Chapter 1111: Carved dragon chair

Xiao Peng led Guo Sihua into the warehouse. In the corner of the warehouse is a canvas covered with dust. Xiao Peng opened the canvas: "When I first learned to sculpt, I was a bit young and frivolous, so I carved such a thing. But I don't dare to take it out, because I am afraid that someone will make a fuss and take it away if you want it!"
Guo Sihua saw what was in the canvas and took a breath: "Brother Xiao, all my available funds are only 500 million. I will give it all to you. Let me give it to me, can you?"
Xiao Peng smiled: "What are you doing talking about money? I said, I want to thank you for letting me dig out the first pot of gold in my life. You respect me and I respect you. Guo Brother, you tell me this thing. Do you like it?"
"I love him so much!" Guo Sihua said without thinking.
"If you like it, take it away! No need to add money. If you add money, we won't go back and forth again." Xiao Peng smiled: "I didn't see that I threw it in the warehouse? It's too much of a show, I'm not willing People who show the limelight, if you intended to show the limelight, you just take it away. I am ugly to say that if people know that you have this thing in your home, maybe the whole country's attention will be on your home, and it will annoy you at that time!"
Guo Sihua smiled bitterly: "Brother Xiao, whoever is in business is not willing to increase the popularity! Isn't it just your low-key? I want this thing to attract attention! If the whole country's attention is on my business, ours How much can the stock go up!"
Xiao Peng snapped his fingers: "Well, if you like it, then move out! This is yours! Congratulations to your father, Fu Ru Dong Hai and Shou Bi Nan Shan."
Guo Sihua began to refuse: "No, Brother Xiao, I have taken too much of this cheap. No, no!"
Xiao Peng smiled and said, "We are all friends. We are called'brother and brother'. What can take advantage of us? Just be happy. Maybe there will be some time when I ask you in the future. We will come to Japan for a long time, right? ?"
Guo Sihua was silent for a moment: "Brother Xiao, as long as you have any needs in the future, it will be your one-sentence thing to me."
Xiao Peng snapped his fingers: "Okay, we're done. Brother Guo, I will have to trouble you in the future!"
Guo Sihua said, "By the way, Xiao brother, what did you just say? A fitness center for the elderly is going to be built in the county? So, how about I add another activity center for the elderly?"
Xiao Peng smiled and said: "Well, I actually asked you to build an elderly activity center with an investment of 2.4 million yuan."
Guo Sihua smiled bitterly after hearing this: "Brother Xiao, you are really a big deal... In that case, let's just do it. In your words, we will do our best, and we will simply build the best old age in the country. What about the activity center, what swimming pools, cinemas, and saunas are installed?"
Xiao Peng hurriedly said: "Brother Guo, don't get excited. This senior activity center is all free. The operating cost of doing this is not low."
Guo Sihua smiled and said: "I also follow you. Charity is not just talking about it, should it be done? From now on, our group will be responsible for all operating expenses! That's the matter!"
Xiao Peng didn't say much, "Then I will thank Big Brother Guo for the old people in the town! Okay, take this chair and wrap it away."
Guo Sihua smiled bitterly: "Brother Xiao, don't bury me. It's obviously that I take advantage of you, okay? Would you take the chair and wrap it away? How simple it is! I'll contact the security company and wait for me at the dock, otherwise I really dare not take it with me."
Xiao Peng was speechless: "What are you doing so nervously? Isn't this just a chair? Am I wrong?"
Guo Sihua sighed: "Is the dragon chair and the chair the same concept?"
Xiao Peng laughed after hearing this: "This is not a dragon chair. Because there is no suitable material, it is a circle smaller than a dragon chair, and there is no gold painted. I think it is too troublesome to paint gold, so this is fine."
The chair placed in Xiaopeng’s warehouse is a large carved dragon chair, also known as the
dragon chair
. Its shape is the same as that of the dragon chair: the back of the round chair is shaped like a round chair, and the four columns are curved by three dragons. The front is high and the two armrests are gradually lowered. There is a beacon dragon on each of the two armrests; the back of the chair is flat carved with a dragon with a sun pattern. The seat surface is connected to the base, and the base is a Sumi seat about four feet wide and one and a half feet deep instead of legs. This was made by Xiao Peng on a whim when he first got the inheritance. But after carving it, I suddenly found that sitting at home was too bloated, so I put it in the warehouse and didn't take it out. Now it's good, I took it out and gave it away.
The difference between this chair and the dragon chair is that the real dragon chair is a painted gold carved dragon chair, while Xiao Peng’s chair is just a carved dragon chair, and the wood is different. The frame of the dragon chair is made of red sandalwood with a birch wood heart embedded in it. , Plus golden nanmu. And Xiao Peng's chair is gloomy golden nanmu, and it is a bit smaller than the real dragon chair.
After hearing Xiao Peng's words, Guo Sihua's eyes widened: "Wait, Xiao brother, you said you can paint gold? I just didn't do it because of trouble?"
Although Guo Sihua said that he didn't understand antiques, this was obviously a polite remark. His group's business included the auction industry. How could he not understand? Even if there are things that cannot be distinguished between true and false, there is still a vision.
Xiao Peng nodded: "Yes, but I suggest you don't paint this chair with gold, otherwise it will be really easy to get into trouble. I'm just a handicraft, if it is really gold painted, wouldn't it be fake?"
The full name of the so-called painted gold is'Daqi painted gold', a handicraft that is about to be lost. It is different from gilt: gilt refers to the use of gold and mercury as raw materials to make a gold amalgam and apply it on the surface of the utensils. After the mercury evaporates, the gold is left.
The painting of gold is to take the raw lacquer from the lacquer tree and make it into a "big lacquer" after complicated processing. This in itself is a complicated process, and there has been a process of "a hundred miles, a thousand swords and a catty of lacquer" since ancient times; After the lacquer is extracted, the lacquer is used as a raw material to apply gold powder. Painted gold is more precious and more expensive than the raw materials used for gilding. Da lacquer itself is difficult to make, and the gold powder used for painting gold is much more than that used for gilt gold. Most people really can't afford this kind of craft.
Just like Buddhism prevailed in the Sui and Tang Dynasties, the difference between seeing a temple's incense is good or not is to look at their Buddha statues: the gilt with bad incense; the gold with good incense; the direct gold with the incense! The emperor of the two extermination campaigns in the Tang Dynasty did not say anything, first collected the gold from the Buddha statues!
Of course, because gold painting is more complex and costly than gilding, the technique of painting gold is about to be lost. Guo Sihua didn't expect Xiao Peng to use this technique.
After hearing this, Guo Sihua smiled bitterly: "Your craftsmanship is already superb, even if you don't paint gold, people will say that you are fraudulent?"
Xiao Peng snapped his fingers as soon as he heard it: "I thought of this a long time ago, so I learned Lu Zigang. There are a total of 13 dragons carved on this chair, and my name is carved on each dragon. Back then, the carved name on the dragon head of Lu Zigang caused murder, but now no one has cut my head with my carved name, right?"
When Lu Zigang was alive, because of his high level of jade carving, he was taken to the palace to carve jade for the emperor. In that era, artisans had to serve the emperor. After carving things, they usually signed the emperor’s reign and the emperor’s name taboo. As a result, Lu Ziang insisted on the principle of artisans, and every piece of his work would be signed on it, and all of them Various inconspicuous places are signed.
He once carved a jade pot for Ming Shenzong, whose name was hidden in the spout. Ming Shenzong was very happy when he saw it, and he was not angry and praised him. Later, he carved a dragon button and jade seal for the emperor. The Ming Shenzong hand slipped to pieces, and accidentally discovered that the dragon button's dragon mouth actually had the three characters'Zigangzhi'! Go ahead, kill it. (There is no official historical record about this history, and it is all unofficial history, so there are different narratives. Some people say that the teapot was smashed and the inscription was discovered; some people said that the concubine hosta was broken and the inscription was found. Anyway, it is certain that Lu Zigang was inscribed for his work Let Ming Shenzong Zhu Yijun chop his head.)
After hearing this, Guo Sihua looked for a dragon for a long time: "I can't find it!"
Xiao Peng smiled: "In the future, your family can have an additional entertainment project called'Family Finding Autographs'. Anyway, I can tell you clearly that these 13 dragons do have signatures on them, and each position is different. You guys. Find it slowly! Hahahahahaha."
Guo Sihua also laughed: "Just so, let my father have something to do, so it can be less boring! Brother Xiao, can you point me out a signature first? Let me go back and show it off?"
Xiao Peng thought for a while: "Okay! Look at this ball!" He pointed to the carved dragon on the left hand of the chair. There was a small ball in the dragon's mouth, which meant ‘dragon plays with a bead’. This ball cannot be taken out of the dragon's mouth, which means that the ball was carved in the dragon's mouth instead of being put into the dragon's mouth after carving. This requires extremely meticulous handwork.
Guo Sihua took a closer look but was dumbfounded: "Gui Gongqiu? Brother Xiao, are you a fairy? You carved the ball in the dragon's mouth into a Gui Gongqiu?"
"Gui Gong Ball" is precisely a technique of ivory carving, which has been developed since the Ming and Qing Dynasties. It is to carve an ivory ball into the shape of "ball inside the ball" layer by layer. In the Qing Dynasty, a 13-layer ghost ball appeared.
But those ghost are all made of ivory, but Xiao Peng is carved from wood or from the inside of the dragon's mouth. Guo Sihua couldn't understand how Xiao Peng did it.
Xiao Peng laughed when he heard Guo Sihua's words: "It's nothing great, it's just a five-layer ghost ball. On the third layer of this ghost ball, my name is carved."
Guo Sihua laughed bitterly after hearing this: "It's really'the family is looking for a signature', Brother Xiao, even if you tell us where the signature is, we won't be able to find it! This chair is simply a rare treasure. The dragon chair of the Hall of Supreme Harmony cannot keep up with him."
Xiao Peng didn't deny this: "That's why I said this chair is too eye-catching. But I can't talk about rare treasures. Isn't this just a play?"
Guo Sihua looked at Xiao Peng speechlessly. He really wanted to ask, can you pretend to be so realistic?