Chapter 351: Global Festivals
The auction of the Jade Festival was held as scheduled, and the auction invited Fang Huimin, a famous host of CCTV, to explain the scene. The triennial jade festival is called the only global festival, the reason why it is chosen in the jade market, in addition to because the jade market is the world's largest jade transit hub, it is also the capital of the ancient Dali Kingdom in China, the central square of the jade market, is the palace of the Dali Kingdom, but at the time of the change of dynasties, the palace was demolished, leaving only the ground of the palace.
After the founding of the People's Republic of China, it was discovered by our archaeologists that the ground left over from the original demolition of the palace was completely paved by the most famous Dali water jade in the world today, this discovery shocked the world's jade world, the area is large, the number of jade, it is rare, and Dali water jade is the only jade in the world that soft jadeite can be homogeneous.
Of course, this kind of soft jadeite homogeneity is not nephrite and jadeite in the real sense grow together, but this kind of jade because in ancient times, the high-temperature slurry poured from the ground along the cracks to the earth's surface, and became a hard stone after cooling, but these high-temperature melted magma in the process of deposition and cooling, the mineral components with lighter specific gravity crystallized into softer jade first, after the formation of this part of the jade, as clear as water, and the material with a large proportion of the jade formed when crystallized, the hardness is relatively large, and it looks like ice-like crystal.
When these two kinds of jade of different hardness are fused together, the effect is produced, and people mine this jade and find that when this jade nephrite is on top, it is like the ice that melts in March and April, the ice is below, and the meltwater is on top. And when it turns over, it looks like the water surface that has just frozen on an autumn morning, with a thin layer of ice on top and water still flowing below.
After this contradictory jade was unearthed, the literati immediately formed two factions, some who liked the early spring festival in March and April, and advocated that when carving, nephrite was on top and jadeite was on the bottom, so that the meaning of the season of the year was spring. However, not everyone likes the revival of spring, and the harvest of autumn also has many people who love it, who is carved on it, and has been noisy for thousands of years, of course, this quarrel will not be fruitful, but it is because of the contradiction of Dali water jade, so that everyone knows Dali water jade.
And the water jade square, which is all paved with water jade, has gathered the attention of jade people around the world. The huge square is full of jade floor, this discovery is quite spectacular, so, in order to promote the jade culture, the establishment of the jade festival, the venue of the jade festival in the jade city of China, held every three years, unexpectedly, this decision to achieve a global festival.
This year's jade festival also has a new special arrangement, in order to vigorously promote jade culture, in addition to some special types of work, advocate a global holiday of three days to celebrate the jade festival, of course, there will be a small number of countries to oppose and refuse to implement this provision, but most countries responded to the call of UNESCO, and more promote the jade festival to become a global carnival festival.
In order to hold this festival smoothly, the day before the festival, the city implemented the city's traffic control, in addition to the bus, light rail, all vehicles are prohibited from passing, the city parking lot is not allowed to park, most of the city's vehicles are parked in the national vehicle park on the outskirts of the city, so, the suburbs of the city of Yushi, the vast majority of the large parking lots funded by the state.
Even if the traffic control is implemented, the city of Yushi, overcrowded, except for the main road bus line, no stand people, other roads, are people, people are crowded, the whole city is like a big bazaar, snacks from all over the world, juggling all over the street, everyone is full of smiling faces.
As the host city of a global festival, the world's largest airport has been built here, and the airport is full of jade culture promotion and exhibitions.
As the largest jade auction house in the country, the jade auction house carries the auction work of the world's jade collections, and the jade auction volume will reach an astonishing 400 billion yuan in the past three days, and each auction is a book transaction, that is to say, during the auction, not as long as you pay the deposit, you can ask for the price casually, if you do not pay after the auction, only the deposit will be deducted.
The meaning of book trading is that before you auction, you must deposit cash into the account of the auction house through bank transfer, and when you are auctioning, the maximum amount of money you can raise is the amount of money you have in the account, which is a bit similar to stock trading, how much money you deposit, you can only use this money to buy stocks.
As long as there is money on the books, it can also be auctioned off-site through the Internet, so that you can avoid meeting people you don't want to meet on the spot, and you don't have to fake greetings.
The advantage of this is that there will be no random auctions, and it also greatly avoids the seller from raising the price by auctioning his own auction items, because the handling fee charged is quite expensive, which greatly exceeds the deposit of other auction houses, so the three-day jade festival, the auction house's account will have an explosive increase, and the auction amount in previous years is about 400 billion yuan, and the auction house's account has reached about one trillion yuan.
This year, I don't know if it's because of the first global holiday, this time the auction house's account has broken through to three trillion meters of deposits, which is unexpected by the auction house and the municipal government, and the jade festival has brought significant economic growth to the city, tourism and hotel service industries, and the catering industry are developing rapidly.
Due to the drive of the Jade Festival, the theatrical performance at the opening ceremony of the Jade Festival has gathered the world's big names, and it has become the fastest way to become famous in the entertainment industry to appear in the performance of the Jade Festival.
The director team of the opening ceremony of the Jade Festival is composed of a total of 21 of the most famous directors in the global entertainment industry, and the program can only reach the director group through layers of selection, and each selected program must be recognized by more than 11 directors before it is possible to appear at the opening ceremony, so it is unlikely to cheat and get the opportunity to show his face through money or physical bribery.
Therefore, the opening ceremony of the Jade Festival can be said to be the most valuable interpretation, and only real talents can be on this global program. Those who can't come to Jade City, in these three days, are sitting at home watching TV, in addition to the opening ceremony, these three days, will be performed for 72 hours without interruption, not the same, all kinds of theatrical performances gathered together.
The auction on the first day of the jade festival has also attracted the attention of many people around the world, and the world's major TV stations have set up broadcast booths in the auction house, but the heat is obviously not as good as the opening ceremony, but this does not affect the mood of the global jade collectors.
Of course, during the Jade Festival, although the auction will be dominated by jade auctions, it will also participate in various rare treasures, otherwise Xiang Qingxi's ginseng pieces will not be lined up in the auction hall of the Jade Festival.