Chapter 1299 Shopping
"What is this?" Jiang Shuyi curiously took the small white square box and looked at the beautiful red dot in the center and the four metal buttons with four-leaf clover petals. The familiar symbols on it made her understand immediately: "Anyway. Why is it like this? "
"Digital Walkman." Zhou Zhi plugged the headphones into the headphone jack and pressed the small red dot power button, and the small LCD screen above lit up. The directory tree in the memory stick contains song names with suffixes.
What Zhou Zhi poured into it were two albums by Faye Wong. The compression ratio was six times, and the sound was very clear and translucent.
In fact, there is no pressure at all on the equipment to analyze digital music. The listening effect comes more from the quality of the headphones.
"It's so beautiful." Jiang Shuyi looked at the small box: "It's what you said a few days ago. What's the purpose of coming here?"
"Yes, this is a portable device that plays digital music. Listen." Zhou Zhi said with a smile: "You can copy the audio files on the computer to this machine. With it, you don't need any tapes or CDs."
"If you don't have a computer, right? Can't use it?" Jiang Shuyi asked.
"Uh... well..." Zhou Zhi finally realized that this problem did exist.
The current mainstream PCs are still 386 and 486, and the external drives on them are still five-inch large floppy disks and three-inch small floppy disks.
The optical drive was just invented the year before last, and it is not yet popular abroad, let alone in China.
The first notebook computer with an optical drive, IBM's ThinkPad 755cd, is said to not be launched until October this year, and the performance of the optical drive is very impressive, and it is a first-speed product
Even for a home computer , its hard disk storage capacity is also very limited, generally 1G2G, 4G home computers are already high-end, so the data space is very tight.
A CD is 700 MB, so the question raised by Jiang Shuyi is very practical. If you use the format warehouse software to convert on your computer, then it will take about 1 GB to convert a CD. space.
So the best way is to follow the path of computer stores in later generations, wait until CD-ROM drives become popular and directly buy music CDs in MP3 format, and then import them into the player.
Or just go to the computer game arcade, which was later the predecessor of the Internet cafe, where the latest music is usually downloaded from the computer workstation, and you can go there to copy it.
In any case, the current player is of almost no use to the children of ordinary Chinese families, and there is no place to copy songs.
"Then you should keep this for use." Jiang Shuyi said: "It's inconvenient for me to use."
"It's not inconvenient." Zhou Zhi also has a bright mind: " You must have English listening materials in your computer room. I told them to install transcoding software and convert them all to MP3. , they will definitely be happy to be able to hold twelve times more information than now. You can copy it out and listen to it at any time."
"That's it..." Jiang Shuyi actually likes this little one. It's just a joke. After thinking about it for a while, I thought it was really good. I finally smiled and said, "Thank you for your thoughtfulness."
The two got on the bus and headed to Guangdong Road near the Bund.
The Shanghai Cultural Relics Store on Guangdong Road was formerly the Yiyuan Tea House, the central market where stalls were set up to sell antiques in Bei City before liberation. After liberation, the Shanghai antique system completed the public-private partnership in the entire industry, and the units specializing in and part-time antique business were reduced to antique markets, state-owned thrift stores, Xinlong, Gu Songji, Renli, Yixincheng, Zunyi Zhai, and Rongbao Nine restaurants, ancient books bookstores, etc. are basically concentrated here.
Afterwards, it also experienced turmoil and decline, and was eventually renamed "Shanghai Cultural Relics Store". It was actually a rather large building with six stores approved by the State Administration of Cultural Heritage. Cultural relics export units; 11 cultural relics export agency units approved by the Municipal Cultural Management Committee, seven shops operating cultural relics or old handicrafts auctions, four shops operating cultural relics or old handicrafts mortgage business, and four shops selling ancient coins domestically.
For a long time, this was a concentration camp for the works of famous "Shanghai School" painters in China, including Xu Beihong, Fu Baoshi, Pan Tianshou, He Xiangning, Dong Xiwen, Wang Shikuo, Li Keran, Wu Hufan, He Tianjian, Qi Baishi, The works of Feng Zikai, Huang Binhong, Shen Yinmo, Zhang Daqian, Deng Sanmu and many other famous artists are mainly hyped here and change hands frequently.
There are still many shops here that are time-honored, but Zhou Zhi can tell at a glance that the operators of these so-called time-honored shops are no longer the old people or the inheritors of the old people.
At that time, most of the time-honored antique shops in Shanghai dealt with copper, porcelain, jade, and ivory.
As for the most powerful categories of specialty, calligraphy and painting are from Da Yongqing; jade is from Ruiwenzhai, Yiguzhai, and Chen Baoji; ivory is from Huangheji and Wang Yongji; coins are from Global Quan Coin Society and Qilin Quan Coin Society; and porcelain is from They are Wang Shaoquan and Tong Qingji;
In terms of business scale, Jinguzhai is the largest; followed by Tongbaocheng, Jianyi, Ruizhen, and Yayede.
It is a pity that in the books introducing the antique industry that Zhou Zhi has read, these time-honored brands that once had many glorious stories have almost disappeared.
Zhou Zhi and Jiang Shuyi walked along and discovered a very interesting phenomenon, that is, the stores with time-honored names have a mixture of genuine and fake items, and the largest unit they can see is the Shanghai Cultural Relics Store. In addition to the signboards, there are Ancient Books Bookstore, Friendship Store, Mingyuan Trading Company, Arts and Crafts Research Institute, etc. In these shops with trendy names, the things sold are basically genuine and high-quality.
There are only two restaurants left here that sell genuine and high-quality products, and whose names are a bit like time-honored brands, one is called Duoyunxuan and the other is called Jiyuzhai.
The things in these two homes are really bad.
The rich are the uncles. This is the country’s most important window for exporting cultural relics, so countless good things are concentrated here, such as the treasure of Gongmei Town Hall in Shudu, the same level as Qiu Ying’s "Wangchuan Picture" Many shops here have ancient calligraphy and painting calligraphy stickers, and they are hung on the wall behind the counter for everyone to look at.
In fact, there are several large markets in Shanghai similar to Panjiayuan in the capital and Xianqiao in Shudu, but the fun of cultural entertainment is not just about picking up things.
Attending auctions, negotiating deals in antique shops, and hunting for goods at markets are different pleasures.
No matter how much money you have, it is not enough when you get here. Therefore, when Zhou Zhi came with Jiang Shuyi this time, he had no intention of spending money at all. He just wanted to broaden his horizons and see high-quality products.
Although Jiang Shuyi gradually became interested in these things through Zhou Zhi, she has always been quite busy with her studies, so she doesn't have much energy to do these things.
However, occasionally I still find time to practice line drawing when I have time. This is a hobby left over from when I helped my grandmother draw female drawings, and now it has become a small hobby for her to relax and relieve stress.
Today, we are no longer just amateurs.
(End of this chapter)