My system is not decent

Chapter 362 Jade is not a cauldron
The guest, who was in his thirties and looked very shrewd, also stood up when he saw Chen Wenzhe.

Chen Wenzhe greeted with a smile: "Hi, I've kept you waiting."

"It's okay. Although your Yi Nian Tang has not been open for a long time, you are still quite famous in this antique city. It's okay for me to wait."

As he spoke, the young man looked at a wooden box on the coffee table.

Chen Wenzhe's eyes also fell on the wooden box.

The wooden box is square, with a height of forty centimeters. If such a big thing is genuine, it must be considered a heavy item.

"Look at something?" Noticing Chen Wenzhe's expression, the young man showed a smug expression on his face.

"Then take a look, I'm wasting your time." Chen Wenzhe said politely.

"It's okay, it's okay, I heard that you can pay a high price in Yi Niantang, what's the matter if I wait a while?" The young man smiled even brighter.

Chen Wenzhe stopped talking nonsense, he carefully opened the wooden box, and saw the white jade inside at a glance.

"Is this a tripod?" Seeing the small jade tripod inside, Chen Wenzhe's eyes lit up, but he quickly returned to normal.

However, this change in expression has already fallen into the eyes of the young man.

Since Chen Wenzhe walked into the store, he has been looking at him instead of looking at his own things.

What's so good about his own stuff?

Observing words and deeds is the only weapon to deal with these antique shop owners.

Even in the face of an antique shop owner who was much younger than him, this young man did not dare to be careless at all.

Seeing that it was a jade tripod, Chen Wenzhe was not in a hurry to do it.

There are many ancient jade wares, but few or even none of the ancient jade tripods can be handed down.

Needless to say, this one is well preserved, and it doesn't look too dilapidated, let alone a pure white jade tripod like Tuqin.

"What's the boss's name?" Chen Wenzhe asked while turning the wooden box to check the jade tripod.

The young man immediately said: "I forgot to introduce, I, Zhang Jiyong, is also in the antique business, but he has just entered the business, please take care of him!"

The name is a bit unpretentious, and the person looks steady and down-to-earth, but something is not right!
This jade tripod is about 30 centimeters high, the color is smooth and soft, and it is white and flawless.

Erect ears, square lips, folded edge, bulging belly, and four legs in the shape of an elephant trunk.

The height of the abdomen is greater than the height of the feet, and the front and back of the body are engraved with opposite animal faces. The overall shape is well-proportioned, and the decorations are regular and exquisite.

Looking at the ornamentation above, the style is remarkable, the ornamentation style of the Zhou Dynasty.

But the carving technique is imitating the Qing Dynasty, because Chen Wenzhe looks like a modern machine worker.

"The shop is open?"

"No, it's Baobao Zhai. Walk around the streets and alleys, and when you meet good things, you can earn a little hard work."

Hearing this, Chen Wenzhe raised his head and glanced at the young and promising Zhang Jiyong.

It's not easy to be a rag gang now, except for those who deliberately deceive people!
Now I just don't know whether this person is in the game or is in the game.

"Aren't you looking at something?" At this moment, Zhang Jiyong had already noticed that Chen Wenzhe's expression was wrong.

"Is there an inscription on this thing? I can't recognize anything else, but the three characters on it are Zhou Tianzi, right?"

"Yes, I also know these three characters, but I don't know the next ten characters." Zhang Jiyong said.

Chen Wenzhe looked at Yuding's other ear. There were also sixteen characters on it. These sixteen characters were exactly the same as those on the other ear. The most important thing was that he knew it.

In fact, it is not the Son of Heaven, but: the time of the week is connected with day and night; the gossip is in the middle, and it changes without speed.

This sentence comes from "Dao Shu", a work of the Song Dynasty.

However, the style of this jade tripod seems to be imitated from the Western Zhou Dynasty.

This book, anyone who has read fantasy fairy tale novels, should understand some of its contents.

This "Tao Shu" was compiled by Zeng Zhen in the Song Dynasty.

There are forty-two volumes and one hundred and eight chapters.

The title of the book is taken from "Zhuangzi Equality of Things". The whole book combines Taoist philosophy, Yin Talisman, Huangting, Taiji, Convincing Qi, Refining Essence, Great Dan, Breathing, Fetal Breath, Great Returning Golden Elixir, Jinbilonghu, Lead and Mercury Five Elements, Shentongqi, Medicinal Mirror, Lingbao, etc. are listed as special articles, and each theory is cited.

Is it very familiar?Many settings in the novel come from here. Of course, there are similar records in other Taoist classics.

This is not the point. The point is that "Dao Shu" comes from the Song Dynasty, and a great calligrapher Mi Fu in the Song Dynasty once said: Jade is not a tripod.

It seems that there is another reason why pottery did not come, or that pottery cannot be cast, anyway, that is what it means, that is, ceramics cannot be cast, and jade cannot be used as a tripod.

Of course, it's not that it can't be done, but it's too troublesome and difficult to do.

This point can be seen by looking at the jade wares that have been handed down from generation to generation.

Throughout the [-]-year history of China, bronze tripods have been unearthed more in the history of Chinese cultural relics, which is well known.

However, from Xia, Shang, Zhou to Ming and Qing Dynasties, from the National Palace Museum to the National Palace Museum in Taipei, from folk collections to national treasures lost overseas, there are very few jade tripods.

Most of the preserved jade tripods are from the Ming and Qing Dynasties, and there is no trace of the jade tripods from the Han Dynasty and the Warring States Period.

As for the subsequent Song Dynasty, they would not be able to make jade tripods, because after the Warring States Period and the Han Dynasty, things like tripods were not popular.

It was only in the Qianlong period of the Qing Dynasty that a large number of jade tripods appeared. Why?
Because during the Qianlong period, modern tools for processing jade were introduced from the West, so that digging jade became simple and convenient.

Before the Qing Dynasty, why was there no jade tripod?It is because the tools are not good, the production is inconvenient, and it is too labor-intensive.

Also, the inscription on this jade tripod was not recorded correctly.

On ancient tripods, whether they are pottery tripods or bronze tripods, if the inscriptions are engraved, they are all under the ears, and they will never be engraved on the ears.

And even if it is engraved on the ears, the inscriptions on the two ears will not be the same, because the inscriptions on the tripod are for notes, not decorations.

This thing should be a late imitation, not even a Qing imitation.

Qing imitations are generally imitated by Qianlong, and Qianlong's antique words are usually left on them.

In the Qing Dynasty, Empress Dowager Cixi was known as a glutton for pearls, and she also liked to collect emeralds.

And Qianlong was a jade idiot. During his reign, apart from collecting calligraphy and painting and stamping calligraphy and painting constantly, he also liked jade.

No way, this is his achievement. In order to stabilize the Western Regions, after his army swept the entire western region, he opened up the purchase channel of Hetian jade, and with better tools, this made the jade of the Qing Dynasty reach the highest level. prosperous stage.

Antique jade wares in the Qing palace have always been known as "the beauty of nature", and they were basically made by the palace's manufacturing office.

Obviously, this one is wrong no matter which aspect you look at, but this thing looks too beautiful.

If it wasn't for this, why would Chen Wenzhe look at this name for a long time?

(End of this chapter)