it?" Ding Shuhuai asked with a smile.

Xu Jingxing was startled, and then he stretched out his thumb, "These four words are perfect!"

"Hey, don't let me down," Ding Shuhuai smiled, turned and went back to the room.

Looking at old man Ding's back, he shook his head, but he was a little moved in his heart, because the words Ding Shuhuai were obviously given to him. "Journey of a thousand miles", four simple words, not only can be used to describe their common journey, but also entrust Ding Shuhuai's expectations for him.

"The tree that embraces is born at the end of the hair; the nine-story platform starts from the pile of soil; the journey of a thousand miles begins with a single step."

This sentence comes from the "Tao Te Ching", which is to warn people to start from the most basic in everything they do, and there is no one step to reach the sky, and it is also to encourage people to do things in a down-to-earth manner.

Then thinking that Ding Shuhuai would never send him these four words for no reason, he suddenly woke up. He has been a little bit ecstatic recently. He wants to get involved in everything, such as wood carving, furniture making, architecture, stone carving, and even started to make Inkstones seem to have a wide range of interests, and they all do well, but who are really proficient?It seems that the old woodcarving is still outstanding.

However, it is only a few months since his official debut. Although he has the foundation he laid when he was a child, which can be regarded as a thick accumulation, he is not yet at the stage of thin hair. He still needs to accumulate, instead of casting a wide net. Possibly a half-bottle level for everything.

So ambitious!

I've been a bit ambitious lately, and under the flattery of everyone, I actually regarded myself as a master of a generation, and even put on the airs of a master intentionally or unintentionally.

Realizing this, he instantly broke out in a cold sweat. Without Ding Shuhuai's intentional or unintentional reminder, he might not know when he would realize this.By the time I realize this, it may be too late.

"Master, what are you thinking?" At this moment, An Xin poked him in the back.

"Ah? It's nothing." He came back to his senses, took a deep breath, and smiled at An Xin: "I'm thinking, what kind of method should be used to carve Mr. Ding's four characters to set off those four characters true meaning."

"True meaning? What's the real meaning?" An Xin looked bewildered, could it be some advanced term?Why can't you understand at all?

Xu Jingxing smiled, "You will understand then, alright, let's continue working."

The job he was talking about was naturally painting. He not only painted by himself, but also directed An Xin's painting, but he didn't intend to let An Xin get involved in architecture too much. An Xin didn't have a cheat like him, so it would be better to specialize in wood carving.He asked An Xin to paint, just to let An Xin have a general understanding of architectural design drawings, and at the same time practice her basic art skills.

An Xin has basic art skills. She learned sketching for two years when she was a child, and practiced for two years in high school. Although her level is average, her theoretical knowledge is relatively solid, so she got started very quickly, and soon she was able to draw decently. Tools such as rulers are still needed, and this reminds him of a wonderful genre in traditional fine arts—jiehua.

Boundary paintings need to use boundary rulers and leading lines when drawing, so they are called boundary paintings.

Boundary paintings appeared as early as the Wei and Jin Dynasties, and formed their own unique style in the Sui Dynasty, and flourished in the Song Dynasty. The representative figure of the boundary paintings is Zhang Zeduan. Picture", "Tengwang Pavilion Picture", "Yellow Crane Tower", "Que Tower Picture", "Jiucheng Palace Fan Picture", "Palace Garden Picture" and so on.

Due to the limitation of style, boundary painting is generally used to draw large-scale buildings, palaces, cities and other man-made scenery, and it needs to be quite realistic when drawing. The size, proportion, structure, space and other elements of the building have to be described very realistically. So there is such a saying as "gongbi Jiehua".

From Xu Jingxing's point of view, the design drawings made by him and Ding Shuhuai can be appreciated as boundary paintings after removing the data of size and the like. Of course, they can only appreciate them, not others. , because the genre of Jiehua is so unpopular, people who don't know much about traditional paintings may not have heard of the term "Jiehua".

But Jiehua can be regarded as the ancestor of Gongbi painting. The Jiehua drawn by Jiehua masters is no worse than traditional art works in any aspect. Unfortunately, Jiehua is really unpopular, and there are very few excellent Jiehua handed down. There are only a few, and some of them are still living overseas, which makes people sigh.

The reason why he suddenly thought of boundary painting was not that he wanted to attack boundary painting, but felt that An Xin could develop a little bit in this field, because An Xin has a sketching skill, is eager to learn, and is careful, coupled with his teaching on architecture, It's really possible to come up with something famous.

If he can, he really doesn't mind An Xin mastering one more skill. After all, it's not a big deal for a girl to beat with a chisel, a carving knife and a carpenter's hammer every day.

But that's all he thought about, not to mention what An Xin thinks, even if An Xin is willing to study painting in the world, he has to lay a solid foundation first, otherwise he will only become as ambitious as him.

For the next few days, Xu Jingxing stayed in the hotel to make design drawings, and he didn't even bother to carve and polish the ancient city bricks he bought. Firstly, because time did not allow it, and because the environment did not allow it, he worked in other people's hotels. That job is really unreasonable.

On the sixth day in Kecheng, the blueprints were basically finished, and the construction team was waiting to start. The construction team contacted by Liu Yufen also arrived. These construction teams were all regular construction teams with experience in ancient building construction. They will work together in the next three months and strive to complete the project before the Chinese New Year.

In addition to the construction team, Liu Yufen also contacted a carpentry team. These carpentry masters are all locals, and they are not young. The youngest is in their 40s, and the oldest is 64.

Liu Yufen smiled at Xu Jingxing who was a little dumbfounded: "Xiao Xu, these carpenters will be handed over to you. Some of the raw materials have been sent to the construction site together with the processing tools. You can start work at any time."

(End of this chapter)