The shape of the tea bottle is similar to that of the common porcelain teapot, and the function is actually half a catty to eight taels, but the volume of the general tea bottle is larger and the texture is different.

Compared with the teapot, the teabottle is rough, which is a typical "stupid and coarse" image.

Nowadays, people in the countryside still carry tea bottles to deliver water, but within a few years, this thing will only accumulate dust in the corners, or simply throw it away.

Oh, you can see it in some costume dramas in the new century, and I don't know where the props master of the crew found it.

And this thing has not been popular for a short time, there has not been much change in the appearance of two or three hundred years, but when the reform and opening up more than ten years later, the traditional farming society was replaced by the industrial society, and the tea bottle was quickly eliminated by the times.

The appearance of the crude tea bottle has remained unchanged for hundreds of years, how did Zhang Nan know?

See it in a museum?

It can't get into a normal history museum, at most you can find a place in some folklore museum.

No, Zhang Nan's understanding of the popularity time of tea bottles comes from real-life encounters and experiences.

This understands the process......

Not pleasant at all!

Zhang Nan didn't have much feeling for tea bottles before he was in the antique industry, but he didn't hate it either: although he grew up in a small county, the residents of the small county town were all rural, and before he became an adult, at the end of the year, there would always be a month or two spent in the homes of rural elders.

Even the people in the old city will not have a shortage of relatives in the countryside, and there are many people who go to the countryside: in the summer farming season, you can always see half-grown children carrying tea bottles and baskets to bring food and water to the adults who are busy in the fields.

During the busy farming season, cooking and boiling water are usually handed over to the teenage children at home: families with elderly people who can do some housework are good, and simple meals are ready and sent to the fields.

If there are no old people, children can't live precocious!

If that's all, Zhang Nan will also pour herbal tea from the tea bottles of relatives and neighbors, which feels like a very common cheap daily utensils.

But then he did the antique business, especially after he began to deal with the excavator brothers, Zhang Nan went to the countryside, if he saw this kind of tea bottle that was abandoned because of the development of the times, he would feel strange in his heart.

Even awkward!

Because in the Huiji area, in the general traditional funeral customs, before the tomb is closed, a few servings of wine, food and tea will be placed in the tomb and in front of the coffin, so that the deceased can enjoy it in the underworld.

What is the water used for?

Since the end of the century, there have been everything, kettles, thermos kettles, herbal teapots....

But in the old tradition, it's the tea bottle!

Stupid big and stupid tea bottle!

I don't know when this custom began, but there was definitely one in the Qing Dynasty, and there was no need to check the information, and there was basically this thing in the tombs: dealing with the excavator brothers, you can't always stay at home and wait for the rabbit, and sometimes you have to make a phone call and ask people what they have been busy with recently.

Communicate, maintain feelings, let others remember you as a person, and when something is discovered, people will think of you.

Sometimes others work in the hills and mid-mountainous areas, and Zhang Nan will drive a car to go around.

Sometimes the "newcomers in the treasure digging world of the excavator" will not be able to identify the age of the ancient tomb, and they will call you when they dig out the old tomb, and they will not judge whether it is valuable or not at all.

It's good to have WeChat or something, and you can see a few photos when you pass them, and you can know if it's valuable;

In fact, basically as long as the excavators call and take time out of their own time, whether there are photos or not, Zhang Nan will generally run in person.

Even if there is a chance that gasoline and time are wasted, and a cigarette is still needed, Zhang Nan will still go.

That's how the trust and friendship between people come about, and you can't hit the enthusiasm of the "newcomers in the treasure digging world", otherwise he is likely not to call you next time, or he thinks that the things he dug up are not fancy, and he is embarrassed to call you.

This kind of lesson, Zhang Nan has eaten Huang Lian dumbly: the two oil-drip tea cups from Jianzhou kiln or Wuzhou kiln were because the excavator brothers thought they were broken and worthless, so they didn't call Zhang Nan as soon as possible.

As a result, when Zhang Nan saw the two photos taken by the excavator hand two days later, the fragments of the oil droplets were all under the ground of the house!

I almost regretted vomiting blood!

The relationship is good, and the "newcomers" will call as long as they dig up the old graves, but at first they can't tell the difference between the concept of "ancient tombs and old tombs" for people who play antiques - in the general concept of antique circles in the Huiji area, the tombs from the Qing Dynasty to the Republic of China are considered old tombs, and the Ming Dynasty began to be regarded as ancient tombs.

As a result, many tombs in the tombs were discovered, and even the tombs of the Qing Dynasty and the early Republic of China, where the silt deposition had just begun, were discovered, and Zhang Nan would also take the time to make a trip.

Then tell the excavator that in the future, such an old grave will not need to be paid attention to, it is boring.

Running a trip and telling people directly on the phone that this kind of old grave is useless, the effect of this deal is different, and others will feel respected.

Don't those excavator brothers know that the old graves that can be seen on the ground are without flowers?

They know that there are just many Qing Dynasty and even old tombs of the Republic of China, which cannot be seen on the ground at all, and have long been buried underground.

In the past, the burial habit in the vicinity of Yan County was generally to build an N-shaped tomb with bricks and stones on the hillside, which was a burial chamber that was completely or mostly exposed to the surface, and then covered with a thick seal on the top to form a large tomb bag.

However, as long as the descendants of the tomb owner in the tomb are separated by four or five generations, many graves will become ownerless graves, and future generations cannot be checked. In addition, as long as no one goes to the grave for decades and does not add soil to the grave during the winter solstice, these graves will soon be integrated with the surrounding natural environment with soil erosion, subsidence, and vegetation growth, and will gradually be forgotten by people.

Sometimes excavators dig up a slope near a village in a hilly area, and they will dig up a long one, or even a dozen old graves.

In this case, the old people in the village in their eighties and nineties sometimes say: "It seems that someone and whose ancestors came to it, and I heard everyone talk about it sixty or seventy years ago." ”

And what about their descendants?

Sometimes, in that way, someone may put incense on their own wife, grandmother, uncle, or something, burn some paper, and then ......

What should you do, just sacrifice it.

There are also well-thought-out and wealthy families who may ask the "Mr. Material" (in foreign terms, "mortuary") in their own village or nearby villages to help see if there are any bones or something, and then build a new tomb nearby that is barely making do, so that the bones of the ancestors will not be lost.

But this situation is very rare, because of the changes of the past hundred years, people's family and blood will be diluted - according to the ancient Chinese system, the father, grandfather, great-grandfather, great-ancestor, and heavenly ancestor on the paternal side......

There are also those who sweep the tombs of their great-grandfathers and their ancestors, so how many people know where their ancestors are buried?

Going to the grave is even less!

Not to mention the "flat graves to create fertile land" movement in the 50s, near the countryside in the Jiangnan area, a small number of surface tombs with flatter terrain were relocated, and many of them were dug up!

No, go to the sacrifice?

Zhang Nan only knew where the tombs of his father-in-law and mother-in-law were, and he didn't know at all. On the matrilineal side, I only know where the graveyard of my grandparents is, and I don't know the location of the tombs of my ancestors at all.

Therefore, people like those who will create a grave for a certain generation of ancestors in the direct line are already very particular, and the proportion is even rarer, and it can even be said that it is rare.

Not to mention the fact that many of the owners of the tombs are either extinct, or their descendants are missing, or they have long since moved out of the village, even if some old people seem to have heard a few decades ago, those tombs dug up underground are the tombs of someone's wife and father, it is a matter of digging.

The side is even more related, at most, there are a few bold and curious people to take a few looks.

Zhang Nan has encountered such a situation many times: the excavator digs casually, and ordinary people avoid it.

As for the old people in the village, there are many cases where they don't know that there are old graves in those places - not much, two hundred years is enough time for many things to disappear and be buried by loess.

According to the old people in the village: Who did you listen to when you were a child" This kind of drama has been reliable for more than a hundred years, which is basically the line, and it is unreliable if you go any further.

So in some documentaries, a Ming Dynasty tomb was dug up near the village, and then asked the old people in the village, and the old people said that they didn't know that there was an ancient tomb at all......

Low-level gimmick, more than 300 years, know a ball!

If it is an ancient tomb of an earlier dynasty, it can only be said that adding this drama is a lack of calcium in the choreographer's brain!

Especially in some special areas, such as Xichuan Province, as soon as this kind of documentary appears in such a scene, Zhang Nan will feel disgusted!

Why?

The Xichuan people of the Ming Dynasty were about to die because of the war, Huguang filled Xichuan, taking Chengdu as an example, at the end of the Qing Dynasty, the "Chengdu Overview" had recorded: "The people of Chengdu today, the origins are all from other provinces"; among them, Huguang accounted for 25%, Henan, Shandong 5%, Shaanxi 10%, Yunnan, Guizhou 15%, Jiang 15%, Anhui 5%, Jiangsu, Zhejiang Jiang 10%, Liangguang 10%, Fujian, Shanxi, Gansu 5%. ”

Ask the elderly......

Brain-dead!

Such old graves are dug casually, but Zhang Nan doesn't want to touch them at all: because of the proximity to modern time, decaying coffin boards and dead people's bones are often still there, and even some old graves with high terrain, water seepage is not too serious, and the Republic of China period will even have moldy quilts and clothes left.

Of course, regardless of whether the organic matter is rotten or not, even if the bones of the dead are rotten, this stupid and stupid teabottle will still be inside.

Therefore, Zhang Nan knew that in the Qing Dynasty at the latest, people in the Huiji area would put the tea bottle into the tomb of the deceased, and he also knew that for at least two or three hundred years, the tea bottle would not change even if the size was different.

This will be clearer: it turns out that during the Jiadao period, there were similar tea bottles in Fujian Province.

Thinking of the scattered brown bones and the teabottles on the side, Zhang Nan didn't even have any interest in touching the few brown teabottles that were fished up—he had done Tufuzi, but the bones in the tomb dug up by his Tufuzi had already disappeared.

I'm a soilboy, but I'm not an undertaker!

I remember very well that once on the gentle slope of a hill near a village called Zhijian Road in Yan County, a whole row of hundred-year-old graves was dug out of the land, which was spectacular!

Because it had been under construction for a day or two, I got closer and wanted to take a look, but it turned out that there were two four-person thigh bones inserted in the leveled soil, and there was a skull and several tea bottles not far away.

What's even more disgusting is that there is still a little tattered strip of cloth wrapped around a thigh bone - cotton cloth, which is quite resistant to the test of time.

To do this kind of work, the excavator master doesn't want to get out of the cab at all, so he just uses the bucket to finish the work, and he won't deliberately deal with the scattered bones.

That doesn't feel good!

To be honest, a few tea bottles on this deck can also be regarded as excellent elements in the tea bottle industry, and there are even "plastic workers" on the outside, that is, there are patterns.

Many of the goods on the "Taixing" were ordered by Chinese, Japanese, Dutch, Spanish immigrants, wealthy merchants and colonists near Java.

These tea bottles can be regarded as high-end goods in tea bottles, but Zhang Nan still looks at it more and more unpleasantly: these things are an eyesore!

yelled at the sailors twice, "... Hurry up and take it away, and inform the diver that if there are still many such tea bottles below, leave them at the bottom of the sea, and don't need to fish them up!

Hurry up and fish for porcelain, not for pottery. ”

There is no need to fish too much, the sauce brown pottery, there are a few pieces to make a show, and they can't be sold in Europe, and even more so in China, it is better to spend time on fishing porcelain.

Qing Dynasty pottery, not Tang Sancai, in addition to archaeological value, many values are almost equal to zero.

After staying on the cargo ship for a long time, Zhang Nan found a very interesting situation: the Dehua kiln porcelain out of the water has few bottles and cans, and most of the plates and bowls, which is probably because the dishes and bowls take up the least space.

And with the "10,000" counting porcelain out of the water, although this porcelain belongs to the same Dehua kiln, but because of the different small kiln mouths, the quality of this firing is also very different, and even the green material used is not used.

The quality of the porcelain is also very different, and some fine porcelain is about to catch up with the Daoguang official kiln in Jingdezhen from the perspective of technology.

At this point, Zhang Nan stayed on the cargo ship for half a day, and selected nearly 1,000 pieces of porcelain, which could be made into many sets.

"For your own use?"

Regarding his brother-in-law's question, Zhang Nan nodded, and then let the crane be sent to his own yacht.

The fine products in the "Taixing" shipwreck and sea fishing porcelain are taken out to entertain guests, which is still very fantastic.

Early the next morning, Zhang Nan, who got up from the yacht room, did not board the cargo ship again, but lifted anchor and set off for Belitung Island: this is to use the superyacht as a transport ship to buy the freshest ingredients for the guys.

If you don't need Indonesian monkeys, you don't need Indonesian monkeys, as for fresh water, it is all transported by Borneo by boat, and the Lin family pulls the thread, so as to avoid branches.

The day after tomorrow, at the latest, Zhang Nan will leave this sea area and come back when the "Blackstone" is salvaged.

For the "Taixing", I have no interest in it.