Reborn Jewelry

Chapter 233 Grasshopper Gourd
The students of Capital University were gearing up to show Chu Ning some color, but Dean Xuan didn't respond to what Chu Ning meant, and still smiled gently, as if he didn't hear anything.

His attitude, on the contrary, left Chu Ning with nowhere to vent her anger, and felt depressed for a while.

In fact, Dean Xuan really didn't mind if Chu Ning vented her anger slightly in her words.

After all, he himself knew that he did not do this properly.

However, Dean Xuan is also really interested in Chu Ning's true strength.

He could see that in the previous exchange meeting, although Chu Ning was already the best student, she didn't try her best.

This is unbelievable for a student who is still in school.

Because of this, Dean Xuan wanted to force Chu Ning to see how much Chu Ning was capable of.

The new exchange meeting will start soon.

The category of miscellaneous items is actually not very clear in the antique world.

Those antiques that are classified as miscellaneous are mostly objects that are not easy to classify, and some of them also have their own sub-categories.

For example, furniture, the four treasures of the study, ancient coins, ancient musical instruments, etc., many things are miscellaneous.

Because it is too difficult to divide, in fact, most schools do not have miscellaneous majors, but are subdivided into more majors.

It is also in recent years that some small-scale majors have been generally planned together to form a miscellaneous major.

Even so, many colleges and universities now do not have miscellaneous majors.

Therefore, the name Miscellaneous may sound less prestigious than professional names such as porcelain and jade, but in fact, it contains the most things, and the content is also diverse and unimaginable.

But because there are too many miscellaneous things, there are very few people who can learn this major well.

Most of the students who study miscellaneous majors are actually only good at one of them.

According to this situation, perhaps the miscellaneous majors that have just been established for a short time will soon become fragmented and re-divided into several more detailed minor majors, which will become history in the classification of university majors.

At the exchange meeting, all the students studying miscellaneous items were nervously looking at the objects in front of them.

They all hope to encounter something they are good at at the exchange meeting, otherwise, they will really have to be caught blind.

The red silk cloth was lifted, and the first thing exposed was a little surprising.

It was a gourd.

To be precise, it is a grasshopper gourd.

Grasshopper gourd, as the name suggests, is naturally used to raise grasshoppers.Of course, in fact, the function of the katydid gourd is not limited to raising katydids, it can also raise other songbirds of the same type, but the katydids are more famous and popular with everyone.

The reason why people like to use gourds to raise grasshoppers is because the structure of gourds is very ingenious.

If a wire-like copper coil is placed in the mouth of the gourd, coupled with a porous and breathable cover, the chirping sound of the grasshoppers kept in it will be more crisp and elegant.

The first-class grasshopper gourd, its effect is just like the sound, which makes people want to stop.

This kind of thing is usually very rare, and you can only see it in special flower and bird markets.

I didn't expect that the first thing to be identified today would be it.

Grasshopper gourd has a very long history in our country, but it was not until the Ming and Qing Dynasties, especially the Qing Dynasty, that the grasshopper gourd developed to its peak.

It is not an easy task to make a fine grasshopper gourd.

One of the biggest problems is that the gourd itself has very few good gourds due to insect pests, natural disasters, and the cultivation process.

It is even more difficult to let the gourds grow freely, wait until the gourds are mature, and then select materials suitable for making grasshopper gourds.

This kind of naturally grown gourd is also very expensive in price, and ordinary people can't afford it.

In addition to this method of hitting the big luck, if you want to get a gourd that meets the requirements more easily, you can also put a mold that has been made on the outside of the gourd shortly after it grows, so that the gourd can follow the established shape grow.

The quality of the gourd itself, to a large extent, directly determines the price of the final grasshopper gourd.

The best grasshopper gourds require not only thick skin and clean skin color, but also no spots or scars and full shape.

A slight flaw can have a huge impact on the price.

The grasshopper gourd in front of Chu Ning is dark yellow in color. Although its skin color does not have that shiny and bright feeling, it looks particularly clean and restrained, which makes people look very comfortable.

The skin of the gourd is very smooth without any pattern.In contrast, the cover on its head is much more delicate, not only engraved with complicated hollow patterns, but also unique in style, one can tell it is a master's handwriting.

Half an hour later, everyone gave their identification results.

Dean Xuan read the other people's answers, and put Chu Ning's at the end.

He raised the corner of his eyes, looked at Chu Ning, then at Chu Yinglue.

That's right, Dean Xuan already knew that Chu Ning was Chu Yinglue's daughter.

He was really emotional, feeling that this old friend of his had an outstanding daughter here!

If it weren't for this exchange meeting, I don't know how long my old friend would have kept this genius daughter of the antique world hidden.

Chu Yinglue didn't know what Dean Xuan was thinking at all, seeing Dean Xuan looked over, he gave Dean Xuan a particularly proud smile.

Obviously, although the appraisal result has not been announced yet, Chu Yinglue believes in her daughter very much, and is also very proud of Chu Ning's vision.

Dean Xuan didn't expect his always calm old friend to show such a childish expression, and he couldn't laugh or cry for a while.

Soon, both sides announced the results of the appraisal.

The results of this appraisal can be described as varied.

Some people say that this grasshopper gourd is from the Ming Dynasty, while others say it is from the Qing Dynasty.Some people say it's artificial, while others say it's natural.

The estimates given by everyone also vary greatly, ranging from hundreds of dollars to thousands of dollars.

The identification of miscellaneous items is like this. Everyone is good at different things, and not everyone knows the grasshopper gourd very well. It is inevitable that there are elements of guesswork and luck.

However, one of the appraisal results was particularly eye-catching.

Because the answer given by the identification result actually said that the grasshopper gourd in front of me was Sanhe Liu gourd from the Xianfeng period of the Qing Dynasty, and the estimated value reached [-]!
Compared with those antiques that cost tens of millions or even tens of millions, the number of [-] is very inconspicuous.

However, for a grasshopper gourd, the price of [-] is already the price of a top grasshopper gourd!

(End of this chapter)