The Book of Appreciation

Wu Di smiled and hugged the glass bottle, and walked out of the store. Suddenly, he stopped and said to Song Ying:

"Give the boss another ten euros, how can you not pay for breaking other people's things?"

"No, no, sir, you'd better go, I don't want compensation, really!"

"Don't want compensation? Really don't want it? How can you be ashamed? Boss, I have to say that you are really a good person. I will introduce my friends to visit your shop more..."

"Oh! God, terrible devil, please don't introduce me any clients, I will never see you again..."

Song Ying accompanied Wu Di to the entrance of the Antique Street. Wu Di wanted to put the bronze mirror and glass bottle back. It was not convenient to go shopping with so many things, especially the glass bottle was very delicate and fragile.

"This bottle is worth [-] euros? Why did the boss seem very happy when he sold it to you?"

"Hehe, this bottle is an ancient Islamic glass, which is very similar to the pear-shaped glass bottle with a plastic plate on the mouth of the Museum of Islamic Art in Berlin, Germany, and a thin neck with a plate mouth unearthed in 1987 from the Tang Tower Palace of Famen Temple in Baoji, Shaanxi Province. The plastic-coated light yellow glass bottle is closer, and the boss is probably not sure about the age and authenticity of this thing, so he feels that he has taken advantage of it. Otherwise, even if I blackmail him, he would rather go to jail than sell it. of!"

"I said how kind you were just now, and slowly increased it to [-]! The boss is so hateful, he dared to blackmail me! Now it's all right, the old villain met the little villain, and was blackmailed by the little villain!"

"Dare to call me a villain? I'll let you know how powerful a villain is later!"

"Come here if you have the ability! Who will let others know that it is not necessarily good!"

"..."

In the taxi, the full-fledged little money fan began to inquire about the value of the glass bottle again. Wu Di thought for a while and said:

"There won't be a big market for this thing in China, but if it is auctioned by the Islamic State, I guess it will cost 5000 million US dollars?"

"5000 million? My God, isn't this ancient glass?"

"You are wrong, colored glaze is colored glaze, and glass is glass. Although the main component of both is silicon dioxide, the contemporary state-level authoritative monograph "Research on Ancient Chinese Glazed Glass" records: the ancient Egyptian "Faence" (also It is the ancestor of Western crystal glass) The proportion of silicon dioxide is 92% (opaque) -99%. The proportion of silicon dioxide in our Zhou Dynasty glass is only slightly greater than 90% (transparent). The difference of 9% It is the biggest difference between glass and glass. Wei Yingwu, a poet of the Tang Dynasty, once wrote a poem "Ode to Glass":

"Color is the same as ice, and there is nothing to separate the fine jade. If you can't see the elephant feast, you can face the jade man"!

It is the most apt description of Liuli. "

Because of the discoverer of colored glaze, namely Fan Li, in the eyes of the ancestors, people believed that colored glaze, like crystal, has the function of memory and inheritance.What's more, colored glaze can bless the owner "you will be a daughter at home, and you will be a prince when you are an official", so in ancient times, colored glaze products were extremely precious!

Around the Yuan Dynasty, with the artificial fault of the Han culture, many skills of the Han royal family were also lost, and Liuli was among them, so in the Ming and Qing Dynasties, Liuli only existed in myths and legends. In "Journey to the West", the Drifting Monk was originally the curtain-rolling general of the Heavenly Palace, but he was demoted to the mortal world because he accidentally broke a glass cup, which shows the preciousness of glass.

Song Ying looked at Wu Di's eyes full of complicated things,

"Adi, you know a lot, you must have read a lot of books, right?"

"Yeah, there are two big bookcases, and I have to take the exam every month, but I still have to be beaten! The second senior brother has endured it, saying that it hurts! Didn't you see that there are more than ten books in my bag?"

"That's all a lie, and I haven't seen you read it!"

"When some people are asleep, I read books. Thanks to this, I saw that some people would take off their clothes in their dreams... ah!"

Wu Di screamed, and the soft flesh around his waist was twisted 360 degrees by Song Ying's two fingers!

"Don't you want to know what this bag is? It's very beautiful, you women can't live without it!"

Song Ying's attention was successfully diverted. She let go of her finger that was twisting the tender flesh, and took two breaths symbolically from a distance, and asked:

"What baby?"

"The bronze mirrors of the Jin and Song Dynasties are very exquisite!"

Wu Di took out one of the best looking ones and handed it to Song Ying.

"Ah, you can see my face clearly! My God, it's been so many years! Hey, why are some of this pile dark yellow and some blue?"

"Due to the strict ban on copper by the government in the Jin Dynasty, the tin content in the alloy composition decreased significantly, the copper content increased, and the proportion of zinc also increased, so the gold bronze mirror turned yellow. The economy of the Song Dynasty was worse, so the copper content decreased. , the mirror turned blue. You see, the early Jin Dynasty was strongly influenced by the culture of the Central Plains, so the mirrors were mostly Tang mirrors, and the decorations on the mirrors were mainly character story paintings. But Song mirrors are similar. It has another famous hall, and it is definitely a treasure among the fine works of ancient mirrors."

Song Ying took the dark brass mirror that Wu Di handed him, looked at it carefully for a long time, and shook her head.Wu Di pointed to a decoration on the edge of the mirror and said:

"Take a closer look."

Song Ying struggled to identify it for a long time, then hesitated and said:

"This... seems to be two words?"

"That's right, there are two golden inscriptions, Zhenyi. The imperial mirror of the Queen Mother Zhenyi, there are four sides in this pile! The Queen Mother Zhenyi is the mother of Jin Shizong, the fifth emperor of the Jin Kingdom. The nine emperors of the Jin Kingdom, Sejong is the most virtuous, so these mirrors are of high quality! There are also a few Song mirrors, although they belonged to the imperial concubine, they are not as good. It is very in line with the national power of the two dynasties at that time."

Wu Di picked up a blue Song mirror and pointed it to Song Ying. Sure enough, there were two seal characters on the side of the mirror, Concubine Rong.

Song Ying let out a long sigh,

"It seems that I don't want to learn antiques anymore. This huge amount of knowledge is really too desperate!"

"Hehe, everyone in the world only sees the scenery of picking up leaks. Who would have thought how much hard work we have put in behind us!"

Relying on the Book of Heaven, someone in the world of antiques and stone gambling shamelessly taught Song Ying...

After going back to the hotel and putting away the harvest in the morning, the two ate a hot dog and went shopping.

The store sells a variety of things, mainly handicrafts from Southeast Asian countries. Wu Di shook for 2 minutes, his eyes lit up, and he picked up a gray embossed brick placed in a corner of the room.

This brick is square, with a length and width of 30 centimeters and a thickness of about 11 centimeters.The deep recess in the middle is a circular Buddhist niche, and the embossed figure is a monk with a high nose, deep eyes and big ears.The monk is carrying a sutra case on his back, holding a dust whisk, and a tiger is next to him.Wu Di knew that this was a relatively common picture of a "walking monk" in the Tang and Song Dynasties, and it should depict the scene when Hu monks from the Western Regions came to the east to teach scriptures and Dharma.

Wu Di looked at the brick carefully several times, nodded secretly, and verified it with the heavenly book. Sure enough, it was an ancient brick from the Fanta of Tianqing Temple in the Northern Song Dynasty!After nearly a thousand years of ups and downs, it can still be preserved so well. In Wu Di's eyes, this simple ancient brick is very precious!

During the Northern Song Dynasty, Tianqing Temple had a great reputation, and was known as the four famous temples in Kyoto together with Xiangguo Temple, Kaibao Temple and Taiping Xingguo Temple at that time.During the Kaibao period of the Song Dynasty, when Tianqing Temple was rebuilt, a brick pagoda was built in the temple at the same time, named Xingci Pagoda, also known as Tianqing Temple Pagoda.Fan Pagoda is an equilateral hexagonal pagoda. The original pagoda was nine stories high and was the tallest pagoda in Bianjing at that time.In the Yuan Dynasty, it was partially damaged by lightning strikes. In the Qing Dynasty, a small six-story pagoda was built on the basis of the third floor.Each brick of Gufan Pagoda is carved with exquisite Buddha statues, with a total of 108 shapes and more than 7000 patterns.There are 178 Buddhist scripture inscriptions in the tower, all of which are precious Buddhist scripture inscriptions.

Wu Di carefully put the brick on the counter and asked:

"Boss, how do you sell this brick?"

The boss was a middle-aged fat woman. Hearing this, she took a look and said with a smile:

"This is a Buddhist brick from the Middle Ages in India. It is very valuable for the study of Buddhism in ancient India. It is not expensive, [-] euros."

Song Ying was stunned. This broken brick cost [-] euros, which was almost her living expenses for a year. Isn't that expensive?

Wu Di shook his head and said:

"Middle Ages? How can medieval bricks be preserved so well? This thing is not like other antiques, which are always exposed to the wind and sun. I'm afraid the things from that time are all turned into powder now?"

The fat woman smiled and said:

"Sir, it seems that you are very proficient in antiques. Although I can't explain why, but the price of this brick is [-] euros, and I can give you a [-]% discount at most. If you negotiate the price again, I won't sell it. Bricks are rare, and if you meet a Buddhist one day, you might be able to sell them more expensively!"

Wu Di shook his head, and told Song Ying to be optimistic about this brick first, and he was afraid of encountering people who would admit death when doing business, no matter whether it was a seller or a buyer, whatever you say, I will just reject it with one sentence, even if you are a Buddha, there is nothing you can do!

Wu Di wandered around the shop for a while, and then saw another piece of ivory carving.This is an ivory statue of Avalokitesvara, standing on a black base. The whole statue is about ten centimeters high, with slender lines and vivid characters. temperament.

Wu Di pushed the surface of the tooth carving with his thumb, and asked:

"Boss, how much does this thing cost?"

"This ivory carving is even more precious. It costs [-] euros."

Wu Di remembered that a similar ivory sculpture in China once sold for 2000 million RMB, or 200 million euros, but this ivory sculpture was only [-] euros. Could there be any problem?He picked up the ivory carving and looked at it again and again. It should be from the late Ming and early Qing dynasties. It was also carved from the top-quality ivory of an adult elephant. How could there be such a big difference in price?