Stealing trade secrets, a Chinese businessman who lost 700 billion yuan to China, was released from prison yesterday.

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At the regular press conference of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs yesterday (July 4th), a name that had disappeared for eight years was suddenly mentioned again — — Hu Shitai, an Australian Chinese businessman.

On March 29, 2010, the Shanghai No.1 Intermediate People’s Court ruled in the first instance that the defendant Hu Shitai was sentenced to 10 years’ imprisonment, confiscated property and fined RMB 1 million for the crimes of accepting bribes and infringing commercial secrets by non-state staff.

On May 17, 2010, the Shanghai Higher People’s Court issued a public verdict in the second instance, rejecting the defendant’s appeal and upholding the judgment of the first instance.

Lu Kang, a spokesperson for the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, said: Hu Shitai abided by the prison rules and discipline and obeyed management education during his prison term. China judicial authorities ruled that his sentence was reduced according to law. Hu Shitai was released from prison on July 4.

▲ Hu Shitai (data map, source: Oriental IC)

At that time, the "Hu Shitai case" shocked the whole world and shook the entire steel and mineral industry. In the first decade of the 21st century, Hu Shitai was well known in China’s steel industry. How powerful was his "energy"? Look at a set of data:

Since 2003, China steel enterprises have spent more than 700 billion yuan just because of the rising iron ore price in the past six years, which is equivalent to more than twice the total profits of China steel enterprises in the same period. Even in 2008, when the financial crisis broke out, China once again accepted that the price of fine ore rose by 79.88% and lump ore rose by 96.5%, which was the highest increase in history.

Behind this, of course, there is a problem of global iron ore pricing mechanism; But in this mechanism, Hu Shitai "contributed".

To review the Hu Shitai case, we have to start with the global iron ore pricing mechanism.

Before 1950, the global iron ore trading mode was mainly spot trading; In the 1960s, Japan became the main buyer of iron ore in Australia, and the two sides started to sign short-term contracts, which gradually developed into long-term contracts in the late 1960s, and the quantity and price of iron ore were locked for 10 to 20 years.

In 1980, the annual long-term negotiated price mechanism of iron ore began to take shape. Every year, the global major mines (iron ore supply side representatives) and major steel mills (demand side representatives) negotiate to determine the annual iron ore supply price. This process is also called "iron ore negotiation". The fixed price is the industry index, which is widely referenced and adopted in other trade negotiations.

However, it was not until 2003 that China joined the "iron ore negotiations". At that time, China was already the largest producer and consumer of steel. However, from 2003 to 2009, China was almost defeated in the annual price game. As the largest iron ore buyer in the world, it had no pricing power.

Who were the buyers and sellers at that time?

Seller:

BHP Billiton (BHP Billiton)

BHP Billiton was formed in 2001 by the merger of two giant mining companies-BHP and British Billiton Company, which was then the largest mining company in the world.

Companhia Vale Do Rio Doce

At that time, the world’s largest iron ore producer and exporter was also the largest mining company in the American continent.

Rio Tinto mining company (Rio Tinto)

It was founded in Spain in 1873. In 1954, the company sold most of its Spanish business. From 1962 to 1997, the company merged several influential mining companies in the world, and in 2000, it successfully acquired the Australian Northern Mining Company, becoming a global leader in the exploration, mining and processing of mineral resources.

Buyer:

China Iron and Steel Industry Association.

Domestic steel enterprises.

What role did Hu Shitai play in the negotiation?

Hu Shitai was born in 1963, originally from Tianjin, China. He graduated from Peking University and went to Australia to study. After graduation, he went to work in Hammersley Iron Mine, Australia’s second largest iron ore producer. After Rio Tinto acquired Hammersley Iron Mine, Hu Shitai became an employee of Rio Tinto. Joined Australian citizenship in 1997,

Hu Shitai has worked in Rio Tinto for quite a long time and is familiar with major domestic steel mills and ore traders. When the case was investigated, Hu Shitai was the chief representative of Rio Tinto, an Australian iron ore enterprise, and the general manager of Rio Tinto’s Hammersley iron ore business in China. At that time, he was a member of Rio Tinto’s "iron ore negotiations".

▲ August 5, 2010, Shanghai, Rio Tinto China Office (Source: Oriental IC)

It is this one-sided negotiation pricing mechanism that makes Hu Shitai see "business opportunities".

The case broke out in 2009.

On July 5, 2009, four employees of Rio Tinto Shanghai Company were detained. Among the four people detained, Hu Shitai was included. At the same time, the public security department also took away his computer.

Subsequently, Xinhua News Agency reported that Hu Shitai and other four people were detained because they used improper means to win over the insiders of China iron and steel production units during the iron ore import and export negotiations between China and foreign countries since 2009, and used this to spy on and steal China’s state secrets.

At that time, an insider revealed to national business daily (micro-signal: nbdnews) that the computer of Rio Tinto’s Shanghai office taken away by the relevant departments contained dozens of steel enterprises with long-term contracts with Rio Tinto. These data relate to the detailed procurement plan, raw material inventory, production arrangement and other data of the enterprise, and even the monthly steel output and sales of some large steel enterprises are very clear.

"(Rio Tinto) knows the situation of steel mills in China like the back of his hand," said the insider. "Mines even know their companies better than the bosses of some enterprises." Some people who have close contacts with the mine also said.

At that time, a relevant person of a steel enterprise said, "In our company, there are no more than 10 people who can know the details of raw material inventory, production arrangement and sales." Mines can master these enterprise secrets, and may have already bought off the specific production and operation personnel of related enterprises.

Many people in iron and steel enterprises said that Hu Shitai was "very happy" in China’s iron and steel industry, and he had a good personal relationship with many heavyweights in the steel industry, including Tan Yixin, then assistant general manager of Shougang International and general manager of mining import and export company. A few days before Hu Shitai was detained, Tan Yixin was also formally arrested by the procuratorate for allegedly providing commercial secrets to Hu Shitai and others and bribing state employees.

Having monopolized the global mineral resources, and now knowing the situation of China iron and steel enterprises clearly, how can China enterprises succeed at the negotiating table?

Let’s talk about Hu Shitai’s bribery crime.

The court found through trial that from 2003 to 2009, Hu Shitai and Chinese employees Wang Yong, Ge Minqiang and Liu Caikui took advantage of their positions to solicit or accept money for many times in iron ore trade with China to seek benefits for others.

Among them, Hu Shitai received RMB 6.46 million, Wang Yong received RMB 75.14 million, Ge Minqiang received RMB 6.94 million and Liu Caikui received RMB 3.78 million.

There are 20 domestic steel enterprises that pay bribes to them. There are many ways for Hu Shitai to accept bribes and make profits for others. Here is an example:

After Guofeng Iron and Steel signed a long-term contract with Rio Tinto with an annual capacity of 1 million tons for five years, Hu Shitai asked the company for the calculation standard of the benefit fee, which was 30% of the profit of a ship. In order to become a long-term cooperative company with more favorable goods, Guofeng Iron and Steel Co., Ltd. was turned around by many people and companies, and nearly $800,000 in benefits was paid to Hu Shitai.

Liu Caikui, one of Hu Shitai’s four people, mostly accepts bribes from enterprises without iron ore import qualifications. They must rely on the names of some steel companies that have entered the long association sequence to purchase iron ore from Rio Tinto. It is natural for the relevant enterprises to pay Liu a certain fee after getting the ore.

In order to get the iron ore contract, he paid bribes to Hu Shitai and others, reflecting the passive situation of China steel enterprises at that time:

Around 2004, the long-term price of iron ore was much lower than the spot price, and the highest price difference exceeded 100 US dollars/ton. Iron and steel enterprises and traders who are qualified to import iron ore and hold long-term orders resell iron ore to the spot market, which is even more profitable than doing the main business of steel.

Before the financial crisis in 2008, Rio Tinto rarely directly signed long-term agreements with traders and small steel enterprises. With the advent of the financial crisis, when the long-term cooperative price was higher than the spot price, large steel enterprises in China and other long-term cooperative customers defaulted in a large area. In order to obtain the maximum benefit, Rio Tinto began to contact with small and medium-sized steel enterprises in iron ore negotiations, and as long as it reached a certain amount, it could make some discounts (sell the ore) to small and medium-sized steel enterprises. As a breakthrough of "iron ore negotiation".

▲ Image source: Photo Network

From being detained on July 5, 2009 to serving his sentence on July 4, 2018, nine years later, Hu Shitai walked out of the cage. He may find that the iron ore market has changed. And the change happened from the time he was sentenced.

In 2010, China rejected the annual benchmark prices agreed by the three major mines, and the annual negotiations of the Iron Ore Association broke down, and the pricing model linked to the index was adopted. Spot iron ore is priced on the basis of index. The purpose of this pricing method is to reflect the spot market situation and the relationship between supply and demand.

At that time, another giant BHP Billiton also said that nearly half of the company’s customers had begun to adopt a pricing system linked to the spot market. This shows that the old mechanism for setting the annual price of iron ore is losing its meaning.

With the development of spot market and the rise of index pricing, iron ore derivatives trading came into being. In 2009, Singapore Stock Exchange launched the world’s first iron ore swap contract. In the domestic market, Dashang launched an iron ore futures contract in 2013, which was denominated in RMB and delivered in kind.

Every time Xiaobian (micro-signal: nbdnews) noticed that although the iron ore negotiation is controlled by people no longer exists, the international crude oil price has risen sharply this year, and the pricing power of bulk commodities is still in the hands of international energy giants and financial predators. How to reverse this situation? How to safeguard the core interests of enterprises in China?

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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.

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A man without limbs bites chopsticks and the League of Legends feeds his wife and children by live broadcast.

  At one o’clock in the afternoon, Yuan Lidong and his wife jointly broadcast their daily outdoor sports on the platform — — Go up and down the steps, then connect with other anchors and chat with the audience. Once upon a time, he had an identity as the anchor of League of Legends games — — Brother Chopsticks. He tapped the keyboard with a chopstick to manipulate the characters and played to the platinum position. He was born disabled without limbs, but he was still wonderful in live high and became a hero in life.

  Zi Niu news trainee reporter Ai Luqi

  Strange people and wonders

  He has no hands or feet.

  Feed a family by live broadcast

  When Yuan Lidong was interviewed by Zi Niu news reporter, it was noon. He said that he would do three live broadcasts in the morning and afternoon, and the time was not fixed, totaling six or seven hours. Usually answering the phone and playing with his mobile phone, he bites his chopsticks with his mouth and touches the touch screen, which is already very skilled.

  In more than an hour, he will start the live broadcast on the Aauto Quicker platform. The weather in the northeast is very cold in November, and you can see the white breath when you talk. Yuan Lidong’s wife wore a thick cotton-padded jacket and a wool hat, but Yuan Lidong only wore a thin short sleeve. Because he has no limbs, he can only support his whole body with a short crutch under his left armpit, and "jump" uphill a little bit. After a while, he actually sweated.

  This is the fixed content of Yuan Lidong’s outdoor live broadcast every day. His wife explained that it is good for his health and is also one of his own goals: slimming down. Now Yuan Lidong weighs 179 pounds. He used to lie on his side in bed for a long time, biting chopsticks as the anchor of the game, and lacked exercise, which made his internal organs all press to the left. So, now he keeps the habit of going out for exercise every day, sometimes going uphill, sometimes going up the stairs, and when he is tired, he rests on the side of the road. Passers-by told him that he could practice going downhill and save energy. He smiled and said, "It’s no use going downhill." Although his wife was distressed, she just stood in front and encouraged him over and over again: "Come on, it’s almost there." Yuan Lidong will also say to himself: "There are still a few steps to go, one more point, just one step away." When Yuan Lidong walks to the top of the slope on his own, he will have a happy smile on his face.

  During the live broadcast, Yuan Lidong is usually with his wife, who will give him interesting jokes. Before the live broadcast, the two will also discuss what is interesting recently. His wife took a photo with her mobile phone, and Yuan Lidong walked forward and chatted with the audience, and occasionally teased her daughter-in-law. After an hour and a half of live broadcast, the number of viewers was 20,000 to 30,000, and the number of real-time online users was over 1,000, which earned 30,000 praises. In the live broadcast room, the audience kept praising and leaving messages, mostly encouraging him and praising his wife: "Come on, big brother", "Sister-in-law is so kind to you" and "Chopsticks brother soon lost weight after hard exercise".

  There are some fans who have paid attention to Yuan Lidong since he was the anchor of the game, and they have taken the initiative to look for it after hearing the story of "Brother Chopsticks". Some new viewers will ask Yuan Lidong about his physical disability in the comments, and his wife will patiently explain over and over again that it is natural, and there are also hundreds of answers when there are many times. It is inevitable that you will meet some less polite audience and make rude remarks in the comments. In the live broadcast, I learned that Yuan Lidong and his wife had an 8-year-old son, and an audience said, "Your son can’t find a wife because of your father." Yuan Lidong’s wife went straight back without saying anything: "My son won’t!" Yuan Lidong didn’t care. He told Zi Niu news reporter: "I have been an anchor for several years, and I have long wanted to open it. How can I live if everyone who scolds me is angry? " With that, he smiled heartily. "Besides, I feed my family by myself, which is better than those who eat old people and only talk."

  The past is unbearable

  Born without limbs, he came out to beg when he was young.

  But he vowed to change his destiny.

  Yuan Lidong was born in the village of Beizhen, Jinzhou City, Liaoning Province. He is 33 years old this year. He was born with seal limb disease and lacked limbs. But he looks simple and honest, especially with two "blessed" big earlobes.

  Although physically disabled, in the eyes of parents, no matter whether the child is healthy or not, it is a treasure. "When I was a child, my parents treated me as a normal child, and my friends came to play with me. I was happy together, so I didn’t feel any different from others. I have never been discriminated against by my friends or ridiculed and looked down upon by other children. Everyone took me to play, or pushed me to sit in the car and go out to play. "

  At the age of 14, Yuan Lidong met a dilemma. His school was merged into a big school far away from home because of the small number of people, and he dropped out of school because of mobility difficulties. That year, Yuan Lidong’s father also became a laid-off worker. The family’s economic conditions are suddenly stretched, but Yuan Lidong, a small boy, can’t do anything at home. Some people in the village point and say to his parents, "You have to take care of him when you are so big. He can’t marry his wife and have children in his life, nor can he work to support his family." After knowing this, the Northeast boy with strong self-esteem vowed to change his life and fate at home by himself, so he discussed with his father, "Why don’t you go out and sing, even if you beg, you can’t die of poverty!"

  Recalling this experience, Yuan Lidong still felt embarrassed. "At that time, my dad and I went to Datong, Shanxi, and sang in the square. People feel sorry for my disability and will give me some money. If people are good, who wants to beg? It’s embarrassing. What’s more, all the money earned by singing for a day is hard money. Some people always say that begging for money is easy and easy, and it is a lie to earn more. After paying the rent, there is almost nothing left, just make ends meet. "

  What Yuan Lidong didn’t expect, however, was that during this period of begging, he gained his love and ways to earn money to support his family.

  spend the whole life with you

  Shanxi singer knows his wife.

  Start a live broadcast career at the suggestion of a friend.

  When Yuan Lidong was in Datong, Shanxi, he sang in the square every day. One day, a girl came to the square to watch him sing. After singing, the girl not only gave him money but also took the initiative to chat with him, praising him for his inspiration and hard work. "I have a cheerful personality, and I chatted with her very congenially. Finally, I asked her where she lived and said that she had time to play with her. As a result, I found that the place where we lived was actually very close, and we spent more time together, and it was a long time." Later, this girl became his wife. In 2010, their son was born, healthy and lovely.

  Yuan Lidong’s wife said that his cheerful and optimistic personality attracted her. "There is an open mind, as if no matter how difficult it is in front of him." The couple’s feelings are very good, but at first they were strongly opposed by their wives and parents, and it was not until they got married and had children that they gradually eased.

  Before 2015, when online games were in full swing, Yuan Lidong also liked playing games. Legend and crossing the line of fire are all games he used to play in Internet cafes. When someone knocks on the keyboard and mouse with his hand, he bites chopsticks with his mouth to play. At first, the keys are not allowed and the action is very slow. However, after half a month, he can move his left face to operate the mouse, bite chopsticks with his teeth and click the left and right keys to control the characters. After a long time, Yuan Lidong can play better than ordinary people.

  Under the leadership of his childhood, he began to get in touch with League of Legends, a competitive online game that was popular all over the world, and soon became the leader of the team, leading a team for four-person qualifying.

  In 2015, webcasting went into a craze, and the game anchor could also become a career. However, he was underestimated because he was working hard outside, so he was suggested to be the game anchor of League of Legends. That’s when the screen name of "Chopsticks Brother" came into being. Because of the unique live broadcast method and good technology, I have gained a lot of fans and my life is getting better.

  Anchor daily

  Buddhism treats network spray.

  From the beginning of being a game anchor, Yuan Lidong knew that he would meet netizens who commented on himself. Some people watched him bite chopsticks and play games. When he came up, he directly "sprayed" him: "If you don’t have hands and feet, you will be a game anchor. If you can’t play well, you will have a strong mouth and a strong mouth."

  Yuan Lidong doesn’t like being called "the king with a strong mouth". "It doesn’t sound like a good word." He told Zi Niu News: "I have a straight personality, and I was angry when I was scolded by others, but there were always other netizens who watched the live broadcast to persuade me that online ‘ Spray ’ Do, ignore them. We think you are great. Plus the live broadcast for a long time, you can slowly treat these people with a calm mind. Now I will meet people who are difficult to obey, and I don’t care much. Isn’t it a waste of time to argue with them? "

  Some people support that suffering is also pleasure.

  Because only playing better than ordinary players can get high attention, Yuan Lidong spends 7 hours on League of Legends games every day. For the convenience of operation, he had to lie on his left side of the bed, control the mouse with his left face, and click the keyboard with his teeth biting chopsticks. After a long time, calluses were born on his cheeks, and his gums were swollen and bleeding from biting chopsticks, and his neck was sore and unbearable. When he went to the hospital for examination, he found that all his internal organs were pressed to the left. Nevertheless, it was an extremely enjoyable time for him. In his words: "I can support my whole family by myself, provide for my parents’ old age, buy some clothes for my daughter-in-law that she likes, and afford my son’s education. It is more worthwhile than begging for dignity, and a cheerful person like me can have a group of people to support me and talk with me."

  Reporter’s notes

  Laugh at life, so powerful.

  "Being able to feed the whole family" is what Yuan Lidong often talks about when he is interviewed. Although born with a disability, he has a sense of pride in his bones and thinks that it is a decent way to live by "spelling it out" on his own.

  Yuan Lidong’s real "human fireworks" and "Buddhist" attitude towards life are wonderfully intertwined. He will talk about his common game heroes and analyze their skills and manipulations he is good at; He does not hide his experience of "begging" for a living; Earn money to support his family by live broadcast, but he can’t do anything about serious illness. His mother died of a brain tumor without money to treat it, which has made him sad so far. And he urgently needs to settle the wages owed by the platform for a long time, but he has never been able to solve it and he is helpless.

  Yuan Lidong is optimistic about the difficulties in life and the eyes and ridicule of the world. He watched the video of nick vujicic, an Australian speaker who is suffering from the same disease with himself on the Internet. "I think our attitudes towards life are very similar. No matter what happens, I remain optimistic and cheerful. Even if I am physically disabled, I can live as well as a normal person. I can support my family by my own wife and children. What else can I get through?"

  At the end of the interview, he talked about his expectations for his son: "I hope he can enter the university and serve the country." This was my dream when I was young. "