National Tide 1980.

Chapter 248

A red heart, ready with both hands.

This is a slogan that everyone in the country is familiar with.

In fact, Ning Weimin did the same thing, he couldn't put all the treasures in one place.

So besides the heads of the two art academies, he also specifically asked Kang Shude for help.

Let the old man introduce him to several jade factory technicians who want to earn extra money.

Then, with more detailed and detailed requirements, I drew a sketch in person.

In the end, it was agreed to ask them to make [-] pieces of stone carving crafts at a price of three yuan each.

As for the items he customized, they are actually products that have been fully verified by the market in later generations, and are loved by both foreign and domestic guests.

Specifically, there are three types, ashtrays in the style of city towers and the Great Wall, door piers and stone lion bookends.

Needless to say, Ning Weimin can rest assured that the old man will be the middleman.

So for the face of the whole master, without further ado, each of them gave fifty on the spot, which was regarded as a deposit.

And in this way, the old people are very satisfied and very happy.

Everyone patted Ning Weimin on the shoulder and said with thumbs up that he was a happy person.

Originally, they still looked down on this job a little bit, and there was awkwardness that they couldn't get rid of, but it was swept away immediately.

Of course, this is inevitable, and it is a coincidence.

After all, the Jingcheng Jade Factory is famous, so where is it?

It was one of the top jade manufacturers in the country, a large foreign exchange earner with an annual output value of over [-] million.

Back then, everyone in the jade shop in the capital knew such a catchphrase.

"Beggar, Pan Bingheng, Xiaojiao, Liu Deying, Xiao Zhuge, Wang Datou, Xia Sanlan, it's He Rong."

These are not cursing words, but use every jingle to express the outstanding characteristics of the famous "Four Northern Jade Monsters" in the capital.

Pan Bingheng devoted himself to carving jade. He was usually slovenly, and loved to visit the "broken city". In 1943, he even begged for food.

Liu Deying is ruthless in jade carving skills, clean and neat, with a "spicy" vigor.

Wang Datou's real name is Wang Shusen, and he is good at thinking about carving jade.

He Rong is not ashamed to ask for skills, and he has to get the skills he wants to learn by changing his methods.

And these four jade masters all became masters of jade factories after the founding of the People's Republic of China.

Therefore, it can be said that the Jingcheng Jade Ware Factory has always been the representative of the highest level of jade production in the north since the day it was established.

That's a lot of awards and talents.

Ning Weimin wanted the disciples and grandchildren of the "Four Northern Jade Monsters" to get him such gadgets and make stone carvings with jade carving skills.

Doesn't that mean killing chickens with a sledgehammer, who would be happy?

stone carving?That can only be regarded as a folk thing.

It's dirty and rough, and it can't be sold at a high price. It's not as good as jade carving.

That is to let the wife and children eat well and wear well.

These few masters would only sell Kang Shude's face, and reluctantly agreed to take the job.

But let alone, the sky and the earth are big and people are big, no matter how big they are, they are not as powerful as banknotes.

No matter how many good and polite words you can say, it's really not as good as Ning Weimin's take out of "Great Unity".

This "great unity" definitely lives up to its name.

From the looks of it, everyone is really "united".

All the spirits became high.

At this point, it should be said that Ning Weimin is almost ready to raise funds.

There are two things left.

It is nothing more than to find Director Li and Aunt Bian from the street and ask them to help organize the housewives.

Then make some cloth tigers, straw woven insects, red auspicious knots and so on, as a filling supplement for rich products.

It can be regarded as paying back to the street by the way and getting some benefits for everyone, which is not difficult.

What's more, it is to solve the problem of product packaging.

Ning Weimin certainly understands the principle of "sell a piece of skin".

Packaging and no packaging are completely different things, and the level of packaging can also directly affect the price.

So he had to go to the Jingcheng Jinjia Factory to see if there were any ready-made boxes, or ask for a custom-made price.

Speaking of this thing, in fact, it can also be regarded as a unique handicraft in the capital.

Brocade box, also called brocade box, decoration box.

Since it became popular in the Ming Dynasty, in order to show its preciousness, the handicrafts in the palace were packaged in brocade boxes as gifts to dignitaries.

Not only jewelry and antiques, but also local specialties from various places are also decorated with brocade boxes to mark their preciousness.

As a result, the manual workshops for making brocade boxes among the people continued to expand.

From the late Qing Dynasty to the early Republic of China, it was the most prosperous period for brocade boxes in Beijing.

There are more than 30 brocade box workshops in Qianmenwai and Liulichang, which specialize in packaging antique jade and jewelry.

There are also more than 20 shops in the Chongwenmen area, specializing in the production of low-priced snack boxes, shoe and hat boxes, and powder boxes.

In addition, there are Sanduozhai, Zhidezhai and Zhimingzhai on Longfusi Street in Dongcheng.

There is Wenhuazhai in Damao Hutong in Xinjiekou.There are Yihuazhai and so on in Yangmeizhu Xiejie outside Qianmen.

It needs to be explained that due to the small size of the consumer market in this industry.

There has never been a big workshop in the brocade box industry. They are all Lianjiashops, commonly known as "box pasters".

It was not until after the founding of the Republic that the artisans of these shops were unified and a small factory with 300 people was established, which can be regarded as the formation of large-scale production.

As for the reason why Ning Weimin didn't go to the store to buy directly, he insisted on going to the factory.

It's not that he wants to be cheap, and he doesn't want to buy goods at the ex-factory price.

Mainly because of convenience.

Because the address of the Jingcheng Jinjia Factory is just outside the front door of Langfang Toutiao, which is in front of his house.

He talked with the street about how to cooperate, so he went for a stroll along the way.

Besides, Director Li is quite familiar with the leaders of that factory, and knows that Ning Weimin wants to go and have a look.

I took the initiative to help him hang up the phone and told him who to look for.

This relationship is even more different.

Ning Weimin could still look carefully and ask carefully how many styles of boxes there are and what prices they are all for.

It turned out that I didn't expect it. After this trip, I found an unexpected surprise.

Dare to feel when Ning Weimin couldn't take his eyes off those plum blossom-shaped, peach-shaped, rhombus-shaped, long octagonal-shaped boxes pasted with brocades of various colors.

He accidentally discovered that a seven-person workshop in the factory was producing Peking Opera dolls.

That's a beauty!

Sun Wukong wears yellow tassels, the pattern of his mail armor is shining, he wears tiger tail feathers on his head, and holds a golden stick in his hand.

Liang Hongyu was beating the war drum with her hands, and the helmets, props, and facial makeup were all exquisite, and they were really dressed like the real characters on the stage.

This made Ning Weimin immediately overjoyed.

There is a feeling in my heart that there is no place to find after breaking through the iron shoes, and it takes no effort to get it.

Not for anything else, because he had already inquired about the whereabouts of the man in the capital with his master in order to earn money from foreigners.

Unexpectedly, Kang Shude told him not to think about it.

The old man said that the thing disappeared in the 60s, and Wang Hanqing, the "king of the mane", never passed it on.

And Ning Weimin can't argue, how can he tell the old man that there will be more in the next 30 years, and that thing is still very expensive.

This is great, and I didn't expect to bump into it by accident.

So he couldn't wait to ask the workshop director who accompanied him to visit.

"Director Zhang, why do you still have this thing here? This is the mane man from the old capital, right? How much is the ex-factory price? I have been thinking about looking for this thing. Guess what, someone actually said that no one makes it now By the way, you said this... This is just under the nose, and I almost missed it. I have to buy one to stop him. "

Unexpectedly, extreme joy begets sorrow, but on the contrary, he showed a great timidity.

Because the next words of the workshop director turned out to be an aggrieved report for Kang Shude.

"Young man, oops, you made a mistake, this is not a man."

"In the capital, there have always been two kinds of opera actors. These are made of paper, pig bristles, yellow clay, etc., put on a copper plate, and those who move when knocked are called bristle actors."

"As for ours, it's made of colored silk. It's highly imitative, immobile, and purely for viewing. It's called a silk figurine."

Well, Ning Weimin never thought that his mouth would be blocked by himself.

Look at this happening!

Real!

(End of this chapter)