Chapter 170 Digging the grave and robbing the tomb to make a fortune
Chapter 170: Digging graves and robbing graves to make a fortune
"You are right, Fourth Brother. Wherever a piece of ancient jade is unearthed and under what circumstances it is unearthed, it will be marked with a certain kind of Qin, just like a birthmark on a person's body.
Almost all unearthed jade must have a bleeding color, and bleeding color is also very important for jade articles. It is an important basis for studying the age of jade articles and the jade culture, arts and crafts, sculpture art, and funeral culture of the same period.
In the soil, especially in tombs, the environment in which jade objects come into contact is very complex. The variety of soil or the richness of buried objects give jade objects different colors.
For example, the yellow-brown color is mostly caused by soil or burial pillow incense, the blue color is mainly caused by the dyeing of clothes, the black color is caused by the erosion of mercury in the coffin, and the white color is caused by the absorption of silica in the tomb. Hehe, Fourth Brother, this
The knowledge in it is quite deep, and I don’t understand it very well.
I can tell a little bit about this jade. The yellow part of the jade should be the color caused by soil, but the ocher brown should be rust. It is very likely that there were iron objects placed next to this jade for burial.
, so this color is formed.”
Zhuang Rui's words confirmed Lao Si's idea that the color on this jade was most likely caused by the dead man's clothes or something on his body.
"Fourth Brother, there are many different ways of saying this color. For example, the one with a single color is called "Unified Buza". The one with two colors is called "Tian Xuan Di Huang" and "Three Colors".
Color Qin is called: Taoyuan Jieyi or Sanyuan Jidi, four colors is called: Fu, Lu, Shou Xi, and five colors is called: Five Blessings and Longevity.
Boss, the fourth brother's luck is much better than yours. Although this jade is made of ordinary material and is only carved from sapphire, with the addition of these two colors, it can be sold for at least 20,000 to 30,000 yuan. It's a pity.
This jade jade has Pu Bi patterns on both sides. If one side of this jade bi has a pattern of Pu Bi with dragon pattern, it would be worth at least one hundred thousand yuan."
The secret color Zhuang Rui mentioned often represents people's good wishes, but for Lao Si, the first impression in his mind was still on the cause of the formation of the secret color of the jade, and he couldn't think of jade at all.
There is a saying in itself to ward off evil spirits.
The fourth child is from Guangdong, and Guangdong can be said to be the province and city that worships ghosts and gods the most in the country, especially in Chaoshan and Hong Kong. Every family has a shrine to worship the gods, ancestors or Guan Erye. The one at the door
The God of Land and Wealth can be seen everywhere. The fourth child has been familiar with it since childhood. Even if he doesn't believe it, he still stays away from these objects taken from the dead.
"Bah, I don't even want these dead things."
What Viagra said made Zhuang Rui dumbfounded. Not to mention ancient jades, as for the various antiques handed down in the world, I am afraid that seven or eight out of ten were dug out of tombs. According to Viagra, there are no
People went to collect antiques.
Most of the antiques stolen from the tombs are treasures. As you can imagine, those emperors and ministers had a noble status when they were alive, and they all thought that they could continue to enjoy the glory and wealth in the afterlife after death.
Burying your favorite or most expensive items with you can also show the honor of the deceased during his or her lifetime.
For the rich funerary objects in tombs, the tomb robbing industry has never ceased since ancient times. Driven by huge profits, countless tomb robbers have taken risks and excavated ancient tombs. To this day, there are still some tomb robbing families in Henan, Shaanxi and other places.
This is all clearly documented.
In rural areas of Henan, Shaanxi and other places, there is often a slogan: dig graves and rob tombs to make a fortune. This shows how attractive these tombs are to people.
The most well-known tomb robbery case in modern times is Sun Dianying, a thief who was originally a bandit and later joined the revolutionary ranks. When Sun Dianying was stationed in Hebei, he dug up the entire Eastern Tomb of the Qing Dynasty and the Yu Tomb of Emperor Qianlong.
The Dingtung Mausoleum of Empress Dowager Cixi was cleaned out. Not only that, before she left, she smashed the coffin, destroyed the body and discarded the bones, collecting the burial treasures of the extravagant and extravagant ruler of the Qing Dynasty.
Poor Emperor Qianlong called himself "Old Man Shiquan" when he was alive. After his death, he ended up with a mutilated body because of these external possessions. Cixi was even more miserable. Her whole body was stripped naked and her body was abandoned on the ground.
However, what Sun Dianying did was not very secretive. It was soon known to the Manchu elders. At that time, all the Manchu royal families headed by Puyi jointly reported Sun Dianying's crime of robbing his ancestor's tomb to Chiang Kai-shek. In order to quell these
Because of people's resentment, Chiang Kai-shek declared that he would investigate the case strictly.
After Sun Dianying realized the seriousness of the matter, in order to protect himself, he gave the most expensive and priceless Kowloon Sword from the tomb robbery to Chiang Kai-shek. At the same time, he gave the huge Night Pearl stolen from Cixi's tomb to Song Meiling. Song Ziwen also
After receiving the golden and jade watermelon from Cixi's tomb, and other important government officials such as Kong Xiangxi, He Yingqin, and Yan Xishan, they also received many valuable antiques, calligraphy and paintings, and other treasures, so this shocking case was dropped.
Just imagine, even Song Meiling can play with the luminous pearl she took out from Cixi's mouth. What does Zhuang Rui have to be afraid of? Moreover, Zhuang Rui has no good impression of these people in ancient times. On the contrary, Zhuang Rui treats those tomb robbers.
I have a great impression.
You said that these emperors and generals have all died, and you still insist on leaving these treasures in the ground. Although there are many treasures and antiques preserved in tombs, almost all of the antiques such as calligraphy and painting rot in these emperors and generals.
Xiang's tomb.
"Young youngest, you can just keep this thing. If anyone wants it, sell it. If no one wants you to keep it for yourself, just treat it as a gift from the fourth brother. No, you can't give objects from dead people as gifts.
Geely, just think of it... just think of it as..."
The fourth child thought for a long time and couldn't think of a name for it, but he didn't dare to keep the jade and play with it. The good mood of picking it up was completely disturbed by Zhuang Rui's words.
"Yes, it's a good thing that you two were born in New China and grew up under the red flag, but you are still superstitious about this thing. Fourth brother, did you really give it to me?"
Zhuang Rui weighed the jade in his hands. He didn't have this kind of psychological burden. Zhuang Rui estimated that the aura in these antiques might be left over from playing with them too much. He didn't care if they were played by dead people.
Well, having said that, I am playing with this thing now, and if I die in a few decades, this object will still have to be passed down.
"I give it to you, I really give it to you, let's go back and have good luck..."
The fourth child couldn't help waving his hands, as if touching the jade was contaminating the bad luck of the dead. At this moment, he was more anxious than Viagra. He must have gone back to the hotel to wash his hands and put incense.
"No, fourth brother, we finally came across the ghost market. I don't know if there will be one tomorrow. Let's go back later. You can take me to the stall where I buy jade."
It was already around 7 o'clock in the morning. There were gradually more and more pedestrians on Jade Street. Some shops were ready to open. However, most of the stall owners in the ghost market had closed their stalls and left. Zhuang Rui wanted to try his luck.
Check it out at the stall where Laosi buys jade.
It is really possible that these unearthed objects were sold by tomb robbers. Of course, they usually have regular customers. Just like the antiques in the grassland black market auction that Zhuang Rui participated in last time, most of them were bought from various places.
It was taken from the hands of tomb robbers.
However, there are also some tomb robbers whose main occupation is to set up stalls in various places. Grave robbing is just a side job. These people often keep some treasures and then sell the remaining scattered small items that cannot be estimated accurately.
, and the real and fake antiques are mixed together. Whether you can find treasures depends on everyone's ability.
"I'm not going, you have to go by yourself, Viagra, let's go back first."
The fourth child pulled Yang Wei and walked towards the hotel. Zhuang Rui saw that there were not many stalls on the jade street, so he took Bai Shi and followed them back to the hotel, but Zhuang Rui had already made up his mind.
, I have to get up early tomorrow to go shopping. There are more good things in this ghost market than in those antique markets.
After returning to the hotel, the buck-toothed waiter on the night shift was no longer there. Zhuang Rui and the three of them breathed a sigh of relief. Facing such a top-notch product, they might not even be able to eat breakfast, but Viagra and Laosi obviously couldn't eat it at this time.
I wasn't in the mood to have breakfast anymore, as if my butt was on fire, I went back to the room to wash my hands.
Zhuang Rui didn't care. He went to the restaurant to have breakfast, packed a portion for Wei Wei, Zhou Rui and others and took it with him.
Zhuang Rui lived in a single room. After delivering breakfast to the others, he went to take a cold bath. The weather in Guangdong in June was already very hot, and he was covered in stinky sweat even after even a little movement.
Although he didn't sleep all night, Zhuang Rui was still a little excited at this time. He couldn't sleep for a long time in bed, so he simply got up, took the more than ten pieces of broken porcelain to the bathroom, and carefully cleaned the mud on the porcelain pieces with a toothbrush.
, there is a saying: old goods are not afraid of newness (cleanliness), and new goods are not afraid of dirtiness (oldness). The glaze color of this piece of Ru kiln porcelain is very uniform. After Zhuang Rui cleaned it, every porcelain piece exuded a heavenly scent.
A faint cyan light.
Zhuang Rui put these pieces of porcelain on the snow-white bed and began to piece them together. Although he only roughly pieced together the fracture surface, Zhuang Rui was still very happy. These sixteen broken pieces of porcelain happened to be a Ru kiln brush wash.
A brush washer is a kind of study utensil, a vessel used to hold water for washing brushes. It is widely favored for its cute shape, wide variety, elegance and exquisiteness. Among them, the brush washer produced by Ru Kiln is called Ru Kiln Washer, but there are many other ones that have been passed down to this day.
According to some statistics, there are no more than fifty intact Ru kiln washers in various parts of the world today. As long as Uncle De can repair this Ru kiln washer, it will definitely sell for a high price.
After finding a towel and carefully wrapping the porcelain pieces, Zhuang Rui decided to go back to Zhonghai to find Uncle De to repair the Ru kiln porcelain after attending the jade exhibition.
As for the piece of Han Dynasty jade that the fourth child found, Zhuang Rui didn't pay much attention to it and put it on the coffee table in the room. Although this jade is also valuable, it only has two colors and the quality of the jade is not very good.
Well, he has no interest in "selling" it himself, so he might as well sell it if he has the chance.
