Chapter 63 Frustration
In the Yongan workshop, Jia Wenyan sat in front of the workbench, lost in thought.
"What should she do?"
Feeling completely puzzled, Jia Wenyan rubbed her long hair in despair.
After a period of work, after completing the reproduction and "replacement" of the 99th cultural relic, Jia Wenyan has successfully completed the replacement of all the ceramics and bronzes with spirits in the British Museum.
This is a very amazing feat. Even if only one-third of the cultural relics she signed were signed by her, it would be enough for the public to have a very high opinion of her.
But network traffic is just network traffic after all.
Jia Wenyan has carefully analyzed the current visitor flow of the Yong'an Museum, although the museum has recently attracted attention with a large number of cultural relics "reproduced" from the British Museum.
This can be judged from the ticket sales of the week and the gathering of museum visitors by the staff.
Although this so-called popularity has attracted the attention of netizens to the cultural relics in the museum, very few netizens are willing to visit the Yong'an Museum in person to carefully appreciate the cultural relics.
Even though the Yong'an Museum's visitor flow is already one of the best in the industry, from a realistic perspective, the purpose of most "tourists" coming to the Yong'an Museum is still to buy a series of peripheral products in the Yong'an Museum, headed by the Imperial Concubine Yuzhen Cream.
In fact, this was something Jia Wenyan had anticipated.
As a practitioner, she is very clear about the public's consumption psychology towards cultural and leisure activities.
After all, netizens' discussions online and actual viewing are two different things.
It is true that the Yongan Museum is highly discussed, but outside of holidays, the museum's visitor flow still mainly relies on local ticket sales.
She admitted that Donghuang has many netizens who love historical relics, but the problem is that how to say it and how to do it are two different concepts.
Most netizens may be willing to like and comment on the Yong'an Museum on the Internet, but they may not actually come to the museum to carefully view the cultural relics inside.
Coupled with many restrictions such as "replicas" and ticket issues, under these conditions, the Yong'an Museum is not very competitive in the cultural relics circle.
Especially for netizens who truly love historical relics, instead of spending money to deal with the "second dimension" of the Yong'an Museum for fakes, it would be better for them to go to the real official museum to enjoy it carefully.
To be frank, today's museums are like the online dramas and satellite TV dramas. Even though they have the same purpose, they cannot change the reality that the elements of the Yong'an Museum are too "noisy".
This was the outcome Jia Wenyan had anticipated early on. She knew that if she added too many "decorations", it would easily distort the objective image of the museum.
But she has no regrets, because she knows very well that it is precisely because of the existence of those two-dimensional and derivative peripherals that the Yongan Museum, a museum built on the edge of the city, has so many stable visitors and consumers.
But that is human nature. As long as they solve the so-called "food and clothing problem", they will naturally begin to desire various "spiritual needs".
Take Jia Wenyan now for example. Jia Wenyan, who had just taken over the Yong'an Museum not long ago, naively thought that as long as the Yong'an Museum could be self-sufficient, it would be fine.
But now, with the increasing popularity of the Yong'an Museum, she has a stable customer base and has begun to fantasize about something deeper.
That is the tourists' further understanding of the cultural relics.
After all, Yongan Museum is a museum, not a 2D peripheral store.
So after she ensured the operation of the Yong'an Museum, she still hoped to clarify the positioning of the museum as much as possible.
She knew this was a very sensitive issue, because it was just like the long-standing "circle controversy" in cultural fields such as Hanfu and opera.
For ordinary people, they don’t care about those particularly specialized knowledge at all. Most of their needs for cultural cognition only stay at the stage of just knowing that it is Chinese culture.
Too much emphasis and popularization will only have a counterproductive effect.
The entertainment industry is not a nine-year compulsory education. Any further understanding in the field of entertainment should always come from the public's own wishes.
Any imposed popular science can easily lose sight of the "educational significance" of the Spring Festival Gala skits.
No matter how much cultural knowledge a museum covers, it cannot change its essence as belonging to the cultural and tourism industry.
Although she would not condemn it with one blow, the reality is that not many people like to receive any education during their rare vacation.
Jia Wenyan felt that this might be one of the main reasons why Grandma Xu had always insisted on promoting Yongan College simultaneously with Yongan Paradise.
Because just like Jia Wenyan relied on peripheral products to make the Yong'an Museum self-sufficient in the shortest time.
They need Yong'an Amusement Park, which is more popular and has a lower "experience threshold", to drive the educational institution of Yong'an College.
In this regard, Jia Wenyan and Grandma Xu can be said to have the same idea. But the problem is that Grandma Xu did not let these entertainment industries steal the limelight from the academy.
However, the Yong'an Museum, which she runs, has already shown a very obvious shift in focus.
Many netizens even simply treat the Yong'an Museum as a year-round comic exhibition.
She even saw a discussion online where some 2D Cosplayers questioned why the Yong'an Museum did not allow all kinds of Cos costumes to enter.
This is a failure that Jia Wenyan can never avoid as the curator.
Especially when she understood the nature of the Golden Eyes of Time, she cared even more.
She had read about Grandma Xu's past deeds. As the owner of the Golden Eyes of Time, Grandma Xu fulfilled her duties as the owner of the Golden Eyes of Time better and more appropriately than she did.
Not only did she recover a large number of lost cultural relics that were not "collected by overseas museums", she also protected the success of many historical and cultural workers in the process.
This played a very important role after the establishment of Yongan College.
The reason why Yong'an College was able to gather so many experts in intangible cultural heritage technology inheritance in a short period of time is ultimately because of Grandma Xu, Xu Yonghe's reputation in the circle at that time, and the financial assistance she provided to countless inheritors.
She even heard from several predecessors during the process of the Academic Affairs Group sorting out the history of intangible cultural heritage inheritance that they were able to pass down their skills because of the financial assistance they received from Grandma Xu.
Jia Wenyan did a simple calculation and found that the investment that Grandma Xu made in the inheritors of intangible cultural heritage alone was an astronomical figure that many people could not imagine on a daily basis.
She once thought that the gap between herself and Xu Yonghe was due to the length of time they had been in the industry. But the more she interacted with them and the more she understood them, the more she realized that the gap between them on this path was like a chasm.
At the same age, Xu Yonghe is already able to help with other related issues while fulfilling her own responsibilities. However, she sometimes even "deviates" from the topic unavoidably and even fails to distinguish the main from the secondary.
The more she thought about this situation, the more frustrated she felt. She even suspected that the reason why she was able to obtain the Golden Eyes of Time when Grandma Xu was still alive was because of the cultural dragon vein of Donghuang itself. She hoped that she could provide more assistance to Xu Yonghe, the most promising generation.
That's why, during the period when she couldn't think of a solution, she devoted herself to the work of reproducing and "replacing" the cultural relics.
This is because he hopes that he will not be the first loser chosen by the Golden Eyes of Time.
But there is obviously a limit to this kind of hard work.
What's more, one of the main purposes of Xu Yonghe's establishment of the "Yong'an College" is to cultivate more outstanding "craftsmen" to share the work of reproducing and restoring cultural relics undertaken by Jia Wenyan.
At this point, no matter how fast her movements are or how precise her skills are, it is impossible for one person to match the efficiency of hundreds or even thousands of craftsmen.
Therefore, as Yongan College was gradually completed, when Jia Wenyan, as a member of the examination team, got to know with her own eyes those "gifted people" hidden among the crowd, she really felt that her "irreplaceability" was decreasing little by little.
Although she is the owner of the Golden Eyes of Time, she has not been able to demonstrate her unique value. This psychological gap full of confusion about the future makes Jia Wenyan, who has been surrounded by extremely high attention and traffic in recent times, difficult to adapt.
She was eager to find a reasonable solution, and the "real body of the porcelain cat" she made for Bai Huahua was a try that she reluctantly came up with when she was at her wit's end.
She felt that since it would be difficult for her to reach new heights in the field of reproduction in the future, she would try to use the advantages of the Golden Eyes of Time to develop some irreplaceable originality while assisting more practitioners.
She plans to start with the craftsmanship that is mixed into her own original cultural relics.
She hopes to use a cat, a popular "animal image", to gradually let people understand the skills contained in these "works", and then extend these skills to the corresponding works when the corresponding skills were born in ancient times.
She thought this was a path she could try. In order to make everyone more curious about this porcelain calico cat, Jia Wenyan also specially prepared a corresponding promotional plan.
She actually compiled the "Royal Cat Gossip" she learned from Bai Huahua into a book, and then linked countless small stories together by adding her own adaptations.
Soon after, she submitted the organized story and character image to Zhenxin Animation.
Zhen Shuwang: "So you want me to adapt your stories into comics?"
Jia Wenyan: "Yes, I hope you can help me write two chapters to test the waters first. If it works, we can try to continue serializing it. Even if it doesn't work, I can use it as a short story to promote the museum's cultural relics."
"I'm going to call it 'The God of Wealth Meow Meow and the Little Fox Fairy Red Thread'."
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