"Butou, why do you start bragging as you talk?"

"How can this be bragging? I am doing the most professional analysis."

"Okay, then Dad will listen to your professional analysis."

"Every intangible cultural heritage skill is different. Different skills require different inheritance models."

"What's the difference?"

"Let me give you an analogy, Professor Nie."

"You tell me, I'll listen." Nie Tianqin took out his notepad.

"There's no need to be so formal..." Nie Guangyi was just going to chat all day long.

"Just make a note of it, so you don't have to hear something useful and then forget it later."

"I don't know much about intangible cultural heritage."

"Dad only pays attention to things related to ancient buildings."

"Why are we so humble to each other?" Nie Guangyi began to get to the point: "Professor Nie, do you remember when you were a child, you took me to Kaifeng to see the iron flower?"

Blacksmithing is a large-scale traditional folk performance skill.

This skill literally means making flowers out of iron.

The 1600-degree molten iron is beaten by the craftsman with tools, just like a goddess scattering flowers.

Even more brilliant than a meteor shower.

The fact that molten iron can produce flowers was accidentally discovered by ancient craftsmen during the process of casting ironware.

With the development of the economy, there was nothing to do after eating, and it gradually evolved into a performing skill.

The inheritance of this skill is equivalent to the history of Wan'an Bridge.

It began in the Northern Song Dynasty and reached its peak in the Ming and Qing Dynasties.

It is spread in the middle and lower reaches of the Yellow River and is known as the first of the top ten folk arts in the Yellow River Basin.

"Remember, ironworks are also a national intangible cultural heritage. You were not yet six years old at that time, right? You were so excited that you danced with joy. After watching it, you even told the master who was shirtlessly forging ironworks that the fireworks you set off were really beautiful."

"Professor Nie, there is no need to remember such small details so clearly."

"You've ignored Dad all these years. Doesn't Dad have to rely on these small details in his memories?"

"I'll take care of you!"

Nie Guangyi was a little annoyed that Nie Tianqin kept talking about "You ignored dad these years" all day long.

It seems as if Nie Guangyi is the culprit.

I don’t know who tampered with whose wishes.

To put it bluntly, it was too simple to forgive me at the beginning.

If I had known earlier, I should have mentioned more conditions and formally signed a forgiveness agreement.

Otherwise, with the pressure of my identity, he would only be a son...

It’s this long-lost feeling of being controlled!

"Guangyi, how did you talk to dad?"

"Of course Guangyi wouldn't say that. Doesn't Datou have to keep his nickname?" Nie Guangyi said as soon as he was satisfied: "Do you still want to hear professional analysis?"

"Listen, listen." Nie Tianqin opened the pen cap idly.

Nie Tianqin enjoyed having his son quarrel.

He even had a feeling that Nie Guangyi showed these things deliberately so that he could have the dignity of a father.

"When I was a child, when you took me to see the ironwork, it looked good, but in fact it was not much different from other intangible cultural heritage skills. Look at it now."

"What's wrong now?"

"The Iron Flower has even appeared on the Spring Festival Gala. This is an achievement that not many celebrities have achieved."

"Didn't that happen that there was a separate venue that time?"

"This is not the key. The key is that in the past, only people in the Henan-Shanxi region knew about the art of blacksmithing, but now people are blacksmithing everywhere."

"The iron flower is indeed very ornamental."

"Yes, Professor Nie, as long as this type of skill gets enough attention, many people will be willing to learn it. Not only is it cool enough, but you can also make a lot of money. This skill has not only been passed down in the long history

Come down and introduce new things. Just like the fireworks you just joked about..."

"Dad didn't laugh at you, he just said you were cute when you were little."

"You're not laughing at me if you call me cute?"

"Dad is wrong. Dad wants you to apologize. My son is the most unlovable person in the world."

"Professor Nie, you've almost got it. Don't be a good boy just to get an advantage."

"Datou, you say two words, but the meaning is different. Does dad want to [get it] or [not to get it]?"

Nie Guangyi breathed a sigh of relief. He now truly felt that his father was more like a child than him.

He simply continued his topic and said: "I mistook ironwork for setting off fireworks, but the combination of ironwork and fireworks has long been one of the ways for ironwork to innovate."

"Dad also saw it. The scene was spectacular. It was indeed a little different from the blacksmithing you saw when you were a child. A double-layered shed was built in an open area, fireworks were placed on top of the shed, and a dozen or so people worked together to make blacksmiths.

Hit the molten iron with flying iron flowers to light the fireworks and firecrackers hung on the shed in advance."

"So, Professor Nie, as long as this highly ornamental intangible cultural heritage skill is paid attention to, many people will be willing to learn and pass it on. Not only will they inherit it, but they will also slowly carry it forward. It can be said to carry forward the past and open up the future."

"Tiehua is indeed not like most intangible cultural heritage skills, which are either shelved or settled in museums." Nie Tianqin agreed.

Nie Guangyi answered: "Professor Nie, don't you find it strange?"

"What's so strange about this?"

"The iron flower is a traditional wooden arch bridge construction technique that belongs to the Wan'an Bridge. It is the same batch that has entered the national intangible cultural heritage list. The iron flower can even be on the Spring Festival Gala. If the Wan'an Bridge had not been burned, except for the villagers,

Basically no one knows about it.”

"Big Tou, blacksmithing is actually very dangerous. Weren't you almost frightened to tears when you were a kid?" Nie Tianqin revealed his addiction.

"Walking on the edge of danger, passing by being burned every minute, in the eyes of the viewer, it is like a pure and harmless flower blooming. This kind of pleasure of playing with nature is for young people

I mean, it’s very attractive.”

"You are right, but the experience of forging iron flowers cannot be used in the inheritance of traditional wooden arch bridge construction techniques."

"So I said from the beginning that different skills require different ways of inheritance."

"Then tell Dad, what kind of inheritance method is suitable for the traditional wooden arch bridge construction skills?"

"First of all, we should not think about family inheritance or carpenters in the village. We should look for more people like me."

"Without a bit of family inheritance, there are very few young people who are willing to stay and build wooden arcade bridges."

"So, the positioning was wrong from the beginning. If intangible heritage like the wooden arcade bridge really wants to be passed on, it must shift from material pursuits to spiritual pursuits."

"How?" Nie Tianqin asked seriously.

"You can't let those young people who haven't solved the problem of food and clothing to generate electricity for love, so you have to find people like me - capable and talented, my father is a great professor, and my mother left a lot of property..."
Chapter completed!