Siheyuan starts from a better life

Chapter 455, Founding Porcelain
At noon, Wang Honghai's hearty and magnetic voice sounded on the radio throughout the institute: "Hello, fellow comrades! I am Wang Honghai. First of all, on behalf of the institute and the administrative team, I would like to express warm congratulations to everyone. !”

"The CNC machine tool developed by our research institute made the headlines yesterday and was highly praised by superiors!"

At this time, the radio suddenly burst into warm applause and cheers, and all the employees in the district were filled with proud smiles.

After the applause subsided, he continued: "This major technological breakthrough is indeed a remarkable achievement shared by all employees of our institute! Among them, our Comrade Jiang Yan and Chief Engineer Jiang played a key role."

As soon as Jiang Yan was mentioned, the audience burst into warm applause.

"At the same time, what I want to tell you is that General Manager Jiang gave up this reward again and distributed the rewards he received to everyone. In order to reward the employees who participated in this development, General Manager Jiang contributed his own bonus As well as welfare tickets, the leaders within the institute have studied and decided that on the basis of Mr. Jiang’s reward, the institute will spend some money to give it to everyone as a reward this time.”

"Each employee in the institute will receive one pound of pork, one pound of apples, and half a pound of White Rabbit toffee when the time comes! The rewards can be collected at the No. [-] cafeteria window of the institute. Please line up in order to receive them."

"Finally, let us give another round of warm applause to congratulate this remarkable achievement!" Wang Honghai's voice echoed through the radio in every corner.

The audience's warm applause rang out again and lasted for a long time. Everyone looked very excited. Leaders who can give employees a hard time these days are good leaders.

"Okay, everyone, please collect your meat tickets in order. Don't rush and crowd. The factory will treat everyone to a good meal today to celebrate! Finally, everyone must work hard and let our institute achieve greater results!"

Cheerful music played on the radio, signaling the official end of the announcement.

For a time, the entire factory area was boiling.

"There is meat to eat!"

"And apples and toffee!"

“After working so hard for so long, I finally have something delicious!”

"We want to thank our Mr. Jiang."

"That's right, thank you Mr. Jiang, I won't forgive anyone who says bad things about Mr. Jiang in the future."

The workers who were originally operating the machine tools or immersed in their work were now so excited that they jumped up from their seats, their faces filled with ecstasy. Every one of the workers spoke highly of Jiang Yan.

The hard work finally paid off handsomely.

This joy sincerely affects everyone.

Soon, the crowd rushed to the cafeteria and formed a long queue.Although the team was crowded, everyone had smiles on their faces. Workers, technicians, and engineers were all mixed in the team, and they were all in high spirits.

Liu Haizhong stood at the edge of the team, watching the workers lining up to receive tickets with a smile on his face. At the same time, he felt unspeakably proud. The secretary of the director just found him, verbally praised him for his previous efforts, and told him I have my own share of this year's progress.Thinking of this, he was full of gratitude to Jiang Yan. Without him, he would not be what he is now. However, Liu Haizhong also understood that without Jiang Yan, he would not be able to thrive in the institute. The entire seven workshops of the institute would be I think I have some face, and I am quite satisfied with everything today.

But now he has a clear understanding of himself. Being a workshop director is the pinnacle of his life. As for climbing up, he has a very clear foundation, but he still suffers from cultural disadvantages!It's too late to regret now.

"Director Liu, why don't you go get your things yet." The greeting from the director of the first workshop made Liu Haizhong come back to his senses.

After coming back to his senses, Liu Haizhong also smiled and said to Director Wang of the first workshop: "I'm not waiting for the workers to finish collecting. I'm not in a hurry. I'm not in a hurry."

Jiang Yan in the office was not aware of the noise outside. He was happily opening boxes one after another. After a while, the table in his office and the floor were filled with all kinds of porcelain. .

Jiang Yan was filled with joy when he saw these porcelains. He looked at this and touched that, as happy as a three-year-old child.

By studying with Mr. Niu, Jiang Yan is not a novice who knows nothing. Jiang Yan still knows a little bit about porcelain. These porcelains look elegant and even have simple patterns, but they have a lot of background. But the famous "Jianguo Porcelain."

After the founding of the country in 1949, there were frequent domestic and foreign affairs activities, so state banquets of different specifications were often held. However, due to the long-term war and the weak national strength, there was not even a set of tableware that could represent the state banquet.

In 1952, he put forward the suggestion to organize the production of founding porcelain: "Our country is a country of porcelain. After the founding of the country, it should clearly express the style of the new country. It should summarize the good experiences in history and create new porcelain and porcelain for national use. National gift porcelain.”

This suggestion was quickly supported by the chief.Soon, the "Jianguo Porcelain Design Committee" was formally established.After several meetings, it was decided that "Jianguo Porcelain" would be designed by the Ceramics Department of the Department of Applied Fine Arts of the Central Academy of Fine Arts, and the ceramic production areas such as Jingdezhen, Fuling, and Yixing would be responsible for the production.

The then president of the Central Academy of Fine Arts attached great importance to this work.In October of the same year, the Central Academy of Fine Arts drafted a list of the Jianguo Porcelain Design Committee to the Ministry of Light Industry, which brought together industry leaders and formed an unprecedentedly powerful lineup.

What exactly Jianguo Porcelain should be designed to look like has always been a big problem that has troubled designers.

After the founding of the People's Republic of China, banquets and celebration meals once became an embarrassing issue.In official celebrations that mainly feature Western food, a variety of hotel tableware is mainly used, while Chinese food follows the specifications of the Qing Dynasty palace, which is extremely inconsistent in the eyes of outsiders.

In order to solve this problem, four sophomore students, headed by an associate professor at the Central Academy of Fine Arts, worked together and began to research and design Chinese and Western tableware that could represent New China.

They first went to the prestigious traditional restaurant Cuihua Building to investigate. Then, according to the chief's request, they removed the gaudy and cumbersome supporting equipment of the old-style Chinese food, integrated utensils of similar specifications, and simplified it into the new Jianguo porcelain tableware.For the specifications of Western tableware, refer to the complete set of tableware used in BJ Hotel at that time.

At the end of 1952, the design team submitted a variety of designs for Chinese and Western tableware.The chief made the final decision: to use blue and white tableware with peonies and branches as the Chinese tableware style, and blue and white begonia tableware as the Western tableware style.This is the origin of Jianguo porcelain.

The successful firing of Jianguo Porcelain not only promptly resolved the passive situation in the country's diplomatic activities at that time, but also made a concrete contribution to establishing a vibrant and enterprising image of a great country. It also effectively promoted my country's ceramic industry, ceramic art, and ceramics. The modern development of science and education.The essence behind the successful firing of Jianguo Porcelain is the reasonable integration of various forces such as the laws of historical process, the direction of national will, local characteristics, industry demands, and people's happiness needs.

According to the eyes of later generations, this type of porcelain from the founding of the People's Republic of China is a bit crude, but it represents a great significance. It is also a popular item for collection in later generations. The batch of porcelain given to Jiang Yan by his superiors is two sets for entertaining, and it is a porcelain for Western food. The same is true. Why doesn't this surprise Jiang Yan? However, Jiang Yan can't bear to use such porcelain. Just buying any of them will make him feel distressed for a long time. It's best to collect them. The exquisite folk kiln products that he asked Xu Damao to trade for can be used. That's it.

(End of this chapter)