Chapter 1151 Cheng Ying’s Helplessness
Yuan Zhou spoke so softly that Cheng Ying beside him didn't hear him clearly.
"Master, what are you carving today?" Cheng Ying looked at the things on the table curiously, feeling a little strange.
Cheng Ying accompanied Yuan Zhou to buy vegetables. She usually bought rhizome or melon vegetables, which can only be carved.
But now, on the table where Yuan Zhou usually places carving ingredients, there is a green bamboo tube, a palm-sized but thick stone, and a piece of wood from an unknown tree. Even the outer skin of the wood is not clear. It's still up there.
"Non-food carvings." Yuan Zhou said.
"Do we need to be able to do this as chefs?" Cheng Ying said she was shocked.
"I need to know it," Yuan Zhou said.
"But, this doesn't seem to have anything to do with cooking?" Cheng Ying said cautiously.
"These can be used to practice wrist strength, wrist flexibility, and mastery of various hard and soft ingredients, and can be used as food utensils." It is rare for Yuan Zhou to say such a long sentence.
"But Master, your carving is already very, very good." Cheng Ying said sincerely.
"No, it's still far away." Yuan Zhou shook his head, remembering the second chapter of the Carver that had not yet been completed.
"Master, you have really high demands on yourself." Cheng Ying said with admiration and emotion.
"This is how we can make progress." Yuan Zhou started to pick up a knife in one hand and a bamboo joint in the other, preparing to carve it.
"Come on, Master, Master is the best." As a salty fish who is only three years younger than Yuan Zhou but only knows a little pastry, Cheng Ying decisively started shouting 666 to help Yuan Zhou.
Yuanzhou nodded, and then began to observe the bamboo in his hand.
This bamboo joint is probably located in the middle of the bamboo. It is about the size of Yuan Zhou's wrist. There are two bamboo tubes in total, and there is an obvious light yellow bamboo joint in the middle.
The cutting place is very smooth and there are no sawdust, and the green color of the outer layer is also very bright, and it feels slightly moist to the touch, so it must have been freshly cut.
Yuanzhou squeezed it with his hands to test the softness of the bamboo tube, then turned the bamboo sections over in his hands and looked at it carefully again.
Every time he faces new ingredients or carving materials, Yuanzhou will observe them carefully and only start carving when he knows what they are doing.
But now Yuanzhou observes this bamboo joint for a longer time than usual. After all, this is his first time carving bamboo.
"Use relief techniques to make a container that can be used at both ends." Yuan Zhou's idea gradually matured.
"My fellow countryman Su Shi a thousand years ago said that you can eat without meat, but you can't live without bamboo. Without meat, you will be thin, and without bamboo, you will be vulgar. Then carve something elegant." Yuan Zhou picked up the bamboo and was the first one to think of it. It is this poem that determines what kind of pattern to carve.
Yuan Zhou held the miracle kitchen knife tightly in his right hand, held the bamboo tube weakly in his left hand, and started to cut without hesitation.
The sharp kitchen knife made no sound when cutting on the bamboo surface, and smoothly separated the green bamboo skin on the surface.
In fact, bamboo carving is also called bamboo carving. This skill is mainly popular in southern my country and reached its peak in the Ming Dynasty, from which two sects were born.
One school is the Jinling Bamboo Carvings represented by Jinling Bamboo Carvings, and the other is the Jiading School represented by Modu.
Of course, there are many sects under these two major sects, but represented by these two sects, the system gave Yuanzhou not only bamboo carvings, but also wood carvings, stone carvings, bone carvings, etc.
Therefore, when Yuan Zhou absorbed these skills, he chose the one that suited him best to practice first, which was the carving technique of leaving green.
The carving technique of Liuqing is flat carving. This technique is commonly used and most familiar to Yuanzhou. The meaning of Liuqing is to use a layer of green skin on the surface of bamboo to carve a pattern, and then shovel away the green skin outside the pattern to expose the bamboo skin. This way The carving technique is called leaving green.
Because it uses a carving technique that is simple and familiar to Yuan Zhou, Yuan Zhou chose difficult figure carvings when choosing carving patterns.
Yes,
Yuanzhou is preparing to carve pictures of Su Dongpo reciting poems.
"Swish, swish, swish" The green skin of the bamboo slowly piled up at his feet as Yuan Zhou's hand raised and lowered the knife.
Cheng Ying behind her widened her eyes and watched Yuan Zhou's movements seriously.
Sculpting is a boring thing, or practicing any skill is very boring, but Yuan Zhou endured it and practiced seriously.
Two hours passed by like this. Cheng Ying's feet were numb and she had to change her stance more than a dozen times, but Yuan Zhou still maintained the same posture as before. He didn't even bend his straight back, and his hands The kitchen knife on the table was still swinging vigorously.
It's just that the amplitude of the swing is getting smaller and smaller, because the carving has begun to come to an end.
"Master is really amazing. He can just sit there for hours without changing his posture." Cheng Ying changed her posture again and sighed in her heart.
"Alas." Suddenly Yuan Zhou sighed softly, and then the bamboo tube just now was thrown directly into the trash can at his feet.
"Master!" Cheng Ying stared at the exquisite bamboo carvings in the trash can with an expression of disbelief.
"Oh, it's time to prepare lunch." Yuanzhou finally realized and started to pack up.
"No, Master, this bamboo carving..." Cheng Ying pointed to the exquisitely patterned bamboo tube exposed in the trash can, and she couldn't express her excitement.
"The carving is broken, so I can't have it." Yuan Zhou said calmly.
"Uh." Cheng Ying said she was choked.
Cheng Ying used her excellent 5.5 eyesight to guarantee that the bamboo carving was perfect. On it was a man wearing a flowing robe, standing in a green bamboo forest and looking up at the sky, holding a wine glass in one hand and one hand behind his back.
At this time, it was like a gust of wind blowing, the robes fluttered, the bamboo leaves fell to the bluestone floor, and even half the shadow of a bright moon could be seen between the bamboo trees.
The whole picture was so beautiful that it looked like a painting by Wu Hai, but Yuan Zhou said that such a perfect carving was broken.
"You should go back for lunch." Yuan Zhou reminded him as he moved the table.
"Oh yes, lunch, no! Master, it's not lunch time now. I saw this bamboo carving. It's so beautiful, so delicate, so perfect, there are no flaws at all!" Cheng Ying nodded blankly at first, and then immediately chased Yuan Zhou said.
You must know that in Cheng Ying's opinion, this bamboo sculpture is not only flawless and perfect, but also has a slight flaw. But this is the result of her master sitting there for two hours, how can she just throw it away.
"That hair was broken by a stroke." Yuan Zhou put down the table and said.
"It's just a little hair..." Cheng Ying subconsciously wanted to retort, but looking at Yuan Zhou's serious face, she swallowed her words.
Cheng Ying remembered that her master had obsessive-compulsive disorder, and it was the ultimate evolved form of obsessive-compulsive disorder.
How Cheng Ying remembered correctly, not long after Yuan Zhou started carving, a stroke of hair outside the Confucian scholar's turban broke off, but he still finished carving the bamboo carving before throwing it away.
Obsessive-compulsive disorder is so persistent. Even if you make a mistake, you have to finish carving the entire picture before throwing it away.
"Is it true that only obsessive-compulsive disorder in this world can be so powerful?!" Cheng Ying asked this question.
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