After lunch, Zhang Junping went directly to the old lady's studio.
The old lady had just finished her meal and was taking a walk in the courtyard of the studio. She saw Zhang Junping and asked with a smile: "Boy, what are you doing here at noon?"
"I can't sleep at noon anyway, so I might as well come over and do some work!" Zhang Junping scratched his head and laughed.
"Don't affect your normal studies! Otherwise, I can only disqualify you from entering my studio!"
"Don't worry, Grandma Liu!
Our counselor is not a good person. If I can't keep up with my homework, she can eat me alive without you!" Zhang Junping responded with a smile.
"Oh? Your counselor is so powerful? Who is he?"
"Ye Lilong!"
"Oh! It's her! I know, this little girl is very motivated! I signed for her to stay in school the year before last!" The old lady nodded clearly.
"Grandma Liu, you are still calling me a little girl now that you are the mother of your children!"
"What the hell happened to the child? No matter how old she is, she is still my student! No matter how old she is, if I call her little girl, she has to respond!" the old lady said unreasonably with a straight face.
The old lady's unreasonable look is a bit cute.
Zhang Junping smiled and nodded: "You are right, we will always be children in your eyes!"
"Okay, you go and do your business!" The old lady waved Zhang Junping away.
"Okay, you can continue walking, I'm going in to work!" Zhang Junping agreed, turned around and opened the door of his small studio.
Zhang Junping is a sophomore who owns a small studio. This kind of treatment would make many CAFA lecturers jealous.
You know, the person who can have a personal studio in CAFA must be an associate professor at the very least.
How could Zhang Junping not work hard to own a small studio of his own beyond the standard?
Zhang Junping's madness broke out again.
I spent the entire afternoon busy among the piles of furniture.
First, measure the overall size of the furniture and draw it on paper.
Then dismantle the furniture, study the mortise and tenon structure used in each part, and the manufacturing process. Then measure each component and then draw it on paper.
The last step is the decorative craftsmanship on the furniture.
Is it carving or inlaying?
Whether the carving is carving, flat carving, relief carving, round carving or openwork carving.
The type of carving, graphics, and size of the graphics must be drawn on the paper one by one.
These are not difficult, all you need is to be careful.
What is difficult is the study of inlay technology.
The inlays on these pieces of furniture are basically gone.
Furniture inlay technology reached its peak in the late Kangxi period of the Qing Dynasty.
Furniture is also mostly inlaid with gold, silver thread, jewelry and jade.
Whether it is gold, silver thread, or jewelry and jade, they are all valuable things.
Therefore, as long as these old furniture brought back from the junkyard are decorated with inlay technology, except for the marble inlay, all other materials have been taken away.
Zhang Junping can only deduce the mosaic pattern based on the remaining mosaic traces.
Then combine the furniture material and production process to reason about the inlays.
This is a very tedious, very complex, and very brain-burning job.
Anyone who knows something about traditional furniture knows that there are three major schools of furniture: Jing furniture, Su furniture, and Guangzhou furniture.
In fact, in addition to these three major schools, there are many smaller schools, such as Lu furniture, Jin furniture, Ning furniture, Yang furniture, and Fujian furniture.
Each small school has its own characteristics, but the characteristics of many small schools actually overlap with those of the three major schools.
It is really difficult to distinguish clearly and accurately.
Zhang Junping used the back door to do this and borrowed a lot of information books from the school library for research.
However, there were too few books on ancient furniture of the Ming and Qing Dynasties in the 1980s.
Wang Shixiang and Wang Lao's "Appreciation of Ming-style Furniture", "Research on Ming-style Furniture" and "Explanation of Painting and Decoration" have not yet been published.
We can only distinguish them based on some memories from previous lives and some clues found in books.
Sometimes, Zhang Junping really wishes he could go to the origin of each school to study it.
Zhang Junping is facing such a problem now.
Zhang Junping was certain that it was a huanghuali treasure-inlaid Arhat bed from the late Ming Dynasty. However, all the inlaid things on it were taken away.
How to restore and repair?
Looking at the Arhat bed that had been stripped of its inlays and turned into pits, like a beautiful woman with pockmarks on her face, Zhang Junping felt distressed and distressed. He was so anxious that several of his hairs were pulled out.
"Here, drink some water first!" came a crisp and gentle voice.
"Huh? When did you come?" Zhang Junping looked at the ceramic jar in front of him and asked with some surprise.
Huang Xue pursed her lips and smiled: "I've been here for a while. I saw you were busy, so I didn't bother you."
"I'm sorry! I was a little lost in thought just now!" Zhang Junping took a big sip from the jar, scratched his head and said with a smile.
"It's okay, I should say sorry, I shouldn't bother you!
I'm just curious about what kind of work Director Liu has arranged for you!" Huang Xue smoothed her hair on her temples and said to Zhang Junping with a smile.
After saying that, I felt bad, and added with a blushing face: "After all, I am also the monitor, so I have to care about my classmates' lives and studies!"
"This is my job, to study the production technology of these ancient furniture from the Ming and Qing Dynasties and restore them!"
After Zhang Junping finished speaking, he stared blankly at the Ming Dynasty huanghuali treasure-embedded Arhat bed.
Seeing Zhang Junping looking attentively, Huang Xue did not continue to speak, but stood aside and watched Zhang Junping distracted.
After a while, Huang Xue couldn't help but ask again.
"What are you studying?"
"I'm studying the treasure inlay on this, what kind of pattern it is, and what kind of material it is inlaid with!
It's a pity that the damage was so severe that you can't even see what the original pattern was, let alone what materials were used to inlay it!" Zhang Junping shook his head in disappointment and regret.
"Are you going to fix it?"
"Yes! Director Liu gave me two tasks. One is to thoroughly research these ancient furniture from the Ming and Qing Dynasties and sort out the written information.
The second is to repair them without damage and restore them to their original appearance!" Zhang Junping said distressedly.
“Since you don’t know what pattern it originally was and what it was inlaid with, why not redesign a pattern based on the age and style of the furniture?
There should be many kinds of patterns suitable for its era and style, right?" Huang Xue suggested in a low voice.
"yes!
I'll re-design the pattern for it, re-choose the materials for inlaying, and that's it!" Zhang Junping was awakened by Huang Xue's words. He jumped up from the ground excitedly, gave Huang Xue a warm hug, and patted her hard.
Back, “Thank you!
You reminded me!
Otherwise, I don’t know how long I will have to struggle with it!”
"Ah! Scoundrel!" Huang Xue pushed Zhang Junping away, cursed, turned and ran out of the studio.
"What's wrong?
Isn't it just a hug to celebrate?
Women are trouble!" Looking at Huang Xue running away in the background, Zhang Junping shook his head helplessly.