Hangzhou,
A big museum in itself.
Starting from the artifacts,
There is tea, silk, jade, porcelain...
These are extremely influential and extremely ancient instruments;
There are also small things that are usually used and not very conspicuous-
These beautiful things,
To lift up a grand view of the craft of Hangzhou.
Let's go on a journey of beautiful things with different holes,
Step by step, read Hangzhou, read China, read yourself.
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About the Author
Jian Mo, real name Chen Jianxia, is a native of Gaotang, Shandong. He is a member of the Chinese Writers Association, a member of the China Literary and Art Critics Association, a member of the Shandong Provincial Calligraphers Association, a contracted writer of the Shandong Writers Association, a former vice chairman of the Jinan Writers Association, and selected as a Qilu Cultural Star and one of the Top Ten Young Essayists in Shandong Province. He has published 21 anthologies and more than 3 million words of articles in key national journals, and his works have won the Liu Xun Literary and Art Award, the Bingxin Prose Award, and the first prize of the Sun Li Prose Award.
Starting from the utensils, this book interprets tea, porcelain, jade, umbrellas, fans, embroidery, silk, lanterns, guqins, etc. with a deep tone and poetic narration, with a unique perspective and a novel idea. 18 kinds of creation landscapes, as well as one thing to do a lifetime of traditional craftsmen, in the simple ink pen each of their beauty, beauty and beauty, to lift up a foreign grand view of the craft of Hangzhou. Life should be simple, creation is spiritual and beautiful, and the human heart gradually becomes clear and gentle. This is how Chinese civilization silently nourishes our growth - slow reading, fine taste, in the journey of other beautiful things, we understand Hangzhou step by step, read China, and understand ourselves.
The woodblock watermark of the anti-celestial divine technique is a masterpiece
Woodblock watermark is a good trick of the ancient Hangzhou people. Different from the role of general engraving printing, woodblock watermark is a color overprinting technology, which integrates painting, engraving and printing, pure manual operation, according to the principle of ink penetration to display brush stroke ink rhyme, which can be used to create works of art that reflect their own characteristics, and can also realistically copy various types of Chinese calligraphy and paintings such as ink paintings, color ink paintings and silk paintings. Its professional name is "Ancient Color Print printing". It is said that mr. Qi Baishi, 92 years old, once encountered one thing:
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Standing in front of the authentic "Shrimp" and the woodblock watermark copy, the old man carefully compared it for a long time, shocked that even he could not distinguish between true and false, shook his head and sighed: "This... I can't see it. Can't tell, can't tell! "Some people have put together the authentic manuscript of "Yandang Mountain Flower" with a copy of the woodblock watermark, and asked the author, Mr. Pan Tianshou, to distinguish between the serious and false. Unexpectedly, he took the copied work as if it were his own. It is not a compliment to deceive the eyes of the author himself, saying that the woodblock watermarking technique is refined into steel - it is simply refined into a hundred refinements. Therefore, once the woodblock watermarking process was invented, it shocked the government and the opposition. The people rushed to tell each other: the woodblock watermarking technology is really an uncompromising anti-heavenly divine skill!
(Qi Baishi wood board watermark work "shrimp")
The development of woodblock watermark painting works stems from the promotion of engraving printing, and vice versa, it also promotes the development of China's printing industry, and the two complement each other. Their development has greatly promoted the dissemination of human cultural knowledge and has had a profound impact on the cultural functions carried by human social life. The exquisite documents and works left behind have provided people with rich spiritual food.
The well-known "Zhang Xiaoquan" scissors at home and abroad
In Hangzhou, almost no one knows "Zhang Xiaoquan", and every household is using "Zhang Xiaoquan" scissors. In 1663, after the "Zhang Xiaoquan" sign was hung in Hangzhou, his reputation took root in people's hearts. Turning to the 343-year history of "Zhang Xiaoquan", every page is full of "Zhang Xiaoquan" and his descendants' industrious wisdom and perseverance. Chinese scissor culture has a history of more than 2,100 years, and "Zhang Xiaoquan" is unique, and its greatness lies in the "inlaid steel" process created.
(The key process in the "Zhang Xiaoquan" scissors process - the "steel-inlaid" processing of embedding the steel edge into the scissor iron groove)
The traditional Zhang Xiaoquan scissors process is said to go through 3 sections and 72 processes, including 23 processes from ingredients to semi-finished products, 41 processes from semi-finished products to finished products, and 8 processes to make advances. Among them, some processes also contain several small processes, steel pasting, shear forming, cornering, heat treatment, fine sand grinding and fine brick grinding, finishing... The lines are not messy.
As you know, pounding and calcination are two of the most important processes. Pounding is generally carried out by two people in turn, looking at the strength, the actual more effective, the rhythm of the hammer is clear, the face change is timely, tacit understanding, the energy of the beating is gradually faded, and then changed to calcination, until the iron block is red, the pliers are clamped and then quenched, the white smoke is swirling, and the iron hard guy begins to be as soft as cotton and changes the form.
(An engraving technician inscribed the brand words "Zhang Xiaoquan" on the handmade Zhang Xiaoquan scissors)
In Zhang Xiaoquan's original 72-way shearing process, he not only solved the functional needs of the hard and sharp edge of the scissors, but also met the process requirements for the flexibility of the material during shear processing, so that the forged scissors became the "first shear in China" that integrated rigidity and softness.
Nowadays, our lives have undergone earth-shaking changes, and at the moment of rapid economic development, the traditional craftsmanship of Zhang Xiaoquan scissors carries the story of the way, recording a person's attachment and watchfulness to a skill. A feeling and inheritance, so that Zhang Xiaoquan scissors exude its unique charm.
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Hangzhou Excellent Traditional Culture Series
"Hangzhou Excellent Traditional Culture Series" is a set of popular reading materials aimed at inheriting the historical context of the city and promoting excellent traditional culture, adhering to the principle of "storytelling, light reading, and easy dissemination", and fully presenting the characteristics of the times, the characteristics of the whole region, the characteristics of the story, and the characteristics of openness.
The whole series of books includes a monograph and ten series of more than 100 books, covering urban history culture, landscape culture, celebrity culture, relic culture, dictionary culture, art culture, craft culture, living culture, custom culture, ideological culture and other aspects, which are both comprehensive displays and highlights.
In order to attract more readers, especially young audiences, the series of books has changed the customary practice of taking literary and historical experts as the main authors, invited writers from inside and outside the province to serve as the main creative team, organized literary and historical experts and literary and art critics to check and improve, carried excellent traditional culture with rich historical stories, and contained excellent cultural ideas with delicate dialogues and plots.