Chapter 120: The heroine Zhao Que is wearing traditional Daqin clothing...
The heroine Zhao Que is wearing traditional Daqin costumes. Usually, people wear modified clothes that are convenient for daily life and work, but on major festivals or special occasions, many people still choose to wear traditional costumes.
"Traditional costumes? What do they look like?" When Ouyang Yuan saw this part, he couldn't imagine what traditional costumes should look like.
What is traditional clothing and what is improved clothing.
"Like what the opera singers wear?"
"Those are opera costumes. Opera itself matured in the Ming and Qing dynasties. The costumes we see today were finalized after the development of the Ming and Qing dynasties. They are very different from those in the Qin Dynasty."
Li Daohua was talking and writing at the same time, and Ouyang Yuan continued to ask what the clothing of the Qin Dynasty was like.
Although my country has been conducting research on the history of clothing in the 1980s, no formal clothing history books have been published so far.
Non-professionals do not understand the changes in clothing in Chinese history, unlike later times, when a variety of traditional costumes emerged and became increasingly sophisticated.
Some improvements have even been made on this basis, retaining traditional elements while being easy to wear.
Ouyang Yuan's question made Li Daohua realize that she had previously thought that the difficulty in reading this book in the future would be the various detailed descriptions of technological items, but now she saw that the first difficulty was the clothing issue.
Fortunately, she had given speeches everywhere before and knew many university teachers. After many twists and turns, she finally found a teacher who specialized in the history of Chinese clothing.
She consulted the other party and after obtaining their consent, she took some photos of their research results. Then she took the photos and found an art student to reprocess them according to Li Daohua's ideas.
Since he had done it, he had to do it well. Li Daohua decided to go all out and asked art students to draw not only the clothing but also some of the technological products in "Daqin Heavy Industry".
If one art student cannot complete the task, or the style is incompatible, it doesn’t matter, just find a few more.
There isn't much else, but there are a lot of people.
They just found a house to use as a studio and a group of people gathered together. Li Daohua also made a small magnetic blackboard to discuss how each part should be drawn.
Zhang Xi is one of the painters in this group and a junior student at school.
Originally, they should have been taken by their teachers to other places to collect materials and paint, or to museums to view excellent paintings.
She took the initiative to participate in the illustration of Li Daohua's work this time because she is a fan of Li Daohua.
During the discussion, Zhang Xi once again wondered what Li Daohua's brain was made of, because the painting ideas that Li Daohua shared with them were very novel.
The paintings give people a feeling of ancient and modern times, China and the West.
On the way home, Zhang Xi saw a picture book for children, which gave him an idea: to draw Li Daohua's book.
She felt that it would be a pity if Li Daohua's ideas were just drawn into a few illustrations.
You know, with clothing, standing straight is one style, and changing posture is another style.
Otherwise, why would there be so many clothes with poor fit? In order to prevent people from noticing the poor fit, when selecting model pictures, only fancy poses are chosen, in order to use these poses to cover up the fact of the poor fit.
"I could, but I don't have time."
"We can do this!" Several young people hit it off.
At this time, comics were booming in foreign countries, especially in Japan. Many excellent comics were adapted into animations, which were not only popular in Japan, but also successful in our country.
Domestic comics started much later, and foreign comic models are also diverse, including pure painters and original painters. Pure painters have cooperating writers and they are only responsible for drawing.
The original artist is the one who does everything from story to painting.
Zhang Xi and his team just wanted to draw the story of Li Daohua, and "Daqin Heavy Industry" is also very suitable for being drawn into a comic.
“Let’s draw the main settings first.”
With Li Daohua's affirmation, the group of people became even more excited. Drawing an excellent comic is as important as a writer writing an excellent work.
They can also become excellent painters, or even top painters in their own industry.
On the small magnetic blackboard, besides some written settings, there are mostly some half-finished drawings.
Just looking at these paintings, people who are not in the know would think that their studio is some kind of high-tech research and development institute, or a crime scene of some criminals.
At least Ouyang Yuan was frightened when he came for the first time. He stood at the door and almost didn't dare to go in. He confirmed again and again that they were the illustration studio of "Daqin Heavy Industry" before he walked in hesitantly.
But soon, Ouyang Yuan fell into excitement. These paintings really looked like they could deceive people, especially the ones without color.
He doesn't like colored pictures very much. For these pictures, coloring will blur out many details, unless they are 3D ones.
Looking at these pictures, Ouyang Yuan was eager to try. Their logistics company handled everything. Of course, now they had changed from finding work for both parties at the beginning to helping both parties find work.
That is to say, at the beginning, they have to find people and factories with logistics needs on their own, which usually takes a long time.
In the 1980s, unlike later times, if you posted a message on the Internet, someone would see it very quickly.
In this era, everything basically depends on promotion. Even if Ouyang Yuan bought himself a mobile phone for easy contact as soon as it was launched in China, not many people have the same conditions as him.
This period of time was the most painful and longest, but fortunately, their company had been integrated, and every customer who came would leave their contact information.
If you have your own landline, write it down. If you don’t ... down the landline, address, and transit items of a nearby store. You should also record all of these and leave your company’s phone number for the other party.
After they became famous, many factories would contact them, which gave them a lot of room for operation.
In addition to drivers, they also have salesmen, who are mainly responsible for communicating with self-employed individuals. For some self-employed individuals who sell a single product and want to expand their scale, going through their logistics company is the best way.
The source factory has good quality products and low prices, which is much cheaper than buying them from unknown dealers themselves.
The factories also know that their logistics companies can ship the goods, so some factories are too lazy to send their own salesmen out to attract business, especially those that have just undergone national reforms.
We didn't have any salesmen and didn't know how to attract business. With Ouyang Yuan and his team, we saved a lot of trouble. We have to thank them.
Ouyang Yuan has also integrated the courses he has learned from his teachers into continuous social practice. Of course, he knows what makes money and what just increases volume.
In fact, at this time, many industrial products are making money, and a lot of money.
Especially industrial products targeting young people. Young people don’t have any burdens, they are not married or have children, and their parents at home don’t need retirement support yet.
All the money you earn is spent on yourself.
With a monthly salary of fifty or sixty, they dare to spend twenty or thirty to buy one piece of clothing, just one piece, not a set.
So after seeing the pictures they drew, Ouyang Yuan instantly realized that this was also a good way to make money.
Whether it is printed into stickers or made into toys, it can definitely make money, and the target audience is not just children. Anyway, if there is such peripheral products, they will definitely buy them.
Since the benefits should be kept within the family, Ouyang Yuan decided to join in and start working as soon as they finished painting.
Li Daohua originally planned to finish writing the whole thing and publish the book directly, so that the illustrations could be better presented in the form of color pages.
However, after reading the first few chapters, the editor of People's Literature strongly recommended that she publish it in People's Literature in a serialized form first.
A suitable solution is also given regarding illustrations, which is to select an illustration for each issue to be used as the cover, so that it doesn't matter whether it is black and white or color.
This is not the first time that People’s Literature has used cover illustrations, although most of the time, the covers are simplified versions.
As a work to celebrate the 40th anniversary of the founding of the People's Republic of China, People's Literature did not publish it immediately, but chose to officially begin publishing it in January 1989.
The cover of the first issue was Zhao Que, and many uninformed readers thought it was some traditional literary promotional picture.
It wasn't until I saw "Daqin Heavy Industry" that my brain started working rapidly. I felt a little overwhelmed and speechless.
Looking at the cover again, you can see that the cover Zhao Que, which you didn’t look at carefully before, has many clever ideas specially designed by Li Daohua and others.
At first glance, Zhao Que on the cover looks like she has her hands covering her face, like a shy lady. But if you look closely, you can see that there is a cell phone in between her up and down hands, and the camera lens is even flashing slightly, indicating that she is taking a photo.
The jade pendant he wears has a yellow metal in the middle. It is called a transportation card in the book. You can swipe the card to take public transportation such as buses and subways.
The time setting of "Daqin Heavy Industry" is also in 1989. The difference is that Daqin did not experience the War of Resistance Against Japan. In Daqin's history, the period of the War of Resistance Against Japan was also the time when high technology was being developed.
This also means that, on the same timeline, Daqin Heavy Industry's development in all aspects is much better than in reality.
Not only in terms of technology, but also in terms of international status, it is incomparable in reality.
"If Qin had not perished in the second generation, this might have really happened." Some people began to reflect.
The book even has self-consistent logic. The high-pressure rule during the Qin Dynasty was able to gradually fade away the wartime high-pressure policy in a peaceful way after a gentle person like Fusu took over.
It’s hard to say based on the historical records of the characters’ personalities.
The book described the huge crowds of people lining up, which made everyone feel deeply connected. Not to mention such a rare exhibition, even during festivals, it was sometimes impossible to get into the supply and marketing cooperatives.
What surprised everyone was that the people in the book actually lined up consciously, and some even took detours to line up.
This is different from the supply and marketing cooperative. Who would queue up to go to the supply and marketing cooperative? If you queue up, you may never be able to get in even if you wait forever.
The first episode ends with the heroine finally queuing up to enter and start visiting the military exhibition.
This is what annoys everyone the most. They admit that Li Daohua's ideas are very good, very sci-fi and very imaginative.
But this doesn't mean that she can stop here. You are reluctant to reveal anything in the exhibition in advance.
For a serious exhibition, people still remember to give a warm-up and talk about the exhibition content, at least some of the important content.
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