[Explanation] When I first met Guo Lanxiang, the 70-year-old man's face was written with a broad-minded temperament that transcends wandering, gathers and calms.
After 30 years of friendship with Jade, she is still indifferent after the vicissitudes of life.
In the early spring, I walked into Guo Lanxiang's Hetian Jade Collection and Exhibition Center located in the urban area of Urumqi. Every jade sculpture on display is a record and witness of her passing through the years.
Viewers from south to north regard this as a jade museum.
From business to creativity, Guo Lanxiang has always pursued her life in Xinjiang for 50 years by using jade to pass on classics, use jade to integrate literature, use jade to enrich people, and use jade to make friends.
In the 1960s and 1970s in Hotan, Xinjiang, people lived in poverty and lacked materials. At that time, Guo Lanxiang began to collect jade, and the modest income of rural doctors supported this decent hobby.
Adhering to the family tradition of accumulating good and virtuous, she treated diseases and saved people along the way, and became attached to beautiful jade all the way. The story behind every jade that she became attached to because of doctors strengthened her obsession with both charity and Yazang.
The hobby of jade has changed from amateur to professional. Guo Lanxiang has experienced the transformation of wind meals, sleepovers, wanderings, forming good relationships, and a party of celebrities.
While accumulating wealth, this hobby made her choose to use Xinjiang jade to inherit Chinese classics.
She looks for creative inspiration from the classics and communicates with craftsmen. She presents classic stories, characteristic characters and jade sculptors such as "Dream of Red Mansions: The Twelve Hairpins of Jinling" and "Romance of the Three Kingdoms: Three Knots in Taoyuan" in each piece of work.
[Concurrent] Jade collector Guo Lanxiang
(China) thousands of years of culture can not be separated from jade, jade represents the five virtues of the Chinese nation.
If you come to visit Xinjiang in the future, you say Hetian jade is from Xinjiang, which one is Hetian jade?
[Explanation] Jade is an important part of traditional Chinese culture, a powerful business card for the dissemination of Xinjiang's foreign culture, and an important component of the Beijing Summer and Winter Olympic medals.
Jade culture contains the solar terms of "better to be broken by jade"; the fashion of "turning war into jade and silk"; the morality of "moisturizing and warming";
In ancient poetry, jade is often used to describe and describe all beautiful people or things.
It is the wish of many collectors to use jade to inherit the culture of Chinese classics, and Guo Lanxiang has persisted in this way to this day.
[Concurrent] Jade collector Guo Lanxiang
Hetian jade is the same as we Chinese. It is very connotative. Jade represents a person's virtue. Only gentlemen will wear jade. If you are not a gentleman, you cannot be worthy of jade. The virtue of jade is too important.
[Explanation] From appreciating jade, hiding jade, to today's jade exhibition, Guo Lanxiang's life is as legendary as jade.
He learned to drive at the age of 60, learned Chinese painting at the age of 65, and founded the Jade Museum at the age of 70.
In her opinion, life can become spacious and bright as long as you move towards your goals.
Going around in the Jade Museum and playing with the collection is an important homework for Guo Lanxiang every day.
She is proud of her transformation from a jade collector to a disseminator of jade culture.
[Concurrent] Jade collector Guo Lanxiang
No one can stop me from doing what I want to do in my life, because I want to popularize (jade) culture, and I'm here to spread (jade) culture.
Hetian jade is the culture of the Chinese nation (an important part), and I should keep this culture in Xinjiang.
[Explanation] Guo Lanxiang is such a bold and detached Xinjiang native. She told reporters that these jades come from the land of Xinjiang, China. No matter where these beautiful jades come from, they will eventually return to where they will go. I am not the owner, but the temporary manager.
Responsible editor: [Ye Pan]