How many shapes can a cloud look like?
Low and thick evenly distributed stratus clouds, fragmented cumulus clouds scattered in the sky and with variable shapes, cirrus clouds with a silky luster...
Looking up at the sky of Hangzhou and photographing the sky countless times, have you ever longed for "truly owning a cloud"?
(△Cloud Map)
Dreams shine into reality.
Lu Canglong, a "post-90s" from Lishui Jinyun, opened up a new profession on Taobao in order to keep the rapidly changing clouds: cloud maker.
In a year, he chased the clouds and sent out more than 200,000 "clouds", cured more than 40,000 people, and sold the "Zhejiang Clouds" from his hometown.
01 The North Drift clan returned to Zhejiang to incarnate"" "Cloud Maker"
"Selling clouds" has become a new profession for post-90s boys
The story of Lu Canglong and Yun Duo begins with a burning cloud.
Lu Canglong, a post-90s boy from Jinyun in Lishui, Zhejiang, graduated from the Department of Physics of Zhejiang University, majoring in optical engineering. After graduating from college, he became a North Drifter.
(△ Lu Canglong)
In 2015, Lu Canglong, who was walking on the way to work, was shocked by the sky when he accidentally looked up.
"It was a very beautiful cloud of fire, like a torch that lit the sky, and at that moment suddenly illuminated the beauty of the heart." Lu Canglong still remembered the feelings at that time, spectacular and shocking.
After that, Lu Canglong went through the literature related to clouds and learned "knowing clouds" little by little. How can I keep a cloud? Lu Canglong thought about this for a long time.
He tried modeling with drip glue, simulating the appearance of clouds, from molding, modeling, polishing to finished products, storing them in transparent cubes.
(△ Lu Canglong's "clouds")
Lu Canglong's "cloud cube" slowly took shape. Many of them are modeled after the clouds of Zhejiang, including clouds on sunny days, "small dark clouds" that people prefer, and even clouds on rainy days and sunrises at dusk, which are "sealed".
"There are so many beautiful clouds that it's hard to say which one is the best." After the studio officially settled in Hangzhou, Lu Canglong would use to stand on the balcony and freeze the clouds of the day.
In the community of cloud friends he established "among the clouds", there are more than 5,000 like-minded "cloud catchers", and their photographs of pod-like cumulus, falling cloud holes, and hanging spherical cumulus are equally breathtaking.
In his mind, the rare cloud is the "Kelvin-Helmholtz Wave Cloud", which can be counted as the "giant panda in the cloud". The ever-changing appearance of the clouds became Lu Canglong's next creative goal.
In 2019, with the increase in the number of fans and the increase in cloud orders, the time between work is no longer enough. Lu Canglong decided to resign. That winter, the "Sky Market" was unveiled on Taobao, and Lu Canglong left a self-introduction in the store - "I sell clouds in the human world." ”
"The sky and the human heart are connected, and people may naturally like clouds." Through the "cloud" product, Lu Canglong and the team made sales of more than 1 million yuan. This year, he sent out more than 200,000 "clouds" and "cured" more than 40,000 people across the country.
In just a few years, Lu Canglong not only turned his hobbies into careers, but also redefined his profession, and also opened up an unpopular new profession: cloud maker.
02 Armor casting division, electronic burial division, smelling division............
With their brains wide open, they boarded the "New Hundred Works Map"
Over the past year, Taobao has hatched a new profession almost every day. Many fields may seem niche and "useless", but they have fulfilled many people's big dreams.
At the scene of this year's Taobao Maker Festival, these new occupations were painted with a "new hundred work map" with a length of more than 12 meters. A total of 107 new occupations are depicted on the scroll, and the details of the work of these new types of work are recorded, also known as the "New 365 Lines of Occupation Atlas".
(△Wen Chenhua)
Focusing on the research, design and production of Chinese armor, Wen Chenhua moved his studio to Haining, Zhejiang Province, where he became one of the representatives of his new profession, the armor caster.
In Wen Chenhua's mind, "armor" refers to armor, and "armor" refers to helmets. The "craftsmen" who have traditional handicrafts finally have the opportunity to enter the younger group. According to incomplete statistics, there are less than 10 armor casting divisions in the country that can make high-precision armor, "in ancient times, there were armor casting divisions, but now, armor casting division has become a revival of the new profession." ”
Wen Chenhua, who loves Chinese armor, completed his first armor work in 2012. This is a set of Song Dynasty fish scale armor, the full set weighs 30 kilograms, lined with leather, the surface is covered with silver armor pieces, can resist real knives and guns. The armor was eventually sold for a whopping 80,000 yuan, giving him the idea of making and selling armor in large quantities.
"Here, even niche interests can be seen." In 2014, Wen Chenhua officially opened his own Taobao store.
Over the years, it has gained tens of thousands of hardcore fans, and Jia Ji has also been favored by domestic film and television drama crews such as "The Twelve Hours of Chang'an", and the annual sales of the store of "Wen Chen Hua Lian Armor Hall" are about 6 million yuan.
Not only is the "old business" revitalized, but here, young people who start a business with novel "ghost ideas" are more like mushrooms.
(△ Chen Xingyi's works after disassembling and mounting)
After graduation, Chen Xingyi, a "post-00s" young man whose ancestral home is Wenling, Taizhou, has opened a milk tea shop and experienced the failure of entrepreneurship. By dismantling the iPhone4 and creating a framed painting, he became completely on fire online — after which Chen Xingyi became an "electronic mortician."
(△Chen Xingyi)
Chen Xingyi once received a mobile phone from a Tibetan girl, which her father used before his death, purple, clamshell, and paint on the surface. After the production was completed, Chen Xing and a group of girls copied what they wanted to say to their father, and specially painted six Gesang flowers.
Mobile phones, cameras, game consoles, even smart door locks, watches, graphics cards, more and more people are looking for him to transform old things. "Some people call me an 'electronic mortician,' and my profession is to preserve their fond memories for ordinary people and find a better home for old things." Chen Xingyi said.
03 200,000 creative merchants grow fast
"Post-00s" stores opened for the first time more than "post-90s"
According to relevant survey data, there are at least 200,000 such featured creative merchants on Taobao, double the number of post-90s and post-95s, accounting for about 77.2% of the total.
In a few years, unpopular industries such as the second dimension, national tide, cute pet, and plus-size women's clothing have risen in Taobao and gone from niche to public. More segmented, novel and peculiar young markets have been born continuously, which have become the epitome of the trend of the times.
In the eyes of the outside world, on the platform of Taobao, small interests can also be made into big business. Behind the huge consumer demand and traffic entrance, more young people are giving vitality to new products and creating more new careers.
Some insiders said, "In the Internet era, more people can find the fit of interest and career, and realize personal value in the work they like." ”
(△ Screenshot of "New Hundred Works" part)
Plus-size models who "speak for self-confidence", pet dietitians who professionally accompany "hairy children" to lose weight, "smellers" who are born for snail powder, "stocking dispensers" who "dye" tens of millions of pairs of stockings every year... By comparing the changes in the state of occupations in the past hundred years in the new and old "Hundred Work Maps", we can feel the changes in the concept of employment in the new period.
In the past year, the "post-00s" group has begun to take the stage, and the participation in new occupations, the horizontal expansion of professional business and the proportion of e-commerce operations have increased significantly, and the number of stores opened here has exceeded that of the "post-90s" group for the first time.
More and more rich brain holes help these fledgling young people to find a way to show themselves. Interestingly, since the establishment of Taobao, the average age of entrepreneurs on the platform has not exceeded 26 years old.
Behind the large number of new occupations born on Taobao jumped on the paper, it is the endless creativity of this year of young people, and interest-driven, personality-oriented, and innovative have become the trend of their career choices.
Edited by Wu Ruixi
Editor: Gan Jiangdong Luo Wei
Source Qianjiang Evening News
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