Riding the wind of rebirth

These two important cultural relics bequeathed by Mr. Li are also one of the must-display contents for this opening of the museum. Among them, the Banqiao Speech is in good condition, but the "Baiyang Shitao Painting and Calligraphy Album" is somewhat damaged due to its age and needs to be repaired. Fan.

Regarding ancient cultural relics, from calligraphy and painting to architecture, there are two views: one is to repair the old as if it were new, and the other is to repair the old as if it were old.

The former is mostly a traditional Eastern concept, especially in island countries, which have inherited this way to the extreme. In particular, some ancient swords are almost as good as the day they were made.

The rest, such as the mother-of-pearl and red sandalwood pipa from Shosangyuan, the round mirror with mother-of-pearl back, and the blue gold and silver painted box, are all in extremely perfect condition.

When it comes to restoration, Zhou Zhi has his own philosophy. There is a dividing line in his mind, that is, calligraphy and painting before the Ming Dynasty should be restored to look as new as possible; while for paintings and calligraphy after the Qing Dynasty, they should be kept as they were before the Qing Dynasty and should be restored as old as possible.

The reason for this is that Ming Dynasty paintings and previous works have already become full of antiquity due to the aging of paper, silk, ink and color for many years, and there is no need to deliberately retain water marks, burnt edges, insect-eaten acid etching, etc. The corrosion and oxidation marks are enough to leave an ancient charm, and there is no need to deliberately "sculpt" the flavor.

Things that date back to the Qing Dynasty still lack the charm that has accumulated over time, so it is not easy to detract from them. It is better to preserve what is possible.

But no matter what, the aesthetic appeal of the restored works is unified throughout. Traditional restoration and "archaeological restoration" learned from the West only focus on archaeological value and do not consider artistic value.

A typical example that illustrates the difference between the two styles is bronze.

Most of the bronzes that can be seen in museums are rusty, and the original appearance of the bronzes cannot be seen.

But there are also a very small number of them that have managed to escape the ravages of time and retain their original "auspicious gold" qualities.

This type of bronze ware is represented by the tripod (taken away) in the Thirteenth Year of the Western Zhou Dynasty, the Uncle Wufu's Sword, and the Yue King Goujian's Sword. Although there are traces of time, they do not hide their true colors, which can give people a different aesthetic feeling.

Represented by the restoration of "Baiyang Shitao Painting and Calligraphy Album", Zhou Zhi officially launched the restoration project of Ming Dynasty paintings in the Shu University Museum. It was a quite challenging project for both him and the team he led at the restoration institute.

Zhou Zhi had already collected a lot of ancient paper, brocade, and silk for restoration before, and with the wood removed from Suihuaxuan this time, he was fully prepared.

The effect that Zhou Zhi wants to achieve is to make the Ming Dynasty scrolls in the Shu Grand Museum old except for the paste, which is new. However, the visual effect he wants to achieve is to make the scrolls as new as new and to be able to taste the antiquity.

The Forbidden City and the National Museum have many "miraculous works" of this kind of restoration, such as Shen Zhou's "High Picture of Mount Lu" and the landscape axis "The Gathering of Wei Garden", which are among the best.

It is just like what Liang Shi wrote in the Qing Dynasty version of "Along the River During the Qingming Festival": "Sichuan brocade is decorated with gold and jade, and Wu workers gather broken gold."

At first, the school was hesitant about such a big move by Zhou Zhi. It was not until the first batch of mid-Qing paintings were restored and sent to the capital for acceptance, and received positive reviews from several parties, that they felt relieved.

In addition, Zhou Zhi also needs to prepare for review and take the final exam.

What's even funnier is that while he is preparing for the exam, he is also preparing to test others. His "Oracle Bone Inscriptions Appreciation" course also has a set of test papers to be published.

Being so busy, Zhou Zhi adjusted the time to go to the calculation center from once a day to once every three days. However, under such circumstances, Matsui Zuo and Jin Chunyi came to the door again.

This time, they are here to discuss cooperation.

"Zhou Sang, why do you have so little time to work in the computing center during this period?" Matsui finally blocked Zhou Zhi at the Clover Company, and showed off the traditional Chinese opening gossip he had learned: "What have you been busy with recently? "

"I'm busy reviewing, the final exam is coming soon." Zhou Zhi shook the books and materials under his arms with the two of them: "If you fail the exam, you won't be able to see Mr. Jiangdong."

"Final...examination?" Matsui Zuo couldn't help but feel dizzy, and he finally accepted the reality that this kid was still a college student.

Judging from the information fed back from China, the angel investor behind Clover is AXA Fund registered in the Cayman Islands and headquartered in Hong Kong Island.

The most frightening thing is that although the investment direction and investment objects of this fund are complicated and complex, it is closely related to Hong Kong Heheng Group and Hongsheng Group, and is personally managed by Jack Lee, a popular "financial genius" in Hong Kong. However, there is only one shareholder of the fund. Name, George Darwin.

It turns out to be a personal fund!

This fund first came to prominence during the European currency crisis, and then made deep inroads in the information technology sector. Now it has reached its initial harvest period, and it has begun to act as an angel fund to support small companies in various information and Internet pioneer industries.

However, his investment vision is very unique. Big companies such as Microsoft and IBM stocks in the secondary market, and venture capital companies such as Oracle and Clover, all of them have bought the bottom and then made great progress all the way.

The funniest thing is that this fund is not picky. Recently, with the loosening of access to China's stock market, it has started a "rescue" operation, absorbing stocks around 300 points, and cooperating with the three major rescue policies launched by the country, stabilizing the stock market. , creating an "iron bottom".

As the signs of A-share stabilization become more and more obvious, countless funds that have been waiting and watching have begun to enter the market, and investors are ready to make moves again. It seems that this treasure has been bet on the right one by AXA Fund again.

Since AXA Fund is an international fund, it is very familiar with international rules. As a major financial backer of Clover, AXA Fund will guide Clover to avoid some possible detours.

For example, the "intellectual property trap" that causes domestic enterprises to suffer the most.

Many Japanese and Korean companies also had the idea of ​​stealing property rights at first. However, after intelligence research, they were surprised to find that Clover implemented its patent protection extremely perfectly, whether it was the exclusive protection of the right to use the agreement or the underlying instruction set of MiniCOS , the two key chips of digital players, MD1370 and AC3533, as well as the appearance and buttons of WinClover, have all applied for patent system protection in most countries in the world that are capable of production.

It can even be thought that the joint cooperation with Microsoft is just a compromise made by Clover in order to enter the European and American markets. If we do not consider the win-win cooperation, Clover can completely kill the patent, and even Microsoft will not be able to take advantage. .

What Japanese and Korean companies don't understand is that doing so will increase huge costs. They have no idea why Clover is so confident in its products that it doesn't hesitate to protect its intellectual property rights to such an extent before putting them on the market. Perfect".

However, it turns out that Clover and AXA have made the right bet again, because they have joined forces with Microsoft to allow everyone who has purchased a WinClover player to install a "Format Warehouse" in their Windows system to convert their favorite CD audio into Compressed audio software.

Nowadays, young people who like music in various cities in Europe and the United States have established exchange organizations in some non-mainstream gathering places such as underground music parks, rock blocks, and nightclubs to exchange knowledge.

Some bold video stores have even started committing crimes, producing batches of records into compressed audio to earn money from copies.