Ancient technique of topography

Topography, is an ancient traditional skills in China, is to paper and ink as a material, the inscription, the vessel on the text or pattern, topography on paper, a technique, is a precious intangible cultural heritage of the Chinese nation.

Ancient Chinese history, "Sui book - book of records," said the Han Wei stone scripture "inheritance of the topography of the book, is still in the secret house" can be seen in the Sui has existed before the topography. Because of the topography of the world, in order to truly show the original appearance of cultural relics, it is printing, photography and other technologies can not be replaced.

? Topography is mainly on the stone tablets, oracle bones, bronze vessels on the calligraphy of the text for topography, and one of the most commonly used method is to flutter ink topography and rubbing ink topography. So, take topography as an example, let's see how it is done?

First, the choice of materials:

1, paper: absorbent uniformity, good tensile strength, good inked rice paper.

2, brush: bristle brush, hair soft and hard can be.

3, topo bag: a dip ink, topography; another used to adjust the ink on the topo bag wet and dry degree of intensity.

4, ink: coloring.

5, rice paper: moderate thickness, toughness.

Second, the production method:

On the paper

1, before topping the monument must be cleaned with water, and then wait for the monument to dry.

2, first in the monument evenly brush a layer of water hyacinth, so that the top paper firmly stained in the monument and will not shift.

3, after the paper with the brush brush flat, so that the paper and the monument surface close, do not appear wrinkles.

Sweep brush

Brush from the top down, and then to the left and right sides of the brush, so that the text concave.

Sweeping brush power needs to be uniform, each word into the concave, the lettering can be clearly visible, such as the word all evenly concave that is complete.

Ink

1, before the ink, the dryness of the paper must be moderate, the paper is slightly white, before the ink.

2, ink on the left and right hands each holding a top bag, left hand top bag ink, two top bag pounding each other, the left hand top bag to draw ink to the right hand top bag, so that the ink color is uniform.

3, top paper seven or eight percent dry quickly with the top of the bag up and down back and forth gradually intensive pounding, not left and right diagonal hit, generally on the two times the ink.

Take the top

1, the best time to take down the top of the best time is the top of the eight to nine percent dry, because at this time the top of the top of the more difficult to break and easy to take down, if it is still wet that is eager to take down, easy to rupture.

2, the top sheet flat placed, natural drying.

? Topography, not only is the art of reproduction, and it is art, has a very high historical and cultural value and academic value. After hundreds of years, and even thousands of years, are ink like a bit of paint, true to the original appearance of cultural relics, leaving us countless treasures of literature and art, inherited the great Chinese civilization.