Chapter 259: Imitations
The North District, known as Huaxian in ancient times, was built in the Kangxi period, named because of its proximity to Huashan, and became a district of Yangcheng in two thousand years, known as the north gate and back garden of Yangcheng.
The North District has a profound cultural heritage, and the intangible cultural heritage items include clay and gray sculptures, Pangu King's Day, Hakka folk songs, Zhongcai enamel, Lantern Festival, Southern Lion, Cantonese opera, Ruiling bonsai and so on.
In addition, there is a strong educational atmosphere here, and since the establishment of the county, various colleges, private schools, and schools have been spread all over the place. Feng Yunshan, the early leader of the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom, and Hong Xiuquan himself, both worked as private school teachers, and even used them to promote preaching and develop their influence.
When it comes to Huaxian, almost everyone will equate it with Hong Xiuquan, and the name of Huaxian is also known because of him. Nowadays, the former residence of Hong Xiuquan, the ancestral hall of the Hong family, and the memorial hall of Hong Xiuquan have also become one of the tourist signboards here.
Many people know Sun Yat-sen's slogan of "the world is for the public", but they don't know that this used to be Hong Xiuquan's proposition, although it backfired.
The Taiping Heavenly Kingdom lasted for 14 years, swept through most of China, and reached the historical peak of the Peasant War, but due to the limitations of its class and era, it could not lead the Chinese revolution to victory.
In addition, on the principle of sovereignty, Hong Xiuquan did not recognize any unequal treaties signed between the Manchu government and imperialism that humiliated the country, and actively resisted imperialist aggression against China.
The British government sent an envoy to contact Hong Xiuquan, saying that if Hong Xiuquan recognized British interests in China, he would provide assistance to the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom, but Hong Xiuquan sternly refused.
Because Hong Xiuquan always refused to recognize unequal treaties and refused to sell national sovereignty, the foreign powers turned to support the Manchu government.
Under the joint strangulation of Chinese and foreign governments, the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom was destroyed.
Moreover, Hong Xiuquan also opposes Confucius and Confucianism, like Zeng Guofan and Li Hongzhang, who have read Confucian classics since childhood, are naturally desperately opposed, even if they are both Han Chinese.
The Hunan army and Huai army they trained were more powerful than the Eight Banners Army of the Qing Dynasty at that time, and these two armies were fierce enemies that the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom had to face, and they were very difficult to deal with.
There is no reason to comment on the merits and demerits, however, the revolutionary fire he personally lit has a far-reaching impact, and it is not without reason that Yangcheng can become the birthplace of the modern revolution.
When Zhao Tianming and Ye Qiushuang entered the ancient residence, they found that there were already some peers inside, and they were really well-informed.
Zhao Tianming found that many of the buildings here are ancient buildings with brick walls and tiles, and there are also some self-built small buildings, as for the kind of high-rise residential buildings, there is no one.
No wonder some people come to Taobao, this kind of ancestral dwellings, there will indeed be a lot of antiquities, as for whether it is worth it, it is another matter.
"You're here to buy land, aren't you?"
Seeing Ye Qiushuang and Zhao Tianming coming, the owner of the house was very enthusiastic and served hot tea. The two of them are well-dressed and drive a good car, and they do look like rich people.
Hearing this, Zhao Tianming and Ye Qiushuang are a little strange, and there are some businessmen mixed in? Yes, there must be many businessmen who smell business opportunities and come here to fish in troubled waters.
When the government collects it uniformly and then approves the development, it will definitely have to be tendered, and I don't know how much it will cost to win it.
And now, as long as they find the owner of the house, as long as the price is higher than the compensation fee for demolition, they will definitely be willing to sell, anyway, in the end, the government will take over the land, and how to operate it has nothing to do with them.
It can be said that it is hello, hello, hello, everyone.
"No, we're here to see if there are any antiques. Ye Qiushuang said.
The passion of the emotional master's family is used by the wrong object, I don't know if it will drive them out?
"It's okay, you can just look at it. ”
The owner of the house is a middle-aged man, quite bold and enthusiastic. His family's ancestral house has also lived in it for several generations, and maybe the ancestors really left some antiques that they didn't know about, which can be regarded as a windfall.
However, Zhao Tianming and the two were a little disappointed, obviously there are not many antiques in this house, some of them are simple in style, and they are also modern handicrafts built in batches.
Just as he was about to leave, Zhao Tianming set his eyes on the demeanor of the master's family to worship his ancestors, where there was a copper incense burner for burning incense, with a simple shape.
"This is, Xuande copper incense burner?"
Ye Qiushuang also noticed Zhao Tianming's gaze and whispered. The Xuande furnace, she had seen it last time, was snatched from a beggar, although it was only an imitation.
After that, she also checked the information and learned a lot.
The furnace is an ancient incense burning charcoal vessel, which is divided into smoker, incense burner, and hand and foot stove. The copper incense burner cast during the Xuande period of the early Ming Dynasty belongs to the kind of incense, which was designed and supervised by Zhu Zhanji, Xuanzong of the Ming Dynasty, in the three years of Xuande in the Ming Dynasty.
At that time, Emperor Xuanzong was an offering furnace cast for the suburban altar temple and placed on the sacrificial table, and later expanded to the tombs, temples and powerful homes for burning incense, worshiping Buddha, and worshipping ancestors.
The Xuande furnace was only cast once in three years in Xuande, and a total of 5,000 were obtained, and the furnace was sealed and not cast. After hundreds of years of vicissitudes, the survival of Xuande furnace is even rarer, and it is as rare as a star.
The incense burner in front of me was larger than the two imitations I saw last time, about 12 centimeters high, and the diameter was more than 15 centimeters.
The furnace body is oblate, the mouth of the furnace is folded, there are two symmetrical annular vertical lugs on it, and the lower part is the girdle neck and folded shoulder. There are three hoof-shaped feet at the bottom of the furnace, and the center of the outer bottom of the furnace is cast with six yang inscriptions of "Xuande Year of the Ming Dynasty".
Moreover, on the inscription at the bottom of the furnace, the word "de" of Xuande is not horizontal in the heart, which is also a feature of the Xuande incense burner.
In addition, there are two kinds of seals, "Xuande year" and "Xuande year of the Ming Dynasty", both of which are made of small seals.
"This can't be the real thing, right?" Ye Qiushuang looked back and forth a few times, not afraid that the incense ash in the furnace would stain his clothes.
"You say, my incense burner is an antique?" The owner's family was also a little disappointed, but when they heard that one of their family finally had an antique, they were suddenly a little inexplicably excited.
"No, it's an imitation, but it's a contemporary imitation, and the value is about the same. ”
Zhao Tianming shook his head and said, he didn't hide anything, and told the master that the Xuande furnace and its contemporaries are now difficult to distinguish, and they are generally genuine, and the price is also high.
However, Zhao Tianming had an ancient mirror in his hand, so he naturally knew that it was not a treasure.
"Uncle, are you willing to sell this thing? I can buy it for 300,000 yuan. Zhao Tianming thought for a while and said, although the master had no bottom in his heart, he didn't quote too low a price.
This price is already very high, he got it to the auction, and when he met his beloved, he would sell it for 500,000 yuan at most, and after deducting the commission, he would earn 100,000 yuan.
If the lion of his master's house opens his mouth, he intends to give it up.