National Tide 1980.

Chapter 479 Palace Art
In the past, ornaments made of colored translucent materials smelted from ore were generally called "glass" or "glass".

The term "feeder" was first used in the industry in Beijing.

There are three main reasons for not using "glass" or "glass".

One is to avoid the homophony of "displaced" and "broken".

The second is to distinguish it from colored glaze used in architecture and modern transparent glass.

Thirdly, in terms of production techniques, feeders are generally pretty and small in size, and are mainly used for indoor or desk furnishings, as well as accessories.

The workmanship is particularly delicate, which belongs to the category of artificial jewelry and artificial gemstones.

Compared with architectural glass and industrial glass, the artistic taste is undoubtedly much higher.

Therefore, "feeder" has become a simplified term for finished products processed from glass material strips.

Later, it was inherited and spread throughout the country, so that it became a synonym for homemade glassware, and it became a business of handicrafts.

The history of the material utensils in the capital can be traced back to the Yuan Dynasty, but the prosperity was in the Qing Dynasty.

The main reason is that the Yufu system in the Qing Dynasty used a lot of materials.

Moreover, since the Kangxi Dynasty, Chinese people have had the habit of inhaling nasopharynx and need to make a large number of snuff bottles.

Both of these have greatly stimulated feeder production.

At that time, the imperial factory was located in Haiwang Village, which is today's Liuli Factory, which was called "Royal Liuli" or "Palace Material" at that time.

In the year of Qianlong, the most famous feeder was made by Director Hu of the imperial factory.

All vases, snuff bottles, plates, and bowls made by him are marked with the inscription "Made in Qianlong Years" and have always been respected by later generations.

Because people only know his surname "Hu", the word "Hu" is separated into two characters "Gu" and "Yue", so its products are called "Gu Yuexuan" products.Let's put it this way, anyway, in the Qing Dynasty, the types of feeding utensils in the capital were mainly beads, nesting snuff bottles, Gu Yuexuan, and various hairpin rings, rings, buttons, jewelry, etc. used by women, and other categories have not been involved yet. .

It wasn't until the Guangxu year of the late Qing Dynasty that various practical items such as utensils, flower stands, bottles, dishes, and lamps gradually appeared.

In 1930 after the Revolution of [-], the capital finally had locally produced sticks.

Since then, the price of feeders has gradually decreased and has become more and more affordable because the raw materials have broken the monopoly of "Cantonese" and "Japanese".

As a result, not only the breeds of feed birds and feed animals appeared, but also feed flowers and feed fruits developed.

People in Beijing began to imitate the practice of placing jewelry and jade bonsai in the palace in the past, and also placed bonsai flowers and vegetables and fruits in their homes to show their wealth and prosperity.

It even caused a popular trend, and material flowers and fruits became indispensable dowry items for rich and well-to-do families for a while.

As for the first time Ning Weimin felt the beauty of feeder, it was thanks to his master's blessing.

Because in the first few years, Kang Shuode was returned by the street, there were two well-preserved feeder flower bonsai, and a feeder corn paperweight.

When Ning Weimin saw it at the time, he couldn't help being amazed, these few things were so crystal clear and lifelike.

Approximate to the real, but far more beautiful than the real.

I heard from the old man that they were all bought at the Dongji Pearl Flower Shop in Dong'an Market in the past, and the total price was about 12 yuan.

Ning Weimin was even more surprised at the high cost performance of this kind of thing.

You know, although such a feeder was not something ordinary people could care about back then.

But don't forget, at this price, hundreds of pots of feeder bonsai can't be exchanged for a pot of jewelry and jade bonsai.

However, the difference in visual effects between the two is not that big.

Indeed, compared to the shape of a small tree made of jadeite and gold, it is full of flowers made of jade, agate, pearls, etc., with green leaves carved from jasper. It is a court jewelry jade bonsai in an enamel pot.

The folk bonsai is undoubtedly much cleaner.

Far less colorful, bejeweled, and resplendent.

However, the light and permeability of the glass are very good, and the flowers produced are as shiny and bright as ice.

Therefore, the feeding utensils are almost comparable to the charm of gemstones, and also have the appearance of wealth and elegance, which belongs to the artistic taste that can only be possessed by the peak of civilization.

It was precisely because of this that Ning Weimin decided to use the big to win the small, and was determined to get a batch of flowers and fruits to the town hall.

The plan is to rely on the exquisite skills of traditional arts and crafts and the magnificent style of large-scale bonsai to overwhelm the jewelry and jade bonsai of Tingli Pavilion and Beihai Fangshan.

His specific idea is that according to the habits of arts and crafts flower and fruit themes, take bergamot, gourds, pomegranates, flat peaches, grapes and other symbols of auspiciousness as the theme, and each of them should be given a one-to-one-person-high big picture for the restaurant. bonsai.

No matter how bad it is, there must be one of these five kinds of flower and fruit trees.

In addition, get some fruits in real proportion, such as melons, pears and peaches, and put them into a fruit basket.

Cucumbers, lentils, eggplants, and cabbage are arranged in a vegetable basket.

Get some red dates, chestnuts, peanuts, melon seeds and the like for decoration.

Then put all these together on the welcome table, how auspicious and beautiful it is.

Obviously, using these feeders to attract customers for the restaurant is much more high-end than 30 years later, the restaurant used to show the PVC simulation dishes to the guests!

Not to mention that most people have never seen it, and they will definitely feel extremely shocked and surprised at the first glance.

Even he himself was inexplicably excited just thinking about it.

So for this reason, after visiting the palace lantern factory, Ning Weimin and Qiao Wanlin came to the capital material factory on the edge of Longtan Lake together within a few days.

It should be said that since I have already contacted several factories in the arts and crafts industry.

They are quite sure that they can successfully achieve their goals in the feeder factory during this trip.

For nothing else, the situation of the entire arts and crafts industry should be similar, and the Jingcheng Material Equipment Factory will probably inevitably be bullied by foreign trade.

Then of course they will treat each other warmly and welcome their visit very much.

The only unstable factor, in fact, is Ning Weimin himself, who always loves to slap and spend impulsively.

So Qiao Wanlin vaccinated Ning Weimin in advance, and repeatedly told him not to mess around again.

Even if you really can't control yourself, you have to talk about the business first.

But I never thought that there are no absolutes in the world, and the material equipment factory is really a very special existence.

It turned out to be an extremely prosperous and prosperous enterprise in the entire arts and crafts industry.

As soon as the two of them arrived at the factory, they were shocked by the production scale of tens of thousands of square meters.

But people didn't take them seriously at all, and neither the factory manager nor the secretary showed up.

They were received by only one head of the business section, and they were quite embarrassed about their needs, which seemed to be troublesome at first glance.

As a result, the plan that had been firmly grasped had gone wrong.

What's the point?

Ganqing glass products are different from other arts and crafts products.

Because the materials are pure, it is a product that is very convenient to combine with industrial production.

Regardless of the fact that foreign trade is still at the price of the feeder factory, it is still unreasonable and oppressive.

But the material device factory has found a breakthrough in civilian products, such as the production of hairpins, hair beads, practical lamps, key chains and so on. Most of them can be sold domestically, and there is no hope of foreign trade at all.

Moreover, a major breakthrough has been made in technological transformation.

Since 1966, Jingcheng Feeder Factory has been experimenting with molds in the production of feeders.

In 1968, the combination of gas and moulds was successfully developed. Since then, handmade imitation jade beasts and imitation jade figures can be produced in half molds, and ordinary workers can also make products weighing five or six catties.

It can also imitate the colors of various natural jade such as jasper, black jade, white jade, sapphire, jadeite, malachite, red agate, etc.

At the same time, we have made continuous progress in improving quality and reducing costs.

For example, the copper holder of the hairpin is changed to aluminum, which is light and rust-free from now on.

Teeth are added on the back to make it difficult to fall off when worn.

The beaded leather thread is changed to the machine-made southern leather thread, which reduces the cost.

There are bead-making, bead-removing, bead-selecting, stringing, and assembling processes for the head-mian bead flower and bead phoenix.

The original cost of each piece was two yuan and eighty cents, which was reduced to one yuan and ten cents.

Plexiglass is even being developed to mimic the color of amber...

All in all, Jingcheng Feeder Factory has achieved great success in exploring the low-end route and producing practical products.

It has abandoned the production mode that was purely based on craftsmanship and complex processes, and transformed into an industrial factory with a certain scale of modern production.

Don't say that people don't expect foreign trade to eat at all, even these low-end commodities they produce can make money if they are sold through foreign trade.

It is for this reason that the Jingcheng Feeder Factory is enjoying the benefits of industrialization.

The mind is all on how to increase production capacity and further reduce costs.

People are not interested in making large-scale high-end bonsai with traditional techniques.

So when Ning Weimin asked about the price and time of custom-made bonsai, the section chief simply shook his head and refused, directly saying that he couldn't accept it.

The reason is that there are not many master craftsmen who can do this kind of work, and they have to complete the political tasks and export tasks assigned by the above, so I can only apologize.

At most, you can take them to the canteen in the factory to have a look, just like visiting foreign guests, you can only buy what kind of bonsai if you catch up with the bonsai.

As for the warehouse, there is no need to go in at all.

Because Curry didn't have the inventory of those high-end products with traditional themes that Ning Weimin needed at all, and they were all used to put the products coming off the assembly line.

In the end, Ning Weimin and Qiao Wanlin could only buy a small amount of traditional themed products at the Jingcheng Material Equipment Factory.

Includes a feeder of cabbage, two or three feeders of cucumbers and corn, several feeders of oranges, peaches and apples.

There are also eight pots of flower bonsai that are no more than [-] centimeters high, and that's all.

If you say it's beautiful, it's really beautiful, and the price is not expensive, and it didn't cost fifteen thousand in total.

But not enough to get between the teeth.

What was even more unexpected was that when they were parting at the end, they had an unpleasant quarrel with each other because of a small matter.

In fact, I didn't do anything, it was just because Qiao Wanlin suddenly remembered "Grape Chang", and asked by the way.

As a result, the chief of the business department drooped his face.

Tell them directly that "Gao Chang" is a folk handicraft, which is a thing for "playing goods" and coaxing children.

Their factory is a real "palace material", developed from the past palace craftsmanship, which is not the same thing at all.

Moreover, it is particularly solemnly stated that "Grape Chang" has never had any relationship with their Beijing material equipment factory.

To find "Gao Chang", they can only go to the street factory to find it.

Well, that's called arrogance!The words inside and outside the words are enough to choke people!

It made Ning Weimin and Qiao Wanlin completely confused, so they were severely taught.

In the end, the big section chief shook his arm and went to answer the "emergency call" without even sending them off.

Well, coauthored them to dry.

After getting in the car and leaving the factory, Ning Weimin and Qiao Wanlin were still thinking about it.

Qiao Wanlin said angrily.

"Could it be that this section chief has a grudge against 'Putao Chang'? Did they dig up their ancestral graves? Even asking, did you get such a big reaction?"

Ning Weimin weighed it in his heart, but felt a little bit of context.

"I think, if this 'Grape Chang' is really famous, then people will always go to the feeder factory to inquire about it. It can't be done, it's annoying because people ask too much."

"Also, listen to what he said just now, are you still playing tricks among the people? They claim to be court art, and they really take themselves seriously. But why did they give up and ignore it? Now they are mass-produced by their factory. Things, I can't even look at the ugly ones."

"You actually turned a bird into a chicken, a horse like a camel, and flowers without shape. How can we do that? Shit! We bought these handmade things from old craftsmen, how come they are so standardized and beautiful?"

"So, if the goods produced by the folks are better than the ones produced by their factories, will they feel uncomfortable, and will they feel ashamed?"

Hey, let alone, peers are lighter.It is possible.

Qiao Wanlin also nodded unconsciously, agreeing very much.

But he was a little worried, what should he do next?

Should we give up completely?Or go to the jade factory next door to see the jade bonsai?

If you can't buy it cheap, then change to an expensive one...

Unexpectedly, Ning Weimin would not choose any of the options he gave, and the reason was very clear.

One, it's not his style to just give up.And there are no better alternatives.

Second, there is no need to go to the jade factory.

Because Ning Weimin's master, Kang Shude, was guarding the gate of the factory, the price had already been touched, and the gap was too big.

A jewelry and jade bonsai of the same size as the pot bonsai they got back today cost tens of thousands of dollars ex-factory.

If you buy four or five, it will cost tens of thousands.Too extravagant!

So, the most reliable way is to find a way to find "Grape Chang".

Even if they only make grape feeders, that's fine.

If the small factory in the street is good, the price will definitely be affordable.

In this way, Qiao Wanlin began to inquire about the whereabouts of "Tao Chang" through various channels.

Not to mention, the channel of the service bureau is well-informed, and it will get a letter soon.

But the news was not good, and it was beyond the two people's expectations.

Ganqing's "Grape Chang" has long since quit, and this craft is also facing the situation of being lost.

(End of this chapter)