Although the ruby red glass products are very beautiful, Chen Wenzhe only finished one brush washer and stopped doing it.
When Cao Qingchun came over, there must be something going on.
After finishing, Chen Wenzhe took Cao Qingchun to his office.
"Did you bring me anything good?" Chen Wenzhe said with a smile.
He was also preparing to make tea for Cao Qingchun. Unexpectedly, Cao Qingchun moved faster. He had already prepared it.
"what?"
“Orange tea!”
"Orange, I've heard of this stuff. It seems to cure coughs, right?"
When Chen Wenzhe went to Nanhai, he heard there that this thing was rare in the north.
"That's not comprehensive enough. What I brought you is a royal tribute!"
Cao Qingchun was very sincere in carrying out what Chen Wenzhe told him.
Of course, this is also his job, he has brought good things, and Chen Wenzhe has never treated him badly.
Orange like this, especially the royal tribute orange, was just a small thing in his opinion.
This is a specialty product produced in Huazhou area of Guangdong Province, and it is called Huajuhong.
This thing is not only a medicinal material, but local people also use it to make art.
As the efficacy of orange peel has been recognized by more and more people, a local industry chain surrounding orange peel has been formed in recent years.
So, this thing is an ancient Chinese medicine.
The rolling mountains in the southwest of Huazhou City, Guangdong Province contain this precious and authentic Chinese medicinal material.
Nowadays, it contains orange red pigment and has the reputation of southern ginseng.
It was listed as a palace tribute during the Ming and Qing dynasties and is one of the top ten traditional Chinese medicines in my country.
In 2016, it was rated as the first of the eight authentic Lingnan medicinal materials protected by legislation.
Modern medicine has proven that the main components of tangerine red are dihydroflavones, and the content of anacardiin and naringin is extremely high.
It can be antibacterial, antiviral, anti-inflammatory, relieve cough and reduce phlegm, etc. The most important thing is that it has obvious effects.
The reason for this effect is that the local soil contains linite, and the linite content is quite high.
The stone itself is a kind of medicinal material. If medicinal materials are planted in medicinal materials, the effect will definitely be particularly good.
In addition, this craft of making tangerine has not been passed down through generations. Local craftsmen often start making tangerine when they are two or three generations old.
This kind of orange-red coloring is not easy to do, it can even be said to be very troublesome.
The freshly picked orange-red fruits can be processed after cleaning.
First, use hot water of about 90 degrees to remove the orange color, and then use a sharp knife to cut open the orange peel and take out the pulp.
Most of the active ingredients that turn orange into red are found in orange peels.
The extracted pulp cannot be used because of its bitterness, and the next step is to dry it.
After drying and pruning, they turn orange and are tied into bundles with cotton thread. Next, you need to wait for the blessing of time.
The local Daling Village in Pingding Town is known as the first orange-red village in my country.
Most of the farmers in the village rely on the Huajuhong industry. In addition to making Huajuhong into medicinal materials, their ingenious craftsmen also make pieces of art from them.
For example, the orange-red bottle is a process that requires patience and craftsmanship.
After picking the fruits from August to October every year, they are blanched with boiling water and then the pulp is removed.
Then fill it layer by layer with plant ash, use hemp rope to shape the bottleneck, and let it dry.
After it is soaked with water in the second year, patterns are drawn on the bottle and the shape is pressed over and over with iron sheets.
Making an orange-red bottle requires a lot of energy, and it takes about 6 days to make one.
In recent years, the efficacy of tangerine red has been increasingly recognized by the pharmaceutical industry and consumers, so the broad development prospects of the tangerine red industry have attracted more and more people to invest.
Obviously, Cao Qingchun is one of them, or he sees the prospect in it.
Chen Wenzhe owns a traditional Chinese medicine factory, so he is naturally interested in this kind of thing. Cao Qingchun has given him a lot of praise in the past two years.
However, the focus of Cao Qingchun today is definitely not the orange color, but another pile of wooden boards?
While the two of them were drinking tea, some staff members had already occupied the workspace outside Chen Wenzhe's office.
Looking at the wooden boards they were assembling, Chen Wenzhe said with a strange expression: "Is this a sedan?"
"You are still awesome, but can you tell where this sedan is?" Cao Qingchun said with a proud look on his face.
Chen Wenzhe could only tell through the carvings and patterns on the wooden boards that this sedan was very unusual.
Also, this sedan should be quite large in size and of high craftsmanship.
Such a sedan is not at all inferior to a sedan chair, and the craftsmanship is even more complicated.
"Is it the Wan Gong sedan? Judging from the craftsmanship, could it be the sedan from Boning? This is a national treasure. You have never gotten it?"
With that said, Chen Wenzhe stopped drinking tea and simply walked to the workroom outside.
Wan Gong sedan is a Boning-style sedan in the late Qing Dynasty and early Republic of China. It took more than 10,000 man-hours to make, so it was called "Wan Gong sedan".
This sedan requires eight people to carry it, also known as the "eight-carry sedan".
Some of these sedans are not very big, but their patterns are extremely complicated, so looking at the stacked wooden boards, it feels like the sedan is very big.
For example, the sedan chair brought by Cao Qingchun is only 1.5 meters long and 90 centimeters wide, but it is very high, more than 2.7 meters high.
This kind of sedan chair is divided into grades according to the number of decorated figures and the level of craftsmanship.
It is divided into three classes in total. The sedan brought by Cao Qingchun belongs to the first class and is the most luxurious sedan in existence.
It uses a mortise and tenon structure to connect without a single nail, and is composed of hundreds of removable flower boards.
There is no sedan door. When the bride is welcomed, there is a special sedan dismantling master who follows the wedding team and is responsible for dismantling the sedan to make it easier for the bride to get in and out.
The sedan chair is made of wood with withered flowers, a vermilion lacquer base and decorated with gold foil appliques. From a distance, it looks magnificent and magnificent, like a miniature palace.
The sedan is decorated using three craft techniques: round carving, relief carving, and open carving.
There are 250 figures in the whole sedan chair, and there are countless flowers, birds, insects and beasts, so the Boning people also call it the "Hundred Son Sedan Chair".
In addition to auspicious themes such as blessings from heavenly officials, Qilin sending children, fighting with Kuixing, and winning the first prize, there are also "The Story of Huansha", "Tianshuiguan", "Iron Gongyuan", "Water Margin", "The Romance of the West Chamber", "Jinggong"
Opera scenes such as "The Hairpin" and "Jade Bracelet Picking Up".
In some places, they are supplemented by lens glass paintings, and each painting is also a fragment of a classical drama.
This is a real sedan chair in ancient times. It looks like a miniature palace and is completely different from a costume drama.
The reason why Chen Wenzhe knew about this thing was because he had read an issue of National Treasures.
It can also be seen from this that this thing is an out-and-out national treasure.
However, how could such a treasure fall into Cao Qingchun's hands?
You must know that this is Dahai City, and most of the top wealthy people hidden in this Dahai City, or the top nobles behind the sea, are Bonin people.
They are very rich. As long as something like this appears, how could they not buy it?