刻刀下的木缘匠心

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六月，南山一片葱葱郁郁。陈宝华和他的工人们，在这里已守候了6个年头。

2012年，陈宝华带二十名工人从北京来到重庆，在南山深处开始了纯手工家具雕刻的“慢时光”。

一笔笔、一刀刀，木匠师傅们每年仅能制作出五六件大家具。即便如此,陈宝华也从未考虑过扩大规模，而是追求在技艺上的不断突破。

In June, Nanshan is covered with verdant and thick vegetation. Chen Baohua and his craftsmen have stayed here for six years.

Together with twenty craftsmen, Chen has come from Beijing in the year of 2012 and begun his slow handmade work of furniture sculpture in the remote Nanshan of Chongqing.

Carving subtly, these craftsmen can only make five or six large furniture each year. Yet, Chen goes after the improvement in artistry rather than the enlargement of his business.

画图、打坯、修光，家具厂里的每个师傅都能独立完成一系列木工活。图案画好后，师傅们便需要依据图案，匹配出纹路合适的木料。

打坯时，师傅会将图纸覆在木材上。对于成熟的木雕师傅，所要雕刻的图案早已烂熟于心，图纸更多的是提供一个大致空间布局的参考。

打坯完成后，木料进入修光环节。通常，修光的时间，会是打坯的两倍。即便是熟练的工匠，做浅浮雕的修光，每天能完成的工作量，通常不会超过一个巴掌大小。相较于浅浮雕，深浮雕的制作更为耗时，做深浮雕的修光，每天能完成的，仅有几厘米见方的大小。

Plotting, hitting the billet and polishing, every craftsman is capable of completing a series of woodwork by himself. After the plotting, craftsmen need to find timber with suitable lines according to the pattern.

These craftsmen will cover the pattern on the timber while they are hitting. Nevertheless, experienced masters of wood carving are so familiar with the design to be engraved that they only need to glimpse the pattern roughly.

Polishing comes after hitting of the timber, which will cost double time compared with the latter. The daily workload of polishing basso-relievo is not bigger than a palm even for a proficient master. Compared with bassorelievo, deep relief is more time-consuming and can be finished for a square of a few cm every day.

从2016年开始，陈宝华给自己设了一项新的挑战，计划用15年时间，完成1000个雕有大足石刻千手观音的木盒，用六毫米的深度，展现出千手观音的立体感。

两年过去了，陈宝华和工匠们仅完成了100个，他希望，每完成100个，雕刻的工艺都有新的飞跃。

在幽静的南山，木雕工匠们，用手中的刻刀，将时间浓缩进了毫厘之间。

In the year of 2016, Chen set himself a challenge. He decided to complete 1000 wooden boxes carved with Thousands- Hand Kwan-yin of Dazu Rock Carvings. Six millimeter should be carved in order to reveal the vivid third dimension of Thousands- Hand Kwan-yin.

In the past two years, Chen and other craftsmen have only worked out 100 boxes. He hopes that the craft skill can have a new jump when 100 boxes are completed.

In the secluded Nanshan, these woodcarving masters are busy in this with their burin.