Chapter 97: The Hundred-meter Giant Painting is released for the first time. Please collect it.
"A Thousand Miles of Rivers and Mountains" is a colored painting on silk created by Wang Ximengsuo in the Northern Song Dynasty.
This is one of the "treasures of the museum" stored in the National Museum, but for the reopening, the teachers and students of the Chinese painting major of Yong'an College specially reproduced this painting of a thousand miles of rivers and mountains from scratch after completing the draft of the embroidered version of Journey to the West.
A Thousand Miles of Rivers and Mountains is an extremely long painting, with the entire scroll being nearly 11 meters long.
This painting vividly depicts the majesty of the northern mountains and the magnificent waters of the Jianghuai River in the south with ink and wash.
Two completely different natural landscapes are integrated in such a painting.
It was not until 2017 that this masterpiece was publicly exhibited for the first time in nearly a hundred years at the National Museum.
Back then, the exhibition of "A Thousand Miles of Rivers and Mountains" caused a huge sensation in the domestic cultural relics and art circles.
As one of the ten famous paintings of Donghuang, A Thousand Miles of Rivers and Mountains is hailed as the pinnacle of Donghuang's green landscape paintings.
The A Thousand Miles of Rivers and Mountains currently on display at the Yong'an Museum is a replica completed by teachers and students of the Chinese painting department of Yong'an College.
But it is worth noting that the highlight of this set of scrolls is definitely not just the pictures on the scrolls.
The most notable highlight is its size, which is much larger than the original.
The original painting of A Thousand Miles of Rivers and Mountains is 51.5cm long and 1191.5cm wide. However, the painting exhibited at the Yong'an Museum is a super-large painting that has been enlarged ten times to 119.15 meters long and 5.15 meters wide.
The giant painting, which was a hundred meters long and five meters high, gave Weimi and the audience in his live broadcast room a heavy blow as soon as it came out.
At this moment, although many viewers in the live broadcast room recognized the paintings on the wall before the commentator on the side, they were the first to recognize them.
But people still can't imagine that someone actually enlarged such a painting in proportion, and most importantly, the drawing paper in front of them is not spliced together, but made of a complete piece of silk paper.
A piece of silk paper one hundred meters long and five meters high. At that moment, when this data was transmitted to the Internet through the mouth of the tour guide.
Tens of thousands of active fans in Weimi's live broadcast room all stared with their eyes wide open and asked questions tacitly.
[Such a large painting...really only one piece of paper was used? 】
[Oh my god, has the current papermaking technology developed to such an advanced level? ]
[As far as I know, the widest papermaking machine in the world is 10.97 meters. Theoretically, it should not be a problem to make such a large drawing paper.]
Netizens in the live broadcast room instinctively expressed their responses to this question.
They wanted to use modern technology to explain the grand spectacle before their eyes, but the commentator beside them seemed to have anticipated their reaction and spoke while the barrage tried to explain:
"Yes, given the current development of papermaking technology, it is not difficult to produce paper of this scale. However, as a guide of the Yong'an Museum and a student of the Yong'an Museum's School of Crafts, I must solemnly declare that the painting you see in front of you was made without the use of any modern machines."
"In order to be able to restore the original creative background while replicating it, we used the most traditional manual methods from paper making to scroll painting."
Weimi: "So, young lady, what you mean is that this painting of a thousand miles of rivers and mountains in front of us was made by your Yongan... Academy using traditional papermaking techniques."
"Yes, we at Yongan College, together with teachers and students who study ancient book restoration, created this giant silk paper using traditional techniques."
Micron's knowledge of papermaking was relatively limited.
As one of the four great inventions, papermaking is definitely an existence that has been passed down along with human civilization. However, most people in Donghuang only know that papermaking originated in Donghuang, but they have not had a particularly in-depth understanding of papermaking.
Most people's impression of this technology is that paper is made by processing wood into pulp and then shaping it step by step.
But no matter what, if such a large drawing paper is made using traditional papermaking methods without the assistance of modern machines, it is bound to be an unprecedentedly difficult challenge.
You should know that the Chinese painting "Landscape" that was collected in the Great Hall of the People in the early years was so beautiful that it was 9 meters long and 6.5 meters high, and it was still made by splicing together multiple pieces of drawing paper.
The reason is that the papermaking technology in the late 1950s was not able to fully produce paper of this scale.
Therefore, in order to make up for this regret, hundreds of Donghuang craftsmen worked together to challenge and complete the production of the complete drawing paper.
Not only is the production process of the entire piece of paper extremely difficult, but the slightest carelessness during the process can easily result in the tragedy of the paper being damaged.
The painting of A Thousand Miles of Rivers and Mountains currently in the Yong'an Museum is made of a complete piece of paper that is hundreds of meters long.
Is this something that can be made without a machine?
And if the tour guide did not lie, she seemed to have mentioned just now that this enlarged version of "A Thousand Miles of Rivers and Mountains" was reproduced and painted by teachers and students of the Chinese painting major of Yong'an College.
The replica painting is more than one hundred meters long, not to mention whether there are any loopholes in the imitation.
Just talking about the process of drawing, how to ensure that the hundred meters of drawing paper is not contaminated or damaged is a huge problem.
Weimi, who has always been knowledgeable in the field of culture and tourism, couldn't believe what he saw.
He moved closer step by step, trying to see through the painting's outer frame to find any evidence inside that might prove that the painting was made up of multiple pieces of paper.
Because in his eyes, regardless of whether the drawing paper is real or not, just how to ensure that no mistakes occur during the painting process with such a large group of people is a difficult problem to achieve.
He really couldn't imagine how Yong'an College could accomplish all this in less than a year.
Weimi made a simple estimate and said that it would be impossible to complete such a large painting in such a short time without using a printing machine.
The teachers and students of Yongan College must work together.
During this period, the Yong'an Museum recruited those top Chinese painting teachers.
Ordinary people really cannot understand how Yongan College can make all this a reality when there will definitely be a large number of students joining.
Could it be that the teaching quality of Yongan College is high enough to allow students to participate in tasks of this level?
Wait, that's not right. If you think about it carefully, Yong'an College is a "Traditional Culture Research Institute" that mainly recruits "graduate students". Judging from their academic qualifications alone, the Chinese painting students here can indeed be said to be the pinnacle gathering of the new generation of Donghuang Chinese painting majors.
But the problem is that if he remembered correctly, the Chinese painting major of Yong'an College seemed to have only accepted 20 graduate students.
Even if we include their teachers and the helpers that the teachers may favor, there are only about 30 people.
Such a group needs to complete the hand-drawing of such a large and complete painting in less than a year, or half a year.
To be honest, unless all these people have mastered the skill of using a mop to create brush-like effects, they will have almost no tolerance for mistakes in half a year.
For this reason, he was eager to know how Yong'an College achieved all this.
He wanted to ask, but the tour guide at the side seemed to have anticipated his reaction and took Weimi to the "Multimedia Theater Screening Room" inside the museum.
There, he and the audience in the live broadcast room witnessed the entire process of the creation of this 100-meter masterpiece in an almost fully booked theater.
At that moment, he deliberately chose to sit in the middle of the multimedia theater, and curiously directed his gaze to the elder next to him.
Although the light in the indoor theater was dim, he recognized him and said that the other person should be the old man who had won the admission qualification with a high score of 94 out of 100 when he wanted to back out.
Weimi calculated the time based on the time he entered and the camera switching in the theater at that time.
The old man in front of me must have watched this documentary more than once after visiting the museum.
This couldn't help but make Weimi curious.
"Sorry to bother you, sir."
"I just saw that you are the only tourist ahead of me who passed the customs directly at the beginning?"
"So I would like to ask if you have any experience working in a similar industry before."
"I guess so. I used to be a papermaker. I was lucky enough to participate in the hand-making of 30-meter-long rice paper. So when I learned that someone wanted to challenge the 100-meter-long paper, I flew from my hometown to check it out."
Old man: "Young man, are you broadcasting live?"
"Yes, sir, I am a travel anchor. I have been committed to recommending various scenic spot experiences to tourists, so today I want to experience the sightseeing mode of Yongan Park and Yongan Museum after the restart."
"Uncle, I'm very curious, can a painting of this length of 100 meters really be completed in one go?"
"If different people, at different times, were to paint such a large area, even without considering the problem of mistakes, the color difference of the paint alone should be able to easily destroy the balance."
"And then there's the difference in style and skill between the participants. Do you think it's really possible to do it in such a short time without the use of a machine?"
The old man: "Whether it can be done or not, and how many unknown difficulties and mistakes are involved, these are the secrets of the creators.
We also know that it is impossible to reproduce all the details of this painting with high precision in such a short time, but we have to admit that when we walked in, the painting in front of us was indeed shocking, wasn't it? "
In order to reproduce this set of A Thousand Miles of Rivers and Mountains, both the paper-making masters and the teachers and students of the Chinese painting major at Yong'an College must have gone through a lot of hardships.
As visitors, we don't need to know how much they have suffered, because compared to the suffering, they would rather we focus on their works.
Old man: "I think that's enough."
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