1970s monkey race

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Chapter 31 Wonderful Miracles

This is a specialty store that sells ivory products.

Various exquisite ivory carvings, through the huge transparent floor-to-ceiling glass windows, seemed to be waving to Li Zhenzhen and saying, "Come on, come and buy us back..."

The Chinese have always loved ivory. As early as more than 7,000 years ago, they began to use ivory as decoration.

With the progress of history, the ivory carving craftsmanship has become more and more exquisite.

Ivory carving craftsmanship is divided into two schools, the southern and the northern. The southern ivory carving refers to Guangzhou ivory carving, which has always been known as "immortal craftsmanship".

In the Song Dynasty, Guangzhou ivory carvings were already popular in the Western world.

In the Qing Dynasty, it reached its peak.

Not only did it become a tribute to the Qing Dynasty royal family, it was also an important source of tax revenue for Guangzhou exporters.

Among them, the most popular and best-selling one was the ivory carved palace fan. In the European upper class at that time, almost everyone had one, and it was an indispensable equipment for noble ladies.

Voltaire once said: "A lady without a fan is like a man without a sword, and will become a laughing stock."

According to records, when a most ordinary British merchant ship left Guangzhou, in addition to the most traditional silk, porcelain and tea, it also carried as many as 100,000 ivory fans. This shows the charm of oriental ivory carvings!

Li Zhenzhen walked into the store tentatively, and no one came out to stop her.

It seems that this store does not restrict the identity of customers.

After Li Zhenzhen walked in, it was as if she walked into a treasure house of art.

The ivory carvings in the store are exquisite and exquisite, ingenious, dazzling and beautiful!

Most of these ivory products use the hollow carving and through-carving techniques of the Lingnan area to make various Lingnan landscapes such as flowers, rocks, dragon boats, pagodas, crab cages, etc.

Among them is a huge ivory dragon boat, the whole length of the boat is about two meters, and a nine-story building is built high in the boat. Its height has far exceeded Li Zhenzhen's height. There are pavilions, terraces, pavilions, carved beams and painted rafters on it, everything is included!

All these buildings are very transparent, and the people and animals moving around in them are lifelike and vivid, and can be seen clearly from the outside!

Seeing Li Zhenzhen standing still in front of this ivory dragon boat, the waiter in the store came over attentively and said with a smile:

"Comrade, do you like this dragon boat? This is just made and sent to our factory. Three masters and more than a dozen apprentices worked for two years to make it!"

"This is a miniature version of an ancient luxury cruise ship. Look at the doors and windows on it, they can open and close freely!"

"On this ship, there are 1000 people alone. 666! There are more than 500 horses and more than 100 dogs! Look, their expressions are not the same! "

"Do the flags on it look like they are fluttering in the wind? That's nothing!"

"Look carefully at the clothes on these people, all of them are fluttering in the wind!"