Calligraphy and painting mounting is a skill that the Chinese nation has inherited for thousands of years, and in the production of cultural and artistic works in the motherland, it has greatly enhanced the aesthetic value of calligraphy and painting art. As the saying goes, three points of painting, seven points of mounting. Calligraphy and painting mounting in the Han Dynasty has the emergence of Aya, which has a history of more than 1700 years, and after the development of the history of the Tang, Song, Yuan, Ming, and Qing dynasties, today there are different forms of classification, different craft techniques and materials.
If you frame and repair old calligraphy and paintings, you need to go through multiple processes such as washing and decontamination, revealing and patching, repairing the stumps, piercing the mounting, setting the pliers, turning the side to support the back, and polishing the pole. In the process of passing on the old calligraphy and paintings, due to poor collection and storage, resulting in damp mold, stains, insects and moth bites, and the natural aging of silk and paper will cause damage to calligraphy and paintings, rotten and broken, etc. If not repaired in time, it will affect the life and artistic value of old calligraphy and paintings, and will be destroyed by decay and fragmentation, causing immeasurable losses to national culture.
The advantage of traditional ancient mounting is that it can maintain the original warp, silk, and paper warp and color, fine workmanship, mounting is firm, soft and flat, and can prevent insects and mildew. As a non-renewable work of art, the old calligraphy and painting must be carefully restored in order to be well preserved. If the repair is not good, the artistic value and ornamentation will be greatly reduced, and even more serious damage will be caused to the ancient calligraphy and paintings, endangering the life of the ancient calligraphy and paintings, and weakening the artistic value of the ancient calligraphy and paintings.
Dingxi is located in the central and western part of the Loess Plateau, which has a long history and culture. There are many Neolithic cultural heritages, which have experienced splendid ancient civilizations such as Majiayao culture, Qijia, Siwa and Xindian culture; there is a rich beauty recorded in the "Zizhi Tongjian" that "the world is rich, nothing is as rich as Longyou". In modern times, the cultural industry in Dingxi has sprung up like mushrooms, and the mounting of calligraphy and paintings is also changing with each passing day, and the emergence of different armies is everywhere, and galleries and cultural cities are everywhere.
Mounting old calligraphy and paintings has a very difficult, complex and cumbersome process, which requires years of tempering, solid skills and fine craftsmanship to complete. In the artists' efforts to start a business for many years, the mounting and restoration of traditional calligraphy and painting in Dingxi are self-contained, creating a unique hand-mounting process, and summarizing several characteristics of hand-mounting: the first step is to scratch the painting heart and gently remove the dirt with the tip of the knife; the second step is to make the dirty parts such as oil stains, rust, and mildew that cannot be removed through special treatment to make the picture smooth and shiny; the third step is to cut off the old clothes, flatten the mounting and mounting tabletop, and cut off the ornaments on the upper and lower left and right accordingly; fourth, to expose the painting heart. Remove the back paper and paper holder of the painting heart, and when it is half dry, rub the pulp into small pieces and clip it clean with tweezers; the fifth step is to make up the painting heart. Repair the broken frames, the ingredients are mainly from the heart of the river, and the back paper that comes down requires fine patience.
The sixth step is to draw the heart. The spare mounting paper covered with gluing to the back of the mounting, brushed in the wheat soil wall natural drying, which is also the most critical link in the repair process, the whole process of the production of paste and the wheat wall requirements are very high, the quality of the mounting is the key in the production of the paste, you need to use fine starch, water, honey, pepper water, alum, etc., according to a certain proportion into the pot, cook with a warm fire, fully stir and boil, a few days to complete the production, with such a method made of paste can achieve a firm adhesion, soft and flat, and can have the effect of insect and mildew prevention. The seventh step is to set the dressing. Trim the trimming, set the aya, cover the back of the wall twice, dry it for a week or so, go down the wall, wax it, grind it, then wrap the edge, put it on the shaft, and tie the rope. Only by carefully and meticulously doing these seven steps can a perfect work of art appear in front of your eyes again, of course, the material is different, and what you see is different.
It is understood that at present, the restoration and mounting techniques of calligraphy and painting in Dingxi City are mainly distributed in Tongwei, Longxi, Lintao, Anding District and other counties and districts. After the joint efforts of government departments at all levels and inheritors in these years, it has been well developed, and some young people have invested in the industry, laying the foundation for further development in the future.
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