"Teacher Zhuang, are you up? You went out to have breakfast."
As soon as he put down his cell phone, there was a knock on the door, but it was the TV station staff who came to inform him that it was time for breakfast. Zhuang Rui looked at the time and saw that it was already half past seven. He quickly rushed into the bathroom, washed up, and put on his suit.
I put on the blue gown and walked out of the room.
"Hello, Teacher Zhuang..."
"Good morning, Teacher Zhuang..."
"Teacher Zhuang, can you sign your name for me?"
After walking out of the room, Zhuang Rui felt a little uncomfortable. It seemed that all the waiters in the hotel knew him, and they greeted him so warmly, which made Zhuang Rui a little bit overwhelmed.
"Grandma, the service in a five-star hotel is really good."
Zhuang Rui, muttering to himself, took the elevator to the restaurant on the third floor, only to find that Professor Tian and others were already chatting over morning tea. It seemed that he was the last one to arrive.
"Sorry, I got up late today..."
Zhuang Rui said hello to everyone, found a chair and sat down.
"Xiao Zhuang, it's okay. It's good that you can get up today. You know, yesterday you knocked down four people from the Jinan Collection Association by yourself." Fatty Jin laughed when he saw Zhuang Rui coming.
"Yeah, we just made a bet that you wouldn't be able to get up earlier?"
Professor Tian was also joking with Zhuang Rui. Zhuang Rui's performance in yesterday's on-site treasure appraisal, from a professional point of view, is already qualified enough to be on an equal footing with experts like them, so no one is playing with their seniority here. "
Drink some hot porridge to clear your stomach, I have a lot of work to do this morning..."
Seeing that Zhuang Rui still had a hint of alcohol on his face, Mr. Sun made a bowl of porridge and put it in front of Zhuang Rui. "Teachers, yesterday's program was broadcast on Beijing Channel and Shandong Channel. When we return to Beijing, we will
The program will be made into CDs and given to several teachers..."
Liu Jia was the only one accompanying the experts at the table. It is said that Deputy Director Zhu also fell on the wine table yesterday because of his revolutionary work. However, he is not as healthy as Zhuang Rui and has not gotten up yet.
"Let me tell you, there are so many people saying hello today."
After hearing Liu Jia's words, Zhuang Rui realized that the waiters had all watched yesterday's program. It's no wonder that they would pay more attention to the program filmed in their hotel. When he took off his glasses and walked out of here, he would probably
No one can recognize me anymore.
After a quick breakfast, a few people rushed to the hotel's conference room. Although there were only three hours of treasure appraisal time in the morning, the number of collectors who came over did not decrease but increased, filling the outside of the conference room. It would have been impossible if there were no partitions.
Entering, I'm afraid Zhuang Rui and others won't be able to squeeze in.
Time was tight and the task was heavy. The two hosts didn't talk nonsense. After taking the stage to announce the start of the folk treasure appraisal activity, the experts began to get busy again.
Today is different from yesterday. At the beginning of yesterday, there was no one in front of Zhuang Rui's table. No one came to him to appraise antiques. Today, it was the opposite. There was a long queue in front of Zhuang Rui's table. Many people were here.
Coming for him.
"Teacher Zhuang, please help me take a look. If you say it is true, it is true. If you say it is false, I will throw him away immediately." The treasure holder now standing in front of Zhuang Rui's desk hugged him.
He was wearing a piece of blue and white porcelain and asked Zhuang Rui to appraise it for him.
"This Tibetan friend, as well as the following friends, I am the director of the Jade Association, and I am here specifically to appraise jade. As for other objects, several other teachers are more experienced than me. Let's take a look first.
Which category does your antique belong to, and then choose an expert appraisal?"
Zhuang Rui glanced behind the man in front of him and found that the objects brought by the collectors for appraisal ranged from calligraphy and paintings to bronzes. There was actually someone carrying a mahogany chair, which made Zhuang Rui dumbfounded.
Neng stood up and explained that he only looked at jade.
After Zhuang Rui said this, although the people below were a little reluctant, but they were not people who played jade, they all lined up in other teams, and the pressure on Zhuang Rui's side was greatly reduced.
The identification of jade is a bit more troublesome, because although some jade is old, the quality of the jade itself is good, and it also contains spiritual energy. If it weren't for the different colors of the spiritual energy in the ancient jade, Zhuang Rui would be really difficult to identify it, because now
The old-fashioned technique is really clever, and if you are not careful, you may be fooled.
"Teacher Zhuang, this is an object I bought the year before last. I've had it looked at by someone. It should be an old jade from the Han Dynasty. Can you give it a try?"
The jade toad Zhuang Rui is holding in his hand is just like this. It is carved from fine white jade. It feels moist when you hold it in your hand. It is obviously a plated object. There are three kinds of green colors on it. According to the owner,
According to the theory, this thing is an object from the Han Dynasty.
"The jade is good jade. The best Hetian white jade. Such a big piece can be worth eight thousand. However, the Qin color is old and the color is too true. If you look carefully with a magnifying glass, the color does not penetrate deeply. But
This thing still has collectible value, you can keep it and play with it, it may not be much worse than ancient jade."
After observing with spiritual energy, Zhuang Rui discovered that although there was a lot of spiritual energy inside, it was white in color and not as rich in purple as before the Tang and Song Dynasties. In other words, this so-called Han Dynasty jade toad was also an old imitation made later.
.
Today, few people question what Zhuang Rui said. After hearing Zhuang Rui's explanation, the owner of the jade toad bowed gratefully to Zhuang Rui. If it had been yesterday, he would have said
Don't let me point your nose and scold you again.
Because there were too many people, Zhuang Rui speeded up the appraisal, which basically took two to three minutes. These objects ranged from ornaments and pendants to ancient sacrificial vessels, covering almost all types of jade, although they were really rare.
There were many fakes, but it also gave him a lot of insight, because even if they are imitations, they are similar to the real ones in terms of shape. The only difference is the age.
"Huh?"
Zhuang Rui looked at the sapphire cong in his hand, which was only seven or eight centimeters in size. He was a little surprised. When he tested the aura just now, he found that the aura inside was actually golden yellow. Zhuang Rui knew that aura can identify objects.
This was the first time he encountered this color.
This jade cong is square in shape, square on the outside and round on the inside, with a through-hole in the middle. The four corners of the body are engraved with shallow relief patterns on the faces of gods, humans and animals, and a composite image of gods, humans and beasts is engraved on the upper and lower sides of the straight grooves.
The main figure of the god has an inverted trapezoidal face with heavy circles for eyes and small triangular eye corners on both sides. The image is strange and mysterious.
The carving of the entire jade cong has slender and powerful lines, while the lines between the areas are rough and mature, the shape is primitive, and the decoration is mysterious. It shows the original religious consciousness and theocratic thoughts of totem worship. However, it is not well preserved, and there are traces in all parts.
Some damage.
"Could it be a jade from the Liangzhu culture?" Playing with this jade cong, Zhuang Rui could feel an ancient and simple atmosphere coming from it. This thought came to his mind, and then the information about the Liangzhu jade culture also came to his mind.
The Liangzhu Culture was about 5300 to 4000 years ago and was mainly distributed in the middle and lower reaches of the Yangtze River. The processing of jade in the Liangzhu Culture was very developed. In addition to decoration, it was mainly used for witchcraft, sacrifice and burial. The Liangzhu Culture had strict rules on the use of jade. Regulations are the beginning of my country’s ritual and jade system.
The jade cong is the most distinctive jade article among the jade articles of the Liangzhu Culture, and it is also the core of the jade ritual articles of the Liangzhu Culture. At that time, the techniques of drilling and wire cutting had already been used, and it had reached the level of jade processing technology at that time.
peak.
"It shouldn't be wrong..."
Although it was Zhuang Rui's first time coming into contact with Liangzhu jade, the aura contained in this jade and the exquisite carving craftsmanship proved that it was a representative work of Liangzhu jade culture.
"Teacher Sun, look at this jade cong. I think it is a piece of Liangzhu jade and can be used as one of the important treasures in this folk treasure appraisal..."
Zhuang Rui called to Mr. Sun who was identifying miscellaneous items and handed over the jade cong. In order to increase the ratings and attract the audience's attention, the TV station specially asked experts to evaluate the three most precious antiques. But so far, except for
Except for the authentic work of Shen Zhou from the Ming Dynasty that Teacher Jin identified, there is no other item that can be regarded as a treasure.
"Well, this thing is a bit interesting, Xiaozhuang, are you sure?"
After playing with the jade cong in his hand, Mr. Sun asked Zhuang Rui that one of the conditions for evaluating a heavy treasure is that all experts must agree. So Zhuang Rui first pulled Mr. Sun who was playing with miscellaneous items, except for himself.
, Mr. Sun has the most say in the appraisal of jade.
"Xiaozhuang, tell me what you think..."
Seeing Zhuang Rui select an object to be rated as a treasure, Fatty Jin and others also gathered around.
Zhuang Rui took the jade cong, pondered for a while and said: "This is how I see it. All teachers know that there are not many jade congs in the Shang and Zhou dynasties. Judging from the unearthed objects, the shapes of congs in this period are common.
It is shorter, more light and has no lines, so it can basically be eliminated.
After the Song Dynasty, some imitation jade congs appeared, but the imitations from the Song Dynasty to the Ming Dynasty were mostly decorated with popular patterns at that time, which obviously did not match this one.
Most of the fake ancient jades from the late Ming Dynasty to the Qing Dynasty are imitations of Shang and Zhou plain jade congs. Although there are also imitations of Liangzhu culture jade congs, due to differences in processing tools and habits, most of the counterfeit products appear to be more sleek than antique.
, the degree of maturity is more difficult to make realistic.
Based on the above points, I can conclude that this jade cong is indeed an outstanding work in the Liangzhu jade culture. According to the current classification of cultural relics, it seems that it can be classified as a national first-class cultural relic. As one of the three important treasures this time,
It shouldn’t be an exaggeration, right?”
As soon as Zhuang Rui finished speaking, the audience burst into applause. Professor Tian and others also nodded repeatedly, and finally identified this Liangzhu jade cong as one of the important treasures for this folk treasure appraisal.
