Related reports on making money from water

Magicians from Sichuan and Chongqing reveal the secret of "making money from water": it is not an escape technique but a magic trick

2010-11-07 09:12:40 Source: Chongqing Business News

< p>Follow-up report on the Wanzhou strange man who made 30,000 yuan from the water basin

This newspaper reported (chief reporter Huang Ping) that Yang Degui, known as the Wanzhou strange man, easily covered himself with 3 towels and 4 newspapers. After being reported by this newspaper, this incident aroused strong reactions from the magic circles in Sichuan and Chongqing. Yesterday, magicians from Chengdu and Bishan claimed that Yang Degui's performance was pure magic after performing live in Bishan.

Magician restores "money fishing from water"

Yesterday afternoon, Chengdu magician Yang Yi came to Bishan and worked with Bishan magician Shang Zhengyi to crack Yang Degui's money fishing technique. In the lobby of a restaurant in the southern section of Yanhe Road in Bishan County, Shang Zhengyi replicated Yang Degui's money-making performance on the spot. Before the performance, our reporter and the Chengdu media at the scene inspected all props including porcelain basins, towels and newspapers. An audience member also publicly searched all the cash on Shang's body. Later, Shang Zhengyi imitated Yang Degui's method and allowed the audience to fish out 2,205.20 yuan in 5 minutes. The largest amount was 1,605.20 yuan.

It is understood that the two won silver and bronze medals respectively in the International Magic Competition held in Chengdu during the National Day this year.

Making money out of water is actually magic

Shang Zhengyi is 44 years old. He started learning magic performances at the age of 15 and is currently a well-known local real estate manager in Bishan. He said that his performance was actually magic, not something mysterious, and that the money the audience took out of the basin was all his own. The money can be spent completely, but it is not a penny that Yang Degui said.

Yang Yi said that Yang Degui's performance was also a kind of magic, not an escape technique as he claimed, and the money he fished out was his own. The secret is firstly to rely on the eyesore method, and secondly to rely on quick techniques. As for Yang Degui’s secret in making money, what is his secret? Both magic masters said that according to professional rules, they could not reveal the secrets.

At the performance site, a reporter called Yang Degui who was in Wanzhou. He said that he had never seen Shang Zhengyi’s performance with his own eyes and still couldn’t believe it, but he welcomed the two masters to Wanzhou to compete with him live.

The real estate boss challenges the "wonderful man from all over the world" and the magic of escaping money is just ordinary magic

2010-11-07 08:08:00 Source: West China Metropolis Daily

World Is there a cornucopia of money that makes money pour out? Not long ago, Yang Degui, a 47-year-old native of Wanzhou, Chongqing, performed several "performances" to prove that he could create the miracle of changing money from a distance. He said: "What I perform is not magic, but escape." A Chongqing website also claimed, A reward of 100,000 yuan is being offered to the world for answers to solve the mystery. Liu Qian, who was born in a poor family, instantly became an internet celebrity. Some people even said that Liu Qian’s magic tricks were child’s play in front of his “money-escape skills”. The local government even banned his performance. Included in the second batch of intangible cultural heritage list.

Yesterday, Shang Zhengyi, chairman of a real estate company in Bishan, Chongqing, summoned the media from Chengdu and Chongqing. As a super magic enthusiast, he copied Yang Degui's "miracle" of escaping money in front of everyone. Said: "This is not a money evasion trick, but I don't want to reveal his trick, but I want him to know that magic is magic. Magic cannot be superstitious, let alone demonize it." On the same day, Mr. Shang also Inviting his friend Yang Yi, a famous magician from Chengdu, to Bishan, he witnessed how he managed to conjure 2,205 yuan and 2 jiao banknotes out of the basin in five times.

Yesterday, Shang Zhengyi, a real estate owner in Bishan, Chongqing, invited a reporter from West China Metropolis Daily to Bishan through his friend Yang Yi. He wanted to truly restore the entire process of Yang Degui's "escaping money" from the basin.

At two o'clock in the afternoon that day, Mr. Shang and his friends who came from all over the world finished their meal at a restaurant in Bishan. Already confident, he stepped out of the door and took out a diameter A ceramic basin of about 30 centimeters, a red thread, two towels, and the day's newspaper from the restaurant are all necessary props for Yang Degui to perform the "money escape technique".

The West China Metropolis Daily reporter carefully inspected the white porcelain basin. It felt heavy and made a clanging sound. The towels and newspapers also looked quite normal. Mr. Shang admitted frankly that there was no hidden mechanism in them.

Mr. Shang asked the waiter to fetch water from the kitchen and poured it into the basin himself. Then he borrowed a bunch of keys from the landlady and threw them into the porcelain basin, and then covered the basin with towels and newspapers. At this time, he had already taken off his suit, and wearing short sleeves, he put his hands into the porcelain basin. Before, he asked everyone present to check his hands carefully to make sure they were clean. Mr. Shang smiled and muttered something like Yang Degui. The proprietress was the first to reach into the basin and said, "There is only my key in it." After only four or five seconds, she shouted: "I touched a piece of paper. !" He took it out and saw that it was a hundred-yuan bill. The West China Metropolis Daily reporter volunteered and reached in second after the proprietress. The water was very cold. He kept groping with his right hand in the basin. Soon, a paper-like object touched his fingertips. He quickly pinched it and lifted it. It was also a hundred. Yuan opened the newspaper and towel and saw that there was nothing in the water except the key. Mr. Shang covered the water basin again, and then several reporters reached in and grabbed a lot of banknotes. Finally, a reporter from a Chengdu TV station simply fished out a pile of wet hundred-yuan banknotes from the water in one go, with pieces of money mixed in them. In less than 10 minutes, the total amount of money placed on the table was 2,205 yuan and 2 cents. Everyone was astonished.

After the successful performance, Mr. Shang was surrounded by people, and everyone asked him to explain the truth about turning money into water. He said: "I can tell you that this is magic, not the mysterious magic that Yang Degui said. I used blindness to deceive you all." A reporter from West China Metropolis Daily asked him: "Have you put yourself in a trap?" I took out all the cash I had." Mr. Shang smiled but didn't answer.

Seeing that there are still many people who are full of curiosity and questions, Mr. Shang said: "This is my second time performing this magic so far. I can guarantee that it uses exactly the same method as Yang Degui, but it turns money." The efficiency is faster than him." It turns out that when Yang Degui became famous for his "money escape technique" not long ago, a TV station from Hunan rushed to Wanzhou to film his special feature, and also invited Mr. Shang and several other Chongqing magicians to experience it. The miracle of this strange man. "Yang Degui saw me driving a BMW and thought I was just an ordinary boss. When I went to make money, he also relaxed his vigilance towards me." According to Mr. Shang, when he put his hand in, he thought Two words "got it" popped up immediately, and then he secretly made an OK gesture to the TV reporter, took out two hundred-yuan bills, and hurriedly left. Afterwards, he specifically demonstrated to a TV reporter how Yang Degui turned the money out in a hotel in Wanzhou.

Mr. Shang, who has been studying magic since junior high school, said: "After I learned about Yang Degui's principle of changing money, I found it very funny. He actually used this method to fool everyone, and he firmly refused to admit that it was magic. , so this time I decided to copy his little trick in front of the public." After dealing with Yang Degui, Mr. Shang thought that he had no education, but he was quite shrewd. "His family environment is not very good, and he makes money by performing this little trick. There is nothing wrong with eating, but it must not be overshadowed by superstition," Mr. Shang said, "I don't want to expose him, because I don't miss the 100,000 yuan bonus. Secondly, if I expose him, this person's future life will be ruined. It is the rule of every magician to not disclose the magic answer easily."

During Mr. Shang's performance, reporters from the West China Metropolis Daily often peeked at the magician Yang next to him. Yang Yi, because he was suspected of being a "shill", the two of them may have cooperated to complete this magic together, but from beginning to end, Yang Yi kept his hands in his pockets. Mr. Shang also said that this magic did not require any "caregivers" at all. He also joked: "Even if I take off all my clothes and only wear underwear, I can perform it independently."

Afterwards, Yang Yi said: "In addition to not revealing secrets casually, there is also an important rule in the magician's code that magic must be developed in the right way. Yang Degui violated this rule and turned the magic that brings entertainment and laughter into something crooked. This has already happened. This makes many magicians angry. If this unhealthy trend is not corrected, then in the future, magicians will say that they know magic and escape, and that won’t be a complete mess.” Yang Yi also analyzed that Yang Degui caught most magicians. Mentality, he knew that magicians could not reveal the secret of magic, so he arrogantly offered a large reward for people to crack his "money escape technique".

He said: "If Yang Degui still insists that what he performs is escape magic rather than magic in the future, the magician alliances in Chengdu and Chongqing plan to send representatives to expose his tricks in public."

That afternoon, witnesses The reporter who learned about Mr. Shang's magic trick of changing money from a water basin also called Yang Degui, who was in Wanzhou. He was very surprised to hear that someone had successfully copied his "money escaping trick" and asked in a breathy tone: "He was upper body during the performance." Are you wearing clothes? Do you have anything on your hands?" Then he said "Hmm" and said after a few seconds of silence: "What I didn't see with my own eyes doesn't count, so why don't he come to Wanzhou to compete with me on the spot?" When the reporter asked him: "Will you admit now that what you performed was not escape but magic?" Yang Degui began to talk about him, and finally hung up the phone in a hurry.

Dozens of citizens who were informed of the news in advance spontaneously came to the 19th floor of the West Asia Hotel in the High-tech Zone to wait. After Yang Degui arrived, some citizens bought a porcelain basin and three towels, and the staff brought an empty table. Before the performance, reporters and citizens checked the porcelain basins and towels together. The reporter also took out the four newspapers he carried with him and conducted a thorough inspection of the table. After finding no foreign objects, Yang Degui took off his shirt, and the money and other items in his pants were temporarily removed by citizens.

Under the supervision of cameras and dozens of citizens, Yang Degui hung a red rope on the window, closed the curtains, closed his eyes slightly, and muttered something. At 11:40 a.m., an experiencing citizen put his hand into the basin, and then Yang Degui asked someone to throw a bunch of keys into the basin, and the performance officially began.