Zhang Nan knows the address of Zhang Li's current residence, but she won't go for the time being: she can't go home before eight o'clock tonight, and she is recording a program on CCTV. Pen Fun Pavilion wWw. ｂiquge。 ｉｎfo

"Dream of Red Mansions" is so popular, so hot that the leading actors don't touch the ground, and it's a bit unreasonable!

At two o'clock in the afternoon, Zhang Nan, who had changed his clothes, saw that it was still early, so he called the main station, and the person who answered the phone was still the front desk named Weng Qianhui.

After a while, Zhang Nan went downstairs to go through the rental procedures at the front desk and got the key to a Mercedes-Benz.

Renting a car to drive by himself, the hotel gave him two choices: Santana and Mercedes 230e, and Zhang Nan chose the latter without hesitation.

There are also more high-end sedans, but if it is a more high-end Mercedes 500SE, it must have a full-time driver, and guests cannot drive it themselves.

Santana is four forward gears, and Zhang Nan is not very comfortable to drive.

As for Mercedes, it goes without saying that the Mercedes in the eighties was comfortable to drive, although the rent was a lot more expensive than Santana.

This car is good, quite new, and it is very fashionable to drive on the streets of today's capital, and it is an imported luxury car! But Zhang Nan knows that this car is not actually imported at all, but assembled in China.

It's an industry secret that not many people know about!

Many people think that the first mid-to-high-end car assembled and produced in China is the Audi 100 model, but in fact, long before Audi, Mercedes-Benz had a history of assembly and production in FAW.

At the beginning of 1984, according to the task assigned by the State Economic Commission to FAW to assemble Mercedes-Benz 200 and 230E mid-to-high-end cars, the first Huaxia CKD (completely disassembled) assembled Mercedes-Benz sedan rolled off the assembly line at FAW Factory.

In fact, the model was discontinued in Germany in 1983, but it was still a good car.

FAW assembled a total of 828 units of the W123 series, and several models of the Mercedes-Benz W123 series are strictly the earliest imported cars assembled in China.

The assembly of Mercedes-Benz high-end cars is a major event in the history of China's automobile industry, but due to various factors at that time, the "domestic" Mercedes-Benz cars have been kept secret, and Mercedes-Benz, which exported this batch of CKD assembled Mercedes-Benz cars to China, is also silent about this.

Although Mercedes-Benz and FAW were silent about the introduction of this car, in fact, this batch of the earliest domestic Mercedes-Benz still had a great influence until the early 90s!

On the streets of the capital at that time, you could see almost all Mercedes-Benz models from the 40s to the 90s, and the whole Mercedes-Benz Museum. And the most common is the Mercedes 230e.

The mailbox was full, Zhang Nan sat in the driver's seat and studied a map of the capital for ten minutes, compared it with the capital in the nineties in his memory, and then drove out.

There are not many cars on the streets of the capital, but more buses, as well as parallel carriages and mule carts.

Zhang Nan remembered that until 99, the parallel scene of buses and brick mule cars on the second ring road in Beijing was still appearing, which was called an interesting one.

In many places in the south, by the end of the 80s, those animal-powered trucks were basically out of sight, and BR County was planning to cancel the big livestock market in the county, and the basic capacity was replaced by extremely rudimentary, deafening walk-behind tractors.

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Which one has more Chinese antiques?

Don't ask, it must be the capital!

I drove directly to the Liuli Factory, where the Beijing Cultural Relics Store was located.

Don't worry, don't sweep the goods!

Liulichang Street is located outside the Peace Gate, originated in the Qing Dynasty, when most of the people who came to Beijing to participate in the imperial examination lived in this area, so there were more shops selling books and pen, ink, paper and inkstone here, forming a strong cultural atmosphere.

This will be west of Liulichang to the north and south of the XC area, and east to the Yanshou Street of the XC area, with a total length of about 800 meters.

During the Yuan Dynasty, an official kiln was opened here to fire glazed tiles. Since the construction of the inner city in the Ming Dynasty, because of the construction of the palace, the scale of the official kiln has been expanded, and the glaze factory has become one of the five major factories of the imperial court at that time.

However, after the construction of the outer city in the 32nd year of Jiajing in the Ming Dynasty, it became the urban area of the capital, and the glaze factory was not suitable for firing kilns in the city, and moved to the Liuliqu Village in the current MTG district, but the name of "Liulichang" was retained and passed down to this day.

In 1987, the antique business in Liulichang was basically a subordinate department of the Beijing Cultural Relics Store.

Zhang Nan wandered around the place when he arrived, and he didn't have much desire to buy: this would divide the contents of these shops belonging to cultural relics stores in the glaze factory into "internal purchase" and "external purchase".

The part of the internal purchase is sold to various cultural preservation units and research institutions, not to ordinary Chinese people. And "outsourcing" does not refer only to selling to foreigners, but also to selling to foreign countries.

Obviously, what Zhang Nan can buy can only be outside shopping.

Just moved the most essential part of the largest cultural relics store in the entire Far East, and Zhang Nan was not interested in emptying the glaze factory for the time being.

I swayed and bought a new ivory carved hollow rotating dragon and phoenix ornamental ball.

This thing was not found in Shanghai when buying ivory products, with a diameter of 13 centimeters, and the inner and outer layers were staggered and overlapped, exquisitely clear.

The craftsmanship is exquisite!

The surface layer is carved with dragon and phoenix patterns and flower brocade patterns, from the outside to the inside, there are about 40 layers of large and small hollow balls, each layer of balls can rotate freely and are carved with exquisite floral ornaments!

40 floors!

How ingenious this is!

The base of the ornamental ball is carved from ivory, and the middle and bottom are carved with double dragons playing with beads: using the top carving technique, the ball is originally an entity between the ball, and it is easy to carve the outer sphere, but the carving to the inner layer needs to be peeled off layer by layer, and the operation space is limited, which is extremely difficult!

The skill is peculiar, the carving time is extremely long, which reflects the superb traditional Chinese ivory carving skills, and is a rare ivory carving boutique!

And the size is not large, easy to carry, buy it and then say.

Back at the hotel, I tried to contact Zhang Li again, but I was still busy for a while.

At dinner time, I ran to the revolving restaurant on the 29th floor and ate a buffet alone. However, looking at the night view of Chang'an Street, the mood seems to be better.

But at eight o'clock in the evening, after waiting at the door of CCTV for half an hour, Zhang Liren saw it, but his mood became worse!

Originally, I thought that I would go to Xijiang after two days with Zhang Li, but Zhang Li told him very depressed news: Tomorrow afternoon, half of the crew of "Dream of Red Mansions" will go to Xiangjiang to visit -- "Dream of Red Mansions" is also being released there, and it is also popular.