jade life

The Jewelry and Jade Fair officially started, everyone went to join in the fun, and Su Zhiyang went to see the jade carvers.

In the jewelry and jade trade fair, there are always some sculptures made by everyone. Learning from the essence of others and improving his own technology is also what Su Zhiyang is most passionate about.

Master Shi Yonghe once said that there is no first jade carving, it only depends on the appreciation angle of everyone.

Of course, there are good or bad carvers, but the design of jade depends not only on the carver, but also on the material and the appearance of the jade.

Some jade stones seem inconspicuous, and the varieties are not very good, but a few knives can make the jade stones alive, and that is the real skill.

For example, the very famous pomegranate carving is like this.Green on the outside and red on the inside, it is actually a piece of miscellaneous jade, with red jadeite inside, green emerald on the outside, and not much transitional color in the middle. It was originally a miscellaneous jade that was extremely unappreciated, but later a master carver carved it into a pair. The peeled pomegranates that grow together are so vivid that at first glance it can't even be seen that they are fake pomegranates carved from jade.

This pomegranate carving has been collected by a collector and has become the most precious existence in his collection.Shi Yonghe has some kind of friendship with that collector. He once took Su Zhiyang to appreciate this pomegranate carving. Su Zhiyang admired it very much, and made a bold ambition to carve such a classic carving in the future.

At that time, Su Zhiyang was only six or seven years old, and everyone laughed heartily with his innocent and childish rhetoric on his serious expression, but this became the real goal and pursuit in Su Zhiyang's heart.

In Su Zhiyang's heart, sculpture is a very magical thing. In the hands of a sculptor, anything can become an extremely beautiful thing in the world, especially when it is spiritualized by people, it is even more touching.He thinks it is a wonderful thing that a thing such as wood, jade, crystal or even some stones can be turned into a person or thing full of beauty in his hands.

He became a teacher at the age of three and had been in the jade carving industry for five or six years. It was not until he was eight that he picked up a carving knife for the first time.

The moment Su Zhiyang picked up the carving knife, his heart was extremely pious. Although his body was only eight years old, his mental age was not only eight years old.

He still remembers that the first carving that the master asked him to carve was a wooden cup, which was simple and clear.

He forgot to engrave the handle on the first cup he carved, and finally changed from an imaginary big cup to a small teacup.

That's okay, at least it looks like a cup.

Just like Leonardo da Vinci painted eggs, he carved a year of cups, large cups, small cups, goblets, and finally ancient bronze-shaped cups.

One cup after another bears witness to Xiao Zhiyang's hardship and determination in learning to carve.

At that time, he was young, and his little hands were still delicate. Carving made his fingers wear out again and again, blistered, and finally grew into calluses.

The master Shi Yonghe was so distressed several times that he secretly applied medicine and bandaged Xiao Zhiyang after he fell asleep, and then secretly removed the bandage the next morning, just because the bandage would affect the flexibility of his fingers, which in turn would affect his fingertips. Sculpting exercises subtlety in small details.

Su Zhiyang had been carving wood for two years. When he was ten years old, Su Zhiyang finally started carving stone.

He has carved all kinds of stone materials, and the hardness of various jade stones he has learned and mastered has become the key to carving. Many stone materials can even be told with closed eyes when they are picked up. Emerald Hetian jade, agate crystal Lapis lazuli, all kinds of materials came into his hands, and it became his instinct to blurt out its various data.

Of course, when learning to sculpt, the learning of painting is also a top priority.

Painting is different from sculpture, it can only be done when Su Zhiyang's bones have a certain supporting force.Since he was a child, he has liked all kinds of engraving and drawing books, and he also likes to draw graphics everywhere. After all, he has the consciousness of an adult and knows what he should learn in his life and where he should spend his time.

It can be said that Su Zhiyang had no childhood, and his childhood was spent in continuous learning and sculpting.Sometimes, the master was reluctant and drove him out to play with his classmates, but Su Zhiyang was not interested, and most likely he would not go.Even after going to school for group activities and outings, he can also draw a small half of the picture book and come back.

Seeing that Su Zhiyang really likes carving, Shi Yonghe was relieved.He was still able to receive such a closed disciple at such an old age, it was truly a gift from heaven.

In the jewelry and jade fair, some of the jewelry exhibits seen are not only jade carvings, but also jewelry designs.In jewelry design, the design of jade is a very important part. It does not show the carving, but replaces the carving of jade with some metals, and puts together jade of various shapes.

Su Zhiyang does not dislike this modern and trendy jewelry design, nor does he deny its beauty.But for this kind of jade, he is not interested.

It is a pity that in this kind of jewelry and jade trade fairs, there are fewer and fewer pure carving jade carvings.