I have to say that this stall owner has a business acumen and takes advantage of the mentality of Chinese people who like to gamble to make money.

Two hundred yuan doesn't seem expensive, but his own things, he knows, are not treasures, and the estimated purchase price is a few yuan. The profitability here is higher than that of any commodity.

There were originally twenty lucky bags on the stall, one of which was a valuable ancient jade, but now there are only eight left. It can be seen that the one with the real ancient jade has not been extracted yet.

"I'll give it a try, and I'm usually pretty lucky. Ah Hao couldn't help but say.

So, he took out two hundred yuan, picked up a lucky bag, and took out a jade plaque from it, but the jade plaque was bare and not carved at all.

The people around immediately sighed: "I didn't hit." ”

But in fact, everyone is happier in their hearts, because there is one less piece of garbage, and the probability of winning the lottery has become higher again. Those who are reluctant to leave here are waiting for the probability to become higher, and then they will make a move, thinking about picking up the leak.

Hearing everyone's words, Ah Hao didn't doubt it, and was a little depressed.

Just said that he had good luck, but he turned his head and slapped his face.

"Let's go! It's not interesting. Brother Yu said to everyone.

Of these twenty lucky bags, one of them has a prize, but the total value of the twenty lucky bags is only four thousand yuan, and you can also guess that the ancient jade put in by the stall owner will not be worth much, it may be one or two thousand, or even a few hundred yuan.

After walking away a little, seeing that Ah Hao was still depressed, Brother Yu smiled and said, "Good luck." ”

Well?

Andy and they were stunned, what does this mean?

Seeing that everyone was still confused, Hu Yang explained: "You have nothing to do with the card, it has a bit of value, and it is estimated to be over 10,000 yuan." Come to think of it, even the boss didn't see that it was a treasure, otherwise it would not have been possible to put it in the lucky bag.

You must know that the total value of the twenty lucky bags is only 4,000 yuan, and it is impossible for him to put a treasure worth more than 4,000 yuan into it. Therefore, this should be a mistake, or the stall owner does not know the true value of this piece of jade at all. ”

The Wushi card belongs to a type of jade brand accessory, and the jade card belongs to a type of peiyu.

Peiyu's culture has a long history, dating back to the Shang and Zhou dynasties. The jade of the Shang and Zhou dynasties attached great importance to the selection of materials, and used a large number of high-quality nephrite jade from Xinjiang, which was delicate in quality, but lacked the ability of deep processing, so the jade could only be cut into plate-like wool first, and then processed and cut into round or square jade blanks, which were carved into Jue, Huang or animal, bird-shaped jade pendants.

From the Warring States period to the Han Dynasty, the development of Peiyu reached an unprecedented peak, the craftsmanship was further improved, and the cultural connotation was further enriched.

At that time, the saying that "a gentleman must wear jade" began to circulate.

After wearing the jade, when you walk, you should make the jade pendant on the left and right sides make a beautiful sound that conforms to the rhythm, the sound will be chaotic if it is too fast, and there will be no crisp sound if it is too slow, so it can show the demeanor of a humble gentleman. Since then, Peiyu has become the standard for gentlemen.

And the jade plate really became a kind of jade carving art category, in the Ming Jiajing, Wanli years. At this time, Suzhou produced a famous jade carving master - Lu Zigang. Zigang likes to integrate seals, calligraphy, and painting art into jade carving, and the jade pendants he carved are shaped like squares or rectangulars, wide and thick, like a brand, so they are referred to as "Zigang cards".

Zigang brand engraves the art of Chinese calligraphy and painting on the front and back of the jade plate, plus the exquisite and transparent head decoration, which has a high sense of appreciation.

However, in the Zigang brand, there is a very special one, which is not carved without any carving.

In the eyes of others, this kind of "no decoration" card, homonym "nothing", so it has become the current nothing-nothing card.

Therefore, strictly speaking, the Nothing card is also a kind of Zigang card. Of course, if there is no carving, there is no art at all, and the ornamentation is not strong, so the value will not be very high.

Hu Yang briefly explained the origin of the Wufu card to everyone.

"Also, this no-do card is too rudimentary. Brother Yu said.

He is a master of jade carving, and no one present has more say in this kind of thing than him.

"Is jade bad?" Andy asked.

Brother Yu shook his head: "The quality of jade is okay, in ancient times, the jade used in mining was generally not too bad, and the ancients had a high vision!

However, what we call the Nothing is really bare, nothing.

A better Nothing to do card, the position of the header, generally still carve some ornamentation, unlike this one, so it is very rudimentary. ”

He explained that for the sake of beauty, the traditional Wufu card will be carved with auspicious patterns such as Kui Long, Guanyin, and Buddha to ward off evil spirits and blessings, which means that everything goes well, drives away evil spirits and avoids disasters, and protects peace and health.

Common brand heads include dragon and phoenix, auspicious clouds, ruyi heads, Ganoderma lucidum and other shapes. The header design fits the theme, accounting for a reasonable proportion of the overall proportion of the safe and quiet card, and a good header design can enhance the overall artistic value of the card, otherwise the snake will be added.

And the piece that Ah Hao gets, there is no head, and the value is the lowest one.

"Fortunately, the water head of this piece of jade is good, although it is green jade, but it is a good material, and it is a bit of a waste to make it into a nothing-to-do card. However, there is no way, your piece is duck egg green, and it is not easy to carve, it may be this kind of scruple that makes it a nothing-to-do card. Brother Yu said to Ah Hao.

Purely from the point of view of value, green jade is far inferior to mutton fat jade, white jade, but green jade has its own characteristics: often relatively large, delicate texture, warm, good oiliness, at the same time, a part of green jade due to dense interwoven structure, has very good toughness, is an important raw material for making thin tire utensils.

There are also many colors of Hetian green jade, such as green green, sand date green, duck egg green, etc.

There are two kinds of duck egg greens, one is water-permeable and the other is oil-permeable.

The water-permeable Hetian green jade has good light transmittance and shines with a water-green luster, but it is easy to collapse when carving. The oily Hetian green jade looks like a thin layer of oil on the surface, and it has the blue and white of duck eggs when it is transparent, giving people a feeling of seeming to be transparent.

Obviously, the piece that Ah Hao got is watery, and if it is carved, it is easy to collapse.

Hu Yang also commented on two sentences: "This piece of material is considered second-class, so it is worth a little money." ”

Green jade is not only divided into colors, but also into grades, which are generally divided into three grades. The quality of the first-class green jade is the best, and the Hetian green jade has reached this level, the resources are very precious, and its texture must be smooth and delicate without flaws, which can not only become a good material for jade carving, but also become a good collection of good products.

The second-grade Hetian green jade is a little green and yellow in the cyan. It may not be as pure as the first-grade Hetian green jade in color, but the whole jade oil is still good.

As for the third-level ones, they are not of high quality, their value is not high, and people with a little taste can't look down on them.