Chapter 680: Jade Leaf Golden Cicada Jade Watermelon
Tea occupies a very important position in Chinese culture, and the literati in ancient times did not drink tea.
They called drinking tea tasting, and then they also formed a culture, forming a tea ceremony.
Later, it was introduced to Fuso.
It has been carried forward by others, and many people have forgotten about China.
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Zhou Rui put away the tea he had obtained, and sent some to his elders after he went back, and then sent some to Lin Qingya's elders.
Zhou Rui didn't know if it was because successful people like to drink tea, or if they slowly learned to drink tea after success.
Most of the successful and accomplished people he knows like to drink tea.
Especially in the office, tea is indispensable.
For example, Liu Jianming, he has the best Biluochun in his office.
There is also Tieguanyin.
Liu Jianming personally likes to drink Biluochun.
However, he can't just prepare one type of tea, after all, the taste of the guests is not the same as his.
Then, Zhou Rui opened an ordinary red envelope again and obtained a box of Yunnan Baiyao from it.
I believe that there is nothing strange about this.
All over the country, this has basically been used.
Others don't know, but he uses it anyway, and it's really good.
There are many ordinary red envelopes, but there are only a few that can be said.
One of them is a 100-year-old ginseng plant.
When Zhou Rui saw this, he couldn't help but be surprised.
For more than a hundred years, in this era, it can be said to be a treasure of heaven and earth.
After all, it's developing so fast now.
Everywhere is developing, building.
If you want to find a 100-year-old ginseng, it is not a difficult problem, but a particularly difficult problem.
What's more, what Zhou Rui has in his hands is still old mountain ginseng.
Zhou Rui had obtained a ginseng plant before, and later gave it to his parents to replenish their bodies.
My father was reluctant to eat it, so he used it to make wine.
This old ginseng, Zhou Rui plans to give to Lin Qingya's parents, which can be regarded as filial piety to his father-in-law and mother-in-law.
As for how Lin Qingya's parents use it, Zhou Rui doesn't care.
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In addition to this old third ginseng, Zhou Rui also got a tiger skin.
Note that this is not a tiger skin hunted in modern times.
It's the ancient tiger skin.
It was hunted by the ancestors at that time.
After all, in ancient times, it was not the same as now, and in ancient times, hunting was a trend.
According to the information detected by Xiaoyou, this tiger skin is the tiger skin of Wu Sangui in the late Ming and early Qing Dynasties.
This tiger skin is white tiger fur, which is very soft.
There is even a tiger head, which is very well preserved.
It is said that it has been placed on Wu Sangui's seat.
was sat under Wu Sangui.
Until death.
This thing is illegal in modern times.
And this thing can't be traded at all.
No buying, no harm.
Zhou Rui can't come up with evidence to prove the origin of this thing, so the police will definitely deal with it as smuggling.
Pay for one's whistle.
If you are not careful, you may also go to a public meal.
Even if you get it, it's very chicken.
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The third ordinary red envelope is an antique called Golden Cicada Jade Leaf.
When he saw this thing, even Zhou Rui couldn't help but be stunned.
Because he'd seen it before.
And it was seen in the Nandu Museum.
The southern capital, that is, Jinling in ancient times, was also called the "southern capital" because of the emperors who built the capital here in many dynasties, echoing Kyoto in the north.
The golden cicada jade leaf is a very exquisite work.
I saw this work, a god-shaped Bi Xiao, golden cicada standing on a jade leaf. It has its feet tilted sideways, its wings slightly open, its mouth slightly open, and its cicada wings on the left and right. The jade leaf is made of Xinjiang Hetian mutton fat white jade, and the leaves are polished thin and concave arc-shaped, divided into eight petals.
It's beautiful.
As we all know, cicadas are relatively common artistic shapes in ancient China, and cicada modeling utensils are mainly funeral goods, and the ancients believed that people can be reborn like cicadas after death.
The golden cicada jade leaf is woven in the Ming Dynasty to conceive a peculiar method, the lifelike golden cicada, leisurely inhabited on a white and flawless jade leaf, golden and jade, full of fun.
This exhibit is a cicada with the shape of Bi Xiao and shining golden light standing on a jade leaf. It has its feet crossed sideways, its wings slightly open, its mouth slightly open, as if it is playing a sonata, two on the left and right of the cicada's wings, and the cicada feet are simplified into three pairs, one pair of forefeet are cocked, and one pair of hind feet is slightly raised. The image of the whole cicada body is realistic and lifelike.
The gold content of the golden cicada is 95%. The jade leaf is made of Xinjiang Hetian mutton fat white jade, which is crystal moist, gentle and delicate.
The leaves are finely polished and concave arc-shaped, divided into eight petals.
There is one main vein, four branch veins on both sides, the leaf veins on the front of the leaf are cut into arc grooves, and the leaf veins on the back are correspondingly convex ridges, making the leaves very realistic, and the edges of the whole leaf are rounded and smooth. The golden cicada adopts the processes of pressure molding, thin leaf extension, engraving, welding and so on.
The jade leaf draws on the traditional yang line, yin line, flat convex and other jade cutting techniques, and the polishing is delicate, the thin tire is rounded, and the carving is exquisite.
At first glance, it is not an ordinary thing.
This golden cicada jade leaf can be taken out, this thing is an antique at a glance, even if it is imitated, it is not illegal.
Zhou Rui looked at the golden cicada jade leaf in his hand, and the more he looked at it, the more he liked it.
The last valuable thing is the most valuable thing among these ordinary red envelopes.
It's an emerald watermelon.
Yunnan jadeite Duo Zhou Rui knows, especially Tengchong, gambling stones are very popular.
A lot of rough stones from Myanmar are shipped here.
But after getting the jade watermelon from here, Zhou Rui was still very surprised.
This thing plays a pivotal role in Chinese history.
That's pretty famous.
The jade watermelon is a cultural relic of the Qing Dynasty, a pair, belonging to a peerless national treasure, made of tourmaline imported from the United States in large quantities, the melon skin is green, green and shining, and with dark green stripes: the black melon seeds and red melon pulp in the melon can also be seen.
Deeply loved by the Empress Dowager Cixi, she was buried with the jade watermelon after her death, and was later stolen by the warlord Sun Dianying, and her current whereabouts are unknown.
It's a pity that Zhou Rui only got one of them in the red envelope.
Another emerald watermelon, didn't get.
But even so, Zhou Rui was very satisfied.
He doesn't ask for too much.
After all, this is the beloved object of the Empress Dowager Cixi, and it is also a national treasure that has been lost in China.
One of them is already the favor of God.
I want to get both jade watermelons, I have to say, a little greedy!
Legend has it that the Empress Dowager Cixi had a jewel room in the Summer Palace, surrounded by sandalwood cabinets and large and small glass brocade boxes, all of which were delicately decorated with embroidered satin.
It was filled with all kinds of jewels, gold, silver, precious stones, pearls, agate, jade, coral, and so on.
Among the thousands of treasures, her favorite was a pair of emerald watermelons. Cixi loved these two jade watermelons so much that she put them in the most solid cabinet and added a mechanical lock.
If you want to open this lock, you must insert the key into the lock core and turn left five times.
Cixi sent several cronies and eunuchs, in shifts of three, day and night, to guard the jewel room closely. Whenever she was happy, she asked the eunuch to take out the jade watermelon, enjoy it, and often boasted to others, saying that this is a unique and rare treasure in the world!