Chapter 25 Cultural Festival
The next day, I had a simple breakfast at the hotel, put on my backpack, and after withdrawing some cash from the bank, I took a taxi to the convention and exhibition center of Spring City.
Chuncheng is the capital city of Nandian Province and the first city, and is one of the important central cities and tourism and commercial cities in the western region. It is a national first-class port city and a gateway hub open to Southeast Asia and South Asia. Convenient transportation, effective policies and tourism environment make it a well-developed and diversified city.
The convention and exhibition center is very large, whether Fang Yong is in his previous life or now, or it is the first time to come to this kind of place, the magnificent buildings and spacious venues, it is inevitable to take a few more looks.
Above the rostrum, a huge banner of "I wish the second three provinces cultural and art festival a complete success" was hung high. In the center of the rostrum was a row of long tables, with red tablecloths spread flat on the table. Pots of flowers were displayed in front of the rostrum, spitting fragrant fragrance in the glow. In the open space around the venue, countless colorful flags were planted, fluttering in the morning breeze.
At the sign-in area of the venue, Fang Yong took out his ID card to go through the visit procedures. Before coming to the visitor guide, familiarize yourself with the situation of the convention and exhibition center and understand the specific location of each major area.
Originally, the cultural festival set up a total of nine exhibition areas, including: cultural industry, books and publications, theatrical performances, art exhibitions, jewelry and jade, antique collections, raw materials area, exchange and trading area, and other related exhibition areas. During this period, there are also special cultural activities, academic activities, art transactions, auctions and other commercial activities.
During each day, there is also a hall dedicated to treasure appraisals by experts, and a hall for auctions. Take a closer look at the organizer of the auction, it turned out to be the Hanhai Art Auction House that I just met yesterday, He Dakai.
At 9:30 a.m., the second session of the Three Provinces Culture and Art Festival opened in the speeches of officials of the Ministry of Culture and provincial and municipal leaders.
At the entrance of the venue, it was so crowded that it could not even be inserted with a needle. Finally, the surging flow of followers entered the exhibition hall.
The first thing you see is the overall image that the organizers have made for the festival.
According to the guide, Fang Yong first came to the antique collection area, and the exhibits were placed in the glass cabinet. In front of each exhibit, a crowd of visitors gathers around them, making it impossible for latecomers to stick a foot in them.
Fortunately, we have a special ability, open the mind to probe, and learned in the introduction of the exhibits that this is a ceramic brush wash of the Ming Dynasty, with a layer of red mist on it, it seems that this must be a good thing. It's a pity that it's displayed in the cupboard, and it can't be used, and the aura inside can't be absorbed, which is a pity.
I saw several exhibits in succession, all of which were genuine, but they couldn't get started, which also made Fang Yong lack interest.
Thinking about how to absorb the aura, I came to the raw materials exhibition area before I knew it.
Looking at the jadeite rough exhibition area in front of him, which occupied more than half of the raw material area, Fang Yong's interest increased significantly. The jadeite rough stone is a gambling stone, and this Fang Yong knows that these stones with an unattractive appearance can make people rich overnight. A "Crazy Stone" has made many Chinese people understand the gambling stone.
After being reborn, Fang Yong knew that after a few years, the financial crisis caused the stock market to plummet, but diamonds, gold, and jadeite have all risen sharply, especially jadeite, as the resources in Myanmar are getting less and less, the price of jadeite has risen several times compared with before, and the price increase of jadeite has also driven the price of jadeite rough!
Now, if you can store some rough jadeite, you will make a lot of money in a few years! This is much higher than the interest rate on money deposited in the bank.
Although the unique gambling nature of the jadeite rough made Fang Yong very curious, what kind of knife is heaven and hell. However, we have an ability to detect, and when the time comes, what jade will not be able to be captured.
On the booth of the exhibition hall, all the wool materials that can be traded can be directly traded, and now all the plastic sheets of the gambling stone stalls have been uncovered, and the entire exhibition hall has instantly become a world of stones.
At this time, the exhibition hall was extremely lively, and there were several people gathered in front of almost every booth.
Fang Yong squeezed through the crowd and came to the front of a booth. Thinking about the knowledge of jadeite wool identification that I learned in the book, I compared the wool of this stall. The surface quality of this pile of wool is okay, but there are not many pieces of wool that are too good.
After looking at a few pieces, Fang Yong let go of his consciousness detection, and instantly reflected all the images of all the gambling stones on this stall into his mind, fifty or sixty gambling stones, and there were only seven or eight green ones, this proportion is too small! It seems that this gambling stone is also a loss of nine out of ten bets!
However, having green does not mean that it is a gamble, looking at the price marked above, seven or eight green gambling stones can be gambled up to half, and the overall proportion is still not high. And there is no too good water jadeite.
I got out of this booth and came to the booth next to it.
The best gambling stone in this booth is a half-open red sand shell gambling stone, this gambling stone is not big, about the size of a basketball, and the cut surface has exposed dry green jadeite, which belongs to the semi-gambling wool. Detected with consciousness, this gambling stone has a quarter of jadeite, and the price is 500,000, although Fang Yong does not know much about the market price of jadeite wool now, but if this price is won, it is estimated that he will not earn much.
After looking at a few booths one after another, I found a few pieces of jadeite wool with good water species, but the price was too high, and the price of each piece was three or five million. This made Fang Yong, who sighed that he was rich yesterday, now like a poor ghost, he can only look at it with his eyes.
After turning around, Fang Yong thought that he would take a look at the antique exchange and trading area, and by the way, learn about the market of gambling stones!
The antiques exchange and trading area is next to the passage between the two exhibition halls. The passage is very wide, with three rows of simple booths made of tarpaulin, and the middle aisle is crowded with people and the sound of hawkers and conversations.
Fang Yong walked inside, and soon disappeared into the crowd. Turn on the ability detection and walk along the stalls one by one, there are a lot of things in front of you, but there are few real things, and some are worthless. If you don't have an ability, it's not easy to find a treasure in it, and it's quite a high requirement for the buyer's eyesight.
After walking for more than ten minutes, I also saw a few old things, all of which were from the Qing Dynasty or the Republic of China. However, the price is too high, and it feels like there is not much investment value, Fang Yong's current idea is to see if he can pick up the leaks. You know, today is the first day of opening, and merchants should put good things on this day to show their deals.
Although I didn't buy it, I absorbed the aura in the treasure into my sea of consciousness, and watched the aura disappear without a trace when it entered the sea of consciousness, it seems that it is not easy to fill the sea of consciousness with the aura.
At this time, Fang Yong suddenly found that in a stall in front of him, there was an ashtray-shaped pottery that was emitting a red mist. Fang Yong hurriedly walked over, squatting in front of the stall and carefully observing the ashtray-shaped ceramic products.