Chapter 140: Terracotta Warriors
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The next day was Saturday, and Haragami was woken up by the phone call at about six o'clock in the morning.
After answering the phone, Yuan Shangcao got up to wash, ate a few things, cleaned up, and went to the Eagle Mountain Antique Market.
This time, his image is a gentle middle-aged man, who feels rich but very generous.
There are a lot of people in the market, but Yuan Shangcao, who has just seen Sun Zhongyuan's photo, still found Sun Zhongyuan quickly.
At this time, Sun Zhongyuan was looking at something in front of a stall, and the grass on the original grass was under an old tree behind the side of the stall, lit a cigarette, and looked at Sun Zhongyuan's face.
A very special feeling rose up.
Yuan Shangcao suddenly felt a slight pain in his heart, and he looked at Sun Zhongyuan silently.
Sun Zhongyuan was unconscious. In fact, he didn't want to go to the antique market today, but he had something in his heart at night, he didn't sleep well, and he got up several times in a daze, and the last time it was already more than five o'clock, so he simply got up, thinking that there was nothing to do, so he came to the antique market.
I didn't see anything good in this stall, so Sun Zhongyuan left and continued to walk forward.
The grass on the plains followed not far away, and occasionally looked at the things on the stalls.
When he arrived at a corner, it was relatively empty, and Sun Zhongyuan found something in a stall in the corner.
This is a terracotta army.
When it comes to the Terracotta Army, most people probably think of Qin Shi Huang. In fact, before the popularization of porcelain, during the period when pottery was flourishing, terracotta figurines were mass-produced, spanning a short period of time.
The original intention of the figurines was to accompany the burial of dolls. Terracotta figurines are buried in the ground and do not decay or rust, so they are the most common.
Sounds a bit unlucky. However, many people in Huaxia are engaged in collecting, and they only like old things, no matter where they come from, and there is no professional treatment after receiving them. For example, Tang Sancai, the funeral goods of the Eight Classics, and the dark vessels, but after someone collected them, they were placed at home in such a grand manner.
In ancient China, the importance of funeral even exceeded some daily rituals. The appearance of figurines is progressive in itself, because before the appearance of figurines, they were all martyred, which was very cruel.
With figurines, at least many living people don't have to die.
However, since it is a humanoid figurine, the symbolism is still in it, so it is still cruel to use terracotta figurines for burial. For example, one of the representative figures, Confucius, said: The initiator, there is no aftermath?
The initiator, this idiom is now used by some people incorrectly, and it is used as a pioneer, which is actually a derogatory term, that is, the person who first came up with bad ideas to do bad things. Confucius "wished" that the initiator would be extinct, think about how angry he should be!
Qin Shi Huang didn't care about this, his funeral procession was very large, and it was difficult not to be shocked when looking at the terracotta warriors and horses on display.
However, the terracotta warriors and horses of the Qin Dynasty were about the same size as real people, and in the later Han Dynasty, they were much smaller. According to the unearthed statistics, the largest terracotta figurines of the Eastern Han Dynasty are half of the real people.
The terracotta warriors and horses on this stall are like those of the Eastern Han Dynasty, with a height of at most half a meter, and it is a warrior riding on a horse, which looks majestic and awesome.
The market value of pottery is much lower than that of porcelain, and it has risen a little over the years. When the antique market was booming, there were almost no fakes, especially small terracotta warriors, rap figurines, and animal figurines, which were not very expensive.
However, there are problems with the origin of these things, because there are very few handed down, basically dug out of the ground, in addition to the tomb robbers, there are also some farmers digging the ground, construction site construction finds, the cultural relics department sometimes has to slow down after all.
Sun Zhongyuan naturally knew that he didn't like to buy this kind of thing. But this terracotta did attract him. And then these years are not as good as before, what type of antiques are mainly high-imitation fakes.
The beginning of the high imitation of terracotta figurines was roughly in the nineties, at first it was Tang Sancai, and then it became popular on a large scale, except for the terracotta warriors and horses of Qin Shi Huang who imitated less - we all know that it is really impossible to flow to the market; from the Western Han Dynasty to the Tang Dynasty, almost all can be seen.
In the mid-nineties, a group of terracotta figurines from the Northern Wei Dynasty suddenly appeared in the Panjiayuan of Yanjing, which caused a sensation at that time. Everyone in the circle knows that the cultural and museum department has dispatched many experts, and after identification, it has been confirmed to be genuine.
In that case, let's make a salvage purchase, and in less than a few months, hundreds of pieces were recovered.
At this time, a strange thing happened, the terracotta figurines were collected more and more, the price was getting lower and lower, the experts collected it, and many players also collected it, but it seemed that they couldn't finish harvesting, like cutting leeks, stubble after stubble appeared.
In the end, a thorough investigation was made, well, it was done by a villager in a certain village in the Central Plains! It is said that this village has made a fortune because of these terracotta figurines.
After this incident, the terracotta figurines in the antique market are not very popular, and the so-called unpopular is not that they don't like it, but they don't dare to buy it.
On this stall, there is only such a terracotta figurine, not the kind of stall where terracotta figurines are concentrated.
"Boss, how do you sell that terracotta figurine?" Sun Zhongyuan still pointed to this terracotta warrior and opened his mouth.
The stall owner is a middle-aged man who is dusty, his hair is not long, but he is not gray, and the wrinkles on his face are very deep.
This way of answering made Sun Zhongyuan stunned for a moment. Supposedly, even so, they will say something like "this thing is good" or "it's not cheap" to drag it out, and then secretly figure out a price for themselves.
Sun Zhongyuan smiled, "Then you hurry up and think, how much is appropriate!"
The stall owner looked at the terracotta warriors again, and it seemed that he really didn't understand. Those who set up stalls in the antique market know a little bit, and they should know a little bit about all categories. However, the terracotta figurines are indeed a bit special, this is not Tang Sancai, and the characteristics are relatively distinct. The painting of this terracotta figurine is obviously not Tang Sancai's style, and the layman can also see it.
To be honest, without two brushes, this thing is not to mention the generation, and it is not easy to tell whether it is a high imitation. Pottery is not as easy to imitate as porcelain, because the raw materials are easy to obtain, and the craftsmanship is relatively simple.
"I haven't brushed this thing yet, so it should be beautiful when it comes out. The stall owner pondered as he spoke.
The terracotta figurines do still have clay hanging on them. However, through this sentence, Sun Zhongyuan concluded that he really didn't understand. Connoisseurs look at this, do you still need to brush it out?
Sun Zhongyuan didn't answer this sentence.