God-level Golden Hand

Chapter 652 Suet Jade Carved Maitreya Buddha Pendant

Purely from the outside, the statue of the long-browed arhat carved in camphor wood has nothing unusual. No matter how you look at it, it is an ordinary old carving, and the carving is so ordinary.

But in Xu Jingxing's eyes, the problem with this old statue was much bigger.

Among other things, the weight was not right. He hadn't noticed it when he first got it, but now he calmed down and observed it carefully, and it was easy to find that the weight of this old carving was heavier than the conventional carving. The parts are a little bit heavier, maybe a difference of tens of grams, but these differences are very obvious under his keen awareness.

You know, he has been playing with wood for more than a year, and has made a lot of various kinds of wood. He knows what kind of material, feel and weight as soon as he gets started, so this difference can't be hidden from his hands at all.

In addition to the difference in weight, the center of gravity of this old carving is also somewhat insecure.

For any sculpture, whether it is carving figures, flowers and birds, or landscapes, the proportion must be rigorous, and the center of gravity of the structure must also be stable. If the proportion is not rigorous, the artistic beauty will be lost. The center of gravity will not be stable. Save it, it will fall if you are not careful, and it will be useless if you fall a few more times.

To give the simplest example, I believe that many friends have read the bearded version of "The Eight Parts of the Dragon". In the cave at the bottom of the Wuliang Mountain Lake, there is a jade statue of Li Qiushui's younger sister. It was so lifelike and so lifelike that Duan Yu regarded it as a real goddess.However, in the TV series, let alone whether the statue is beautiful or not, there is a big problem with the center of gravity of the statue.

The standing statue of little sister Li Qiushui looks fine from the front, but it is not difficult to find that the statue is leaning forward when viewed from the side.Statues leaning forward are not absent, but in order to maintain balance, the center of gravity of the carving must be moved back. If the center of gravity does not move back, the point of gravity will sink to the position of the toes, and then a person cannot stand at all.

But the sculpture has a base, so the focus of the standing statue of Li Qiushui's little sister fell on the base, and it seemed to be able to stand firmly, but after a long time, the base would crack.

The most important thing is that there is really no beauty at all to stand up like that, because it will give people a feeling of falling forward, which looks very embarrassing.

Of course, most domestic TV drama producers are like this. The props are prepared by the prop master, and the requirements for the prop master should not be too strict.If the current TV drama producers in China can have the same attitude as the producers of the old version of "Dream of Red Mansions", they won't be able to create magical dramas that dominate the world, and thunder dramas are everywhere.

And when he cited this example, he didn't mean to criticize the bearded man, but just to illustrate the importance of the center of gravity for a statue, especially for standing statues, the center of gravity must be balanced.

However, the center of gravity of the long-browed Arhat statue in his hand is quite unstable. This instability does not mean that it is structurally unstable. From a structural point of view, the center of gravity is at the waist of the statue, which should be very stable; but holding it in his hand But I found that the center of gravity of this statue is very low, so it seems very contradictory.

Then the problem is obvious. There are objects inside the statue that are not made of camphor wood. They may be other woods, or metals such as gold, silver, iron and lead, or stones. Anyway, the specific gravity must be higher than that of camphor wood. In addition, The location should be at the lower part of the statue, otherwise the center of gravity would not be so heavy.

With that in mind, he looked directly at the statue's legs.

Sure enough, after careful observation, a very thin gap was found in the lower part of the statue, so thin that it was almost invisible, and this gap almost coincided with the grain of the camphor wood itself. will find out.

In addition, after the two processes of polishing and waxing, the extremely thin gaps are even more invisible.

It was him who was a woodcarver and possessed the means to detect spiritual energy, so he would have discovered the tricks in it. Otherwise, he would never have imagined that such an ordinary carving had something else in it.

Now that he found the tricky place, the matter will be easy to handle. He carefully scraped off the patina and wax layer on the surface of the statue with his polishing knife, and continued to scrape along the gap. A rectangular gap was exposed , like a secret door.

Seeing this, he no longer doubted, and carefully pried open the secret door, and the objects hidden inside were presented in front of him.

The moment he saw the object, his pupils dilated for a moment, because it was a very beautiful white jade Buddha, to be precise, it was a sitting statue of Maitreya Buddha carved from suet jade.

The seated Maitreya Buddha statue is a pendant with holes on it, but it is quite large, about six centimeters high, three centimeters wide, and about two centimeters thick. The carving is very delicate, especially the open face of the Buddha statue. Vivid, the smooth lines portray the smile of Maitreya Buddha vividly, and it is very festive to watch.

However, the surface of the Buddha statue is still covered with a layer of wax, which should be specially covered by the owner of the Buddha statue. If there is no such layer of wax, the jade will be contaminated if the jade is in direct contact with the camphor wood for a long time, forming the so-called Coloring.

Old jade with color is fine, but if there is a good piece of clean jade, the clean one is more valuable, because no one knows what the color was stained with.And the market has also proved this point. The market price of clean old jade is indeed higher. For this Suet Jade Maitreya Buddha Pendant, it will definitely not be lower than seven figures at the auction, because this pendant The quality of the jade is good, the carving is also good, and it is still an old object. The most important thing is that it is very well preserved, clean and without any variegation.

This kind of jade is no different from the most popular handed down jade in the market. Although this pendant has been hidden in a wood carving for many years, it has been sealed with wax. Popular with some, after all, not everyone likes to wear something that everyone else wears all the time.

However, what he is most concerned about is not the market price of the pendant, but the aura contained in the pendant.

In Shengshi antique shop, he realized that this aura was different from the aura he was familiar with in the past. In addition to the large amount, it was also more pure and lively. If the aura he absorbed before was mostly a pool of clear water , the aura I feel now is a spring with plenty of water.

Before he took the pendant in his hand, the Ruyi glove was already about to move. When he took off the pendant and put it in the palm of his right hand, the Ruyi glove absorbed the spiritual energy in the pendant like crazy.

However, when that buoyant spiritual energy poured into his right hand, he seemed to be hit hard with a sledgehammer, his head buzzed, and he fell headfirst on the bed and fell into a coma.

(End of this chapter)