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Gap Echo
Yu Chengxin is the only remaining retro hurdy-gurdy reed resonance gap adjustment designer in China. She relied on a feeler gauge and a pair of ears to make a living. She could distinguish the change in timbre caused by a gap difference of 0.01 Mm, but she could not tell why she ran away ten years ago. Lin Jianshen, the third generation heir to the "Old Time" piano shop, passed the professional performance level 8 exam, but has never played a complete piece of music. Ten years later, an old Germ
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Enamel Glaze and Youthfulness
Nian Qiuyan, 24 years old, is a designer of anti-corrosion glaze dot coating on the inner wall of retro enamel cups. She stubbornly believed that sparse hand-glazed dots allowed the enamel cup to breathe. The old factory was about to be renovated, and what she was waiting for was her first love Jiang Yan - now he is the most stringent food safety expert at the Light Industry Research Institute, and he wanted to shut down her handmade line with the national standard of "full glaze and full covera
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Stone Inkstone Hides Ink
Bai Shen has been polishing stone inkstones in his ancestral bluestone workshop for twenty-six years, and the wounds on his fingertips are denser than the moss on the old street. The secret of the ancient inkstone lies in strength: if it is heavy, the surface of the inkstone will be rigid and will not store ink; if it is light, the lines will be messy and there will be no hidden edges. He thought he would live with stones for the rest of his life, until his old school friend knocked on the door
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Bluestone Marks
Cuifu is the last bluestone polisher and washer in the river port in the ancient town of Shuixiang. This craftsmanship is based on polishing the bluestone steps by the river - if it is too heavy, it will erase the traces of water erosion for thousands of years; if it is too light, the moss caulking will slip and kill people; no matter how clean it is, a flood will erase all traces. Ten years ago, a young man (Shen Nian) who often squatted at the dock to watch her grinding stones went to Beijing
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Shabu Wenlan
Eighteen years ago, by the well in Zhouzhuang Dyeing and Weaving Courtyard, Liu Xinling, a 16-year-old apprentice in dyeing and weaving, met Zhang Tao, the young owner of a silk and satin shop. One has low self-esteem and is cowardly because of poverty, and the other withholds love because of pride. She stayed up all night to take off a square linen scarf for him but didn't dare to sign it. He searched for her all over the country for eighteen years but just passed her by. The desizing of linen
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Deep in Cotton Wool
When Moon was nineteen years old, she went to Mianfang in the old city with a girl from her village to learn skills, and met Zhou Chen. He is the only son of a cotton mill owner. He has twelve cocoons on his hands and is very steady when holding yarn. On the first day, Yue Yue pulled the yarn and broke three threads. Instead of preaching, he just handed over his gauze board: "Touch, you have to remember the path the yarn needs to go." Yue Yue touched the warm sweat stains in the grooves of the g
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