I saw this video on the Chinese art of juci (a method of repairing broken pottery) which is actually very likely the origins of kintsugi (a Japanese method).
Since then, I keep thinking of Xie Lian not only being a scrap collector, but repairing the broken.
He finds a teacup broken into a few pieces and he fuses them back together with embellishments highlighting the imperfections. The beauty of reparation
He also restores other things; polishes rusted knives, carves new limbs for broken dolls, cleans stained cloth before dying them
XL doesn’t exactly “fix” these things. He grants a second, or third life to that which would otherwise be forgotten
Hua Cheng is incredibly fond of this hobby of Xie Lian’s; teaching him new techniques for repairing pottery and what the best paints to use are. He loves this time spent with his god
After all, he was the first thing that Xie Lian gave a second life—a new meaning to. He’s broken. And imperfect. Just look at his eyepatch. But his god states it only makes him all the more striking. That there’s a type of beauty in imperfection that can not be forged on purpose
