Is Guan Yi a master of Taihe wood? How did she make Taihe Muzuo step by step?

The exhibition hall of Taihe Woodwork, located in Hongmu Daguan Building, Chengshousi Road, Fengtai District, is filled with various styles of Chinese classical furniture. On the walls of the hall hangs general manager Guan Yi and Hongmu. Large group photos of experts, scholars, celebrities, and celebrities. In particular, the rich cultural atmosphere of mahogany is highlighted, which not only gives people a sense of material enjoyment, but also makes people feel that it is a kind of cultural enjoyment and has a strong cultural taste.

And as the owner of Taihe Woodwork, Guan Yi not only has the aura of being an expert in repairing the furniture of the Forbidden City, but also has the temperament of being knowledgeable, intelligent, quick-thinking and extraordinary.

Guan Yi was born in Beijing. His ancestors were bannermen of the Qing Dynasty and belonged to the Zhenghuang Banner. When he was a child, his family lived near Qianmen, and his grandma’s family lived in Caishikou. When he was 6 or 7 years old, he walked alone from East Liulichang to West Liulichang to play at his grandmother's house in Caishikou. On the way home, he always walked into the antique shops in Liulichang to take a look. Liulichang Almost all of the antique shops were visited. He knows almost all the owners and clerks in the store. He likes the porcelain, calligraphy and paintings and other collectibles in the antique store to the point of obsession. Sometimes he can't get enough of them, and it takes him a long time to look at them, and he forgets to go home for dinner. Sometimes when he sees something he particularly likes, he uses his usual pocket money to buy a few gadgets that interest him. Whether he was in primary school or middle school, whether it was Sunday or a holiday, whether it was windy or rainy, as long as he had time, he would always come to Liulichang to read and study. He became a frequent visitor to Liulichang, and Liulichang also became a an important part of his life.

I have been influenced by Liulichang since I was a child. I don’t like playing with other friends. I like to use my brain to think about everything and am willing to do things that interest me. After graduating from middle school, Guan Yi entered the Central Academy of Drama and studied hard in order to become a great performing artist in the future. In order to further improve my artistic accomplishment. In the early 1990s, Guan Yi came to the Moscow Theater Academy, the capital of the former Soviet Union, to study. During more than two years of studying in Moscow, the Soviet Union, he studied hard and eagerly. His artistic level has been significantly improved, and his artistic accomplishment has been greatly sublimated. When Guan Yi cherished the beautiful ideal and prepared to realize himself as a great artist, the world structure changed significantly overnight. Facing everything that happened gave Guan Yi a big problem. It was impossible for him to study peacefully or survive. He had to face the reality and adjust himself well. From then on, he started a new life. .

Returning to China to start a business and accumulating experience

After Guan Yi experienced the hard risks of starting a business abroad, he has richer social experience and has greatly improved his ability to analyze, judge and understand problems that occur. Improve, become more objective and practical. He thought that it would be safer to return to China to start a business and develop his business without having to go through such hardships and twists. This was the right choice. Because at this time, the spring breeze of domestic reform and opening up had blown across the country and the motherland, and economic construction was booming. Therefore, Guan Yi returned to China in 1994. He first went to Beijing's Xiushui Street to open a shop selling arts and crafts products, mainly serving customers in Russia and some Eastern European countries.

In those years, entrepreneurship had just begun. Due to lack of funds and lack of business experience, it was also very difficult to start a business. Because no suitable business project had been selected, it was in its infancy. All transactions that appeared in Beijing at that time He has been to markets, trade fairs, flea markets, etc., where he has set up stalls and sold many kinds of products. In order to accumulate funds and explore experience, he worked in many industries. Through various business activities, he continued to learn, sum up experience and lessons, and made many friends, learned many useful things from them, and absorbed valuable experience and lessons. lessons and received their sincere help and strong support. Continuously improve his business ability. Increased knowledge, broadened horizons, and broadened ideas for future career development.

Although life was difficult, ups and downs, and extremely tiring when he first started his business after returning to China, this painful and tortuous experience benefited Guan Yi a lot, and it was the most precious spiritual wealth in his life. .

Entered the mahogany industry with my wife

In a person's life, fate is important. In a business activity that I once had, a very accidental opportunity, related to Yi met a young and beautiful lady. Our personalities and hobbies are very similar to each other. After several years of acquaintance and understanding, we established a good relationship and finally became husband and wife. This is fate.

As the saying goes: "If we are destined to meet you thousands of miles away, if we are not destined to meet you, we will never meet in the opposite direction." Guan Yi's wife is from Dongyang, Zhejiang Province. Dongyang is a world-famous hometown of wood carving. Its wood carving art works are world-famous and there are many skilled craftsmen engaged in wood carving. He accompanied his wife to Dongyang, Zhejiang and some famous historical and cultural cities in the south, which opened his eyes. He saw many exquisite wood carvings with high artistic standards, and also saw the exquisite ancient buildings and platforms in many famous cultural cities in Jiangnan. Classical buildings with wooden structures such as pavilions and pavilions, as well as elegant classical furniture, can be regarded as masterpieces of Chinese classical architecture. This gave him a great interest in classical wooden architecture and classical furniture. This interest started from a simple understanding just for appreciation, and soon rose to a strong sense of responsibility and a high level of awareness of a career that needs to be undertaken. . An idea suddenly enlightened him. He saw the importance and urgency of developing classical furniture and studying ancient wooden structure architecture. In this field that has not yet been fully developed, it is still far from keeping up in many aspects. Some aspects are even blank, and research and development of the mahogany industry needs to be strengthened.

After investigation and research, careful analysis and judgment, Guan Yi believes that in today's great environment where the country's economic construction is developing rapidly and people's living standards are constantly improving, it is necessary to strengthen the development and research of Chinese classical furniture. He deeply felt that this might be a strong sense of responsibility and mission that prompted him. This might be an extremely important job that he would engage in in the future. Therefore, he began to seriously read a large number of books on classical furniture and ancient wooden structures, and studied ancient and modern writings on classical furniture and wooden buildings. He understood more that classical furniture not only has use value, but more importantly, its It has extremely profound cultural connotation and accumulation, and the excellent mahogany culture of the motherland must be carried forward and passed down. Our responsibility is not only to inherit and carry forward the essence of classical furniture, but also to innovate and develop on the basis of inheritance. It must have the characteristics of our modern era and have a sense of the times. Our generation has an unshirkable responsibility to bring China Carry forward and pass on the classical furniture culture.