Wu Duo took a sip of water, "Xiao Zhao, if you ask this question, it is tantamount to asking in vain." I can guarantee it now, but who knows later?"

"Then do you want to know?" Zhao Yun asked again.

"If it's about your master, after all, he is a master in the antique shop, I'm really interested. If it's something else, something like, 'Why hasn't that girl in the next class passed by my window yet?' I'm not interested. ”

"I don't have any secrets, the person we know together is my master, and the common topic is mainly antiques. ”

"Then you can say it if you want to, I don't take the initiative, I don't refuse, I don't take responsibility. ”

"Scumbag!" Zhao Yun squeezed out two words from between his teeth.

"I'm just borrowing it, two different things, don't transfer your emotions to me. Wu Duo sighed, "Actually, I want to know, but because I can't guarantee that I will keep my mouth shut, I can only say this." ”

"If you say that, it's actually more reliable than a promise, I'll tell you······" Zhao Yun looked around, "Change places?"

Wu Duo nodded.

The two then came to Zhongshan Park and slipped to a secluded place.

"Angkor, do you know that Ding is also divided into yin and yang?"

Wu Duo lit a cigarette and said slowly, "It's not very clear, I just know that there seems to be a saying that three legs are yang tripods and four legs are yin tripods." Then there are metal things, which are also divided into female gold and male gold. ”

"Oh! My master has a four-legged square tripod, and that is the Yin tripod!"

"That's the secret?"

Zhao Yun nodded.

"Your master is a master of bronze, what kind of secret is it to collect a four-legged square tripod?"

"This tripod is very evil, Brother Ang, one day I slept at my master's house, and he got up in the middle of the night to pee, and he seemed to be talking to the tripod in the bedroom!

"Damn!" Wu Duo raised his hand and shook it in front of Zhao Yun's eyes, "Are you okay?

"Really! I just can't hear what is being said. ”

"Your master doesn't close the door in the bedroom at night, how do you know that you are talking to Ding?"

"In his bedroom, there is a glass window on the door frame, and I moved a stool to look at it. ”

"You can do it. Wu Duo turned to ask instead, "Your master has shown you this Ding, what period is it, and how old is it?"

"When I talked about the bronze tripod, I demonstrated it once, saying that it was the bronze tripod of the Xia Dynasty imitated in the Tang Dynasty. My master said that it was probably the goods in the imitation field of the officials in southwest Jiangsu during the Li Longji period. It's not big, it's just over a foot high. ”

Wu Duo nodded, in the thrift market in Qizhou, he had also seen an imitation Western Zhou bronze gui from that field.

Zhao Yun said, "It is also said that it is one of the imitation of the Qingzhou Ding, one of the nine tripods of Dayu, between the upper and lower ornaments of the belly of the tripod, a circle of mountains and rivers is encircled; ”

Wu Duo waved his hand, "Dayu Jiuding is a legend, and even if there is, the Warring States will be gone. ”

Zhao Yun nodded, "That's right." But that's not the point I'm talking about, it's my master talking to that Ding in the middle of the night!"

"Any master may be obsessed with studying things, and he will enter the realm of selflessness for a while······ You really don't want to be cranky!"

"Hey, when you say that, it seems to make some sense, why can't I think of it?"

"Because your focus is on your master. Wu Duo said again, "Learn antique appraisal from your master!

"Okay!" Zhao Yun scratched his head, "My master said that I can learn more from you, and his evaluation of you is excellent in character and learning." ”

"Excellent character and learning? Is this word appropriate, your master only had contact with me yesterday, even if his eyesight can be sure through things, where does this 'quality' come from?

"My master said that he would not be wrong. ”

"Your master even misread you. ”

Zhao Yun was a little confused, "What's wrong with me?"

"Your master is so secretive, but you told me about it. ”

"It's not that I'm also afraid that something will happen to my master, among the people I know, you have a good eye for antiques, and you can't talk to others!"

Wu Duo thought for a while, "In this way, since everything has been said, you go back and ask your master, can I take a look at the four-legged square tripod?"

"Huh?" Zhao Yun showed a worried expression, "You mean that I secretly told my master's secret, and then told him later?"

"Don't talk about this, didn't he show that tripod when he taught you to identify it? You said that I mentioned that tripod, I'm very interested, can you take a look?"

"Well, if that's the case, you can just ask yourself?"

"I'll have to ask myself. The problem is that you told me about the four-legged square tripod without your master's permission, and it wouldn't be nice for you to talk to him first. ”

"Otherwise, Angkor, you better stop looking at it, just because I didn't say it. Anyway, it's not the Ding of the Xia Dynasty, it's just an imitation of the Tang Dynasty. ”

Wu Duo smiled, "Okay." I'm just asking for your opinion. If you don't think it's appropriate, I can't force it. ”

"Then will you take me to play in the future?"

"Two different things, it doesn't matter. ”

"Okay, a word is a decision, a high-five is an oath!" Zhao Yun raised his fat hand.

Wu Duo snapped with him three times, "Xiao Zhao, then I'll go back first, and I'll make an appointment to visit the market next time." ”

"Okay. ”

Wu Duo and Zhao Yun separated and returned home.

He lit a cigarette, didn't take a few puffs, and couldn't help but sit down in front of the computer and began to search for information about Jiuding.

Regarding "Yu Casting Nine Dings", there is indeed a saying that the nine tripods are divided into yin and yang, "five are based on the yang method, and four are counted as yin".

In other words, there are five three-legged round tripods that are yang, and four four-legged square tripods that are yin.

This saying existed before the Tang Dynasty, such as the "Collected Memories" of the Jin Dynasty.

In Li Longji's official imitation field, according to this statement, it is not surprising that Jiuding is imitated or fabricated. Moreover, since the size is not large, it may be more intended as a model or ornamental object.

But before Li Longji, Wu Zetian recast Jiuding, but he went to the country's heavy weapon.

Long live the first year of Tongtian, Wu Zetian recast Jiuding Naicheng. Long Live Tongtian is one of the era names of Wu Zhou; Wu Zetian is a maniac with era names, and he has only been the emperor for more than ten years, and he has used more than a dozen era names.

This nine tripods are really too big, it is said that the largest Yuzhou tripod is one zhang eight feet high, the other eight tripods are one zhang four feet high, and nine tripods share 560,000 catties of copper.

At that time, it was transported from outside the Xuanwu Gate into Tongtian Palace, and more than 100,000 people were mobilized, as well as elephants and bulls, and it took a lot of effort, and Wu Zetian himself wrote a "Song of Dragging".

The real Dayu Jiuding, thinking about it, it is obviously impossible to be so big; Wu Zetian got a set of knock-offs, but it was a big show.