Chapter 304 Magic
What would you think if you saw a cultural relic unearthed from the Han Dynasty that said "Five stars come out of the east and benefit China"?
Tian Qingmin and Wang Dalin do not understand cultural relics and have not had much contact with such things.
But Qin Shaoyan was holding this imitation that was said to be a certain cultural relic and national treasure. He didn't need any complicated knowledge of cultural relic identification. He could tell it was fake at a glance.
You are the one who really puts it in front of them, and they can tell you without hesitation.
Things are new, purely new, unapologetically new.
Qin Shaoyan showed off this thing as if he was holding a Tang Sancai or Ming Dynasty Yuan blue and white.
"Don't worry about this word for now. Take a look at this pattern. Is it from the Han Dynasty?"
"Yes, yes." Tian Qingmin and Wang Dalin nodded fiercely, Mr. Qin Just say yes.
Qin Shaoyan looked at the two people's perfunctory expressions, turned out a magazine with a sullen face, and patted the introduction on it.
"Did you see it? In October 1995, members of the Niya ruins academic expedition team discovered this brocade in an ancient tomb at the Niya ruins in MF County, Hotan Prefecture." Qin Shaoyan took a picture of the magazine, "The brocade of the Han Dynasty is a national treasure. A first-class cultural relic, a real national treasure.”
Tian Qingmin and Wang Dalin came over to take a look and found that the cultural relics in the photo above were the same as those held by Qin Shaoyan.
The brocade of the Han Dynasty is still intact, like new, with bright colors.
Although the two bosses are not highly educated, the characters on them can still be roughly recognized.
“Five stars from the East benefit China”
"Hiss~" Wang Dalin took a breath of air, "Can our ancestors really know how to pinch and count?"
"That's for sure." Tian Qingmin said seriously, "The things left by our ancestors Zhouyi Bagua, Tuibei Tu, especially Zhuge Liang and Liu Bowen, all know astronomy from above and geography from below. "What does this mean? It means that our ancestors were in the Han Dynasty." >
“This is the destiny of the country!”
Wang Dalin and Tian Qingmin suddenly became energetic, as if the clouds were clearing and the sun appeared, they felt that the difficulties in front of them were temporary and everything would be fine.
After all, our ancestors have made it clear that this is a good omen for the fate of the country.
Qin Shaoyan was a little confused about whether to laugh or cry. He comforted them to no avail, but seeing the auspicious things made him feel like he was getting blood.
If this thing is indeed a coincidence, especially the text above, it would have shocked the world when it was unearthed.
Everyone who sees this thing takes it as an auspicious sign, let alone these two local bosses.
"Okay, stop studying, hang this thing up first." Qin Shaoyan greeted the two of them, "Tomorrow at the exhibition, we will show this to others."
Tian Qingmin was a little surprised, "Are you hanging this to get some luck?"
"This is the theme of our exhibition!" Qin Shaoyan said seriously, "Inheriting the millennium textile culture and carrying forward the spirit of scientific and technological innovation."
Tian Qingmin and Wang Dalin's eyes lit up, and they immediately gave a thumbs up, "High, Mr. Qin is still more educated."
Now that Mr. Qin has set the tone, the previously designed plan is useless. .
Tian and Wang acted decisively and directly asked the employees to move the things on the booth aside to make room for Mr. Qin to display.
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The next day, the exhibition opened.
The scene was really real, with loud gongs and drums, firecrackers blasting, red flags waving, and huge crowds of people.
Hundreds of textile company booths were neatly arranged in the venue, making the originally wide venue suddenly look cramped.
Even if the air conditioner is turned on to the maximum, it still feels hot.
There were formally dressed employees in front of each booth, holding various samples to explain to the merchants.
Even with the fan blowing behind them, you can still see the employees' sweaty heads and sweat-soaked shirts.
Among the many exhibitors, Brocade Huarong’s booth was the most popular.
Not only did the largest number of people gather, there was also a group of foreigners inside, gathered around the booth to watch.
Qin Shaoyan was talking with a microphone, and the beautiful female translator next to him was also quickly translating Mr. Qin’s explanation.
Tian Qingmin and Wang Dalin were working as assistants, and around them there were several reporters with guns and cannons constantly looking for angles to take photos.
“Qin will always be the one to make trouble.” Tian Qingmin said with emotion, “If we just rely on the two of us, how can we create such a big battle.”
“Yes, Not only did he bring a group of foreigners, but he also brought reporters." Wang Dalin nodded in agreement and expressed his admiration for Mr. Qin.
In the entire venue, their booth was the most beautiful, attracting the attention of many customers.
Well, the leading foreigner standing at the end looks familiar, as if he has seen it somewhere.
After Qin Shaoyan finished his introduction, he put down the microphone and took the ice water handed over by his secretary Xiao Chen.
"Give Edward a bottle." Qin Shaoyan unscrewed the cap and took a sip. The cold feeling seeped out from the inside out, which was quite refreshing.
“I don’t know which leader will show up today.”
Edward echoed: “Probably the leaders at the municipal level will show up.”
“Oh, It would be great if the province could come." Qin Shaoyan felt a little regretful. Just as he put down the water bottle, he suddenly saw a group of people coming from a distance. They looked like leaders.
Qin Shaoyan suddenly became energetic and said, "Here we come."
......
The leaders who were surrounded saw the lively booth from a distance, and became interested. They turned around and walked slowly. Come over.
As soon as I got closer, I looked up and saw an enlarged version of the tapestry "Five Stars Out of the East Benefiting China" hanging above the booth. There was also a poster standing next to the booth, with various textile patterns on it, and eight big characters written in the middle, "Born from the cocoon, formed from the machine."
"Hey, this is interesting."
The leader stopped in front of the booth and watched Qin Shaoyan explain with interest.
"Why is the company called Huarong Brocade? This brocade represents the highest craftsmanship of ancient Chinese textiles." Qin Shaoyan held the microphone and said loudly, "We can tell it from the Chinese characters."
"Silk fabrics, silk and satin, and silk and silk, etc., many of them are named with the word "jin", only the word "jin" is used with the word "gold".
"This shows the value of brocade. Like gold and silver, it is a hard currency. ”
The onlookers around had such expressions, and several foreigners nodded frequently, holding a piece of cloth swatch in their hands and looking through it carefully.
"Have you noticed the thing hanging above our booth? It is a replica of a national treasure-level cultural relic." Qin Shaoyan picked up another replica and said, "Brocade represents the highest craftsmanship of textiles, and this The block brocade also represents the pinnacle of brocade in terms of the difficulty of the weaving process.”
The attendants next to the leader were also knowledgeable people, and they immediately explained the origin and background of the cultural relics to the leader in a low voice. .
“Look here, everyone, this is the Han Dynasty loom that we worked with archaeologists to restore.” Qin Shaoyan directed everyone’s attention to the huge loom in the center of the booth.
“This loom looks very complicated, right? You must be thinking how complicated the craftsmanship is required to weave such a piece of tapestry.”
Qin Shaoyan paused and showed a mysterious smile, "Actually, you are all wrong."
"This loom seems to be very complicated and difficult to operate. On the contrary, from the perspective of the weaver's operation, It is actually very simple and easy to use. Anyone can get started with a little training.”
“Because it has all the operating procedures pre-stored in the loom, and there is a very special loom in it. Large memory.”
“These densely arranged healds are the memory of the loom.”
“Weavers can use them without any complicated training. Ten thousand, four hundred and seventy warp threads pass through eighty-four heddles, intricately interlocking. ”
The crowd of onlookers was surprised. Looking at the complex and sophisticated wooden loom, they immediately started talking.
Edward shook his head and said in blunt Mandarin: "What you said is too exaggerated. I don't believe that the machine intelligence from two thousand years ago was this level."
Qin Shaoyan smiled slightly, "Then I will demonstrate it to you."
A staff member next to him immediately stepped forward and began to operate the loom.
“The first step is to select the heddles. Through the horizontal bar above, you can change one heddle every time you move one space.”
"The second step is to step on the pedal, and this pedal can lift the corresponding heald, and the warp threads are divided into two layers."
"The third step is to put in the weft threads, and the weft threads pass between the two layers of warp threads. , then beat up the weft and tighten the weft. "By repeating these four actions more than a hundred times, we can weave a pattern of the "Five Stars from the East" brocade."
"With mechanical transmission, one pattern cycle of Five-Star Brocade can be completed. With about two hundred patterns, all the patterns of the entire Five-Star Brocade can be woven."
The foreigners were really shocked. They all raised unbelievable doubts, "Are these four steps really all it takes?"
"Incredible, how was this done?"
"Is this thing really from two thousand years ago? It can't be fake, right?"
"I heard that a model was unearthed."
"What I bought is so awesome. Chinese people are so smart."
Qin Shaoyan said with a smile, "So this loom is equivalent to a computer from two thousand years ago."
“The person who selects the healds is typing on the keyboard, the one who steps on the mouse is the mouse, and the woven cloth is the monitor.”
“Through the eighty-four heddles, there are five warp threads in each group of warp threads. Five. There are five warp lines. "
"When the pattern is displayed, one of them should be on the top. The other four are on the bottom. "
"The top one is what we see. The thread of the pattern. "
"If we mark the one shown above as 1 and the other four as 0, we can see that the entire tapestry pattern is composed of more than 10,000 warp threads. Passing through more than 840,000 points composed of 84 healds.”
"This point is either 0 or 1, and is constructed into a complex and huge matrix. It serves as a basis for programming to store the information we want."
The crowd of onlookers was in an uproar, watching intently as the information displayed on the monitor next to them The demonstration animation vividly and clearly shows the entire process.
Everyone was shocked by this wonderfully complex loom. They did not expect that its working principle was so magical.
A little fat man who was obviously a programmer shouted excitedly, "This is binary coding, it is really a primitive computer."
The textile industry personnel around the booth also had expressions on their faces. Shocking, "Such a loom does not require the weaver to have exquisite weaving skills. He only needs to be able to skillfully operate the loom to complete the entire set of procedures, and he can continuously produce brocades of the same design and color in batches. Isn't this mass production? ! ”
"I can't imagine that this was something from two thousand years ago."
For a time, everyone became interested in this loom and everyone came closer.
A few people also got their hands dirty and operated the loom once under the guidance of the staff.
The leader who was watching pondered for a long time, smiled, and said to others around him, "This is the wisdom of the ancient working people."
Others nodded in agreement and sighed repeatedly.
The leader looked at his secretary and asked, "Where is this company?"
The secretary whispered a few words in his ear, and the leader looked surprised, "Hey, it turns out this is it. A company.”
(End of this chapter)