The hundredth charter imitation

However, after listening to his words, Liu Dong did not have the slightest change of expression on his face, "Get out of the way, and then look into the rooster eyes!"

Hearing this, although he was very disdainful of this arrogant young man in his heart, he couldn't help but follow Liu Dong's instructions and looked at the chicken bowl cup in his hand again.

Soon, the smile on Fujita Ichiro's face froze, his mouth opened wider and wider, and the expression on his face was like seeing a ghost.

"This, this can't be! This is definitely not true, it can't be!" Fujita Ichiro, who had a panicked expression on his face, didn't hold the magnifying glass in his hand steadily, and fell on the table with a 'snap'.

Looking at his appearance, the people around him also guessed the result to some extent, but they wanted to know how Liu Dong identified the pair of porcelain as fakes. Especially Li Lao, you must know that he looked at the pair of cups for more than an hour just now, and he didn't identify any results. Now I am naturally more curious.

However, it is obvious that Li Yuncong is more active than them, and before others can react, he has already taken the lead, stepped forward and pushed away Fujita Ichiro, who was still in shock, and grabbed a magnifying glass to look at it.

Although the Chinese, whom he had always looked down on, were so savagely pushed aside, Fujita Ichiro, who was in extreme surprise, forgot to take revenge for a while.

"Hey, why is there nothing?" Li Yuncong took a magnifying glass and looked left and right at the chicken bowl cup in his hand, but didn't find anything wrong.

"You have to look at the sun!" Hearing this, Liu Dong couldn't help rolling his eyes, and said angrily, did this guy listen to him just now!

Hearing his words, Li Yuncong was not embarrassed, and at this time he also remembered how Liu Dong had asked Fujita Ichiro to observe just now. Hurriedly let go, put the cup in the warm sunlight, took a magnifying glass to look, and sure enough, at the position of the rooster's corn, a dull but clear traditional character 'Cheng' appeared in his eyes.

"There is really a secret note, Cheng! Old Li, do you know the master of porcelain counterfeiting surnamed Cheng?" asked Li Yuncong.

"Cheng!" After listening to his words, after Li Lao muttered for a while, as if he remembered something, his expression suddenly changed greatly, his eyes widened, and he asked urgently: "Yun Cong, is this Cheng character simplified or traditional!"

"It's traditional Chinese characters, what's wrong?" Li Yuncong, who saw this expression on Old Li's face for the first time, hurriedly replied.

After listening to his words, the expression on the old man's face became a little more complicated, and he muttered with a trace of memory in his eyes: "That's right, that's right, I didn't expect to see the famous Cheng Fang again after so many years!"

Looking at the complicated expression on the old man's face, Li Yuncong cautiously asked, "Old Li, what is Cheng Fang, is it the same as the famous Zhu Fang before?"

After listening to his words, Li Lao looked at the probing expressions on the faces of several people, and couldn't help but smile and shook his head, "Of course it's different, Zhu Fang is a fake, in order to seek personal gain." Cheng Fang is not, more precisely, it is a fake for the sake of fake!"

"Fake for the sake of fake!" Li Yuncong was a little confused.

"Not bad. Cheng Fang was not referring to a person at that time, but an organization during the Republic of China, an anti-Japanese organization secretly established by the antique collecting and art circles. ”

"Anti-Japanese organization?" the expression on Li Yuncong's face became even more confused. At this time, the look on Liu Dong's face became more and more serious. He is also deeply curious about this kind of story that can not only enrich his appreciation knowledge, but also be regarded as a strange story.

Of course, Zhao Defa was the same, and even Fujita Ichiro and Wang Zhao, who looked ugly next to them, were attracted by the words from Li Lao's mouth. In particular, Fujita Ichiro looked more serious than others, because what Li Lao said was related to his motherland, and it was also the Japanese Empire during World War II that he most longed for and admired.

"Yes, it's an anti-Japanese organization. The reason is that after the Japanese invading army occupied our land, they unscrupulously collected the exquisite art treasures that have been handed down from China for thousands of years. Naturally, this was met with resistance from the entire Chinese collector and art circles at the time, but most of them were powerless and powerless, and could not compete with the powerful, tyrannical and cruel Japanese army of the time. So, at that time, everyone got together and thought of a solution, which was to fake!"

"Fake!?" Liu Dong subconsciously shouted.

"Not bad!" After a pause, after glancing at a few people who were listening carefully to his explanation, Li Lao continued: "At the beginning, the person who came up with this plan was a potter surnamed Cheng from the imperial kiln factory who came out of the Qing Dynasty palace office at that time.

Hearing this, Liu Dong nodded, in ancient Chinese history, although craftsmen and craftsmen have exquisite skills in their hands, their social status is not very high, only a little better than the lower ninth rate, but their children can't study, and they can only be an official in the imperial examination, so they can only be a craftsman from generation to generation.

Therefore, these people are generally not wealthy families. Therefore, guarding the kiln factory, it is inevitable to steal from the guard. Steal some porcelain and sell it to subsidize the family. As a craftsman of the Royal Imperial Kiln Factory, the porcelain stolen was naturally a royal tribute. Of course, they don't take the perfect tribute porcelain, just the porcelain that is slightly flawed and ordered to be destroyed is enough for them to be of infinite use.

Of course, these tribute porcelain targets were too big to be sold, so many of them were left in the hands of some potters. Even as a family heirloom zài.

"I don't know why, the news that this Cheng family has a collection of rare porcelain has reached the ears of the Japanese. Soon the Japanese army at that time came to the door and threatened the lives of this family surnamed Cheng to forcibly ask for these porcelain. After a pause, "However, the porcelain left by these ancestors is worth a thousand gold, and the craftsman surnamed Cheng is naturally unwilling to give the heirlooms left by these ancestors at the risk of their lives to the Japanese in vain." But the lives of his family members can't be saved, and after thinking about it, this person came up with a way to cheat!"

Relying on the kiln and porcelain-making techniques handed down by his ancestors, the imitations fired by this person were almost the same as the real ones, and after asking someone to make them old, he handed over the fake porcelain to the Japanese. In this way, not only did he save the treasure handed down by his ancestors, but also saved the lives of his family members and saved him from a catastrophe. ”

In addition, this person is also a little narrow-minded, and when a friend who is familiar with him also encounters this situation, he does not hide his secrets, and secretly spreads this method. Later, word of mouth spread, and the number of people who received this favor became more and more, and everyone thought it was a good idea. Therefore, at the beginning, the method that was only circulated in the mouths of these skilled royal porcelain craftsmen slowly spread to the calligraphy, painting and collecting circles at that time. Even, at that time, the famous Chinese painting masters Qi Baishi, Xu Beihong, Lin Fengmian, etc., all followed this way and preserved a large number of artistic treasures of the Chinese nation. ”

"Then, Elder Li, why do they all use the word 'Cheng' to secretly remember!" Liu Dong asked.

"Hehe, in fact, there is nothing strange, people who have the ability naturally think very highly of themselves. In addition, when these fakes were made, they were able to hide from the Japanese and save the lives of their families. Therefore, although it is a fake, everyone is extra careful, and the things made are naturally the best of the best. Of course, in order to avoid the trouble of the Japanese later identifying it and then looking for their own family, this secret mark naturally cannot be left too obvious. At the same time, it is also to thank the first craftsman surnamed Cheng who used this method, and everyone invariably left a secret mark of the word 'Cheng' in their works!"

"Later, these works with the secret mark of the word 'Cheng' were also called Cheng Fang, but Cheng Fang only appeared during the anti-Japanese period, and later after the liberation of the country, it basically disappeared! Therefore, now more than 90 percent of Cheng Fang's things are in Japan, and only a few are still in China!"

After a pause, Li Lao looked at the two chicken cups that were still on the table, and sighed: "I didn't expect to be able to meet 'Cheng' imitation here today! Now there are few people in China who can identify Cheng imitation, Xiaodong has not seen you for a few days, and your identification level has improved very quickly!"

After listening to the old man's words, Liu Dong, who knew his own family affairs, touched his nose without a look of shame, "Old Li, I'm just relying on my youth and slightly better eyesight, to say that the porcelain appraisal is far worse than your old me." You better don't lift me up, otherwise people will ask me to identify things in the future, and I won't be able to say three, five or six, won't that be a shame for your old man?"