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"When we were looking for this passage, it was not that easy. You see, we have dug in many places around it, but it was disguised. As time goes by, the wind blows and it becomes invisible. △" Shan Yinglei
At this time he spoke.
"Yes! It's really well hidden here. Even if we had a map, it would have taken us almost a month to find it, otherwise we wouldn't have run out of food and water." Shaban said with emotion.
As soon as he finished speaking, the surroundings immediately became silent. There is definitely something wrong with these guys. If there is no problem, how can the words be full of loopholes?
You must know that yesterday they said that food and water were lost when escaping from the underground palace, but now, they have exhausted it themselves.
Han Kongque glanced at them and didn't say much. As long as this underground palace was really valuable, he really wasn't afraid of other tricks.
Ma Jifang broke the silence at this time and said: "We wanted to dig for treasure at that time, but we dug a tunnel that was too deep for people to pass through, so we guessed that the treasure might be buried here. In the tunnel that was dug at that time, mist kept rising.
We suspected that there might be mechanisms and poison gas under the tunnel, so we didn’t dare to go down.”
"You didn't dare to go down? Then how did you take out the things?" Huangshan suddenly said.
Ma Jifang said sarcastically: "We entered through another entrance, but that side has been blown up now."
Seeing that Han Kongque and others still wanted to ask more questions, Shanyinglei said: "When we were digging under this tunnel, we found a brick entrance to the tunnel, but a lot of white smoke came out of the hole, so we backfilled it with soil.
The white smoke is indeed very likely to be dangerous, so we can only find another way, but it seems to be an emergency exit, or it may be an escape exit reserved by the craftsmen who built this underground palace, so as long as it is destroyed, it will not be too serious.
It may have been opened. Now if you want to enter the underground palace, you can only open the main entrance here."
Han Kongque knew that Ma Jifang and the others still had some secrets that they had not revealed clearly, but these were not important at this time. As for whether there was any danger here, they would just dig it out and find out.
The earth and rocks here are not difficult to dig. The entrance to the cave was quickly dug, and a large amount of white smoke came out of the hole.
The composition of the white smoke was soon tested and found to be methane. In modern times, it is not unusual for methane to be used in caves to prevent theft, and this white smoke is man-made methane.
Since it was set up, it couldn't last forever. They waited for an hour and when the underground passage stopped emitting white smoke, Han Peacock entered the underground passage first.
He was not afraid of poisonous gas at all. If he didn't have to bring others with him, he could have gone in first.
When Han Peacock walked into the underground passage, he immediately felt a coolness hit his face.
"How deep into the ground have we gone? How can the temperature be so different?" Wei Changqing said in surprise.
"It is said that jade is a 'earth refrigerator' that can lower the room temperature, but it takes more than a little bit of jade to achieve the cooling effect," Qian Mingyuan said.
Han Kongque looked at the walls on all sides and said, "The problem is, the walls here are not made of jade!"
Wei Changqing said: "Why is that? White smoke is coming out of the hole. It is also inferred that it is caused by methane, but how to explain the temperature difference?"
"There should be a secret room not far ahead." At this time, Shan Yinglei said.
After Shan Yinglei said this, everyone no longer wondered why the temperature in the underground passage was lower than outside.
They walked forward less than a hundred meters, and sure enough, a secret room appeared. The temperature in this secret room was obviously lower than that in the underground passage. The design of such a secret room was also puzzling.
Since building a secret room is definitely useful, such a small secret room cannot be used for resting, and hiding treasures is obviously not advisable. Han Peacock really can't imagine what these small secret rooms are used for.
"It's so cool here, we just need a rest." Han Peacock said.
Qian Mingyuan immediately responded: "Yes! You young people don't think anything about it, but us old guys are not good anymore. Let's take a rest. Anyway, we have found a place, and we are not afraid that the treasure here will run away."
When Qian Mingyuan said this, Shan Yinglei, who originally wanted to say something, couldn't speak anymore.
Everyone gathered in this secret room, resting, looking around, while Huangshan went to check the passage behind.
Han Kongque carefully cleaned the empty secret room, which was only a few square meters, and carefully tapped every wall tile to see if there was any mechanism hidden inside.
He soon discovered that there was no mud on the wall of the secret room, and the bricks on one wall were uneven. It seemed that the wall was temporarily built, which was really puzzling.
Although he couldn't see the situation inside, Han Kongque's mental power was able to explore it. After he sensed the situation behind the wall, his face turned a little pale.
Behind this temporary wall, there were actually a large number of corpses piled up. There were many more corpses here than he had seen in the underground treasure house of Li Garden.
Judging from the marks on the bones, these people were all shot. In other words, someone had shot many people near here, and finally the bodies were all piled up behind this wall.
Judging from the tools in the corner, Han Peacock suspected that these corpses were executed craftsmen.
In order to prevent the secret of the treasure from being revealed, the builder of this underground palace killed all the craftsmen who participated in the construction of this underground mausoleum.
Han Peacock withdrew his spiritual consciousness and looked into the depths of the passage. This passage was very long, but it was winding and did not extend far.
Through perception, Han Peacock knew that this passage was circular and kept going deep into the ground. It was like an artificial circular staircase that kept going deep into the ground.
And in this staircase, almost every one hundred meters, there is a secret room built next to the passage.
There are many dead bodies in these secret rooms. At least the five secret rooms within the range of Han Peacock's perception have a large number of corpses piled inside.
Just based on the analysis of these corpses, the amount of work here is not small.
"Boss, I found this thing not far ahead." At this time, Huang Shan walked into the secret room and handed a vase to Han Peacock.
Han Peacock took it and took a closer look: "According to the identification of the patterns and colors, this should be a vase from the Ming Dynasty. From the aspects of patterns and colors, the patterns on the vase have the same distinctive characteristics of the era as the shape. At first glance, it is a fine porcelain!"
Han Peacock was a little surprised. Who built this place? Every thing found was a rare masterpiece.
Just like this vase, in the Ming Dynasty, with the continuous enrichment and improvement of the raw materials and techniques of painting porcelain, both the subject matter, content and expression form have their own levels and characteristics of different eras. Therefore, it has become a matter of dividing eras and identifying authenticity. a powerful clue.
"Identification is so simple? You can tell it is Ming Dynasty porcelain at just a glance?" Wei Changqing is good at jewelry appraisal. He is really not sure about antiques, which contain too much cultural heritage. He casually said to Han Peacock
It feels amazing to date porcelain so quickly.
"This is a piece of Chenghua colored porcelain. With such an obvious style, how can you identify it?" Han Peacock chuckled.
The development process of porcelain decoration has also evolved from simplicity to complexity, from imprinting and engraving to carved depictions, and from simple one color to gorgeous and colorful.
In this regard, the Yuan Dynasty was an obvious turning point. The emergence of underglaze colors such as blue and white and underglaze red in the Yuan Dynasty ushered in a new era of porcelain decoration and broke the monotony of the previous single-color glaze.
The invention of various colors after the Ming and Qing Dynasties further enriched the decoration of porcelain, and the emergence of each decorative method has its own process of birth, growth, and development. Appraisers can often infer the age of the artifacts based on this.
For example, early blue and white and underglaze red products had less beautiful colors in the Yuan Dynasty products because the characteristics of the raw materials were not well understood. The underglaze red products often had the disadvantage of being dark in color or turning into magenta.
However, most of the mature blue and white flowers in the late Yuan Dynasty have very beautiful underglaze red patterns. The patterns not only pay attention to the harmony of primary and secondary, but also commonly use multi-sided lace patterns. Regardless of rocks or flowers, there is usually a circle of blank edges on the outside that are not filled with color.
Thus forming a unique style.
In addition, due to the limitations of raw material composition, calligraphy also has different characteristics of the times.
For example, at the end of the Yuan Dynasty and the beginning of the Ming Dynasty, some porcelains made from imported green materials were rich and dazzling in color, but their tones were very unstable and not suitable for painting figures.
Therefore, there is a saying that "there were few people in the Yuan Dynasty, there were no people in Yongle, and there were more women than men in Xuande".
Chenghua Doucai is also limited by raw materials and technology. Although the color is bright and crystal clear, it has the so-called defect of "flowers have no shady side and leaves have no negative side".
Moreover, the characters in the painting, regardless of gender, old or young, all wear a single garment in all seasons, and there is no exaggerated clothing pattern or different colors between the outside and the inside.
These are the characteristics of the times in the decoration, which are often ignored by later imitations. It would be very beneficial to pay attention to them when identifying authenticity.
In addition, some era differences can also be found in the colors used.
For example, there is no black color in Chenghua paintings. At that time, in addition to using underglaze cobalt to draw blue lines, red and ocher were also used to draw outlines.
If you encounter a piece of Chenghua-colored porcelain with black outlines on the glaze, you should doubt whether it is authentic and reliable, because the earliest application of black outlines did not date back to the early Zhengde period.
Pastels cannot be used earlier than the late Kangxi period. Of course, it is difficult to believe that imitation Ming porcelain with pastels is not a fake.
During the Qianlong period, due to the extensive use of foreign colors and the absorption of decorative methods from Western decorative patterns, some works pursued fine brushwork and bizarre patterns, causing some patterns to lose their inherent national style.
This also reflects the characteristics of a certain era. It is because of grasping the characteristics of these eras that Han Peacock was able to date porcelain so easily. This is what is said that it is not difficult for those who know it, and it is not difficult for those who are difficult. (To be continued, please continue.
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