Chapter Ninety-Six: The Ribbon-Cutting Ceremony

Early in the morning of the third day, Chen Tianliao, accompanied by Tian Zhengliang, drove to the Hakka Culture Museum.

This museum, like the Pengcheng Hakka Folk Museum in the previous life, was renovated using a Hakka walled house. Because the Hakka people live in the mountains, and in order to prevent mountain bandits and beasts, they have developed a special dwelling called the walled house.

There are many forms of enclosures, the most famous of which is the large earthen enclosure that was once mistaken for a missile silo by a U.S. satellite. Most of the Tuwei buildings are distributed in the Hakka settlement areas of western Fujian, and the number of Hakka Tuwei buildings in Guangdong and Jiangxi provinces is relatively small. There are two kinds of tuwei buildings: square buildings and round buildings. Most of them are made of rammed clay with glutinous rice, brown sugar and other materials, which is strong and strong. The enclosure is surrounded by buildings, and in the middle is a courtyard for residents to move, because the courtyard is surrounded by tall buildings, shaped like a well, so it is called a patio. Such tulou often had hundreds of houses, enough for a clan of thousands of people to live in. The controversial animated film "Big Fish and Begonia" in later generations showed a round tulou.

The Wai Long House is another important form of the Wai Long House. It is based on the ancestral hall as the core, around the ancestral hall on both sides and behind the ancestral hall to build a row of houses, if the population grows, then build a row of houses on the periphery to cover the original houses, so that layer by layer out, forming a unique form of dwelling. Between the enclosure and the ancestral hall, a row of horizontal houses is often built to enclose the entire enclosure of the enclosure and enhance the defensive nature of the enclosure. In front of the ancestral hall, there is usually a semi-circular pond (moon pond). Hakka houses in the Lingdong area have a large number of such walled houses.

In addition to the above two forms, there are also forms such as quadrangular towers and horse buildings. And so on. The Crane Lake New Residence, where the Hakka Culture Museum is located, is a walled house building that combines the special features of the enclosed houses such as the Wailong House and the Four Corner Towers, which is a residential area and a military fortress with very high defensive properties. The building covers an area of more than 15,000 square meters, and if you add the ancillary parts such as the Moon Pond and Heping (the square used for drying grain), the total area reaches 25,000 square meters. There are 179 units and more than 300 houses, which are surrounded by two enclosures, but the nesting of the inner houses is more complex, like a military fortress. Safety is always the first need of the Hakka people, and the comfort of the house is often sacrificed. Chen Tianliao had seen a lot of Hakka traditional houses in his previous life, not to mention anything else, just for lighting, there were many houses that he felt that he couldn't stay.

When I came to Crane Lake's new home, it was already more than nine o'clock in the morning. By this time, the neighborhood was already full of all kinds of vehicles, and there were crowds of people everywhere in the vicinity, all of whom were well-dressed guests, locals in everyday costumes, and those who were invited to perform in costumes. A small stage has been erected on the huge heping (threshing floor) next to the enclosure, and many chairs are placed under the stage, which are supposed to be used to receive guests. It seems that there are probably thousands of guests today.

Chen Tianliao stepped out of the car, looked at the majestic building from a distance, and suddenly felt nostalgic for the past and the present. Tian Zhengliang walked over and said, "Mr. Chen, it is amazing that you Hakka people were able to build such a building more than two hundred years ago!"

Chen Tianliao smiled slightly: "It's not more than two hundred years. I remember that the construction of this building began in 1779, and the inner perimeter was completed in 1817, and the outer perimeter was built even later. If you count the completion time, it will be more than 100 years. ”

Tian Zhengliang sneered: "That's also amazing!"

Chen Tianliao nodded and said, "This is the building of the Luo clan. It is indeed remarkable that a group of countrymen, far from their hometown, built such a building from scratch with their own hands. Don't you think the current Pengcheng people are the same?"

Tian Zheng nodded and said: "Yes, why else would the TV and newspapers call us the new Hakka? We also left our hometown and came to this small fishing village with nothing, and built it with our own hands, and it only took more than ten years of hard work to build it into a big city comparable to Beijing, Shencheng, and Yangcheng, and one of the four major cities of Beijing, Shanghai, and Suipeng." This is the pride of every Pengcheng person!"

Chen Tianliao smiled. Like the previous life, the current Pengcheng also takes the "new Hakka people" as one of the propaganda of the spirit of Pengcheng. "The new one is always better than the old one," he said. Although the old Hakka people came to open up the land, they built fenced houses to fence themselves off, losing the opportunity for further development. I remember that there is a saying in Southeast Asia: 'The Hakka people open the port, the Cantonese people prosper the port, and the Hanjiang people occupy the port'. That is to say, the Hakka people have opened up places of residence everywhere, including Kuala Lumpur, the capital of Malaysia, which were all opened up by the Hakka people, but it was not the Hakka people who eventually brought these places to the apex and became their masters. The wealthiest ethnic groups in Southeast Asia are the people in the Hokkien and Hanjiang regions who speak the Hokkien dialect, not the Hakka. Unlike you, you have not only opened up the prosperity of Shenzhen, but also continued to use your creativity to build the city and create a new life with an open mind. You never lack the spirit of openness to innovation, which is why I have my most important lab here. Now Huaguo is the most dynamic country in the world, and Pengcheng is the most dynamic city in Huaguo. ”

Tian Zhengliang looked at the boss with blazing eyes and nodded with deep feeling. The little boss is commenting on the character of the city, and why not talk about his own hopes for the laboratory?

Chen Tianliao took Tian Zhengliang to the guest seat. Chen Tianliao handed over his invitation to the reception lady, and the reception lady led them to their seats. Chen Tianliao was placed in the first row, while Tian Zhengliang fell to the sixth row. Chen Tianliao looked left and right, and there were only three people sitting in the first row, and the other two were men with gray hair. They were also a little surprised to see Chen Tianliao, a person who was not more than a weak crown, also sitting in the first row.

Chen Tianliao saw that the two middle-aged men were also paying attention to him, so he smiled slightly, stepped forward, stretched out his hand to them, and said in Hakka: "Hello two seniors! ”

When the two middle-aged men heard this, they both laughed. Although there are still differences in the pronunciation of Hakka dialect in different regions, and it can even reach the point where they cannot talk, they are all local accents. What's more, the difference between the Hakka dialect spoken by Chen Tianliao and their Lingdong Hakka dialect is so small that it can be ignored.

The slightly younger middle-aged man first stretched out his hand and shook Chen Tianliao: "Hello, I am Wen Dehuai, the chairman of Wende Stationery Company, a native of Xiangjiang, and my ancestral home is Jiaying Prefecture. I don't know where the little brother is?"

Chen Tianliao said with a smile: "I am the chairman of Tianliao Culture Company and Tianliao Electronics Company, a native of Xichuan, born and raised in the capital, and my ancestral home is Shaozhou, Lingdong. Nice to meet you guys!"

After listening to Chen Tianliao's self-introduction, the two middle-aged people both shouted "ah": "Tianliao culture and Tianliao electronics?

Tianliao Culture is already a well-known enterprise in the industry, and Tianliao Electronics has gradually become a well-known brand in the industry with the popularity of VCD.

Chen Tianliao smiled and nodded.

"Ah, I can't imagine that you are so young in the afterlife! What a terrible afterlife! Old Wei, you are also an electronic worker, and you should be ashamed in front of this posterity!"

Another middle-aged man sneered: "The back waves of the Yangtze River push the front waves." Hello, Mr. Chen, I am Wei Quan, chairman of Changyun Electronics, a Hakka family from Baodao, and my ancestral home is also Jiaying Prefecture, Lingdong. As he spoke, he also enthusiastically stretched out his hand and shook hands with Chen Tianliao.

Compared with Wen Dehuai, who makes stationery, Chen Tianliao has heard of this Wei Quan. Changyun Electronics is a medium-sized electronic foundry in Baodao, and it is also the first Baodao foundry to come to the mainland, but the development has not been good. This is not to say that the quality of their OEM products is problematic, on the contrary, the quality of their OEM products is very high, but the enterprise's enterprising spirit is not very sufficient, which affects the development of the enterprise. However, since everyone is a Hakka, there is an opportunity for cooperation.

After a while, quite a few invited celebrities arrived. In the first row, in addition to entrepreneurs, there are also many government figures and cultural celebrities. The Hakka people have always been the most important force in the political arena of Lingdong, almost all of them were Hakka people who ruled the GD before the founding of the People's Republic of China, and after the founding of the People's Republic of China, the last marshal of the Hakka people in Jiaying Prefecture also had a great influence in the Lingdong region. The provincial government department also has the most Hakka people and Hanjiang people, and the Hakka people generally overwhelm the Hanjiang people. As for the Cantonese people, who are the most populous in Lingdong Province, they are less in charge of government and do not have an advantage in the provincial government.

As for cultural celebrities, Jiaying Prefecture is known as the "hometown of culture", and there have been many cultural celebrities, such as the poet Huang Zunxian, the painter Lin Fengmian, and the Chinese modernist poet Li Jinfa, the founder of the mountain and the sculptor, are all from Jiaying Prefecture. Under the wind, there are many Hakka literati. As for the sports world, starting from the Asian football king Li Huitang, there was no shortage of football talents in Jiaying Prefecture, so that before the reform and opening up, whenever students in Jiaying Prefecture were encountered in universities, the sports department would ask if they would play football by the way. Chen Tianliao remembered that in Gao Fengwen's national team, there was a grand event in which a county under Jiaying Prefecture, which has many poor areas, had four players representing the national team at the same time. This was later only experienced in the economically developed football city.

Among these celebrities, Chen Tianliao has the most to do with a few celebrities engaged in music, art and media. After Chen Tianliao chatted with them, he learned that Liu Jiawei, the current director of Central TV, was also a Hakka in Jiaying Prefecture, and he was also taken aback, and considered whether to use this relationship to set up a trap in the past. As for business people, there are very few people involved in electronic products, and the only one that intersects with Chen Tianliao's business is Wei Quan. This made Chen Tianliao relatively disappointed.

The ribbon-cutting time came quickly, and most of the officials in Pengcheng City attended the ceremony. The person who presided over the ribbon-cutting was Xu Jinbiao, a senior municipal official and deputy secretary of the provincial party committee. The other people who participated in the scissors at the same time were all Hakka celebrities in the political, business and cultural circles. After the ribbon cutting, everyone was arranged to have a luncheon in the adjacent hotel, and the officials naturally had to communicate with the guests at the luncheon. Chen Tianliao was assigned the seat closest to the chairmanship.

When Xu Jinbiao and other officials and celebrities approached the chairman, their eyes were locked on Chen Tianliao. At an age like Chen Tianliao, he can really be described as the moon among the stars in the group of guests close to the chairman, and it couldn't be more conspicuous. He immediately went straight to Chen Tianliao, smiled at him and said, "Hello, may I ask if you are Mr. Chen Tianliao?"

Chen Tianliao hurriedly said: "Thank you Secretary Xu for remembering me, I am Chen Tianliao." With that, he stretched out his hand.

Xu Jinbiao shook hands with him and said with a smile: "Sure enough, you are a genius boy! You have made such great achievements at such a young age, it is really amazing." Pengcheng is young, energetic, energetic, and encourages pioneering and innovation, which is just right for a talent like you!"

Chen Tianliao sweated in his heart, and said euphemistically: "Thank you, Secretary Xu." I love Pengcheng too, really. I am ready to put all my high-tech industries in Pengcheng to settle down. However, after graduating from high school next year, I will go to the United States to study, and I will not decide until I return from my studies in the United States. ”

Xu Jinbiao smiled: "Okay, I really hope that Mr. Chen can seriously think about it." In terms of development prospects, Pengcheng is not worse than Beijing, and the environment is even better than Beijing in the new technology industry. ”

Chen Tianliao hurriedly said: "Okay, Secretary Xu, I will definitely consider it!"

Xu Jinbiao nodded and walked towards the chairman again. And the eyes of many guests fell on Chen Tianliao. No one would have thought that the first person Secretary Xu was looking for was actually this inconspicuous young man, so many people made up their minds to be close to him after the banquet began.