On one side, the host was hospitable to the guests because winning the New Year dragon dance would bring fame and blessings to their family. On the other side, the international caller was facing the song "I often come home to see you" coming from the TV, and both of them were sobbing on the phone. "My parents hope that you will get rich, and I hope you will come back and reunite with your family. Take a good look at your son and come back soon." On the other end of the phone, mothers shouted to their sons with tears in their voices. This call lasted one after another.
After many hours, everyone slowly dispersed reluctantly. Jin Huabin calculated in his mind that the two-way charge would cost at least a thousand yuan, and he only said three words to her. However, this
The scene was truly touching. Quan Dang handed out red envelopes, and he put away his hot phone with a smile.
After receiving the red envelope through the mobile phone, the labor export workers who were far away from abroad were very excited. They lifted Zhang Guifang and threw it into the sky again and again to celebrate. After lunch, she returned to the room and took a plate of three dishes abroad.
Economic accounts for the past month. This project is a labor contract that includes food, housing, and materials. The salary offered by the other party is ten times that of the domestic one, reaching an average of more than 8,000 per person. More than ten people pay 20% as management fees.
Give it to yourself, plus personal salary, the total is more than 30,000 per month, but the expenses are more than 6,000 per month for international phone calls, 2,000 per month for employees' daily allowance, 5,000 per month for socializing with overseas Chinese, etc.
4,000 per month for design, etc., plus gifts for friends and relatives abroad, totaling more than 20,000 per month. International long-distance charges are charged in both directions, plus the stickers at home. From time to time, we have to ask everyone to pay tribute and give red envelopes during holidays.
Wait, after deductions are taken, the net income is only a few thousand yuan per month. Compared with before going abroad, I only earned a reputation. The so-called making money for a wedding house, returning to China to get married is just a dream.
She has a lot of orders on hand. Other overseas Chinese have sent her an invitation to build an ancestral temple and are waiting for her to sign the contract. To make this money, she has to recruit more masons from China. At the same time, she will localize the cost of materials.
To make another fortune, in addition to ancestral halls, we have to expand our business. However, where else can stone windows be used for the exterior walls of ancestral halls and gardens? In addition, in addition to the overseas Chinese community, other Malaysians have their own language
Barriers make it impossible to communicate.
Although the ancestral hall has not been completely renovated, it is already brand new. After a hundred years of living, the Ying family has prospered in Malaysia. When they went to the ancestral hall to worship their ancestors on New Year's Eve, Zhang Guifang made a rough estimate.
There were more than 200 people in total. As the president of the Cultural Association, it was natural that there were a few treasures related to Chinese culture at home as a finale. There were portraits of ancestors hanging in the main hall, but in the living room was a nearly six-foot-long meticulous traditional Chinese painting with inscriptions and postscripts.
"Spring Dawn in the Han Palace" by the Ming Dynasty painter Qiu Ying.
Qiu Ying is one of the representative painters of the Ming Dynasty. Together with Shen Zhou, Wen Zhengming and Tang Yin, he is known as the "Four Wu Clan" by later generations. He was born as a craftsman. He was a lacquer worker in his early years and also painted buildings, and later became a painter. Young
At that time, he met many contemporary famous artists for his good painting, and was highly regarded by Wen Zhengming and Tang Yin. His painting methods were mainly learned from Zhao Boju and the "courtyard style" painting of the Southern Song Dynasty, including green landscape and character story painting. Qiu Ying was good at figure painting, especially working with ladies, and his brushwork was vigorous.
He is particularly good at copying, painting on pink paper, and making the writing look real. As for the hair, green and gold, and the combination of red and green, it is exquisite and elegant, worthy of the ancients. He is especially good at using brushwork with different thicknesses to express different objects, either round and smooth, or frustrated.
He is powerful and good at coloring and line drawing.
Zhang Guifang is an artist, and she has been thinking hard these days about how to expand her business. Although she doesn’t know whether this painting is authentic or not, she was shocked when she saw it. This painting has precise images, meticulous workmanship, bright colors, subtle subtleties, and elegant tones. , integrating the themes and brushwork appeal advocated by literati paintings. More importantly, I found an inspiration to use the flat inlay technique of colored stones to copy the ancient meticulous paintings in another form.
Zhang Guifang bowed politely to President Ying and said: "Dong Weng, can you allow me to take a photo of the spring dawn picture in Qiu Yinghan Palace? I have an idea and want to make it directly on the wall in the form of inlaid colored stones. , can be permanently displayed to guests."
President Ying replied excitedly: "Old paintings are easy to damage, and it is a great thing to be able to make them into colorful stone inlays. Feel free to take photos, and if there is anything missing in the jade materials, just ask, my family is not short of money. Just one request, this is The treasure passed down from the Ying family is the only one in the world. You must promise that after the colored stone inlay work is completed, you will not make this picture for others."
The most fearful thing in business operations is the lack of ideas. With this idea, it is not limited to this meticulous painting. There are many handed down meticulous paintings. You can always find some authentic prints in magazines, books, and calendars. Zhang Guifang Nodding in agreement, I used my SLR camera to take photos from different angles.
Although the Spring Dawn in the Han Palace is beautiful, it is a little too small to be hung in the middle of the living room. Zhang Guifang plans to use colored stone inlays to double the length and width of the original picture. Although this is an enlargement, it is not It’s not a re-creation, but you still have to draw the manuscript first. After positioning it on the wall and outlining the outline, the color filling in the original gongbi painting method can be reflected in the inlay of colored stones. Large pieces of color are easier to handle, so be careful. You can always choose jade of similar color, but it is difficult to deal with overly colored jade. From deep to shallow, the jade must not only have a gradual color change, but what is even more difficult is to maintain the unity of color in adjacent positions. What should I do? Zhang Guifang chose There are so many matching jade stones that cannot be picked out from a large basket of beeswax.
Stone inlays can never be as fine as brush paintings, and the colors are too natural. How can we make up for this shortcoming? In the initial design, it was considered that flat inlays were the easiest to maintain, so Zhang Guifang chose this process. , the plan is to use the natural texture of jade to achieve the effect of meticulous painting. Now it seems that it is too difficult to make. Only by using the shallow relief method and using the thickness of the jade and the carving skills to carve out the details can this problem be solved. Thinking about this, Zhang Guifang chose In the picture, a noble lady tried to inlay it with thinned beeswax. A few days later, a noble lady with bright, calm, bright, elegant colors, uniform tones, and strong aesthetic taste of Chinese national colors appeared. On the wall.
"Not bad, not bad, gorgeous and skillful; similar to Xu Xi's original boneless painting method that does not use outlines but directly uses color to dye the shape and charm of objects, expressing exquisiteness, freshness and refinement." After seeing the lady who posted it, President Ying stood by and praised: "I wonder where the yin and yang are facing away from each other. What kind of jade and carving techniques should be used to achieve the effect in the original picture?"
Chairman Ying really has a good eye for raising this problem. If he doesn’t handle it well, the price of the entire work will drop. He didn’t think of any good solution. Zhang Guifang pondered for a moment and couldn’t answer.