Jianbao life

Chapter 1
"It's over! Once we return to the pre-liberation period, five years of hard work will be in vain!"

Chu Chen (chēn) was ashen-faced, and a feeling of annoyance surged into his heart in an instant.

Chu Chen, who graduated from junior high school at the age of 16 five years ago, came to the capital to work hard with 2000 yuan in his pocket. With what he had learned, a shrewd and studious mind, and a cautious personality, he also learned little by little from the antique veterans and seniors. From a young boy in the mountain village, he has transformed into a small and discerning antique peddler in Panjiayuan.

The energy and sweat and blood spent during this period are really inhumane.

The water in the antique business is too deep, and there are many "landmines". During this period, Chu Chen did not know how many losses he suffered, and how many times he was slapped, but this is also normal. If you are in this industry, how can you grow without getting slapped a few times?
Fortunately, Chu Chen is cautious and not greedy, so what he loses are small fortunes.Moreover, during this period, his eyesight grew and his luck was also good. He picked up a few big leaks for him. After five years, excluding the needs of life, he still had 40 in the bank.

It's just that the 40 hard-earned money was wiped out in an instant just because of the current drilling experience!

Now in 2001, the housing price in Chaoyang* District of Beijing was only a little over 4000. Qian Chuchen originally planned to buy a two-bedroom apartment not far from Panjiayuan. Some inconvenience.

Moreover, after five years of life in the capital, he has developed a certain affection for the city. Besides, he is a loner, and it is the most urgent wish in his heart to settle down in the capital and live the life of his wife and children.Now that it is like this, depending on his practice of street stalls, I don't know when he will be able to realize this wish.

The eye-opening experience is actually not complicated. In April 2000 last year, a pair of rare Tang Sancai pottery horses collected by a rich man in Hong Kong was sold at Sotheby’s New York auction for more than 4 million US dollars. purchased by a Jewish merchant.

It was this news that caught Chu Chen's attention, which made him start to pay attention to and become obsessed with Tang Sancai.

Tang Sancai is a kind of pottery popular in the Tang Dynasty. It is the general term for low-temperature glazed pottery in the Tang Dynasty. On the same vessel, basic glaze colors such as yellow, green, white or yellow, green, blue, ochre, and black are used alternately at the same time. Form colorful artistic effects, generally there are more three-color pottery, and later people used to call this kind of pottery "Tang San-color".

Tang Sancai is vivid in shape, bright in color and full of breath of life. Together with the colorful silk, beautiful and eye-catching murals, brilliant gold and silverware, and an open society, they together draw a brilliant picture of Tang culture. .

Tang Sancai not only achieved very high achievements in art, but also made great contributions to later generations in ceramic technology.Its gorgeous decorative techniques broke the monochrome glaze dominance of the world, developed from monochrome glaze to three-color glaze, and laid the foundation for the birth of later generations of colored porcelain.

After the Song Dynasty, most of the various low-temperature colored glazes and overglaze colored porcelains were developed on the basis of Tang Sancai.

It is precisely because Tang Sancai has a high artistic level and unique status, and it has been exported overseas from the very beginning, and it is deeply loved by people in foreign countries.Since it was rediscovered at the beginning of the 20th century, it has attracted people's attention, especially in the past [-] years, with the opening of domestic and international markets, more and more people like to collect Tang Sancai.

Tang Sancai was used for burial as a ghost vessel. Because of its brittle texture and poor waterproof performance, it is not easy to preserve to this day. Moreover, foreigners are very fond of the style of Tang Sancai, which makes them frequently fetch high prices at auctions.

For example, on December 1989, 12, a tricolor black horse of the Tang Dynasty auctioned by Sotheby's International was sold for 12 million pounds in London, England.And the transaction prices of tens of thousands of dollars to hundreds of thousands of dollars also abound, which greatly ignited the enthusiasm of collectors for collection.

Ever since he got acquainted with Tang Sancai, Chu Chen seemed to be in a daze. He always fantasized that he could get a beautiful Tang Sancai, which would bring him huge economic value, not to mention its beauty.

Marx once said: "If there is a 20.00% profit, capital will be eager to move; if there is a 50.00% profit, capital will take risks; if there is a [-]% profit, capital will dare to risk hanging its head; With a profit of [-]%, capital dares to trample on all laws in the world."

Since the 90s of the last century, reform and opening up have achieved many results, and people's living standards have been improving day by day, so the related entertainment and cultural industries have also flourished.Youdao is gold in troubled times, antiques in prosperous times, and those who enter the collection business are Cheng Gege.

Correspondingly, some criminals set their sights on this treasure land. There are ghosts and monsters, and there are many masters of old and counterfeiting. Since Tang Sancai is so precious, it must be hard to escape their greedy hands.

Because Tang Sancai is a low-temperature ceramic, its production process is not complicated, and the raw materials can be seen everywhere. The formula of the glaze has long been disclosed, and there are many imitation masters, some of whom are experts in the research of Tang Sancai.

It can be said that some high imitation works, 90.00% of which are as good as the real ones, are completely fake, and only one percent of the special features are formed naturally over thousands of years, so they cannot be imitated.

It's just this one percent, some masters' fake works, if they are not particularly experienced senior masters, they may not be able to see it.

Fortunately, Chu Chen has always been cautious, and the experience gained from his five-year career as a peddler is also extremely rich. Although there were many high-quality imitation mines during the period, he still walked past them cautiously.Even so, the dream of having a fine Tang Sancai in his heart has not disappeared, on the contrary it has become even more intense.

Three days ago, an opportunity for Chu Chen to buy a high-quality Tang Sancai camel at a low price came before his eyes.

Xiang Lao, a professor of the History Department of Capital University, has been dealing with historical relics for many years, so he is particularly fond of antiques.After retiring, I often come to Antique Street to shop for various items. I am a long-term visitor of Antique Street. Basically, as long as it is not windy or rainy, I will go to Antique Street every day. In his words, antiques are my second favorite. spring.

Because he has dealt with historical and cultural relics all the year round, he has learned solid knowledge. Although Xiang Lao has also checked his eyes, there are also some high-quality goods in his family's collection, among which is an exquisite Tang Sancai camel.

This business has never been falsified. Chu Chen has maintained this business for five years. This is the fundamental reason why he was able to gain a foothold in Panjiayuan Antique Street at a young age.Xiang Lao is a frequent visitor to his small stall, and he has also picked up leaks from him a few times, and the two of them became acquainted after coming and going, and they are considered friends for years.

Therefore, Chu Chen was fortunate to have seen the Tang Sancai camel.It was a Bactrian camel, the whole body was mainly brown glaze, with green, white and yellow colors applied in different shades.

Luo's head was raised slightly, his front feet were crawling, his back feet were standing, his mouth was wide open, as if he was calling for something, and his expression was particularly rich.A pack bag is hung between the two peaks, and silk, water bottles and other things are hung on both sides of the pack bag.

This Tang tri-colored camel has natural glaze and bread paste, fine and even slices, and there is also the phenomenon of lead return. Like some genuine Tang tri-colored camels, some brown, black and other colored impurities have penetrated into the glaze. Its overall performance can be said to be a masterpiece of Tang Sancai.

When Chu Chen saw it for the first time, he fell in love with it. When he saw it, he only had this camel in his eyes. It can be described as loving it.Immediately he asked Xiang Lao if he could give it to him, but Xiang Lao shook his head repeatedly and refused to say anything, and then told him the reason.

Xiang Lao saw this camel in an antique shop when he was traveling in Xi'an last year, and when he saw it, he couldn't put it down as much as Chu Chen, so he got it from the shopkeeper at a price of 42 yuan.

But after returning home, when he was playing with the camel, he always felt that it lacked some charm, which surprised him, and immediately invited several authorities in the circle to take a look, only two of them were not sure about this Tang Sancai. But these two are precisely the most influential seniors in the antique industry, they are Mr. Liu and Mr. Qian.

Mr. Liu, whose real name is Liu Zhihe, is 82 years old. He was born in a family of antique collectors.

Qian Lao, whose real name is Qian Zhiyan, is 71 years old this year. He is the president of the BJ Collectors Association. He has worked in the National Museum for a long time and is an expert consultant of the Palace Museum. He is also quite influential in the direction of antique collection.

Although these two senior figures in the antique world did not conclude that this tri-colored Tang tri-colored camel was a fake, they were not sure that it was genuine. problem.

Mr. Xiang usually uses his collection to keep it, but he has a temper. If his collection is wrong, he will not share it with others even if he smashes it. Now that he has doubts about this Tang Sancai, he will definitely not sell it again. , so he refused to agree to Chu Chen's request.

Chu Chen was very moved when he heard this. Since ancient times, Huaxia has regarded honesty and reliability as a person's moral standards. In recent years, with the reform and opening up, although people's economic level has improved, their moral level has not kept pace. On the contrary, the economy has improved, but it has declined somewhat.

Like this Tang Sancai, current collectors, especially some new collectors, many of them don’t care as much as Xiang Lao does, as long as the interests in it can satisfy themselves, no matter whether the thing is good or bad, someone will take over it. In fact, this situation has also contributed to the arrogance of counterfeiters to a certain extent.

Just like Chu Chen now, he still thinks in his heart that this Tang Sancai must be the real thing. Didn’t Mr. Liu and Mr. Qian say what’s wrong? As for the feeling, how can we be sure?

It's not that Chu Chen doesn't respect his seniors. In fact, this is the normal psychology of a young man in his 20s, and he thinks that his eyesight is not bad in these years of hawker career, and he hasn't suffered any big losses in these years. Therefore, I feel a little arrogant in my heart.

Sometimes people are like this. Once they like something, they will like it very much. They often see the advantages of this thing. Now Chu Chen is like this. He has always been obsessed with that Tang Sancai camel, and he wants to have it in his dreams. it.

Now the opportunity has come. Xiang Lao’s only son studied in England, and then settled there, got married and had children. After that, his son always wanted to take him to live in England with him, but Xiang Lao never agreed.A few days ago his son spoke again, and if he didn't come again, the relationship between father and son would be severed. In this way, Xiang Lao Xiang would not be able to agree.

However, people of the older generation are generally concerned about the country, so he plans to dispose of his collections for many years in the country, and there is a condition that he is not allowed to sell his collections to foreigners.

Chu Chen was very excited when he heard the news, thinking that he could give me the Tang Sancai now.So he tried hard on Xiang Lao, and despite repeated persuasion, Xiang Lao still didn't give up his idea. In the end, he had to give him the Tang Sancai at a purchase price of 42 yuan.

Ever since I got this tri-colored camel from the Tang Dynasty, I have lost my mind on practicing the stalls. It has been more than 50 hours since I got the camel. Apart from eating and sleeping, Chu Chen spends the rest of his time playing with this tri-colored Tang tri-colored camel. Finally, he used a magnifying glass to tap it full body of ornamental camel.Just looking at it, there was a big problem.

So there was the picture just now. (New book released, please collect and recommend! Please book friends!)

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