Recycled Porcelain [Ancient Wears Today]

Xu Jiuzhao stood quietly and listened for a long time, and slowly figured out the matter based on their words.

It turned out that on the last day of the registration deadline, a young ceramic designer who returned from abroad participated in this national joint exhibition.Originally, this was nothing. The national joint exhibition is extremely inclusive and does not set any threshold.But when he handed in the exhibited works, someone exclaimed on the spot, "Isn't this the "March Peach Blossom" that won the best work award at the European May Exhibition this year?".

The young ceramic designer's name is Li Songyan, and he said with a reserved smile, "That's right, it's this work. What's the matter? Doesn't the national joint exhibition not allow works that have participated in international competitions to be exhibited?"

The staff member who called out the title of this work immediately shook his head and said: "How come, as long as it was created within the last year, works that only participated in the current annual competition can sign up for the exhibition."

This is also the situation in the art world that is different from other industries. After all, the annual output of many artists is very low, and some even take two years to produce a work.

And their works are not limited to one competition exhibition.

This is the same as film works. After participating in domestic film festivals, you can also participate in foreign film festivals. It is a skill to sweep all domestic and foreign awards.

It's just that the staff members were also surprised in private, they didn't expect that the designer who won the Best Work Award at the European May Exhibition would send this work to the joint exhibition held by them.

It's not that he underestimates himself, worships foreign countries and favors foreign countries, and thinks that the moon is round in foreign countries, but that the current situation of the development of the entire domestic ceramic art is like this.

Although China is the birthplace of ceramics, and since the Tang Dynasty, my country has exported a large amount of ceramics to all parts of the world.After Jingdezhen became the capital of porcelain, Ming and Qing Dynasties achieved brilliant development.

But there is an old saying that goes well, prosperity must decline, and things must reverse.

From the late Qing Dynasty to the early Republic of China, the porcelain industry in Jingdezhen began to go downhill. Affected by various factors such as the economy at that time, the ceramic industry nationwide showed signs of stagnation or even regression.

It wasn't until the end of the war and the establishment of a new country that the situation began to slowly improve.However, like other industries, developed countries have widened the domestic technology gap for several years or even decades at this time.

Although they gradually caught up later, masters of ceramic art represented by Zou Hengxin were also born among the older generation, but the growth of the younger generation was not ideal.

Now when Xu Jiuzhao travels through time, there are high imitation porcelains and works of art made by ceramic masters who abandon traditional techniques, and porcelains from Italy, Germany, the United Kingdom, and Japan occupy the entire domestic high-end daily-use porcelain market.Although China accepts orders for exporting porcelain, and the porcelain produced is fairly well-designed and well-made, the market is full of low-grade and poor-quality porcelain.

Now Jingdezhen has four to five thousand small workshops and small factories. It seems that the development is thriving and full of flowers, but it is in a state of overall decline and disorderly competition.

Ceramics originated in China, but now they belong to the whole world.

While the development of domestic ceramics is stagnant, foreign porcelain has made great progress and development. Not only are various inventions and applications of new technologies and new materials, but also various grand and high-end art competitions are held to encourage artistic innovation.

When the country slowly absorbs these Western arts, it creates a bad situation for people of the younger generation under the old artists to collectively "half-way". Generally speaking, they do not have a thorough understanding of the essence of Chinese and Western cultures, as well as the meaning of tradition and modernization. , A thoroughly embarrassing result.

It's no wonder that Xu Jiuzhao saw all the works that made him feel inferior and hurt his eyes.

The domestic competitions are obviously not as credible and authoritative as the international art exhibitions, especially in the past two years, the joint exhibitions have become more mixed and smoky because of the organizers' actions to make money.

So although what Ma Xiushan said was not pleasant, he still got the support of many people.

"March Peach Blossom" won the excellent work award of the European May Art Exhibition. For this work that won the top international competition award, they did not award the gold medal, just like an athlete who obviously won the third prize in the World Championships but won the domestic provincial competition. It is also unreasonable not to enter the final group in the sports meeting.

They were afraid of being criticized by the outside media, so they strongly insisted that the gold award should be awarded to Li Yansong.

In addition, those who held objections felt that from the perspective of artistry and works, the Douqing Kuikou Bowl is better than "Peach Blossom in March", and it should be awarded the gold award instead of the silver award.

Zou Hengxin and Liu Xinhua have not expressed their opinions. If one of the parties involved today is not Xu Jiuzhao, they will definitely insist that the gold award should be awarded to the Kuikou Bowl. They are not afraid of doubts from the outside media.

But it happened that Xu Jiuzhao's work was involved, and the two had no choice but to keep silent in order to avoid suspicion.

The first, second and third prizes of other groups will be decided quickly, but only the ceramic group cannot decide, so all the judges are gathered here.

Because Zou Heng was a calligrapher who temporarily decided not to come in order to arrange the place, so he was not one of the three judges in the ceramics group. Ma Xiushan strongly insisted that "Peach Blossom in March" was the gold medal, and the other two judges were one Agreeing to the other objection, the three quarreled for a while, unable to convince each other, and then suggested that all the reviewers make a decision together.

After a whole day of arguing, most of these judges are quite old and exhausted, so they can only talk about it tomorrow.

After returning to Xiaoyanglou, Zou Hengxin lost his temper.

"He must have done it on purpose! He must have embarrassed him before retaliating against me, that's why he did it! It's too shameless and despicable." Zou Heng gritted his teeth angrily.

Liu Xinhua also came back. Seeing Zou Heng's blushing face and thick neck, Liu Xinhua hurriedly asked the nanny to get the medicine.

Xu Jiuzhao was taken aback, it was the first time he saw Zou Hengxin get so angry, his face turned red, and he looked bad.

Xu Jiuzhao was afraid that the teacher would be angry, so the nanny brought medicine, and Xu Jiuzhao hurriedly brought water for Zou Hengxin to take the medicine.

"Teacher, calm down." Xu Jiuzhao unfastened Zou Hengxin's collar and fanned him with a fan.

Zou Hengxin's chest heaved, he held Xu Jiuzhao's hand and said, "Don't worry, he will never let his plan succeed!"

Xu Jiuzhao was confused, and said incomprehensibly, "Who are you talking about?"

Zou Hengxin pursed his lips, saying that he didn't even want to say that person's name. Liu Xinhua sat aside helplessly: "It's not Ma Xiushan yet."

Xu Jiuzhao said strangely: "Is this matter related to Ma Xiushan?"

Liu Xinhua nodded and said: "I heard them tell me in private that this Li Songyan returned to China temporarily, and he didn't plan to participate in this joint exhibition, because this time you saw that your Kuikou Bowl was going to win a gold medal. Ma Xiushan didn't know No matter how moved Li Yansong was, he brought his work to the exhibition on the last day of the deadline."

Xu Jiuzhao narrowed his eyes: "So, it's aimed at me?"

"That's right, I deliberately targeted you." Liu Xinhua nodded and said, "Although the influence of the national joint exhibition is only in the south, there is still a considerable difference between the gold award and the silver award. The awards of the joint exhibition have no bonuses but certificates, but the award-winning authors You can increase your value. You have never participated in any competitions before, and you have never sold your works. After winning the gold award, the value of the work should be no less than 7 yuan. If it is a silver award, it will be directly reduced to 5 yuan. the following."

Zou Hengxin regained his strength and said: "The price of that Kuikou bowl should be around 10 yuan. If it is lower, I will be sorry for your craftsmanship and the added value of firing. Once it is reduced to a silver medal, it will not exceed it." 5."

Xu Jiuzhao frowned. He spent more thought on this sunflower bowl than the previous blue and white porcelain plum vase with twined branches and lotus. He put a lot of effort into the glaze, porcelain body, and shape of the vessel.That plum vase was sold for 2 to 3 yuan. How can I say that the price of this Kuikou bowl is more than two or three times that of the plum vase.

This Ma Xiushan is too annoying to people, he is so angry that people do not pay for his life.

Liu Xinhua said: "His abacus is not limited to this. Once the price of this Kuikou bowl is fixed, it will directly affect the prices of other works of my younger brother in the future."

The starting price is lowered, and the price will not go up after that.

Zou Hengxin gritted his teeth: "We will never let him succeed!"

But having said that, Zou Hengxin really couldn't think of a way out.He also knew that as long as he dared to stand up and support Xu Jiuzhao, he would hit Ma Xiushan's arms.He would never say that Zou Hengxin is "respecting the virtuous but not avoiding relatives", and he will definitely label him as a man of malpractice for personal gain.

Ma Xiushan accused Sang Huai all day long of wanting to pull Zou Hengxin off his horse, but this time he seized the handle and was still jumping up and down.

Even Liu Xinhua is not easy to intervene for the same reason.

Jiang Weiguo listened to them for a long time after they came back, and after he understood what was going on, he said: "If it's not convenient for Brother Zou to talk, you might as well find someone who is as important as him to come forward."

Liu Xinhua shook his head and said: "Among the twelve judges, the teacher's status is already the highest. There are many people who agree to give the gold medal to juniors, but some of these people's prestige is not as good as Ma Xiushan's, and they don't speak much. It works."

Xu Jiuzhao sat on one side with his eyes downcast, various thoughts swirled in his mind, even the idea of ​​pouring dirty water on Ma Xiushan came to his mind.However, due to the urgent time limit, this time-consuming plan had to be abandoned.

Xu Jiuzhao is not a character who is passive and doesn't fight back when he is beaten, but because he doesn't know much about some modern situations, he dare not let go and fight back.

"If anonymous voting is held, how many people will support the teacher?" Xu Jiuzhao raised his face and asked.

"It's not optimistic." Zou Hengxin shook his head and sighed, "To be honest, most of these judges have a lot of contact with Ma Xiushan. After one night, if Ma Xiushan looks for someone in private, the voting decision may be one-sided."

Xu Jiuzhao thought for a while and said, "What if we try to replace this judge, or expand the number of judges?"

Liu Xinhua raised his eyebrows and said, "I don't think this is possible. The number of judges cannot be changed now, and the process cannot be changed."

Xu Jiuzhao shook his head and said, "Since the judges can't make a decision due to disputes, it's better to give the right to make this decision to those who visit the exhibition."

Zou Hengxin looked at him with interest: "What do you think?"

Xu Jiuzhao said cautiously: "When I entered the exhibition hall today, I also saw other viewers. They had receipts in their hands. It is better to set up signs at the entrance and wooden boxes in front of the two booths. They think the work is good. , just throw in the bills in front of that work.”

Zou Hengxin's eyes lit up, and he said, "Be careful with this!"