Live appraising treasures, I became a national treasure expert?

Chapter 230 Song Dynasty Manuscripts

Time flies, time is like quicksand, it will slip away quietly inadvertently.

The exhibition has been open for a week, and Li Ding'an has also been an expert for a week. If you ask him how he feels this week, he can describe it in four words: It's hard to describe.

After all, he is a celebrity. As time goes by, more and more Tibetan friends recognize him, and his popularity is getting higher and higher.At least at the Daliushu venue, Li Ding'an's limelight has faintly overshadowed the other five experts.But the strange thing is that fewer and fewer people come to see him.

The reason is simple: it’s too accurate.

Go to Li Ding'an to see something. True is true and false is false. There can be no third result, let alone any ambiguity. Whether it is right or wrong, I can explain it clearly to you.

But it’s not always possible to look at it with other experts. For example, if you encounter something that has no obvious age characteristics or is too highly simulated, the expert’s confidence is not very high, and of course it won’t be that accurate.

Correspondingly, the words will not be too full, and the conclusions given will not be too clear, and words such as "maybe" and "somewhat" will often be included.

Most players can understand: There is something wrong with this thing, it is not so real.

Say haha ​​smartly, say thank you again, then take your things and leave.I am straight-tempered but unwilling to give in. I have to ask clearly: How come I become "maybe" or "like" when I am good at real things?

This kind of thing will be transferred to Li Ding'an eight times out of ten, and then he will tell you: what's wrong, where the fake is, and even the method of fake and old-fashioned methods. Come up.

Not surprisingly, the next step will be to "put aside the facts". Li Ding'an neither argued nor was angry. On the contrary, he expressed understanding: he spent half his life's savings and ended up buying a fake thing, maybe even for pennies. It's not worth it, anyone would be anxious.

Therefore, you cannot blame the National Treasure Gang too much, but the industry itself is not standardized, and there are many loopholes like a sieve. Not only is the profit high, but you don’t have to go to jail for making and selling counterfeit goods. Why don’t I make it?
As a result, there are more and more fakes, and the methods of counterfeiting are becoming more and more sophisticated. Of course, more and more people are being deceived...

We encounter people like this at least four or five times a day, and most of them are used as promotional materials by the organizers and edited into videos, and many of them are even broadcast live.

When other collectors saw it, they thought, good guy, once it is on TV, doesn’t it mean that this thing has been sentenced to death and will be a fake for the rest of its life?

If you still want to take action, let’s just dream about it?
Therefore, fewer and fewer people are looking for Li Ding'an. Unless they are stubborn and have [-]% confidence in their own things, or they are ignorant and have not seen the organizer's promotional video. They only know that Li Ding'an has an extraordinary vision. Accurate, the identification ability is super high, I jumped in head first.

The result turned out to be nothing: after looking at it for a full week, I got through two to three hundred items, but not even one-tenth of the original ones.

Netizens were quite happy. They stayed at Jiang Lingyu's live broadcast room every day, just waiting to see his friends banging the table and scolding Li Ding'an, calling him a "shit expert" and "eyes for venting anger on his face."

What could Li Ding'an do? He could only spread his hands helplessly.

It’s no exaggeration, they happen every day, and all of them look more like the National Treasure Gang than the National Treasure Gang...

Today is the eighth day, and the exhibition is as prosperous as ever. Before nine o'clock, not long after it opened, the venue was already crowded with tourists and collectors.

The seats in front of the five experts were as lively as ever, and the lowest number was already seven or eight people in line.There were quite a lot of people around Li Ding'an, and many of them were holding things in their hands, but they just gathered in a circle, and no one sat on the chair opposite him.

Not only netizens, but Tibetan friends will also watch the fun.

Li Ding'an was not in a hurry. He took out the things slowly and placed them on the table one by one.After finishing the display, seeing that no one had come yet, he chatted with Jiang Lingyu again.

"Where's your sister? Why didn't you come today?"

"The store is very busy today and my aunt won't let her out!"

"Then how did you get out?"

"I don't need my aunt to pay me a salary?"

Is this reasonable?

Li Ding'an said "ha" and pointed to the mobile phone on the stand: "How many fans are there, I mean in total?"

Jiang Lingyu's smiling eyes narrowed into two slits: "Thanks to you, it's almost 100 million!"

I really have to thank Li Ding'an: her nearly one million fans are all due to Li Ding'an, and they are all real fans, and their spending power is not bad. If you bring goods, the one-time pit fee will be at least [-] yuan, and the commission will be another Calculate.

It can be regarded as finding the traffic password. No, knowing that Li Ding'an is an expert in Daliu Shu, the two sisters came to the top.

When they were in Shenyang, Qian Jinyu and Jiang Lingyu helped a lot, and they regarded it as repaying a favor. Of course, Li Ding'an was fine with it, and he was very supportive: he earned his living based on his ability, and it was not shabby. At least it was much better than showing off his legs.

He nodded and gave a thumbs up: "Come on, try to break through 500 million!"

The little girl nodded heavily, her chest trembling, and her voice was very crisp: "I'll try my best!"

Good guy, baby face, big breasts and baby voice, that’s what you’re talking about, right?

Just as he was dizzy from being shaken, Xie Yuanping's voice came from next to him: "Teacher Li, if you are not busy, help me take a look at this thing."

He turned his head subconsciously: Xie Yuanping was holding a bronze mirror in his hand. It was covered with green rust and looked old.

There was another person sitting opposite, about forty years old, dressed in ordinary clothes, but very clean, and he felt like an intellectual.

"okay!"

After casually responding, Li Ding'an stood up, but the owner of the bronze mirror stopped and snatched the thing away: "No, Teacher Xie, I'm looking for you, why are you looking for someone else?"

"My specialty is ancient jade and utensils. I'm really not good at bronze utensils, so I asked Teacher Li to show you!"

"Forget it!" This man looked at Li Ding'an and shook his head like a wave, "I'll find other experts to take a look."

Xie Yuanping was stunned: "Why?"

The "intellectual" glanced at him with blank eyelids: Teacher Xie, haven't you noticed that over the past few days, if you look at things from other experts to Li Ding'an, out of ten, nine and a half of them are It's fake, who dares to show it to him?
Just thinking about it in his heart, the guest didn't say anything, picked up the bronze mirror and left. Xie Yuanping was stunned for a while, and then sighed helplessly: Scenes like this happened frequently these days, and he really didn't know how to evaluate it.

Li Ding'an just smiled and said it didn't matter.

Anyway, it was just a voluntary help, so he was happy to have some leisure time. Besides, why bother quarreling with people banging the table?

After thinking about it, he sat down again, thinking that being idle was idle, so he might as well chat with Jiang Lingyu's fans and help her consolidate her popularity.

Just as he was about to ask the little girl to move the phone over, someone called him next to him: "Ding'an, come here and take a look." When he looked up, it was Associate Professor Ge.

There were two people sitting opposite, a man and a woman. The man was younger, in his early thirties, very energetic and handsome.

The woman is older, about 40 years old, but her temperament is elegant and her charm is still there.

Both of them looked a little strange, the man looked slightly sad, and the woman had a frosty face, including Professor Ge, who also had a bit of solemnity on his face.Looking again, there is a book on the table, a standard thread-bound book, with the four words "Comments on Etiquette" written on it.

Annotations, or manuscripts?

"Etiquette" is one of the Six Classics of Confucianism. Its main content is the standard procedures and requirements for various etiquettes, such as the specific procedures for weddings and funerals, etc. "Annotations" are annotations written by Zheng Xuan, a great scholar of the Eastern Han Dynasty.

Since the Han Dynasty, "Yili" has become one of the important basis for selecting officials and recommending talents and filial piety. Since the Sui Dynasty, it has officially become one of the "Jingzhu" of the imperial examination until the Qing Dynasty.

To put it bluntly, it is the key points of the examination. Anyone who chooses to study the "Etiquette" is a compulsory course, so many of them have been handed down.However, most of them are engravings, and manuscripts are rare.

But if it is rare, it does not necessarily mean it is valuable. It depends on who copied it and whether it is famous. If it is an unknown person, it depends on the specific age, calligraphy level, whether it is well preserved, etc.

Judging from the clothes and expressions of these two people, as well as Professor Ge's slightly frowning brow, I guess there is something behind them.

Thinking secretly, Li Ding'an walked over: "Professor Ge!"

"I'm a little unsure, please take a look!"

Professor Ge was not polite. He pushed the book forward and motioned to the man and woman opposite him with his eyes: "Seller and buyer!"

As soon as he heard this sentence, Li Ding'an understood: This manuscript is most likely related to debt issues. To put it more simply, it is used to pay off debts.

Moreover, before coming here, these two people probably looked at it from other experts and got a positive answer, and maybe a certificate was issued.

But for one reason or another, the creditor had doubts and wanted to confirm again.

If the thing is correct, then everything is easy to say and it will be as it should be, but if the thing is not accurate, it will be very troublesome.

They say there is no problem, but it feels like there is something wrong with the item. If the buyer discovers it later and there is indeed a problem, the lawsuit will definitely not go away.

If there is a problem, offending people is the second most important thing. I am afraid that if I take a wrong look, a lawsuit will also be inevitable.

It was probably for this reason that Professor Ge had to ask Li Ding'an for help.

Turning around and taking another look, it was not difficult to guess the identities of these two people: the man was a little worried, so he must be in debt, and the woman was unhappy, so of course she was the creditor...

After looking at it for a few times, Li Ding'an sat down and said, "Who asked for the appraisal before?"

"I haven't asked yet, the key is... hehe..."

Professor Ge bared his teeth, as if in pain, "You'll know just by looking at it!"

Good guy, are you not that good?
Although Lao Ge is only an associate professor, that is because his qualifications are not enough, not because his appraisal ability is not good. At least at Beijing University, his level is still quite high in categories such as epigraphy, inscriptions, rubbings, and ancient books. Otherwise, he would not be the temporary candidate this time. One of the members of the expert group.

Even he is in such a dilemma, so it shows how difficult it is to identify this thing?

Secretly suspicious, Li Dingan picked up the manuscript.

At first glance, it is indeed old enough: the book is no longer "yellow", but almost "yellow with gray", and not only the cover, but also the middle seam is like this.If it were not for the artificial appearance of old age, and without 300 years of effort, the color of the paper would never have aged to this extent.

Including the writing on the cover, it feels a bit "blurred", which also shows that it is old enough.

The font is quite neat and well-preserved. There are about fifty or sixty pages, but the book is still flat and the pages are still tight.

Open the cover and look at the paper. It's not too thick, but it gives people a very strong feeling. Although it is very old, it is still shiny. When you touch it, it is thin and thick, very smooth, and very flexible.

Cooked Xuan, or Qing Tan Te Jing Xuan?
The so-called Tejingxuan means that more than [-]% of the paper is made of green sandalwood, and less than [-]% is made of straw and other materials. From the Tang Dynasty to the Qing Dynasty, it was the first choice for palace paper in all dynasties.

Being able to use this kind of paper to copy scripture annotations means that even if he is not a person whose name has been recorded in history, his family background is definitely extraordinary.

After identifying it, it was indeed Te Jingxuan. He turned over the wordless title page again, expecting to see the specific content, but he didn't expect that it was still an empty page with no word written on it.

However, it was covered with two pieces, one large and one small, and the imprints were a little faint, but they could still be seen clearly.

The smaller one is in ordinary regular script and the inscription is quite regular: Muslim layman.

A halal layman... I feel a little impressed...

After a flash of thought, he looked at the larger seal again. With just one glance, Li Ding'an paused: What is this thing? Why is it engraved like an insect crawling?
It's really like a bunch of bugs, crooked and intermittent. At first glance, it feels like you can't make out the shape of the characters.But then, he suddenly realized: this is the nine-fold seal script unique to the Song Dynasty, and only official seals can be engraved like this.

After careful identification, Li Ding'an couldn't help but narrow his eyes. After thinking for a moment, he couldn't help but take a breath: The secretary is in charge of the school secretary Zhu Ji!

I'm confused... This is actually the Song Dynasty version, and it's also an official manuscript?
No wonder Professor Ge didn't even ask who had done the appraisal before and what the result was, so he hurriedly called him over?
There is a saying that has been circulating in the antique world: a page of Song Dynasty edition is worth one tael of gold... It is no exaggeration, there is absolutely no water in this sentence.

Take a look at the past transaction records: In 2018, Guardian Auction, the Song Dynasty version of Wang Anshi's collected works - Song Longshu's "Collected Works of Wang Wengong" and "The Lost Slips of Song Dynasty" three volumes, the starting price was only 500 million each, but in the end, the four books It cost a total of 6000 million yuan.

In 2020, the engraved edition of "The New Edition of Du Fu's Poems with Annotation and Editing" from Guangdong Caosi, the first year of Emperor Lizong's Baoqing reign, which is Du Fu's collection of poems, was finally sold for 1.77 million.

In 2021, "Zhou Li Zhu" also annotated by Zheng Xuan, printed by the Tea Supervisor of Liangzhe East Road in the early Southern Song Dynasty, was sold for [-] billion.

Moreover, these books are all engravings. The level of the printing organization is not particularly high, only the first level of the department, and there is no seal or anything like that.

So what if it was copied by the Secretary Provincial School Secretary, not only with the official seal, but also with the private seal of the copyist, and was also a person whose name was recorded in history?

Haha... halal layman?
If it weren't for the official seal of the school secretary, he almost wouldn't have remembered it: it was Zhou Bangyan, a famous poet and literary giant of the Song Dynasty.

It's not an exaggeration: If this book were authentic, and if the price was [-] million, Li Ding'an would dare to live broadcast eating food...

(End of this chapter)