if relics could talk

Cultural relic restorers, the off-duty time is actually relatively fixed.

The restoration of many cultural relics, the light is very important, the effect is not the same under sunlight and lighting.

There is also an essential difference between salvage restoration and creative restoration.

When Tao Le arrived, most of the people were already getting ready to get off work.

Lao Tao received a call from his daughter in advance, and was still waiting in the office. When Tao Le arrived, he led her to the painting team.

"Why don't you say you're lucky," Lao Tao put his hands behind his back and led his daughter forward cheerfully, his steps were very relaxed and cheerful, and his small expression was a little smug, "Your Uncle Li accepted a high-ranking apprentice two years ago. , I think the young man looks good, go talk to him and see if he is interested in helping you."

The "Uncle Li" in Lao Tao's mouth refers to Li Bocai, a cultural relic restorer in the mounting group. He is 53 years old this year. He entered the industry at about the same time as Lao Tao. I also watched Tao Le grow up.

When Tao Le reached the door, he poked his head in and said, "Isn't this my Uncle Li? I haven't seen him for several months, why is he so handsome again?"

Li Bocai is different from Lao Tao. He has always paid attention to image management. After work every day, he will exercise for more than an hour, but he does not like the gym. He usually runs or walks fast, and he never eats staple food for dinner. It is still maintained so well, there is no belly at all.

The most important thing is that Li Bocai's hair is still very thick, and he looks at most 40 years old, very youthful, standing with Lao Tao, no one can tell that he is a year older than Lao Tao.

As soon as Tao Le said this, the corners of Li Bocai's mouth twitched before he turned his head around.

"Xiao Ba, come here," Li Bocai greeted Tao Le with a smile, "It's been a long time since I came to see me, I seem to have grown a little taller."

"Uncle Li, I'm already 25 years old," Tao Le approached with a smile, "I won't grow taller at this age!"

"That means you're thinner, and you look taller!"

Seeing their business bragging, Lao Tao urged, "Xiao Ba, don't you have something to talk to Uncle Li about? Tell him quickly, and I'll go play chess with you, Uncle Li!"

Only then did Li Bo take off his glasses, and asked, "What can Xiaoba want from me?"

Tao Le explained his reason for coming: "Uncle Li, haven't I been making videos to promote the series of cultural relics recently..."

Li Bocai was delighted when he heard it: "That's right, that's right, I saw it two days ago. It was pretty good. I was going to ask your father about it, but I forgot it when I was busy."

"I'm going to make a new video this time, and the theme of cultural relics is "Mrs. Guoguo's Spring Outing." Tao Le laughed "hehe" twice, "but I need a prop that can be faked, so I'm here to trouble you Yet?"

The reason why Tao Le came to Li Bocai was not only because he was a master in the restoration of ancient calligraphy and painting relics, but also because he was also an expert in the creation of traditional Chinese paintings.

But Li Bocai was really too busy during this period and didn't have time.

After thinking about it, he called the apprentice who had been working with his head down, as if he hadn't heard the conversation between them.

"Let me introduce to you, this is Yi Xuzhi, who has just completed a very difficult calligraphy and painting restoration work with me. He is a young cultural relic restorer in our mounting group." Li Bocai introduced them, "This is Lao Tao Our daughter Tao Le, we all call her Xiao Ba."

Tao Le quickly reached out to shake Yi Xuzhi's hand.

Ke Yi Xuzhi's hands were covered in paint, and he was a little at a loss.

After noticing the paint on Yi Xuzhi's hand, Tao Le simply took his hand back and stepped forward to hug him.

"Uncle Li doesn't give praise easily," Tao Le said after letting go of Yi Xuzhi, "It's an honor to meet you."

Tao Le's words were true. When Lao Tao introduced him, he mentioned "high apprentice". His professional level has been highly recognized.

In particular, he looks really very young, probably about the same age as Tao Le. It is really amazing to have this achievement.

"It's an honor to meet you too." Yi Xuzhi didn't seem to have a very enthusiastic personality, he replied politely, "I heard from Master that your videos are very popular on the Internet, and you are willing to speak up for cultural relics." Lord, it's rare."

Although Li Bocai had a very high opinion of him, Yi Xuzhi was still very humble. He pretended to be Li Bocai's apprentice both inside and outside his words.

With real ability and modesty, it is indeed the type that Lao Tao and the others will like.

Lao Tao took this opportunity to wink at Li Bocai.

When Li Bo received the signal, he got up immediately and said, "I made an appointment with Lao Tao to play chess, but the place was taken up when we were late, Xu Zhi, I will leave the matter of Xiao Ba to you!"

"Understood, Master."

After they left, only Tao Le and Yi Xuzhi were left in the room.

Yi Xuzhi had been doing restoration work before they came.

Tao Le leaned over to look curiously: "Have you started to repair it directly?"

Generally, restorers of cultural relics must be able to reproduce something that can be faked before they can start to restore it.

This Yi Xuzhi looks so young...

Tao Le suddenly remembered that when Li Bocai introduced him just now, he said that the two of them had just completed a very difficult calligraphy and painting restoration work together.

"I'm narrow-minded." Tao Le became serious. "Ability is not only related to age."

"Not really," Yi Xuzhi smiled, "I am an inheritor of the intangible heritage of mounting paintings. I have learned mounting paintings from my family since I was a child. It is a plus point for me to have the art of mounting paintings in my family."

It turned out that there was another reason for this.

Although Tao Le knew these uncles and uncles since she was a child, she was not so clear about their majors. She poked her head to look at the cultural relic that Yi Xuzhi was repairing just now, and asked, "Can you introduce the restoration of calligraphy and painting?" ?"

"Of course." When Yi Xuzhi mentioned this, he was obviously much more at ease. He introduced calmly, "The restoration of ancient calligraphy and paintings is very cumbersome. Restoration, after you have a good idea, you can start the first process, which is cleaning."

"Then your hands must be very steady."

"To understand this process, you must first scald it with boiling water or soak it in clean water for a long time, so that the painting heart can be separated from the rice paper on the back. This is called exposing the painting heart."

Yi Xuzhi pointed to Tao Le: "Look here, the ancient calligraphy and paintings we come into contact with are basically damaged and very fragile, so when exposing the painting heart, we must be extra careful, and there must be no secondary damage."

"Then what happens after the painting heart is revealed?"

"After that, it's time to repair the cracks and holes," Yi Xuzhi pointed out to her again. "Like here, after the cracks and holes are repaired, paint can be used to repair the ink stains and colors on calligraphy and painting."

Tao Le was amazed: "The ink and color have to be made up exactly the same as the original, and the color correction is difficult enough."

"Yes, to complement the color, you must first prepare the pigment to match the color of the calligraphy and painting, and then dye it over and over again. For the damaged picture, you need to pick up the brush, and you must re-paint the damaged part according to the original author's thinking, brushwork, conception and other elements. Creation, until the color and picture of the whole painting are integrated, the whole restoration work is not considered complete.”