Live appraising treasures, I became a national treasure expert?

Chapter 232: What are the manuscripts?

The rest is wrong!

Li Ding'an's voice was not loud, but it was enough for those nearby to hear clearly.

What does this mean?
It means that there is something wrong with the thing, at least it is definitely not a Song version of the manuscript collected by the palace of the fourth generation...

For a moment, Professor Ge's eyes were dull, as if he had lost his soul: something that was originally worth hundreds of millions, just what Li Ding'an said, the price must not shrink by dozens or hundreds of times?
Including the woman, she finally lost her calm posture, her mouth was slightly open, and she looked shocked.

The man also reacted, and the corners of his eyes almost burst. He hit the table with a "dong" punch, and the magnifying glass and flashlight "bounced" several times.

Jiang Lingyu was so frightened that he quickly took the phone off the holder. Seeing that the camera angle was too small, he quickly took a few steps back.He also smacked his little tiger teeth: If you dare to take action, you will be imprisoned, right?

Again?
Li Ding'an sighed and gestured towards the distance. The director had already prepared. He pressed the intercom and said a few words. Immediately, five or six young men in white shirts gathered around him.

The live broadcast room became more lively:

Unending: "Hahaha... it's started, it's started!"

Sanqianzhang: "What a risk, I almost missed it!"

Nutrition Express: "The market is open: I bet there will be a fight today. At the worst, I will have to throw a few things off Li Anzhi's desk... The loser will buy a sports car for our cousin!"

My biggest question: "Regardless of eating and not fighting, have you lost for a week in a row?"

I walked into the alley: "The security guard is not a vegetarian... Look, this is coming!"

Seeing that someone was asking Li Ding'an for identification again, Jiang Lingyu started @李丁安's fans.After receiving the message, all the die-hard fans online entered the live broadcast room.

Then within a few minutes, the program that netizens love to watch began to take place.

Including several experts nearby, as well as collectors who come to the exhibition for a walk when they have nothing to do, they have long been accustomed to it: because such a scene happens every day, and sometimes even several times a day.

But today the place changed: from Li Ding'an's seat to Professor Ge's.Of course, the protagonist has not changed, it is still Li Dingan...

"What is it today, an ancient book?" Xie Yuanping stretched his neck, "It looks quite old?"

"It's really rare!" Zhu Xun also took a look, "But these two look so impressive, why are they so impatient!"

"It's probably not cheap!" Associate Professor Zhang thought for a moment and leaned forward, "Old Ge, what is it?"

Professor Ge woke up from a dream and couldn't help but swallowed: "Song version of the book!"

The experts were shocked: Good guy... a page of the Song Dynasty edition is worth one or two gold. This sentence is not just a boast.

Judging from the thickness, this one is only fifty or sixty pages long, and even less would cost tens of millions...

Just as he was thinking about similar thoughts, Professor Ge kept saying something astonishing: "Zhou Bangyan's manuscript was appreciated by Gaozong Zhaogou and Duanzong Zhao... It was also passed through the Secretariat of the Southern Song Dynasty, the Hanlin Academy of National History in the Yuan Dynasty, the Wenyuan Pavilion of the Ming Dynasty, and the Imperial College. , the imperial seals of the four dynasties of Tianlu and Linlang in the Qing Dynasty, there are more than ten seals from these institutions alone...and in addition to Zhao Gou, Zhao is the imperial seal of these two, there are also Zhu Yuanzhang's "Guangyun Treasure", and Qianlong's The Supreme Treasure of the Four Directions..."

What the hell?
It is no exaggeration to say that everyone who heard what Professor Ge said clearly was stunned, including experts, collectors, and fans in the live broadcast room.

Then, I heard a "squeaking" noise, and when I looked again, I saw two pairs of four experts stood up, dropped everything in their hands, and walked away.

The Tibetan friend sitting on the chair looked confused: No... just left after seeing it well?

Another question: I'm surprised, the book was written in the Song Dynasty, and it was handwritten by a famous artist, and it was stamped by several emperors?

That's a crapshoot. Let's talk about it after watching the excitement.The person who was appraising picked up the things and left. He was queuing up and still had the thought to queue up... In a moment, Professor Ge was surrounded on three levels inside and three outside.

Netizens were also shocked: What the hell?
Most of the new fans are laymen, so they just watch the excitement and keep scrolling on the public screen: Is it very valuable and so on? The older fans are, the more confused they are: handwritten manuscripts of the Song Dynasty, imperial palace records of the Four Dynasties Hidden, appreciated by the four emperors... But what Professor Fange said was not just talking in his sleep. This thing must be worth hundreds of millions?
Um...huh, right?
Li Ding'an just said...there's something wrong with this thing!
So, how can it be worth hundreds of millions?

For a moment, netizens sympathized with the man who was gnashing his teeth and with a fierce look on his face: What's the point of fighting?

One by one, they all opened their eyes wide, not daring to blink.

Several experts were standing around the table, all stretching their necks and staring at the books on the table, but they were just looking at them, but no one came forward to look at them.

To be honest, this kind of thing has now reached such an extent that no one dares to touch it: What should I do if I am blackmailed?
I have to say that Li Ding'an is indeed Li Ding'an: even if he thinks something is wrong, can't he speak more tactfully?

Every time, the truth is unequivocal, and the cameras are live broadcast simultaneously, which is equivalent to a direct sentence of death.This time it’s even more surprising: It’s worth hundreds of millions of dollars. Is it strange that people don’t show concern for you?
The collectors looked excited and secretly said that they were lucky: hundreds of millions of objects are rarely seen on TV, let alone in reality, let alone being appraised on-site at an exhibition.

What's incredible is that Li Ding'an immediately concluded that it was fake?
Haha, it’s exciting now...

In the blink of an eye, dozens of people gathered in front of him, and several young men in uniforms stared at him eagerly. The man finally regained his composure.

But he was still very excited, his eyes were gleaming fiercely, and he wanted to skin Li Ding'an and eat him alive: "Just open your mouth, you said there is a problem if there is a problem?"

"I didn't come just by opening my mouth!"

Li Ding'an thought for a moment and pointed to the manuscript: "Have you done a lot of tests? C-14... Well, there should be thermoluminescence!"

Several experts were close and subconsciously squinted their eyes: there were a few gaps the size of rice grains on the outer edge of the manuscript paper.

Understood, I took samples, did dating testing, and inspected several pages.

After thinking about it, Li Ding'an opened the book again: "I have done carbon molecular element analysis again... Well, I should have also done mass spectrometry chromatography and isotopes, and even done reverse radiation X-ray detection..."

Looking again, the handwriting on the front of the fingertip is obviously lighter, and there are fine marks, it seems that the toner has been scraped.

"And without exception, these test results show that this manuscript is from the Southern Song Dynasty!"

The man was startled: What can you tell me?

"Don't worry, wait until I finish!"

Li Ding'an waved his hand again: "Not to mention molecular element analysis, even if you do atomic absorption and ion beam, there is absolutely no error... You must have found experts, and you should have found more than one, right? You say it’s no problem? Because everything they use is from the Song Dynasty: paper, ink, thread, and even ink pads... With your eyesight, of course it’s no problem!”

What do you mean?
"You said this is... imitation?"

"Yes... you must ask me, why should I say that? Come on, look here..."

Li Ding'an took a flashlight and a magnifying glass and shined a bright light, "Look at these Qianlong seals. Are they darker in color, and are their edges neater and clearer? Look at the seals from the Song, Yuan, and Ming dynasties. Are the colors exactly the same? And they are lighter than those of the Qing Dynasty. Does the edge of the seal have a feeling of 'diffusion' or 'blurring'?

This is because there is a gap of nearly 200 years. The pigment molecules in the Qing Dynasty seals decomposed later and were lost slowly. The color is of course darker and clearer..."

It's 200 years away from Qianlong's seal?
Professor Zhang figured it out in a second: "Except for the Qing Dynasty, the rest of these seals were all made during the Wanli period of the Ming Dynasty?"

"Yes!" Li Ding'an nodded and turned to the back of the title page again, "Including this book "The Pure Practitioner" and "The Secretary's Provincial Supervisor Xiaoshu Lang Zhu Ji"!

No matter how slow the man reacted, he understood: this book was forged during the Wanli period of the Ming Dynasty, more than 400 years from the Huizong period of the Song Dynasty, and it has nothing to do with Zhou Bangyan...

"What are you kidding?"

"I'm not joking, it's the truth!"

Li Ding'an was a little helpless, "I know you won't believe it... So, I suggest you go to the Forbidden City. They have relevant technology and a database. You only need to make a comparison and it will be clear at a glance."

Fact shit!

An out-of-print Song version of a book collected by the palaces of the four dynasties, read by the emperors of the three dynasties, handwritten by famous masters, suddenly became a forgery of the Ming Dynasty?
The man raised his fingers tremblingly, his lips trembling: "Where's the evidence?"

If you say it so clearly, what more evidence do you need?
"As I said, the dates of the seals before the Qing Dynasty are wrong: the seals from the Song, Yuan, and Ming dynasties were all made at the same time, so the color depth and blurring degree are exactly the same. Isn't this a fake? I even said, let you go to the Forbidden City for testing. Not only do they have the technology and database, they even have many similar objects in their collection, so you can compare them accurately..."

After a pause, Li Ding'an stretched out his hand and pointed in the distance: "It's a live broadcast. I suggest you don't make any noise. The more noisy, the greater the impact..."

Seeing the camera not far away, the man's face turned green, and he clenched his fists instinctively: How can I sell this in the future?

It’s not that I want to hit someone, I can’t hit them even if I want to, but I’m just so angry that my brains are turned into porridge: because it’s not just the problem of missing 500 years of history, but the price: it’s still hundreds of millions, is it worth it now? Not necessarily.

The more he thought about it, the angrier he became. The man wanted to overturn the table, and his body couldn't stop shaking.

The woman coughed at the right time, and he came back to his senses. He almost poked Li Ding'an's nose with his finger: "Li Ding'an, you are waiting for a lawsuit!"

Li Ding'an just smiled.

Litigation is nothing. If you don’t believe me, ask a few experts nearby: In the past few days, some have threatened to put a sack on him, hit him with a car, blocked him on the road, burned his house, and even threatened to find a gun to kill him. There are... too many to count.

As an expert, there are people who want to risk their lives every day. Apart from Li Ding'an, there is no one else...

The man was so angry that he wanted to vomit blood, but he had no choice but to pick up the book.

He stood up and walked another seven or eight steps before he realized something was wrong and turned around again: "Sister-in-law?"

"It's ok!"

The woman waved her hands calmly, "Think about what I said last time!"

In an instant, the man's face was no longer green, but green.

After being stunned for a long time, he gritted his teeth and nodded: "Okay, I'll think about it again!"

After saying that, he glared at Li Ding'an fiercely and turned to leave.

Li Ding'an still didn't care. He looked at the man's back and then at the woman: before, he only thought he was the debtor and creditor, but didn't he think he was a relative?

Just as she was lost in thought, the woman smiled apologetically: "Teacher Li, I'm sorry!" "You're welcome!"

The woman nodded, thought for a moment, and then put her hand into the bag again.

When he took it out again, there was a piece of paper in his hand: "I will definitely trouble you in the future. If you need it, you can call me!"

This situation is very common. This week alone, he has received eighty, ninety or hundreds of business cards.Li Ding'an didn't care and took it subconsciously.

Then he glanced at it and frowned involuntarily: Why is this one different from the one I received before?
Very ordinary paper, with a bronze background and black regular script.The problem is, apart from the word "Qiying", there is only a set of mobile phone numbers on the piece of paper.

No unit, no address, no job title... except for name and phone number, not a single punctuation mark.

This has no beginning or end?

I don't even know what you do, how can I trouble you?
Just as she was confused, the woman smiled slightly and stood up again: "Teacher Li, goodbye!"

The smile is nice and a little mysterious, like "we will definitely meet".

What do you mean?
Even if you want me to daydream, you are too old to do it?

It's no exaggeration. Even if this woman is not the same age as my mother, she is definitely not a few years younger...

After thinking about it, the woman left her seat and the crowd moved out of the way. As soon as she left, they gathered around her again.

No...everyone is gone, what else is there to see?

Li Ding'an waved his hand: "Everyone, let's disperse!"

"Don't...it's neither good nor bad!"

"Teacher Li, who copied this book?"

"From what you say, the Qing Dynasty seals are all correct, which means that at least they were collected by the Qing Dynasty's inner court and appreciated by Qianlong, right?"

"How much is it worth now?"

"What does it have to do with the Forbidden City?"

A bunch of Tibetan friends stood still, chatting away, each with a louder voice than the other.

Li Ding'an was helpless, and several other experts were even more helpless: Let alone break up, more and more people gathered around, and no one sat in their seats anymore, so how could they appraise it?

Associate Professor Zhang took a look and came over: "Explain it, otherwise it won't stop!"

Lao Ge was even more impatient: "I won't be able to sleep until I understand!"

Isn't it to blame that he, a dignified professor at Beijing University and one of the most important experts in epigraphy, stone and ancient books in the capital, is so unstable?

On the contrary, because I know so much, I find it unbelievable: there are too many seals, and they are from all dynasties and generations, but the traces are too uniform?He also saw this problem, so he was a little unsure for a while, so he asked Li Ding'an for help.

But I'm just not sure. I wonder if it's due to improper preservation. I've also wondered if the book is a forgery, but to be honest, not much.

Li Ding'an, on the other hand, not only made his words conclusive, but also pointed out the clear time of the forgery: Wanli of the Ming Dynasty?

And he also made it very clear: Several scientific test conclusions showed that this book was the Song version. So how did Li Ding'an judge it?

It makes no sense that his eyes are more sophisticated than the instruments, right?

In doubt, Lao Ge suddenly became energetic when he heard Li Ding'an say, "That's okay."

“Let’s talk about an open secret first: there are also fakes in the Forbidden City!”

It is indeed an open secret. It is written in Puyi's memoirs: After abdicating the throne, most of the guards in the Forbidden City were dismissed, and the supervision force was weak. Therefore, many old palace maids and eunuchs brought counterfeit goods back from places like Liulichang to sell them. Replace it with the real thing.

It doesn’t matter whether the handwriting is the same or the painting style is similar, as long as it’s not too outrageous, it’s probably right.

For example, if the original work is a painting of a lady by Tang Yin, then I will find a painting of a lady, as long as the painter is not too bad, and then ask someone to inscribe it with Tang Yin's name, engrave a seal with Tang Yin's name... Let's do it together.

Including Puyi himself did the same thing: he couldn't get out and was too conspicuous, so he asked his younger brother Pujie to do it: carry a schoolbag out every day when he went to school, hide some more under his robe, and bring the fakes back after school.

Most of the real things he replaced were given to the Japanese...

"Let me tell you something that many people don't know: what was replaced after Puyi abdicated was actually only a small part. Most of the fakes existed before, and the specific time dates back to the Shunzhi period...

Among them, the most fake ones are books, which are all kinds of rare, rare and unique books from before the Qing Dynasty.The second is calligraphy, copybooks and paintings, and the third is Ding Yi and jade..."

Many people have never heard of this, such as the fans in the live broadcast room and the Tibetan friends who are watching.But several experts know a little bit about it, at least two professors from Beijing University know about it.

Immediately, Lao Ge's eyes lit up: "That book... was Xiang Molin's imitation?"

Li Ding'an nodded: "Nine times out of ten!"

Fans and collectors are confused: "Who is Xiang Molin?"

"I just checked. The largest antique dealer in China in the middle and late Ming Dynasty was also the largest collector..."

"There was someone in the antique business in the Ming Dynasty?"

"How strange is it? It existed in the Han Dynasty... Do you think Cao Cao's Captain Mojin and Zhonglang Faqiu will only steal gold and silver from the tomb?"

"It's really the largest in the country... Even Emperor Wanli said: Xiang Molin's reserves are as rich as any in the world... He was given a seal to invite him to become an official, but he actually "resolutely refused to accept the offer"..."

"There is also Qianlong: Xiang Shi's collection of extensive and refined collections was extremely prosperous..."

"He was from the Wanli period. The difference was nearly 200 years. How did Qianlong know?"

"I didn't even look carefully: Qianlong was talking about the Xiang family..."

"Wait a minute, I found it... It says: Most of the ancient books and calligraphy and painting treasures in many museums around the world come from the Xiang family, and more than half of them are from the Palace Museum..."

"Did you find it from that street stall literature?"

"China Collection Yearbook and People's Daily!"

Those who talked about street stall literature immediately fell silent: The People’s Daily will not talk about it, but it will talk about the Collection Yearbook: This is published by the State Administration of Cultural Heritage. If you ask yourself, it is quite authoritative...

"Good guy... It also says: In the second year of Shunzhi, the Qing army invaded Jiaxing, looted all the Xiangshi collection, and transported it to the capital... In the "Shiqu Baoji", a document describing the collection of calligraphy and painting compiled during the Qianlong period, there are historical records from Xiang's collection. There are more than [-] books, calligraphy, paintings, inscriptions, and rubbings by famous people... How many calligraphy and painting collections does the Forbidden City have?"

"There must be more than [-] pieces, but excluding those from Ming Dynasty and later, I really can't say for sure..."

"One family collects, half of the Forbidden City... I have gained a lot of experience!"

"I understand, what Li Ding'an means is: this book was originally collected by Xiang Shi and flowed into the imperial palace during Shunzhi, so the seals from the Qing Dynasty are all authentic."

"What collection of items? It's a forgery by Xiang."

"How did it leak out?"

"How simple... Changing the King's Flag at the top of the city is talking about the capital city during the Republic of China... Among the warlords who entered the capital, which one didn't steal things from the palace?"

"I really can't tell..."

In this way, you checked a little, others checked a little, and with half-guessing and half-blindness, netizens and collectors actually figured out the general outline of the book: it was forged by Xiang, collected by the Qing Dynasty, appreciated by Qianlong, and stamped... …

That's roughly it. Of course, the details are far more exciting than this: Xiang Molin was not only China's largest antique dealer and collector in the middle and late Ming Dynasty, but also the most authoritative appraiser at the time.Nationally known and unparalleled.

Is it familiar?

Just be familiar with it, otherwise how did Xiang's collection come about that even Wanli and Qianlong were amazed by?

Since appraising, collecting, collecting and selling are integrated, imitation and counterfeiting are inevitable. Even relevant historical records have records: Xiang Molin selected skilled craftsmen to make couches, shelves, cabinets, dows, boxes, as well as Yi utensils, gold and stone, etc. Ancient jade...etc., etc., are engraved with inscriptions, but they are only ingenuity and are flawless. The fake can be confused with the real.

At that time, the "Jiaxing Xiang family" had become synonymous with imitating antiques and pseudo-archaics.

Needless to say, there are imitations of calligraphy and painting: he was close friends with Wen Zhengming and his son, and they often invited the father and son to write and paint, specializing in imitating the works of famous artists in the Song and Yuan Dynasties.The four families of the Song Dynasty including Su Shi, the four families of the Yuan Dynasty including Huang Gongwang, Zhao Mengfu and so on.

There is also a disciple of Wen Zhengming, Qiu Ying, one of the four Ming families, who was almost trained by him: before Qiu Ying became famous, he often lived in Xiang Mansion and copied the works of famous masters of the previous generation.

There were also several famous calligraphers and painters who belonged to the Wu School of Painting at the same time as Qiu Ying, Dong Qichang in the late Ming Dynasty, and many calligraphers and painters who were not as famous as these two but had extremely high copying abilities. They all received funding from the Xiang family, and similar experience.

Including Xiang Molin and his son, who were also first-class calligraphy and painting masters at the same time, they imitated more.

The paper, ink, paint, etc. used are mostly items collected by Xiang Molin from the previous dynasty, and the distressing techniques are also extremely clever.Therefore, not to mention that it has been more than 400 years now, even at that time, there were very few connoisseurs who could distinguish the authenticity of Xiang's imitations.

Of course, the imitation works were sold by Xiang Molin as genuine ones, and then he spent a lot of money to purchase original works by famous artists, and so on, endlessly.

It is no exaggeration to say that the number of fakes created by Xiang Molin in the Forbidden City alone is counted in "thousands."Li Ding'an even saw the "Apologies to Yue Fei" and the notes written by Zhao Gou, Emperor Gaozong of the Song Dynasty, to Yue Fei, which are the twelve gold medals in historical novels.

It was also forged by Xiang Molin, and it even had the inscriptions and postscripts written by Kangxi and Qianlong.

So, what’s a week of Zhou Yanbang’s manuscripts?
(End of this chapter)