The guest, a young man in his thirties who looked very shrewd, also stood up after seeing Chen Wenzhe.
Chen Wenzhe smiled and greeted: "Hello, I have kept you waiting for a long time."
"It's okay. Although your Yi Niantang has not been open for a long time, it is still quite famous in this antique city. It's okay for me to wait."
As he said that, the young man looked at a wooden box on the coffee table.
Chen Wenzhe's eyes also fell on the wooden box.
The wooden box is square in shape and reaches a height of forty centimeters. If such a big thing is authentic, it must be considered a valuable item.
"Looking at something?" Noticing Chen Wenzhe's expression, the young man had a trace of pride on his face.
"Then take a look, it's wasting your time." Chen Wenzhe said politely.
"It's okay, it's okay. I heard that you can pay a high price for Yi Nian Tang. What does it mean if I wait for a while?" The young man's smile became even brighter.
Chen Wenzhe stopped talking nonsense. He carefully opened the wooden box and saw the white jade inside at a glance.
"Is this a tripod?" Chen Wenzhe's eyes lit up when he saw the small jade tripod inside, but he quickly returned to normal.
However, this change in expression has already fallen in the young man's eyes.
Since he entered the store, Chen Wenzhe has been looking at him instead of looking at his own things.
What’s so interesting about his own things?
Observing what is happening is the only weapon against these antique shop owners.
Even when faced with an antique shop owner who was much younger than him, this young man did not dare to be careless at all.
When he saw that it was a jade tripod, Chen Wenzhe didn't rush to do it.
There are many jade articles in ancient times, but there are very few or even no ancient jade tripods that have been handed down.
Not to mention, this one is well preserved and doesn’t look too shabby, let alone a white jade tripod like Tuqin.
"What's your name, boss?" Chen Wenzhe asked while turning the wooden box and checking the jade tripod.
The young man immediately said: "I forgot to introduce you. I, Zhang Jiyong, am also in the antique business, but I have just entered the industry, so please take care of me!"
The name is a bit unpretentious, and the person looks steady and down-to-earth, but something is not quite right!
This jade tripod is about 30 centimeters high, with a smooth, soft color and flawless white color.
It has erect ears, square lips, folded edges, bulging belly, and four legs in the shape of an elephant trunk.
The belly is higher than the feet, and the front and back of the body are engraved with opposite animal faces. The overall shape is well-proportioned, and the decorations are regular, neat and exquisite.
Looking at the decoration above, the style is obvious, the decoration style of the Zhou Dynasty.
But the carving technique imitates the Qing Dynasty, because Chen Wenzhe looks like a modern machine worker.
"Is the store open?"
"No, it's just Baofengzhai, walking around the streets, and when I encounter good things, I earn a little hard money."
Hearing this, Chen Wenzhe raised his head and glanced at the young and promising Zhang Jiyong.
Today's shabby gangs are not easy to deal with, except for those who deliberately deceive others!
I just don’t know now whether this person is in the game or is in charge.
"Aren't you looking at something?" At this time, Zhang Jiyong had already noticed that something was wrong with Chen Wenzhe's demeanor.
"Is there an inscription on this thing? I can't recognize anything else, but these three characters on it are Emperor Zhou, right?"
"Yes, I also know these three characters, but not the following ten characters." Zhang Jiyong said.
Chen Wenzhe looked at Yuding's other ear. There were also sixteen characters on it. These sixteen characters were exactly the same as the characters on the other ear. The most important thing was that he recognized them.
In fact, it is not the emperor of Zhou, but: the time of Zhou Tian, which extends throughout the day and night; the Bagua is in the middle and changes unexpectedly.
This sentence comes from "Daoshu", a work from the Song Dynasty.
However, the style of this jade tripod seems to be imitated from the Western Zhou Dynasty.
Anyone who has read fantasy fairy novels should understand some of the contents of this book.
This book "Daoshu" was compiled by Zeng Zhen in the Song Dynasty.
There are a total of forty-two volumes and one hundred and eight chapters.
The title of the book is taken from "Zhuangzi·Qiwu Lun". The book includes Taoist philosophy, Yin Fu, Huang Ting, Tai Chi, Convincing Qi, Refining Essence, Great Elixir, Breathing, Fetal Breath, Great Return of Gold Elixir, Golden Dragon and Tiger, Lead and Mercury Five Elements,
References to Tongqi, Medicinal Mirror, Lingbao, etc. are listed as special chapters, and the explanations of various schools are also cited.
Does it sound familiar? Many settings in the novel come from here. Of course, there are similar records in other Taoist scriptures.
This is not the point. The point is that "Daoshu" came from the Song Dynasty, and Mi Fu, a great calligrapher in the Song Dynasty, once said: Jade is not a tripod.
It seems that there is another sentence that says why pottery came, or that pottery cannot be cast. Anyway, this is what it means, that is, ceramics cannot be cast, and jade cannot be used to make tripods.
Of course, it's not that it can't be done, but it's too troublesome and difficult to do.
This can be seen by looking at the jade articles that have been handed down from generation to generation.
Throughout China's five thousand years of history, bronze tripods have been unearthed frequently in the history of Chinese cultural relics and are well known.
However, from Xia, Shang, Zhou to Ming and Qing Dynasties, from the National Palace Museum to the National Palace Museum in Taipei, from private collections to national treasures lost overseas, there are very few jade tripods.
Most of the jade tripods that have been preserved today are works from the Ming and Qing Dynasties. There are no traces of the jade tripods from the Han Dynasty and the Warring States Period.
As for the later Song Dynasty, jade tripods were not made because they were not popular after the Warring States and Han Dynasties.
It was only during the Qianlong period of the Qing Dynasty that a large number of jade tripods appeared. Why is this?
Because during the Qianlong period, modern jade processing tools had been introduced from the West, making it easier and more convenient to dig out jade.
Why was there no jade tripod before the Qing Dynasty? It was because the tools were not good enough, making it inconvenient and too labor-intensive.
Also, the inscription on this jade tripod is not right.
On ancient tripods, whether pottery or bronze, if inscriptions were carved, they would be under the ears, never on the ears.
And even if it is engraved on the ears, the inscriptions on the two ears will not be the same, because the inscriptions on the tripod are for remembering events, not for decoration.
This thing should be from the rear, not even a replica.
Qing imitations are usually imitations made by Qianlong, and the words Qianlong imitation are usually left on them.
In the Qing Dynasty, Cixi was known as a pearl glutton and loved to collect jadeite.
Qianlong was a jade enthusiast. During his reign, in addition to collecting calligraphy and painting and constantly stamping calligraphy and paintings, he also loved jade.
No way, this is his achievement. In order to stabilize the Western Region, his army swept the entire Western Region, opened up the purchase channels for Hotan Jade, and had better tools, which allowed the Qing Dynasty jade to reach its peak.
prosperous stage.
Antique jades from the Qing Dynasty have always been known as "the beautiful bells of good fortune" and were basically made by the palace manufacturing office.
Obviously, this thing is wrong in every aspect, but it looks so beautiful.
If it weren't for this, why would Chen Wenzhe have such a good reputation?