Chapter 69 Chicken Wing Wood
Passing through the fur stalls, you can see various styles of shoes and clothing.
Among them, the most eye-catching thing was a pair of badly damaged shoes in the center of the stall. There is a small card next to it, 90% new.
When the camera in Lin Yuan's live broadcast room passed by, someone was shocked: 90% new? Is it my eyesight or is it marked incorrectly?
Some viewers recognized it: You read that right, they marked it right, that pair of shoes was designed like this.
What? Would anyone buy such shoes?
Send it to me? I'm also afraid of getting athlete's foot!
With its tattered appearance, you can smell a sour smell just by looking at it. If you say it was picked up from a garbage dump, I would believe it.
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A kind-hearted fan pointed out: These are luxury sneakers. They are intended to break tradition and show the fashion attitude and personality of the new era. The price is still expensive! Especially the limited edition, which sells for nearly $2,000.
People who don’t understand Little Dirty Shoes are numb!
In their opinion, small dirty shoes give people the feeling of not paying much attention to personal hygiene and being dirty.
However, dirty shoes are very popular among celebrities.
It became popular due to the popularity of the Korean drama "Descendants of the Sun". Song Joong-ki wore it to flirt with Qiao Mei in the drama, and then caused a trend.
The reason why dirty shoes became popular is the Korean drama "Descendants of the Sun". In the drama, the male protagonist Song Joong-ki wore them to flirt with Qiao Mei. With the popularity of the Korean drama, it caused a trend.
Wearing a pair of dirty shoes on your feet seems to have become a symbol of keeping up with the trend of the times.
Therefore, we often see many celebrities wearing dirty shoes whether on screen or in private.
This is actually a common "trick" in fashion, just like there is a word called "heroin fashion".
At the end of the 20th century, there were many designs in the fashion industry that "pretended to be avant-garde" to attract the public to buy. In order to attract attention, they chose a position that was completely opposite to the traditional aesthetics and used filth to cover up charm.
For example, everyone is familiar with ripped jeans. It is a typical "pretend to be avant-garde" design. Young people like to wear ripped jeans and think it is fashionable, while elders find it difficult to understand this way of dressing.
Seeing the divergent opinions in the live broadcast room, Henry couldn't help but complain: "I really can't appreciate these shoes. They seem to be similar to the torn pair of Converse that my mother begged me to throw away when I was in high school."
Because Henry's family was not wealthy when he was in high school, Henry had been looking forward to buying the pair of Converse shoes for a long time and was reluctant to throw them away after they were worn out.
Henry's mother felt embarrassed when she saw that he always wore tattered Converse, so she asked Henry to throw them away.
Lin Yuan has no interest in dirty shoes, especially since his brand has forcibly given the design an environmentally friendly meaning: He said that at a time when the fast-moving industry and over-consumption are affecting the earth, this concept of "shoes to be worn for a lifetime" is very important.
Don't stop, just keep going.
The old uncle walked into a stall selling musical instruments.
I saw him picking up an instrument, holding it a few times, and a pleasant sound suddenly came out.
"What is that uncle holding in his hand? The sound it makes is quite pleasant." Paul asked.
Lin Yuan: "Huqin, a traditional Chinese stringed instrument."
Huqin, a type of qin, originated from the northern ethnic minorities. In ancient times, the Han people called the northern ethnic minorities "Hu". The qin passed from the north got its name.
The poem written by Cen Shen, a poet of the Tang Dynasty, "The Chinese army prepares wine and drinks for returning guests, playing Huqin, pipa and Qiang flute", which shows that the Huqin has begun to spread in the Tang Dynasty.
In the Ming Dynasty, stringed instruments like the huqin were improved and developed with the rise of drama and folk arts, and their performance forms were also diverse.
In the Qing Dynasty, the Huqin was used in the court's Warka music and Qinglong music, and the former also required four pieces of Huqin to be played.
What surprised Lin Yuan was that the old uncle actually had such skills.
"Brother Lin, what song is this uncle playing?" Huo Qingtong asked. Lin Yuan: ""The Moon Reflected in Two Springs". If I remember correctly, there is a text about "The Moon Reflected in Two Springs" in the fifth-grade elementary school textbook."
"Brother Lin, that's amazing! I remember the elementary school texts so clearly." Li Qiushui blinked.
Lin Yuan was silent. There was a reason why he could remember it so clearly.
However, it’s better not to say such embarrassing things.
After the uncle pulled for a while, the stall owner gave a thumbs up: "Good job!"
The old uncle said modestly: "I haven't held it for a long time, and my hands are a little rusty."
On the snake-killing stick, the stall owner said: "Pull it a few more times and the feel will return. Buy it back. It's not expensive at $100."
100 US dollars is indeed a small amount of money for the old uncle now, but the key point is that he doesn't want to buy it! It's just a temporary itchiness.
"No, no." The old uncle waved his hand.
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Lin Yuan unexpectedly discovered that the Huqin in his uncle's hand was a treasure.
"Uncle, I haven't heard the music you play for a long time. I always said before that I couldn't play it without the huqin. It's rare to see a huqin for sale now, why not buy it?" Lin Yuan advised.
The old uncle was stunned for a moment and realized that this should be a treasure.
"Okay, let's buy it then." The old uncle took out the money and handed it to the stall owner.
After leaving, the old uncle looked at it carefully and said, "Xiao Yuan, is this Hu Qin worth something? Did you read that right?"
Lin Yuan: "This is made of chicken wing wood."
Chicken wing wood is distributed in subtropical areas around the world, mainly in Southeast Asia and South America. It is named after its texture similar to "chicken wings". The texture is interlaced and clear, and the color is abrupt. It is a relatively beautiful wood among mahogany, has a slight aroma, and the growth rings are not obvious.
Lin Yuan added: "It's still the old chicken wing wood."
As far as he knows, chicken wings are divided into old chicken wings and new chicken wings.
Generally speaking, chicken wing wood in the early Qing Dynasty and before that is designated as old chicken wing wood. After the middle and late Qing Dynasty, it belongs to the new chicken wing wood.
The color of new chicken wing wood is slightly heavier, brown, and the color of the texture is slightly yellow; the heavier weight can be distinguished from the old chicken wing wood by the weight; the texture is obvious, and the new chicken wing wood is more beautiful than the old chicken wing wood in the eyes of ordinary people. New chicken wing wood has thick fibers, good toughness, and is difficult to carve, so any carving made from new chicken wing wood will look rough.
It is not difficult to distinguish old wenge wood. The first thing is the weight. Old wenge wood is light, the lightest in the hardwood family, and is not even as good as some "firewood", such as beech. If you weigh a piece of chicken-wing wood furniture, you can tell whether it is old chicken-wing wood.
The second is the color. Old chicken wing wood is gray in color, especially after it loses its wax over time, its color is earthy and gray, which is extremely ugly.
"Is wenge valuable?" Henry asked.
He had heard of red sandalwood, huanghuali, and golden nanmu, but this was the first time he heard of chicken wing wood.
Lin Yuan: "One of the most precious woods, it is often used to make furniture. Besides, regardless of the material, this Huqin is an object from the Ming and Qing Dynasties."
"How much is it worth?" the old uncle asked.
"About thirty to fifty thousand dollars!"
(End of chapter)