The Book of Appreciation

Wu Di looked at the Avalokitesvara image again, couldn't help verifying it with the heavenly book, smiled wryly and shook his head, the ignorant boss set the price randomly, I'm afraid even the appraisers who are close to it will be suspicious and dare not make a move!Unfortunately, if there is no Heavenly Book, he will be classified as almost like that!

Habitual bargaining, Wu Di pointed to the Fanta brick Song Ying was holding and asked:

"Boss, how much are these two things together?"

"Fifty-nine thousand euros."

Wu Dicky said:

"Isn't this a discount at all?"

"Sir, you choose all the exquisite products related to Buddhism. I think you must be a kind person who is sincere to the Buddha. Don't you think that bargaining is a kind of blasphemy against the Buddha you invited?"

The proprietress's eyes showed a kind of cunning that only little girls can have. Wu Di knew that she had misunderstood, so he smiled helplessly,

"Well, it's okay to give me a string of Buddhist beads, right? I'm not used to the fact that there are no discounts for shopping."

The female boss pointed her hand at the prayer beads hanging on the shelf, and made a gesture of letting go, Wu Di secretly felt ruthless, she must choose a high-quality prayer beads, and let her feel bad about it!

After reading all the prayer beads, Wu Di couldn't help but gave a wry smile. The boss's good prayer beads are probably all in the cabinet, no wonder he is so generous and agreed to his request without saying a word.It seems that even if he has the supernatural powers of the heavenly scriptures, if there is no good product, there will be times when he will be in vain!

Wu Di randomly picked up a bunch, wrapped them around his hands, picked up the Guanyin statue and Fanta bricks and left the shop, Song Ying happily asked:

"How much did you earn?"

This girl is actually more interested in seeing other people picking things up than buying things herself!Wu Di straightened the beads, stood in front of his chest with one palm, saluted and said:

"Namo Amitabha, I am a good person who is sincere to the Buddha, how can the female donor use money to desecrate this sacred belief?"

Hearing this, Song Ying grabbed Wu Di's palm on his chest, put it in his mouth to test the sharpness of his teeth, and wrapped his fingers mischievously.Wu Di's majestic icon suddenly collapsed, his blood was surging, and little Wu Di almost rebelled!

Finally, I saw a stall dealing in used books, and the owner threw a table casually on the side of the street, and the stacks of books on it were neatly piled up.Wu Di asked Song Ying to ask for a while, only to find out that the owner of a weapons shop took advantage of the time of the expo to set up the book stand for extra money.As for the origin of the book, it is said that he bought a new house and found it in the basement.Whether it is true or not is a matter of opinion.

Wu Di flipped through it, and found that there were books in various languages, and many of them were even new books.He laughed, no matter whether it is Chinese or foreign, everyone's ability to tell stories is equally strong!This is probably something thrown out by a publishing house when it cleared its inventory, right?It was also grandly displayed as an antique!

After roughly looking at the two stacks of Chinese books, he was about to leave when he suddenly saw a corner of a dark blue book cover on a stack of English books next to him, which seemed to be made of silk, and he pulled it out casually.

This is a Chinese Buddhist scripture, and the silk foreskin is a bit torn.On the left side of the cover is written the 170th one of the Great Prajna Jackfruit Sutra, and the word "come" is not far below it.The book is 30 centimeters long and 10 centimeters wide, not too thick.

Turning over the pages of the book and seeing a few words translated by Sanzang Master Xuanzang under the imperial edict, Wu Di paid more attention and began to check the layout.This Sutra has six pages per page, six lines per page, and the small characters in the center of each page are located in the center of the second line at the beginning of each page.After recalling it for a while, he recognized that this format was exactly the Buddhist scriptures in the Zifu Tibetan version recorded in the "22 Types of Tripitaka General Inspection" in the Northern Song Dynasty!

Zi Fu Zang was published in the Yuanjue Temple in Huzhou in the first year of Jingkang in the Northern Song Dynasty. All scriptures were engraved in the early Southern Song Dynasty. Later, with the help of local officials in Huzhou, there was a supplementary edition. Its edition was destroyed in the late Southern Song Dynasty. The hands of Yuan soldiers.Therefore, all the Zifu collections seen today are all Song engraved and printed copies.

Wu Di carefully observed the fonts again, the fonts in the whole book are unified, there is no supplementary edition, and the most important thing is its line format, which is 36 lines per page, not the [-] lines that are common later, and the small characters in the center of the page are not published on every page. First of all, this is an obvious feature of the original layout of Zifu Zang. Later, not only the inscription of each edition has changed, but also the small characters in the center of each edition have been re-engraved at the beginning of each edition.These characteristics show that this Buddhist scripture is the engraved version of the Northern Song Dynasty that occupies the highest position among book antiques!

Wu Di put the books aside, patted each stack of books one by one with his left hand, and said with a smile:

"Boss, you don't have many good products here!"

"Young man, you're late, I've been laying it out for three days, and there were so many books at the beginning!"

The boss exaggeratedly compared the appearance of a big mountain with both hands, and said with a smile:

"But now it's cheap, only 10 euros a copy."

10 euros?Just these broken books, not to mention ten euros, two euros a book is enough for you to earn a lot of money!I'm afraid that when you received it, it was calculated as waste paper, right?However, having this Buddhist scripture is enough, what's more, there are actually hidden goods in the rest!

Wu Di rummaged through it for a while, then pulled out two more seemingly casually, threw thirty euros to the boss, and told Song Ying to leave.

Song Ying gave him some mineral water while complaining:

"Don't you have gloves? How dirty this book is!"

"Forgot, that thing is usually used when you need to pretend to be an expert to bluff people, haha!"

Song Ying looked at the Buddhist scriptures Wu Di bought, frowned and said:

"Why did you become entangled with Buddhism? It's Buddha statues and scriptures? You won't despair of reality, are you ready to become a monk?"

"Hehe, ignorance is terrible! Let's use your standard to say, do you know how much this broken Buddhist scripture is worth?"

"How much? Is it possible that a broken book can be worth 80 yuan?"

"80 yuan for a hundred children? The Buddhist scriptures in Zifu Zang are printed in the Northern Song Dynasty. It is almost an orphan. The 80 yuan for a hundred children is only for you to take a look at!"

Song Ying gasped, and looked at Wu Di as if she was looking at a monster.

"Is there no one in your line of work? Do you count how many leaks you have picked up in the past few days in Italy? God! You open your eyes and see, this..."

"Hahahaha, don't worry, there are still more here. There is a handwritten couplet of [***] Xu in this book. There is time, signature, and seal. Haha, the most rare thing is that it is in good condition. ! Not even a corner is missing!"

Song Ying was completely numb. She looked at the confident Wu Di and said in a low voice:

"You were born for these things, really! I didn't believe there would be such a person before, but now that I see you, I believe it!"

When Wu Di heard the words, his head was covered with white sweat. Am I cheating, okay?You make me so proud of you!

The exquisiteness of Tang Sancai is obvious, and even non-antique lovers like Song Ying can't put it down.The three-color horse in her hand is a fine product. In Wu Di's eyes, it has a round and full body, moderate proportions, natural shape, smooth lines, and lively.In Song Ying's words, it is:

"This fat horse is so cute! If I design the sackcloth on its neck and back into a... how should I put it, it's a style of clothes between draping and wearing anyway, and the teacher will definitely You will forgive me for skipping class this time!"

Wu Di took the fat horse from Song Ying's hand and said with a smile:

"Are you looking at the horse or the saddle? Burlap? This is the horse's mane, okay?"

"Anyway, I think it's cloth!"

"Okay, the little girl who skipped class and didn't forget to study. When are you going to go back to class?"

"Hee hee, when I find a big treasure, I will disappear without a trace, hiding in a corner where no one is around and secretly counting money."

Wu Di laughed and said:

"It's up to you? I don't think you need to go to class anymore in this life."

Song Ying's eyes fluttered, her pretty face flushed slightly, and she said in her heart:

"Fool, the big baby I'm talking about is you! It's a pity that, like the Song edition, the only reward I get is to look at it!"

Horses are the most popular in Tang Sancai, and there are also many figure figurines. Song Ying deliberately forgot her bad emotions, and was soon attracted by one exquisite porcelain after another.

"Why are these things all fat?"

"Stupid, Tang Sancai Tang Sancai, is it still called Tang Sancai if you are not fat?"

Song Ying thought of the famous fat beauty in history, and suddenly realized that, too, if you buy a skinny old horse, you may never want to sell it for the rest of your life.

It is not surprising to see Chinese shop names in the antique street for foreigners, but using a black embroidery on a white background and hanging it on a slanted bamboo pole as the shop name made both of them shine!Song Ying, who was still arguing with Wu Di just now about being thin or fat, rolled her eyes and said:

"My girl has decided, the treasure hunting journey of Song Ying Song's great collectors will start from this store!"

Wu Di stepped into the store, glanced around, and said with a smile:

"You know how to pick and choose. You can find treasures in brocade, embroidery, and tapestry shops. It's hard to buy fake ones!"

Song Ying suddenly pointed to a work on the wall and smiled:

"There are so many seals on this one! It must be amazing!"

Wu Di followed her fingers and looked over, and couldn't help but smiled wryly. I can't say anything big, just now I said that it is difficult to buy fake Kesi, so you just come here!Whose fault are you imitating, and your brain is cramping?To imitate the treasures of the Palace Museum?

What Song Ying pointed to was a Kesi work, and Wu Di knew it was definitely an imitation without looking at it, because that picture was the treasure of the Forbidden City - "Picture of Plum Bamboo and Hanque" by Shen Zifan, a famous Kesi master in the Southern Song Dynasty!

Wu Di scratched his head, and took a look. Unexpectedly, it was just this one look that made him unable to take his eyes off, so he couldn't help but take a closer look.

This Kesi work was framed into a vertical scroll and hung on the wall. Wu Di estimated that the scroll was about 100 centimeters long and 30 centimeters wide, which seemed to be about the same size as the one in the Forbidden City.The whole picture is composed of [-] or [-] kinds of filigree shuttles, cleverly matched, and the colors are very harmonious.The use of Kesi techniques is also very skillful. At least dozens of techniques have been incorporated by the way of breaking the warp and weft, which well reflects the sparse and simple charm of the original painting, which is extremely vivid, beautiful and elegant.

This is an absolute masterpiece!