Wanton landscape, free and unrestrained, Xiao Li recently met a cliff cypress carving master, he accidentally understood the cliff cypress and was fascinated by it, engaged in root carving for nearly 20 years, these years he ups and downs, stumbled, got a lot and lost a lot, but the eternal is the love of wood carving of this heart, this craftsman is called Mu Kang, his studio is located in Baoji City Ideal Co-creation Culture and Technology Industrial Park, the scattered cliff cypress wood incense and piles of wood chips are my first impression of him, Those seem to be telling the story of the various entanglements between Mu Kang and Cliff Cypress.
Chance and opportunity laid the foundation in Mu Kang's heart the inevitability of taking the road of "root carving"
What do you really want? Mu Kang told reporters that he had a blank period, very confused, did not know what to do when he began to play outdoors, met a lot of Baoji "old donkey", one of the friends is very good at antiques, and went to the Zhongshan Road treasure house with him to idle, heard the owner of the hand-string shop to say to his friend: "You climb the mountain every day to carry two cliff cypresses back to us!" "This is the first time in my life that I have heard the word cliff cypress" At that time, cliff cypress was not yet popular. Mu Kang asked, "What is Cliff Cypress?" At that time, after hearing the introduction of friends, there was great interest in my heart, and at this time, the word cliff cypress had been deeply imprinted into the mind of Mu Kang, who was only in his early 20s, "There was originally a sought after type of wood called cliff cypress, which can be used as root carving." ”
At this time, i heard a customer suddenly ask, "Are you not lighting incense?" It smells like a great place for you!" Mu Kang smiled and said, "I burned some cliff cypress, this is originally an incense material, casually pinched a little sawdust, cliff cypress is full of treasure!" ”
Speaking of fragrance is inseparable from the second chance, Mu Kang told reporters with great interest, because a friend opened and wanted to go to the botanical garden to buy two pots of flowers, when buying flowers, just thinking about what flowers to buy, did not care, after buying, walked to the door of the flower market, paused down and stretched a lazy waist, suddenly smelled a fragrance, "How a fragrance, what is so good smelling?" "Looking for incense and walking, suddenly found that there is a teacher Fu doing root carving, is polishing, the friction generated during the polishing will evaporate the fragrance of the wood, was attracted, bought flowers to call to send to the ground convenient and no time to take care of, crouched next to the teacher Fu to watch an afternoon, this time is really interested, not only found a place to do root carving, but also saw the entire production process. Mu Kang worshiped him as a teacher, since then within a few months of the dawn every day, night return, learn how to polish, wash and other basic processes, inquire where there is wood, spend thousands of yuan into the mountains to pull a full van of wood, because at that time did not know the goods, this car of wood in the eyes of the master is not a good material, but Mu Kang was not discouraged, he told reporters: "Life needs to try, learning things is the same, I am not afraid of detours." There are masters in me who also have confidence, do not understand to ask, more advice I can make faster progress, make better things. ”
Splashing water on the head cannot extinguish the love in the heart.
At the beginning, Mu Kang piled the wood on the open space in front of the home, washed and polished every day, because it was not too complicated at the beginning, he started from the coasters, small plates and other gadgets, but every day he used the wood-making tools "Nourish and nourish..." It was inevitable that the neighbors would splash water on their heads, but they did not extinguish their enthusiasm for root carving, so they "requisitioned" one bathroom at home, and in the nearly one to two years, locked the door every Monday to Friday, wore a protective mask, and took off the outside clothes to continue working when it was hot. My friend went to his house and saw a bathroom open and teased, "Did you sprinkle flour all over the room?" People can't see clearly! ”
On the weekend, two days on Zhongshan Road stalls to sell, to Mu Kang's surprise is not expected that the income is indeed good, which further strengthens Mu Kang's determination to go down on the road of root carving, the original interest is really to maintain life, root carving seems to be Mu Kang's confused life suddenly lit up a beam of light, both illuminating his spirit of gradual decline due to business failure, but also stimulating his forward momentum for future life.
Settling in a good family is the foundation of my pursuit of love
"Root carving is different from fast-selling products, cliff cypress grows between cliffs, raw materials are expensive, grinding, washing, modeling ideas are very time-consuming, sometimes a piece of raw materials how to put is not right, can sit in front of it from various angles to observe the idea for several days, still can not bear fruit, it is time-consuming and laborious, most of the year is upside down."
Mu Kang told reporters that maybe his personality is different, different from other friends, always want to do something he likes, go to the big city to meet the world, run for many years after the school comes out, Beijing, Guangzhou, Shanghai, etc., almost all over the country, and finally returned to Baoji, did catering, clothing, opened a shoe store, hair design, bartender, opened a dog farm, although he has been losing money, but he still wants to take advantage of his youth to try new things, and he has reached the "peak" in business. But in the end, it also plummeted, even the money thrown in the water did not hear a sound, after the end of the dog farm opened a leisure villa for a period of time, because of limited manpower, during the period of several jobs - lifeguard, cook, cashier...
The first thought after coming into contact with Ya Baigen was to settle down with his wife who started a business together. "In the process of learning the root carving craft, I took the time to learn the halogenation, and after my lover opened a restaurant on Gaoxin Second Road, I felt that I could devote myself to the root carving, otherwise I always felt uneasy, and the full support of my family was also a great support for me to chase the root carving art road." There is nothing wrong with people yearning for what they like, but the responsibility for lovers and children must be the first, and they must not be lost!" And now with friends can live in a corner, drink tea wood, talk about the world, is already a rare happiness, although in recent years the business is sluggish, but never thought of this "retreat", people's life can be family joy, have three or two friends, adhere to love, enough!
Huashang Daily reporter Wang Peimin Editor Yang Yuting