Chapter 56 Yongan College Comics
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After the meeting on the first day of the Lunar New Year, all participants started their work as planned.
During this period, the gossip about the Yong'an Museum and Xu Yonghe also shifted focus to the Winter Olympics. At the same time, the popular movie "The Story of the Stubborn Stone" finally entered a stable period of box office after a month.
The impressive box office performance of 4 billion made "The Stubborn Stone" the champion of New Year's Day theaters, with a box office performance of 200 million more than the main theme movies of the same period.
Many passers-by even took photos of foreign athletes going to the cinema to watch "The Stone".
So when the Winter Olympics competition cycle ended, many entertainment media began to invite Zhenxin Animation after the box office expectations of "The Stone" became clearer.
It was at this time that Zhenxin Animation’s official website suddenly updated a new comic chapter titled "The Girl Who Sees History".
Zhen Xin is a modified version of the name of Zhen Xin Animation Company, but perhaps it is because Jia Wenyan’s performance in the New Year’s Eve event some time ago was too eye-catching.
When many viewers saw "Zhen Xin", they subconsciously thought of Jia Wenyan from the Yong'an Museum.
They watched the girl in the comics bring the admission letter with the crested ibis. They started their life in Yongan College with the introduction of Teacher Panda.
Panda Wenwen: "What is displayed in front of you are the most common categories of Chinese intangible cultural heritage skills."
"Brush - calligraphy and painting."
"Needle - embroidery."
"Hammer - Forging."
"Clay - ceramics."
"Carving knife - carving."
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Zhen Xin: "Can I only choose one?"
Panda Wenwen: "No, we will not interfere with the candidates' choices."
"As long as your ability allows, you can even try all the academy's types of production within the seven-day stipulated time."
"At that time, we will also provide the school with a second or even third option of a major recommended by the candidate based on the candidate's cultural relics reproduction scores in addition to the candidate's intended major."
"However, please note that candidates can only be admitted to the college after passing the corresponding major, so candidates are requested to carefully choose the major they want to apply for."
This is a comprehensive class placement that combines the candidate's own wishes and talents.
Whether to follow one's own wishes or talent, the school will give the choice to the candidates themselves, but of course the premise of all this is that the degree of completion of the reproduction of the cultural relics is above the passing line.
If the candidates cannot allocate their time reasonably, there is a high probability that they will be rejected.
Upon seeing this, Zhen Xin in the comic immediately looked around.
As expected, at the various examination workstations around her, many candidates were complaining about the test results.
Xu Yong: "Why am I not from the Forging Academy?"
Panda Wenwen: "I'm sorry that your work did not pass the review of the Forging Academy, but you can choose to enter the Embroidery Academy, or come back to sign up for the next enrollment next year."
Xu Yong: Embroidery?
Just those few little flowers I just picked to make up the number?
Xu Yong looked at his report card with doubt in his mind.
His goal was to enter the Forging Academy, which was the most masculine academy in the eyes of all the boys. However, since he could not submit his exam papers before the end of the exam period, he tried other projects without any preparation.
Unexpectedly, his confident forging failed, but the embroidery that took advantage of the situation got a very good result.
For this reason, he once thought that this was a deliberate guidance by the teachers of the Embroidery Academy who wanted to recruit some coolies. However, before he could finish his words, he saw the little girl at the next table holding a hammer as high as a person's head, and completing her own work after a round of hammering.
It was an iron sheep made entirely of metal.
[Netizen: This is... a Western Han Dynasty sheep-shaped bronze lamp. ]
Seeing this, Xu Yong silently lowered his head and looked at the "sword" on his desk.
Although both were forged works, the girl's work was obviously a level higher in terms of restoration than his own. He admitted that he had deviated from the topic, but it shouldn't be to the point of failing.
He admitted that his skills were not as good as the other party's, but the problem was that among so many candidates, not every one of them could be a genius.
Xu Yong argued that in his eyes his forging skills were definitely up to the average standard for admission.
He didn't understand why Yongan College would use "reproduction", which is a practice that carries the nature of plagiarism, as an assessment. In his concept, the so-called reproduction assessment is to make the assessment of technology have a very clear standard.
During the reproduction process, he made a lot of improvements to "make up for" some damage caused by mistakes, but don't these repairs he made reflect his skills?
Xu Yong didn't believe that the examiner couldn't feel his skills from his work. He didn't expect to get a high score, but he would never fail the entrance exam of the Forging Academy.
Xu Yong instinctively wanted to argue, but before he could finish the rest of his words, his attention was once again attracted by the workbench next door.
The Western Han Dynasty sheep-shaped bronze lamp that the girl had just reproduced began to move as if it were given life the moment the girl signed the enrollment contract.
Panda Wenwen: "This is the purpose of our Yong'an College asking you to reproduce cultural relics. The purpose of reproducing cultural relics is not only to better see the technical level of each of you candidates, but also to enable you to gain the recognition of the spirits of cultural relics in this way."
"Each of the artifacts marked on the exam outline we provide has its own spirit body, which will inject its own consciousness clone into the candidate's admission work."
"These consciousness clones are not only your teachers, but also your companions in school life for a long period of time."
Panda Wenwen: "As an examiner, I admit that you have a solid foundation in this area, but we have already stated in the exam questions that the test questions are based on reproduction as the standard."
"Your work is beautiful, but our exam question is reproduction. We can allow you to restore it to a certain extent, but we cannot allow you to add too many details that are not on the original."
"Although we recognize your skills and don't want to embarrass you on this matter, you did make too many changes to your exam work. So when the weapon spirit cannot possess you, you really can't pass the assessment of our forging academy."
"But of course this opportunity doesn't just come once. If you want, you can choose to join our embroidery major, or wait until this time next year to challenge yourself again."
Hearing this, Xu Yong looked down at the sword in his hand.
Yes, he was indeed off topic. As a craftsman who had undergone a special intensive training before signing up, when he was forging iron, he always took it for granted that he would pass with his skills. So when he found some imperfect damage during the forging process, his first reaction was to habitually repair it instead of restoring it.
This directly led to too many things that he took for granted in his final works. In contrast, he used embroidered handkerchiefs to kill time. Although his embroidery skills were not outstanding, he spent more time carefully observing the details of the patterns on the handkerchiefs without any basic skills.
In this way, if we only consider the perspective of reproduction and restoration, his embroidery is indeed easier to get high scores than his sword.
Xu Yong sighed helplessly. Meanwhile, Zhen Xin on the other side had entered her exam time at the signal of Panda Wenwen.
Different from other candidates who have some technical foundation, Zhen Xin has no experience in the technical field. She is just a student who goes to school step by step.
Elementary school, junior high school, high school, and college, she spent her ordinary student days step by step.
She likes painting, and she once dreamed of becoming an art student and using her hobby as her future career.
But for an ordinary person like her, the learning costs and risks of becoming an art student far exceeded her imagination.
Faced with such a situation, she had no way of mustering the courage to express her demands to her parents when she was in high school.
She had automatically killed her dream before she even brought the idea up to her parents.
For this reason, she waited until the day of graduation from university. When she was packing her luggage in the dormitory, she looked up at the sky with sorrow for not finding a job.
The appearance of the red-crowned crane really completely broke her imagination.
Zhen Xin didn't know why the red-crowned crane sent interview notices to people who had not registered for her.
But she knew this was an opportunity, Yong'an College is an institution that balances teaching and professional development.
Students who graduate here can easily find jobs related to their majors, which is an advantage that she, an undergraduate from an ordinary university, can never imagine.
So even though she didn't have any relevant skills, after seeing the employment benefits allocated above, Zhen Xin finally came to the interview site of Yong'an College with the mentality of giving it a try.
In addition, due to the seven-day examination period of the technical assessment, Yong'an College does not restrict the specific start time of the examination. As long as the candidates arrive within the specified reporting time, they can start their seven-day assessment at any time.
Therefore, by the time Zhen Xin mustered up the courage to take the exam, some of the candidates who arrived first had already completed their tasks.
Thanks to the soundproof glass, although she didn't know what the candidates around her were saying to the examiners, those replica cultural relics that immediately moved as if they had come to life after signing the admission letters definitely caught Zhen Xin's attention.
Is this... what they call "magic"?
No one could refuse such a partner who was completely created by herself. However, the difficulty of the entrance examination was obviously not as simple as she imagined.
Unlike other candidates who had prepared well, she didn't know what she was good at, so she could only do her best during the seven-day exam, using the time it takes for clay to dry or fabric to dye, to try as many directions as possible.
For seven days, under the incredulous gazes of others, she tried her best to attempt as many projects as possible within her limits within the limited time.
However, her lack of experience eventually became the most unavoidable obstacle in her entrance examination. Without much foundation, she did not dare to put all her eggs in one basket.
Even though she managed to get passing scores in three technical subjects with her perseverance, Zhen Xin did not get the approval from the examiners of various schools to confirm her admission as all the scores were low.
She could only wait in the waiting area provided by the examination room and wait to see if any major had not been fully enrolled.
"Ceramics, weaving, dyeing, and knitting."
She will only have the opportunity to be admitted if the three colleges where she has passed the exam have not yet filled their seats.
However, what she didn't expect was that the school that finally admitted her was the Ceramics College, which she had the least hope for when she confirmed that she was not admitted in the first batch.
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