With his hands raised in the air, a long yawn, and a stretch of his waist, the sleepy Chen Bao got up from the bed.
He glanced at the westward sun outside through the window, and felt a "gurgling" hunger in his stomach. He had to give up the idea of continuing to sleep in!
He put on his clothes haphazardly, pulled on his slippers and walked out of the room.
When he came to the living room, he glanced at Liu Dong who was sitting on the sofa reading the newspaper, rubbed the wild hair on his head that looked like a bird's nest, and asked in a dry and eager voice: "Brother Dong, do you have anything to eat?
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"Go and wash up first. After washing, go to the kitchen. Mother Zhang will heat up your lunch in a pot, and you can take it out and eat it yourself!" Liu Dong said directly without raising his head.
"knew!"
After getting along with him for a long time, Chen Bao, who had long been accustomed to his attitude, yawned and returned to the room to tidy up.
Maybe he was really hungry. Within fifteen minutes after bringing lunch to the table, Chen Bao was already burping after eating!
"I just told you to eat slowly, and no one is trying to fight you!" Liu Dong, who frowned, stretched out his hand and tapped Chen Bao a few times! Chen Bao, who had been hiccupping just now, immediately became calmer.
Sensing the changes in his body, Chen Bao's eyes lit up, and after quickly touching his belly with both hands, he immediately said: "Brother Dong, how did you do that?"
"Don't worry about how I did it, I tell you you can't learn it either! By the way, I'll give you this!"
Seeing the warm, white, simple and elegant jade that appeared in Liu Dong's hands, Chen Bao's attention was immediately attracted.
Chen Bao, who was overjoyed to see the hunter, took the jade in his hand, looked at it twice, and said to Liu Dong very preciously: "Brother Dong, this jade is so beautiful, did you really give it to me?"
"Well, here you go! I bought this for you last night!" Liu Dong nodded.
"Last night? Bought for me?" Chen Bao looked confused and glanced at the jade in his hand. A feeling of familiarity immediately emerged in his heart.
"Ah, is this the piece of jade dragon picked out from the trash can?" Chen Bao suddenly understood and said loudly.
"Trash can?" Liu Dong was stunned for a moment and shook his head speechlessly.
"Brother Dong, is this really that piece of jade dragon?" He glanced at the jade dragon in his hand, which had simple, elegant and simple lines. Chen Bao couldn't distinguish it from Liu Dong when he picked it out from the plastic bucket in Yuzhen Pavilion.
The piece of jade is covered with dust and stains, and even has some blackening.
"Um!"
Seeing Liu Dong nodding, Chen Bao hesitated and said: "But... the gap between the two sides is too big?"
"Just this morning, I helped you clean and repair this piece of dragon-shaped jade!" Liu Dong said.
"Let me tell you, why is there such a big difference between before and after! By the way, Brother Dong, what is Yuheng?"
Faced with his cousin who had not even entered the door but was far more curious than ordinary people, Liu Dong had to endure it and explained: "Yuheng is an ancient ornament, and it is the most important component in a set of ornaments."
It plays the role of balancing a complete set of ornaments. It began to appear as early as the Western Zhou Dynasty. At that time, jade was used as a decoration to be worn on the chest. The shape was irregular and varied. During the Spring and Autumn Period and the Warring States Period, jade was popular, and jade was used as a decoration on the chest.
Groups of jade components appeared in large numbers, and their forms and decorations were extremely rich. Hollowing, relief and other techniques were widely used. Many special-shaped jade ornaments also appeared at that time. After the Han Dynasty, as the popularity of jade in society began to shrink, jade became more popular.
The number of hengs is also very small. In the Ming and Qing Dynasties, many small jade hengs appeared in fake ancient jade for appreciation and collection, and the jade hengs worn by people in daily life have gradually evolved into jade locks and jade tokens.
Waiting for new forms. And jade is also one of the oldest jade shapes in China! Do you understand?"
"Understood!" Chen Bao nodded half-underlyingly. After taking a look at the exquisite dragon-shaped jade in his hand, he quickly continued to ask, "Hey, Brother Dong. Brother Dong, what about this piece of jade?
What dynasty is it from?"
"From the Warring States Period!"
"The one from the Warring States Period? The one from the Warring States Period is not bad, it's more than two thousand years old!" After a pause, "How much is it worth?"
"According to the current market price, it's about 100,000!" Liu Dong said after a brief estimate.
"100,000? That's too little. This is a jade pendant from the Warring States Period, an antique dating back more than two thousand years!" Chen Bao said in disbelief.
And his performance is also one of the typical characteristics of many laymen who are involved in antiques!
"What's wrong with 100,000 yuan? 100,000 yuan is because the jade is of good quality and the craftsmanship is exquisite, otherwise it wouldn't even be 100,000 yuan!"
"How is this possible? Doesn't it mean that the longer something is circulated, the more valuable it is?" Chen Bao asked.
"It is generally true that the longer the antiques are circulated, the more valuable they are! However, not all things are more valuable the longer they are circulated! Jade is one of them! Although there are many jade articles before the Han Dynasty,
The quality of jade is mostly rough and there are not many high-quality ones, so many ancient jades before the Han Dynasty are not as good as the new jade from the Ming and Qing dynasties, or even modern ones!”
"In addition, the same is true for ceramics. Although the pottery of the Qin and Han Dynasties has been around for a long time, its exquisiteness is not as good as the porcelain of the Song, Yuan, Ming and Qing Dynasties. So when it comes to the value of the two, the latter is naturally far ahead of the former!"
"So, in the antique shop, how do you judge whether something is worth something and how much it is worth? The length of time it has been circulated is only one aspect. The most important thing is to look at its exquisiteness and rarity! And the artistry contained in an antique. This
This kind of artistry includes aesthetics and humanity...!"
"Stop, Brother Dong, it turns out that there are so many things involved in appraising an antique?" Looking at Liu Dong's slightly dissatisfied eyes, Chen Bao, who had a headache after being taught a lesson, laughed and said.
"A child cannot be taught!" Liu Dong shook his head and said in his heart. Just now he finally found some pleasure in being a teacher, but he was interrupted by Chen Bao just after he started. This made him very disappointed.
However, Liu Dong also understood that Chen Bao was not a student of antique appreciation at all.
Seeing Liu Dong's slightly disappointed look, Chen Bao, who knew he had made a small mistake, immediately changed the topic!
"By the way, Brother Dong! I remember that we bought two things from that Yuzhen Pavilion, except for my piece of jade dragon, oh, no, it's Jade Heng!" Chen Bao, who noticed the slip of the tongue, immediately corrected himself, "... then
What’s so good about the remaining Maitreya Buddha statues?”
He originally thought about adding the word "broken" in front of the Maitreya Buddha statue, but when he thought about the drastic changes in the dragon-shaped jade in his hand, he swallowed the words back.
Hearing Chen Bao mention the Maitreya Buddha statue, Liu Dong's face showed a hint of excitement.
"Hey, that's it!"
Following the voice, Liu Dong took out a jade cicada from his pocket, which was only three or four centimeters long. It had a simple and elegant appearance, simple decoration, but it was still vivid, and its color was bright and condensed like blood!
"Hey, Brother Dong, what is this? It looks much prettier than my Yuheng!" Chen Bao, who was delighted to see Lie Xin, quickly came up to her.
"Is this Yu Chan?" Liu Dong asked with fiery eyes.
"Jade cicada? Hey, don't tell me, the carving looks quite similar!" As he said that, Chen Bao reached out and touched the jade cicada in Liu Dong's hand.
But before his hand touched Yu Chan, Liu Dong held his palm and blocked it back.
"Don't move yet, this is a priceless treasure!"
"Priceless treasure?" Chen Bao was stunned for a moment!
Although he admitted that the jade cicada indeed looked very beautiful and was well carved, but it was so small, even three or four times smaller than his own jade heng, how could it be a priceless treasure?
Seeing the disapproval on Chen Bao's face, Liu Dong said with a slightly excited tone: "Don't believe it, just this bloody jade cicada in my hand, if it is really sold at the auction, it will be
You can get more than 10 million Chinese coins!"
"Ten million? Whatever?"
Chen Bao, who was shocked, looked at the small jade cicada in Liu Dong's palm and couldn't equate it with the phrase "casually fetched a price of more than 10 million"!
"Brother Dong, tell me about this thing. Oh, no, why is this jade cicada so valuable? I'll buy two of them later too!"
Looking at Chen Bao, who was licking his face and approaching with curiosity in his words, Liu Dong didn't care about the mistakes in his words.
"The jade cicada, named Kouhan, is a kind of burial vessel in ancient China, or burial jade!"
"Burial jade?" Chen Bao immediately became interested in this new term.
Liu Dong, who was excited at this moment, did not bother to explain to him: "Yes, there was a custom in ancient China of 'treating death as life'. Funerals were paid great attention to, and the most obvious manifestations were the emperors of the past dynasties, who often continued to carry out funerals at the beginning."
When one becomes an emperor, he spends extravagantly and overhauls the royal tombs."
"I know this. I have been to the Ming Tombs, the Qing Emperor's Tomb, and the Qin King's Tomb!" Chen Bao nodded.
"Don't interrupt me! Otherwise, go check the book yourself!" Liu Dong said angrily.
"Okay, okay, I won't interrupt, you continue talking!" Chen Bao said quickly. He looked up the book himself, and it will be clear to anyone who listened to the explanation.
"The ancients believed that burying the body with jade can protect the body from decay and make resurrection possible. Therefore, by the Han Dynasty, jade burial was very common and has gradually evolved into a set of jade clothes, jade handles, jade nine-hole plugs, jade containing
The perfect form of burial jade. Ritual utensils are utensils used in ancient ritual activities. Jade ritual utensils are mainly used for sacrificial activities, but they do not generally refer to all jade utensils used in rituals, but specifically refer to Bi, Cong, Gui, and Zhang.
The six kinds of jades, Huang and Hu, are called the "Six Weapons"." At this point, Liu Dong suddenly realized that he had gone off topic, so he quickly brought the topic back.
"Jade cicada is one of the burial systems of the 'Jade Nine Orifices'!"
As soon as he saw the look on Chen Bao's face, Liu Dong knew what he wanted to ask.
"The jade nine-hole plug refers to the part where the jujube-shaped jade eyes cover the eyes of the deceased. There is a jade cicada in the mouth, and the nostrils, ears, anus, and vagina are all filled with eight-prism-shaped jade plugs!" Liu Dongdao.
"Oh, so that's what happened?" Chen Bao said suddenly. (To be continued.)