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Chapter 663 Liangzhu Jade Cong
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Liu Dong is no stranger to Dutch. Since the appearance of Relic Yuanguang gave him the ability to almost photographic memory, he has basically mastered the languages of major European countries. The difference is just the level of proficiency. ⊙
Coupled with Fang Zhonghua, a map gun who once studied at the University of Amsterdam, there was still no obstacle to communication between the two even though they were in a foreign country.
Soon, they took a taxi to the Museum Square, which was not far from the hotel where the two of them were staying. It only took about ten minutes.
"Is the environment here much better than at home?" Liu Dong sighed slightly after looking at the ancient buildings around him that still retained the architectural style of the Dutch Golden Age.
"There is nothing we can do about it. The Netherlands is an economically powerful and developed country in Europe. It is naturally better than the country in terms of education and environmental protection. After all, it has been developing for hundreds of years and cannot be compared with the current country!" Fang Zhonghua
road.
Liu Dong nodded. Modern China is more like Europe at the beginning of the last century. The economy and industry are booming. But other aspects, especially environmental protection and education, are not paid enough attention to. This is determined by the stage of economic development. If
China is also an economically developed country that has developed for hundreds of years, so the current domestic environment is certainly no worse than that of Europe!
Patting Liu Dong's shoulder, Fang Zhonghua said with a smile: "Okay, the two of us are not allowed to interfere in national affairs. Let's hurry up and dig out the treasures. There are many antique shops here!"
After nodding, Liu Dong followed Fang Zhonghua and walked away.
Because there are a large number of museums around Museum Square, there are naturally many shops mainly selling antiques. In addition, it is located in the city center, so there are not a lot of people here. Although it is only about nine o'clock in the morning, the place has already become bustling.
However, most of the people are tourists. After all, Amsterdam, the capital of the Netherlands, has only a population of over one million, which is almost different from an ordinary prefecture-level city in China!
Following Fang Zhonghua, Liu Dong, who came to the Netherlands for the first time, was naturally led by Fang Zhonghua, who was familiar with the road.
"Let's go, Xiaodong, let's go to this store first. I know the owner there, and he guarantees that he can give us a preferential price!" With that said, Fang Zhonghua pulled Liu Dong into the store called 'Gul'
Na's little shop!
The layout of the antique store is very different from that in China. There are a lot of porcelain, oil paintings, and a small number of sculptures on the surrounding shelves, but most of them are handicrafts, and there are not many really valuable things.
However, there are a lot of miscellaneous things in the whole store, and they are packed to the brim. Due to the obvious lack of organization, it is almost like some second-hand stores!
But it can be seen from this layout that this store is really old and is indeed a good place for shopping.
"Dong dong, old man Ace, we have a guest!"
Approaching the store, Fang Zhonghua walked to the slightly mottled oak counter next to him and patted it a few times, then shouted loudly to an old man lying on his back and sleeping soundly inside.
"Um, ah, who?"
The old man who was awakened by Fang Zhonghua's loud voice jumped up from the recliner and looked at Fang Zhonghua with his eyes wide open. After a few minutes, the anger disappeared and was replaced by a bit of surprise, "Are you Fang?"
"Old Ace, I didn't expect you to still remember me!" Fang Zhonghua laughed.
"Of course I remember, you cunning guy, you made a lot of money from me back then!" Although he said that, old man Ace still walked out of the counter and gave Fang Zhonghua a big hug.
After the two briefly reminisced about old times, Old Man Ace naturally noticed Liu Dong standing aside, and immediately asked: "Who is this?"
"Oh, this is Liu Dong. Even though he is young, he is much better at antique appraisal than me!" Fang Zhonghua said.
"I'm not as powerful as Brother Fang said, hello!"
Holding Liu Dong's right hand that he extended out, Old Ace looked Liu Dong up and down and said with a smile: "Just call me Old Ace! ... Fang, your compatriot is much more humble than you!"
"Haha, really, be careful when the time comes and he will pick out all your treasures!" Fang Zhonghua said with a smile.
Hearing this, Old Man Ace glanced at Liu Dong in surprise. Based on his understanding of Fang Zhonghua, there were not many people who could be praised like this many times by him.
"Okay, Old Ace, take out the treasure you have here quickly, I have brought you a big customer today!" Fang Zhonghua said.
"Big patron?" Old Ace looked at Liu Dong.
Seeing this, Liu Dong smiled calmly and said: "As long as the things are good, the price is not a problem! And my hobbies are not limited to collecting Chinese antiques. If there are Rembrandt or Van Gogh paintings here, I think I will
He bought it without hesitation!”
After Liu Dong finished speaking, Old Ace's eyes suddenly lit up. Hearing this tone, he knew that the young man in front of him was definitely a wealthy man!
"I don't have paintings by Rembrandt and Van Gogh here, but since you are Fang's friend, I won't let you down! Just wait a moment!" With that, Old Ace walked through the passage in the center of the store.
Going up the stairs at the back to the second floor, it is obvious that this is a house for both commercial and residential use.
Looking at the other party's back, Liu Dong was surprised that the other party trusted Fang Zhonghua so much that he left without even leaving a janitor behind!
"Xiaodong, Old Ace's appraisal skills are not bad, and he must have a lot of good things in his hands. You are going to bleed a lot this time!" Fang Zhonghua said with a smile.
Of course, he also knew that Liu Dong was not short of money, otherwise he would not have brought Liu Dong here!
"It doesn't matter. As long as the stuff is good, money is not an issue!" Liu Dong said.
After the trip to Zhengzhou, Liu Dongkari's euros have reached 50 million. Although it is not as rich as the billions of euros he used to have, it is still very easy to buy a few priceless antiques.
"Brother Fang, don't you want to read the things on this floor?"
Seeing Fang Zhonghua standing by the counter without any movement, Liu Dong said in surprise.
"No, it's not easy to pick up leaks here with Old Ace. He is very knowledgeable about our country's porcelain and jade. I'd better not waste this time!" Fang Zhonghua shook his head.
Among Chinese antiques, porcelain is the most lost abroad. In hundreds of thousands of years of East-West trade, porcelain has always been the bulk of it. As for calligraphy and painting, unless it is an auction house, it is rarely seen in foreign antique markets.
, after all, the differences between Eastern and Western cultures, there is really no market for Chinese paintings in the West!
"If you're curious, just go for a spin!" Fang Zhonghua said with a smile, thinking of Liu Dong's amazing appraisal ability and the eager expression on his face at this moment.
"When Old Ace's things are brought down later, Brother Fang, you can choose first. Just give me the remaining items!" With that, Liu Dong walked towards the dazzling shelves next to him.
Because Liu Dong's understanding of Western culture was limited, and his level of antique appraisal was even more limited. Except for some knowledge of oil paintings, the rest was basically limited to book level, and he had no experience at all, so he was too lazy to waste time and just put the relics directly.
Yuan Guang was released and enveloped the entire antique store. As long as the aura was strong, it must be a good thing.
But what Liu Dong didn't expect was that as soon as the light of his relic was released, a rich blue aura shot up into the sky!
According to Liu Dong's analysis of the original light of the relics, antiques that can flash blue aura must be over 4,000 years old!
Thinking of this, Liu Dong almost subconsciously went straight to the place where the aura came from, and then took out a piece from the bottom layer of the shelf, about 8 cm high, 16 cm in diameter, square on the outside and round on the inside, with a dark brown appearance.
The moment he saw this jade, Liu Dong discovered that it was a jade cong, and it was also a jade cong from the Liangzhu Culture period.
The Liangzhu Culture is a Neolithic culture type distributed in the Taihu Lake Basin. The representative site is the Liangzhu Site, dating back 5300-4000 years ago.
The most distinctive feature of this cultural site is the jade articles unearthed from the tombs. The jade articles excavated from the tombs include bis, congs, yue, huangs, crown-shaped articles, trident-shaped jade articles, jade bracelets, jade tubes, jade beads, jade pendants, and columnar jade articles.
Cone-shaped jade articles, jade belts and rings, etc.
Its carvings and decorations are dense, meticulous, harmonious and neat, especially the fine line inscriptions, which can be called a masterpiece of micro-carving.
Although archaeologists still cannot decipher how the Chinese ancestors carved such exquisite jades more than 4,000 years ago, this does not prevent collectors from admiring Liangzhu jades.
However, the main material of Liangzhu jade is tremolite, which is a low-quality sapphire. After being buried underground for thousands of years, it has been soaked in various colors, and its original charm cannot be seen.
It is precisely because of this that this jade cong, which is second only in size to the king of jade congs collected at the Zhejiang Archaeological Institute, is placed in the corner of an exotic antique shop and no one cares about it.
"It's just, how did it fly across the sea and get here?" Liu Dong, who couldn't think clearly, shook his head. After all, too many cultural relics were lost in modern China!
"This is truly a national treasure!"
Looking at the carved surface of the jade cong, the head is wearing a tall and wide feather crest, the face is square, the eyes are heavy, the nose is wide, the mouth is wide, and the teeth are exposed; the shoulders are shrugged, the hands are stretched out to the waist, the lower limbs are squatting, bird-shaped feet, and the whole body is
Liu Dong couldn't help but admire the gods and men decorated with animal masks, as well as the four sections and eight groups of simplified god emblems arranged in the corners.
It was also difficult for him to imagine how the Liangzhu people four thousand years ago could carve such exquisite jade objects. You must know that some of these statues are so small that you need a magnifying glass to observe them, but the carved lines are smooth and as thin as a hair.
This obvious method of micro-carving, even in modern times, requires more than ten years of micro-carving foundation, and is only possible with the help of a hard diamond carving knife.
But no matter what, he found this Liangzhu jade cong after all!
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