Chapter 35
The bright wind and clear moon are waiting for you. A song of Su Luo lights up the red clouds
"Stay steady and be careful of the bumps on the road. If it falls and gets stained by dirt, it will be even harder to clean up later." Although the sixth sister is calm enough, she still has to give some instructions when she becomes a master.
During the Dragon Boat Festival, there are a lot of people shopping for new clothes, so we start making clothes at this time. After the rainy season, when the weather really warms up, it will be just right.
So Mrs. Li sold all the lustrous dyes in her shop and is now rushing to the riverside to refine the dyes and remove impurities, making the material soft and more lustrous.
"Master!" Putting the Jiangzhou car in her hand aside and steady, Sixth Sister's movements were faster than her words.
The master had just warned his disciple, but he didn't pay attention to his feet. The cart carrying buckets of natural dye almost overturned.
If Sixth Sister hadn't reacted quickly and subconsciously provided a hand in time to help the master stabilize his body, the indigo and other dyes would have splashed and melted together.
Seeing her disciple looking at her nervously, Mrs. Li was moved in her heart: "Master, if you are not careful, he is always nagging you..."
After this experience, Mrs. Li and Sixth Sister both stepped more carefully - although it would not be a big deal if it fell, but if the Su Luo was dirty, or the dye was mixed,
That's what really matters.
It wasn't that Mrs. Li didn't pay attention, sometimes she just got too nervous and things would go wrong. Fortunately, there was no big impact at the moment, so the master and the apprentice continued to push the things in the car towards the Tiesha River.
"Oh, Tieshahe." An Ji heard about this Tieshahe from several uncles and aunts, and they used to dye it here. Now that the country advocates "sustainable development", the factory has also changed the dyeing method.
In the Southern Song Dynasty, there were no chemical dyes. If it were dyed with pure natural dyes, it would not have such a big impact on the rivers, but it would definitely cause a lot of trouble.
It's a pity that many of the methods for extracting colors have turned into dust in the thick soil with thousands of years of history. Even the pigments for rock paintings have to be learned from other Asian countries.
An Ji couldn't imagine that if the techniques of dyeing, Hua Luo, Shu Luo, and Zhi Jin Luo could be restored one by one, and if the thousands of years of inheritance of various ethnic groups could be brought together... that would be the best way to write words.
I can’t describe how proud I am!
It's a pity that all of this is An Ji's own imagination. If it is to be realized, it requires the selflessness of the guardians, the fearlessness of the inheritors, and the elimination of ignorance of the wrong understanding of cultural values.
There is a long way to go and the road ahead is long. Those who have devoted themselves to it may face the confusion of finding beauty and finding beauty in "Rain Lane", but they are still stuck in the same place.
You may encounter setbacks and helplessness like Mrs. Li, or even malicious competition and market impact. But the road is at your feet. Even if there are three thousand layers of fog, with the soul of culture as the foundation and perseverance as the star, you can still explore and move forward.
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Recalling that when I was writing my thesis, I checked a lot of information, but I still didn't have a precise guess as to what the grand scene would look like by the Tiesha River, so Li Anji just followed it and read on.
No clothes were pounded, no clothes were dyed, and the sun was setting over the Qingjiang River in the morning. The red clouds did not reflect the colors of the mountains, but they dotted the Suluo a foot long. On the banks of the Tiesha River, not only the Sixth Sister of the An family and her master were there, weaving in the city of Lin'an
Everyone will come here to take care of these last two steps.
When the colorful dyes entered the Tiesha River, they were like the colorful clouds in the sky being caught into the river. When they merged, the Tiesha River was so turbid that the green mountains and red clouds were not reflected in the waves.
In the end, even the crushed golden halo was caught by Su Luo, called refining. The dyed Luo was full of light and color. No wonder when you put on Luo Yi, you will bring three points of moonlight...
It's a pity that most of the people who weave clothes can't afford to wear clothes. Now they all wear coarse clothes, and their hands are stained with dye.
①Refer to "Hangluo Weaving Technique" for the refining and dyeing steps.
②Jiangzhou cart is a single-person trolley that was actually used in the Song Dynasty.
Chapter completed!