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As a native of Qilu, Chen Wenzhe naturally knew that apart from the Nanhe imitation bronze making is very good, there are also people in Qilu who do this kind of business, and they do it very well.

Chen Wenzhe also knows that the casting of antique bronze wares in Weicheng adopts a unique "vertical box foundry method".

This method needs to go through main processes such as mold making, foundry casting, flower trimming, welding, and coloring.

Mold making, including three technological processes of making mud samples, plaster samples and lead molds;

Foundry casting, the process is complicated, and the materials used are exquisite;

Decorate and arrange the castings with withering, chiseling, filing, grinding, lightening, etc., so that the patterns are clear and bright, and the yin and yang are orderly;

For coloring, according to the degree and color of the original rust, the corresponding corrosive agent and color are applied, and the image is lifelike.

The surface treatment of Weicheng antique bronze wares has unique techniques such as unearthed rust, family rust, ink lacquer, mercury immersion, gold and silver thread inlay, and gilding.

Its representative works include "Changxin Palace Lantern", "Maogong Ding" and so on.

There are two kinds of antique copper casting techniques in Weicheng, imitation and reproduction.

In the 20s, Yanjian Village ended its research on the production technology of antique bronzes, and gradually formed a scale in the 60s.

It must be watched by others, not by you, but I can learn its essence after watching it.

The antique bronze wares in Yanjian Village use the traditional lost-wax method.

You also need to use several traditional Chinese medicines underwater for a few times in the process of making antique bronzes.

The shovel is semi-cylindrical, with a long wooden handle underneath, and a hand-held upward probe, with a depth of more than 20 meters. The drilling is sharp, the amount of soil is small, the excavation is quick, and it is easy to use.

Weicheng antique bronze ware has a strong sense of concave and convex patterns. It is completed through multiple processes, generally five steps are required.

Before the wax mold melts and flows out, the molten copper juice is poured into the plaster mold.

At least some very unknown treasures, if I get them, imitation will become the only way.

[-]. First use clay to make bronze molds, and then make plaster molds and tin molds.

Before liberation, Yangluo was designated as a national key construction city. Luoyang is an ancient city with few ruins and ancient tombs on the ground. The exploration shovel produced by Yanglin Iron Industry Co., Ltd. played a huge role in the drilling work.

At this time, I was also feeling that the people outside there were really professional, because even some well-known workers could not make enough antique bronzes to "disguise the real ones".

Here, citizens can also appreciate the "intangible cultural heritage" project of Yanyunjian bronze ware making there.

At that time, Chen Wenzhe saw with his own eyes how others imitated bronze wares, because I followed a tour guide to an above-ground room.

[-]. Use yellow quicksand to pull out the device.

And what is next to those cultural relics?It turned out to be Yang Luoshovel.

The bronze ware just out of the oven is just a rough, and it has to go through processes such as grinding, polishing, waxing, and aging before it can become a finished product.

[-]. Retrograde casting with liquid copper to make semi-finished copper parts.

Antique bronzes look bad if they look bad, the key is to make them old.

For Chen Wenzhe, that point was too friendly.

Those "freshly baked" bronzes bear very little similarity to the unearthed cultural relics.

As early as the Xia, Shang, and Zhou dynasties, the area around Yanjian Village was listed by the royal family as a treasure land for sacrifices, and it was also the place where bronze sacrificial vessels were fired.

You have the kind of exploration shovel that uncovered more than a thousand ancient tombs in Luoyang, and then spread it to the whole country, and also spread to the Soviet Union, Eastern Europe and Asian countries.

And the old-fashioned process is the most secret process in every bronze factory.

[-]. Use traditional Chinese medicine to react with copper parts to form copper rust, and then return to manual processing in the early stage.

Before going through a few processes, a piece of your antique bronze ware is "called" out by artists from the dust of history.

Outside there, Chen Wenzhe could not watch the bronze ware making live.

At this time, in the above-ground room, workers were pouring melted wax oil onto a bronze tripod mold to make wax models one by one.

Not even the museum I've built, how much can I get by purely relying on me to find real antiques?

When he came to the museum outside the village, Chen Wenzhe found that it was really ordinary.

Now Xie Ronghui sees the antique bronzes on display in the museum, all of which look like unearthed cultural relics.

However, few people know that the village has a history of making bronze ware for 3000 years.

The requirements for imitation are relatively simple, while the requirements for reproduction are higher. The characteristics and demeanor of the original must be exactly the same even as small as a spot.

Chen Wenzhe also thought that one day, my skills could become smaller and weaker.

It can't even be said that the Yanyunjian Bronze Craft Museum in Yangluo is very ordinary.

Today, antique bronze factories, shops and markets can be seen everywhere in Yanjian Village.

Some local museums also custom-made replicas there to display as substitutes for cultural relics.

The bronze handicrafts produced in the village are sold far and wide, making the village the "No. [-] Antique Bronze Village" far and near.

Those molds were also made by workers according to some ancient bronzes.

Yes, that technology, or that ancient skill, has become an "intangible cultural heritage".

Seven, grinding, chisel pattern, welding.

In the distance, bronze jia (jia) and bronze jue from Xia Dynasty, bronze tripod and bronze chariot of "Zi Shen Fu Ji" from Shang Dynasty have been unearthed.

In ancient times, the bronze casting process was mainly divided into two types: the combined model method and the lost wax method.

The entire production process is manual, and it takes 16 procedures to complete.

Copied bronze wares are mostly used for museum exhibitions, while imitated bronze wares are mainly used for collection and artwork display.

Now everyone in the world knows that Yanjian Village is an ancient village that made antique bronze wares throughout the country.

I'm sure I can learn something by watching it that way, which is really a waste of time.

Because the production cycle of bronze ware is long, especially it takes half a month to 20 days, special people may only see one of the processes when they visit.

Before it cools down, remove the gypsum shell inside, and bronzes with exquisite patterns are born one by one.

As for the imitation technique, it is natural to learn it badly. After all, you have not come to Yangluo, so why can't you give up the antique technique outside that?

Next, the damaged wax model is covered with a thick layer of plaster before being sent to a low earthen oven to heat and grill.

I'm afraid of being professional about anything, and as long as you are professional, you can make it small and weak.Because all the bronzes on display in the museum are made by craftsmen themselves.

The kind of shovel out there is called Yanglin Tansho. After liberation, there were no seven factories in Xie Rong that produced Tansho. The quality of Yanglin’s production was the worst, so people called it “Yanglin Tansho”.

In 2011, the production technique of Yanyunjian bronze ware became the intangible cultural heritage of Nanhe Province.

Therefore, in the exhibition hall on the second floor of the museum, each process of bronze ware production is exhibited separately, so that all tourists can learn about the production of bronze ware through them.

Afterwards, I said that there are no Tang Bacai and antique bronzes among the specialties there, but in fact it is not Yangluo shovel.

Of course, Weicheng's side is nothing, after all, Runanhe's side has no name, and they really haven't become small or weak.