The tapestry craftsman Shen Yan rejected all commercial proposals until the curator who rushed into the rainy night soaked and said: "My mother also clutched the unfinished "Spring River Flowers and Moonlight Night" before she died, saying that there was a lack of moonlight."
Shen Yan has burn scars on his fingertips and can tell the weather from the humidity of silk threads; Lu Chen has three silver rings in his left ear, and his mobile phone album contains 327 silhouettes of him at work.
When Shen Yan used red gold thread to embed the word "Lu Chen" into "Longitude and Longitude of Mountains and Rivers", Shen's father tremblingly handed over the treasured gold thread: "Back then, your mother secretly tried to embroider the moonlight with gold thread."
For seventy-two hours, they let the tapestry flow in the light and shadow.
On the day of the exhibition, spotlights were turning, and the rivers in "Mountains and Rivers" actually breathed light and darkness with the audience. The white-haired judge stroked the signature and burst into tears: "In fifty years, this is the first time that Kesi can breathe."
When the reporter asked about the core, Shen Yan and Lu Chen clasped their fingers: "The longitude and latitude are the rules of thousands of years, and they are also the heartbeat of this moment."
[Intangible cultural heritage craftsmen × cutting-edge curators, traditional crafts × contemporary light and shadow, a life and death game about preserving skills and innovation, let Kesi learn to breathe in the wave of the times.
