Shengshibaojian

lion head!

The lion head chosen by Zheng Guangrong?

All the cameras in the audience turned to the lion head. This is the lion head of a lion dancer. It has a huge physique and a powerful and domineering shape. It is similar to the common lion dance image on TV. It is also called a lion dancer.

Lion dance is bounded by the Yangtze River, and is divided into southern lion and northern lion at the same time. It is an excellent folk art in China, and it was also called "Taipingle" in ancient times.

Lion dancing is a relatively common object for people, especially in the areas of Guangdong and Foshan. It is considered to be an auspicious object to drive away evil spirits and avoid harm. Whenever there are festivals or major events, there must be lion dancing to cheer up. It is no exaggeration to say that in southern villages, a lion head can be found in almost every household. Even if no one in the family knows how to dance a lion, the common people will put a lion head in their homes to drive away evil spirits.

Zheng Guangrong actually chose such an ordinary lion head?If you look carefully at the lion head, there is nothing unusual about it. The hair on the periphery has fallen out in disorder. The statue of the male lion is slightly ferocious. The patch, in terms of appearance, is definitely not on the table.

It would be fine if the lion head was chosen by ordinary players, but it was the one chosen by Zheng Tiantian, the golden pupil, which immediately attracted the attention of the audience, and everyone had a heated discussion about the lion head in front of them.

"What thing? I chose a lion's head? There are many of these things in our hometown! I have two in my house alone, and the size and workmanship are not worse than this one. There are two patches on the outside of this thing, which is worthless at first glance. Something! Zheng Tian chose this? Are you sure you didn’t make a mistake?”

"This lion head is a typical southern lion. It originated during the Yongzheng period of the Qing Dynasty. It is an old thing, but this kind of lion dance is something ordinary people play with. With all due respect, I don't see how much it is worth anyway. money?"

"You are you! You are just an ordinary lover of antiques, let's look at his identity! Zheng Tiantian with golden pupils! There must be a reason why he chose this! If you really see it, Yanjing City is not full of Are you an antique genius? Just look at it! The lion head of this dancing lion must not be simple!"

Under the attention of everyone, Zheng Guangrong came to the stage and spoke in front of Xingshi.

"Hmph, actually there's nothing to say about this! In your opinion, this is just an ordinary lion's head, especially in the Foshan area in the south, there are a lot of lion's heads like this, but I want to tell you You guys! This lion head is definitely not as simple as you imagined! Look here!"

Zheng Guangrong pointed to the eyelashes of the lion's eyes: "Look at the edges of the lion's eyelashes. The exposed parts are all suture marks, and they all look like auspicious clouds! Look here, look here!"

Zheng Guangrong pointed out several suture marks on the lion's head one after another, all of which were the marks of Xiangyun without exception.

As a result, many people suddenly realized, isn't this mark the same as the palace mark back then?But all court clothes, boots, embroideries, and edge seams will be embroidered with this auspicious cloud mark.

Was this lion head made in the palace?

Zheng Guangrong circled around the lion's head with great interest and continued: "Don't look at the appearance of this lion's head, but the inside of this lion's head has a lot of background! Let's take a look at its fangs first. !"

Zheng Guangrong opened the lion's mouth with one hand, and everyone saw the two snow-white fangs in the lion's head gleaming, silver!Fangs made of silver!

"Let's take a look at its internal skeleton!"

Zheng Guangrong simply contrasted the inside of the lion's head, revealing the gleaming golden skeleton inside, gold! Made of pure gold!

"According to the historical records of the Qing Dynasty, during the 300 years of the Qing Dynasty, there has never been a hobby of playing lion dance. The lion dance is in Yangcheng in the south and Fengtian in the north, which is what we now call Guangzhou and Shenyang. That’s a good one! But why is it an ingenious work of the court of the Qing Dynasty?”

"As far as I know, in the 25th year of Guangxu, the Qing Dynasty really built a lion head once. In 1899 AD, and in the 25th year of Guangxu, foreign historians from Britain, France and the United States came to the capital and said that they had important things to do. Discuss with the emperors of the Qing Dynasty, in fact, they are eyeing the land of the Qing Dynasty, and they say they are discussing, but they are actually coming to Emperor Guangxu and Cixi to clamor!"

"Guangxu and Cixi are not fools. The little thought of Britain, France and the United States is like Sima Zhaozhi's heart. Everyone knows that the old lady Cixi is not a vegetarian. After careful consideration, she came up with a trick. It was during the Spring Festival of the Qing Dynasty, so Cixi was going to perform a small show in front of these foreign historians. It was the lion dance in the south to celebrate spring. Lion, warn them not to act rashly, or the lion will be angry and powerful!"

Everyone's eyes once again fell on the unremarkable lion's head, it should be right!This male lion is probably the lion head that Cixi ordered for foreigners and foreign historians.

Zheng Guangrong showed a disdainful expression and continued: "It's a pity that Cixi's wishful thinking was wrong. Foreigners don't like this at all. What lion is just a giant toy in their eyes! Plus the Qing Dynasty People have figured out the basics of it, and they can't scare the foreigners. Anyway, the play failed later. Not long after that, the Eight-Power Allied Forces attacked the capital in one fell swoop. Maybe it was Cixi's little trick, which turned the foreigners It was angered, and this gave birth to the tragedy of the Eight-Power Allied Forces attacking the capital and burning the Old Summer Palace!"

"I don't know much about this period of history. I just need to know that this lion head was made by palace craftsmen back then. It took a total of 8 taels of silver to make this lion head. 8 taels of silver Now we are worth at least [-] million! And I personally value this lion head at about this amount!"

Zheng Guangrong straightforwardly showed his valuation brand: 4500w!

As the referee, Liu Yangdong also revealed the final real price, 4380w!

There were exclamations at the scene, no one thought that an ordinary lion head was worth more than 4000 million!

Liu Yangdong added: "Everyone must be very curious, why this lion head is worth more than 4000 million. Just now Zheng Guangrong only talked about half of it. It was the work of a palace craftsman, but he didn't know who the masters who made the lion's head were, Zhao Cheng, Song Wanli, Yang Kaishou, and Sheng Zhengtao, four master sculptors!"

"Maybe everyone is unfamiliar with the names of these masters, but let me tell you, they were all members of Yujinmen back then! Yujinmen was the most famous and top artisan organization in the Qing Dynasty at that time. At that time, they had already reached the pinnacle, and every carved work was vivid and lifelike. It can be said that their carving techniques can fully represent the highest level of Chinese carving history!"

"The skeleton of this lion's head is made of pure gold, and its skull area is the prototype of the lion outlined by the master of Yujinmen stroke by stroke. Finally, it is colored, materialized, and the fake most fake is completed. Expensive southern style lion head! It's a pity that this lion head didn't frighten foreigners and foreign historians at that time, but became a joke in the eyes of foreigners!"

"Congratulations to Master Zheng Guangrong! You successfully guessed this collection! The price of 4500w is just within the error range!"

The audience at the scene suddenly realized that this is a work of Yujinmen, no wonder the price can soar to 4500w, you must know that the sandalwood incense burner shelf of Yujinmen that Shen Qiu found back then sold for more than 1000 million. A lion head is obviously more valuable, and the estimated price of 4500w is not much less.

"It's amazing! It's a genius with golden pupils! You can see the power of this lion head just by looking at it from the outside! 4500w is definitely No.1! The price of the later collections should not exceed it!"

"I'm starting to worry about Shen Qiu. Zheng Guangrong's appreciating speed is really fast. Good things pass through his eyes first, so others can only eat the leftovers! Shen Qiu is afraid this time There is really no hope!"

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"Me! I choose the collection of No. 11!"