When it comes to Gansu, what I have to talk about must be the extensive and profound Dunhuang culture.
About Dunhuang, you must have seen many aspects of it, including videos, pictures, or you have also experienced the scene in person, but today Xiaoxin will take you to experience a different Dunhuang culture - Dunhuang on engravings.
On a square wooden board, the large and delicate scriptures, the small round bergamot, and the nimble nine-colored deer are all engraved on the square-inch engraving.
The craftsman Xu Jinlin has been engaged in the engraving technique for nearly 20 years. Recently, he re-engraved the front page of the Diamond Sutra in two months.
It is understood that the "Diamond Sutra" was first discovered in the Mogao Grottoes' cave in Dunhuang, and it is also the earliest woodblock printing discovered so far in China.
I hope to look back on history and learn the engraving skills of the ancients, so I reproduced such a block.
The main difficulty of the engraving technique lies in the positive engraving of the layout. Every line cannot be broken, and it is formed in one stroke, and it must be done in one go.
How beautiful is the Dunhuang on the engraving?
How difficult is the carving technique?
Follow Xiaoxin's lens and let's engrave it.
Responsible editor: [Luo Pan]