Chapter 787 Still Not Stopped
However, Ning Weimin, who is hiding behind the scenes, is "painful and happy". Is this the ultimate reaction to reality?
No! I'm afraid it must be said that the three people who came from the altar are the headless flies whose moods are up and down, happy and sad, and contradictory to themselves.
For them, when they first came, they were all complacent and wanted to find psychological balance.
Unexpectedly, God did not fulfill his wish, and he actually arrived at the Temple of Heaven. What he saw was beyond imagination, one stimulus after another.
The Temple of Heaven never gave them a chance to be satisfied. Instead, they were deeply shocked until they became psychologically unbalanced.
It’s just like the majestic golden bull sculpture, and the colorful decoration of the shed.
They can say that it is just a matter of spending money, and the Temple of Heaven is just relying on its strong economic foundation.
The commercial stalls inside and outside the Qigu Altar bring together well-known old brands and high-quality craftsmanship, completely restoring the grandeur of the factory in those days.
They can also say that it is the result of Tiantan taking advantage of the innate advantage of having many handicraft factories in Chongwen District and accumulating too many contacts.
But there was the appearance of ice cream shaped like the Hall of Prayer for Good Harvests, and the costume experience activities of "Burning the Old Summer Palace" and "The Government Behind the Curtain" in front of the Hall of Prayer for Harvest.
But they can no longer find reasons and excuses for self-explanation.
It is impossible not to admire the amazing and whimsical ideas of the Temple of Heaven, as well as the interactive event planning capabilities shown by others.
Ask yourself, this is a trick that they have never dreamed of and racked their brains.
Regardless of anything else, these two methods of making money are not restricted by the New Year, and are not limited to the New Year temple fair.
If you can continue to eat like this for a long time and make a fortune once and for all, you will be infinitely smarter than them.
For this reason, the secretary and the deputy director felt an extremely strong threat.
Although they have not seen the entertainment area and performances in the Temple of Heaven at this time, it is difficult to have any confidence in their own temple fair activities based on what they have discovered.
But the more they were hit, the more interested they became in the Temple of Heaven Garden Party.
Anyway, I want to get a closer look at it. I want to see if there are any highlights in other parts of the content so that I can learn from them.
This plagiarism mentality of trying to imitate a cat or a tiger makes them feel even more embarrassed and lose face in their hearts.
Look at what a fuss this is!
Not to mention, as the master hiding behind the Temple of Heaven, Ning Weimin really lived up to the expectations of the three visitors to the Temple of Earth.
His breakthroughs in cultural creation and activities have indeed not stopped there, and he continues to refresh the understanding of these people.
Take the east and west side halls in the Praying Valley Altar as an example. The most famous time-honored brands and manufacturers, as well as the most high-end and delicate products, were all placed here by Ning Weimin.
This was guessed by the secretary of Ditan.
But the secretary often never imagined what else Ning Weimin did in order to attract more tourists.
He transformed the store, which was originally just a pure transaction, into something quite interesting that allowed the audience to experience and participate.
What is particularly rare is that at the same time, the peaceful environment in the side hall is maintained, not noisy at all, but more elegant.
In the east side hall, there are five old shops, namely Yunguzhai, Baoguzhai, Qingyuntang, Rongbaozhai and Jingcheng Painting Shop.
In order to match the atmosphere of calligraphy and painting here, Ning Weimin specially invited several teachers and students from two art academies in Beijing to take charge.
Four booths of silhouettes, sketches, freehand ink paintings, and New Year pictures and paper-cuts were opened in front of the hall.
So whether you are an expert in calligraphy and painting or not, whether you are a foreign guest or a domestic guest, as long as you come here, you will almost always be attracted by their solid art skills and familiar skills.
Like sketching, this is one of the basic skills that college students in the Academy of Fine Arts must take before entering school.
It is the minimum requirement to have both spirit and form, and normal proportions.
Moreover, the formal examination time for this project is only twenty minutes.
As an officially admitted college student, it will be more efficient if you use charcoal instead of pencil.
Draw a full-body portrait in one go, and it only takes ten minutes at most.
Silhouette is an extension of art modeling ability.
Since it only captures the characteristics of the silhouette of the face, there is no need to consider light, shadow and volume, which makes it simpler.
It only takes six or seven minutes at most to cut a lifelike portrait.
So many tourists are willing to sit there for a while and buy a silhouette of themselves for RMB 1.5, or take away a full-body sketch for RMB 2.
The painting technique of freehand ink painting is like flowing clouds and flowing water, which can especially attract the attention of foreigners.
Never before have these blond hair and blue eyes been able to draw flowers, birds, and cordyceps so quickly.
As you smudge, splash, and outline with the brush, you can draw lifelike creatures in just a few strokes.
They all felt very magical and exclaimed frequently.
There are many people who spend three to five yuan to buy one or two, planning to take them back home to have a photo frame as an exotic decoration at home.
As for New Year pictures and paper-cutting, they are hot-sellers both at home and abroad.
Because these two things are not only easy to understand in art form and have strong decorative effects, but also are particularly valuable in that they are relatively cheap.
If nothing else, let’s talk about New Year pictures.
At this time, in the common perception of people in the capital, they are nothing more than traditional styles such as Baowentang's "Suspension Every Year", "Peace Every Year", "Yu Chigong, Qin Shubao", and "Shen Tu, Yu Lei".
Or it could be the New Year pictures of the new society and new themes printed by Rongbaozhai using woodblock watermarking technology after the founding of the People's Republic of China.
Commonly found on the market are a large folio New Year picture or a pair of eight-fold door gods, all priced at 50 cents.
However, when it comes to shortcomings, Baowentang's New Year pictures are all popular products and have a relatively single theme.
Again, it is printed with a large amount of ink by a machine, causing the finished product to lose its taste.
Rong Baozhai's New Year's paintings are too current-affairs propaganda, and the wood-block watermarks are not bright enough.
So in recent years, few people buy New Year pictures during the New Year, and they have gradually become accustomed to using calendars instead of New Year pictures.
But in fact, there are countless styles of our traditional New Year pictures. Even Baowen Hall has produced many good ones in the past.
And only traditional themes and traditional craftsmanship can fully reflect the beauty of New Year pictures.
So this time, in order to win the favor of tourists, Ning Weimin specially invited two professors from the Academy of Arts and Crafts to lead their students to reprint and restore dozens of old paintings.
Hundreds of copies of each were printed by hand and sold together at garden parties.
The styles of these New Year paintings include celebrating the auspicious New Year, bringing wealth back home, having more than enough auspiciousness, receiving blessings and auspiciousness, a thousand warehouses full, safe cows and horses, scattering money from bangs, and a BMW carrying ingots, as well as dramas.
What Qing Dingzhu, Bawangzhuang, Three Kingdoms, East and West Han Dynasty, Jingzhong said about the mountains, Shuibo Liangshan, Sun Wukong caused a havoc in the Heavenly Palace, captured the white chrysanthemum Yan Fei in Xiankong Island, captured a peach and a tiger in Maozhou Temple, The punishment for killing one's son is riding on a wooden donkey, and the knife and guillotine are used to kill Du Xiaoshuan.
Because it is beautifully made and unique on the market, although the largest size is only eight in karaoke and priced at one yuan each, it has still been very popular among tourists.
Foreigners buy fresh things, seniors buy memories, and young and middle-aged people like the deputy director of Ditan and the driver, who are all big fans of storytelling, buy their personal hobbies.
One person bought "The Eight Hammers of Zhuxian Town" and "The Gun Picks Up Xiao Liang Wang", and the other person bought "Li Kui Seizes the Fish" and "Wu Song Fights the Tiger". At the same time, Ning Weimin also asked people to give demonstrations on site.
Using a set of "Spring Cow Picture" woodcut base and "Pink Connect Four" paper, I printed it out in colorful colors.
Although the paper is not good, the bottom plate is also a bit rough with thick hemp thread.
But this one is only given as a gift, not for sale, and it attracts even more attention and praise.
Let’s put it this way, these four stalls have an unusually good interaction effect with the audience.
It not only made money, gained popularity and reputation, but also popularized traditional Chinese culture and aesthetics, successfully increasing customers' shopping interest.
The sales volume of calligraphy and painting by those old brands can almost double or triple their usual shipments.
Most of them are things they cannot sell on a daily basis. Is it great?
The situation in the West Wing Hall is much better than that in the East Wing Hall
Because there are enamel factories, jade factories, ivory carving factories, gold wire inlay factories, and Ningxia. Fresh flowers cultivated by Weimin's Donghuashi Food Factory and Tiantan Greenhouse.
Compared with calligraphy and painting, these things are of course more popular, the threshold for appreciation is lower, and it is easier for tourists to like them. Not to mention the treasures in jewelry and jades, gold and silver vessels, and gemstone bonsais.
The price is too high, few people buy it, everyone just wants it for their eyesight.
However, some relatively cheap small items from these manufacturers are not sold less.
Jade pendants, jade bracelets, jade rings, jade slides, enamel incense burners, bird and animal ornaments, and gold and silver jewelry.
Among them, the products produced by Ning Weimin and the flowers produced by the Temple of Heaven greenhouse are the most popular.
This really cannot be said to be the result of Ning Weimin pretending to be a public servant for personal gain. The main reason is that the price-performance ratio of these two things is too high.
The material used for making the utensils is obviously just a glass stick, but it can be made smoother than jade.
Moreover, the technology of Donghua City Material Factory now exceeds that of the state-owned material factory, and the bionic technology is lifelike.
The finished products, whether they are melons, fruits, flowers, trees, or bonsais of birds and animals, are really refreshing to display at home.
Chinese and foreign people, whoever sees it likes it.
Besides, there are large and small feeders, complete sets and single pieces.
The prices vary from high to low, and there are many choices.
The preference for flowers is a common need in human nature.
Although the capital is located in the north, the winter this year is extremely cold and windy.
But precisely because of this, people in the capital look forward to spring even more than people in the south, and they all pin their hopes on the flowers at the beginning of the year.
Putting a pot of daffodils, jasmine or wintersweet on your desk has always been a habit of middle-class families and wealthy literati in the capital.
Especially since the capital has been the capital of the country for hundreds of years, dignitaries and even the palace would spend a lot of money to buy fresh flowers during the Chinese New Year.
For example, "Three Friends of Suihan" is planted with pine, bamboo and plum in one pot, and "Yutangchun Wealthy" is planted with magnolia, winter jasmine and peonies in one pot.
Even during the Republic of China, after the fall of the Qing Dynasty, the Banner people’s interest in flower appreciation remained as strong as before.
On the contrary, there are more arty Beiyang bureaucrats and the special consumption needs of foreign groups.
This has made the flower planting industry in Beijing particularly developed, and the technology for cultivating flowers in winter has become increasingly mature.
In the old days of Beijing, there were flower farmers in the surrounding villages and towns who relied on flowers, and this technique has been passed down ever since.
For example, Tiantan Garden has cultivated many highly ornamental varieties this year according to the old methods.
Winter plum, peach, winter jasmine, daphne, bergamot, citron, narcissus, crabapple, descendant pomegranate, descendant grape and other exotic herbs, with green branches and green leaves, colorful purples and reds, are fascinating and refreshing.
Speaking of which, even though it is the twelfth lunar month in the cold winter, the flowers placed in the west side hall look more colorful than those in spring, summer and autumn.
Although Ning Weimin knew that bad things were going to happen in Changchun this year, he did not buy Clivia worth thousands of yuan to attract public attention.
But these flowers are cute enough to make tourists linger on.
Take the descendants of pomegranates and descendants of grapes. Those pomegranates and grape beads bent on the slender branches are more lovable than anything else.
Especially the good fortune, which symbolizes many children and many blessings. Anyone who is older will look around with a smile, looking forward to a bright future.
There is also daphne, which is the real world famous flower and also the traditional famous flower of our country.
"Chu Ci" calls it "Lu Shen", and among the people it is also called Mountain Dream Flower, Qianlixiang, and Snow Frozen Flower.
The flowers are not only beautiful in color, but also have the most pleasant fragrance.
In winter, a pot should be placed in a warm house. There will always be a fragrant fragrance of flowers, and there will no longer be the risk of charcoal fire and filthy gas rushing to the forehead
So the business of these flowers is also Excellent, even if a little pricey.
Especially when foreigners are involved, even if the best flowers cost more than 100 yuan, there are still people who are willing to invest in them.
It’s just the best of these flowers, Altar Palace has already decided on them, and they are not for sale.
And once it is sold, there will be nothing to add to the flower shelf, which will greatly lose its appeal.
So this has become a business for the store to deceive customers. Many customers came back disappointed and somewhat regretful.
But it’s good that the interactive projects here are both beautiful and entertaining, which greatly alleviates customers’ dissatisfaction.
The first thing Ning Weimin arranged here was sugar paintings, the second was sugar figures, the third was dough sculptures, and the fourth was earrings.
Let’s talk about sugar paintings first. As the name suggests, they are paintings made of sugar.
It is both sugar and paint, beautiful and edible.
This is an authentic folk painting, a distinctive street art, and a craft food that is loved by the common people.
In Beijing, as soon as winter enters, folk artists wearing cotton coats will walk into the alleys, beat sugar gongs, and set up stalls.
Then, in the crowd of children standing on tiptoes and picking up the stalls.
Folk artists will use the rusty old sugar pot to boil honey-colored sugar, and use spoons and shovels to mix the coveted syrup flexibly, as if they were painting.
After a while, there were cotton-tied pillars standing on his stall, which were filled with various sugar paintings of different shapes, like a complicated and colorful art exhibition.
The level of this stall set up by Ning Weimin is particularly high.
The old artist’s surname is Cui. He is over 60 years old. He has been studying this craft for almost his whole life. He is definitely the best among sugar painting artists.
Not only can he draw traditional flat patterns, he can also make three-dimensional sugar paintings, and he is very skilled in everything.
Like ordinary sugar painting artists, they only make dragons and phoenixes, goldfish, monkeys, butterflies and so on.
However, the two-dimensional sugar paintings made by Mr. Cui not only include novels, opera characters, auspicious flowers and fruits, birds and animals, text and other contents, but they can also keep pace with the times and innovate themselves.
Like "Three Turns and One Ring" and today's "Four Major Appliances" are his unique flat sugar paintings.
Speaking of three-dimensional sugar paintings, it is Mr. Cui’s family skill.
Sugar crabs, sugar dragonflies, sugar butterflies, and sugar grasshoppers are all lifelike.
It was also because of this that he was favored by Ning Weimin and hired as the sugar art master of Tan Palace for a long time.
Dai Hong, who went to Maxim's Restaurant on behalf of the Tan Gong Cold Dish Group, shocked the French chef with a sugar flower basket. He learned his skills from Mr. Cui.
Among the many people watching at the scene, Mr. Cui was seen holding a big spoon and a small spoon.
After the sugar is boiled, use a small spoon to pick out the sugar and draw it, first the wings and then the body. They are all separate pieces.
After several pieces have cooled down, use a small iron spoon to heat it up and "spot weld" it.
Use small clips to pick them up and put them together, and you can actually make those sugar insects.
But this is not over yet, Mr. Cui also has a unique and innovative process.
He took a few spoons and melted a few pieces of sour and three-colored fruit candies into them, and then used a small brush to brush the candy colors on those small objects.
Hey, the finishing touch!
The dragonfly turned pink, the grasshopper turned emerald green, and the butterfly turned three colors.
The audience at the scene dared to vote, this is definitely the best in the world of sugar painting!
This level is comparable to that of a national art master.
Even though it is just a snack, to put it bluntly, it is just something to entertain children.
However, I am surprised that this folk art has been integrated and created into something exquisite enough to be used in the home!
Each sugar bug sells for two yuan, and everyone rushes to buy it, and this time no foreigners are allowed.
Why is this? If you can’t afford a costume worth tens of dollars, why can’t you afford a candy painting worth two dollars?
Eat? Who is willing to eat it?
Let’s put it up and take a look!
(End of this chapter)