Chapter 292: Public Welfare Activities in the Antique World
Hu Yang's move, in the eyes of some people, is a show. Someone sarcastically ridiculed in the live broadcast room: Today's people, in order to become famous, are unscrupulous and willing to spend money.
This kind of remarks, as soon as they bubbled, were suppressed by a huge number of fans, and they were even sprayed so that they didn't dare to make a sound.
It is obvious to all, whether Brother Hu is putting on a show or not, don't you have eyes to watch? Don't you have your own judgment? For such a long time, Brother Hu's every move has been under everyone's noses.
During this period, how many people did Brother Hu help?
Not to mention anything else, even if it is really a show, in order to be famous, then, if such people come to trouble a little more, this society will be better.
In this regard, Hu Yang did not defend himself and smiled.
Deal with everyone's order problem, the old man is from a village, so he and Andy have to take him and Andy to their village and have a cup of tea. In China, farmers are often like this, and when others help a little, they can always take it to heart.
"Next time, next time! Andy and I won't nag you for the time being, here, I wish you a great fruit sale. "Populus doesn't plan to stay, there are other things to do.
The proprietress told him that an antique charity event would be held near them today. In this regard, Hu Yang is still a little interested, it is also a good content for live broadcast, not to be missed.
Bidding farewell to the hospitable fruit growers, Hu Yang and Andy returned to the antique shop and met the proprietress with them.
"Sister Fei, are you going to stop looking at the store?" Hu Yang was surprised.
When he saw the proprietress closing the door of the store, he was going to go with him! Moreover, he was holding an old object in his hand, and he was a little confused.
Sister Fei said with a smile: "This event is organized by our Wenzhou Antique Association, and I, as one of the members, of course I have to participate." This item will be auctioned on the spot, and all the funds raised will be donated to the center for the disabled. ”
In fact, it is not a hard requirement to bring something or not, it depends on everyone's wishes.
However, this kind of event, which is held once a year in their city, has become a feature of their city's antique association and is highly praised by everyone.
As members of the Municipal Antiques Association, they usually bring one or two items to contribute.
It may not be very valuable, and the value is just 10,000, but it is also a heart. In addition to their antique enthusiasts, collectors, there are also auction houses and others who may be present.
"Then should I prepare an item as well?" Hu Yang couldn't help but ask.
Sister Fei shook her head: "No need! If you really want to help, if you have items you like, participate in the auction, and then be love." Of course, the premise is that you have something you like, and there is no need to bid blindly. ”
This kind of activity happens every year, so there is no need to get a few things that you don't need to come back in order to contribute love.
In fact, the reason why I called Populus euphratica to go with me was not to let Populus euphratica participate in the auction and do charity activities together. But when the time comes, there may be some treasures, if others don't have an eye, and you like to shoot it, it is to pick up the leak.
This kind of thing seems to happen often, someone auctioned a treasure at a low price, and in a blink of an eye, the value skyrocketed many times, and a lot of money was made.
Just like the year before last, someone auctioned a wood carving for 28,000 yuan, and later some experts identified that it was a work carved by a famous artist in the Ming Dynasty, worth more than 700,000 yuan.
In the previous year, a piece of porcelain was auctioned by 9,000 yuan, which was later identified as Qing Dynasty pastel porcelain, worth more than 2 million.
It is this time and again that makes their annual public welfare activities famous, and many people will come here on this day.
People's Park, this day is very lively, a court in the middle, there are usually children from the neighborhood to run early to occupy the field. But today, young people who love to play have been driven away, and the field has long been occupied.
In the center of the stadium, there is a temporary high platform, spread out on the red carpet, and there are many banners around it, many of which are advertised, and even the hospital's infertility advertisements have run out, making people cry and laugh.
Sister Fei brought Populus Hu and Andy here, and the event has begun.
Hu Yang also saw foreigners, not the kind of black, or white, but yellow people who were similar to the Chinese. The reason why Hu Yang can know that the other party is a foreigner is because the other party speaks Korean.
He doesn't speak Korean or Japanese, but he can roughly hear it in Korean and Japanese, so I don't know what that means.
It is not difficult to understand that Wenzhou is also an international city after all, and it is normal to have foreigners.
However, it is rare to come to participate in this kind of event.
"Hehe! I really thought that there was that kind of good thing every year, and I came to pick up the cheap again. Sister Fei sneered.
These words made Hu Yang, Andy and the audience in the live broadcast room a little confused.
Sister Fei explained to everyone that this Korean, who also came last year, also missed an ancient painting and earned almost one million, which is RMB, not their worthless won.
This year is coming again, and it seems that it was the last year that I tasted the sweetness.
After hearing this, the audience in the live broadcast room was very depressed, and they actually made the Koreans cheaper, and it seems that they plan to see this kind of activity as an opportunity to make a fortune!
"Be careful, that guy still has some strength. Sister Fei reminded Hu Yang.
She has seen that person's treasure appreciation skills, and she is indeed stronger than some pseudo-experts in China.
Everyone guessed correctly, Kim Sung-gi came with the mentality of picking up cheap.
Like other Koreans, they are very disdainful of China, but they have to admit in their hearts that Chinese culture, especially ancient culture, has a long history and is far from being comparable to their little South Korea.
This is also why, they always like to dominate Chinese culture, in the final analysis, it is an inferiority complex.
Take these cultural relics as an example, how many of them can be dug up by digging three feet into the ground in South Korea? Even if there are, the value of the wheel is far inferior to that of China.
To put it mildly, their ancient culture is basically leftover from China. A lot of things are secretly learned from China, but they don't learn the essence, only some fur, and this kind of culture is naturally not so valuable.
After engaging in this industry, he deeply felt the breadth and profundity of Chinese antiques.
In the past few years, I have often been active in China, picked up a lot of leaks, and made a lot of money.
The year before last, someone in China contacted him and asked him to get a batch of newly unearthed cultural relics from China to go back. The plan of those people, he heard a little, deliberately transported those things back, and then buried them in the ground, creating a chance to dig them up, and then they became their Korean cultural relics, falsifying some ancient culture.
It's not the first time they've done this kind of thing. No way, who made them have no ruins in the country?
A museum can't get a few decent artifacts out at all. In the history museum, most of the things are natural fossils, and sometimes he finds it funny.
However, he didn't ask much, as long as he could make money, he would do it.
This year, the city is engaged in this so-called public welfare activity again, how can he miss it?
In addition to the members of the city's antique association, there are also some caring philanthropists and caring collectors.
In fact, the items that appeared at today's event are basically genuine, and it is just a matter of value.
Sister Fei introduced that the speaker on the stage was the president of the city's antique association. They were the first to propose this activity, and made it a well-known characteristic activity, and they are a capable person.
As the president of the Antiques Association and the leader of this event, it is natural that he will not come empty-handed.
In fact, the treasures that are taken out for public welfare activities every year are basically the most precious of the president, rarely less than 100,000 yuan.
This time is no exception, he took out, the so-called object of throwing bricks and jade, is an ancient pillow, made of porcelain,
"Porcelain pillows, didn't the ancients hate their heads?" someone in the live broadcast room couldn't help but ask.
"That is, when you turn over, won't you be embarrassed?"
"Don't you know, I heard that in ancient times, porcelain pillows were just funeral goods, and the dead used them, would they feel pain?"
"Isn't it? In ancient times, it seems that there were people who really slept on porcelain pillows, but there were more poor people. At that time, porcelain was not as expensive as it is today, but cloth and other materials were expensive, and ordinary people were reluctant to add new clothes made of linen to themselves, so they could use very high-end soft pillows?"
"It doesn't seem right, right? In the TV series, big families also use porcelain pillows. ”
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In the eyes of many people, what is the difference between this and using a stone pillow?
When they watched ancient TV dramas, when they saw those porcelain pillows, they already had questions and felt very puzzled.
Seeing this question, Hu Yang explained to everyone that pillows, as daily necessities, have an unimaginable history, which can be traced back to ancient times.
So far away, I won't mention it.
Judging from the archaeological finds, pillows have developed different postures in different eras, with different materials and shapes. It can be mainly divided into two categories: hard pillows and soft pillows: in addition to porcelain pillows, hard pillows also include jade pillows, gold and silver pillows, copper pillows, lacquer pillows, bamboo pillows, crystal pillows, etc.
The soft pillow is made of cloth, silk, fur, etc., and the interior is filled with cloth, grass leaves, millet and other things, and is decorated with embroidery or painting.
Porcelain pillows are just one of many pillows, and because of their hard material and low cost, porcelain pillows are the most common pillows in existence.
Judging from the available data, the Chinese workers living in the late Qing Dynasty and the early Republic of China still used porcelain pillows, and until the founding of the People's Republic of China, Shaanxi and some areas of Liangguang still had the tradition of using porcelain pillows.
"Just now, someone mentioned that porcelain pillows are funerary goods, and that's right! When porcelain pillows first appeared, they were indeed for the dead. However, the funerary goods are only a small part. Later, it was used not only by the dead, but also by the living.
In the Tang and Song dynasties, porcelain pillows slowly became a necessity in people's lives, especially in the Song Dynasty, porcelain pillows were more prosperous.
In the Song Dynasty, the porcelain industry has been greatly developed, which can be described as a peak moment in the development of porcelain, and the birth of five famous kilns, which is still talked about.
Ordinary porcelain at this time is indeed not expensive, and even cheaper than cloth. Therefore, a friend just said that it is something for the poor, and there is nothing wrong with it.
However, the rich and noble people also use it, but the porcelain pillow used is more advanced, made more exquisite, put to this day, it is often a rare antique, the value is very high. "Populus euphratica explained to everyone.
Moreover, he also heard that the porcelain pillow also has the function of being an alarm clock, and earlier, the scholars listened to the rooster crow when they got up, but for the poor scholars who studied hard, they remembered it earlier, so they slept on the porcelain pillow, so that they could wake up as soon as they turned over, and they could go to study earlier.
It is also said that sleeping on a porcelain pillow can not mess up the hairstyle and keep the women beautiful forever.
Of course, these are basically speculations of later generations, and I can't say for sure.
At present, the more certain reason is that the porcelain pillow has the effect of cooling off the heat, which is the same as the bamboo mat.
In ancient times, there was no air conditioner, fan, etc., how to sleep at night in summer?
This effect can be confirmed from the verses of the ancients, such as a poem by Su Shi, which mentions: The jade pillow is cold and cool. Bi gauze cupboard, hazy sleep to noon.
The jade pillow in the poem is actually a porcelain pillow.
Some people may want to say, isn't there a pillow made of jade?
Yes, and it's famous.
In addition, some people say that porcelain pillows have the function of health preservation, so they became popular in ancient times.
The ancients believed that pillows were three or four inches high, and they advocated sleeping on their sides. As the saying goes, "the fairy pillow is three inches", and a three-inch pillow is beneficial to longevity.
The appearance of porcelain pillows is to fix the height of this pillow. If it is a soft pillow, how to fix the height?
"Actually, about the real intention of the porcelain pillow, now everyone is also conjecture, different opinions, we don't have to worry about why the ancients slept on such a hard pillow for the time being. Hu Yang smiled.
At the scene, the porcelain pillow taken out by the president was also a bit strange, it was a beast-shaped pillow, not our usual rectangular.
But everyone doesn't know that this beast-shaped pillow was also popular in ancient times.
During the Tang Dynasty and the Five Dynasties, there were leopard head pillows and tiger pillows. In the Northern Song Dynasty, new lion pillows, cow pillows, and dragon pillows were created. The Jin Dynasty directly took the animal spine as the pillow surface, and there were styles such as lion pillows, tiger pillows and double lion pillows. The beast-shaped pillow of the Yuan Dynasty is rare. In the Qing Dynasty, most of them were sleeping cat pillows.
It is a work of Cizhou kiln, which is a long-standing and large-scale kiln system in northern China.
Its shape is based on practical life, generous and simple, sturdy and durable, and has a strong local flavor. The main types of utensils are bottles, urns, pots, pots, basins, bowls, plates, makeup boxes, pillows, lamps, incense burners and various animal toys.
"It was white ground and black color, the white glaze was thick and shiny, pure white like milk, and there was a powdery texture. It is painted in black on a white porcelain base, and the cover is fired with a white transparent glaze to give the effect of an ink painting.
The porcelain pillow made by the 'Zhang family' is also a fine product, more than 200,000 yuan!" Hu Yang commented.
As soon as his words fell, someone shouted the price of 250,000 yuan, and finally someone took it away for 280,000 yuan.
The proprietress on the side was speechless, this guy is really powerful, he is so young, and he doesn't know how to learn.
(End of chapter)