After Xiao Yao returned to Hanzhou City, there was an endless stream of visitors to his home, and it was not until after the tenth day of the first lunar month that it stopped.

During this time, he has been sorting out the harvest of the treasures of Cuiping Mountain, picking out some fake antiques and low-value cultural toys, and preparing to dispose of them all after a while.

Those high-value antique toys are also selected so that they can be classified and stored, and it is convenient to continue to collect them or cash them out in the future.

Xiao Yao is most concerned about those precious antiques worth more than 100 million. Although the number of treasures in this batch is huge, the real value is the most precious antique toys, the number of precious antique toys worth more than 100 million, although only a small part, but the value accounts for more than 80% of the total value of this batch of treasures.

After all the appraisals have been identified, there are a total of 78 antique cultural toys worth more than 100 million in this batch of treasures, with a total value of more than 21 billion, and the added value of the rest of the treasures adds up to about 7 billion, and the total value of the treasures in Cuiping Mountain is about 28 billion.

Such an astonishing batch of treasures, even for Xiao Yao, is a huge surprise!

Although the collection in the Holy Soul Ring is rich and rivals the country, after all, it is the wealth that Panwu has accumulated in the past 3,000 years, and this batch of treasures was obtained by Xiao Yao himself, and this sense of surprise is naturally different.

Among the 78 most precious antique cultural toys, there are two very special, although Xiao Yao does not recognize the value of these two cultural relics, but these two cultural relics have special significance.

These two cultural relics are the snake head and the chicken head among the 12 bronze animal heads in the Old Summer Palace.

The bronze statue of the 12 zodiac animal heads in the Old Summer Palace was originally part of the fountain outside the Haiyan Hall of the Old Summer Palace, and was a red bronze statue in the Qianlong period of the Qing Dynasty.

The head of the bronze statue of the zodiac is a realistic style modeling, the casting is fine, and the subtleties such as folds and fluff on the head of the animal are clear and realistic.

The material used to cast the head of the beast is the red copper refined by the Qing court at that time, the appearance is deep in color, the inside contains fine light, and it has not been corroded after a hundred years, which can be called a must.

According to research, the bronze statues of the 12 zodiac signs were arranged on both sides of a pool in front of the Haiyan Hall of the Old Summer Palace in the shape of eight figures, and were called "hydraulic clocks" by the people of the time.

Every day, the bronze statues of the 12 zodiac signs will take turns to spray water, representing different times of the day, and at noon, the 12 statues will be sprayed at the same time.

The 12 Zodiac Fountain of Haiyan Hall is a fountain clock designed according to the 12 zodiac signs in our country, and every time it arrives, the Zodiac clock belonging to the hour will automatically spray water.

At 12 o'clock in the afternoon, the 12 zodiac signs spray water at the same time, and the design is extremely exquisite. The main building of Haiyan Hall faces west, eleven rooms up and down, there are stacked fountains on the left and right sides of the building door, a large fountain is under the steps, the pond is arranged in the shape of "eight" and the bronze statue of the head of the 12 zodiac animals and animals. For twelve hours every day and night, the twelve zodiac signs take turns to spray water, commonly known as the "hydraulic clock".

The portrait of the Twelve Lives was originally on the 12 stone platforms on the north and south sides of the fan-shaped pool fountain in front of the Western Building and Haiyan Hall in the Old Summer Palace.

On the south bank, there are Zi Rat, Yin Hu, Chenlong, Wu Ma, Shen Monkey, and Xu Dog, and on the north bank, there are ugly cows, Mao rabbits, snakes, sheep, roosters, and pigs.

These portraits are all animal heads and human bodies, with a bronze head and a stone body, with a hollow water fountain connected to it, and every other hour, the portrait representing that hour of life sprays water from the mouth, and at noon, the fountain gushes out of the mouth of the twelve portraits at the same time, which is a spectacle.

These bronze zodiac statues are 50 centimeters tall and finely carved, making them the finest bronze objects of the Qing Dynasty.

In 1860, the British and French forces invaded China and burned the Old Summer Palace, and the bronze statue of the head of the beast began to be lost overseas.

Xiao Yao personally does not recognize the artistic value of the 12 zodiac animal heads in the Old Summer Palace, but its historical significance cannot be ignored.

The artistic value of the bronze beast head of the Old Summer Palace is indeed very high, there is no doubt about it.

In the prosperous era of Qianlong, the Qing Dynasty was strong and strong, and the level of craftsmanship was at its peak, which was particularly fully manifested in the bronze statue of the 12 zodiac animal heads in the Old Summer Palace.

First of all, the copper it uses is the alloy copper specially refined for the court, which contains many precious metals, and the copper used in the Forbidden City and the Summer Palace in Beijing is the same as the copper crane on display, the color is deep, the essence is bright, and it does not corrode after wind and rain, which can be called a must.

Secondly, it is carefully made by the craftsmen of the palace office dedicated to serving the emperor, the casting is finely finished, the surface is also carved with fine chiseling, such as the animal fluff and other subtleties are chiseled and forged, clear and realistic, the nose, eyes, ears and other key parts and the nose and neck folds are very delicate, without a trace of sloppiness, showing a very high level of craftsmanship.

The bronze statue of the head of the zodiac animal was made by Chinese court craftsmen and designed by artists from Europe such as Lang Shining, so the bronze statue has a strong traditional Chinese aesthetic taste, but also integrates the characteristics of Western plastic arts.

The artistic value of the bronze beast head cannot be ignored, but it is not yet a national treasure.

If only the artistic value of the bronze beast head is considered, even if it comes from the Old Summer Palace, the value cannot exceed 100 million.

But if we take into account the humanistic value of the bronze beast head and the historical significance it represents, its value is indeed immeasurable.

The value of antiques is only a part of its artistry, and some special cultural relics, humanistic value and historical significance account for a greater proportion.

The bronze beast head is the cultural heritage of our Chinese nation for thousands of years, and it also symbolizes the strength of our motherland in those years, and it is also a historical witness to the looting and burning of the Old Summer Palace by the Eight-Nation Alliance, and its historical significance is far greater than its artistry.

Because of the special historical significance of the bronze beast head, he still has to think carefully about how to deal with these two cultural relics.

Although these 78 antique cultural toys worth more than 100 million yuan are precious, they are just ordinary cultural relics after all, and they are not worth moving him, what really makes him care is one of the jade slips.

The value of this jade slip is not counted among the 78 precious cultural relics, otherwise, the value of this treasure will not know how many times it will be doubled.

Because this jade slip is a truly priceless treasure, it can no longer be measured by money.

The material of this jade slip alone has exceeded the total value of all the precious cultural toys in this batch of treasures.

The materials used to make this jade slip were extinct as early as the Western Zhou Dynasty, and even in the long life of Panwu, it was rare.

The jade material of this jade slip is called Kongming Divine Jade, which is a special material specially used to make and store information in ancient times.

There were many materials that could store information in ancient times, but the Empty Ming Divine Jade was one of the most precious.

The Void Ming Divine Jade can not only store text information, but also store those special information that cannot be expressed by words.