Chapter 1 Preface
Do you know?
China is currently the country with the highest number of world heritage sites!
In 2020, the World Heritage Conference will also be held in China, and the "World Heritage Fever" is within reach!
In order to inherit the world's historical and cultural treasures and activate creativity in the new era, China Literature Group joined hands with the Next Idea Tencent New Cultural and Creative Competition this year. Under the guidance of UNESCO, it launched a short creative essay contest for online writers with the theme of "Creative Revitalization and Inheritance of World Heritage".
In the long history of human civilization, all ethnic groups around the world have left behind rich cultural relics, folk skills, literature and art...
From the pyramids, Terracotta Warriors, Great Barrier Reef, Palace of Versailles... to Kunqu Opera, Abacus, the twenty-four solar terms, and the joy... we breathe and create new civilizations in the rich world heritage. These heritages are the source of the irreplaceable inspirational life for all mankind.
They have never stopped, but are integrated into our lives and move forward with the times.
As a new youth in the new era, I respond to the call of the website and present a new atmosphere of the world heritage site from a new perspective.
Get close to the world heritage site, respect it, the country's treasure.
This is a book about the Buddhist sculptor, it is a serious drama, without a CP.
When he dreamed at midnight, he was always awakened by the real scenes in his dreams.
Those images are like movies, and they are played back in his mind from time to time...
His flower-like carving technique makes the world strange.
He is the youngest Buddhist carving master in China, but he doesn't know where he comes from.
In order to find his past and present lives, he embarked on the road of finding the great way of craftsmanship.
First of all, I want to popularize the two professions of engraver and Buddhist sculptor.
Engravers generally refer to professional carving workers who master traditional carving skills and are able to create carving works.
In the traditional sense, carvings mostly refer to stone carvers, nuclear carvers, jade carvers, wood carvers, ivory carvers, etc., using carving knives as tools and based on the materials themselves, conduct, design, create, and then complete exquisite carving artworks.
Sculptors generally have a certain theoretical basis for artistic creation and a certain degree of painting skills.
Before carving with a knife, they will design the first draft based on the material, appearance, color and other factors of the material, and then carve the final molding sample. This is also the most basic business ability of a sculptor.
Taking Shoushan stone carving as an example, the most important feature of Shoushan stone is that Shoushan stone with different shapes is placed in front of the carving masters. They will first customize a rough work based on the appearance, and then customize it according to the color of the stone.
Put it on paper and perform preliminary paintings. Finally, draw it with lines on hand. Only after all the preparations are completed can the carving be started.
Due to the development of technology, a large number of machine carving products have emerged, but machine carving can never replace manual carving.
All things have spirituality, and the spirituality of carved works is always given by humans, so artificially carved works are spiritual.
Buddha carvings, as the name suggests, refer to professional Buddha statue carvings, who use the most primitive techniques to carve Buddha statues on stones.
They not only need to have the ingenuity of craftsmanship possessed by the sculptor, but also have the perseverance to work in the field all year round.
Their craftsmanship, their wonderful hands, one leaf, one Bodhi, and one craftsman, demonstrates their outstanding skills.
Chapter completed!