My identity as a collector was exposed by the village flower

Chapter 420 Is it all ancient jade?

Jackie Chan, that old pervert, is not only famous, but also willing to spend money. He bought a lot of things for the two beauties in a blink of an eye.In this case, many beauties can't stand it!

Thinking that he donated 2000 million just now, the water friends didn't criticize him.

Besides, that's still a foreign girl, which can be regarded as showing off the prestige of our country.

"Brother Jackie Chan's beauty is not shallow!" Xia Yu laughed.

After finishing speaking, he took out the treasure he just took out and asked Fang Xing, "How about this thing?"

Fang Xing glanced at it and asked back, "Do you know what it's called?"

It was a piece of jade shaped like an ox horn.

Seeing Xia Yu shaking his head, Fang Xing went on to say: "This is called Yuxi, a very ancient jade artifact. Everyone should be able to see the origin of its shape. It looks like animal horns or animal teeth."

This kind of thing can be traced back to primitive society.

Primitive society had the custom of wearing animal teeth, and later imitated them with jade, thus taking the shape of jade 觿.Yuxi was popular in the Shang Dynasty, and then experienced the Western Zhou Dynasty, the Spring and Autumn Period and the Warring States Period, and it did not decline until the Han Dynasty, and disappeared after the Han Dynasty.

In addition to its function of wearing and decorating, the ancients also used it as a tool for untying knots.Therefore, although the shapes of jade cymbals in different generations have changed complicatedly, they are always inseparable from the basic characteristics of thick upper end and sharp lower end.

"The surface is decorated with Yinxian panchi patterns, and near the tail is Yinxian triangular cloud patterns. There are patterns on both sides, and the layout structure is different in thickness and density.

Um?If I'm not wrong, it should be a pair. "Fang Xing said.

When Xia Yu heard it, she felt a little regretful, because there was indeed only one item on that stall, and the other one might have been lost.

"Then what year is it from?"

Fang Xing said with a smile: "This is jade, and the carving style is very iconic. Brother Xia Yu, you might as well analyze it yourself."

"Thank you for the carving technique that is a bit like the Han Badao. It can't be something from the Han Dynasty?" Xia Yu hesitated and expressed her own analysis.

Fang Xing raised his thumb: "That's right! It's Yuxi from the Han Dynasty."

He said that the jade cymbals of the Han Dynasty tended to be simplified, and most of them were in the shape of slender teeth and wide triangles. The decorations mainly included twisted silk patterns and hooked cloud patterns, which were not as good as those in the Warring States Period.

In the early Western Han Dynasty, Yuxi was similar to that of the Warring States Period. One type was decorated with "s" shaped dragon pattern, the body was decorated with pointed scrolls, the tail was conical, the body and tail were decorated with cloud patterns, and the outline was engraved; the other was in the shape of a crescent moon. , with a dragon head cut out at one end, and a cone-like end at the other end, with moiré patterns on the body, contour lines, and pierced ears.

In the middle and late Western Han Dynasty and the Eastern Han Dynasty, the jade shells were all crescent-shaped, but they were different from the early ones.In the middle period, the wide end of the jade cymbal was used as the head of the dragon, and the top of the back was carved with entwined branches, such as panchi and phoenix birds.

"So, judging from the style of the carving, there is a high probability that it is from the early Western Han Dynasty."

Although half of it was lost, Xia Yu was still very satisfied.The jade wares of the Han Dynasty cannot be said to be very valuable, but three to five million yuan should be expected.

Then, he took out another thing, which was jade.

"What about this one?"

Fang Xing was slightly surprised.

"Where did you find it? Why are they all old things?"

As soon as this remark came out, everyone already understood that this one was also genuine.It seems that in foreign flea markets, the probability of finding genuine products is much higher.

This is not difficult to understand, after all, in China, the antique market is booming.That means that there is also a market for counterfeit products, so that counterfeiting will be rampant, and if there are more counterfeit products, there will be more counterfeit products, and the rate of genuine products in the market will also decrease.

"It's called Yuxuanji, and it's still a hollowed-out craft. In many people's minds, the hollowed-out craft is not very old. However, the history of this carved jade Xuanji is very long, almost dating back to the Longshan culture 4000 years ago. .”

The Longshan Culture is a prehistoric culture along the middle and lower reaches of the Yellow River, and it is also an important culture of copper and stone in the late Neolithic Age. The unearthed jade wares include jade Xuanji, jade axe, jade bi, jade axe, jade man, jade adze, etc., among which the world There are five typical utensils that are famous.

The hollow jade Xuanji in front of me is mainly carved with eagle patterns and two sets of carved dragon patterns, which shows that the eagle was used as a totem in this period.

Some people may want to argue, there are eagles and dragons, why is the eagle a totem, not a dragon?

In everyone's eyes, the dragon is the most orthodox totem of Chinese civilization.After all, we Chinese also claim to be the descendants of the dragon, and the status of the dragon in everyone's hearts has always been the highest.

In everyone's eyes, the eagle is generally a foreign totem.

For example, in the United States, the status of the eagle is very high.

The logo of the Roman Empire army used the image of an eagle, and there are still many countries that use eagle patterns in their national flags or national emblems.The national flag and national emblem of Egypt are the image of Saladin's eagle.Mexico's national flag and coat of arms include a snake-eating eagle perched on a cactus and more.

However, this notion is wrong.

In China, the culture of eagles is also very profound.

The culture, art and spirit of eagles have been accumulated in traditional Chinese culture for thousands of years, forming a distinctive Chinese eagle culture.The image of the eagle is not only the totem and family emblem of many ethnic groups in the north, but also the symbol of the God of War and the symbol of heroes.The literati and poets of all dynasties have also placed their affection on the eagle, expressing their feelings and expressing their ambitions through the eagle, endowing the eagle with rich and profound ideological and cultural connotations.

Even the Yellow Emperor in ancient times used the "Eagle" flag.

"Longshan's jade wares are almost a miracle of the Neolithic Age. At that time, many civilizations were playing with stones, but Longshan's ancestors had already played with jade wares.

What puzzles archaeologists is how did they carve such exquisite jade objects when the tools were so backward at that time?As we see now, it is still hollow, we can hardly imagine. "Fang Xing said.

This is true. More than 4000 years ago, many civilizations had not yet begun.For example, the Mayan civilization mentioned earlier is still a savage, and there is no civilization.

And like the well-known ancient Greek civilization and ancient Indian civilization, they are really playing with stones at this time.

"This hollowed-out Jade Xuanji is quite precious." After speaking, Fang Xing handed the item back to Xia Yu.

Upon hearing that it was precious, Xia Yu hurriedly caught it with both hands, for fear of damaging it.He remembered that there were two or three similar jade wares at the stall, and hurried back.

"There won't be more?" Fang Xing was a little surprised.

As he said that, he also followed. When he saw that Xia Yu was bargaining with the stall owner and won three more pieces of ancient jade, he was a little speechless.

Those three pieces are really ancient jade.If this is in the country, it is completely impossible to happen.At one stall, almost all of them are genuine items, which probably makes people who visit the antique street laugh.

More importantly, one of the ancient jades was still bloody.

Xueqin, most people think that it is buried with jade, which is formed by the blood of the deceased, so it is also called Shushiqin. In fact, it is not the case, but the jade has been buried in the ground for a long time, and the jade is soft and adjacent to it. It is because the red minerals have penetrated into the jade body.

It is really bloody, its jade is old and warm, with a clear light inside, heavy rust and soil spots, you can tell it is ancient jade at a glance.

(End of this chapter)