Counterattack 1988

Chapter 992 Business Opportunities

After the end of Aixiu Fashion Week, it is already April in the world.

This fashion week, Wang Lin received a total of 56 billion RMB in orders.

After the fashion week, Wang Lin organized a tourism event, mainly for foreign businessmen participating in this fashion week.

The theme of the tour is called: "Oriental Silk Journey."

This trip will be led by Wang Lin himself and will last for two days and two nights.

The destination of tourism is mainly in Gusu City.

Suzhou has been a prosperous place since ancient times, and it is also a famous silk capital in my country.

Leno and others signed up to participate.

Even Viktor Fuxue signed up.

After hearing about it, Nataja felt that it was a very meaningful event, so she asked the school for two days off and must follow along.

Victor and his wife were of course willing to travel with their daughter, so they agreed to their daughter's request for leave.

The number of people participating in the Silk Road tour this time has reached more than [-] people.

Foreigners are very interested in our silk culture.

The road of travel starts from Shencheng and goes to Caoxie Mountain in Gusu first.

The Ruins of Caoxie Mountain, discovered in 1973.

In the area of ​​Caoxie Mountain in Weiting Township, Gusu, fragments of textiles from [-] years ago were unearthed; a large number of spinning wheels and bone needles from [-] years ago were unearthed in Meiyan, Wujiang, as well as textiles with twisted silk patterns and silkworm patterns. Tao, this shows that the ancient ancestors of Gusu had mastered the technology of silkworm raising and spinning very early.

Wang Lin and his group started to travel from the Ruins of Caoxie Mountain to learn about the cultural history of Suzhou, mainly the production history of silk.

Gusu belonged to Yangzhou in Kyushu in ancient times. During the Xia Yu period, there were colorful brocades such as silk fabrics, tribute and shellfish.

During the Spring and Autumn Period, Wu and Chu fought for border mulberry fields, and there was a large-scale battle for mulberry, which shows that the benefits of sericulture played an important role in the economy at that time.

Gusu's silk has developed into an important material for the army and the country.During the Southern and Northern Dynasties, an oriental envoy begged Wu weaving and weaving girls to return, and there are corresponding historical records in "Oriental Books".

The Silk Museum in Suzhou is the first professional silk museum in my country. In October 1989, the Silk Museum held an opening ceremony at the former site of Tang Yin Temple, a famous painter in the Ming Dynasty, and exhibited basic displays. On September 10, 1991, the new museum was completed.Gusu Silk Museum is a fresh and elegant museum combining movement and stillness: it is also a multi-functional museum integrating collection, display, scientific research, education, reproduction, production, shopping, catering and tourism.

In addition, there is also a Silk Engineering Institute in Gusu. The predecessor of the Silk Engineering Institute was the Shencheng Private Sericulture School for Women founded by Mr. Shi Liangcai in 1903.After several adjustments, it was named Gusu Silk Institute of Technology in 1960.

Looking at it along the way, we can learn the whole development process of silk.

Wang Lin brought everyone to the silk factory to inspect the silk production process on the spot.

The working people of the Han nationality invented the techniques of raising silkworms, reeling silk, weaving silk and embroidery.The invention in this area should be attributed to the women of the Han nationality.

Legend has it that Leizu, the wife of the Yellow Emperor and daughter of the Xiling clan, taught the people to raise silkworms and weave silk cocoons for clothing.About 7000 to 5000 years ago, a spinning wheel was unearthed from the Yangshao Cultural Site, which was used to spin silk and hemp.The spinning wheel was invented in the Han Dynasty. It was originally used for reeling silk, and later used for spinning cotton. It was introduced to Europe in the 13th century.

We all know that silk is made from cocoons.However, in that era, how did people discover that the small spherical cocoon could be drawn into filaments and then made into silk?Today we will talk about the mystery of the cocoon.

There is a lot of learning here.

Wang Lin had mentioned to Lainuo before that the whole process from silkworm rearing to silk making was just on the surface, but today he was able to witness it with his own eyes, which opened the eyes of Lainuo and others.

This morning, Wang Lin and others came to a silk workshop. This workshop has been passed down for hundreds of years. It has everything from silkworm rearing to silk spinning to silk weaving.

Several minibuses drove to the town.

Wang Lin sat in the minibus with everyone, talking and laughing with everyone.

After getting off the bus, everyone went to the silk workshop.

The workshop is called Human Weaving.

Don't underestimate that this is a workshop-style factory, but it has a long history and a great reputation.

100 years ago, a patriotic industrialist founded a silk weaving factory named after himself in this place, and since then, he has launched a colorful silk weaving scroll known as "weaving samples from the sky and weaving on earth".

For one hundred years, human weaving has been continuously inherited and developed, gradually developing from a single landscape brocade to multicolored brocade, various practical decorative brocades and clothing brocades.

At present, Renjian weaving has formed three series with more than [-] varieties of designs and colors.

The inheritor of Human Weaving, that is, the owner of this generation of workshops, a sixty-year-old man named Jiang Wangsheng, was in charge of receiving Wang Lin and his party.

The itinerary was determined by Wang Lin, but it was the people below who contacted various scenic spots and places to visit.

Before Wang Lin came, he didn't know what this human weaving workshop looked like.

Jiang Wangsheng recognized Wang Lin at a glance, and came forward to shake hands: "Mr. Wang, hello! It's a pleasure to meet you. I've heard about you for a long time!"

Wang Lin smiled and said, "Boss Jiang, it's a pleasure to meet you."

Jiang Wangsheng said: "I learned that Mr. Wang and his fellows are coming. These days, we cleaned the courtyard and prepared some handy fabrics. I invite Mr. Wang and all the foreign guests to appreciate them."

Wang Lindao: "Boss Li is very polite, thank you. That's it, let's visit your workshop first to understand the process of silk production. These foreign friends are also very interested in this."

"Okay, this way please." Jiang Wangsheng is sixty years old, his hair is already gray, he is thin and hale, he always speaks with a smile, he is a very easy-going person.

Wang Lin and others filed into the workshop.

The workshop is very large, equivalent to a Suzhou garden.

Jiang Wangsheng explained as he walked: "This is the ancestral house left by my ancestors, and the property is also left by the ancestors."

Wang Lin asked: "Boss Li, did the name of Human Weaving come from that sentence, the sky takes samples of Human Weaving?"

"Yes, that's how it got its name." Jiang Wangsheng said, "The name Renjianzhi was chosen by my grandfather. In a blink of an eye, I am also a grandfather."

Wang Lin said with a smile: "This garden is well built, I'm afraid we can't build such a garden building now?"

Jiang Wangsheng nodded and said, "Well, it seems to be. Our garden, like our workshops and craftsmanship, is a cultural heritage!"

Wang Lin asked: "Everyone knows that if you want to get silk, you have to peel the silk. So what is the process of peeling the silk?"

Jiang Wangsheng said: "The method of pulling silk and peeling cocoons is called silk reeling. Silk reeling is a major process in the silk making process. It doesn't look complicated, but it is very troublesome."

In the courtyard, there are various sericulture products, including silkworm dustpans, leaf picking baskets, medicinal film, red bricks, special buckets for silkworm room disinfection, new sprayers, grid dustpans, and lime.

There are many silkworms in the piles of silkworms. The green mulberry leaves are matched with the white and fat silkworms, which are very cute.

Jiang Wangsheng picked up a silkworm cocoon, bit the cocoon with his mouth, and peeled a silkworm chrysalis from it.

"Silkworm chrysalis was also one of the food of the ancestors in the past. In order to peel off the silkworm chrysalis, they had to bite through the cocoon shell. After repeated attempts in this way, the ancestors gradually discovered that after the cocoon shell was soaked in saliva, sericin could dissolve. Phenomenon. The originally densely entangled silk also separated, and thus the secret of cocooning was discovered." Jiang Wangsheng said to Wang Lin.

After Wang Lin finished listening, he translated it in English for foreign businessmen.

Foreign businessmen were amazed when they heard this.

Jiang Wangsheng continued: "Later, people improved this method and boiled silkworm cocoons with suitable water temperature, thus obtaining silk."

"The process of making silk is relatively complicated, and there are many tricks, but the most important is the silk reeling. After passing through the most difficult level, the ancestors pulled out a thousand meters of silk from a cocoon, and used Seven or eight silks make one raw silk."

"The next step is weaving. People divide the raw silk into two parts, warp and weft, and make fabrics according to certain rules. This process is called weaving."

Most foreign businessmen are also familiar with the textile industry, so I won't go into details about the following things.

Jiang Wangsheng prepared a small exhibition.

All exhibited are brocade, cloth and silk garments produced by their workshops.

What amazes Wang Lin and the others is that the fabrics produced in the workshop are of various styles and styles, and various famous paintings are also embroidered.

"Mona Lisa!" Nataja pointed to a piece of work, "This is so perfect, how did you make it?"

Wang Lin said with a smile: "This is called Suzhou embroidery. It is embroidered on silk with stitches and threads."

Other foreign businessmen were also amazed.

Nataja smiled and said, "Dad, I want to buy this work."

Victor nodded and asked Jiang Wangsheng, "How much is this?"

Jiang Wangsheng was startled, and fell silent.

Wang Lindao: "What's the matter? Boss Jiang, don't you sell these works?"

Jiang Wangsheng said in embarrassment: "Mr. Wang, to be honest, this work was embroidered by my granddaughter, and she spent a lot of time and energy on it."

Wang Lin snorted, "She doesn't want to sell?"

Jiang Wangsheng said: "Yes, she wants to keep it as a dowry. I have to say something about this exhibition, so I let her show it. If foreign businessmen are interested in other works, as long as the price is reasonable, then I can make the decision to sell them." .”

Wang Lin explained to Victor and Nataja.

After hearing this, Nataja was helpless: "I really like this "Mona Lisa". This embroidery is even more beautiful than the original one in the Louvre in Paris, and its look is even more moving."

Wang Lin looked at the work carefully, and felt that it was really vivid. He wondered what kind of girl could weave such beautiful embroidery with such ingenuity.

At this time, a young woman came over. She was beautiful, graceful and elegant, passionate and beautiful, but she was not just a vase. Although her appearance was gentle, she was not weak. Her eyes were firm and flexible.Let people know that she is gentle and principled.

Wang Lin came to so many conclusions just by looking at her.

"Grandpa!" The woman called out to Jiang Wangsheng.

"Brocade, come here, let me introduce you." Jiang Wangsheng said with a smile, "This is your idol, President Wang Lin of Aishu Group!"

There was a soft light in Jiang Zhijin's beautiful eyes: "Mr. Wang, it's a pleasure to meet you. It's a pleasure to meet you. My name is Jiang Zhijin."

Wang Lin nodded: "Miss Jiang, hello."

Jiang Zhijin said: "This painting has another beauty, which you don't know."

"What's the beauty?" Wang Lin asked.

Jiang Zhijin took down the work and slowly turned it over.

Everyone exclaimed!
It turned out that there was actually another painting on the other side of the work, which was Van Gogh's famous painting "Starry Sky"!
The starry sky is one of Van Gogh's top ten famous paintings. This painting gives people a quiet and lively feeling. The overall tone of the painting is cooler, with a large area of ​​blue.Add happy orange and use such a cold and dull color to create a peaceful and harmonious night. The master is indeed a master.

And this embroidery truly restores the color of the starry sky!
The colors of the starry sky are complex and changeable, let alone embroidered, even if it is painted, it is difficult.

Lainuo exclaimed, "Oh Mai Ga, and asked excitedly: "How is this done? Can such a beautiful pattern be embroidered on both sides of a piece of cloth at the same time?"

Wang Lin translated for Jiang Zhijin.

Unexpectedly, Jiang Zhijin could speak English fluently.

"This is called double-sided embroidery, also known as double-sided embroidery. Double-sided embroidery began in the Song Dynasty. On the same base material, in the same embroidery process, the front and back images are embroidered. The outlines are exactly the same, and the patterns are equally exquisite. It is an embroidery that can be appreciated carefully. Double-sided embroidery is mainly reflected in the four famous embroidery in our country."

The four famous embroideries in my country are Hunan embroidery, Su embroidery, Yue embroidery and Shu embroidery.

After hearing this, Leno was deeply surprised. He stretched out his hand to touch the work, but immediately withdrew his hand and asked, "Can I touch it?"

Jiang Zhijin said: "You can touch it. But you can't touch it too much. People's hands will secrete oil. If there is too much oil, it will erode these silk fabrics."

She said it so bluntly that Leno was too embarrassed to touch it again. He just leaned close to his head and watched it carefully.

Wang Lin asked: "Miss Jiang, how long will it take you to finish such a work?"

Jiang Zhijin said: "It will take a few months."

"A few months?" Wang Lin couldn't help sighing after hearing this, "That's too expensive. Can such embroidery be done by machine?"

Jiang Zhijin said: "Because of the craftsmanship, the thread used in the machine embroidery picture cannot be broken, so the thread of the whole picture is the same thickness and cannot be split, resulting in a relatively flat effect. The color matching of machine embroidery is not as good as manual embroidery. It is uniform, and the transition in some places is not as flexible as manual, and it is not as soft as manual transition, so it is relatively rigid."

Wang Lindao: "Is there no way to solve it?"

He wants to achieve mass production!
This kind of handmade embroidery is indeed exquisite. From the reactions of foreign businessmen, it can be seen that there is an international market for this kind of embroidery.

If machine embroidery can be realized and produced in large quantities, then Wang Lin can sell these products abroad, and can also use them on his own brand clothing, which will definitely have amazing effects.

However, Jiang Zhijin poured cold water on him: "The embroidery threads of machine embroidery are arranged neatly and orderly, and the distribution of stitches is very regular, because the production is controlled by machines. The stitches are long and the thread is very thick. If the thread is thin, it will break. .In any case, even low-end hand embroidery looks similar to machine embroidery, but it can be easily distinguished from the embroidery thread arrangement and stitch distribution. As for this high-end precision product, machine embroidery cannot achieve."

Knowing that what she said was true, Wang Lin couldn't help but sighed: "Unfortunately, this is not mass-produced! In other words, we missed a big business opportunity."

Jiang Zhijin asked, "How much can a work like this be sold for?"

Wang Lin was surprised: "Aren't you not selling it?"

Jiang Zhijin said: "I'm just curious, just ask."

Wang Lin looked at Victor: "Old friend, how much can you pay for such a work?"

(End of this chapter)