This Magic Knife Award not only comes with a trophy and certificate, but you will actually get a knife made of pure gold for engraving.
The tools used in jade carving can be roughly divided into three categories.
There are one type of hard tools, one type of soft tools, and the last type are knife edge tools.
Therefore, this jade carving champion finally deserves a knife made of pure gold.
Although it is a knife, don’t underestimate the value of this magic knife award.
Jade culture is very popular throughout Guangnan, and the Magic Sword Award is not entirely funded by the private sector.
It is organized by the Guangnan Provincial Department of Culture and its semi-official Guangnan Jade Carving Association.
Jade carvers who win the Magic Sword Award will have the opportunity to go to Kyoto and enter the Chinese Academy of Chinese Culture to carve jade as a national gift.
Carving a national gift for the country is a ground-breaking honor for any professional jade carver.
After hearing what Yao Xuewei said, Li Xiangqian finally understood.
I really don’t know if I don’t ask, and I’ll be shocked if I ask.
It turns out that this Magic Sword Award actually has such a big background.
Moreover, this professional jade carver mainly uses a knife to carve jade, so this magic knife award is very consistent with the characteristics of jade carving.
It's like the Golden Rooster Award for Chinese films, the Golden Image Award for Hong Kong films, the Golden Deer Award for films, etc.
The existence of this Divine Sword Award can be regarded as the highest honor for all jade carvers.
Li Xiangqian thought for a while, this Magic Sword Award is so powerful, Dong Yuchun, as a master of jade carving, must have won it.
Out of curiosity, Li Xiangqian couldn't help but ask, and the answer was just as he expected. Dong Yuchun was indeed a giant in the field of jade carving.
He has won the Magic Sword Award for three consecutive years, but unfortunately, as a master of jade carving from the Southern School, none of his apprentices has ever won the crown in this competition.
This is really regrettable.
After all, it was a bit unexpected, so Li Xiangqian didn't ask again.
As a result, the chatterbox has started, and Yao Xuewei also feels that she and Li Xiangqian are very close. The key is that the master Dong Yuchun seems to have a crush on Li Xiangqian.
Therefore, Yao Xuewei felt that it was still necessary to explain clearly to Li Xiangqian.
After a pause, Yao Xuewei started talking to Li Xiangqian.
"Li Xiangqian, there are Tianzhou School and Heyang School in the Jade Association. In the field of jade carving, there are also different factions. In the entire Guangnan Province, there are also Southern Jade Carving School and Northern Jade Carving School."
Li Xiangqian was a little dizzy after hearing this. How could there be so many sects of jade carvings, such as the southern sect and the northern sect?
Seeing that Li Xiangqian didn't understand, Yao Xuewei didn't explain too much. She just picked out some key points.
Guangnan Province covers an area of 300,000 square kilometers, but a river in the middle divides the entire Guangnan into two. This is caused by natural factors.
The jade carvings in Guangnan Province were all produced by the same family three hundred years ago. This sect was called the Lingnan Sect, and its ancestor was Wei Zhen, known as the Laughing God of Lingnan.
Patriarch Wei never married and only studied jade carving.
Later, after the old man passed away, he had three disciples. The eldest was my master Dong Yuchun's sect. After this sect was passed down, it evolved into the Southern sect, with its main position in Tianzhou.
The one inherited from the second child is the Northern sect, and its main position is in Heyang.
As for the third child, he did not want to participate in the intra-sect fighting, and later left Guangnan Province and went to Kyoto alone, slowly evolving into the current Kyoto faction.
Although the Beijing sect is the youngest disciple in the lineage, it has gradually become its own family because it has stayed away from the fight, and now it has become the strongest existence in the entire Chinese jade carving field.
It's just that the Beijing sect passed down the ancestral teachings that all my disciples of the Jing sect are not allowed to set foot in Guangnan for the rest of their lives, otherwise they will be regarded as treason and will be expelled from the school and will never be hired.
Therefore, although the Beijing faction is strong, it never participates in the battle of Guangnan jade carvings.
So now, the annual jade carving competition is just a competition between the disciples of the Southern Sect and the Northern Sect, as well as other small sects that have evolved.
Hearing this, Li Xiangqian understood it completely.
I bet this Jadeite Jade Sculpture Conference is also a super factional game.
But Li Xiangqian still doesn't quite understand. Mr. Dong is known as the Holy Hand of the Southern Kingdom, and is also known as the First Grade Grand Master. He is so powerful that he has won the Divine Sword Award three times in a row.
Even if his apprentice can't do it, can't he continue to kill the Northern Faction instantly?
Seeing Li Xiangqian's doubts, Yao Xuewei naturally knew what Li Xiangqian wanted to ask.
"Master is a master from the Southern Kingdom. If he participates, he will definitely continue to win the championship. However, all the seniors of his generation from the Northern Sect suddenly announced three years ago that they would no longer participate in any form of jade carving competition, and would instead introduce the old and bring out the new. All of them will be introduced to the Northern Sect.
Disciples and disciples are participating, and if you ask the master, a senior jade carver, to compete with the juniors from the northern sect, it would be disgraceful to win, so after the seniors from the northern sect withdrew from the competition, master and several fellow disciples from the southern sect also directly announced their withdrawal."
When Yao Xuewei said this, Li Xiangqian completely understood.
If you compare yourself with younger generations, it would indeed be quite disgraceful.
Even if you win, you will lose your identity.
And once you lose, it will look even worse.
However, even if Dong Yuchun stopped participating and pushed out the new disciples, why did he fail to win the championship for three consecutive years? Is it because the northern disciples are too strong or the southern disciples are too weak.
Li Xiangqian had no time to worry anymore.
Because the plane has already taken off.
Besides, he has no interest in getting involved in the dispute between the southern and northern jade carving factions.
I left quietly.
As I come gently.
I wave my sleeves and don't take away a single cloud.
With the roar of the engine, the plane was like an eagle flying high in the sky, heading straight for Heyang.
However, all this is just the beginning, but it will never be the end.
Just as the plane was adjusting its altitude while traveling, it suddenly encountered strong airflow and began to bump violently up and down.
The cabin, which had been quiet just now, suddenly became filled with anxiety and uneasiness.
Even though the flight attendant said on the radio that this was just a normal phenomenon, she couldn't help but feel a small amount of agitation in the cabin.
no way.
When life is in danger, when people are afraid and faced with danger, this is the instinctive reaction of human beings.
Although Li Xiangqian was calm on the outside, he was really feeling a little panic inside.
It's not that he is afraid of death, it's just that he can't die.
Because he knows that he is everything to his mother for the rest of her life.
When he died, my mother's hope for the rest of her life was shattered.
So he forced himself to calm down, but at this moment, a delicate hand suddenly grabbed him.
Li looked forward and saw Yao Xuewei.
"Don't worry, it's a normal reaction."
Seeing how Yao Xuewei took the initiative to care about him when she was in danger, Li Xiangqian felt warm in his heart even though he didn't say anything.
He suppressed nausea, dizziness, and the inexplicable falling feeling, and nodded directly towards Yao Xuewei.
Then the plane continued to bump, and the cabin shook even more violently.
Then at this moment, the plane suddenly adjusted its altitude again and continued to dive downwards.