Xie Xiaoxia is about to go to the Demon Capital. Xie Zhiyao knew that this news was a big blow to Xie Heshun. After all, over the years, the students who had followed Xie Heshun to learn wood carvings have gone and scattered. There was only Xie Xiaoxia and another child left, but now both of them are leaving.
He looked at Xie Heshun with a bottle of wine and the food, and saw Xie Heshun sitting in the wood carving workshop drinking a suffocating wine.
"Uncle, I'm having a meal alone. Come on, I'll add some food to you, and this bottle of red wine, sent by my good friend, I'll share it with you."
Xie Heshun looked at Xie Zhiyao and said, "Why are you here?"
"This is not Xia Xia is going to the Demon City. I'm worried that you will be so angry. I have to come and see you."
"Hmph, I knew you were not kind-hearted. Did you come to see me and make a joke?"
"No, this is not a good thing, I'll share it with you."
"This is something foreigners only drink. You know I can't get used to it."
"Oh, uncle, you can't say that. The grape wine is luminous and the pipa is urging immediately. Don't laugh at me when you lie drunk on the battlefield. How can you return to war in ancient times? This grape wine has been available in the Tang Dynasty. How can it be something foreigners drink? Come and try it!"
Xie Heshun took a sip, vomited, and said, "This horse urine is better than his. You can drink it yourself, I'll just drink mine."
"I know you may not be used to drinking it. Come and see what this is." Xie Zhiyao said, taking out a small stainless steel wine pot and shaking it.
Xie Heshun smiled when he heard this, took it over and tasted it, and said, "Hey, Auntie's cherry wine? OK!"
Xie Heshun talked about his glorious past and his loneliness now, worrying about the future inheritance.
Xie Zhiyao said, "I knew you were worried about this matter. I came for this matter. I found someone with ability for you to help you run the wood carving workshop. How about it?"
"If you can really find such a capable person, I will of course be happy. But in the ugly words, I can only sell hand-carved things here, not machine-carved things. After all, the government asked me to pass on the craftsmanship, and I can't see the craftsmanship breaking down. Unfortunately, young people are unwilling to learn it now. Even if someone is willing to learn it, the work will be done by machines. No, no!"
Xie Zhiyao said: "You can't say that. The person I'm looking for you will definitely help you. Moreover, this machine cannot completely replace manual labor, because it cannot create, and it cannot adapt to local conditions and make the most of the things."
As he said that, Xie Zhiyao called Zhao Shucheng directly and asked him to drink at the Woodcarving House.
After Zhao Shucheng answered the phone, Xu Hongdou looked at Zhao Shucheng curiously and asked, "What's wrong?"
"It's nothing. Xie Zhiyao invites me to have a drink and leave first."
Xu Hongdou looked at Zhao Shucheng's back with some curiosity, not understanding why Xie Zhiyao invited Zhao Shucheng to have a drink, and it was this time.
After Zhao Shucheng came to the wood carving workshop, he looked at the closed door and could only enter through the back door, and saw that Xie Zhiyao and Xie Heshun had already drunk.
"Zhiyao, Master Xie, you have already drunk it, and why is your wood carving shop closed?"
"Anyway, there is no business, so it doesn't matter if the door doesn't open for a while. Zhiyao, is this the capable person you are looking for for me?"
Xie Zhiyao said: "Of course, uncle, don't look at Zhao Shucheng as young as he is very capable. He is a shareholder and director of a listed company at a young age."
"What did you talk about just now? It looked like you were not in high spirits."
"We are talking about how the wood carving workshop will develop in the future. Now that machine carving is so fast, hand-carving is not very competitive, and not many people are even willing to learn it. So I would like to ask if there is any good idea."
Zhao Shucheng smiled and said, "Actually, I don't have a good idea, this is just like those who are learning to draw now. Since the camera came out, people who are learning to draw have faced a situation where they can't have enough food. Because most of our country is traditional ink paintings, they are not facing a big impact. However, for foreign flower weddings, they have always used realistic oil paintings as the mainstream. Faced with a realistic oil painting that originally took a long time to paint a realistic oil painting that restores the original appearance of objective objects, it only takes a few minutes to take photos with a camera, and even if the time to rinse the photos is only a few hours. Even if necessary, the negative film can be washed many times, and dozens or even hundreds of photos are not a problem."
"The people who create oil paintings are different. Even if they want to draw the same painting, it takes a lot of time, and even in this process it will be a little different from the original painting. Unless it is simply copying, it is impossible to make dozens or hundreds of paintings in just a day. At that time, many painters who were originally famous for their oil paintings and making a living felt that their handicraft workshops were facing competition from large machine workshops."
When Xie Heshun heard Zhao Shucheng say this, he felt a little empathetic. Why isn’t he just like those painters now?
"How did they survive later?"
"With a sense of crisis, we naturally have to find a new way out. Some painters abandon painting and use shadows, throw away their brushes, and start photography. Some simply change their courses and start new business, and directly engage in business in other industries. Of course, some are determined and persistent in the true meaning of realistic painting. However, some people think this is a crisis and an opportunity, so they start to change and innovate, actively explore new forms of painting art. From the original realistic paintings, they start to change and inspire the impressionism, abstractism, etc., and pay more attention to expressing the painter's subjective feelings and emotions, and pay more attention to the expression of light and shadow color. Finally, there are many well-researched famous painters, among which Monet. His water lily now costs tens of millions of painting paintings, and they all have to be auctioned."
This chapter is not over, please click on the next page to continue reading! Xie Heshun sighed after hearing this: "Yes, it's not OK to remain unchanged, but I can't do anything abstract or impressionist, right?"
"Of course it's not about letting you do some impressionism or abstraction, but I think no matter how the machine develops, people's thinking is more imaginative and they are walking in front of the machine."
"Now, most machine carvings can only be carved on planes, that is, they can only be carved with wooden boards, and cannot be processed for some three-dimensional wood. For example, these relief works, or even these things carved with opportunities, do you think they can be made with machines? There is also a kind of multi-layered carving in Chaozhou wood carvings. Nowadays, machines cannot be made, they can only be done by manual."
Xie Heshun looked at his wood carving and said, "Of course I know that these machines can't be made, but I have been working for thirty years. My apprentices can't wait for so long, so naturally no one is willing to hold on for so long."
"Master Xie, my words may not be very good, but I think I still need to say that I have talked to Xie Xiaoxia before about live broadcasts or short video promotions. You may think that Wang Po is selling melons and boasting, but there is a saying that is good, and the wine is still awesome to be afraid of the deep alley."
Zhao Shucheng said as he looked at the bowl in his hand and said, "For example, this bowl, twenty or thirty years ago, when every household was not rich, if the bowl was broken, if it could be repaired, we would repair it and continue to use it. But now, if anyone's bowl is broken, whoever can repair it will lose it directly and then buy a new one."
Zhao Shucheng said, pointing to the reliefs and said, "We all know whether these things are good things. But now there are many people in the neighborhood who need wood carvings? I think not many people, and the people who need them basically need their own daily needs, so naturally they need those machine carvings that are cheap and beautiful. This is just like many people want a portrait of themselves, but their money is not enough, oil paintings are not cheap and time is long, and photos are cheap to meet their needs. If you, would you choose photos instead of oil paintings?"
"But……"
"Master Xie, listen to me. But why can oil paintings be passed down? And a famous painter can always come out, and a painting can always come out hundreds of thousands or millions. Is their paintings made of gold? I don't deny that there are very artistic master paintings, but more of them are actually artificially hyped. After all, although good things will not be replaced, if no one appreciates them, they will gradually become unwilling to care about them, and even disappear silently in the end."
Zhao Shucheng looked at Xie Heshun and said, "Master Xie, don't think that publicity is bragging or bad. But Master Xie was able to become an excellent wood carving master here back then. Although you didn't actively promote your things, your things will be good, and others will also promote them to you. Then more and more people will find you to carve things, and eventually become a famous master."
"The times are different now. You made good things at that time. The villagers naturally liked them because they didn't have many choices and even helped promote them. But in this generation, their generation, they saw too many things, and there was also competition for mechanical carvings. They are no longer able to survive in obscurity."
"The reason why I suggested that Xie Xiaoxia do short videos or even live broadcasts was to promote and promote, so that more people can know about wood carvings, and they also know that their skills are not bad, so that people like their works, so that the things they make can be sold."
Xie Zhiyao nodded and said, "Yes, uncle. Have you ever been to our embroidery workshop?"
Xie Heshun said disdainfully: "I won't go! I can't stand your messy online!"
Xie Zhiyao smiled bitterly and said, "Uncle, you accept apprentices here, and Teacher Huailan also accepts apprentices. Why do she have more and more apprentices? You run out one by one?"
Xie Heshun was a little silent and then took a sip of wine.
"Zhiyao, Xiao Zhao, do you think this short video and live broadcast can really make the business of the wood carving workshop better?"
Zhao Shucheng said: "Thank you, I can't guarantee you this. After all, your wood carvings and machine carvings have different competitiveness, so naturally the attributes you have to give now must be different. From now on, you cannot regard wood carvings as a daily need, but instead give them the meaning of artworks, so that they can be different from the machine carvings on the market and make others willing to choose your wood carvings."
"After all, for the same wood carving work, yours is hand-carved, which takes several days, while the machine carving is several minutes. If it is still the same price, you will never be able to make money or even have a meal."
"Let's take oil paintings as an example. Nowadays, there are many machine-printed oil paintings, which can be bought for a few dozen yuan or even a few yuan. However, the works of real painters have different values, and master's works need to be auctioned."
"What you have to do now is to promote and promote your wood carvings to have more artistic value, and let others know that you are an intangible cultural heritage work, not a machine carving work. This value is naturally higher than that of machine carvings, and it has monumental significance and collection value."
Xie Heshun felt that what Zhao Shucheng said was indeed reasonable, but he quickly looked at Zhao Shucheng and Xie Zhiyao with a embarrassed look and said, "But I don't understand these things either."
Zhao Shucheng said: "Thank you, these things are not difficult, and you may not have to do them yourself. You can let your apprentices do short videos and promotions."
"Oh, I'm still a disciple, my current disciples are gone."
Zhao Shucheng smiled and said, "Master Xie, I think this is not all a bad thing, it is a good thing."
"Why is it a good thing? You asked me to promote it, but I don't even have an apprentice now. How do you promote it?"
This chapter is not over, please click on the next page to continue reading! "Master Xie, in fact, this wood carving work is very boring. Only those who can endure the spirit and those who really like it can persevere. Although the apprentices have all left, if they really like this industry and are even willing to come back to study, then one day they will come back. What you have to do now is to cheer yourself up, no longer reject new technologies, and learn to accept new things. After they come back, you will work together to promote and expand the wood carving workshop."
Xie Zhiyao said: "Yes, uncle, I think you can see how Master Huailan did it first, and let Xia Xia and the others learn it."
"Oh, I hope they'll come back."
Zhao Shucheng said: "Don't worry, the golden nest is not as good as the doghouse of his own. What's more, although it's beautiful outside and can make a lot of money, the hardships are much more than wood carvings."
Xie Heshun nodded, then began to worry again, and said, "But can they do it? This short video and live broadcast are not so easy to do, right? When Xia Xia did live broadcasts, there were not many people watching them in total, and she couldn't even make a few money in a month."
"No matter which industry is easy, but they are still young, they can learn. When they learn, they can make their own achievements, and they can even open an online store to sell all the things in your store. At that time, those apprentices may see that the wood carving workshop has improved, but they will be willing to come back? At that time, not only will the wood carving shop business be better, but more young people working outside can come back, and you can also have a inheritor of your intangible cultural heritage craft, which will kill multiple good things."
"I didn't think so much, just that this craft can be passed on."
Zhao Shucheng and the others talked a lot later and then parted after they had enough wine and meals.
After Zhao Shucheng returned to the yard, he saw that Maqiushan was not meditating, but instead sat in the yard.
After seeing Zhao Shucheng come back, he said anxiously: "Xiao Zhao, can you still make a recliner after drinking?"
Zhao Shucheng looked at Maqiushan and said, "Master Ma, why are you still anxious to get on the bed? You just want a recliner?"
"That's right, I'm naturally a little envious when I see you lying here leisurely every day."
"Don't worry, I didn't drink too much, so I won't delay making you a recliner."
As he said that, Zhao Shucheng returned to the room and changed his clothes, then he came out to process wood and assembled the recliner.
Although I have seen Maqiu Mountain twice before, I made it for myself this time and I got closer to watch it all the way, so I naturally felt different.
Looking at Zhao Shucheng's movements, Ma Qiushan couldn't help but exclaimed: "Xiao Zhao, how do you think your brain and hands grow? I'm dazzled, you've done it so quickly. You really didn't say about your skills. If you say you are a professional carpenter, anyone will believe it."
"Okay, don't just say good things, come and help waxing together! However, this recliner needs to be air-dried for two days. If you are not in a hurry, it is best to have a week. This is the best effect. If you are in a hurry, it's OK for a day, but you may need to rewax later."
"I'm not that anxious, I can wait for two days."
Although Maqiushan is not in a hurry, he actually wishes he could sit on a recliner now and then make a teapot while drinking tea while resting.
Although meditation is his hobby, this person is more dead than others and more goods. The boring and boring meditation is not as comfortable as sitting on a recliner? Moreover, meditation may not require that position. Instead, lying on a recliner can also allow oneself to wander around the world, and the same effect is also the same.
After the waxing was completed, Maqiushan said, "Okay, thank you for your hard work today. I will make you a pot of good tea and reward you."
"Just a pot of tea? It's time to supper, so Mr. Ma didn't order any other words?"
After looking at Maqiushan, it was indeed late, but it was not realistic to ask him to cook and cook. With his cooking skills, it would be good to eat. He could not make good things for him, but instead deal with Zhao Shucheng.
"I understand, you wait, I will make you delicious food, I will definitely be satisfied."
As he said that, he walked into the house and took some money, and went directly to buy food outside.
Xu Hongdou looked at Zhao Shucheng and said, "You asked Mr. Ma to invite you, so will I treat you to dinner someday?"
"That's not necessary. After all, serving a beautiful woman is my honor."
"How many days have you been here, why do you speak like Ma Master? Don't speak human language anymore?"
"It's not true, it's just that I'm just occasionally tingling with words, which is actually quite interesting."
After buying some cooked food and skewers, Maqiushan said, "Okay, everyone, please!"
The three of them started chatting while drinking tea and eating cooked skewers.
Maqiushan no longer looked like he was fairy-like, but instead opened up talking about his past.
He used to be a powerful figure, laughing at the business world, stepping on the Internet, his net worth increased sharply, and his heart became arrogant. At that time, in the eyes of his peers, Maqiushan was a famous Ma Ye in the business world, with a highlight and shining moment.
Maqiushan also felt that he had seized the opportunity to make money, so his whole face was full of pride, and he felt that he was already at the peak of his life. So he began to float away and felt that he could do anything.
However, things in the world are impermanent, and a sudden change caused Maqiushan’s career to suffer heavy damage.
When investing in turn, Maqiushan weighed the trade-offs several times and decided to use economic leverage to continue to expand investment to make money. However, this time the goddess of luck did not favor him, but instead slapped the once arrogant man hard.
This time, not only did I lose all the money I had made, but I even lost my house.
Maqiushan said with emotion: "You don't know how glorious I was when I succeeded at that time. Even my parents were in their hometown, and many people wanted to meet relatives with our family. But later, after I was in a downturn, I had everything I said, so I simply didn't go back. I would save myself from listening to those people's remarks at that time. It would be better to find a place to hide."
"Master Ma, you don't have to care about these things at all. We ancient people have summarized it long ago. No one is asking about the poor in the downtown area. We have distant relatives in the mountains. If you don't believe it, you can watch the wine in the banquet. You should first to toast the rich and noble people with a cup of wine. A tall horse is tied in front of the door, either a kiss or a kiss. There is a begging stick in front of the door, and relatives and friends are not here. Since ancient times, it has been easy to add icing on the cake and it is difficult to provide timely help."
Maqiushan sighed and said, "Actually, I understand all of what you said, but my parents were pointed at by others. How could it be that there was nothing wrong with me?"
"Master Ma, I think you should advise the elderly to keep a calm mind. There are still many ordinary people in this world, and they can't stand others' lives better than themselves. Even those who complimented on the surface, they actually want you to die behind their backs. So when you are really down and out, their faces will become faster than anyone else. There is nothing wrong in the world, and mediocre people disturb them. For example, people who hate others and don't like this, they can't care too much about what they like to say. If they keep living in other people's comments, life will be boring."
There are no perfect people in this world, and there are no perfect saints. If you are worried that others will say that you have to live according to other people's ideas, then unless this person is a living god, otherwise nothing will be right. If you have rich people say that you are unkind, you have no money and say that you are incompetent. If you do charity, you are hypocritical, and if you don't do it, you are not loving and compassionate.
Maqiushan said with a wry smile: "I can see it well, but my parents are so old that it is so easy to let go. Forget it, it's better not to mention it!"
Chapter completed!