Mercedes-Benz female car owners’ rights protection incident: the case can be reconciled, and the root cause still needs to be dug deep.

  CCTV News:New progress has been made in safeguarding the rights of Mercedes-Benz owners in Xi ‘an. In view of the financial service fees reflected by the owners, the Taxation Bureau of Xi ‘an High-tech Industrial Development Zone in State Taxation Administration of The People’s Republic of China went to the 4S shop of Lizhixing in Xi ‘an to conduct relevant investigation and evidence collection. On the 16th, the tax authorities responded that the financial service fee paid by Ms. Wang, the owner of Mercedes-Benz, was actually paid to a third-party company, which was actually a "guarantee" fee.

  In addition, Beijing Mercedes-Benz Sales & Service Company issued a statement, apologizing again, and said that it would immediately suspend the sales operation of the authorized store. If the investigation results show that the dealer has illegal and non-compliant behaviors, its authorization will be terminated.

  On the evening of 16th, Ms. Wang, the owner of Mercedes-Benz who defended her rights, and Xi ‘an Lizhixing Automobile Co., Ltd. reached a settlement agreement on car replacement and compensation (including an apology from Mercedes-Benz, replacement of a new car, refund of financial service fees, interior decoration upgrade, etc.), and the quality problems related to the vehicles involved have also entered the appraisal procedure.

  With the in-depth media coverage and public attention, the rights protection of female Mercedes-Benz owners in Xi ‘an, Shaanxi Province is progressing in the direction that people expect. But at the same time, we should also see that there are many manifestations of irregular operation in 4S stores, and various pits for buying cars are not uncommon. In the past, the media also exposed the violations of 4S stores many times, and Ms. Wang’s experience is not a case. When consumption has become the main driving force of economic growth, how to make consumers more assured of consumption? In the end, the reconciliation between the two sides came to an end, but we are more concerned about how to avoid similar incidents from happening to others.

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  4S stores frequently infringe on consumers’ rights and interests.

  Once upon a time, the model of authorized franchise store (4S shop) was synonymous with excellent quality and excellent service. Brand car manufacturers review the qualifications of sellers and allow franchises, so that the products sold by 4S stores are free from counterfeiting and the after-sales service is more professional. However, in reality, 4S stores often lack the right to speak on the price of suppliers and manufacturers, so they can only find profit space for consumers, such as vehicle decoration, raising the price of cars, detaining vehicle certificates, etc., which makes consumers miserable. More importantly, due to the consideration of market share, there is often only one single brand 4S store in a certain area, and it is not possible to sell across regions among specialty stores. Lack of effective competition has led to frequent violations of consumers’ rights and interests, such as opaque fees and exorbitant prices.

  In this case, consumers often become "self-seeking" when buying a car. Consumers are naturally happy when they meet qualified products. When it comes to a "problem car" with defective quality, consumers will spend a lot of time and struggle to open the "rights protection mode". At the same time, for the various charges and the so-called "one-stop service" and "car purchase package", consumers often look at the flowers in the fog and become sacrificial lambs.

  Promote the listing of car purchases and services into reality.

  From this point of view, the essence behind the phenomenon of cheating customers in 4S stores is the car sales model itself. Is there no way to solve this problem? In this regard, on the one hand, it depends on the strength of the regulatory authorities. I wonder if you still remember the various packages of mobile tariffs? Previously, there were many problems in this field, and there were many traps behind many package terms. However, after years of continuous efforts by the government, the results of transparency and standardization of package settings are obvious to all. This year’s government work report also clearly requires that the package settings be standardized so that the fee reduction is real and clear to consumers. Facts have also proved that the standardization of package setting is not a bad thing for enterprises, on the contrary, it also promotes the standardized development of operators.

  If the field of mobile tariffs can be transparent, there is no reason why the field of automobile consumption cannot be done. All expenses are clearly marked, so that services can be listed and consumption can be listed, and they can be directly supervised online. The regulatory authorities also supervise the implementation at any time. If there are violations, heavy penalties will be imposed, which will inevitably help consumers to understand their car purchases clearly.

  On the other hand, from the market point of view, some 4S stores can bully customers partly because a brand’s 4S stores are exclusive in a certain geographical area, so 4S stores have the bargaining power. With the development of internet plus’s automobile business, some brand automobile manufacturers have begun to implement the direct mode, such as Tesla, a typical electric vehicle manufacturer, which orders directly through the website, then delivers and picks up the car, and clearly marks the price. This model has been adopted by some emerging automobile manufacturers and may challenge the traditional 4S shop sales model in the future. If 4S stores don’t change and don’t improve the quality and level of service, it will inevitably push consumers to direct stores of manufacturers. If you harm consumers, you will be abandoned by consumers.

  This incident can’t end with the solution of the case.

  Generally speaking, the case of consumer rights protection is relatively easy to solve, and this incident has come to an end with reconciliation between the two sides. However, what consumers expect is that this incident can’t end with the solution of a case, and the whole industry must be promoted to carry out substantive changes through this incident. The difficulty is indeed not small, but in today’s context of promoting consumption and promoting high-quality development, this is an inevitable way to go. Consumption has become the first driving force for China’s economic growth, but from the current situation, there is still room for further development of the potential of consumption to promote economic growth. In China, not only in the field of automobile consumption, but also in other areas of consumption, there are problems of deceiving and slaughtering customers. Cleaning up these problems, so that consumers can spend with confidence, is itself cleaning up the roadblocks of high-quality economic growth in China. At the same time, making consumption transparent is also promoting fairness and indirectly improving consumers’ purchasing power. No matter from historical experience or international experience, consumers’ rights and interests are well protected, and even consumers are a little picky within the scope of law, which is conducive to promoting enterprises to improve product quality and service level.

  Defending rights by "making trouble" is not a phenomenon that a society ruled by law should have, nor is it a phenomenon that a consumer economy should have. From this perspective, Xi ‘an Mercedes-Benz women car owners’ rights protection event should be an opportunity to really push China’s consumer market to a more legal and fair track, which is our original intention of paying attention to this event today.

  Wen Yi, a special contributor to CCTV commentary, wrote for Mi.

General Administration of Customs: In the first five months, China’s total import and export value was 12.1 trillion yuan, and the level of foreign trade facilitation continued to improve.

  CCTV News:Today (10th) morning, the General Administration of Customs announced the import and export of China’s foreign trade in the first five months of this year. Data show that in the first five months of this year, the total import and export value of China’s foreign trade reached 12.1 trillion yuan, up 4.1% year-on-year, and foreign trade continued to maintain a good momentum of steady growth.

  Customs statistics show that in the first five months of this year, China’s foreign trade import and export was 12.1 trillion yuan, up 4.1% year-on-year, of which 6.5 trillion yuan was exported, up 6.1%, and 5.6 trillion yuan was imported, up 1.8%.

  Li Kuiwen, director of the General Statistics Department of the General Administration of Customs, said that in the first five months of this year, China’s foreign trade import and export continued to grow steadily. In the face of the slowdown of world economic growth and international trade, the general trend of China’s economic stability and long-term improvement has not changed. The fundamentals of China’s economic development with strong resilience, great potential and sufficient stamina have not changed. In particular, the effects of a series of policies and measures such as stabilizing foreign trade and foreign investment have gradually emerged, and the business environment has been continuously optimized, which has laid a solid foundation for China’s foreign trade development.

  In Shanghai, a big data platform for cross-border trade management collects more than 700 million pieces of data from production, trade, logistics, taxation, industry and commerce, foreign exchange and other parties, and seamlessly connects with "single window", shipping companies and port departments.

  Zhang Lei, director of Shanghai Customs’ Big Data Cloud Center, said that this big data platform summarizes various information such as financial information, goods information and enterprise information. It is through this information that we can make law-abiding enterprises more convenient and goods can be released in seconds.

  Through this new mode of intelligent customs clearance, enterprises can not only make their own decisions in declare in advance, but also arrange the plan of container lifting in advance, so as to realize "preferential booking" and "berthing for direct lifting". Foreign trade is becoming more and more convenient, and the steady growth of imports and exports has also been consolidated. In May, China’s foreign trade import and export value was 2.59 trillion yuan, up 2.9% year-on-year. Among them, exports were 1.43 trillion yuan, up 7.7% year-on-year, and imports were 1.16 trillion yuan, down 2.5% year-on-year.

  Li Kuiwen, director of the General Statistics Department of the General Administration of Customs, said that according to customs statistics, exports increased by 7.7% in May, 2 percentage points faster than the previous four months, which became a highlight of foreign trade development.

Banana Plan Announces New Brand of Film Industry, Spend 10 Million Dollars to Reward Content Production

1905 movie network news   On the evening of June 18th, Wang Sicong’s "Banana Plan" held a "Banana Night" in Shanghai, revealing a brand-new section of the company’s "whole industry chain and pan-entertainment ecology" — — Banana film. At the scene, the banana film industry, which officially met with the media for the first time, also officially exposed the factory logo composed of banana patterns, Banana Picture Logo and other elements through VCR. After that, this logo will also appear in the title position of all films produced by Banana Film. 


Wang Sicong, who was scheduled to attend Banana Night, did not show up that night. Wei Xiangdong, executive director of Banana Film Company, introduced the future strategic layout of Banana Film Company to Ye Ning, general manager of Huayi Brothers, Zeng Maojun, president of WANDA CINEMAS, Ren Quan, actor, screenwriter Chen Wenqiang, Shuhuan and other industry partners and the media present.

 

Following the "Digging Plan for New Banana Directors" in April this year, Wang Sicong plans to spend tens of millions of dollars for new directors and new screenwriters. According to "Banana Film", Wang Sicong, who doesn’t want to "seek fame and gain", wants to concentrate more on the film itself and devote all his energy to the development of projects and contents.

 

Previously, the Banana Project invited senior filmmakers, including Xie Fei and Chen Kexin, to give lectures for the participants in the first season of the "Digging Project for New Banana Directors". Today, 16 winners of the program also came to the scene. In the future, Banana Film will continue to help them complete their respective works, and the second season’s "Digging Plan" will be launched soon.

 

In addition to discovering new directors, screenwriters are also the key to producing high-quality content. Therefore, Banana Film Industry also officially launched the "Banana New Screenplay Dream Plan" today, and this plan also has a "heavy reward" with a maximum bonus of 6.4 million. Wei Xiangdong said that the company plans to train a group of top young producers, directors and screenwriters in six years, so as to inject new strength into Chinese films.

About Meng Hua Lu, these eight historical truths need to be understood.

Meng Hua Lu, which was scored 8.8 by 320,000 Douban users shortly after its broadcast, became the most concerned domestic drama this year.

This costume drama, directed by Yang Yang, written by Andy and starring Liu Yifei and Chen Xiao, falls into the Northern Song Dynasty. Its prototype story is the Yuan zaju Zhao Paner, which was created by Yuan dramatist Guan Hanqing, but on this basis, its content is greatly expanded. It includes the life experiences of the three sisters who opened tea houses in Qiantang (now Hangzhou) and Tokyo, the capital of the Northern Song Dynasty (also known as Bianjing and Kaifeng today), and takes Gu Qianfan, the deputy commander of the Imperial City Department, and Zhao Paner’s ex-boyfriend Ouyang Xu, who explored flowers in the new China, as a guide, showing the political struggle of men, the real historical events in the Northern Song Dynasty (such as Song Zhenzong’s worship of Taoism and worship of Mount Tai and the case of Mao Yao) and so on.

Although the main plot still follows the route of mutual redemption and upgrading of the couple, it falls in a specific dynasty and adapts many historical events, restoring the life picture of the ancients with fireworks with costumes, utensils and food, which makes the drama more rich in cultural implications and allows the audience more room for discovery and discussion. In the following, we enter with eight key words related to Meng Hua Lu, and open Meng Hua Lu from the perspective of story adaptation and true historical restoration, making up for the lack of literature with the gorgeous service in the play, and making up for the lack of film and television presentation with real historical records.

1. "Zhao Paner’s romantic rescue"

The first five episodes of Meng Hua Lu are mainly devoted to restoring the story of Guan Hanqing’s Yuan drama Zhao Paner’s romantic rescue.

"Zhao Paner’s romantic rescue" has a total of 40% off, which tells the story that Song Yinzhang, a singer of the capital of song dynasty, was lured by Zhou She, a rich boy, and married Zhou She, but was beaten and abused after marriage. Song Yinzhang rescued his sister Zhao Paner, and Zhao Paner tricked Zhou She into writing a divorce certificate and divorced Song Yinzhang. Finally, the two sides went to court and the woman won a great victory.

Meng Hua Lu truthfully presents some of the most colorful and dramatic conflicts in Guan Hanqing’s story. For example, Song Yinzhang is simple and bent on "making a woman’s name, and I am also a ghost"; Zhao Paner "fights poison with poison", and uses the thunderous means to trick Zhou She into writing a certificate of divorce. Zhou She beat his wife, swallowed a divorce certificate at a critical moment, and became angry from embarrassment and went to court for contempt.

For the further development of the characters, some backgrounds were hidden in the adaptation. For example, Song Yinzhang had an engaged spouse An Xiucai, and because An Xiucai testified, Zhou She was sentenced for "taking the wife of a scholar". The identities of Song Yinzhang and Zhao Paner are all dusty women, who have been in the darkest and most unbearable places and are familiar with the rhetoric of happy men. In the characterization of Meng Hua Lu, there is a little room for these two women, and Song Yinzhang is arranged as a pipa player, and Zhao Paner was once a miss official. Because of her family’s troubles, she had to become an official prostitute and later left.

Zhao Paner tricked Zhou She into writing a divorce certificate to save Song Yinzhang by romantic means.

 

Compared with the pursuit of subtle twists and turns or self-defeating, reading Guan Hanqing’s original text, the first thing I feel is a kind of gentleness and gentleness, and the extreme sobriety and fierceness caused by women being suppressed into the abyss. For example, Du Ruiniang is a prostitute who is "a lowly prostitute". She said with emotion: "I think that in these 120 lines, every door is begging for food; Who made me partial to this door? How humble! Then where can I buy and sell this unjust door? No capital, all with five words to do gold and silver. But which five words? Evil, bad, embarrassing, poisonous and embarrassing. "

Zhao Paner’s cold-eyed insight into human feelings is different from ordinary women’s sobriety and decisiveness: "I am waiting for marriage, which has long caused that conversation; Whoever listens to the word reveals the debt and buys the divorce. Every time he tries to curry favor with the deep house compound, he will destroy the Meige Building. One by one, the eyes are puffed up, like fish that have missed the net: one by one, the mouths are like turtledoves that have dropped their shells. Isn’t it a road willow in the imperial garden? How can a good family tolerate such a prostitute? He was a little sincere at the beginning, and he didn’t have a reason to be old! " For the sisters who fell into the hands of men, Zhao Paner sighed: "Which one doesn’t die?" Which one is not real, and it is short-term? If not, Zhou She lied. Which one doesn’t say a curse? Just like the autumn wind, take a break! "

Meng Hua Lu has a total of 40 episodes, and the plot of Zhao Paner’s romantic rescue has been finished in five episodes, but we can think that Guan Hanqing’s story continues to exert influence, and the main character of Zhao Paner’s character runs through the whole story. In the following plots, Zhao Paner rarely has the character of dragging his feet. If he wants to open a shop, he will open it in three days. Consciously know what you want, face heart breaker, choose hard and hard, wish him a "bumpy career", and have no mercy in his heart; There are people who like it and don’t hide it. They are the "straight ball players" praised in the barrage.

 

Zhao Paner opens a tea shop in Qiantang.

Although "Dream of China Record" intentionally changed the identities of two women, it was criticized by netizens as incomplete feminism, and everyone could not understand why the life proverbs of these two powerful women turned out to be "divorced" and "never be a concubine", as if they were going around or around men. Times have their limitations. We speculate about the ancients today, and all discussions are just a guess that we hope to be infinitely close to the facts. We can only create characters in a limited imagination. If a character is good at dancing with long sleeves, it is bound to be powerful and unsuccessful.

Moreover, whether a woman’s resistance is thorough enough or not depends on her identity and whether she really bottomed out. If it is suppressed to the lowest point, the room for change will actually be smaller. For example, Zhao Paner of Guan Hanqing is obviously an absolute and strong-willed pessimist, but it is easy to think that this character will determine her next life. However, Zhao Paner’s identity in Meng Hua Lu hesitates between a good woman and her past as an official prostitute. There is a gloomy past and a possibility of improvement, but there will be greater tension.

2. The legendary Song Zhenzong

If Dream of China is simply divided into two parts, the three main women bear the part of fireworks, while the men bear the part of times and history. In the clue of male, the figure at the top of the pyramid is the emperor.

Song Zhenzong asked by Chongxian in Meng Hua Lu

 

Although the subtitles only show the Northern Song Dynasty, in the plot, when my father-in-law came to see Ouyang Xu, he mentioned that the butler had "Yuqing Palace’s immortal teacher, and repeatedly advised him to keep in good health". When Ouyang Xu went to see the holy one, he was interested in it, saying that he usually read 3,000 Taoist scriptures and advocated the technique of Huang Lao, and also mentioned the matter of closing the Mount Tai. On the whole, this butler should be the third emperor of the Song Dynasty, Song Zhenzong Zhao Heng, and his most important deed was not accepted by future generations.

Although the serious historical deeds are relatively simple, there are many unofficial histories of Song Zhenzong. For example, his third wife was Liu E, the first legendary hostess in the Song Dynasty. At the beginning of Dream of China, she started with the prophecy of "the mistress Chang", which corresponds to Liu E’s participation in politics. In the later period of Song Zhenzong’s life, he indulged in the technique of Huang Lao, asked for immortals, and was keen on the theory of "auspicious omen", which was dissatisfied with the scholars who were orthodox in Confucianism, and the screenwriter also played a role in it. The party struggle that will be launched later in Meng Hua Lu and Ouyang Xu’s official career in officialdom are all related to this historical fact, and the largest paranormal-Mao Yao case in ancient times also occurred in the reign of Emperor Zhenzong.

 

The prophecies of "female ruler Chang" are similar to those of "Great Chu Xing and Chen Shengwang". In ancient political struggles, they used to spread prophecies and nursery rhymes to create momentum for the legitimacy of a certain rule and create a fatalism of "chosen children".

When he was in Song Zhenzong, Dasong had entered the rule of the third emperor, and the society was increasingly rich, which is why Song Shenzong had the luxury of worshipping Mount Tai. Song Zhenzong also made some achievements. For example, in the fifth year of Dazhong Xiangfu (1012), he introduced drought-tolerant and early-maturing rice seeds and distributed them to the Jianghuai and Zhejiang provinces, which became the early rice in the south, also known as Zhancheng rice and yellow indica rice. In addition, during the Zhenzong period, 16 wealthy households in Chengdu presided over the printing and making of a credit-based convertible paper money, which replaced copper coins as a local currency only used in Sichuan, for the sake of making friends. There was no mention of friends in Meng Hua Lu, but when Zhao Paner opened a shop, he mentioned "flying money" with similar functions and friends. There is no need to move heavy silver, and the transaction becomes convenient, which is also one of the wealth codes of the Song Dynasty.

3. Clear may not be clear, turbid may not be turbid.

During the Song Dynasty, the party struggle was extremely serious, which can be traced back to the system of separation of powers and checks and balances at the beginning of the establishment of the Song Dynasty. In the official system of the central government, the administration, military power and finance were managed by three institutions, namely the Chinese Secretariat, the Privy Council and the Third Division, and these institutions often developed into party and government forces. In addition, the continuous expansion of local institutions has led to a sharp increase in the number of officials. Scholars can take part in the imperial examinations, be gracious and be recommended. When they first enter the officialdom, they must always be careful to stand in line and form a party with their heart in order to compete for power.

In the period of Song Zhenzong where Meng Hua Lu was located, after Wang Qinruo became prime minister, Zhenzong appointed Kou Zhun, who was different from Wang Qinruo faction and had different political views, as prime minister, and the parties they represented were beaten to the death, which was considered as the beginning of the party and government in the Song Dynasty. In Meng Hua Lu, the name "Wang Qinruo" is divided into two parts: Xiao Qinyan (Gu Qianfan’s biological father) and Zhu Peiruo. They are the main targets of Qingliu.

Officials in the Song Dynasty can become a party for any reason, such as coming from the same place, belonging to the same interest group, and more likely, because of different political ideals. In Meng Hua Lu, the concepts of "clean stream" and "turbid stream" are used to simply distinguish the different factions of good guys and bad guys, but in fact, the concept of clean stream is very complicated. Lu Yang, a scholar, put forward in "Clean stream culture and Tang Empire" that clean stream is not an institutional identity, but a social cognitive group based on social imagination and political success, and a political elite who practices and agrees with the functions and values of the above-mentioned "literature". In the course of its development, the clean culture has increasingly shown an exclusive tendency. For example, the ability of "writing" is increasingly regarded as an innate talent and the only standard of political ability. Moreover, to understand the specific performance of Qingliu, we must rely on enough solid historical materials and return to the historical background at that time.

"Clean stream" has a set of common values, such as believing in Confucian values and respecting literature. It seems that the clean stream in different periods in history has a spiritual echo from the perspective of great history, so it always gives people a sense of integrity and justice as its name implies.

"Turbid flow" is put forward relative to clean flow. In the world view of Meng Hua Lu, turbidity current refers to Gao Guan (Ouyang Xu’s possible father-in-law)’ s "capable minister who gets promoted by ghosts and gods", also refers to Qi Mu (Gu Qianfan’s mentor)’ s "generation of five ghosts who bully their superiors and deceive their subordinates", and even more, Gu Qian Fan’s tooling (actually a clean and hidden pile) relies on violent inspection and trial, which exists as an emperor’s eyes and ears.

However, it may not be clear. For example, the high observation of "catching a son-in-law under the list" is actually for the sake of forming a party and wooing young people who are about to become officials, and may not really have the character as he said; However, Ouyang Xu, who was promoted by the imperial examination and wanted to be pulled into a clean stream by the high observer, was no less shameless than Zhou She, and Zhou She was bad at clear gambling and lust for money. However, Ouyang Xu’s face to the high observer’s daughter and Zhao Paner was full of tenderness and disappointment, and the poisonous oath of "I will never fail you" came. In fact, anyone can give up his future at present, which is a typical Zhongshan Wolf, which is also the one that women hate most in Guan Hanqing’s story.

 

High observation reprimanded Ouyang Xu

Turbidity is not necessarily turbid. People who are packaged without benevolence, righteousness, propriety, wisdom and trust seem to be more frank and straightforward. However, in many recent Song dramas, there is a great potential for turbidity to wash away grievances. For example, in "Know it or not, it should be green and fat and thin", Gu Tingye is also a military commander who is despised by civil servants. He has a lot of black history, but he is decisive and popular. In Meng Hua Lu, Gu Qianfan is the most typical forbearing hero in film and television dramas-as a hidden pile of "hiding the clear as turbid", he needs to be on guard at all times. He has been a high school scholar at a young age, and now he needs to endure the abuse of being accused of being a lackey of an eagle dog and an official. In addition, his biological father is a representative figure of turbid flow, which further causes his embarrassment.

Gu Qianfan and Ouyang Xu passed by, but the clarity may not be clear and the turbidity may not be turbid.

4. scarlet official clothes and fresh clothes.

The basic historical and institutional framework of Dream of China is clarified, and the details are discussed. Let’s look at the historical and cultural implications of those wonderful scenes in the film and television drama presentation.

In the eleventh episode of Meng Hua Lu, Qian Fan was promoted, and "Jin Xi Shang He Men made an envoy, and the imperial city agreed to lend Fei and give him a silver fish bag". All kinds of film and television dramas like to depict the moment when the male protagonist wears the red official uniform. For example, the little grandfather played by Zhu Yilong in Know No also has the plot of wearing red official clothes.

In the early days of the founding of the Northern Song Dynasty, various systems were inherited from the Tang Dynasty and the Five Dynasties and Ten Kingdoms. Before the reform of Yuanfeng (Song Shenzong period), officials in the Song Dynasty wore purple official uniforms with three or more products, Zhu with five or more products, green with six or seven products, and green with eight or nine products. The emperor said "Xu borrowed Fei", which means that Gu Qianfan was originally an official with six products and should wear green official clothes. He was specially granted by the emperor to wear the scarlet official clothes of an official with five products. Although it is not really five products, it is also a privilege.

 

Gu Qianfan’s scarlet official uniform

In Song Dynasty, the official uniforms were elegant and simple in shape, with curved collars and big sleeves, horizontal reeds under them, leather belts, hoes, fish bags and black leather boots. The collar type of a t-shirt is generally a curved collar or a dish collar, which was a kind of clothing that men could take in the early Song Dynasty. In the early Song Dynasty, on the basis of the Tang Dynasty, the Song Dynasty made adjustments. The History of Song Dynasty recorded that jade belts were worn with more than three products, and thirteen were worn; Take a gold belt for more than four products, and eleven; Seven or more products are not worn by military officers and military attaché s; Eight products and nine products are black and silver. The system of carrying fish originated from the military symbols of the Warring States Period, which was a kind of voucher for dispatching troops at that time. A bag carrying a fish symbol is called a fish bag. In the Song Dynasty, the fish symbol was no longer used, but the surface of the fish bag was directly decorated with gold and silver, which was actually a small purse. In Song Dynasty, fish bags were divided into two types, goldfish bags and whitebait bags. Silver fish bags are worn for more than six items, and goldfish bags can only be worn for more than four items (there are three items).

Red official uniforms are also popular in ancient paintings, such as the characters in the Song Dynasty painting "Listening to the Qin" and the young lang charm in red in the following "Han Xizai’s Night Banquet".

Part of the Song Painting "Listening to the Piano"

 

5. Han Xizai’s Night Banquet and the mood of the times.

An important clue mentioned in Meng Hua Lu is The Banquet Picture. Until the 14th episode, The Banquet Picture didn’t show up. This part of the story needs to be further developed. We can look at the real and first-class national treasure Han Xizai’s Banquet Picture first.

At the end of the Southern Tang Dynasty, when the society was in turmoil, Han Xizai, a famous minister, decided to fade out of government affairs and have a party every night in his mansion. The Picture of Han Xizai’s Banquet in the Palace Museum reproduces the historical scene of Han Xizai’s banquet guests, depicts in detail the lively scenes of playing the silk and blowing bamboo, singing and dancing, rubbing the host and guest, teasing and laughing, and deeply depicts the complex character of the protagonist who is detached from unruly and depressed. On the one hand, he mingled with the guests at the banquet, which was informal, such as listening to the female music ensemble with an open chest and bare arms, and hanging out with the domestic performers at the time of farewell, reflecting his wild and unrestrained attitude and pursuit of life; On the other hand, he is absent-minded and full of melancholy, such as staring at the drum roll without smiling, being careless when listening to the blow, and finally standing alone and waving goodbye. These emotions all reveal his frustrated mentality in his later years.

Part of Han Xizai’s Night Banquet

 

Part of Han Xizai’s Night Banquet

It’s better to say that "The Night Banquet of Han Xizai" shows the frustration and sadness of ambitious ancient literati, not only when the Dynasty Mansion was about to collapse, but also when the party struggle was fierce in the early Song Dynasty. In the Song Dynasty, when the officialdom atmosphere and system were always in question, this sadness of "the years are getting late" almost became a common mood of the times. Therefore, in many dramas with the theme of the Song Dynasty, there will always be a lonely figure who conforms to this melancholy mood. This figure may not be weak, but he must have hard-paid ambitions and hard-to-fight fate. Gu Qianfan is the embodiment of this kind of emotion, even if the clothes are fresh and the horses are angry.

 

Gu qianfan

In addition, the costumes and manners of the characters in Han Xizai’s Night Banquet also provide an important reference for film and television dramas.

Han Xizai’s reclining sitting posture

 

Pipa Girl in Han Xizai’s Night Banquet

Jelly Lin plays the pipa girl Song Yinzhang.

6. The Dream of Tokyo and the Fireworks of Song Dynasty

The name of Meng Hua Lu is taken from Meng Yuan’s notebook work Meng Hua Lu in the Song Dynasty.

Dream of China in Tokyo is an old man Meng’s recollection of the prosperity of Tokyo, the capital of the Northern Song Dynasty, from Chongning to Xuanhe (1102-1125) in Song Huizong after the subjugation of the Northern Song Dynasty. The book consists of ten volumes, depicting the panoramic life and urban features of Tokyo, including urban layout, rivers, streets, shops, eating and drinking, eating, drinking, shopping and shopping, laws and regulations, customs and etiquette, etc. Dream of China in Tokyo is always used as a reference for reading with Riverside Scene at Qingming Festival, which is a kind of ukiyo-e painting and romantic painting to understand Bianjing in the Northern Song Dynasty. We can learn the general content of Tokyo Dream of China Record from the following contents, such as the chapter "Huixian Restaurant", which is written as:

For example, the Renhe store in Zhoudong and the main store in Huixianlou in Xinmen often have 100-minute halls and pavilions, each of which is fully equipped, and there is no shortage of one. Generally speaking, people are extravagant in manners and customs, and their measurement is a little wider. In any hotel, no matter who they are sitting and drinking, they must also use a pair of bowls, two sets of plates and lamps, five pieces of fruit and vegetables, and three or five bowls of water and vegetables, that is, nearly one hundred taels of silver. Although one person drinks alone, the bowl is also made of silver spoons and the like. Its fruits and vegetables are nothing but pure. If you don’t want to drink, even if people buy soft sheep, turtle backs, big and small bones, steamed stuffed buns of various colors, jade plates, raw sliced bazi, melon ginger and so on.

 

When Gu Qianfan and Zhao Paner were drinking, there was a bowl for warming wine. Hot water was put in the bowl for warming wine.

"Tokyo Meng Hua Lu" also records:

There are even women in the neighborhood who wear blue-and-white towels around their waists and dangerous buns to change soup and pour wine for drinkers, which is commonly called "bad". Some people even go into the wine shop and see their children and teenagers drinking. When they come near, they carefully give orders, buy things to order prostitutes, get money and things, and so on, which is called "idle Han". There are also singing songs by changing soup and pouring wine forward, or offering fruit and fragrant medicine, etc., and the guests get money, which is called "Sibo". There are also inferior prostitutes who come to the banquet and sing without being called, and temporarily give them away with some small money, which is called "knocking off guests", which is also called "drinking and sitting". There are also selling medicines, fruits, radishes and the like. They don’t ask the drinkers whether to buy or not, but disperse and sit with customers, and then get money, which is called "temporary suspension". So everywhere.

The situation of Zhao Paner’s neat work is also consistent with the statement that "there are more women in the neighborhood, wearing blue and white towels around their waists and making dangerous buns to change soup and pour wine for drinkers".

7. Tea house and tea fragrance

Zhao Paner mainly makes a living by opening a teahouse. In Dream of China, teahouse tea art is the key content. For example, she used the method of "ordering tea" to brew tea many times.

Wu Gou wrote in "Elegant Song Dynasty: Visible Civilization of the Great Song Dynasty" that "group tea" and "end tea" were the mainstream in the tea market in the Song Dynasty. "Tuancha" is a kind of tea cake made by a series of complicated processes, such as washing, steaming buds, tabletting to remove paste, grinding, patting tea and baking, instead of directly baking the tea for later use. In the process of making tea, steaming tea without grinding is "loose tea", and grinding without shooting is "final tea".

After the "group tea" is made, it should be stored in a special tea baking cage. In brew tea, tea cakes were taken out of the tea roasting cage, pounded into small pieces with a tea hammer, ground into powder with a tea mill or a tea mill, and sieved with a Luo He to ensure that the tea powder was evenly powdered. After grinding the tea powder, you can make tea. First, boil the purified water in a tea kettle, then immediately mix the tea cream, put a spoonful of tea powder into each tea lamp, inject a small amount of boiling water, and mix it into paste. Then, while rushing into boiling water, blow it with a tea pot to blend the water with the tea powder and make tea foam. After several blows, a fragrant Song-style hot tea was baked. This process of brew tea was called "ordering tea" by Song people. It should be reminded that even if Song people used "loose tea" brew tea, they did not brew tea directly, but first grinded it into tea powder, blended it into tea cream, and then rushed to Dianchong. Or "order tea" tea cooking method.

 

Zhao Paner’s Tea Ordering and Cooking Method

Zhao Paner’s Tea Ordering and Cooking Method

The tea brewed by "Diancha" is thick and can be painted, which is "a hundred plays of tea"

The large-scale tea houses in the Song Dynasty were very particular. Whether Zhao Paner opened the "Zhao Tea House" or later "semi-covered face", he was trying to create an elegant environment.

"Dream Liang Lu" records that in the Song Dynasty, high-end tea houses were decorated with four-time flowers and calligraphy by famous people, "arranging flower stands, installing exotic pines and cypresses on them, and decorating the storefront". Some tea houses also invite artists to perform to attract customers. According to Hong Mai’s Yi Jian Zhi, during the main road years, Lu Deqing went to Hangzhou with his friends and sat in the tea shop outside Jiahui Gate. He saw a piece of paper with a Fei affixed to the tail cloud:’ Tell Han Shu tonight’. This tea house not only has a storytelling program, but also posted a preview of the program.

According to Wu Gou’s book, in the Qing Le Tea House, Eight Immortals Tea House, Zhuzi Tea House, Panjia Tea House, Liansan Tea House and Lianer Tea House in Pingkang in the Song Dynasty, there were geishas welcoming guests on weekdays: "All of them are dressed up to meet the door, competing for beauty and laughing, singing songs at dusk and swaying their minds." In Meng Hua Lu, Song Yinzhang plays the pipa in the teahouse, which also accords with the real situation of the Song Dynasty.

 

The complex tea set restored in Meng Hua Lu is consistent with the tea set recorded in Tea Set Praise.

The complex tea set restored in Meng Hua Lu is consistent with the tea set recorded in Tea Set Praise.

8. Water transportation and sea transportation: trade prosperity

The first case in Meng Hua Lu is the fact that Qiantang county ordered the private opening of the sea ban for profit, and killed people to kill them, from which we can see the great benefits of overseas trade in the Song Dynasty. .

After the Song Dynasty unified the South, it began to pay attention to overseas trade. In order to "attract foreigners" and "goods from overseas", Emperor Taizong set up a trading company in Guangzhou in 971 A.D., which was the first following the Tang system. Later, he set up trading companies in Hangzhou and Mingzhou, which together with Guangzhou trading company were called "three companies", and it was the main foreign trade port in the Northern Song Dynasty. In the Song Dynasty, the import and export goods were banned, and huge profits were made through the forms of "extracting" and "buying and selling by officials". According to the literature, more than 530,000 elephants, rhinoceroses and jade fragrant medicines were imported into the imperial palace. In Zhiping, it has increased by another 100,000. " Overseas trade became an important source of financial revenue in the Northern Song Dynasty.

In addition to overseas trade, water transportation in Song Dynasty was also developed. From the Tang Dynasty, the imperial dynasties with the Central Plains as the axis relied on the supply of rice and other agricultural products in the Yangtze River and Huaihe River basins. By the Northern Song Dynasty, most of the rice needed by huge cities was transported from Jianghuai to Beijing via the Grand Canal. In the Riverside Scene at Qingming Festival, there are many kinds of ships moored or moving along the Bianhe River, such as tank ships, passenger ships, general cargo ships, cruise ships, passenger and cargo ships and small boats (miscellaneous ships) that do odd jobs. Zhou Bangyan, a poet in the Northern Song Dynasty, praised the prosperity of Bianjing in Biandu Fu, in which he also wrote: "So from Huai to the south, the country is admired, the people are lost, and the golden valley is rich." A long time goes by. Yue Yi Wu Yi, official ship Jiabo, Fujian and Chu languages, sails and rains. What’s the matter with the imagination? ? People are comfortable and comfortable, and the national tax should be festival. "

Water transport is also reflected in Meng Hua Lu. For example, when Zhao Paner went to Bianjing, he took a water boat.

Zhao Paner takes a Cao boat.

Is the online celebrity noodle restaurant fattened by migrant workers going on the market?

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If we want to find the most eye-catching category in the catering industry in the past few years, chain pasta must have a place. During this period, the financing amount of many "noodle shops" exceeded 100 million yuan, and the valuation of some brands even increased several times in the initial stage, which became the investment target that the market rushed to grab.

Nowadays, these brands have begun to sprint the capital market.

On January 15th, IFR, a subsidiary of Reuters, quoted a person familiar with the matter as saying that the noodle chain enterprise is currently discussing with the bank and considering an initial public offering (IPO) in Hong Kong, with an estimated fundraising scale of about 100 million US dollars. In addition, another pasta brand and Fu Lao Mian are also planning to go public in Hong Kong, raising 100-200 million US dollars.

For the news of listing IPO, the two brands are quite low-key. The person in charge who met Xiao Mian told Time Finance that the above information was not exact and there was no specific listing plan at present. Su Xuxiang, its co-founder, directly called the IPO news a rumor. The person in charge related to the government fishing noodles did not respond.

The founders of the two major brands are ambitious. They met Song Qi, the founder of Noodles, and Li Xuelin, the founder of Hefu Fishing Noodles, who both promised to be "McDonald’s in China".

Selling noodles to "migrant workers" is the most expensive 108 yuan per bowl.

Hefu Fishing Noodles and Meeting Noodles are early new consumer catering brands, which were founded in 2013, the night before the traditional catering turned to new catering. At that time, Hefu Laomian opened its first store in Shanghai, and when it met Xiaomian, it was established in Guangzhou in 2014.

Capital also favors it. In July, 2021, Hefu Fishing Noodles received nearly 800 million yuan in financing in the E round, setting a record for the highest financing of the noodle track in the domestic catering industry. The investors included CMC Capital, Tencent Investment, LFC, etc. In July, 2021, after completing the fifth round of financing, Met Xiaomian’s valuation tripled to 3 billion yuan in just three months. It was led by Country Garden Venture Capital and followed by Xijiade. The investment lineup included well-known giants such as Baifu Holdings and Jiumaojiu Group.

As a bowl of noodles sold to "migrant workers", it is different from the brand positioning of Fu Lao Mian and Xiao Mian. Hefulao noodles take the high-end catering route, aiming at the price of 50-60 yuan per capita consumption, and the highest price is the old-fashioned crab noodles with the original price of 108 yuan. As of January 16, its stores are basically located in first-tier and provincial capitals, and more than 73% are located in high-end shopping centers and transportation hubs.

When you meet Xiao Mian, it’s a cheap culture, which focuses on fast and simple meals around 30 yuan per capita, but the target consumer group is also white-collar workers. At present, the vast majority of stores that meet Xiaomian are also located in first-tier cities, but they are wider than Hefu, covering shopping malls, airports, high-speed railway station, communities, business districts and other places. At the same time, some second-and third-tier cities also have stores.

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However, whether it is the per capita consumption of more than 60 yuan for fishing with the government or the pricing for meeting 30 yuan, it is still on the high side for non-commercial areas and sinking markets in some cities.

Wang Hongdong, the founder and catering analyst of Dining Baodian, told Time Finance that from the perspective of brand positioning and product pricing, the audience of Hefu noodles and noodles are located in first-and second-tier cities, but in these areas, the market is limited. Even if mature brands are built early, it may be difficult to copy them to the sinking market in the future due to the high price of their products.

On the other hand, the product structure that is mainly based on food from the south has once limited the expansion of Hefu noodles and small noodles to the northern regional market.

Subsequently, Hefulao noodles began to explore beef noodles, hot pot, bistro and other stores, and constantly expanded the scene and brand. Although no multi-brand strategy has been launched, Met Noodles is also under the main brand, and diversified products such as kebabs, hot and sour powder and braised pork rice have been launched one after another.

Put down your posture and impact the sinking market.

With the high cost performance of catering consumption becoming the mainstream demand, people choose to let go of their bodies and start to consciously lower the overall customer unit price in various ways.

Since the end of last year, Hefu Fishing Noodles has launched low-priced products, and the products below 30 yuan account for more than 50% of its menu. In addition, the proportion of products from 20-30 yuan has increased, and snacks, drinks and other categories have been launched, and the promotion of "selected workers" has also been adopted.

However, the explanation given by Li Xuelin, the founder of Hefu noodles, is not "price reduction" but "price stratification". On January 9th, Li Xuelin said in an interview with 21st century business herald that the overall decline of brand prices was about 30%, which was not a price reduction across the board, but a polishing of the product matrix with high quality and wide price band according to the needs of users, which increased the proportion of 25 yuan -30 yuan products with price band and improved the quality.

Met Xiao Mian also made an article on the price. The working meal they launched in September 2023 fell to 20 yuan, and at the same time, they successively launched 11.1 yuan noodle coupons, 9.9 yuan afternoon tea and other promotional activities.

Wang Hongdong told Time Finance that at present, the competition in the industry is fierce, so he chose to "reduce the price" in the same way, on the one hand, to broaden the audience, and at the same time, to lay the foundation for future expansion to low-tier cities.

At least from the perspective of fishing with the government, it seems that the advantages of reducing prices outweigh the disadvantages. In an exclusive interview with 21st century business herald, Li Xuelin said that the sales of noodles in Hefu increased by more than 50% compared with 2022. The overall market scale is growing by a large margin, the passenger flow is increasing year-on-year, and the customer unit price is declining.

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In July 2023, an announcement of Juewei Food (603517.SH) unveiled the performance "veil" of Jiangsu Hefu Catering Management Co., Ltd. (hereinafter referred to as "Hefu Catering"), the main body of Hefu Fishing Noodles. At that time, when Juewei Food replied to the supervision letter of Shanghai Stock Exchange, it explained the revenue of its investment projects. Among them, the revenue of Hefu Catering in 2020-2022 was 1.107 billion yuan, 1.732 billion yuan and 1.456 billion yuan respectively, and the net profit was-206 million yuan,-211 million yuan and-299 million yuan respectively. In the past three years, the accumulated loss of Hefu catering exceeded 700 million yuan.

However, in an internal letter issued at the end of July 2023, Hefu Fishing said that it had turned losses into profits in the first half of 2023.

Open to join, make money with supply chain

For a long time before, both Hefulao Noodles, which was born in Shanghai, and Encounter Noodles, which was established in Guangzhou, seemed to have concerns about the rapid expansion of stores and the sinking of layout. Over the years, their expansion rate is not fast.

Narrow-door dining eyes show that as of January 16, Met Noodles has 250 stores in China, distributed in Guangdong, Beijing, Fujian, Hubei and other places. Guangdong market is the home base for meeting Xiao Mian, with 170 local stores.

When he won over 100 million yuan in financing in July 2021, he met Xiao Mian and revealed that store expansion is the focus of his future development. It is planned that the number of stores will increase to 1,000 within three years. But obviously, I met Xiao mian and failed to complete the plan as scheduled. In July 2023, Met Faces revised its target, and it is expected to add 100 stores in the next year, focusing on the Yangtze River Delta region.

Hefu Fishing Noodles has always insisted on direct sales before. As of January 16th, it had 532 stores. In July 2023, the number of stores in Hefu Fishing Noodles was 441.

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At the same time of price reduction, Hefu Fishing Noodles and Encountering Noodles also choose to join in, so as to reduce business risks and quickly occupy a larger market.

In 2019, it met Faces and opened its franchise. Since then, its opening speed has accelerated. Narrow-door dining eyes show that from 2021 to 2023, there were 55, 43 and 91 newly opened stores that met Xiaomian respectively. At the end of 2023, Hefu Fishing Noodles also opened its franchise mode, and said that it would open 20,000 stores in the next 10 years.

At the same time, the supply chain has also become an important driving force for noodle restaurant brands to achieve expansion and profitability. Self-built factory is one of the most mentioned projects in the use of financing funds for Hefu Fishing. According to its disclosure, the company will fully implement the new model and open cooperation at the B end. In more than 80 cities across the country, the pattern of daily distribution, two-day distribution and three-day distribution is basically implemented in Hefu fishing noodles. The current logistics network planning is enough to support the local market, and the cost of the new model will also drop.

Met Xiao mian did not take the asset-oriented route in the supply chain, and chose to cooperate with mature supply chain enterprises such as Yihai Kerry, New Hope and Shuhai.

Wang Hongdong said that compared with the franchise model, the direct marketing model is expanding slowly and facing greater financial pressure. The purpose of opening to join is to ease the financial pressure and to expand the scale. In addition, with the continuous accumulation of supply chain, Hefu noodles are also expected to make money by charging franchise fees and management fees, and selling raw materials to franchisees, just like Honey Snow Ice City.

Nowadays, in the new consumer noodle restaurant track, Hefu Fishing Noodles and Meet Noodles have become the head brands in their respective segments, but they are not the only players in this track. Ma Jiyong, Chen Xianggui and Zhang Lala, the "three treasures" of Lanzhou beef noodles born in Shanghai, have begun to emerge in recent years, and Wuye Noodles, which has expanded hundreds of stores, has also obtained financing and continued to expand.

In this country with vast territory and abundant resources and obvious differences in food culture, the catering market is scattered enough, and any category and brand has the opportunity to find their own way of life. However, it is not easy for Hefu, who aims to become "China McDonald’s", to get noodles and meet small noodles.

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Chongqing: There is a long queue in front of the restaurant in the hot pot restaurant.

CCTV News:If you ask a Chongqing person what the first thing to do after the epidemic is over, eating hot pot must be the choice of many people. On March 10th, Chongqing adjusted the first-level response to public health emergencies to the second-level response, and then, some hot pot restaurants in Chongqing began to resume eating.

Guanyinqiao business circle is one of several major business circles in Chongqing. From four o’clock in the afternoon, the hot pot restaurants in the business circle that resumed eating began to welcome diners in line.

Xie Ronghua, director of the front office of a hot pot restaurant in Chongqing:Usually the queue starts at 5: 30, and now there are 18 tables.It takes about an hour to get up.

Compared with the diners waiting outside the hot pot restaurant, the diners who can sit in the store and enjoy the hot pot restaurant are much happier.

Diner Xie:For Chongqing people, not eating hot pot for a month or two is definitely not good, and it is definitely exciting to eat it.

Although the hot pot restaurant has resumed eating, it is also different from the past. On March 11th, according to the epidemic prevention and control requirements in Jiangbei District where Guanyinqiao Business Circle is located, after arriving at the store, guests should first take temperature measurement and alcohol disinfection at the door, then register and show the "Yukang Code", and finally be guided by the staff to eat in the corresponding area.

Yang Yuhong, Deputy Director of Guanyinqiao Business Circle Management Office, Jiangbei District, Chongqing:We require all restaurants in the dining hall to strictly check and register the food procurement, the standardization of business premises, and the control of people flow in the business environment, especially the health track of our operators, including the passenger flow for consumption.

Although the dining process is more complicated, it is these special requirements that enable diners to relax and walk into the hot pot restaurant, take off their masks and enjoy the food. It is understood that with the opening of dining hall, the daily average flow of people in Guanyinqiao business circle has exceeded 100,000, which has returned to about one fifth of the original.

CCTV unveiled the current situation of genetically modified rice in the market.

   In April this year, the reporter randomly bought five bags of different varieties of rice in a large supermarket in Wuhan, Hubei Province, and then sent them to the China Academy of Inspection and Quarantine for testing. The test results are surprising. Among the five kinds of rice, three contain genetically modified ingredients. So far, the government of China has never approved the commercial cultivation of any kind of genetically modified rice, nor has it approved the import of genetically modified rice, which means that the genetically modified rice and rice products appearing in the market are illegal, and these illegal genetically modified products are quietly coming to people’s table.

   Transgenic component Bt63 was detected in the rice purchased in the supermarket.

   In recent years, there have been media reports that the rice sold in the surrounding markets in Wuhan, Hubei Province contains genetically modified ingredients. At the same time, rice products exported from China to the European Union are frequently found to contain genetically modified ingredients. In the EU’s rapid warning system for food and feed, in 2013 alone, rice products exported from China to the EU were found to contain genetically modified ingredients for 25 times.

   In April this year, the reporter bought five kinds of rice at random in a large supermarket in Wuhan, and then sent them to China Academy of Inspection and Quarantine for testing. The test results are surprising. Among the five kinds of rice, three contain the genetically modified ingredient Bt63, and most of the genetically modified ingredients displayed in the EU early warning system are of this type.

   Bt63 is a patented transgenic insect-resistant rice developed by the School of Life Science and Technology of Huazhong Agricultural University. It was successfully developed in 1999 and has been evaluated for 11 years. In 2009, Bt63 transgenic insect-resistant rice obtained the safety certificate of transgenic organisms, but it was not approved for commercial planting. According to "People’s Republic of China (PRC) Seed Law", genetically modified crops are not allowed to be planted commercially before obtaining the commercial planting license. Then, where did the rice containing Bt63 gene detected in the market come from, where was it planted, and where did the seeds come from?

   A kilo of rice is planted in 40 yuan, and many farmers grow insect-resistant rice.

   Zhongshan Road, Wuchang District, Wuhan City is a famous seed street, where dozens of seed sales outlets, large and small, are concentrated. In April this year, during the rice planting season, the reporter came to this street, trying to find genetically modified rice seeds and then tracing their sources.

   I heard that the reporter wanted to buy insect-resistant rice, but the owners of several shops said that they didn’t. When asked why, they said that they had sold it before, but now it is strictly controlled and no one dares to sell it.

   After repeated questioning by reporters, a boss provided clues. According to this, the reporter went to Jinxing Village of Lingmiao in Jiangxia section for investigation, and found that many local farmers were planting genetically modified rice. They buy rice seeds at the seed sales point in Jinxing Village at the price of one catty in 40 yuan, but they usually buy rice seeds through acquaintances. For various reasons, the boss of the point of sale avoided the reporter’s interview.

   The source of transgenic rice seeds may be Huazhong Agricultural University.

   Bt63 transgenic insect-resistant rice is a patent of School of Life Science and Technology, Huazhong Agricultural University. Theoretically, Huanong is the original seed source of all the transgenic rice containing Bt63 in the market.

   Zhang Qifa, academician of Chinese Academy of Sciences, professor of Huanong College of Life Science, mainly engaged in molecular genetics and genetic engineering research, and the leader of Bt63 transgenic insect-resistant rice project. In the interview, Zhang Qifa did not deny the possibility of GM rice spreading from Huanong. According to him, there may be two channels: first, different units or individuals may take rice seeds when the results are displayed and identified in 1999; Second, when Huanong conducted a large-scale productive experiment in 2003, a subsidiary may illegally breed after taking the seeds.

   According to Zhang Qifa, in the 1990s, the state did not have strict legal provisions on the safety management of genetically modified organisms, and many scientific research achievements were shared by everyone. It was not until 2001 that the State Council issued and implemented the Measures for the Safety Management of Agricultural Genetically Modified Organisms that the safety management of genetically modified crops became standardized. Prior to this, seed companies could easily get Bt63 transgenic insect-resistant rice seeds, then breed them themselves and then enter the market.

   According to several media reports, Zhang Qifa was the CEO of a company named corneal, which was the important source of Huanong’s "intentional disclosure" of genetically modified rice.

   In this regard, Zhang Qifa said, "It is hard to say that it was intentionally leaked". At that time, the establishment of the company was a part of the country’s plan to promote the cultivation and industrialization of genetically modified crops. He introduced that according to the national regulations on the management of genetically modified crops, large-scale productive experiments must be carried out before genetically modified insect-resistant rice can obtain a biosafety certificate. In 2003, the Ministry of Agriculture approved 2,000 mu of farmland for the production test of Bt63 transgenic insect-resistant rice, in which hundreds of farmers participated. At the end of 2002, after the establishment of corneal Company, the production experiment of Bt63 transgenic insect-resistant rice was just completed.

   So, in the process of productive experiment, did it cause the leakage and diffusion of seeds? According to Zhang Qifa, corneal Company didn’t have seed production capacity at that time, but entrusted other seed companies to produce seeds, and then distributed the seeds to farmers after recycling them. In this process, the seed company has the possibility of leakage.

   The shopkeeper tore up the receipt and denied selling genetically modified rice seeds.

   The reporter went to Wulijie Town, Jiangxia District, Wuhan, which is also a major rice producing area. According to the interview experience in Duanlingmiao town, it is difficult for strangers to buy genetically modified rice seeds, so the reporter found a local farmer to help him buy them at the seed sales point in the town.

   According to the farmer, this kind of insect-resistant rice is very popular among farmers, because it can resist borers, and they can save the money for buying pesticides and the labor cost for spraying drugs, saving 200 to 300 yuan per mu, which is quite attractive to farmers with a gross income of only over 1000 yuan per mu.

   There are nearly ten seed shops in Wulijie town, large and small, and the farmers who help them enter a sales point called Jiexing Seed Shop. A few minutes later, the boss turned into the back room and took out two bags of genetically modified insect-resistant rice seeds. However, when the reporter entered the salesroom again, the proprietress said that she never sold genetically modified insect-resistant rice seeds.

   Subsequently, the reporter sent the purchased rice seeds to Beijing Entry-Exit Inspection and Quarantine Bureau for testing, and the results showed that the rice seeds contained insect-resistant transgenic Bt63. According to the information on the packaging of the rice seed named "Liangyou Jianghui 902" purchased by the reporter, the rice seed was produced by Hunan Xiuhua Technology Co., Ltd. The reporter went to Xiuhua Company in Zhuzhou City, Hunan Province, and found Li Yonghong, the person in charge of declaring the variety at that time, but he said that the company could not have genetically modified seeds.

   With the assistance of Zhuzhou Seed Management Station, the reporter sampled the seeds of Liangyou Jianghui 902 on the spot. The test results showed that the sampled grains did not contain Bt63. That is to say, the seeds purchased by the reporter in the seed sales department in Jiangxia District of Wuhan and the seeds in the grain depot of Hunan Xiuhua Company are not the same rice seed.

   Then, who produced the genetically modified rice seeds purchased by reporters and how did they enter the market? The reporter once again came to Jiexing Seed Sales Department. The proprietress denied that she had ever sold rice seeds, so the reporter took out the receipt issued by the sales department when she bought rice seeds, but the proprietress always denied it. Under the stalemate, the reporter dialed the complaint phone number of Jiangxia Seed Station marked on the receipt, hoping that law enforcement officers could come to investigate and collect evidence, but the person who answered the phone said that the leaders had a meeting and the law enforcement officers had gone to the countryside and could not come.

   No sooner had the reporter put down the phone than the owner of this shop appeared. After a dispute, the boss tore up the receipt and drove the reporter away.

   Rice testing loopholes, factory inspection, genetically modified

   Among the three kinds of rice bought by the reporter that were found to contain transgenes, two kinds of rice were produced at Shekou Street in the urban-rural junction of huangpi district.

   According to Director Ni of a rice factory, the rice provided by the reporter should come from Jianghan Plain, such as Qianjiang, Jingmen and Jingzhou. The rice and rice in their processing plant come from all over the country. During the processing, the factory will make certain preparations according to the taste and color of the rice, and then pack it and leave the factory.

   In the test report presented by director Ni, the reporter saw that the rice in Wuhan market is currently implemented in GB1354-2009 standard. The standard only stipulates some physical indicators of rice. After the local regulatory authorities test rice according to this standard, qualified rice can enter the market for sale.

   It is understood that the rice factory standards formulated in China do not contain genetically modified detection items, so government regulatory authorities and enterprises will not test the rice factory, which leads to rice manufacturers not knowing even if some rice contains genetically modified ingredients. These rice, so quietly to the consumer’s table.

   For many export enterprises, they also face the same problem, because they unknowingly bought rice containing genetically modified ingredients, which caused them to suffer losses when exporting. A batch of white rice cakes exported by a food company in Shanghai to the European Union in 2013 were found to contain genetically modified ingredients.

   In order to reduce losses, some domestic enterprises will conduct their own testing of genetically modified ingredients according to EU standards. However, the general manager of a food company in Shanghai said that because there are many sources of rice in the market, despite the testing links, enterprises are hard to prevent. According to what they know, genetically modified rice has spread, and it is difficult to recover it, and it is out of control. Most of the rice in Hunan, Hubei, Anhui and Fujian have been "polluted" by genetic modification.

   It is understood that on May 27 this year, the Ministry of Agriculture issued the Notice of the Ministry of Agriculture on Further Strengthening the Safety Supervision of Agricultural Genetically Modified Organisms, requiring agricultural departments at all levels to focus on rice, corn, soybean and rape seeds and severely investigate and deal with illegal production, processing and sales of genetically modified seeds according to law.

Smart driving the future! Is the ADiGO 3.0 autopilot system really "fragrant"? Experience Guangzhou Automobile New Energy Aian LX.

Today, with the rapid iteration of the domestic new energy vehicle market, many manufacturers at home and abroad are aiming at this huge cake, and taking advantage of this so-called "new energy" momentum, they have launched one model after another. From the product point of view, although there are many new energy vehicles on the market at present, the quality is actually mixed, and there are not many "good cars" that can really be taken. At the same time, many manufacturers also regard the L3 automatic assisted driving system, which is popular at present, as a configuration to check for missing parts.

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This technology configuration is no longer exclusive to luxury cars, although 200,000-300,000-level household scooters are also equipped with this configuration; But to be honest, many friends who have bought cars don’t know what L3 is. Whether it is even practical is still unknown; Today, on the occasion of this test drive of Ai ‘an LX, we have a deep talk with you about the ADiG0 3.0 autopilot system carried by this car.

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What is L3 autopilot? What’s the difference between ADiGO 3.0 system?

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First of all, briefly talk about L3 autopilot, which is based on the standards formulated by the American Society of International Automotive Engineers. Among them, L3 level is the abbreviation of highly automatic driving when conditions permit, and the car can turn, accelerate and decelerate by itself and respond appropriately to the environment; At the same time, people can also take over and quit autonomous driving. To put it bluntly, L3 automatic assisted driving has been able to get rid of the hands and feet, and there is no need to interfere with the driving of the car in the open state. The ADiG0 3.0 autopilot system equipped by Guangzhou Automobile New Energy Ai ‘an LX, the most important thing is to improve the high-precision map and the more intelligent Mobileyeye EQ 4 camera, which can more accurately perceive the 360-degree environment of the vehicle.

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Among them, the difference between this ADiGO 3.0 autopilot system and other assisted driving systems lies in this "high-precision map", which is considered to occupy a unique "geographical position". Compared with other maps in the past, its accuracy has reached 0.1 meter, and it can predict the road conditions 1 kilometer away, which greatly improves the perception of vehicles as a whole. However, the GPS signal is lost due to high-speed road conditions, under the bridge and the weather, and the latest generation MobileyQ4 chip carried by this Ai ‘an LX will not appear, greatly improving the driving experience of the car.

At the same time, ADiGO3.0 system uses the fifth generation millimeter wave radar from Bosch to cooperate with the brand-new high-precision map; Moreover, the system also has the self-learning ability, which can imitate and evolve according to the driver’s daily habits, and will give users a better driving mode as a whole. Moreover, Ai ‘an LX has a more powerful driver monitoring DMS system with vehicle owner fatigue monitoring sensors, which can monitor the driver’s driving state in real time, distracting for more than 3 seconds, that is, actively ensuring safety through warning lights and sound reminders, avoiding fatigue and distraction and improving driving safety; It is reported that this ADiGO 3.0 autopilot system can only be installed through the Aion LX 80 version at present, and the optional price is 39,800 yuan.

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Is ADiGO 3.0 system complicated to operate?

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As the functions of the automatic driving system are becoming more and more abundant, when you want to turn on or off a driving assistance system alone, you often have to turn it upside down in the menu, and these relatively low-level settings are generally areas that speech recognition can’t control. Take Ai ‘an LX as an example. Although the UI design concentrates the auxiliary systems together, it is necessary to turn on all the horizontal, vertical, blind areas and intelligent parking assistance systems in order to realize all the functions of ADiGO 3.0 system.

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At the same time, when driving, the ADiGO 3.0 system is turned on, which is divided into two steps and three buttons in total. Only when the right button is used to turn on the adaptive cruise and set the good distance can the lane keeping function be activated through the left steering wheel pattern button, and the cancellation function can be directly pressed by the adaptive cruise button. On the whole, this combination also invisibly increases the learning cost of drivers.

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How is the ADiGO 3.0 system measured?

Through the test drive in the past few days, we have a preliminary understanding of the overall use of ADiGO 3.0 auxiliary driving system carried by this Guangzhou Automobile New Energy Aian LX. However, due to the abnormal working state of the expressway auxiliary system of our Aian LX test drive, the high-precision map cannot be activated normally. Until the test drive is returned, the problem has not been solved, so we can only experience some functions of ADiGO 3.0, and the subjective feelings below are only evaluated based on the current car condition.

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Although only part of the functions of the system are used, the sensitivity of the system is extremely high, and the automatic driving and car following functions can be easily realized by turning on the automatic driving system during normal driving.

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However, the whole road section referred to in this autopilot system is not all roads. Due to the complex road conditions in China, the current high-precision map only covers 28 urban expressways and urban expressways. Therefore, for safety reasons, when the high-precision map is not activated, we use the adaptive cruise of Ai’ an LX and turn on the autopilot function. When the speed exceeds 80km/h, the car’s automatic lane change can be activated, and its automatic lane change can be completed only by the turn signal. However, Automatic lane change at this speed and above can’t be completely realized. Therefore, in order to get rid of the shackles of hands and feet, it is still necessary to use both hands and feet on high-speed and relatively simple urban expressways, while in urban roads.

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Then we talk about lane identification. First of all, when I am driving on a normal paved road, Ian LX will stay in the middle of the lane, and there will be no left/right deviation, and it will stay firmly in the middle of the lane. Relative to the road, this function basically belongs to the state of stopping, and it will automatically tend to drive in the middle from time to time, so this function still requires the use of the road.

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At the same time, after the front vehicle slows down or accelerates during driving, the braking system will still keep the whole vehicle at a relatively low speed, and it will not speed up until the front vehicle almost leaves the monitoring range. The overall response seems to reflect the slowdown, but in general, it ensures the safety of the overall driving environment. It is worth noting that most of our test drive encounters morning and evening peaks, so it is "blocked" on the loop to a great extent. In this case, automatic car-following is a more practical configuration for us. After simple testing, the car has four adjustable car-following distance gears, among which the setting distance is adjusted to the latest in congested sections, which is not easy to be jammed; However, the response of the system is usually slow, so it is not recommended to adjust to the nearest distance on extremely congested roads or highways. On the contrary, more space should be left for drivers to respond.

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Finally, let’s talk about the automatic parking function that is more suitable for the needs of our car in the configuration of Ai ‘an LX. This function is extremely sensitive and has three functions: parallel parking, vertical parking and parallel parking. Relying on 17 radars (1 forward medium-range millimeter wave, 4 short-range lateral millimeter waves and 12 ultrasonic radars), four panoramic cameras realize more accurate parking and parking functions, but the extreme action of this automatic parking function is too large. At the same time, when looking for a parking space, we should be closer to the surrounding vehicles, so that it will be easier to find the parking position. Generally speaking, this function is also a good practical configuration for people like me who are usually lazy.

Conclusion:

This experience of Ai ‘an LX mainly lies in driving assistance. The overall feeling is quite good. L3 autopilot is natural and smooth, and it is not complicated to open. It is easier to open after proficiency and the process is very friendly. The fly in the ointment is that at present, high-precision maps only support high-speed and urban expressways, which can relieve fatigue to a great extent. However, at present, only a few companies in China have qualification measurement, so there is still room for improvement in high-precision maps. The only pity in this experience is that this Aion LX process is limited by the failure to activate the highway auxiliary system, and it is impossible to truly get rid of the foot on the highway; In urban road conditions, ADiGO 3.0 still has some functional details, such as prompt information and the ability to pass the ramp, which need to be improved in future OTA; At the same time, the test drive model is Ai ‘an LX 80. Although it has not been tested in depth in terms of battery life, after comprehensive use, NEDC’s comprehensive working condition battery life is 650km, which also enables users to travel further.

Shenzhen female college students were run over and killed by BMW, and the perpetrators were sentenced to no responsibility (Figure)

  


  Ji Huanling, who graduated from college last year, left various certificates and graduation commemorative photos. Our trainee reporter Huo Jianbin photo


  China News Network reported on March 18,At about 0: 55 am on November 12, 2007, Ji Huanling, a 23-year-old fresh graduate of Shenzhen University, fell from Caiwuwei footbridge to Shennan East Road for unknown reasons, and was dragged out about 20 meters away by a passing BMW car. When the 120 ambulance arrived, she was already dead. According to witnesses at that time, the BMW slowed down slightly after running over people, but then accelerated to leave the scene. After verification, the vehicle involved was a BMW 740 with the license plate number of Guangdong D/A9925, and the traffic police department immediately went to Shantou to bring the BMW driver Weng back to Shenzhen for investigation. On March 7 this year, the traffic police bureau decided that the driver of the BMW was not responsible.


  Family members: BMW drivers are not responsible? shock


  Ms. Deng, Ji Huanling’s mother, said that due to her early divorce from her husband, her friends had been helping her in the days after the accident. However, on March 7, the traffic accident certificate clearly stated: Weng (BMW driver) does not bear the responsibility for this accident. "My mind was blank and I stayed for a few minutes." Ms. Deng said that although she has been eating fast and believing in Buddhism, she is almost indifferent to the world, but now the result of such identification makes her unable to explain to her daughter anyway. Mr. Fu, who handled the matter on behalf of Ms. Deng, said that this result was beyond anyone’s imagination.


  Autopsy: The deceased was crushed to death after falling from a height.


  As witnesses witnessed the incident, more than 10 cameras were arranged on the east and west sides of the Caiwuwei footbridge. Therefore, family members have always believed that there should be no difficulty in obtaining evidence.


  After the autopsy of Ji Huanling after the accident, Shenzhen Physical Evidence Inspection and Appraisal Center determined that Ji Huanling died of acute respiratory failure after "severe head injury caused by falling during her lifetime, and then being acted by vehicles (such as vehicles) (such as dragging and rolling).


  After the police intervened in the investigation at the first time, they ruled out the possibility of Ji Huanling’s homicide.


  Traffic police: It was an accident, and no one was responsible.


  According to relevant regulations, on the third day after receiving the confirmation, Ms. Deng submitted an application for review to the Traffic Police Bureau. In the application, Ms. Deng analyzed that the street lights of Shennan Avenue were bright and the vision was wide. The driver Weng should notice that Ji Huanling was lying on the road ahead. Moreover, according to their investigation, the configuration of the same BMW car has a GPS navigation system, which will give an automatic alarm when the car is at a certain distance from the object in front. And in the police identification document, it is stated that the black film of the car is "16 cm long and 10 cm high". At least it shows that the car was not very slight when it ran over the deceased.


  The relevant staff of the Luohu District Traffic Police Brigade said that they would handle this matter in accordance with relevant procedures. The traffic accident certificate issued by the Traffic Police Bureau is based on Item (3) of Article 45 of the Regulations on Handling Procedures of Traffic Accidents: "None of the parties is at fault for causing a traffic accident, and none of them is responsible for it." Our reporter Yang Tao


  ■ Lawyer’s statement


  The victim’s family can claim compensation from the owner of the accident.


  Lawyer Xu Tianping of Guangdong Guoyang Law Firm believes that according to Article 45 of the Procedures for Handling Traffic Accidents, the Traffic Police Bureau has determined that it is a traffic accident, and all parties are not responsible. "None of the parties is responsible" here refers to the accident liability of all parties, not the civil liability for compensation. According to the relevant provisions in Article 76 of the Road Traffic Safety Law, when a motor vehicle has an accident in road traffic and causes damage to others, "the motor vehicle side shall bear the responsibility", and "the motor vehicle side shall be relieved of the responsibility" when it is proved that pedestrians have "violated the road traffic safety laws and regulations" and "the motor vehicle driver has taken necessary measures". Therefore, the victim in the accident has the right to bring a lawsuit to the people’s court, demanding that the insurance company and the motor vehicle party bear the corresponding civil liability for compensation. Source: Southern Metropolis Daily

Editor: Li Dan

Palm oil spot remains high

As of 10: 00 a.m. on 24th, the mainstream price of 24-degree palm oil in Zhangjiagang market port was referenced to P2501+180 yuan/ton or 9330 yuan/ton, which was down by 80 yuan/ton or 0.85% compared with the previous working day. The data of palm oil origin gave a boost to the market, but it continued to be insufficient. Today, the spot price adjusted back within a narrow range. Domestic supply and demand remain weak, the downstream is not willing to take over at a high price, and the market is sporadic. It is expected that the short-term palm oil price will run at a high level. (Zhuo Chuang Information)