Chapter 177: Apprenticeship Ceremony
February 17, 1996, the twenty-sixth day of the winter month of the lunar calendar of Country C.
Appropriate: worship, boat, prayer, heir, travel. The Vermilion Bird must be used, and the phoenix charm is used, and everything is suitable.
Today is the auspicious day that Guan Hao and they have chosen, which is not only the day of the children's apprenticeship ceremony, but also the day when the "Bohan Sai" gets off the slipway and goes to sea for sea trials.
The industrious people of Country C get up early to get busy, and according to tradition, the apprenticeship and the ceremony of going to sea need to be carried out before the sun comes out.
In the traditional concept, the apprenticeship ceremony has strict requirements and processes, and the basic process is divided into: choosing an auspicious day, preparing gifts for the master and apprentice, inviting three or five friends to witness the on-site ceremony, and the disciple bowing and bowing.
In order to make this apprenticeship ceremony both grand and meaningful, Guan Hao told Zhao Shouxun to deliberately find the shipyard in City B to make a batch of red copper tags symbolizing identity, each tag carved with a family badge of exquisite rice circumference: a symbol of loyalty to the God of Wealth, and each side of the tag is numbered, this design is like the nameplate issued to each soldier by the army of country A (jokingly called "dog tag" in the movie).
This is the listing designed by Guan Hao, which is more exquisite and also very characteristic of country C, and everyone is very recognizable when hanging on their chests.
This object, which was originally only temporarily remembered for the apprenticeship ceremony, became a symbol of Guan Hao's core membership and status of the God of Wealth in the future, and this inconspicuous and even ordinary small ornament was called a symbol of discourage and admiration of all competitors in the fields of underwater archaeology, capital operation, and art trading ten years later.
The men and women on the whole ship were excited to receive their own symbolic status tags, of course, everyone will look at each other's numbers, the number is just a string of numbers, there is no order and high and low, but the traditional C people are still more concerned about the order of the number and whether it is auspicious, so in order to avoid the problem of such selection, Guan Hao proposed that every group of five people go to a big box to touch by themselves, and what number is what they touch.
Of course, Zhao Shouxun deliberately left the Tianzi No. 1 brand, and this brand is none other than Guan Hao.
After everyone happily blindly touched their own license plates, they were all very proud to hang on their chests, and there were still many good people who would look at the number plates of their companions, and everyone had their own identity plates, and Zhao Shouxun arranged for civilian personnel to correspond to the number plates and individuals one by one and make a book.
"Now we are all people with identity, we are a team, teamwork is what each of us must maintain at all times, and the number plate is our identity and our glory, is our second life, regardless of men and women, after the number plate and our life are integrated, people are in the number plate, understand?" At four o'clock in the morning, Guan Hao gathered the excited friends of the underwater archaeology team of the Ancient Shipwreck Foundation of Country C together and said the above exciting lecture.
He profoundly realized that a team with combat effectiveness must be a group of people with common beliefs and values.
After the lecture, everyone gathered their hippie smiles, with a serious face, all of them stood upright in front of the square in front of the ancient shipyard in City B, although the temperature in the morning of Ozhou in February was below zero at four o'clock in the morning, but this group of young people were all in good spirits, everyone wore uniform work clothes on the ship, and hung the identity number plate they had just received on their chests, waiting for the next apprenticeship ceremony in a uniform manner.
According to tradition, apprenticeship requires the master and apprentice to give gifts to each other. Most of them are high school students or college students, all of whom are children of ordinary families, and have no financial ability. I've dedicated my life to what I'm passionate about.
Such a group of conscientious old people are unique in the field of work they are familiar with, but their personal lives are really a mess, and enjoying the joy of family is their core appeal.
That's why this group of seniors really enjoys working and living with energetic children.
Guan Hao also took a fancy to the needs of the old people, so he thought of engaging in this "apprenticeship ceremony" to let the old people have a dependence, C people pay attention to the concept of being a teacher for one day and a father for life, once such a teacher-student relationship is formed, there is an emotional bond. With such an emotional relationship, the inheritance of skills between master and apprentice is also a matter of course.
Guan Hao is trying his best to build his underwater archaeology team into a soldier in a hundred battles.
Zhao Shouxun's apprenticeship gifts to his friends are: two bottles of jade ice roast produced by the rice industry of country C, two boxes of Manning coffee produced by the manor of the thousand island country, and two Yuxi cigarettes produced in Cainan Province of country C. The three gifts were wrapped in a very Western colored paper and tied with ribbons, and all the gifts were neatly arranged on a large square table covered with red cloth.
According to the different types of work on the "Bohan Sai", the friends choose their own masters according to their studies and preferences. In principle, one person chooses a master.
In this way, according to the previous arrangement, some masters will have several apprentices.
The old people live on the ship all year round and have long developed the habit of getting up early. Today is a special day. The old man also came to the auditorium provided by the shipyard early with anticipation, and participated in an ancient oriental ritual that he had never participated in.
The old man who has no family, in fact, in addition to longing for the warmth of the family, is also afraid that his skills will not find a suitable successor and there will be no successor.
Since the accident of the "Bohan Sai", these old people who have been ostracized by the Freemasons have felt that their underwater archaeology has come to an end, and they have become disheartened.
Now when the captain reconvened them and returned to their familiar and rebranded "Bohan Sai", the old people were crying, this ship has long gone beyond the place where they worked, the ship has long been integrated with their lives, and now seeing that the new "Bohan Sai" is about to go to sea, the old people are crying, and they all say that the people of country D are cold, but when people see a group of old people with gray beards and gray hair in country D collectively crying bitterly, they can't help but move all the friends present.
"This is a group of respectable old people who have dedicated their lives to the cause of underwater archaeology, and we must treat them well." Guan Hao said to his friends with tears in his eyes.
Guan Hao's master is Captain Waterfa, as the owner and supreme leader of the "Bohan Race": Captain, Captain Waterfa cleaned himself up today, refreshing and refreshed, and his mental state is very good.
Guan Hao was the first, and his disciples bowed to the old captain, kowtowed three times, and Guan Hao respectfully handed over his apprenticeship.
"Master, I'm Guan Hao! From now on, I will be your disciple and your family. ”
"Your deeds Zhao told me, very good, I will accept you as my disciple, I hope you will study modestly in the future and become a qualified underwater archaeologist and team leader."
"Obey the teacher's orders!"
The old captain accepted the gift with satisfaction, and gave Guan Hao a gift in return, an old notebook.
"Guan, all the underwater archaeology I have learned all my life is here, I will give it to you, I hope you will keep it well."
"Thank you, master!"
Guan Hao's result notebook, there is a bow in return.
This was followed by a grand collective apprenticeship ceremony, in which a total of 59 youngsters dressed in the same uniform and with good skin and black eyes performed traditional oriental etiquette to their foreign masters in turn.
The so-called: as a teacher, we must bear the responsibility of the apprentice to "understand the reason first, and then refine the skills".
The whole apprenticeship ceremony was carried out in an extremely serious atmosphere in an orderly manner, until the end, when the sun had not yet risen, Zhao Shouxun arranged a sumptuous special breakfast combining Chinese and Western after the apprenticeship ceremony.
Maybe everyone was hungry or maybe everyone was too excited, and the breakfast prepared was swept away by everyone.
In this way, a group of old people from country D, who are not valued in the Western underwater archaeology community, led a group of Oriental teenagers and girls who had just stepped into the underwater archaeology world to start a legendary archaeological journey using an internationally renowned old underwater archaeology mother ship.
No one would have imagined that such a strange combination of East and West, the old and the new, would dominate the international archaeological research in the next nearly 100 years, creating a classic legend that no organization in the world can surpass.
And the founder of this legendary organization, Guan Hao, who was called "Guan Shen" by the archaeological community in later generations, was breaking coffee for his new master in the small reception room of the shipyard in City B.
After so long of preparation, the "Bohan Sai" was finally about to step off the slipway and head out into the free sea, and in the small reception room, everyone waited with trepidation and caution for the captain to speak.
Captain Waterfa picked up the Manning coffee that Guan Hao had brought over respectfully, carefully blew the Manning coffee with a thick foam with his mouth with a mustache, and then took a small sip of coffee with his mouth.
"Off, your coffee is the best I've ever had."
"Thank you, master, this is our own production, and in the future, the master's coffee will be exclusively supplied by our family's plantation, and it will be enough!"
"Good! Now let's start the meeting! ”
"Okay, master!"
Guan Hao instructed his friends to also serve coffee to his master, and the launching ceremony of the "Bohan Sai" was about to begin, and the management of the ship had a meeting before that.