Riding the wind of rebirth

Chapter 1716 Intention to Cooperate

In addition to the gourd body being split into two halves, the gourd handle was also split open. Since the gourd handle has a certain curvature and twist, Zhou Zhi was even more surprised at how to achieve this effect.

Lesoag tugged at Zhou Zhi's sleeve, walked aside and whispered, "It was glued on later."

“Take the raw vine, split it open, then restore the bundled shape, dry it and then glue it together?” Zhou Zhi immediately understood what was said. The gourd handicraft is called gourd vessel, and the processing technology is very complicated. The most difficult part is to keep the handle of the gourd, commonly known as the "dragon head".

The gourd with a dragon head and the gourd without a dragon head have two different values.

The premise is that it is natural, and it won’t work if it is glued later, so it has a preconceived idea before Zhou Zhi.

If it could be glued later, there would be a lot of ways to do it. Anyway, it wouldn't be visible after it was turned into lacquerware. Zhou Zhi almost understood the craft in a blink of an eye.

Lesoag secretly gave Zhou Zhi a thumbs up, meaning that what you said was almost right.

With this "dragon head", this gourd is even more of a handicraft. Even the porcelain from the Mantou Kiln in Jiukou Township is sold to international friends for 500 yuan each. Such an exquisite craft gourd certainly cannot be cheap.

In the end, this craft gourd was bought by Matsui Zo for 3,000 yuan, and the two rhinoceros skin lacquer paintings on the wall were also favored by Jin Chunyi. These were much cheaper, only 1,000 yuan each.

Although Zhou Zhi is the initiator, he is not very interested in these works. After all, this kind of creation method has less human factors and does not meet Zhou Zhi's requirements.

However, he spent eight thousand yuan to buy the original oil painting on canvas of the tile painting "Love of Liangshan" by Lesoag at the train station, and spent another thousand yuan each to buy the other two oil paintings "Mother" and "Snow Mountain".

This was Zhou Zhi’s first time collecting oil paintings, but although he had never eaten pork, he had seen running pigs many times.

For laymen, collecting calligraphy and paintings is very simple, it just means famous artists and famous paintings.

To be a famous artist, the painter must be famous enough. What does it mean to be famous enough? It means that he has won national or even world-class awards, has several representative works (preferably in a series), has several works collected by national museums and important places, has several paintings published in important national publications, etc.

Famous paintings are naturally those representative works that have been reported, won awards, or are full of stories and can be hyped. It is best if they are representative works of the painter during his peak period.

According to the standards of later generations, Lesoag can only be regarded as a young painter at present, but his minority identity, academic background, and personal talent have made some of his works collectible.

"Mother" is based on the theme of Yi mothers. The picture only shows the back of a mother carrying her child on the red soil. The mother has a tall bun, messy hair under her neck, a Chaerwa cloak covering her body, and a small head wrapped in a red headscarf exposed above the cloak. The mother's lower body is a long three-section two-color pleated skirt and thick winter cloth boots, all of which clearly express the Yi identity of the mother and her child.

Different from many themes expressing motherhood, this mother's body is very straight and her steps are very firm. It seems that for the sake of the child on her back, any hardship and difficulty are not worth mentioning in front of her. The whole painting is full of a strong, positive and persevering spirit.

It is worthy of being the winner of the Ministry of Culture's Second National Star Artwork Excellence Award.

Most people don’t know about this award, but it is actually the highest government social and cultural award established by the state. It is mainly awarded to mass cultural workers and amateur art enthusiasts.

This award includes seven categories, including fine arts and calligraphy, and a maximum of five works can win in each category. Especially in the first few awards, the weight is quite heavy. This painting is Lesoag's "first" work. At that time, he was still a student. After graduation, he became a professional and no longer qualified for the award.

But then again, being able to win this award before entering the academy is enough to show his talent.

Another painting, "Snow Mountain", is his famous work. In the foreground is an old Yi man with dark skin that reflects under the strong sunlight. His face is full of deep wrinkles, and each wrinkle is filled with stories.

The background of the old man is a snow-covered hillside, which is not a distant view but a close view. This shows that the painting does not use the snow-capped mountains as the distant background, but that the old man is standing on the snow-capped mountains.

Because of the sunlight, the old man's eyes are completely hidden in the shadow created by his eyebrow frame, which makes the picture appear even deeper.

This work won the first prize at the Second National Minority Art Festival, which is as important as the previous one.

Although the original work of "Love of Liangshan" was not submitted for exhibition and competition, the fact that it was selected as the iconic decorative painting of the railway station and enlarged and fired on tiles has already made it full of story.

But in terms of fame, Lesoag is still only a little-known "local painter", and the price Zhou Zhi can offer is already very fair.

Like the paintings of the equally famous "Jiazhou School of Painting", the paintings of Zhang Daqian's disciples of the next generation, which are almost as famous as Lesoag, each of their Chinese paintings is only two or three hundred yuan nowadays. Zhou Zhi has already taken into account the special nature of oil paintings and the size of the paintings, as well as the awards and reports, and the story-telling face.

It cannot be compared with the situation in later generations.

Sure enough, Lesoag was very happy. Zhou Zhi's visit brought him an income of nearly 20,000 yuan. In the generally poor autonomous region, today's income was more than what more than 60% of the people in the autonomous region earned in ten years combined.

Of course, the purpose of taking Dayong and the two foreigners for a tour and coming back is naturally not just this. Zhou Zhi also wants to take them to Li Yutang to give him a reassurance.

In the conference room of the autonomous prefecture government, several parties jointly signed a letter of intent for cooperation.

There are multiple letters of intent.

One is the acquisition plan of Zhengchang Food Company, which is a package plan to reform the system, solve employment problems, introduce production lines, and produce Zhengchang buckwheat soy sauce, Panxi sun-dried vinegar, and Zhou Liu Niang mushroom sauce.

It is impossible to complete this plan with the size of the original factory alone, so the salted mushroom production line that was invested in recklessly before will be demolished on the original site, and equipment will be introduced to expand the scale and continue to produce soy sauce and sun-dried vinegar. However, this time the supply and marketing cooperatives will not be spoiled, and all products will be bottled.

The remaining factory site will be built on the seaside in the suburbs. The state government will allocate a piece of land to the group, and the three connections and one leveling will be completed. The mushroom sauce production line will be built there, and a cold storage for dry and fresh use will also be built together with it.

Next is the second cooperation intention. The state government, Qingshan Airport and Zhou Liumai Food Group have reached an agreement on air cold chain transportation. In addition to Qingshan Airport, the group will also invest in building a cold chain warehouse in Shuangliu, Shudu, to ensure the entire cold chain transportation.