Where Yu Yao's gaze is fixed is a porcelain pillow.

The pillow is oval in shape, with a length of 30 centimeters and a width of 15 centimeters.

On the shelves, the pillow side is facing outward, white and black, and the story pattern of Journey to the West is drawn.

However, in this, there are Tang Seng riding horses, Sun Wukong carrying a stick, and Zhu Bajie, but there is no Sha Monk.

One less.

"I'll take a look at that porcelain pillow!" Yu Yao raised his finger and pointed.

The female shopkeeper carefully removed it and put it on the counter. As soon as he put it like this, Yu Yao saw that the height was about ten centimeters, and there was no pattern on the entire side, only two simple outlined auspicious cloud patterns on the upper and lower sides.

Then Yu Yao held the porcelain pillow with one hand, picked it up with the other, and looked at it again.

"This is an old porcelain, right?" Yu Yao asked after reading it.

"Yes. ”

"How much?" Yu Yao was always speaking in a layman's tone, because he wasn't sure if the female shopkeeper had seen through it.

The female shopkeeper was stunned for a moment, and then looked at Yu Yao, "This is the Cizhou kiln of the Ming Dynasty, it is well preserved, the craftsmanship is exquisite, I haven't opened it today, I will quote you an auspicious price, the minimum is 80,000." ”

After Yu Yao heard this, she knew that she probably didn't understand.

This is indeed a porcelain pillow from Cizhou kiln, but it is not from the Ming Dynasty. The female shopkeeper will definitely say it earlier, but when it comes to the Ming Dynasty, then she must be gone.

Not only did I not understand it, but I did see it as a layman. If it is a porcelain pillow of Cizhou kiln in the Ming Dynasty, the volume is not large, and it is a common process, in the eyes of connoisseurs, it is a matter of 20,000.

Cizhou kiln, produced in the Northern Song Dynasty, after the Jin, Yuan, Ming and Qing dynasties, has been continuing, is the largest kiln system in northern China, kiln mouth all over the northern region, mainly in Shanxi, Hebei, Shanxi and Henan provinces.

Since it is a huge kiln mouth system, why is it only called Cizhou kiln? Because Cizhou kiln was officially named in the early 20 th century, this person is not a Chinese, but a foreigner, called Hobson.

Although Hobson was a foreigner, he was an expert in the study of Chinese ceramics.

Speaking of Cizhou kiln, relatively few people know about it, and when it comes to Yuan Qinghua, it is mostly famous; the concept of Yuan Qinghua was first put forward by this Hobson.

In 1929, Hobson found a pair of "Zhizheng 11th Year" Yunlong elephant ear vases in the blue and white porcelain collected by the David Foundation, and then proposed that this should not be Ming Dynasty porcelain, and identified it as Yuan Dynasty porcelain.

In the fifties, another American scholar named Pope conducted in-depth research on the basis of Hobson's view and published a large number of detailed and rich views. Yuan Qinghua gradually became famous.

Therefore, it is now generally believed that the first person to really study Yuan Qinghua in depth was Pop, but it was Hobson who first proposed the concept of Yuan Qinghua.

Cizhou is an ancient place name, now Cixian County, Hebei Province, there are many important kiln sites in this area. Hobson's discovery, after all, was limited, but the name remained.

There is no clear definition in history, and the name is a foreigner, and finally, everyone will refer to all the folk kilns that have not been clearly determined in the large area of Shanxi, Hebei, Shandong, and Henan as the Cizhou kiln system.

In the past, there was a saying in the porcelain industry: Cizhou kiln is a basket, and you can't understand how to put it in. That is to say, as long as it is a kiln mouth in the northern region that cannot be clearly determined, you will not be wrong if you say that it is a Cizhou kiln. Because the characteristics of other kilns are relatively obvious, there are a lot of things burned out of Cizhou kilns, and they are also very miscellaneous.

Therefore, the dating of Cizhou kiln is also a troublesome matter.

After hearing the female shopkeeper say that it was from the Ming Dynasty, Yu Yao pointed to the Journey to the West story pattern on the pillow, "It can't be from the Ming Dynasty, Journey to the West was banned in the Ming Dynasty, how can it be done on the porcelain pillow in a grand manner?"

The female shopkeeper was stunned when she heard this, "Who said it was a banned book?"

"Journey to the West was written in the Jiajing period of the Ming Dynasty, Emperor Jiajing believed in Taoism, and Journey to the West had a plot of satirizing the emperor, so it was banned. Yu Yao said.

"Won't you? As a result, the female shopkeeper immediately sat down and looked it up on the computer.

"Look, I've found an authoritative opinion. Those who say that books are forbidden are all spread by falsehood, and not only were they not banned in the Ming Dynasty, but there were many versions!" The female shopkeeper pointed to the computer after checking it.

Yu Yao thought to herself, yes, she still wanted to use this to lower the price, but she didn't expect her to react very quickly and smiled, "I read other books, and they all said that the book was quite professional." ”

"You can't take one word for it. This porcelain pillow must be from the Ming Dynasty, and Journey to the West has spread so widely, and then it is not uncommon for porcelain pillows to appear. The shopkeeper explained.

Yu Yao was afraid that she would continue to check on the computer, so she began to bargain, "I like it a lot, I can get 10,000 yuan!"

The female shopkeeper couldn't help but be stunned for a moment, this young man, does he understand or doesn't understand?

This is the goods that his husband went to Hebei Province to collect, and he took it from the old households, no more, no less, and spent 10,000 yuan! Now the asking prices of these old households in all four miles and eight townships are very high, and the market of collecting tatters in the past has long ceased to exist.

As a result, this guy smashed to the end as soon as he opened his mouth!

This is also a coincidence, of course Yu Yao didn't know her receiving price, but saw that she couldn't sell too little, so he started cutting it at half of the "Ming Dynasty" market price.

In fact, this Cizhou kiln porcelain pillow was earlier than the Ming Dynasty, and it was from the Southern Song Dynasty! Or rather, the north was occupied by the Jin State at that time, and it was from the Jin Dynasty.

The historical facts of Journey to the West are naturally that Xuanzang went to Tianzhu to learn scriptures, which was a matter of the Tang Dynasty. This is a historical fact, very monotonous, except for Xuanzang, there are not so many characters.

And the story of Journey to the West, the Southern Song Dynasty has it. Moreover, in the Journey to the West story version in the early Southern Song Dynasty, there was no Sha Monk, and in the late Southern Song Dynasty, there was only Sha Monk.

This Cizhou kiln porcelain pillow, in terms of vintage, is in the early historical stage of the Southern Song Dynasty. Of course, for Yu Yao, this is only an identification point, porcelain fetus, makeup soil, glaze, ornamentation, and craftsmanship all need to be comprehensively judged.

It's just that even this one point without a sand monk, the female shopkeeper doesn't know. It can also be seen from her current investigation of whether Journey to the West was banned in the Ming Dynasty, she didn't pay much attention to this porcelain pillow before, and if she was a careful person, she might think about it.

"You said it too low, I can't receive it so low!" the female shopkeeper shook her head, of course she couldn't sell it for 10,000.

"But your 80,000 yuan is too high, I sincerely want it, give the lowest price!"

The female shopkeeper looked at Yu Yao and suddenly asked, "Did you buy a collection?"

Naturally, she realized that the young man seemed to be pretending to be confused at first.

"I'll use it myself!" Yu Yao said with a smile.

"Can you stand such a hard porcelain pillow?"

"I'm here to overcome the bad habit of sleeping lazy! It's not easy to go back to sleep when I wake up. Sima Guang used a log as a pillow and was alert to start work at any time, so he wrote the general knowledge of governance!"