Xu Jianmin once raised goldfish in Zhongshan Park with his father Xu Jinsheng, and drove a taxi in 1980s. I have been driving a taxi for more than ten years. However, the tired "brother" life did not make him give up his hobby of keeping goldfish and the role of the tenth generation of "Goldfish Xu". He keeps several goldfish bowls at home and plays with them when he comes home from the car every day.

In 2004, in order to save the endangered court goldfish, Xu Jianmin resolutely set up a taxi fish farm in Shunyi for the second time.

Xu Jianmin has a deep goldfish complex, and often tells the goldfish breeding technology and stories on Beijing Traffic Station. He can't forget those lovely "golden robes", "purple Yu Di", "secretly crying" and "blowing clothes", and he can't forget those unique goldfish breeding techniques that have been passed down for ten generations. Among the brothers, he is the only one who has mastered the breeding methods of palace goldfish under the strict personal instruction of his father, including the specific hybridization methods of all extinct treasures.

At the beginning of the fish farm, there were not even the most basic production and living conditions. Although it has been improved now, it is still very simple. Looking around from the fish farm, there are endless farmland, no fences, no telephones, no running water, and all daily necessities have to be transported from several kilometers by car.

Due to the congenital shortage of funds, you can't even buy a bird net over the fish pond. Enthusiastic brothers and friends collected many red ribbons on flower baskets and volunteered to help fill fish farms and drive away greedy birds.

Fish farms can't afford to hire people, and all the work is done by Xu Jianmin and his wife. Dig a fish pond, build a fish pond, screen fry, change water for the fish ... When it's feeding time, put down the hot noodle soup and feed the goldfish first. They wear long rubber boots all the year round in the fishing ground, and their feet are uncomfortable in summer; Never wear hand cream in winter, for fear that skin care products will pollute fish pond water, and my hands will crack into "pine bark". In order to maintain their daily expenses, they will set up a stall at Watsons Tianqiao Market in Beijing every weekend. Whether it is winter or summer, squatting is a day and a night. ...

For Xu Jianmin, these difficulties are negligible. As long as he can cultivate the famous court goldfish that he has been thinking for a long time, everything will be satisfied.

Since the trademark of "Goldfish Xu" was officially registered in the State Trademark Office, many domestic and foreign buyers are asking: Where can I buy goldfish raised by "Goldfish Xu"? He said helplessly, "I can't put anti-counterfeiting labels on goldfish. I urgently need to open a store with' Goldfish Xu' as the signboard, so that the little goldfish can also make some contributions to the 2008 People's Olympics." His idea is very specific: to implement high quality and good price, so that the true value of goldfish famous products can return; Spread the goldfish culture with a long history in China and make friends all over the world with fish; Design a unique goldfish packaging style with China classical characteristics, which combines long-distance carrying and home viewing; Write popular science books on goldfish breeding, which are collected by customers free of charge; Establish a hotline to answer people's questions; Open a "goldfish clinic" to treat sick fish ...

In recent years, some foreign businessmen, especially Japanese businessmen, have come from afar to discuss cooperation with Xu Jianmin. Xu Jianmin has always been cautious about this, because he doesn't want to make the same mistake that national handicrafts such as Xuan paper and cloisonne are lost overseas. He thought that the affairs of the country should be set by himself, so he refused the Japanese request.

In 2007, "Goldfish Xu" registered its trademark in the State Trademark Office and became an intangible cultural heritage in Chaoyang District, Beijing. Joe, his daughter, has also become the 1 1 descendant of "Goldfish Xu".

In 20 10, the land price in the suburbs of Beijing became more and more expensive, and Lao Xu could not afford to rent it. If it's cheap, it's like guerrilla warfare, but in the suburbs of Beijing, where is the cheap land boundary?

"I can live anywhere, but my fish can't stand it!" Xu Jianmin's eyes are red. More than one million goldfish in the taxi fish farm have lost more than half of their exile time, and the fish farm can't continue to operate. Lao Xu put 40 pairs of fish carefully cultivated in the past five years in a big wooden basin, which is his only hope.

But one day, 40 pairs of precious fish were poisoned overnight, and all the priceless "living antiques" such as goose head red, blue sky, lion head, Landan phoenix, king and ball were gone. Lao Xu reported the case at the first time. The policeman came to have a look and left a message: "Isn't it just a few fish?" Xu Jianmin cried and scolded: "This is not a goldfish, this is my life!"

He wanted to cry over the dead goldfish he photographed. When Tomb-Sweeping Day visited the grave, he cried in front of his ancestral grave: "How can I see my ancestors?"

But Xu Jianmin still chose to insist: "I can't let my grandparents in the underground scold me." Start all over again. This is life. "

Now, the old varieties in Xu Jianmin's hands have been revived, and new products such as "Tricolor Wenyu" have been cultivated. I heard that "Goldfish Xu" came back, and the media flocked to it, and goldfish lovers from all over the country also came here.

The world is different. "Goldfish Xu" is becoming more and more famous, and various "relatives" have mushroomed. Once I went to the fish market, a fishmonger confidently said to him with a Henan accent, "I am Xu Jianmin. Ask him, who doesn't know that I am playing fish in Beijing? " ! "