The Painter Went To Make Shoes. The Danube River Called "Made In China".

Moderator: new concept of wealth, create new wealth.

Welcome to the fortune story. I am Wang Kai.

Last week I took you to Wen Jinhua's hotel to enjoy the singing of the Moscow Red Flag Song and dance ensemble.

Today we are going to take you to a city called "pearl on the The Danube", Budapest, Hungary.

This is one of the most beautiful cities in the world.

The Danube quietly flows through here. The waltz of the blue The Danube created by John Strauss in eighteenth Century is famous for the river flowing through ten countries.

But it is such a The Danube, which is praised by the poets and let the musicians be in a mood, but in the eyes of painter Wei Xiang, it almost became his best destination.

Commentary: A Midsummer Night fifteen years ago, looking at the The Danube of all kinds, Wei Xiang, a painter studying in Hungary, wrote a letter to Huang Chenfeng, his wife studying in England. "I am in a bad mood these days. Watching The Danube pass by quietly, I don't know whether to jump or not."

In the same period: tell her that I dedicate myself to art in my whole life, and you can't count on me, because I haven't had enough hope for myself, and I really considered where to go.

Host: in Budapest, there is a famous song called "melancholy Sunday". Many people are humming this song and drowning themselves in The Danube.

A Chinese painter walked along the Danube late at night.

Looking at the ancient architecture which is floating on the sparkling The Danube just like the fairy mountain and the Joan Pavilion, humming this melancholy song, what is the idea of sprouting the river to commit suicide?

Commentary: Wei Xiang graduated from the Fine Arts Department of Fujian Normal University in 1989. He was an art teacher at a vocational and technical school in Sanming, Fujian.

Oil painting originated in Europe from the end of eighteenth Century to the beginning of nineteenth Century, and the beauty and harmony of European oil painting was well known in the world.

Wei Xiang, who loved oil painting, dreamed of being able to climb the art hall of oil painting one day. So in early 91 he resigned from his work and came to Europe. Hungary became his first foothold.

In the same period: because he studied western paintings and oil paintings, he felt that these countries could pursue their dreams and see the true qualities of the masters, and then learn the true meaning of art.

In the same period: when an artist came to Europe, especially oil painting and oil painting, he liked color very much. The whole world in Europe was full of color. No matter people, no matter the environment or architecture, they were filled with color and feel very intoxicated.

Explanation: the blue The Danube flows through Hungary and divides the capital Budapest into two.

The West Bank is bu Da, and the east coast is Perth. Most of the buildings in the streets are in the middle ages.

The famous fisherman castle, the majiash cathedral and the Royal Palace are located on the mountain of the BDA castle. Budapest looks like a magnificent oil painting attracting Wei Xiang. In the Museum of the famous poet Petfi and the great musician Lester, Wei Xiang looks for their footprints.

Moderator: Hungary is located in Central Europe, a landlocked country with a population of only about ten million.

In Budapest, a city with only about two million people, there are nearly 200 museums and galleries, 40 theaters and opera houses, and 7 concert halls. Every season, the city hosts colorful programs.

For example, "opera and Ballet Festival" in June and August, the Budapest international wine and champagne festival in September and the autumn festival in October.

Here, Wei Xiang and a group of artists with common language were fascinated, but at the same time, they did not think that embarrassment was getting closer and closer to him.

In the same period: my life state is now very beautiful and full. We have three or four so-called artists who explore art, explore life and explore the future together, and then we are intoxicated every day.

Commentary: at that time, Wei Xiang was filled with the longing for art. Every day, besides painting, he was dreaming of becoming a painter like Picasso and van Gao.

But the reality has been ruthlessly destroyed his dream. After Hungarian Hungary has been mixed up for over a year, Wei Xiang has borrowed little from his brother's ten thousand Yuan Hong Kong dollar. Is he leaving or staying?

After many deliberation, Wei Xiang decided to change his oil painting for life.

So he pulled out the only $more than 100 he had.

In a bar in Hungary, a complete Chinese style art exhibition was held, hoping to sell several paintings and continue to maintain their lives.

In the same period: I pulled out the last dollar in my body, and then finished the exhibition, ready, hoping that this exhibition could sell several paintings to continue our artistic career.

Commentary: like many European countries, Hungarians also love art very much.

The Hungarians also had great enthusiasm for Wei Xiang's painting exhibition. Although there were many visitors, there were not many people who bought pictures. Only one Hungarian old man with his mentally retarded son bought one of his paintings for $three hundred on the spot.

In the same period: three hundred dollars is big. It should be very big, bigger than I am now thirty thousand or forty thousand dollars.

Why?

It solved my survival crisis. When I was in the affirmative and need money most, it had three hundred dollars.

Commentary: but the three hundred dollars completely destroyed Wei Xiang's longing for art.

He did not expect his painstaking painting to be so worthless. In his view, his oil painting should not be such a result.

In the same period: unable to hold up the brush, the feeling was destroyed and the passion was destroyed.

Host: so the $three hundred is both Wei Sheng's life saving money and his life threatening money.

That's why we saw the scene before. He could not accept this reality and humiliation, so he wanted to jump into The Danube and die.

In the same period: I always advised him, and I said you'd better give up.

In the same period: according to my wife, you have to face the reality, you already have a wife and children.

In the same period: three generations of French people have trained an artist. I say we are the first generation. You put your dreams aside for a while. We still do business or consider survival.

In the same period: never want to do business, kill or do business. "

Compere: the failure of the art exhibition completely let Wei Xiang no longer have the courage to take the brush, that feeling and enthusiasm were thoroughly destroyed.

Wei and Xiang chose the latter between art and belly filling.

And the wife ended her studies in advance and came to her side to study business, starting from the market stall.

In the same period: there is a city in every field in Hungary. Every week, only one day is the market. There is no one in this place at all. I know that there is a day in the city on Monday. There is a day in the city on Tuesday. We are driving dozens of kilometers and more than 100 kilometers to the other side. It takes half a day to finish at twelve o'clock in the morning.

Explanation: Hungary's natural resources are relatively poor, light industry is relatively weak, with the political stability of Hungary in the middle of 90s.

Many Chinese come here to do business in shoes and hats, clothing and other light industrial products.

Wei Xiang spent two months from training to starting a company.

In the same period: from January 2, 1994 when my wife came back to the store in March 8th, we ended the career of the stall. From the store in March 8th to May, I returned home and finished the retail career and became an importer.

The host: at the end of the career, with his own store, Wei Xiangcai really began to think about how to do business.

When buying sports shoes in a piecemeal way, Wei Xiang found Hungary a sport oriented country where people like sports.

Once a sprinter, the Secretary of the former international Athletics Federation, the 28 Hungarian champion, was the hero of Hungarians, so Wei Xiang decided to start with sports shoes.

Explanation: in Hungary, there are more than 30000 Chinese people, most of whom are in shoes and hats and clothing.

The traditional mode of operation is to directly pport Chinese shoes and clothing to Hungary and then sell them wholesale.

So Wei Xiang decided to take a road different from them. In Hungary's registered trademark and domestic production, he personally designed a WINK logo for his sneakers.

The same period: it is the meaning of flash, it has two meanings, one is blinking, the other is flash, and of course I am willing to take the meaning of flash. I think we should flash in this place.

Moderator: forced to earn a living, Wei Xiang became a businessman although he was a businessman.

He named his sneakers "wick", hoping that one day his shoes would shine and be different, so his approach was also different.

Commentary: maybe it is because of the artist's reason that Wei Xiang's thinking is different from that of other people. The Chinese businessman who did the same project did not make full page advertisements in Hungary magazine, but Wei Xiang became the first person to eat crab, and the crab brought the unusual smell.

In the same period: once there was a phone call to me, I answered a phone call, he said what products you have, I will tell him what, he listens to you this is a foreigner's accent, you are not Hungarian, right?

I said yes, not Hungarians.

Where do you say you are from?

I say it's Chinese.

He threw up the phone, and I was half dead.

Commentary: the reason for this is that some illegal traders bought some fake and inferior products to Hungary merchants at that time, thereby destroying the image of Chinese products. Because of this prejudice, Hungarians did not want to do business with Chinese people at that time.

In the same period: of course, I received a phone call. I was even more annoyed. You looked down on me. I said I would make a big advertisement tomorrow, and tell you which day to turn around.

From which day, I often tell the magazine that I'm not a cover, I don't want it, at least fewest, in the middle of the page, I don't want the whole page, the price is casual, it doesn't matter your price, but I want the cover, you don't have no cover.

Moderator: in Hungary, newspapers and magazines need not be approved. They only need to register with the Ministry of culture and education.

So advertising competition is fierce.

In 94 years, Wei Xiang made a great advertisement in the newspapers and magazines of Hungary.

Don't mention it. It's really effective.

That day his company came to a Hungarian, but this Hungarian brought "wick" to a star road.

Who is this man?

After an ad, I'll tell you later.

Moderator: Welcome back.

Earlier we talked about Wei Xiang coming to Hungary for art from China.

But failed.

In the end, he gave up the artist's dream of diligent and demanding and abandoned his pen for business.

On the day, Wei Xiang's company came to Hungary, but this person completely changed the development track of "wick".

In the same period: I remember this guy dressed in a suit, very nervous, wearing a suit, and then sweating a lot on his face. I think he seems nervous enough to talk to me.

In the same period: because I found that the boss of wick is a Chinese.

With the help of plation, we began to talk.

In the same period: at that time, the term "hockey team" was very strange to us. Then we described it for a long time, because it was dry field hockey, not hockey.

Moderator: the special field players play dry hockey is different from normal hockey, although they are all called hockey, but the difference is too far away.

Due to economic reasons, Hungary is unable to support the Special Olympics hockey team.

Because this is a team that can not cause any attention, and many people are far away from this team because he can't get any benefit at all, and Wei Xiang understands this too.

Commentary: Although PINTER ISTVAN is the head coach of the Hungary national special Olympics hockey team, the team is powerless to maintain their basic training.

In the same period: our campaign is a movement of the Hungarian Special Olympics Association.

We received some subsidies from the Hungarian Special Olympics.

But this funding is less and less.

Commentary: this PINTER ISTVAN came to Wei Xiang because the team is coming soon.