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The next day.

Zhao Shucheng brought Xu Hongdou to the woodcarving shop again. Xie Heshun and Xie Xiaoxia saw them coming and put down the tools in their hands.

Xie Heshun asked, "Mr. Zhao, are you here today?"

"Master Xie, I'm here today to ask for some more wood. Hongdou also wants a recliner, so I have to trouble you to take us to pick one."

"Okay, no problem. I don't have much else here, but a lot of wood."

Xie Xiaoxia said to Xu Hongdou: "Xu Hongdou, you want to make a deck chair too?"

"Yes, it's nice to have a recliner in the yard to rest."

"After the reclining chair is finished, I'll help you carve patterns on it."

Xie Heshun didn't wait for Xu Hongdou to agree, and said directly with a smile on his face: "Why do you help, you are ashamed to do it with your current skills."

"But he can carve and make a lounge chair by himself, why can't I."

"If I say you can't do it, then you can't. You've been so impetuous all day, how could you make something good..."

Xie Heshun scolded Xie Xiaoxia all over his head and face. He is a typical veteran craftsman who thinks that he is good at his crafts so he doesn't worry about not having a job or making money.

However, the changes of the times will not remain unchanged. The development of machines is getting faster and faster, and machine carving is becoming more and more a trend.For the same pattern, machine engraving may only take a few minutes, while hand engraving takes ten days and half a month. Customers simply cannot wait.

What's more, when people buy wood carvings nowadays, most of them are not for practical use, but for decoration or small ornaments. How many people care about the artistry and humanistic value of them?

Xie Heshun, on the other hand, was unable to see the changes of the times clearly because of his old-fashioned nature, and blamed the young people for their impatience and impetuosity.

In fact, the inheritance of veteran craftsmen is the same, but people in ancient times, as apprentices, willingly worked for the master, and gave gifts to the master during the festivals.That's because at that time, the skills passed on from the master to the apprentices could feed the apprentices and support their families.

Now the cost of hand-carving and machine-carving is incomparable. The handicrafts of those master craftsmen are not easy to sell, not to mention the works of apprentices who have only studied for three or two years. They cannot be sold at all, and naturally they cannot make money.If it is a big company, they have money and can raise a lot of apprentices, so they can provide the company with a steady stream of junior talents, so that interns and assistants can survive.

But Xie Heshun's woodcarving shop is just a small shop, and he doesn't earn much money every month, and the apprentices don't charge any fees, but they need to take care of their own food and lodging, so naturally not every family can afford to live there.

Even if Xie Heshun became a non-genetic person at the state level, his reputation is not small. In fact, there are not many orders, so it is impossible to use money to supplement the lives of his apprentices.The apprentices couldn't get enough to eat, so how could they settle down to learn woodcarving, and even insist on it all the time.

After Xie Heshun trained Xie Xiaoxia for a few words, he turned to Zhao Shucheng and said, "Come on, I'll take you to pick wood, and then it will be the same as last time, using wood carving tools, and then need wax, right?"

"Yes, thank you, master."

After Xie Heshun took Zhao Shucheng to choose the wood, he said, "Okay, I'll send this to you later."

"Okay, then please thank the master, and I will ask you to give me some pointers then."

Xie Heshun said with a smile after hearing this: "It's not about giving advice, let's exchange ideas."

Seeing Xie Xiaoxia who was somewhat disdainful, he said, "Xiaoxia, come with me to deliver wood!"

Xie Xiaoxia agreed after hearing this, with a smile on her face.But it wasn't because his master asked him to help, but because he was going to watch Zhao Shucheng's joke.Yesterday Zhao Shucheng said that he could carve wood, but he wanted to see what Zhao Shucheng made.

Zhao Shucheng and Xu Hongdou were walking back. Xu Hongdou asked curiously, "Is this enough? Why do you always use traditional tools? Isn't it faster and better to use electric ones?"

Zhao Shucheng said: "I'm just not used to using electric ones, and the key to hand-carving is to rely on my own feel, but this traditional tool is more suitable for the feel, and there is a feeling that the tool and the person are integrated. When the time comes More spiritual."

"Well, I can't tell the difference anyway. By the way, can this recliner be finished today?"

"It shouldn't be a problem, maybe you can use it in the afternoon. But if you are more particular, you don't have to rush to use it. It is best to air dry for more than a day, so as not to damage the paint. Of course, if it can be left to dry naturally for seven days, then It is the best. The wood wax furniture is aged early to form a slow oxidation polymerization film, the longer the time, the better the effect."

Not long after Zhao Shucheng and Xu Hongdou came back, Xie Heshun and Xie Xiaoxia also brought wood to Youfeng Courtyard.

They first helped move things to the yard, and they saw the deck chairs on the balcony at a glance.

You can't see the details from a distance, but you can see the engraved patterns on the recliner just like this, which looks good.

And when the two of them walked to the balcony and took a closer look at the reclining chair and the patterns carved by Zhao Shucheng on it, Xie Heshun was also a little amazed.

Xie Xiaoxia was dumbfounded, he didn't expect Zhao Shucheng to be able to carve patterns, and it looked like it was done in one go.He originally wanted to ask whether Zhao Shucheng bought a recliner online, this one was not processed from wood yesterday at all.But when you see one of the pieces of wood, you know it's all true.

Because when the wood was brought in yesterday, he noticed the pattern on this piece of wood, and he couldn't read it wrong.

"Mr. Zhao, your craft is better than many master craftsmen in our village. Don't you also open a woodcarving shop? You are not from the capital, so why are you so proficient in this thing?"

Zhao Shucheng said with a smile: "Actually, I have always been very interested in our carpentry craftsmanship, from traditional mortise and mortise structures to wood carvings and micro-carvings. So I found a chance to learn it, but there are few opportunities to practice it. Only here is the chance to really build your own furniture by yourself.”

"This is the first time for you to get started? Then you are too good. I almost didn't hurt my hand when I got started, but I can't see the last thing at all."

Zhao Shucheng said: "It's not the first time to get started. I have made some small gadgets before, but this is the first time for big ones."

Xie Xiaoxia said: "Mr. Zhao, your craftsmanship is so good. If you are a carpenter, you must have a future. It is much better than our woodcarving shop."

Zhao Shucheng laughed when he heard it, and said, "What nonsense are you kidding? Nowadays carpentry is much more difficult than woodcarving. Except for rural areas, whoever finds a carpenter to make furniture will go directly to the furniture city to buy finished products."

"That's not bad, even if you make furniture in the village, you can make a lot of money, right?"

"You're not right. Most of the time, the furniture in the village doesn't find someone to make it by yourself. Instead, you buy the finished product directly."

Xie Xiaoxia said: "Anyway, I think at least furniture is needed by every household, and there will always be business. It's not like in our store. After my master spent ten and a half months to finish the wood carving, he placed it directly in the store. It may not be sold for a few months. Your reclining chair is ready, you can use it for yourself or sell it, it is better than a wood carving that cannot be eaten or drunk, and cannot be used."

"You are still pragmatism, so if you put it this way, those who take pictures, draw pictures, and even burn porcelain basically don't need to do it."

"What's more, do you think the furniture made by carpenters is very profitable? Now everyone is surfing the Internet, you can go online to see how much a wooden chair or furniture costs. Other furniture factories produce furniture, and it is possible to assemble a set of furniture in a few minutes We are so exhausted and busy that we can build a set of furniture in a day, and we are considered master craftsmen. A chair costs more than ten or twenty yuan, which is not enough for our wood money, or it is not enough work at all. You still think that being a carpenter Is there any competition?"

Xie Xiaoxia said: "Then our wood carvings are not the same. Now organic carvings can be made in a few minutes, and the patterns may be the same as our handmade ones, and there will not even be any mistakes. Then why should we learn to carve by hand? Woolen cloth?"

Seeing that Xie Heshun was going to explode, Zhao Shucheng quickly pulled Xie Heshun and said, "Master Xie, let's sit down and drink tea, and talk while drinking. What Xie Xiaoxia said is not wrong, but she is still too impetuous and doesn't understand it thoroughly at all." .”

"Machine carving does have a great impact on hand-carving now, and because of its low price and beauty, it has become the choice of many people. After all, the development of industrialization is irreversible, and it will have a great impact on traditional handicrafts. Just like Clothes, in the past, each household bought cloth to make clothes, but why everyone bought ready-made clothes and seldom made them themselves, because of the cost-effectiveness.”

"But everything is not absolute. The clothes in your factory are indeed good, but because they are produced on an assembly line, they are all produced by cold machines, so everything is standard in size. And making clothes by yourself, because it is tailor-made, instead It is more suitable for everyone's needs. Therefore, hand-made custom clothes have once again become the choice of many people, and the price is not worse than ready-made clothes. Even some personally customized clothes are even as expensive as luxury goods, and it is possible to spend money Can't buy it."

"The same is true for your wood carvings. Although machine carvings can be produced on a large scale, they are all made from the same mold, so they don't have the charm of hand-carving. It is impossible for machine carvings to become antiques because they are the same and there are many. On the contrary Hand-carved, if your work is good enough, even if the craftsmanship is good enough, and has enough artistic value, even if it is not possible to become a collectible that everyone is vying for for a while, it will also have great collection value in the future, and the price is naturally high. .”

Xie Heshun smiled again after hearing this, he felt that his wood carvings were not comparable to those machine carvings, and could even be regarded as works of art. (end of this chapter)