Chapter 53: The Soul of Gossip

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New Year's Eve, or New Year's activities, ended faster than anyone expected.

The fatigue of the late night and the invasion of cold wind caused many onlookers at the scene to scatter the moment they came to their senses.

The event has ended, and no northerner would choose to freeze in the cold wind late at night when they have nothing to do.

But the Yong'an Museum did not really stop doing anything after the event ended.

On that day, every visitor who came to the event received an event brochure from the Yong'an Museum at the entrance/exit of the "Lantern Pedestrian Street" when leaving.

Wing On Museum...New Year's dessert party?

Is it the dessert shop that Yong'an Museum previously launched?

"From the first to the fifth day of the first lunar month, every day from 9am to 2pm, it will be held in the parking lot of Yongan Museum."

So the construction of this lantern pedestrian street is not only for today's event, but also for the Chinese dessert exhibition in the next few days?

At that moment, many viewers who were completely attracted by the Yong'an Museum's "activity show" today were mentally prepared to come tomorrow, not after getting up today. However, before they could make an appointment with other family members or friends in the group.

Their attention was attracted by the hot searches on Weibo.

#Yongan Museum's New Year's Eve show, real-time online audience exceeded 100 million. #

#CCTV broadcasts the Yongan Museum live broadcast room. #

#Yongan Museum, a private museum that makes CCTV work overtime. #

Audience: "Ah?"

"I just didn't check my phone for 20 minutes, why do I suddenly feel like I'm isolated from the world because there's no internet in the village?"

What the hell is the real-time online user number exceeding 100 million? Is the data of the small broken website inflated?

Well, they admit that the quality of the Yongan Museum's show is definitely worthy of the hundreds of millions of views. But what about CCTV broadcasting the Yongan Museum live broadcast room? CCTV broadcasting D station?

And today... Yesterday was New Year's Eve. Logically speaking, shouldn't CCTV broadcast the Spring Festival Gala as in previous years? What's going on with the rebroadcast and overtime?

Although the Yong'an Museum's big show is indeed scheduled after the New Year's bell rings, shouldn't CCTV in previous years start playing classic color CDs shortly after the bell rings?

How can a TV station say overtime?

At that moment, many viewers who were present at the event were curious. However, what they didn't know was that CCTV had already known about the Yong'an Museum's New Year activities.

CCTV even considered making this segment a part of the Spring Festival Gala at the beginning, that is, to be shown as a substitute in case Teacher Li is unable to perform "Unforgettable Tonight" on stage this year.

Then it just so happens that the live performance of the Jingyun Bell can replace the recordings from previous years.

Unfortunately, by the time the Yong'an Museum submitted the activity for expedited approval, CCTV's program schedule for the cross-case program had already been officially finalized.

After all, the Spring Festival Gala is a relatively more formal evening party platform, so it is unavoidable that some unexpected mistakes will occur on the stage.

They really had no way of ending the Spring Festival Gala with a project that they didn't know how much they could complete at the time.

In addition, with the Winter Olympics set to begin right after the Spring Festival, it will be impossible for the Yong'an Museum to update all of its replicas and "animation models" taken from the British Museum to something more in line with the "standards" in a short period of time.

They knew that it would be difficult for the Yong'an Museum's event arrangements to fully comply with the Spring Festival Gala's review process in a short period of time, but CCTV directors also had their own aesthetic tastes.

He knew very well what kind of shocking experience would be brought in this New Year if the Yong'an Museum's program could be established.

So they finally adopted this "form" of promoting the New Year scenes to the public to broadcast the activities of the Yong'an Museum.

This is why the Yong'an Museum's New Year's show was finally presented in this form. However, these things are obviously impossible for the audience to understand.

At this moment, the public's discussion about Jia Wenyan is still focused on her appearance and piano skills. Then there are the various "god-level special effects" displayed by Yong'an Museum at the New Year event.

【Director Jia beats up ancient idols. 】

【Can all costume dramas learn what professional scenery design is? 】

[One more thing, I haven't even done green screen retouching for live performances. Isn't that too much? ]

[Dear, comparing Director Jia with the current ancient idols is a bit like using a sledgehammer to crack a nut. ]

[That's right. Don't you think about how good the craftsmanship of Director Jia is? If the props team had that kind of skills, would they still work on the set? ]

[The former prop master pointed it out, and putting aside the technical issues, with the little production budget left after the crew hired traffic, the props team couldn't make it even if they had the technical skills. ]

[I agree. Don't you understand the principle that a good cook cannot cook without rice? No matter how much investment the crew has made, after deducting the actors' salaries and publicity expenses, there is basically nothing left. ]

[And I heard that the director of the Spring Festival Gala said that they originally thought of using the Yong'an Museum's big show as the finale of this year's Spring Festival Gala's magic show, but at that time Director Jia's replica was not yet completed, so it was changed to be broadcast after the Spring Festival Gala. ]

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During the Chinese New Year, netizens who had nothing to do chatted online late at night. Soon, after people had played the video of the Yong'an Museum's New Year activities over and over again for a while, when people returned to surf the Internet early the next morning, various discussions about the British Museum had already been sparked on the Internet.

[The artifacts used in the Yongan Museum activities are all from Donghuang that were lost in the British Museum, right? 】

[Except for the Jingyun Bell, the Three Kings Pot and the Changxin Palace Lantern, all of them are cultural relics that ended up in the British Museum during the war years.]

[Really? Yesterday I thought the Yong'an Museum was playing some kind of renewal ceremony to restore the cultural relics to their former glory, but now the more I look at it, the more it looks like "summoning the spirits." ]

[One more thing, I also initially thought that it was just a special effect extension of the theme of the evolution of cultural relics over time.]

[The announcement of the Jingyun Bell, the Magpie Bridge and Flower Road led by the Three Kings Pot, plus the guidance of the Changxin Palace Lantern... This theme is really amazing. ]

[That’s right, because the Yong’an Museum had previously announced that it would open the Shang and Zhou Dynasty exhibition hall after the new year, I initially thought that the theme of the event was time travel during the Shang and Zhou Dynasties, but then I thought about it carefully and it was more like space than time.]

[Yes, look at the clothes that Director Jia is wearing. If Director Jia's theme is really the Shang and Zhou dynasties, then he should be wearing clothes from that era. I guess he didn't say it explicitly because the Winter Olympics are about to be held.]

[Add one, but the above also has a problem. Although those cultural relics originally belonged to Donghuang, the Winter Olympics are coming soon. Wouldn’t it be a bad idea to do this now? ]

[CCTV has broadcasted it, so why are you afraid? Besides, the British Empire themselves admitted that they stole it from us. The British Empire is not a cultural thief. To them, it is their "trophy".]

[I clicked on it. By the way, I just saw something on the forum next door. It said that the owner of the Yong'an Museum, Ms. Xu, the wife of Director Zhen of the Xian'an Museum, was engaged in the recovery of lost cultural relics when she was young.]

[Yes, I saw it too. I heard that when Grandma Xu was young, she traveled all over the world looking for lost cultural relics. The most famous ones are the twelve animal heads, half of which were bought by Grandma Xu from abroad.]

[There are also several of the most popular gold and jade jewelry brands in China. I heard that Grandma Xu has a stake in them. ]

[Yes, when the Yongan Museum first became popular, someone reported it, saying that such a large expenditure by a museum official might involve corruption and bribery, but the Industrial and Commercial Bureau and the Tax Bureau directly responded.]

[This Ms. Xu is really a pure rich woman. I heard that when Director Zhen was promoted from the museum director, someone reported it, but the investigation result at that time said that it was not necessary. ]

[Yes, when "The Stubborn Stone" first became popular last month, our unit also talked about why "The Stubborn Stone" was so successful. At that time, someone in our office mentioned that Dean Zhen's family did not expect men to make money, so they were able to let a small company produce such high-quality production without knowing the market returns.]

[Same as above, it is true that Dean Zhen is a man of real talent and learning, but as a local who grew up listening to elders gossiping, I must say that compared to his appearance back then, Dean Zhen’s talent and learning are really not worth mentioning.]

[Plus one, I graduated from Xian'an University. Our teacher showed us a photo of Dean Zhen back then. He was really much better than those young handsome guys nowadays.]

[Yes, yes, yes. I am from Xian'an University. I heard that when Dean Zhen was transferred from Yanjing to Xian'an to teach at our school, many girls in the school wanted to pursue him. As a result, Ms. Xu drove her big Red Flag and waited for him at the gate of Xian'an University every day.]

[Yes, yes. Although I am not from the history department, our teacher has mentioned to us girls that Ms. Xu did not care about what girls should think at that time. She just wanted to pursue someone. When other girls were foolishly embroidering handkerchiefs and knitting scarves, Ms. Xu directly bought a top-notch painting that was lost abroad.]

[Those in the English department have heard of it too. I remember it was called "Listening to the Spring in a Quiet Stream". At the time, the picture made Dean Zhen stunned.]

[Some people even asked why Ms. Xu didn’t act like a girl, and said that scholars were not popular in that era. Ms. Xu responded directly, saying that she had money and could make money, so she just wanted to find a handsome and pleasing man.]

[Really? Just imagine, in an era when our grandparents’ generation still believed in the parents’ orders and the matchmaker’s words, there was such confidence that they could make their own decisions without relying on men. I was really shocked when I heard about this.]

[Yes, when I heard this gossip from our teacher, I also suspected that it was made up by the teacher to fool us, but this matter is really popular in our school. When we started freshman year, our teachers used this matter to educate us female freshmen, saying that as long as we work hard to develop our careers, we can find anyone we want in the future.]

【Professor X, the antique tycoon's little wife, suddenly knocks hard. 】