Riding the wind of rebirth

Each of these treasures is the best of the best that the old man has selected over the years, and was left behind after he passed away. For example, the thirty small incense burners, except for the Xuande earring foot burner that Mr. Wang kept for himself, had to wait until his death to hand it over. Besides, none of the rest can make mistakes.

The old man’s collection categories are also extremely complex.

Take copperware as an example. In addition to the incense burner, there are also pairs of gilt bronze palace lanterns with passion flower patterns and goldfish seats, pairs of bronze cloisonné and enamel hanging screens with ancient paintings, late Ming and early Qing bronze antique rooster statues, and mid-Qing bronze From the cloisonné enamel brocade rooster to various bronze Buddha statues from the Ming and Qing dynasties...

Among the bamboo and wood lacquerware, the furniture transferred to Zhou Zhi last time was Ming and Qing furniture. This time, there are red sandalwood square bucket cups from the late Ming Dynasty, twelve assorted skewers from the late Ming and early Qing dynasties, a red sandalwood stone seat screen from the mid-Qing Dynasty, and an ink painting from the Qianlong reign of the Qing Dynasty. Begonia boxes with cloud and dragon patterns, as well as some high-quality stationery supplies such as red sandalwood and boxwood-shaped flower arrangements, Daoguang's bamboo root carvings of literati's travel pictures, Shanzi, etc...

There are even many flowerpots in the collection, such as the Ming Dynasty Wanli Zhang Yongsheng Changsheng basin, the Ming Dynasty Wanli Zhang Yiqingya play basin, the Qing Dynasty Zhao Ziyu floating surface small Gongxin basin with sink, the Qing Dynasty purple clay large square basin set of four, etc...

In terms of calligraphy and painting, he wrote "Scroll of Peace in Four Seasons" by Gao Qipei, "Picture of Song Ying" by Gan Shidiao, "Picture of Listening to the Qin" by Qian Duhe, Wu Rangzhi's seal script "Leave a Mao'an for my good place" scroll, and Zhang Zhi's scroll Dong Xunzi's "Encouragement to Learning" axis is included in Dongxingshu Festival, Zhang Tingyu's seven-character couplets in running script, Chen Hongshou's official script inscriptions, He Shaoji's seven-character couplets in running scripts, Yu Yue's official scripts inscriptions, Yan Fu's five-character couplets in running scripts, etc...

And because the old man had a wide circle of friends, many modern and contemporary celebrities have left their ink on him. Cultural celebrities such as Ren Boju, Dong Biwu, Wang Zengqi, Shi Shuqing, Xu Bangda, Lin Sanzi, Zhao Puchu... countless celebrities' letters are among them.

This gave Zhou Zhi a real taste of what it means to "talk and laugh with great Confucian scholars, but never interact with white people".

In addition, there are a large number of Ming and Qing calligraphy and paintings with a very high level of creation, but without leaving names. These works are generally called "anonymous" and are considered to be fine works by Mr. Wang and Mr. Yuan after tasting them. There are also hundreds of works. About ten pieces.

The auction prices of these paintings will not be too high, but their artistic and cultural value are very high.

The most exaggerated thing is the ten cabinets of books collected by the old man and Mr. Yuan, which are mixed with new and old ones. You can find a lot of unique books, rare books, and rare monographs, but Zhou Zhi doesn't have time to sort them out now.

Zhou Zhi can be regarded as seeing the background of top collectors, and he also laments the end of an era.

It is estimated that in the future, it will be difficult for China to produce such a broad and comprehensive vision, rich and profound knowledge.

What if I add a search engine?Zhou Zhi sometimes makes comparisons like this, hoping that the progress of the information age can make up for his shortcomings.

Therefore, informatization work is very important. When Gu Kailai, Director Mai and Professor Li arrived in the capital, Zhou Zhi received a notice asking him to report to the ministry.

There is currently no separate Ministry of Information Industry. Information technology work falls under the jurisdiction of the Ministry of Electronics Industry. In recent years, the state has become more relaxed and has begun to increase investment in various aspects of infrastructure construction. The telecommunications industry is a top priority.

Compared with the last time he came to the ministry, Zhou Zhi felt that the atmosphere was different. Even though the Spring Festival was approaching, everyone seemed to be extremely busy.

Therefore, Minister Hu did not leave much time for Gu Kailai and his party to report.

To be honest, Minister Hu felt that the Hanwen large font project should not be under the jurisdiction of the Ministry of Electronics Industry. He always felt that it was quite appropriate for this thing to be under the jurisdiction of the Ministry of Culture.

Even the leader of the project team is the head of the Chinese Department of Sichuan University, ahead of the head of the Computer Department. This makes Minister Hu, who has a background in science and engineering, feel a little uncomfortable.

Gu Kailai was also a little uncomfortable with it. In the past, when he was running for funding to make reports, he faced academic bosses in the liberal arts. Now Hanwen's large font involves a lot of technology, and he doesn't understand much about the specific technical things.

The content that Director Mai wants to report has actually been almost covered in the first phase. Compared with the first phase, the technical difficulty of the second phase has not increased much. All methods have been implemented through programs. The main tasks of the second phase are The task is to expand the capacity, which in the final analysis is a matter of liberal arts.

The task of making the final report still fell to Zhou Zhi.Zhou Zhi is knowledgeable in arts and sciences. He also understands the work of character checking and card creation in liberal arts. He also knows the work of scanning, recognizing and storing characters in science. He is still in charge of the overall project progress management. He can answer any call from Minister Hu. .

Compared with other major projects that are purely science and engineering, such as the construction of wireless base stations, Hanwen's large font library seems to be a bit tricky.

The main reason is that Zhou Zhi has done a solid job in the preliminary work, grasped the entry point of integrating liberal arts and sciences, and directly hit the rigid needs and pain points encountered in informatization work in liberal arts, attracting great attention from relevant foreign organizations and enterprises.

As a result, the work progressed rapidly, the work results were remarkable, and the response was very good and great.

For Minister Hu, this project has a bit of a "three-point effort, seven-point score, and ten-point benefit" flavor, which is not in line with the department's "engineer spirit" of "hard work, no fancy work."

But can you say that the Hanwen large font project is wrong or bad?

Of course not.

Not to mention how many application-level problems the Hanwen Font Library has solved in just one phase, what an amazing "ice-breaking" operation it is just by cooperating with international organizations and Microsoft?
Moreover, Minister Hu learned more. The Computing Center of Sichuan University has had further in-depth contact with Microsoft, and now has obtained the multimedia interface under the WINDOW architecture, which is the upper-level development authority of the WMP plug-in.

This is an integrated audio and video solution provided by Microsoft. Being able to participate in the development will be of great benefit to many subsequent work.

There is another more important opportunity to deeply understand the WINDOWS architecture, which is the establishment of the "Anti-Virus Studio".

These two major events are the second step taken by Microsoft and Sichuan University after they have recognized and trusted the capabilities of the Sichuan University Computing Center after their cooperation in Hanwen University.

Thinking of this, Minister Hu had a different feeling about the thoughtfulness of the talk in front of him. Isn't it a good thing to be able to find the right direction and get very good benefits with three cents of effort?
Over the years, I have become accustomed to facing difficulties, and suddenly someone comes along to ride a smooth sailing. Although it is different, it is not their fault.

Moreover, the working group is very organized. Before the completion of the first phase, the idea of ​​the second phase was already in mind. Now the second phase is preparing to make a "planar breakthrough". This clearly means that the technical reserves for the third phase are completed.

"It seems that our work is far ahead of their expectations..." After listening to the report, Minister Hu was very satisfied: "This way we can be more proactive."

"Them?" Zhou Zhi was a little confused and didn't understand who they meant.

"Korea and the island countries contacted us through the UNICODE organization, requesting that the Han font database be expanded and renamed, returning to the original formulation, called 'China, Japan and Korea Unified Ideographs', and requested to participate in the working group for joint development."

In fact, as early as the late 60s, the island country began to think about how to stuff more than 2000 Japanese Chinese characters into a computer system, and was the first country to study the digitization of Chinese characters.

South Korea followed suit, and eventually the island country developed the JIS C 6226 encoding standard; Korea developed the KS C 5601 encoding standard.

However, the number of character codes in these two countries cannot be compared with Chinese characters, so I never thought of using UNICODE encoding rules before.

When WINNT was launched, Microsoft announced that all future character sets would use "Unicode", and soon after Apple and IBM also announced their follow-up, UNICODE became a general trend around the world. Only then did everyone realize that China had suddenly filled up a lot of character sets. Entering in, UNICODE encoding has become the largest and most complete universal character set today.

Now the two countries cannot sit still.