Riding the wind of rebirth

Jade itself is a very difficult category to hype. The reason is the same as that of bronze wares and later ivory. Because the state prohibits circulation, there is no room for hype.

Therefore, except for some jade wares that were scattered in the early days, the ancient jade in China could not even sell the newly released Hetian jade carvings.

Of course, it must be real XJ Hetian jade, not some Qinghai or Russian material.

But among all these jade wares, there is one exception, and that is topaz.

In ancient China, jade color has always been quite controversial. How many colors does jade have?What color is expensive?Each has its own opinion.

Zhou Lvjing of the Ming Dynasty said in "Yi Men Guang Du": "Khotan jade has five colors, white jade is like crisp, cool color, oil color and snowflakes are the second. Yellow jade is like chestnut, which is called sweet topaz, followed by burnt yellow. Jasper is green like Blue indigo, that is, dark blue today, or those with fine ink stars, and those with light color are second. Moyu is like lacquer, and it is also called black jade. Red jade is like a cockscomb, which is rare in the world. Green jade is dark green, especially those with rice grits in it. Good. The color of sweet green jade is light green and yellowish." Roughly, Hetian jade is divided into these colors.

Today's jade lovers are still white and green, and the first thing they play is the white jade and jasper of XJ Hetian. In fact, topaz used to be superior to suet jade.

Gao Lian in the Ming Dynasty mentioned in "Eight Notes of Zunsheng": "Jade is best with sweet yellow, followed by mutton fat."

The yellow color of topaz is subtle and introverted, warm and delicate, its sound is like the lingering sound of a golden pan, and it comes back again and again.

Hetian topaz, whose matrix is ​​white jade, has a yellow hue in the crevices due to the long-term infiltration of iron oxide in surface water.

To be called topaz, it must be flesh that has been tanned to yellow, with the same inner and outer color, and no whiteness.

Therefore, the real sweet topaz is even rarer than suet jade. It is a treasure among jades, and it has symbolized nobility and aura since ancient times.

The color is warm but not gorgeous, the temperament is elegant but not sharp, which is in line with the "gentleman's way" respected by the Chinese, and is very popular among collectors.In the Ming Dynasty, topaz was the most valuable among scholar-bureaucrats playing with and appreciating jade, and its economic value far surpassed suet white jade.

In the Qing Dynasty, due to the homonym of topaz and "emperor", it was extremely rare, and its value was not outrageous. In addition, its output was scarce, and it seemed to have become a special item for the royal family and nobles.

The topaz cultural relics of the past dynasties are basically exquisite objects purchased by the court, and many ancient topaz products have become collections of players in the Song and Ming Dynasties, and then entered the inner palace and became handed down by the court.

With such a historical origin, there is room for hype. Because of the production level, user identity and other reasons, the auction price of topaz cultural relics in the international market is much higher than other cultural relics.

But then again, it's hard to say how much of this is the unscrupulous hype of Li Qiyan.

But this doesn't prevent Zhou Zhi from being full like a mouse that fell into a barn.

Back at the hotel that night, Director Wang and Zhou Zhi began to report on the progress of the day.No one expected that things would go so smoothly. Li Qiyan's character design, it seems that the transformation from a "Confucian businessman" to a "patriotic businessman" has not escaped.

The little ghosts went out to find out the stone, tried to pass the way, and Zhou Zhi almost didn't need to worry about the next thing.

And those who were equally surprised were the gangsters on Hong Kong Island who wanted to buy bottoms. After sending Zhou Zhi and the two away, Li Qiyan recalled the three sons to his study and started a secret negotiation.

Three major events, the first is the "return" of the two "Chunhua Ge Tie", the second is that the mainland intends to cooperate with the Unicode Alliance, and the third is to cooperate with the central government to stabilize Hong Kong Island's finances. A son has something to do with how to turn this kind of luck into fortune, even if the bigwigs need a balance of power for the future management of Hong Kong Island, it is enough for the Li family to get the biggest share.

The attitudes of both sides are very positive, so things are arranged in full swing.

The next day, at the invitation of Li Leshan, Zhou Zhi went to Hong Kong Island University, where he experienced the power of the Internet for the first time.

From the perspective of the development and changes of the national Internet, it has actually gone through several periods, namely the academic traction period, the exploration growth period, the rapid development period, and the mature and prosperous period.

The so-called academic traction period.It refers to the stage when the Internet was introduced from the United States to other regions.

At this stage, local government scientific research units will be passed, and the period of time will generally be several years, so as to promote the Internet from information retrieval, to full-featured access, and then to preliminary exploration of commercialization.

The main force in this stage is the major government departments, scientific research units, and colleges and universities. Everyone focuses on scientific research, so it is called "academic traction".

The Internet was born in the United States. Its earliest origin was the Arpanet of the Advanced Research Projects Agency of the US Department of Defense. It was mainly used for military research. It was mainly a communication network built to help the US Department of Defense resist the nuclear attack of the former Soviet Union.

This network was put into use in 1969. At the beginning, there were only four nodes. By 1981, it had grown to 94 nodes.At the same time, DIALOG, the largest information retrieval system, is also connected to Arpanet.

The embryonic form of the Internet thus emerged initially, and many standards and features were gradually established in the 80s:

In 1983, Paul Mocapetjos invented DNS;

In 1984, the U.S. Department of Defense determined the TCP/IP protocol as the standard for all computer networks, laying the foundation for the global integration of the Internet;

In 1989, Tim Berners-Lee invented the world wide web, which made preparations for the global popularization of the Internet. Since then, WWW sites have begun to develop rapidly.

After the Internet standards have been perfected, Chinese scholars and experts have also begun to make efforts to access the Internet.

Since the United States has a policy to force China to block information, China can only explore it through academic research.

Finally, after long-term efforts by the government, in the early 80s, international online information retrieval terminals were successfully established in Hong Kong and BJ, connected to Arpanet, and finally connected to the DIALOG database system.

In other words, the application of China's Internet was initially integrated through information retrieval tools.

Until 1987, another epoch-making research strongly promoted China's access to the Internet, that is, e-mail.

In September 1987, with the help of Professor Wenner Zorn of Karlsruhe University in Germany, Professor Wang Yunfeng and Dr. Li Chengjiong built an e-mail node in the BJ Institute of Computer Application Technology, and successfully sent the famous email node to Germany on September 9. "Over the Great Wall, into the world" email.

This indicates that China's official access to the Internet is a welcome progress, but it is not a full-featured access.

Now Chinese academic institutions are working hard to apply for full-featured access to the Internet. At the same time, they are also contacting people in the United States who support this move to lobby vigorously. Guys, it's all in it.

In addition, Li Qiyan is a board member of the University of Hong Kong, and Li Leshan is also an alumnus and honorary professor of the University of Hong Kong. Therefore, the relationship between the Li family and the University of Hong Kong is very deep. In recent years, Li Leshan has returned to Hong Kong frequently to guide the Internet construction work here.