Dad's Entertainment Life

Chapter 260 Animal Experts
The old man raised his head, took off his presbyopic glasses, looked at Lin Qirong carefully, and nodded slowly.

"Hi, I'm Bai Xilin."

His voice is full of air, and he speaks clearly. He doesn't sound like an old man in his 70s.

"Please sit down." He gestured with his hand.

Lin Qirong nodded in thanks and sat down opposite him.

It turned out that the middle-aged man who opened the door poured him a cup of tea and added water to the water cup in front of his teacher before standing behind Bai Xilin.

"Is there anything you want from me?" Teacher Bai Xilin asked.

"That's right," Lin Qirong said with a smile, "We would like to ask Mr. Bai to help us with some knowledge about animals."

"The people who come to me basically have problems in this area, and I can only help you with these."

Teacher Bai Xilin said nonchalantly, "Which unit do you belong to? The newspaper office? The publishing house? Or which association?
These are the people who usually need my help. "

Lin Qirong shook his head and smiled, "No, we are a company that makes cartoons."

"Cartoon?" Not only Bai Xilin was surprised, but the middle-aged man behind him also exclaimed.

As a student of Bai Xilin, he has participated in many activities with Bai Xilin, most of which were official activities.

This is the first time that a private unit has come to find his teacher, and it is a company that makes cartoons. The two seem to have nothing to do with each other, right?

Lin Qirong was not surprised, it was quite normal for him to have such a reaction.

Content such as animal knowledge generally only appears in books, popular science magazines, and the natural channel of TV, and the mainstream media rarely involves it, let alone others.

The animation company came over and asked Bai Xilin, an animal expert, for help, so it's not strange.

He nodded with a smile, "Yes. We are Tonghua Entertainment Company, and our main business is to make cartoons for preschool children.

In fact, we have achieved good results. The two cartoons produced, "Peppa Pig" and "Dora the Explorer" are cartoons that children like to watch, and their influence is not small.

Now we are going to make a cartoon related to animals, which requires very professional animal knowledge.

Teacher Bai is one of the most famous animal experts in China. Over the years, he has devoted himself to studying various animals in China, which will definitely give us great help. "

Bai Xilin was not disappointed by the background of Lin Qirong and others, instead he stopped Lin Qirong to speak very seriously, with a wise light shining in his eyes.

After listening to Lin Qirong's words, he said slowly, "What do you want me to help you with? I only know animals in my life, and they are Chinese animals. I don't know anything else."

"We need your knowledge about Chinese animals."

Lin Qirong laughed, "The content of our cartoon is like this.

The protagonist Diego lives in a jungle in China. He, his parents, and his sister are all members of China's animal rescue team, responsible for rescuing animals in distress.

In each episode, there will be an animal in trouble or danger, and he needs to use his first aid knowledge and his rescue backpack to complete the rescue mission.

This involves the modeling characteristics, sound characteristics, living habits, eating habits, living conditions, etc. of various animals in China, all of which require very professional knowledge.

We hope that the animals in the cartoons we make are real and conform to their characteristics.

We also hope that through this cartoon, children can get to know these animals and then like them. "

Teacher Bai Xilin fell silent, not knowing what he was thinking.

The middle-aged man looked at Lin Qirong with a look of surprise. He actually wanted to move all the Chinese animals into the cartoon. This young man really had an idea.

Although I don’t know if he can succeed, the idea is admirable enough.

This is especially true for teachers and zoologists like him who have studied animals all their lives.

An expectation arose in his heart. If such a cartoon could really be produced, it might become a veritable encyclopedia of animal science.

Children can learn these animal knowledge in interesting animation plots, understand these animals from an early age, and learn to protect them.

Will this play a very big role in protecting Chinese animals?
Lin Qirong waited quietly.

When he was making "Dora the Explorer", he had the idea to make this sister chapter.

If Diego is placed in the American jungle according to the original script, he can make it without too many modifications at all, and he can make sure that children like it.

If the animals inside are replaced with animals unique to China, many things will need to be changed. While the workload will be heavy, it is still unknown what the results will be.

But he decided to do this in the end because he hoped that through this cartoon, children including Tongtong could learn more about Chinese animals.

Pandas, golden monkeys, peacocks, Siberian tigers, Chinese dolphins, red-crowned cranes...

These animals are unique to China and have very important meanings.

If children can recognize these animals through this cartoon, learn relevant knowledge, and then fall in love with them, it will be good for them and China.

That's why he made a special trip to visit this animal expert and asked him to give him professional guidance and protection.

Teacher Bai Xilin thought for a long time before standing up and taking out a few thick books from the bookshelf behind him and placing them in front of Lin Qirong.

"I've been doing animal research for decades."

He said slowly, "Our country has always paid little attention to animal research. It is very weak in animal research and knowledge popularization. Children can only learn about animals through textbooks and going to zoos.

Everyone knows that China has a vast land and abundant resources, and is rich in animal resources, but they are speechless about the specific animals.

In contrast, they can understand some characteristic animals in foreign countries very clearly, and come to them with open mouth. "

Lin Qirong listened carefully to what he said, and approved of what he said very much in his heart, isn't that true?

"When I was young, I climbed mountains and waded with my teacher, and traveled all over the land of China, just to collect as much information as possible about the animals we own in China, so that more people can learn about them and like them."

He smiled bitterly, and patted the book in front of him, "We worked hard to complete the data collection, but we couldn't get people to focus on it.

What people prefer is to take their children to the zoo to see those few Chinese animals and other foreign animals.

Facts have proved that our efforts have failed. "

"No." Lin Qirong said solemnly, "Although people don't understand you now, the animal database you have worked so hard to perfect will become the precious wealth of the Chinese nation.

Perhaps due to various reasons, everyone does not understand their preciousness, but everyone will understand this in the future. "

Bai Xilin smiled and said nothing. After hearing such words countless times, he was already immune.

He opened the thick book, pointed to the content on it and talked to Lin Qirong.

There are photos of him, his teachers and students searching in the wild day after day, year after year, waiting to find and leaving behind the best characteristics of a certain animal.

There are also information on the sound characteristics and living habits of various animals, which fully meet Lin Qirong's needs.

Bai Xilin talked for a while, seeing Lin Qirong and others quietly listening to him, without a hint of impatience, a look of surprise flashed in their eyes.

As one of the most famous animal experts in China, he never lacks visitors.

Whether it is a professional magazine that needs to do an issue of animal content or a program that needs professional guidance, he will be asked for help.

But their purpose is very direct, to get what they need, never listen to what they say seriously, or look impatient.

The person I am and the knowledge in my mind are just tools for them to achieve their goals, so why would they care about what they need?
And from the young man in front of him, he saw respect for himself, knowledge, and understanding and respect for this profession, which moved him a little.

He smiled dumbly in his heart. At his age, he was actually moved by the attitude this young man should have.

Thinking of this, he pushed a thick book on the table in front of Lin Qirong.

"It records the materials we have collected over the years, as well as some audio materials, which I can also give to you.

I would love it if you could use these to make cartoons that kids will enjoy and learn about animals. "

Lin Qirong caressed the thick book lightly, it was already a bit old, it should be read often.

It almost contains most of the information he needs, and with these, he can do a lot of things.

However, he still pushed these materials back to Bai Xilin.

Bai Xilin looked up at him in surprise.

"Teacher Bai." Lin Qirong smiled lightly, "These materials are indeed very valuable, and we need them very much, but this is not what we want most.

What we care most about is the knowledge in your head and the experience you have accumulated over decades about animals.

These things cannot be reflected in this pile of materials, and they are truly priceless treasures. "

Bai Xilin was stunned for a moment, and hadn't figured out what he meant for a long time.

And his apprentice opened his mouth even more, with a look of surprise on his face.

He knew very well how much the teacher cherished these materials, and he was very surprised that he was willing to give them to Lin Qirong. What he didn't expect was that Lin Qirong didn't want them?
He felt a little confused, what exactly did Lin Qirong want?
Bai Xilin looked at Lin Qirong seriously, "What do you need me to do?"

Lin Qirong smiled slightly, "Teacher Bai, I would like to hire you as our company's special consultant to help us make this cartoon together.

And we can collaborate to do more. "

(End of this chapter)