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The discussion meeting held by the bamboo carving guild in conjunction with the jade, stone and wood carving guilds quickly spread throughout Mingzhou and Yuezhou with the help of interested people. Leaving the port of Mingzhou, upon hearing the words, he stopped by Mingzhou to join in the fun.

Even these foreign businessmen knew about this, and the literati, poets and common people in Mingzhou and Yuezhou also knew about it.

Those who were familiar with Song Lufang's bamboo carvings saw that she was on the invitation list, and they also paid attention to this matter.

Although the guild is in the name of exchanging ideas, it has prepared a venue - a bamboo forest in the south of Dongqian Lake, named "Bamboo Island". Although it is a bamboo sea, there is also a Jinzhao Hall.

Jinzhaotang was built by the former magistrates and wealthy households from the township and county. It belongs to the public, but ordinary people can also come here to play and rest.And here is also one of the favorite places for literati and poets to hold gatherings and poetry gatherings.

The guild asked the government to reserve this place in advance, and in order to maintain order and public security issues, a barrier will be set up here at that time. Except for the famous sculptors who are invited to participate in the conference, the rest of the people who want to watch have to buy the door first. qualifications.

Of course, maintaining order and law and order are all on the bright side, and a discerning person can tell at a glance that the purpose of the guild is to sell "entry qualifications" to make a profit.

And when they heard that tickets were going to be bought, the common people gave up the idea of ​​joining in the fun. Although the tickets were not expensive, they didn't know how to appreciate sculpture art, so why waste the money?

Mr. Xing was also very worried about whether his daughter's idea was feasible. His daughter obviously expected this situation, and said: "The entry qualification will not make much profit, and our purpose is not here. Just think about it, dad, if you can come to join in this fun In addition to those who are quite famous and elegant, there must be those rich and powerful households, after all, there are not only bamboo and wood carvings in this competition, but also jade carvings!"

Xing Lao thought about it, and soon figured it out. In name, it was a discussion and exchange, but secretly it was a competition. In fact, it was to take the opportunity to promote the carving works of famous masters and masters in the guild. Their business also included selling bamboo carvings. At the same time, it also undertakes the work of carving beams and painting buildings needed for others to build houses and repair houses.

In other words, there are many craftsmen under them. If they can take this opportunity to increase the reputation of bamboo and wood carvings and attract more people to add some bamboo and wood carvings when building houses, it will be profitable for them.And this is also the reason why the jade carving and stone carving guilds agreed to join forces with the bamboo carving guilds.

The picture of the old lady's daughter is not limited to this, she has contacted many merchants in private, some sell the four treasures of the study, some sell food, and some sell fruit and drink. She rents out some stalls to them. Famous people, or ordinary people who came to watch, must also need food and drink.

Mr. Xing was dumbfounded by her operation, held a discussion meeting, and was stunned that she came up with several ways to make money!

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Even though they know the purpose of the guild, many people are still prepared to buy qualifications to watch, not for other reasons, because this discussion involves the development of the craft of carving, and its impact may be limited to Mingzhou, but in the future it will always spread around, bringing a different style to the traditional carving craft.

Rich second-generations like Zhao Yu who have nothing to do and like to join in the fun are naturally happy to watch; there are also scholars like Wang Zhi who want to see the difference between the seminars in the crafts world and the literary meetings and gatherings among their scholars; Li Sigu and other people who are quite proud of calligraphy and painting also want to see if their works have the opportunity to appear on those sculptures.

So the entry qualification coupons, which were originally only [-] coins, were fired at a high price of [-] coins per qualification.

No matter what people outside think about this competition, Song Yuyan doesn't care much about how high the tickets are.She has a lot of things to do, and she has to spare time to carve bamboo carvings after finishing her business every day, so Lou Gao almost brought the news from outside.

Song Yuyan didn't intend to deal with this competition in a perfunctory manner. Unless the conditions were not met, if she randomly took out a bamboo carving that did not match her current level to compete with others, it would be contemptuous of the other party and an insult to her. Love the bamboo carvings.

Since this workshop did not limit the green bamboo carving, she planned to use various carving techniques to carve a piece of work.

Tang Ye, who only learned Liuqing bamboo carving, was very surprised: "Can different techniques of bamboo carving be used together?"

Song Yuyan said: "As long as you think about it, you can naturally. However, many people are stuck in the 'thinking' right now. They have never thought about it, so naturally they can't carve it out."

Song Yuyan didn't dare to call herself a master, after all, what she learned was the continuous pondering and research of her predecessors, and then breakthroughs appeared slowly with the development of society.

As far as the current carving technology is concerned, the craftsmen lack innovative thinking. A piece of work is either embossed, flat carved, or openworked. Even though root carving appeared in the Tang Dynasty, the expressive techniques are still single.But when it comes to the techniques and techniques of carving, there are still many people who can be called masters.

As Song Yuyan mentioned earlier, this is because during the Han and Tang dynasties, carving techniques were generally inherited by craftsmen, that is, artisans, and literati did not have much involvement in this aspect of aesthetics.

However, since the Zhou Dynasty, literati have become more and more fond of bamboo, one of the four gentlemen. They began to write poems and paintings on bamboo, and now they appreciate bamboo carving.As literati began to pay attention to bamboo carving, their requirements for bamboo carving craftsmanship will also increase, which will prompt sculptors to "think", think of more patterns, and think of more techniques.

So in this conference, Song Yuyan's focus is still on learning from each other. She hopes that her bamboo carvings can inspire her peers, and she also hopes to learn from the carving experience accumulated by these predecessors, and strive to make her skills more superb. more spiritual.

As for Tang Ye, Song Yuyan asked her to learn Liuqing bamboo carving first, and then she would teach her other carving techniques.

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Tang Zhi saw Song Yuyan carving with an oil lamp in the middle of the night several times. She felt sorry for the lamp oil money and Song Yuyan, so after she mastered how to grow cotton, she asked Song Yuyan to spare time for carving and let her take care of the cotton fields.

Song Yuyan saw that the cotton seedlings had successfully passed the adaptation period, and the roots began to go deep into the ground. They grew gratifyingly in the sunny days, and they had not yet reached the flower bud stage. She no longer needed her to keep an eye on them all the time, so she could only trouble Tang Zhi paid more attention.

As for the problem that cotton is prone to pests such as aphids and cotton bollworms, Tang Zhi also used the pest control methods used to grow vegetables to solve it, because she remembered Song Yuyan said that those methods could prevent and control aphids.

Song Yuyan was still a little surprised that Tang Zhi was able to get started with cotton planting so quickly, but it became clear when she thought that her wife was also good at farming white wax worms - all because of her wife's strong learning ability.If this continues, she will be able to engage in breeding and planting in the future!

This matter is too long-term, Song Yuyan can only include it in the long-term plan, and after distracting these matters, she began to concentrate on sculpting her works.

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The Dragon Boat Festival passed in the blink of an eye, and the discussion meeting of the Jade, Stone, Bamboo and Wood Carving Guild also arrived as scheduled.According to the arrangement of the guild, the conference will be held for four days. The first day is for jade carving, the second day is for stone carving, the third day is for bamboo carving, and the last day is for wood carving.

Anyone with a discerning eye will know that the bamboo carving is the finale of this arrangement. Although the woodcarving shop is a bit dissatisfied as the woodcarving shop held discussions and exchanges on the last day, after all, this conference is led by the bamboo carving shop. This is not their home field, so they can only express their dissatisfaction. Swallow it back into your stomach.

Song Yuyan went out on the first day.This trip will take four days, so Song Yuyan, Tang Zhi, Tang Ye, and Binger will go there together, except for Sun'er who has to go to school and is not free.

Song Yuyan asked Tang Zhi to go back to Tang's house to get a set of Tang Haogen's clothes for Tang Ye to change into. Tang Zhi pulled her and muttered to her in a low voice, "Could it be that Ah Yao thinks Xiao Ye is the same as you, and no one will recognize her real identity if she puts on a man's clothes?" ?”

Song Yuyan was secretly startled, did Tang Zhi say this unintentionally, or did she already know that her cheating to conceal her identity was related to her attire?Because the system said that cheating is only to reduce other people's impression of her gender, but if she looks feminine in her attire, then their perception of her identity will change.

She carefully observed Tang Zhi's expression. Seeing that she didn't respond, the latter tugged at her sleeve again: "What do you think?"

Song Yuyan came back to her senses, she felt that she probably thought too much, it was impossible for Tang Zhi to know that the system had cheated on her.

"I asked her to change into men's clothes not to make everyone think she is a man, but to exchange ideas with those colleagues, and she can change into men's clothes, so there will be less criticism."

Tang Zhi asked curiously: "Since you know there will be criticism, why did you take her there, and you also plan to let her take out her own bamboo carvings to compete with others?"

Song Yuyan said: "This is a very good opportunity. If she really intends to continue on the road of bamboo carving, then she has to broaden her horizons, learn from other people's experience, learn from their good points, and improve her own carving skills. , and to think about how to develop and innovate bamboo carving techniques.”

Song Yuyan continued, "Besides, she is different from you and Binger. As the audience, no one will care whether you are a man or a lady, but she is going to show a bamboo carving, and there will be many eyes at that time." On her body. Although people can still see that she is a little lady after changing her clothes, it is much more low-key than when she appeared there directly in a skirt."

Song Yuyan is more fortunate that there is no Cheng-Zhu Neo-Confucianism at present, and there is no idea that "a woman without talent is a virtue". It is not uncommon to learn bamboo carving and practice calligraphy and painting.

Tang Zhi didn't mean to blame Song Yuyan, she asked Tang Ye, Tang Ye chose to participate in the competition of his own accord, and he was also firm on the path of bamboo carving.Tang Zhi also hopes that she can persevere, if she can gain some fame in the future, it will not be in vain for her to persevere for so many years.

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Lou Gao knew that Song Yuyan was going to participate in the competition, and he and his father were also particularly concerned about it, so he sent a carriage to pick up Song Yuyan.He also wanted to arrange for Song Yuyan to settle in the Lou family's mansion in Mingzhou, but Song Yuyan declined because of the inconvenience of dragging his family along.

Lou Gao said: "Why are you being polite to me about our friendship? How unsafe and troublesome is it to stay outside?"

Lou Gao's wife Zhu Shi was also there, and she also admired Song Yuyan's character and talent, so she also persuaded him.It just so happened that Lou Gao's fifth son, Lou Yu, was playing with a cuju in the courtyard, and the cuju rolled to Song Yuyan's feet. He ran over, lost his balance, and grabbed Song Yuyan's pants.

Zhu said with a smile: "Yu'er also hopes that you will settle down here!"

Lou Yu, who is only three years old, looks white, tender, and soft, which can melt people's hearts.He also repeated Zhu Shi's words in a childish voice: "foot feet."

Lou Gao couldn't hold back, picked him up and kissed him hard, Song Yuyan was also amused by him, and turned to ask Tang Zhi's opinion.Tang Zhi naturally acted as if she was in charge when she was outside, so the group of them settled here at Lou Gao.

After the accommodation problem was resolved, Song Yuyan couldn't wait to go to Zhuzhou, but Tang Ye and Binger didn't go.One of them was asked to refine their own bamboo carvings, and the other could not escape the fate of practicing calligraphy and painting even if they traveled far away.

Lou Gao was not very interested in jade carvings, so he didn't go with him, but after Mrs. Zhu coaxed Lou Yu to take a nap, he saw that Binger was painting, so he watched from the side.

After Song Yuyan's strict training, Bing'er was able to concentrate when painting, so her arms were sore when she was painting, and she realized that there were people watching when she was about to take a break.

Mrs. Zhu asked her: "Who taught the painting of the little lady?"

Binger told the truth: "Brother taught me."

Zhu nodded. She remembered that her father-in-law and husband-in-law had mentioned that Song Yuyan was good at painting and calligraphy, and was good at painting landscapes.And she also knows painting and calligraphy, and when she saw Bing'er's immature and first-time charm paintings, she couldn't help giving Bing'er some pointers.

Bing'er was very honest when she was outside, and it was also the first time for Zhu to see her. Apart from seeing that she was not good at behavior, she didn't know much about her.It's just that after getting along with her for a while, I like this cute and cute child more and more.

If it wasn't for Bing'er's young age, she would have proposed marriage for her third son, who was already thirteen years old.