However, after listening to his words, Liu Dong's face did not change at all. "Get out of the way and look into the rooster's eyes!"
Hearing this, although he was very disdainful of this arrogant young man, he still couldn't help but follow Liu Dong's instructions and look at the chicken bowl cup in his hand again.
Soon, the smile on Fujita Ichiro's face froze, and his mouth opened wider step by step, with an expression on his face as if he had seen a ghost.
"This, this is impossible! This is definitely not true, it's impossible!" Ichiro Fujita, with a panicked expression on his face, lost his grip on the magnifying glass and dropped it on the table with a 'pop'.
Looking at his appearance, the people around him had more or less guessed the result, but they wanted to know how Liu Dong identified the pair of porcelains as fakes. Especially Mr. Li, you should know that he had been looking at the pair of cups for more than an hour just now.
No identification results have been found. Now I am naturally more curious.
But it was obvious that Li Yuncong was more active than them. Before others could react, he had already taken the lead, stepped forward and pushed away Ichiro Fujita, who was still in shock, and grabbed a magnifying glass to take a look.
Although the Chinese, whom he had always looked down upon, were so brutally pushed aside, Ichiro Fujita, who was in extreme surprise, forgot to take revenge and went back.
"Hey, why is there nothing?" Li Yuncong took a magnifying glass and looked left and right at the chicken bowl cup in his hand, but he didn't find anything wrong.
"You have to look at the sun!" Hearing this, Liu Dong couldn't help but rolled his eyes and said angrily, did this guy listen to him just now?
Hearing his words, Li Yuncong was not embarrassed. At this time, he also remembered how Liu Dong asked Fujita Ichiro to observe just now. He quickly got out of the way, put the cup under the warm sunlight, and took a look with a magnifying glass.
Sure enough, at the position of the rooster's eye, a dim but clear Traditional Chinese character 'Cheng' appeared in his eyes.
"There really is a secret message, Cheng! Mr. Li, do you know the master of porcelain counterfeiting named Cheng?" Li Yuncong asked.
"Cheng!" After hearing what he said, Mr. Li muttered for a moment, then seemed to remember something. His expression suddenly changed, his eyes widened, and he asked urgently: "Yun Cong, is this character Cheng in simplified or traditional Chinese?"
"It's traditional Chinese characters, what's wrong?" Li Yuncong, who saw this expression on Mr. Li's face for the first time, quickly replied.
After listening to his words, the expression on the old man's face became a bit more complicated, and he murmured to himself with a trace of memory in his eyes: "That's right, that's right, I didn't expect to see each other again after so many years."
To the famous Cheng Fang!"
Looking at the complicated expression on the old man's face, Li Yuncong asked carefully: "Old Li, what exactly is Cheng Fang? Is it the same as the famous Zhu Fang?"
After listening to what he said, Mr. Li looked at the searching expressions on the faces of several people and couldn't help but smile and shake his head, "Of course it's different. Zhu Fang is making a lie for personal gain. But Cheng Fang is not, more accurate
Say it’s fake for the sake of fake!”
"Fake for the sake of fake!" Li Yuncong was a little confused.
"Yes. Cheng Fang was not referring to a person at that time, but to an organization during the Republic of China, an anti-Japanese organization secretly established by the antique collecting and art circles."
"Anti-Japanese organization?" The expression on Li Yuncong's face became even more confused. At this time, the expression on Liu Dong's face became more and more serious. For this kind of thing that can not only enrich his appreciation knowledge, but also be regarded as an anecdote.
He was also deeply curious about the story.
Of course, the same goes for Zhao Defa. Even Ichiro Fujita and Wang Zhao, who looked ugly next to him, were attracted by what Mr. Li said. Especially Ichiro Fujita, whose expression was more serious than others, because what Mr. Li said related to his motherland.
, and it is the Japanese Empire during World War II that he most yearns for and admires the most.
"Yes, it is an anti-Japanese organization. The reason is that after the Japanese invaders occupied our land, they used all means to collect the exquisite art treasures passed down by China for thousands of years. Naturally, such things were criticized by the entire Chinese collection at that time.
However, most of them were powerless and could not compete with the powerful, tyrannical and cruel Japanese army at that time. Therefore, everyone got together and came up with a way, that is, to fake it!"
"Fake!?" Liu Dong whispered subconsciously.
"Not bad!" After a pause and a glance at the few people who were listening to his explanation attentively, Mr. Li continued: "The person who came up with this contract swapping plan was an imperial kiln worker who came from the palace building office of the Qing Dynasty.
Chang Cheng’s surname is kiln worker. His ancestors have been craftsmen of the royal kiln factory for several generations. He has exquisite craftsmanship and has a lot of collections at home!”
Hearing this, Liu Dong nodded. In ancient Chinese history, although craftsmen and artists had superb skills in their hands, their social status was not very high. It was only a little better than the lower class. However, their children could not study or take the imperial examination.
To be an official, you can only be a craftsman from generation to generation. After the father dies, the son succeeds.
Therefore, these people generally do not come from wealthy families. Therefore, guarding the kiln will inevitably lead to theft. They steal some porcelain and sell it to supplement their family income. As a craftsman of the royal kiln, the porcelain stolen is naturally a royal tribute.
Of course, they would not take the perfect tribute porcelain, but the porcelain that had slight flaws and was ordered to be destroyed would be enough for them.
Of course, these tribute porcelains were too big to be sold, so many of them were left in the hands of some kiln workers. They even existed as family heirlooms.
"I don't know how, but the news that the Cheng family had a collection of rare porcelain reached the ears of the Japanese. Soon the Japanese army came to the door, threatened the life of the Cheng family member, and forcibly demanded the porcelain."
After a pause, "However, these porcelains left by our ancestors are worth thousands of gold. The craftsman surnamed Cheng is naturally unwilling to give these heirlooms that his ancestors risked their lives to leave for nothing to the Japanese. But the lives of his family members must be saved.
After thinking about it, this person came up with a way to cheat!"
"Relying on the kiln-firing and porcelain-making techniques passed down from his ancestors, the imitations produced by this person were almost the same as the genuine ones. After asking someone to make them older, he handed over these fake porcelains to Japan.
Man. In this way, not only did he save the treasure passed down by his ancestors, but he also saved the lives of his family members and avoided a catastrophe."
"In addition, this person is also a bit narrow-minded. When his close friends also encountered this situation, he did not hide his secrets and spread the method secretly. Later, everyone spread it by word of mouth, and those who benefited from this method
There were more and more people, and everyone thought this was a good method. Therefore, the method that was only spread among the people of these skilled royal porcelain makers at first gradually spread to the calligraphy and painting circles and the
In the collection world, even the famous traditional Chinese painting masters Qi Baishi, Xu Beihong, Lin Fengmian, etc. at that time all followed this method and preserved a large number of artistic treasures of the Chinese nation."
"Then, Mr. Li, why do they all use the word 'Cheng' to code secretly?" Liu Dong asked.
"Haha, it's actually not surprising. People with skills naturally think highly of themselves. In addition, when making these fakes, in order to hide it from the Japanese and save the lives of their families. So even though they are making fakes, everyone is extra cautious
Things made with care are naturally the best of the best. Such a good thing comes from several hands, so why not leave something behind? Of course, in order to avoid the Japanese identifying it later and causing trouble for the company, this secret mark cannot be used
It was too obvious. At the same time, in memory of the craftsman named Cheng who was the first to use this method, everyone unanimously left the word "Cheng" as a secret mark in their works!"
"Later, these works with the word 'Cheng' hidden in them were also called Cheng imitations. However, Cheng imitations only appeared during the Anti-Japanese War. Later, after the liberation of the country, they basically disappeared! Therefore, 90% of Cheng imitations are now
The above are all in Japan, only a few are still in China!"
After a pause, Mr. Li looked at the two chicken cups still on the table and exclaimed: "I didn't expect to encounter 'Cheng' imitations here today! Now we can identify Cheng imitations in China.
There are not many people around, and Xiaodong hasn’t been seen for a few days, so your appraisal level has improved very quickly!"
After listening to the old man's words, Liu Dong, who knew his own family affairs, touched his nose with a shy expression, "Old Li, I just rely on my youth and slightly better eyesight. When it comes to porcelain appraisal, it is better than...
You and I are far behind. You'd better not praise me. Otherwise, if someone asks me to appraise something in the future, and I can't tell you the right answer, wouldn't that embarrass you?"