Chapter 893 The Ideal Has Changed Again?

In the end, the three of them each selected the paintings and calligraphy they were satisfied with and left.

Of course, these paintings and calligraphy cannot be taken away now, and the delivery will not be completed until the calligraphy and painting exhibition is over.

Before leaving, Wang Longchang and Wu Mingsheng warmly invited Fang Minghua to get together some time, including Gabriel, and Fang Minghua readily agreed.

When someone just buys something, it would be rude to refuse immediately.

However, whether to go or not is still a matter of two words.

With this good start, the entire calligraphy and painting exhibition is still quite popular. There are many people visiting every day, including some celebrities and rich people, and of course most of them are Chinese.

In the 52 Calligraphy and Painting Exhibition this time, 40 pieces were sold in the end. All five of Fang Minghua's calligraphy works were sold, and even two of Jia Pingwa's calligraphy works were sold, with prices of US$50,000 and US$65,000 respectively.

Just the word Jia Ge.

Fang Minghua couldn't help but curl his lips inwardly.

Of course, you still have to pay taxes on the income from selling paintings and calligraphy. According to California tax law, you have to pay sales tax and capital gains tax, which total 19%.

Finally, Fang Minghua made a form of their respective incomes and sent it to Song Tangtang, asking her to pass it on to these calligraphy and painting friends in Xijing and ask them to provide personal accounts to transfer the funds respectively.

At the same time, I urge you to quickly replenish and ship over the sold paintings and calligraphy!

After this matter was handed over to Song Tangtang, she quickly completed it and told Fang Minghua on the phone: "These Xijing calligraphers and painters were very happy to hear about this matter. Some of them have already given me their calligraphy and painting works. When they are collected, I’ll send it to you without delaying the opening of the Confucius Institute.”

"Brother Jia also said that if anyone still wants it, you can just sell it and write as much as you want."

Have I become a painting and calligraphy dealer?

Fang Minghua couldn't laugh or cry after hearing this.

After working hard for more than ten days, I can finally rest.

On the weekend in between, Fang Minghua, his youngest daughter, and Liu Xiaoli also participated in a play performed by the San Francisco Art School Drama Club. They performed in the school's small theater, and the director was naturally their eldest daughter Fang Rui.

This is a three-act play imitated by the British Bookhouse Theatre, but the original time is longer and there are many characters, so it is not suitable for middle school students to rehearse.

Fang Rui himself made bold changes, reducing the number of characters and making it an 8-person version, with the performance time limited to one hour.

The performance was in the school's small theater. This theater has more than 500 seats, and it was full today.

As expected, it is an art school, and the artistic atmosphere is quite strong. Also, my daughter's plays are quite popular.

Fang Minghua watched carefully from the front row of the audience.

It seems that my daughter has arranged it well, the plot is very compact, it has a very pure British style, and the language is lively and interesting.

Don't tell me, Fang Rui is also very talented in art. It would be good to work in drama in the future, Fang Minghua thought in his heart.

Marianne played by Liu Yifei is also good. Although her oriental face seems a little out of place in front of several blond and blue-eyed American girls, she is still beautiful.

In addition, the body language and expression management are just right. In later generations, the biggest problem with Liu Yifei's acting skills is that her line skills are not strong, and her expression control and emotional expression are not very good.

However, after filming the "Harry Potter" series and being trained by the two great directors Zhang Yimou and Chen Kaige, it now seems much better.

If she acted in more dramas, it would only be beneficial to improve her acting skills.

The drama performance ended with a round of applause. Fang Rui immediately ran down excitedly, followed by Liu Yifei.

"Dad, how was my arrangement?" Fang Rui asked.

"Well, it's pretty good!" Fang Minghua raised his thumbs up, and then said to Liu Yifei: "Sissi, your acting is good. You can act in more dramas in the future."

Of course it's with professional actors, not with a bunch of middle school students.

But I can't say this in front of my daughter today, it's a bit hurtful.

"Dad, I want to be a drama director in the future!" Fang Rui said again.

Oh?

Has the ideal changed again?

At first, I wanted to be a dancer like my mother, then I wanted to be a pianist, and now I am a drama director!

Forget it, just do whatever you want.

Fang Minghua finally met the drama instructor, a middle-aged woman named Caitlin, who did not hesitate to praise Fang Rui for her talent in drama directing.

"Mr. Fang, I know that your daughter is versatile and has great potential in music, especially piano playing, but I still strongly recommend that your daughter pursue a career in drama in the future, because."

At this point, Caitlin paused and emphasized: "If you work as a drama director, the piano world will only lose an ordinary pianist, but the drama world will gain a genius director!"

This is quite a boast.

Fang Minghua first expressed his gratitude to Caitlin for guiding Fang Rui in rehearsing the drama. At the same time, he also said that he never interfered with his daughter's choices and she could do whatever she liked.

After participating in his daughter's drama performance and the calligraphy and painting exhibition, Fang Minghua's life became easier.

I get up at seven o'clock every morning and run in the manor, read, fish, and surf the Internet. On weekends, I go shopping with Li Li and her two daughters. I occasionally go to Radar Wen or Zhang Qing's house to hold a private party.

As for other social interactions, he politely declined.

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Time passed quickly, and in the blink of an eye, it was late November, and the weather in San Francisco became colder. Early this morning, Fang Minghua and Li Li wore formal clothes and drove straight to San Francisco State University in the morning, because today is the date when the Confucius Institute will be established. A grand unveiling ceremony was held.

The Confucius Institute is located in the building of the Graduate School of Education at San Francisco State University. Consul General in San Francisco Peng Keyu, President of San Francisco State University Colligan and President of Yenching University Xu Zhihong attended the ceremony and delivered speeches.

Representatives of the Governor of California, Mayor William of San Francisco, and city officials also came to congratulate; Hanban and the Department of International Cooperation of the Ministry of Education all sent congratulatory letters. More than 300 representatives from all walks of life in the Bay Area attended the ceremony.

Of course, including Wang Longchang and Wu Mingsheng.

Consul General Peng Keyu delivered a warm speech. With the close connection between China's economic development and global economic development, Chinese language teaching has received increasing attention around the world. In recent years, the Chinese government has further increased its support for the international promotion of Chinese language. , launched a series of plans, of which the construction of Confucius Institutes is an important part. He expressed his appreciation for the measures taken by the US government to encourage the learning of Chinese, and thanked the mayor of San Francisco and the local education department for their support of Chinese teaching.

Consul General Peng Keyu also presented 3,000 books and audio-visual materials on Chinese culture, history, language and literature, Chinese teaching and other fields to the Confucius Institute at San Francisco State University on behalf of Hanban, and handed over the first Confucius Institute funds allocated by Hanban.

Of course, after the opening ceremony, there was a donation ceremony, in which Fang Minghua personally donated 10 traditional Chinese paintings by painters of the Republic of China and 52 works of calligraphers and painters from Qin Province.

These calligraphy and painting works were all displayed in a special exhibition hall of the Confucius Institute. When Fang Minghua unveiled the red silk hanging on the bronze plaque at the entrance of the exhibition hall, warm applause erupted in the corridor, and then everyone filed in to enjoy the calligraphy and painting.

"Is this really an authentic work of Qi Baishi?!" Wang Longchang became excited when he saw the "Fun Picture of Shrimp" hanging on the wall.

"And this one, "Autumn Light" by Zhang Daqian!"

nonsense!

Do I donate fakes? !

Fang Minghua was a little dissatisfied.

But before he could speak, Wu Mingsheng next to him said with a smile: "President Wang, to tell you the truth, I have two paintings by Qi Baishi at home. I often take them out to appreciate them, so I know a little bit about them. I dare Are you sure this painting is authentic? Besides, why would Mr. Fang donate a fake?”

"Yes, yes, Mr. Fang, I'm sorry, I take back what I just said." Wang Longchang said immediately, and looked at Fang Minghua with fiery eyes: "Mr. Fang, are you selling this painting? I am willing to buy it at a high price!"

Fang Minghua smiled and shook his head.

At this time, a white-haired old man stood on the side and suddenly said, speaking fluent Chinese: "Mr. Fang, I would like to ask, where do you get these paintings from the Republic of China period? Are they the original ones?" Paintings from the Palace Museum?”

Hey, how do you know?

Fang Minghua was surprised and looked at this old man with an oriental face in surprise.