Antiques are the historical accumulation of culture, and there is a story behind every antique, Liu Yue looked at Dong Minquan and asked him: "Grandpa Dong might as well talk about it, and let us have a long experience." ”

"Alas. Dong Minquan sighed, some people like to hide private people like to share, this old man obviously belongs to the latter, he said: "It's a pity to say, in the early eighties of the last century, an antique dealer who traveled back and forth between Hong Kong and the mainland took ten pieces of blue and white, at that time I was the first batch of customers to arrive at the scene, the quality of these porcelains is not bad, the only deficiency is that there is no knowledge, my level at that time was limited to looking at the model, no money had to look at the glaze, in the end, I picked that one." While speaking, Dong Minquan took a small Yongzheng pastel jade pot spring vase next door to Kangxi, and said to the two: "Among all the porcelain at that time, this porcelain was in the best condition and the highest price, worth 10,000 Hong Kong dollars. ”

Tang Feng looked at the pastel, which was similar to the angry official kiln he had sold to Yang Chengming before, it belonged to the fine products of the private kiln, and the quality was not to be said.

Dong Minquan continued: "At that time, the antique trade was not as hot as it is now, and no one was willing to spend money on it except me, and the key was not to believe in the cultural relics dealer. I finished the deal here, and a ghost guy came over there, and he just took a cursory look and bought all the remaining nine. Coincidentally, as soon as the ghost guy paid the bill, Zhai Jianming came over, and his eyes straightened when he saw those pieces of porcelain, so he said that he wanted to buy it back from the ghost guy, but the ghost guy resolutely refused to do it, so there was no way. After the ghost guy left, I said to him, "Boy, it's too late, the best is here." He glanced at it and said to me, this one in your hand is the worst, and I am so angry, I already knew that I bought ten pieces together. In the blink of an eye, in 2ooo year, this Kangxi blue and white piece of porcelain among the nine pieces appeared at Sotheby's auction, and through bidding, I finally spent more than 110,000 yuan to buy it back. Afterwards, people in Hong Kong were laughing at me, I could buy ten pieces for 1o thousand Hong Kong dollars, but in just 20 years, I paid 11o times the price to get one-tenth, you say, is this a pity?"

Tang Feng knew Zhai Jianming, another well-known collector in Hong Kong and an expert in porcelain, who had successfully bid for an enamel at a sky-high price of 122 million yuan. People who play collecting more or less have to pay tuition, and the bigger the collector, the more expensive the tuition, and Dong Minquan's entry and exit is hundreds of millions of tuition. In contrast, Tang Feng and Liu Yue were lucky that their tuition fees were prepaid in advance by the older generation.

Liu Yue said to Dong Minquan: "Of course, it will be a pity for a good thing to slip away from your hand, but don't you always have an appraisal team?"

Dong Minquan laughed and said: "The high-salary hiring of an appraiser was after that incident, and I was really reluctant to give so much money out before, and I was willing to suffer a loss." ”

Almost all people who play collecting will feel that they were born in the wrong era, if they can start buying antiques before the rise of collecting fever, everything will be different, Tang Feng even thinks that his grandfather should let himself come out earlier, but this is just a good wish, even if he comes out early, the result is not much better, people are affected by the environment. After all, there are only a very small number of people who can transcend the limitations of the times, and they can often become leaders in their respective industries, and there are countless such examples.

Although the ground is the historical ruler, but Dong Minquan's collection still does not have a way to keep up with the pace of history, through the Qing and Ming dynasties, the Yuan and Song dynasties of the collection is obviously insufficient, the Tang Dynasty before the ceramics is a large section of vacancy, the old man so designed, nothing more than to remind himself at all times, do not forget to fill these historical gaps. Dong Minquan looked at those vacancies and shook his head and said: "There is no way to fill these gaps in my lifetime, your road is still long, and the future is yours." ”

Three people from the modern era has been to the ancient Xia Shang Zhou, the end of history is a large living room, although the layout of the living room is very simple, but the total value is more than the entire Dong mansion, all the furniture is the Ming and Qing dynasties, and all the use of precious wood, red sandalwood case on the top of a Xuande furnace, hanging a couplet above, uplink: this life, the previous life, the next life, all the life; the next link: love, good fate, good fate, and fortune;

"Tsk. Liu Yue's expression was like that of a little girl, she nodded, and said, "Good pair, it's strange to say, the collector's collection room seems to have a good pair." I have a friend who also has interesting couplets hanging in his collection room, including the Tang, Song, Yuan, Ming and Qing dynasties; ”

Tang Feng also went to Liu Yue's friend's collection room, he is Yang Chengming, as far as the porcelain collection is concerned, that couplet can indeed express the essence of the Shengshi collection. The three of them took a short break, and then walked all the way to the door along the historical track on the other side, perhaps, the feeling of tossing and turning between history is the true meaning of antiques. After visiting Dong Minquan's collection room, Tang Feng's heart could not be calm for a long time, as time went by, the difficulty of collecting will continue to increase, with Dong Minquan's rich financial resources can not be used to connect the entire historical corridor with antiques, not to mention that the economic situation can not get rid of the overstretched self.

Dong Minquan seemed to see Tang Feng's thoughts, and he said earnestly: "Xiao Tang, the biggest enemy of accumulating collections is not money, but time, your advantages are incomparable, and my wish is destined to be fulfilled only by you young people." ”

Tang Feng nodded and said, "This may be the common wish of all collectors, but the chance of realization is almost impossible, if it is so easy to complete, the fun of collecting will no longer exist." ”

Dong Minquan smiled approvingly and said: "At a young age, it is not easy to see the bottom of this, work hard." ”

In the evening, in Dong Minquan's gracious stay, Tang Feng and Liu Yue stayed at Dong's house, of course, they were not ridiculous to some extent. The next morning, the two said goodbye to Dong Minquan, because they were going to the antique market, the Dong family did not send them down the mountain, because the largest antique market in Hong Kong was on Hollywood Road halfway up Taiping Mountain. Built on the first street, Hollywood Road is one of the most prosperous areas in Hong Kong, connecting Central and Mid-Levels on one side, and is home to the well-known Lan Kwai Fong and Soho Honan food districts. The name of Hollywood Road has nothing to do with Hollywood, because the street was planted with holly trees in the early years, and Hollywood is translated from English to Chinese.

Maybe Tang Feng and Liu Yue didn't realize it themselves, they were in a relaxed mood at the same time as they were in the antique market, leaving behind many of their daily troubles. Hollywood Road and the surrounding neighbourhoods are home to thousands of antique shops, and because land prices in Hong Kong are too high, the shops here are not large, but there are many items. There are not only ceramics and jade, gold, silver and bronze, calligraphy and painting, ancient books of calligraphy and painting, furniture and lacquerware, etc., but also some relatively rare unearthed cultural relics in China, ancient wedding costumes and old electric fans from the Western world, gramophones, pearl agate and other jewelry from Southeast Asia.

After visiting several antique shops, Tang Feng has a deeper understanding of Hong Kong's antique market, and in addition to the advantages of a wide variety of antiques, the prices here are higher than those in China. Compared with the mixed domestic antique market, Hong Kong's antique market is also a real and fake market, but the proportion is much better than that of China.

Hong Kong is a place where Eastern and Western cultures meet, with strong international characteristics, in the flow of people of different races and skin colors, Tang Feng and Liu Yue are particularly eye-catching, Liu Yue asked Tang Fengdao: "How is it, do you have any eyes?"

"Hey, why would the senior researcher of our museum ask me this question, I should have asked you. Tang Feng said.

Liu Yue raised her pretty face and looked at Tang Feng and said, "You are less here, I am here to accompany you!"

Tang Feng asked Liu Yue, "How come I have never seen you dig out the antiques yourself?"

Liu Yue grinned and said, "Don't worry about the dowry, what am I doing with the cultural relics?"

Speaking of the dowry, Tang Feng couldn't help but ask Liu Yue: "Liu Yue, can I ask you a question?"

"Say hello directly. Liu Yue nodded and said.

Tang Feng asked, "Have you seen the boyfriend your family is looking for for you?"

"Of course I've seen it, and I've seen it since I was a kid, and he's taken good care of me, well, frankly, he's really nice. Liu Yue pouted and said, "I don't know why, I just don't have feelings for him, and besides, I don't think he has any feelings for me, anyway, the two of us are very open, but a large group of people next to us are in a hurry." ”

"Then what do you think?" Tang Feng felt for the first time that his relationship with Liu Yue was absurd and bizarre, no one could promise anyone, everyone had a promise, I am afraid that this matter could only be discussed in the antique market, relaxation was only a secondary reason, psychological suggestion was the main reason, they needed a buffer zone that everyone could accept.

Liu Yue said: "I like to be able to find a way to solve this problem with the best of both worlds, the biggest difference now is that I am not willing to sacrifice myself for the sake of the family, but he is willing, this is the inferior nature of you men, in the matter of marriage, you have a psychological advantage, and you always feel that you will not suffer." Liu Yue's words are actually only half of what she said, her "fiancé" is a man with a strong sense of professionalism and self-confidence. Men, more or less contain some fierce and ruthless, male animal remnant genes, if Liu Yue really has something with Tang Feng, even if he doesn't like Liu Yue, he will regard this kind of thing as his own shame, and then regard Tang Feng as his enemy. What Liu Yue is worried about now is that if he and Tang Feng really have an unhappy relationship, how should he deal with himself?

"How can you knock me out of a trench with him? Don't forget, I'm a rival to him. Tang Feng's words were very relaxed, but some residual genes were revealed, if they continued to show like this, these two people would definitely not be good.

Hearing Tang Feng's words, Liu Yue frowned slightly, it seemed that her worries did not seem to be superfluous, she didn't want to delve into this issue, and immediately pointed to an antique shop not far away and said to Tang Feng: "Hey, there seems to be something good over there." ”

"Really?" Liu Yue is not very good at lying after all, Tang Feng can see it at a glance, since she is unwilling to continue this topic, Tang Feng does not want to force her, he looks forward in the direction of her finger, there is an antique shop called "Fetal Glaze" in front, although the name of this shop is a little strange, but it is better to get straight to the point, and at a glance you know that this is a porcelain shop.

Tang Feng said: "Liu Yue's vision Tang Feng is still very convinced, go, go and have a look." ”

Two people walked into the "tire glaze" in a few steps, Hong Kong's antique shops and mainland grocery stores have a fight, the space utilization rate is very high, and the place where things can be put will not be let go. The special administrative region is obviously different from the mainland, the high housing prices here are indeed due to the shortage of land resources, while the housing prices in the mainland, which is rich in land and resources, are a bit inflated, one is a natural disaster and the other is a man-made disaster, which cannot be in line with "international" standards.

Liu Yue didn't expect to point to an antique shop at random, and the few pieces of porcelain on the shelves near the gate were all at a glance, and at first glance they were blue and white porcelain from the late Qing Dynasty and early Republic of China. The thing is a one-glance product, the price is a big open, a little high, Tang Feng and Liu Yue obviously don't like those low-grade antique porcelain, the two of them were inspired by the real guy who entered the door, and continued to dig in, and the antique was taken out.

Everyone who is proficient in business has a pair of thief eyes, and the Hong Kong boss, who was still communicating with his buddies in Cantonese just now, immediately changed his big tongue Chinese when he saw Tang Feng and Liu Yue coming in, and he said: "Welcome to both of you, please feel free to watch." ”

Although it was a smiling face, neither the guy nor the boss had any intention of stepping forward to sell to these two customers, Tang Feng was happy, and he liked this way of doing business. Under the light, a piece of colored porcelain caught Tang Feng's attention, he lightly touched Liu Yue's shoulder, and said in a low voice: "Finally, there is no white pressure back to the road, it seems that there are fish, do you see that colorful bat flower plate?"

Liu Yue was well educated in family traditions, and knew that it was not appropriate to expose the target too early, so she looked at the colorful plate that Tang Feng said quietly, and said in a low voice: "It looks a bit like it from a distance." ”

Tang Feng pretended to look aimlessly, and walked around a big bend to this colorful plate, which is a large porcelain plate, about 4 or 5 cm high, with a diameter of about 2o cm and a foot diameter of 15 cm. Although there is no price marked, Tang Feng clearly knows that if this colorful plate is real, the price will not be less than one million. At the autumn art auction held by Liaoning International Commodity Auction Co., Ltd. on January 28, 2oo7, the final transaction price of a Ming Jiajing colorful fish algae pattern jar with a starting price of only 5oo yuan was 27oo00 yuan, creating a record for the transaction price of porcelain artworks in Northeast China at that time.

The current bosses are like sharks, they can't smell a little blood, and they will definitely suffer a big loss if they easily see the depth, but if they are too calm, they will also attract the boss's bamboo bar. Tang Feng flicked the edge of this colorful plate with his fingers, the sound was crisp and long, basically on the road, even if it was a fake, it was at least a high-quality counterfeit of Jingdezhen in the 21st century. The finger-to-finger sound comes from the identification technique of tomb robbers, and it is particularly effective for large porcelain plates that do not have enclosed spaces, and people who have not robbed tombs do not know much about it, but this can only be used as a reference for authenticity and is not conclusive. After that, Tang Feng picked up the multicolored plate with both hands and began to observe it carefully.

It is not difficult to distinguish the types of colored porcelain, as long as you figure out the relationship between the glaze and color, there is no problem, if you want to make a cross-section layering of a porcelain from the inside to the outside or from the middle to both sides, it is composed of three parts: fetus, glaze and color.

The fetus is the porcelain fetus, which is made of porcelain clay as the embryo firing.

Color is color painting, with special color materials, on the porcelain to draw patterns, ornaments and pictures, in order to increase the beauty of the utensils, improve its artistic value, this process is called color painting.

Glaze is porcelain glaze, also known as glaze, it is a liquid substance prepared with quartz, feldspar, borax, clay and other raw materials, the glaze is coated on the surface of porcelain and pottery, and after firing, the surface of the ceramic will form a layer of coating with a glass texture. If a glaze layer is applied to the surface of the metal, it is enamel. The glaze is not all transparent, before the Song Dynasty, there were many monochrome glazes, pink green, plum green belong to green glaze. Red glaze is divided into copper red glaze and iron red glaze, the representative of copper red glaze is glaze red, and the main variety of iron red glaze is coral red. In addition, there are white glaze, black glaze, low temperature glaze, crystalline glaze, etc.

The first glaze is applied and then the color is called the glaze color, and the opposite is the underglaze color. The main varieties of overglaze color are five-colored, pastel, plain cloud, and enamel color. The main varieties of underglaze color are blue and white, glaze red, underglaze three-color, and underglaze five-color. There is a special case here, and that is doucai, which is a combination of the two.

Tang Feng has been watching it for a while, and Liu Yue over there came to his side, according to the official words of the TV treasure appreciation, the bat flower multicolored plate in Tang Feng's hand has the following characteristics - this plate is regular, dignified and beautiful, the glaze is shiny and bright, the jade texture is very strong, the tire is hard and fine, and the carcass and weight ratio is appropriate. The disc is closed, the disc has no glaze tire, the edge is decorated with yellow-brown color, the handicap is gradually converged below, the bottom of the device is full of plain tire, it is a round loach back, you can see the twist of the tire jumping knife, the bottom of the device is glazed, and the blue and white painting has a double circle imprint, and the three-line six-character regular script of the book "Kangxi Year of the Qing Dynasty" is written. This plate is covered with white glaze and colorful decoration, and the color can be partially seen due to the age of the formation of colorful clam light, and the halo is reflected, which is extremely natural. To sum up, the expert group unanimously agreed that this Qing Kangxi colorful bat flower plate is genuine.

Note that at this time, the host usually comes out and asks knowingly, may I ask Mr. X, what is the special significance of this Kangxi colorful painting?

The expert cleared his throat, and then introduced that the plate of this Kangxi five-color plate is decorated with flowers and five bats. These five bats flutter in the flowers with different expressions, the picture is realistic, lifelike, extremely beautiful, and of course, it also contains a profound humanistic meaning.

The word "bat" of the bat is homophonic with "Fu", the five bats mean five blessings to celebrate longevity, implying the meaning of "blessing such as the East China Sea, longevity than Nanshan", its artistic conception is far-reaching, fully expressing the good wishes of the ancients to desire "Fu Shou", thank you.