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Chapter 143 New Crane Sky, Old Raising Oil

Cai Pengxi took the jade token back into his hand and touched it lightly, "A string of colorful crane and dzi beads."

When Yu Yao heard it, he roughly guessed, "Could it be that it's not Lao Hetian?"

"Yes. He actually made a bunch of them himself! I don't know if he got the secret recipe from the Wa country. I think it's old."

"It is said that Lao Hetian's secret dyeing recipe was also lost in the Wa Kingdom. Your opponent seems to have the capital to be arrogant."

"I didn't expect him to master such an amazing technique. Not only the color, but also the patina is natural!" Cai Pengxi shook his head lightly, "He studied in the Japanese country in the early years, but he has some connections."

"I haven't seen the real old Crane Sky that has been handed down from generation to generation. The new Crane Sky on the market is generally not of high grade." Yu Yao whispered.

Hetian is considered a special product of the Wa country, and it is usually made into beads.Crane Dzi beads and Qiujiao are the same, Qiujiao is dyed with walrus ivory, and Crane Dzi beads are dyed with fossilized teeth of ancient animals.

Teeth fossils are polished into beads and then dyed with natural dyes, secret methods.Because the tooth fossil itself has texture, after dyeing, the color and texture complement each other, very beautiful.

The origin of the name Crane Sky is because the early Crane Dzi Beads were dyed, mainly red, matching the white background of tooth fossils, much like the top of the head of a red-crowned crane.

In fact, when Hetian was first introduced to China, it was directly called Hedinghong, which caused misunderstandings. Some people thought it was made of the skull of a red-crowned crane.In fact, the skull of the red-crowned crane is so thin that beads cannot be made at all.

In Wenwan products, there is also a kind of bead called Hedinghong, also called bird head bead.It has a yellow base with a red circle on it, like yellow eyes and red pupils.This one was also mistaken for the skull of a red-crowned crane.

In fact, the bird's head bead is made from the skull of the helmeted hornbill, because the helmet of the helmeted hornbill's skull is solid, red on the outside and yellow on the inside, so this kind of bird's head bead can be made.Bird head beads have been used as raw materials for Wenwan products in ancient China.However, the helmeted hornbill is now a first-class protected animal under the Washington Convention, and international trade is strictly prohibited.

Bird's head beads and crane sky beads were both called Hedinghong, but they have nothing to do with red-crowned cranes; Bird's head beads are the natural headgear color of helmeted hornbills, while Hetian beads are dyed from fossilized animal teeth.

There is a poison also called Hedinghong, which is actually just arsenic.

It is said that Hetian's ancient secret recipe for dyeing has been lost.

Compared with the old Crane Sky, the newly made Crane Sky Beads are not the same in terms of naturalness and fusion of colors.Moreover, the Old Crane Dzi Beads are often patinaed and have a more moist texture. They are widely admired collections in Japan.

The most important thing is that Cai Pengxi said that the person who fought with him for treasures took out a string of colorful cranes.

The so-called five-color crane sky refers to dyeing five colors on the same crane sky bead.With natural dyes, five colors can be dyed on a small bead, and the colors cannot be mixed. Even if you master the ancient secret recipe, you can imagine how difficult it is.

Among the Old Crane Sky handed down from generation to generation, single color is the most, two or three colors are rare, and more than five colors are considered treasures.

In the historical materials of Japan, it is recorded that a famous craftsman imitated the seven colors of the rainbow and made a colorful crane sky, which was bid for at a high price at that time.However, Yu Yao has not heard of the real handed down product.

"Strictly speaking, He Tian is not considered jade!" Yu Yao said softly.

"If it's horns, I can say it's not jade. But Hetian's raw material is fossils, and fossils can also be classified as jade. Although it can be disputed, I don't feel comfortable arguing about it. Otherwise, he will call it picky!" Cai Pengxi replied.

Yu Yao nodded, "Then the old man told him to look at it, it must be real jade?"

"Naturally, what I showed him was an old jade duck."

Yu Yao couldn't help frowning, it's not difficult for an expert to recognize the old oily duck, could it be that the old oily jade duck that Cai Pengxi showed the other party has something special?
Oil extraction was originally a method of fake jade, in order to make the color and patina appear on the jade.

The general method is to soak the jade with pigment first, then fry it in oil after dyeing, so that the color will not fall off, and the surface will be more oily after oiling.

This extraction is also divided into old extraction and new extraction.

Old oil extraction, also known as ancient oil extraction, existed at least in the Song Dynasty. Natural dyes are used, and the oil formula and frying temperature are also very particular, so although it is fake, the beautification effect is still good.

The new oil extraction, which appeared in the Qing Dynasty, is much inferior to the ancient method, and the effect is not very good.There is a vivid saying in the industry about the new oil, which is called deep-fried ghost.

There are relatively many old jade articles with oil, which have not faded after thousands of years; although they were counterfeit jade articles back then, they are still of great collection value today.

Seeing Yu Yao frowning, Cai Pengxi smiled slightly, "The old jade duck is also a piece of Song jade, it is made of a piece of Hetian seed material, and has its own skin color; the old oil does not involve other parts, it is here The color of the skin is strengthened, making the original light yellow skin color into reddish yellow."

Hotan seeds generally have a skin color, which is formed by the seed material being contaminated by the environment over a long period of time from collapsing, colliding, to being washed by the river.Of course, this is not absolute, there are also bright white seeds, that is, there are only pores similar to the skin, but there is no other color.

Nowadays, Hetian seed materials are often appreciated because of their good-looking skin color, but in ancient times, they were generally removed.It wasn't until after the Qianlong Dynasty in the Qing Dynasty that there were more artful carvings of leather and color.

It cannot be said that there are no skins on Song Yu's skin, but it must be very rare.

"I see. If you show him this old jade duck, there are two traps. One is because of the color of the skin. He may have misjudged the era. Instead of thinking about the Song Dynasty, he thinks about the Qing Dynasty. The other , even if he is sure that it is Song Yu, the old oil on this skin color is difficult to identify, he may think that the original skin color is like this!"

Cai Pengxi nodded, "It saves effort to talk to you."

At this time, Yu Yao couldn't help sorting it out in his heart, because the process was quite interesting.

The two were fighting for treasures, Cai Pengxi took out an old oily jade duck, and the other side took out a string of colorful crane dzi beads.In the end, the other party's colorful crane dzi bead was newly made by himself, and Cai Pengxi was deceived. At the same time, the other party not only accurately dated this old oily jade duck, but also had insight into the very confusing skin color and old age. Lift the oil.

As a result, Cai Pengxi was defeated and lost the original lottery jade dove head.Unexpectedly, the other party didn't stop with the fruit of victory, instead, he took the prize that he had planned - the Wushuangpu character jade tablet, and tortured Cai Pengxi again, only to find that Zhu Shiyun was picked out by Cai Pengxi, and the jade tablet was taken away again. Cards won!

Yu Yao couldn't help looking at Cai Pengxi again, and asked the second doubt: "Old man, it is said that the other party took the jade dove head, shouldn't he cherish it? Why did it leak out and go to the auction?"

(End of this chapter)