August 18, 2020, the 29th day of the seventh lunar month, is a good day for traveling, opening a business, and bathing. It is not a good day for breaking ground, shaving your head, or visiting friends.

Yang Jing inherited almost all the knowledge of Taoism, so he could naturally calculate a good day for the opening of the Grand Canal Museum.

At the end of the Chen hour in the morning of that day, which was almost nine o'clock in the morning, to be more specific, at eight thirty-eight, accompanied by the cheerful folk music played by the artists of the Tianqu City Song and Dance Troupe, a male and female host from Tianqu TV station delivered their opening remarks.

The host's opening remarks were very short, lasting only one minute at most, and then Secretary Yang Zhengyu, Dean Shan and others gave speeches respectively.

The speeches of the three leaders were also very brief, and each leader's speech was no more than three minutes. Then when the leaders finished their speeches, the thirty-six salutes outside the Grand Canal Museum roared, and Yang Jing personally took a pole and took down the big red silk covering the plaque on the door of the Grand Canal Museum.

The six bold and elegant black characters "Grand Canal Museum" looked particularly imposing against the golden background. The crowd applauded continuously.

Afterwards, President Shan of the Palace Museum, Director Wang of the National Museum, Shao, a senior official in charge of cultural affairs in Shandong Province, Secretary Yang, a senior official in Tianqu City, Mr. Yang Xinmin, a famous Chinese cultural relic master, and Yang Jing, the owner of the Grand Canal Museum, all stood on the platform in front of the gate of the Grand Canal Museum, holding golden gilded scissors in their hands, and cut the ribbon for the opening of the Grand Canal Museum.

Below the stage, members of the Tianqu City Song and Dance Troupe simultaneously performed lively dragon and lion dances, making the atmosphere even more lively. On both sides of the stage, reporters from many news media and websites across the country also used their cameras to record this moment.

Yang Jing had not expected that the opening of the Grand Canal Museum would attract so many big names to come and cut the ribbon in person. Dean Shan and Director Wang were both big names at the vice-ministerial level, not to mention Senior Official Shao, who was a high-ranking official with real power.

Originally, Yang Jing had only invited Secretary Yang, Mayor Chen, and Mr. Yang to cut the ribbon with him today, but the three vice-ministerial level figures came to Tianqu in person the night before. Yang Jing was really unfamiliar with both Dean Shan and Director Wang.

But it was obvious that the three of them were able to be present at the scene and cut the ribbon in person, which must have been instructed by the top leaders, and this also made Yang Jing quite moved.

Throughout China, is there any private museum that can have three vice-ministerial level figures come to cut the ribbon when it opens?

The presence of these three bigwigs in person shows how much the top leaders value Yang Jing. However, due to the presence of these three bigwigs, Mayor Chen, who Yang Jing originally wanted to invite to cut the ribbon, could not participate in the ribbon-cutting ceremony. Only Secretary Yang could participate in the ribbon-cutting ceremony on behalf of the Tianqu Municipal Party Committee and Municipal Government.

However, today almost all the leaders of the Tianqu Municipal Party Committee and Municipal Government are present at the scene, even the leaders of the Hexi Commercial Development Zone are here.

There was no other way. After all, the Grand Canal Museum was featured in such heavyweight media as the National News and the National Daily. Not to mention that three vice-ministerial-level dignitaries were there in person. They couldn't come even if they didn't want to.

These leaders were standing in the audience, and next to them were hundreds of experts from major museums from all over the country who had arrived in advance. As industry insiders, they had already appreciated the collections in the Grand Canal Museum two days before the opening. However, with so many precious and unusual antiques, it was not enough to appreciate them once, so they came today to appreciate them again.

In the Grand Canal Leisure Park Square in front of the Grand Canal Museum, thousands of tourists and local people gathered there. Tianqu City dispatched hundreds of special police to maintain order. The security personnel of the Grand Canal Museum were also in high spirits and prepared to receive guests and maintain order in accordance with their respective duties.

The lively lion and dragon dance performances lasted for five or six minutes. When it was approaching nine o'clock in the morning, the host came on stage again to make closing remarks. Then at exactly nine o'clock, the tightly closed door of the Grand Canal Museum slowly opened, and the Grand Canal Museum officially opened for business.

Today, there were at least 8,000 tourists who came to the Grand Canal Leisure Park Square waiting to visit the Grand Canal Museum. This was the result after Yang Jing posted a lot of notices outside the Grand Canal Museum two days in advance.

It turned out that with the broadcast of "National News" and the reports on the front pages of major heavyweight newspapers and portals, the Grand Canal Museum became a star in just a day or two. Especially after the news that the imperial seal and the Peking Man skull fossil would be exhibited for the first time in the Grand Canal Museum was revealed, tourists from all over the country rushed to Tianqu.

This also led to a surge in the number of tourists received by the small city of Tianqu within these one or two days. More than 100,000 tourists from all over the country gathered in Tianqu within these one or two days, and it is said that more tourists are on their way to Tianqu.

The Grand Canal Museum is not very large and its reception capacity is limited. If a visitor stays in the museum for two hours and the Grand Canal Museum is open for eight hours a day, the museum can receive a maximum of about 4,000 people a day. If there are more, it will affect the visit experience.

Therefore, Yang Jing urgently set up numerous large notices at the entrances of the Grand Canal Museum and the Grand Canal Leisure Park, explaining the reception capacity of the Grand Canal Museum and some other issues, and requesting tourists not to concentrate on visiting the museum in the first few days after its opening, because there would be too many people and the museum would not be able to accommodate them.

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