Chapter 376 The Metropolitan Museum’s first collaboration
The night falls and the lanterns begin to light up.
After sending Jiang He to the plane, Jiang Shan returned to the guest house and sat on the stone steps at the door with Yu Sigui.
Not far away, five rabbit lanterns connected in a series were being dragged across the yard by Xiaoyu and Xiaobai.
"country."
"Um?"
"if……"
Yu Sigui, who was wearing a light pink woolen cardigan, put her arms around her knees: "If I want to go to New York with you, will you take me with you?"
On the eaves of the guest house, there is a light bulb with a high wattage.
At this moment, a piece of warm yellow sprinkled fell on the steps.
"You want to go too?" Jiang Shan Youyou exhaled a thin stream of smoke: "You've never been to New York?"
"No," Yu Sigui shook his head: "Let alone New York, I have never even been to the United States."
"Then let's go together,"
Jiang Shan simply agreed to Yu Sigui's request: "It's just right, let's just think of it as a team building for our spring style."
"I always hear you mention the word team building," Yu Sigui put his head on his knees: "What does this word mean?"
"To put it bluntly, it means everyone goes out to play together," Jiang Shan: "You can also think of it as going out together to gain experience, or to complete one thing together."
"good,"
Yu Sigui, who found it more and more interesting the more he listened, cheered happily: "Then this trip to New York will be our first team building in Chunfengdu!"
After saying that, he turned to look at Jiang Shan and smiled sweetly.
A beautiful smiling face suddenly bloomed in front of his eyes, making Jiang Shan's eyes rippling.
The next second, a waitress wearing a perm ran out of the guest house: "305, 306?"
Jiang Shan and Yu Sigui both turned back in response.
"Are you two residents of 305,306?"
"Yes," Jiang Shan patted his butt and stood up: "Is something wrong, comrade?"
"All the calls for you have been made to the service desk. Come and answer them quickly."
…
When they came out again after answering the phone, Jiang Shan and Yu Sigui quickly took the children and walked to the room.
"Work hard tonight,"
Jiang Shan walked around and said, "Don't wait for me, go to sleep first."
"Of course I went to bed by myself first," Yu Sigui, who was holding Jiang Xiaoyu's hand, rolled his eyes at her third uncle: "You said it as if I had waited for you someday."
After saying that, he asked worriedly: "Why did the TV station come to you so late? Isn't it really about the commercials?"
"No," Jiang Shan had already inquired, "but since the meeting was hosted by Zhou Tai himself, it must not be a trivial matter."
"Then be careful yourself."
"Do not worry,"
Jiang Shan knelt down and hugged Xiaoyu and Xiaobai: "Uncle San will be back in a moment. You guys should listen carefully to Aunt Sisi here, got it?"
"Okay~"
"knew."
…
In a conference room of CCTV, Comrade Zhang Lu, who was sitting with Wang Fulin, waved as soon as he saw Jiangshan: "Jiangshan."
"What happened?" Jiang Shan sat down next to them.
"The Ministry of Culture will give us an additional task for this trip."
"Add a mission?" Jiang Shan asked curiously: "What mission?"
"I don't know exactly what it is," Wang Fulin said quite excitedly: "Anyway, our trip to New York must be of great significance."
As soon as they mentioned going abroad, the three people in the room immediately started talking excitedly.
They were talking and laughing, but there was no trace of tension in the atmosphere.
"What are you so happy about?"
At this time, station director Zhou Yeming walked in with two gay men in their forties: "The New York Advertising Festival hasn't given you awards yet, has it?"
Wang Fulin, Jiang Shan, and Zhang Lu immediately restrained their excitement about the upcoming trip.
Strangely enough, facing the upcoming New York Advertising Festival, the three directors of "Wonderful Night in the Forbidden City" were not nervous, but looked forward to it.
The reason is simply that Jiangshan's various magical operations in advertising gave them considerable psychological support.
"Let me introduce you, these two are Director Jia and Section Chief Yuan from the Ministry of Culture,"
Zhou Yeming introduced to the people in the room:
"Next, a new task will be given to you.
The task itself is not very difficult, but the significance is very important..."
Jiang Shan, who was silent, already roughly understood something after listening to Zhou Tai's introduction.
Regardless of the specific content of the new task, it is something that both China and the United States attach great importance to.
"Hello, comrades,"
Next, Director Jia from the Ministry of Culture introduced: "Now, let me introduce to you the specific task requirements..."
Just as Director Jia was speaking, Section Chief Yuan had already lit up the slides in the conference room.
"It seems that we are well prepared." Jiang Shan whispered in Wang Fulin's ear.
Wang Fulin immediately leaned his head over and said, "I heard that the Ministry of Culture originally wanted to send a separate filming team to New York. I guess it was because of financial issues that they just let us do it."
"If this is the case," Jiang Shanzi thought, "then we will need more subsidies."
"You dare to mention it?" Wang Fulin said in a low voice: "You should take a look at Zhoutai first."
Jiang Shan raised his eyes in response and saw Zhou Yeming staring here with a frown.
The next second, all noise immediately disappeared completely.
"In 1944, when the land of China was still being ravaged by the Japanese invaders, MGM in the United States shot an anti-war film "Seed of the Dragon" that reflected the true history of our country,"
Director Jia pointed at the curtain and said:
"In order to restore the appearance of our country's rural areas in the 1930s, MGM invested millions of dollars and spent two years building a miniature Chinese village in California..."
Wang Fulin was shocked as he looked at the pictures on the screen that were constantly switching, showing Jiangshan learning about this for the first time.
Rice fields, kerosene lamps, dry pipes, old buffalo... and Oscar-winning actress Katharine Hepburn.
"Not only that, in order to be closer to the Chinese in appearance, all the actors in "Dragon Seed" dyed their hair black.
The most commendable thing is that this movie not only truly reflects the damage caused by the Japanese invaders to our country, but also
The film also arranged many peaceful scenes of China's beautiful mountains and rivers and its people before the war broke out.
The strong contrast between before and after highlights the hatefulness of the Japanese invaders.
However, there is another aspect that deserves our attention, although many scenes in this film are all presented in black and white.
But it still allowed the American people at that time to see the beautiful scenery of the water town with oriental characteristics for the first time."
After hearing this, look at the subtitles of the "March of the Volunteers" shown in the picture.
Jiang Shan really didn't expect that the first film depicting my country's anti-Japanese war would be produced by Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer.
“In 1976, the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York accepted a donation of a set of Chinese Ming Dynasty furniture,” Director Jia continued:
"In order to give this set of furniture a matching showroom, and also to let the American public better understand the charm of Chinese gardens.
China and the United States signed a set of cooperation agreements two years ago.
In this agreement, the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York commissioned garden craftsmen from Suzhou City in my country to
A garden in a garden in Suzhou, the Dian Chunyi (Yi) in the Master of the Nets Garden, has been restored one-to-one as a model of a Chinese garden in the museum.
At present, this set of completed garden buildings has been shipped to New York in batches.
After the installation phase is completed, two identical sets of 'Mingxuan' gardens located at the Metropolitan Museum and Suzhou City will be opened to the public at the same time..."
"Because the garden exhibition hall of 'Mingxuan' is the first cultural cooperation after the establishment of diplomatic relations between China and the United States,"
At this time, station director Zhou Yeming spoke:
"Therefore, the Ministry of Culture decided to take advantage of the opportunity of the 'Advertising Festival Crew' to go abroad to participate in exhibitions to film some of the installation progress of 'Mingxuan' and the actual scenes in the exhibition hall."
"If possible," Director Jia from the Ministry of Culture added: "We can take pictures of some more Chinese cultural relics in the museum..."
Upon hearing this request, Jiang Shan and Wang Fulin looked at each other for a moment.
Jiang Shan asked directly: "Do you have any specific subjects?"
"Yes," Director Jia nodded: "We will give you a list when the time comes."
Wang Fulin: "Has the official opening time of Mingxuan Exhibition Hall been determined?"
"The tentative opening date is April," Director Jia: "That is the month you are about to set off."
Don't tell me, it's really a coincidence.
The Metropolitan Museum of Art, located on Manhattan Avenue in New York, has two quite special exhibition halls of ancient buildings.
One is an ancient Egyptian temple that was moved from its original location, and the other is a one-to-one restored Suzhou garden.
What surprised Jiangshan was that he could actually witness the inauguration ceremony of the "Mingxuan" garden with his own eyes.
This unexpected gain gave him some inspiration for the design of courtyard buildings.
…
After returning to the guest house, Jiang Shan, who became more and more excited as he thought about it, went upstairs and knocked on Yu Sigui's door.
"Why are you knocking in the middle of the night?" Yu Sigui, wearing a coat with her hair loose on one shoulder, said, "Don't wake up the child."
"It's not even ten o'clock yet, but it's already midnight?"
Jiang Shan waved to her: "Come here, I have something to tell you."
So, when two people sneaked into Jiang Shan's room.
Jiang Shan immediately announced a new news to her: "Sisi, our trip to New York has a new mission."
"What?" Yu Sigui saw Jiang Shan's excited expression and asked quickly: "Have you received advertising business again?"
"It's not an advertisement," Jiang Shan said with a smile: "Have you ever heard of the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York?"
“I’ve heard of it, but I’ve never been there.”
"Not only can we go in this time," Jiang Shan said, "Maybe we can also shoot the opening ceremony of a Chinese-style exhibition hall inside."
"That's it? What's so exciting about this?"
“Do you know who the designer of this Chinese-style showroom is?”
"What, this person is famous?"
"He is Professor Chen Congzhou from Pujiang Tongji University."
When Yu Sigui heard this, he withdrew his expectant eyes: "I haven't heard of it."
"Don't worry about who he is." Facing the top spot in our country's courtyard architecture, Jiang Shan has already begun to have a sweet dream:
"If I can invite his craftsmen to decorate my newly purchased courtyard house... that would be the most perfect supporting project!"
