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“When the airport was waiting at Baiyun Airport, the waiters were almost off work. We were arranged in a small place to wait for the arrival of Myanmar charter flights. Every businessman who went to buy jade was carrying a special flashlight. In the night, everyone. It seemed like we had to carry out a major event in the darkness of the night.The chartered plane finally took off at 3 a.m., bumping all the way to the new capital of Myanmar. Naipi has not built a civil airport. The plane seems to be parked at an airport. We just got off the plane and we were rushed to a house where the soldiers were watching and the Burmese took a table and used it as an immigration customs." This is the first time Xu Hongfei described the following. Jade 佬 佬 佬 "The experience of going to Myanmar to buy jade was very exciting.

The jadeite trading market in Myanmar is far more like a gymnasium. It has a large football field. Different types of stones are surrounded by barbed wire to form different areas. Jade trading is a business of the rich. A single entry ticket costs one person 10,000 euros (which can be used to pay for the goods and later rise to one person for 50,000 euros). Not everyone can enter the market for trading. Although the threshold is high, it is still a sea of ​​people. The rare thing always makes people crazy.

Listening to Xu Hongfei, Myanmar’s jadeite trade was originally in Yangon and later moved to Naypyidaw. As a new capital, it needs a lot of new projects. The original jade trading market in Naypyidaw was shabby and there was no shady shed. Traders sweated and chose the gems in the sunshine. Before the rainy season did not come, it was almost sunshine every day. This is why we saw girls across the street selling various straw hats at the door. But at night, it becomes cool. “The weather in South Asia is very changeable. It is a sunny day. It is heavy and rainy. When the rain comes down, everyone rushes to hide from the rain. It spreads like a beast and gathers together for a while,” said Xu Hongfei.

Burma outside Burma is one of the most pagodas in the world. It is difficult for your eyes to escape from all kinds of pagodas. We drove to Nay Pyi Taw and the car just left the suburbs of Yangon and saw several statues of Buddha scattered over the green field. The golden light can be seen in the green rice fields. When we were in Yangon, we also went as far as the Romans did. Su Xin came to the Golden Pagoda and looked at the Buddhist monks, reciting the Scriptures, chanting, or eating. Xu Hongfei is very interested in Southeast Asian culture. He said that ancient art was all due to religion, but contemporary art is more and more distant from the ancient religious civilization and there is less respect for fear.

Of course, Myanmar does not always live in Buddhism. It also has a simple country life. Myanmar is not as developed as urbanization in China. Even an international city as large as Yangon is still an old capital surrounded by rural areas. From the old capital to the new capital, 390 kilometers away, there is only one small town in the middle of the rest stop. Our rented Burmese carts run on high-speed, non-high-speed roads. Occasionally, there are various kinds of cash crops on both sides, and more weedy and barren lands.

When we went non-rainy season, the plants that grew wildly during the rainy season gradually withered under the sun. Although many lands are deserted, those lands hidden under the weeds will one day be reborn in a new atmosphere. Just like Burmese folk art, what overflows is the memory of life. In a village, we met traditional pottery workshops. Most of the pottery craftsmen are women. They are skilled in craftsmanship and have a concentrated expression. They use a template to beat the patterns on the ceramics.

Burmese people are good people because they believe in the Buddha. When we walk in the country, we meet people from Myanmar who are either plain or dignified or enthusiastic. This is not like the kind of people who are so destructive as in the movie. When they were photographed with them, their smiling faces on the dark skin were simpler. They even took us on a wooden boat to see people on the water. Poor people are impoverished, but they also need to raise many children. Maybe this is the life of South Asians.

Myanmar is also a country that maintains a farming culture. Mechanized labor is rarely seen here. Ox carts are the most common means of transport in Myanmar's countryside, and they are similar to those in rural China in the 1970s. Xu Hongfei, who was sitting on an oxcart, told me on a bumpy mud road that he remembered the time of his childhood and the awakening of the cultural memory in the depths of his life. His heart was especially true in a foreign land.

Naypyida was built on the plains as a new city. It does not look like the new capital. It is like a huge resort or a new town like Europe. The city's buildings are very short, mainly villas, open sight. The population is small and the business atmosphere is cold, let alone a rich cultural atmosphere. What is even more amazing is that the road leading to Myanmar’s national government is unusually wide, with 17 lanes on one side, and it is quite stylish, but there are almost no cars on the road.

Yangon is different. As the old capital, Yangon has a deep cultural heritage. The city is very busy, and a small number of foreigners are mixed up among most Burmese people. It is very interesting. In addition to temples, Yangon is impressive. I also discovered unexpectedly that there are many ** teaching and Catholic churches. Before coming to Myanmar, I thought that all people believed in Buddhism. In fact, Western civilization has long since flowed to the vast land of Myanmar along the Irrawaddy River. Another distinctive feature of Yangon is the large number of trees. There are green trees everywhere, high or low, or lush or light, giving people a sense of walking in the garden. Perhaps walking in Yangon is good, but the bus is a lot harder. Burmese buses have no air conditioning and summer is like a steamer.

At dusk in a pink sky, we walked to the Royal Lake Park in Yangon. It is a place of leisure. There are some local people on the lake, and foreigners drink tea, talk and listen to birds singing under the linden tree. The Royal Lake is a paradise for birds and the sound of birds can be heard. At dusk, a hundred birds return home and the flying figure is reflected in the water. The Royal Lake is best known for its barge built on the lake, also known as Callaway Palace, a place for eating and entertainment. The design of the barge is like a palace and it seems to be the palace of a certain emperor. You must make a reservation in advance when you go to barge for meal. On that day, we went early and were very fortunate to have a seat, but they did not invite guests in without the local meal break. This is a bit like our encounter in Turin, Italy. The meal was not provided and the restaurant did not provide meals. Fortunately, the surroundings of the Royal Lake are beautiful, take a walk, take a look at the scenery, take pictures, and time flies.

Callaway Palace is already a very commercial place. On the way to the "palace", Myanmar girls wearing ethnic costumes are flanked by smiles and greet guests. If they take pictures with them, they will look very generous. Of course, the most popular is a girl sitting in the lobby dedicated to painting THANAKHA natural cosmetics on her face. The name of the girl, who was not named, looked like a seventeen-year-old. She was simple, warm and smiled. She used a bark named THANAKHA to grind milky sap and apply it to the cheeks on both sides of the guests. In Myanmar, the use of this cosmetic has a long history. It is said that it has whitening, cooling, and sun protection. THANAKHA is painted on the street by men, women and children.

Dinner is a buffet, with a variety of Burmese dishes, famous tea ribs, vanilla chicken breast soup, coconut black fish or something, some very delicious, and some of our appetite can not adapt. Fruits such as pineapples, mangoes, and bananas produced in Myanmar, Xu Hongfei never forgets a mango variety called “Sheng Desheng”. He said it was really good fruit. So, eating a dessert made from mango on a barge also has beautiful memories. But for Xu Hongfei, who is used to American coffee, the coffee there is too ordinary.

Another “dish” for meals at Callaway Palace is the traditional Myanmar drama. Burmese dramas originate from the activities of worshiping gods and goddesses in ancient times. They were formed in the 15th century during the Ava Dynasty and were divided into three types: Ah Ying, puppet shows, and Burmese dramas. Burmese traditional dramas have some similarities with our ancient local operas, but they still feel that their singing, dancing, and storylines are too monotonous and their pace is slow. Myanmar is still a place that lacks modern art construction. Contemporary art and avant-garde art are hard to find here, and they can't see their shaking in the international art circle.

Every time he thinks about "Jade", Xu Hongfei always describes how to go to Myanmar to buy jade. I am very curious how he is in a relationship with jade. He said that he did not think of any relationship between jadeite and sculpture. On one occasion, Lin Nai, one of his fellow jadeite businessmen, took an emerald and found him to see if he could design an artwork. Xu Hongfei appreciates the jadeite. It was originally extremely tough and could elevate the steel, but it was also moist and delicate, with a clear texture, watery, and attractive. Emerald is not the same as the stone we often see in Xinjiang. It is transparent and moist, colorful and colorful, bright and moving colors hide the beauty of nature. Such a godsend would be a work of art with souls.

Xu Hongfei realized that Jade is a new material for sculpture, and not just something that has long been regarded as a handicraft. He decided to use Jade to practice new sculptures and come up with a switch in thinking and design. In this way, with the help of friends, Xu Hongfei embarked on a treasure hunt in Myanmar. This also has the ignorance, ambiguity, hardship and joy of entering the country. It was a journey of secrets.

Xu Hongfei, who has never participated in an emerald stone auction, has no experience in this respect. He thought that adding 10 times to the original price should be no problem, but someone knows that some people have had hundreds of times the price.

The first experience was unforgettable for Xu Hongfei. He was catching up with the Myanmar jadeite and becoming a “crazy stone.” Hawkers from all walks of life to buy jade gathered, and Myanmar Airlines took a special plane to pick it up at Baiyun Airport. Start at 3am. It's dawn and it's time to come in and shoot jade. On the same day, Xu Hongfei chose his own stone. The rest of the matter had to be commissioned by a friend. Because the hotel was full, she could not find a place to stay in Naypyak. The night arrived at Yangon, 390 kilometers away, to find a place to stay. Later, when I went to Myanmar, the situation had improved greatly. The Jadeite trading site was more humane and the hotels in Naypyidaw were not as nervous. However, the top Jade, the Jadeite of the old pit glass, became less and less. , perhaps not released.

I knew very little about jadeite. Under the infection of Xu Hongfei, I also slowly went to understand the jadeite culture, trying to see its naturalness, seeing the connection between it and nature, and seeing the implication. For the Orientals, the knowledge of jade is definitely deep in the diamond. The Chinese people believe that jade has the virtues of good luck, riches and treasures, praying for evil, and longevity. In the long years, jade evolved one day more than one day. Jade is the king of jade, with diamonds, rubies, and emeralds known as the four famous stones of the gem family. The history of Emerald's entry into China is not long. There are arguments that were introduced in the Ming Dynasty and there were disputes in the Qing Dynasty. The real rise of jade is the thing after the late Qing Dynasty. Because of the love of the royal aristocracy, the status of jade has been steadily rising, and the people have begun to recognize the rare beauty of the jade, the treasures of the collection, and the use of health. Therefore, the great officials will do everything possible to obtain it. In the absence of jade in the interior, with the gradual exchange of cultural exchanges between the east and the west, foreign jadeite has begun to enter the Chinese royal jewelry hall. So Emerald became a symbol of noble status. Many people think that jade can be handed down and become a passer, so people who are dumping all of them to buy jade are there. As more and more high-level gifts are delivered to them, the jadeite becomes precious and circulates.

However, few people consider jadeite as a work of art to examine it, to examine it and to collect it. Jade is still the emerald. When it is not a craft but an artwork, what kind of modality would it be? Xu Hongfei considered how to derive new aesthetics from the earthly culture of jade. Ever since he decided that Emerald was a new material for creation, he talked about Emerald almost every day, thinking about how to turn jade stone into a real work of art. One time, Xu Hongfei returned to Bangkok and stayed at the Peninsula Hotel. In the afternoon, he likes to drink afternoon tea at Peninsula Hotel. The Peninsula Hotel is located on the banks of the Chao Phraya River. The afternoon sun shines golden light on the river, while the passing ships rush through the city, bringing the scene of the city’s circulation. Compared with Myanmar’s Neybi Two worlds. At this time, the bird on the balcony also buzzed with joy, as if he had come from afar to meet us. Xu Hongfei said, What a lovely bird. As soon as the voice just fell, I did not expect that the bird had jumped onto the table and we had eaten the rest of the dim sum.

Soon after returning to Guangzhou, Xu Hongfei created a work of two sparrows that fell in love with each other. It was vivid, and the gray-and-white jade was in line with the feathers of the birds. The difference between jade sculpture and other materials lies in the fact that when it comes to conceiving works, we must take a holistic grasp of the color, texture and texture of the raw materials, including the defects that exist, so that we can use the unique combination of materials and imagination.

Xu Hongfei saw a dark green and white jade, black and white stripes, and scattered dark green spots at the Burmese auction site. He immediately thought of making a frog the most suitable. In the end, not only a frog but also a pair of frogs with the male and the female in the bottom of the room. This work is meticulous and lifelike, with pleasing shapes and liveliness.

Maybe it was the person who was thinking of emerald, and Xu Hongfei, who had entered four or four out of Myanmar within a year or more, would have slowly become an expert in jade. He told us that there are two types of emerald auctions in Myanmar, one of which is Ming shot, which is when the auctioneer sets the reserve price and the buyer raises the asking price. Ming shot is often very expensive, so most jade merchants participate in the dark standard; dark label is the jade merchant fills in their own selected stone on the ticket, open the price that they are willing to give, the seller's comprehensive buyer's price, and finally announced The highest bidder wins the bid. There are also drawbacks to this kind of dark mark, which is that the price is low, and the selected stone will fail. However, if you are willing to win, you will have to pay a higher price, and the price of flowers will be high. Only buy the wrong ones and sell them without mistakes. The Myanmar Emerald auction has never been a losing business.

“So people have buyers like rats and sellers like tigers. This is where Emerald makes people crazy. It can make some people get rich overnight, and some people who misjudged them instantly go bankrupt.” Xu Hongfei likes talking Emerald anecdotes.

He also knew that the factor that determines the value of jade is the species and land of jade. He said that the general connotation of the species refers to its transmissivity; the meaning of the ground refers to the purity of the ground except the color. In this way, the species and the land become the dense and delicate degree and transparency of the jadeite structure. In the Emerald Trading Center, Xu Hongfei used the lights to tell me what was the glass species and what kind of ice species it was. He said that the glass species could not be distinguished by the naked eye and needed to use light to see the subtle shape of the mineral crystal grains. Whether the jade was pure and whether the water was filling in color.

The old pit glass jade is a masterpiece, and Xu Hongfei can not afford it. However, it is also a comfort to appreciate it. Many people who engage in the jadeite business have never seen a small piece of jade material worth over 100 million yuan for a lifetime. . Although it is impossible to buy back the most valuable jadeite, the good jadeite is because of the artist's creativity and emotions. The stone that was previously called jade is transformed into a jade sculpture by the sculptor's hand, and its appreciation and collection value is in vain. High is not the same.

In my opinion, Xu Hongfei is the first person who is defiant enough to think about "Jade". He is a true "wondered" thinker because he does not think of how much money he would earn by emerald. He thought The use of jade as a sculptural material breaks the imaginative space of sculpture materials. I call Xu Hongfei "thinking" thinkers. I want to think of "ç¿¡ç¿¡". It is also an incredible thinking. It is precisely this kind of "thinking" and "thinking" that sculpture art has had new freedom.