Jianbao life

Chapter 610
Soon, it will be Sunday.Today is the New Year's Eve, and the streets and alleys are already full of New Year's flavor. Thinking of celebrating the New Year with his parents this year, Chu Chen couldn't help feeling a little excited and excited.

Moreover, when he went to treat the old man today, he also said that this year, except for Chu Yongping, all the men, women and children of the Chu family are planning to celebrate the New Year at Chu Chen's house. As for Chu Yongping not being able to come, there is no other way. Now he is the top leader in the local area, and he will be even busier during the Chinese New Year.

Speaking of which, Chu Yongning is also very busy, but he is in the capital, so he can still come back for the New Year's Eve dinner. In addition, Chu Shengjie from the uncle's house can only arrive at the evening of the New Year's Eve.

Because of what he had encountered since he was a child, Chu Chen actually envied those scenes where a large family, seven or eight or even a dozen people celebrated the New Year together.However, in previous years, when the adoptive father was alive, only the father and son celebrated the New Year alone. When they arrived in the capital, because of Uncle Wu's family, the New Year was finally more lively, but with Wu Ke included, there were only five people.

Therefore, even if not all relatives were present, Chu Chen was already very happy.

Coming out of his grandfather, Chu Chen went to the TV station to finish filming the program, had dinner with the program crew, and then took the red envelope and drove to his shop.

Today is New Year's Eve, and everyone is busy with the New Year's work. When Chu Chen came to the shop, there were only two or three customers there, and it looked very deserted.

After greeting everyone one by one, Chu Chen found that everyone was very enthusiastic about him.

In fact, this is also normal, because when Chu Chen had the New Year’s Eve dinner with everyone last night, he had already sent a relatively large red envelope to each employee, especially some of them with outstanding work results, and had additional rewards, so , everyone saw him as the God of Wealth, how could he not be enthusiastic?
After saying hello, Chu Chen saw that Zhou Wenping was writing a holiday notice. The time was from New Year's Eve to the seventh day of the Lunar New Year, and he officially went to work on the eighth day of the Lunar New Year. The eight-day holiday was not bad.Of course, considering that there are many valuables in the store, during the Spring Festival period, the store has also arranged for on-duty personnel, and the security guards are also on duty 24 hours a day.

After Zhou Wenping posted the notice, Chu Chen asked, "Brother Zhou, have Uncle and the others arrived?"

"I just arrived at noon today, and now I'm home!" Zhou Wenping said with a smile.

"The business is going to be like this today anyway, why don't you go back first!" Chu Chen said.

"No need! No need!" Zhou Wenping waved his hands again and again, "Anyway, I just need to wait a few more hours, and it's fine if I go back so early."

Seeing Zhou Wenping's insistence, Chu Chen didn't say anything more, and turned back to Uncle Wu and said, "Dad, why don't you go back earlier, anyway, no one will come to sell antiques today."

"Hey! I don't have anything to do when I go back!" Uncle Wu put down the newspaper in his hand and said with a smile: "Besides, this seller may not be gone. The fifth child is back home. I can still support it at critical times."

"Isn't there still me!" Chu Chen laughed.

"Is it still receiving goods here today?"

As soon as Chu Chen finished speaking, an old man in his 50s came in from the door.

"Look, did this come without business?" Uncle Wu said with a smile.

The clerk welcomed the old man in, and Chu Chen smiled and asked, "Master, do you have something to transfer?"

"The most!" The old man nodded: "I went to a few antique shops just now, either to lower the price desperately, or to say that the money is not enough, the bank can't get the money, and there are even more irritating ones. No, this thing is clearly passed down from my ancestors, how could it be wrong?"

Chu Chen was noncommittal about this. Although the old man looked honest, there was no shortage of liars in the antique industry. There were many people who looked like honest people but were actually liars.

He smiled and said, "Master, don't worry, as long as the item is good and the price is reasonable, we will definitely accept it."

"My stuff must be good, you'll know it after you've seen it!" The old man put the thing wrapped in cloth on the table, and then opened it, which turned out to be a porcelain pillow.

The porcelain pillow is rectangular with rounded corners, small in size, and looks like a pulse pillow. It is straight and flat, and the pillow surface is slightly concave. The shape is simple and elegant, which makes people feel happy at a glance.But what surprised Chu Chen and others was that this porcelain pillow was actually made of twisted tire technology.

Twisted bodied ceramics are also known as "twisted mud", "stirred bodied porcelain" and "transparent porcelain".The twisted tire is a new technology in the ceramic industry in the Tang Dynasty. It did not appear before the Tang Dynasty, and it was lost after the Jingkang Change in the Song Dynasty.

The so-called twisted tire is made by kneading two or more porcelain clays of different colors together, then twisting each other to draw the billet, making it into a shape, pouring a layer of transparent glaze, and firing it.Due to the different twisting and kneading methods of the mud, the texture changes are also endless.

There are two ways to make twisted tires, or fully twisted tires, that is, two-color tires are twisted and then directly drawn into a blank, and the effect is very similar to the texture of leaves; Second firing on porcelain.

The types of twisted tire utensils unearthed in Tang tombs include cups, bowls, plates, pots, pillows, etc., and rectangular pillows are the most common.

The pattern of twisted tires can be fine or fine, and you can see wood grain, "ji"-shaped zigzag pattern, group pattern, etc. Among them, there are three kinds of group patterns: plum pattern, wishful cloud pattern and rhombus pattern.There are three colors of twisted tire mud: white, brown and black, white, brown or white and black, and white, brown and black, all of which are very exquisite.

The pillow surface of this porcelain pillow in front of you is the plum pattern of twisted tires, with delicate patterns, symmetrical structure, proper layout and strong sense of decoration.The side of the pillow is decorated with wood grain effects. It is recorded in the literature that the texture of the pillow of gall wood is peculiar and gorgeous.

Twisted tire porcelain is a special variety in ancient Chinese ceramic decoration technology. Due to the complicated technology and great difficulty in production, its products and output are largely limited.

This porcelain pillow with a twisted body from the Tang Dynasty is exquisitely made, with various textures and decorations, complicated craftsmanship, and high quality. It is really a rare treasure of the Tang Dynasty.

In addition, this porcelain pillow seems to be very new at first glance, but upon closer inspection, it is found that it is covered with a thick layer of paste, and the glaze looks warm and moist like jade. Immediately, the reflection will show fine scratches, which are often called cow hair lines in the industry.This is exactly a characteristic of old porcelain.

To be precise, some tiny scratches and patina can be seen on the glaze of an old porcelain. You must know that ancient porcelains were all used, even if they were ornamental vessels, they still had to be cleaned and wiped.

Therefore, can a piece of porcelain handed down from Ming and Qing Dynasties be free of scratches after being used for hundreds of years?This is obviously impossible.Secondly, even if the unearthed porcelain is buried in the ground, the sediment in the ground will still scratch the porcelain, which is the question of how many scratches there are.

A piece of porcelain handed down from ancient times, the ox hair pattern on the glaze is basically inextricably linked. It is estimated that there are at least nearly a hundred fine ox hair patterns on the glaze with an area of ​​one square centimeter (the area of ​​a coin). The area occupied by the cow hair pattern is concentrated, accounting for at least 20% of the total surface of the glaze.

Ox hair scratches lose luster and cannot reflect light. It is like scratching the glass with a diamond, leaving a trace that cannot be wiped off. Gloss, the same is true for the glazed surface of porcelain. There are more cow hair patterns, and the natural luster of the glazed surface is dull.

As for the fact that there are more cow hair patterns on the surface of old porcelain, why it still looks warm and moist like jade? This is also because the oil stains and sweat on the hands have invaded the cow hair patterns, and the glaze surface will naturally become lustrous and soft, warm and moist like jade. This is also the origin of the commonly referred to as porcelain patina.

Judging from the patina of this porcelain pillow, the original owner must have cherished it very much, which is why it was preserved so perfectly. It is precisely because the porcelain pillow looks so perfect that the old man Kai just said that some people just look at it casually. After a few glances, I felt that this porcelain pillow was wrong.

Therefore, when appraising antiques, the most taboo thing is to take things for granted, often this will make the real treasure away from you.

Ever since Chu Chen studied medicine, he has been particularly interested in ancient pulse pillows. He has collected a few of them before, but they are not very outstanding. Now it is rare to come across such a high-quality twisted fetal pulse pillow. As long as the price is right, He will definitely buy it.

Chu Chen handed the jade pillow to Uncle Wu, and then asked, "Master, how much does this thing cost?"
"15! I won't sell anything less." The old man said firmly.

15 yuan is considered cheap for such an exquisite twisted body porcelain pillow from the Tang Dynasty, and since Chinese New Year is approaching, Chu Chen didn't pay any price, so he agreed, "Okay, sir, do you want to transfer money or check?" ?”

"I want cash!" said the old man.

"cash?"

Chu Chen frowned slightly when he heard the words. If it was normal, the 15 cash in the store would definitely be more than enough, but now that the Chinese New Year is approaching, there are really not many customers buying antiques, and on the other side, most of the people who buy emeralds pay by card. , cash payment is rare.

And the cash in his bag was less than [-] in total, and he really didn't know if there was [-] in the store.

The old man said: "Yes, if the family is not in urgent need of money, I would not sell this ancestral treasure. If I don't have cash, I can only go to other places."

"Brother Zhou, how much cash do we have in the store?" Chu Chen asked.

"I gonna go see……"

After Zhou Wenping went out to inquire about the receipt, he came back and said, "The cash is only [-]!"

"Forget it, I'll go to another place to have a look!" The old man said directly.

"Hey, sir, don't worry, I didn't say I don't have any cash here." Chu Chen smiled and took out all the cash in the bag.

Seeing that the stack of money that Chu Chen took out should be worth tens of thousands, the old man was also relieved, he really didn't want to go to other stores anymore...

(End of this chapter)