How do you feel about the art of micro-sculpting, when a 95-year-old guy carves a cow out of a pencil lead?

Very admirable. Micro-carving pay attention to the selection of materials, the texture of the stone requires absolute purity, can not have half a point of sand grids and half a crack, because half a sand point may be carved more than 10 Chinese characters. Second, the micro-carving knife is also a special fine knife, both to be sharp and fine, but also to be sharp. Thirdly, it is necessary to have particularly skillful calligraphy and Chinese painting skills to carve ? The carving can only be done with the intention of carving. Fourth, the scene should be breathless, concentrated intention, millimeters, a thousand pounds, a breath. Fifth, the knife should be stable, accurate and ruthless, only in this way can the calligraphy and knife brushwork to achieve perfect unity.

Chinese micro-carving has a long history. As early as in the oracle bone inscriptions of the Yin and Shang dynasties, micro-carving appeared. The seal of the Warring States period is as small as millet, but the seal text has a distinction between white and vermilion. Peter Wei's "The Story of the Nuclear Boat" is also a classic of the art of micro-carving in Chinese history. The modern master Yu Shuo, and Wu Nanyu have? Yu Shuo and Wu Nanyu are known as "South Yu and North Wu". Yu Shuo was known as "South Yu and North Wu". Yu Shuo was good at micro-carving in addition to calligraphy and painting. In 1915, his work "Night Journey to Red Cliff" was awarded the Gold Medal in Panama Universal Exposition. The Tianjin Museum collects six pieces of his works.

Early by watching and carving equipment limitations microscopic carving less, with the progress of the times and the development of science and technology, can be used to watch the smaller objects of the instrument and very fine and tough tools appear, resulting in the microscopic carving works are getting smaller and smaller, carving difficulty is also getting bigger and bigger. Carving and engraving two forms of micro-carving, carving refers to the round relief carving and other Yang carving, carving refers to the yin carving, one emphasizes the art of space, a pay attention to the art of plane, history of the two art forms collectively referred to as the Chinese art of micro-carving, micro-carving because of the fine, the material requirements are very high, the "nucleus", "bone", "ivory", "bamboo" and so on are the "micro-carving" is a very good material. ? Micro-carving? Is a knife instead of a pen, painting and writing, not only carving and coloring; pay attention to the art of painting,? Round relief and translucent carving? Talk about the art of sculpture, the difference is just tiny.

Micro-carving and soft school of hard school, soft school is in the ivory hair and other soft materials carving, hard school is in the onyx jade porcelain and other 6 degrees above the hard material carving, relative difficulty, hard material carving is more difficult.

Many micro-carving works are often seen in the Yang carving and yin carving techniques *** with the implementation to create. Seal carving side of the art is the basis for the emergence and development of the art of micro-carving. Since the Ming and Qing dynasties, many literati in the seal of this square inch, with the iron pen inscription book painting, send interest, self-indulgence. After Shoushan stone became the seal material, Shoushan stone micro-carving art began to appear. At the beginning of the Qing Dynasty, Yang Xuan and Zhou Bin engraved small characters on the patterns of Shoushan stone carvings. The Ximen Thin Idea School? Carving master Lin Qingqing also often in the carving of the works of grass, stone cracks with very fine strokes engraved with their own names and years of production, and later even more people in the seal on the four sides of the square column, with very fine text, carving the ancient poems as a side.

To the 1960s, with the magnifying glass and other advanced scientific instruments in the field of micro-carving, the art of micro-carving has become a unique new art. In many micro-carved works on the screen often both micro-carved poems or articles, at this time people are increasingly aware of the importance of micro-carved text calligraphy effect, those who are carved with a fine certain works are nothing more than a bunch of ants and feet, in the magnifying glass to observe, wave limbs and scratches, not the way, the word type or stagnant, or crooked, or distorted, is not desirable. Especially in the micro-carving works on the micro-carving power how, also became a judgment of micro-carving works of success or failure. The reason why good works are respected by people, in addition to micro-carving techniques, the reason also lies in the layout of micro-carving and to show the calligraphy skills of the iron stroke silver hook. Qing dynasty micro-engraving master Yu Shuo its specialization in the folding fan side bone micro-engraving, can be in the finger width of the fan bone engraved thirty lines of words, and none of the losing pen, pen has post gas. Modern carver due to the bamboo itself material limitations, has very little in the bamboo micro-carved so small text. Have a certain collection value. Pingshan County, Sichuan Province, Guo Yueming is also committed to the micro-book, micro-carving, micro-carving set in one malefactor.?