Let's continue to shop, the antique market is really strange and all-encompassing, there are many things that only you can't think of, and there are no things that don't exist. However, there are too few genuine products.

And some old objects are indeed true, but they are not very valuable, just like ancient farm tools, almost an old object of the same nature, and there are few people who favor it.

Zhong Wenqiu was holding a bronze that looked like a beckoning cat, and he almost didn't say to his face that other people's things were too fake.

Of course, it can't be face-to-face, and the stall owners are not here. I saw an uncle who was dancing a square dance with his aunt in the distance waving to this side and shouting, meaning to let everyone look at it casually.

Is it a combination of work and play?

Square dancing is everywhere, and it's lawless in China. Not to mention the aunt, the uncle is not in the mood to work.

The audience in the live broadcast room couldn't cry or laugh, this is too fake, right?

As soon as Hu Yang saw their expressions, he knew what they were thinking, and said, "This is something from the Tang Dynasty, it's just a little casual, but it's also worth a little money." ”

Belch!

Many people present were confused, really? Or is it a thing of the Tang Dynasty? Did the Tang Dynasty have the image of a beckoning cat? Isn't it? So bizarre?

"Isn't the beckoning cat a modern thing?" Ye Mei couldn't help but ask.

Hu Yang smiled: "How is it possible? More than a thousand years ago, there was the image of a beckoning cat. There is a clear record in the writings of the Tang Dynasty. In addition, the statue of the 'beckoning cat' more than 1,600 years ago was found in the cave niches of the Northern and Southern Dynasties in Qishan, Shaanxi, which further pushed the origin of the beckoning cat forward. ”

It is said that the cat-shaped stone sculpture resembling the "beckoning cat" - this cat not only has bumpy eyes, a chubby body and a long, upturned tail, but also presents a squatting posture, with one front paw on the ground and the other paw as if beckoning.

"Aside from the Chinese record, the beckoning cat appeared in Japan more than 400 years ago and is regarded as a kind of mascot for good fortune. If you don't believe me, you can ask Mr. Zhuzi. ”

Kazuko nodded hurriedly: "Yes! In our Japan, there are many folk legends about beckoning cats, especially in the Edo period, basically kittens repay their kindness and the like." ”

In Japan, since the Edo period, the custom of raising cats has become popular, and the Japanese people believe that cats are cute, intelligent, virtuous, and a little cunning, full of mystery and psychic powers, and cats can also protect food from rats, so the legend of cats as the prototype has gradually spread.

At the same time that the spirit of raising cats was popular, the legend of cats further had various far-fetched statements, and the mythical cat was endowed with incredible abilities, and gradually evolved into the embodiment of keeping money and making money, and the image of the beckoning cat was also outlined, becoming a token of good luck and peace among Japanese people.

The persimmon also told everyone that in their Japan, the beckoning cat is divided into male cats and female cats, and the male cat raises his right hand to symbolize fortune and fortune; The female cat raises her left hand, symbolizing the good relationship and thousands of customers. In Japan, most stores are filled with female cats, because the Japanese believe that as long as there is a crowd, there will basically be a boom in money.

Many people are confused and don't know at all that the beckoning cat actually has a history, and it is very long, and they all think that it is a cartoon image that has only emerged in modern times.

"However, the beckoning cat has only become popular in recent times. In ancient times, there were many images of wealth in China, such as the three-legged golden toad, etc., and the beckoning cat was so pressed that it couldn't raise its head, so it failed to become popular in ancient times. Hu Yang explained.

Since he knew that it was something from the Tang Dynasty, of course Zhong Wenqiu would not let it go, and every item here had a price. Therefore, the boss doesn't have to look at the stall at all, what he sees, he gives the money according to the marked price, and he can take it away.

This Tang Dynasty beckoning cat bronze is priced at one hundred and fifty yuan. If the stall owner was here, Zhong Wenqiu would definitely have to kill the price, but the boss was not there, so he had to give as much as he wanted.

"When it comes to traversal, bronze vernier calipers are the really puzzling stuff. Hu Yang smiled.

Seeing that everyone was confused, it was estimated that they hadn't heard much of it, so Hu Yang explained: "The bronze vernier caliper was made by Wang Mang in that era, and it is almost exactly the same as the current vernier caliper, and when it was first excavated, it shocked many people."

It is precisely in this way that some people jokingly call Wang Mang a traverser, and the vernier caliper is the best proof. ”

In fact, not only vernier calipers, but also Wang Mang is suspected of being a crossing monster in many ways, and it is too similar to some modern things.

For example, the most controversial is his currency reform, which is actually very advanced, but in the eyes of historians it is his most failed policy. In that era of trading gold, silver and jewelry, Wang Mang promoted the use of beautifully made but worthless currency, just like today's coins.

In addition, he practiced the state ownership of land and forbade private buying and selling of land, which is the same as in our country now.

Not only that, Wang Mang also went to great lengths to engage those big landlords. Wang Mang stipulated that if a family's land exceeded 900 mu, but there were not enough eight men to cultivate the land, the excess land should be distributed to the landless people or neighbors.

Such a system would not work at all in ancient times, if the landlord didn't kill you, who would kill him?

Similar to the modern ideological system, he has also done a lot, so he is nicknamed a time-traveling monster by modern people.

"Haha! Crossing the monster Wang Mang still can't do Liu Xiu, the son of the other family. ”

"Wang Mang is really like a crossover, he engaged in a series of systems, we are really familiar with: the state ownership of land and equal distribution, the abolition of the slave and maid system, the planned economy and the monopoly of state-owned enterprises with the participation of the government, the reform of the currency, the establishment of a loan system by the government, the forced labor, the elimination of non-laborers, the revision of relations with the surrounding foreign races, especially the destruction of Goguryeo, and the renaming of Goguryeo......

"It's okay to kill Goguryeo, China seems to have wanted to destroy the people of this place since more than a thousand years ago, think about Yang Guang of the Sui Dynasty, and Li Shimin of the Tang Dynasty, it's just like Goryeo. ”

"No wonder I hate sticks so much, my ancestors began to hate them more than a thousand years ago, and I just inherited it. ”

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As for why Liu Xiu is the son of the plane?

At that time, it seemed that all luck was gathered in him, and many heroes and talents were used by him, which was simply like a hanging.

At that time, the world was in turmoil, and in order to protect himself, Liu Xiu joined a bandit army, and soon became a general, and also played the slogan of recovering the Han Dynasty.

When Wang Mang heard this, he was unhappy, and gathered an army of hundreds of thousands of years, ready to destroy this breathless thing.

At that time, the bandit army that had been temporarily pulled up was so frightened that it almost broke up, but Liu Xiu persuaded more than 10,000 people to support him.

Against the sky, an army of only 10,000 people took the initiative to attack the camp of hundreds of thousands of people, and actually won consecutive battles, killing thousands of people. Liu Xiu made another move, led the army and drove straight in, killing Wang Xun, the deputy commander of the enemy army, on the spot.

Since then, he has been out of control, and finally killed Wang Mang, established the Eastern Han regime, and continued the rule of the Han Dynasty surnamed Liu.

Such an open life was also said by later generations to be the son of the plane.

If you compare it, you will know that the crossing monster was still defeated at the hands of the son of the plane, and it can only be said that the things that Wang Mang made at that time were too advanced and could not be popularized by the ancients!