Chapter 1191 Inji Cave

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After a lunch meal of more than two hours, the two recognized that they were each other's friends and exchanged phone numbers.

"Where are you going next?" asked Liu Dong after settling the bill.

"I'm fine today, I can go anywhere, what about you?"

"I, I'm going to go to the antique street in Seoul!" No matter where he goes, as long as Liu Dong has free time, the local antique street will always be his first choice for visiting.

"Antique Street?ah, I remember, in Insadong! The antique street you mentioned should be in Insadong, when I passed by there before, I saw a lot of shops with porcelain!"

"That should be right!By the way, how should I get to this Rensi Cave?" asked Liu Dong.

"I'll take you there, I'll be fine in the afternoon anyway!"

"Is it convenient?"

"Of course!"

Everyone has said so, as a man, Liu Dong naturally will not refuse, and there is such a beautiful woman by his side to accompany him shopping, although he has no ideas, but it is pleasing to the eye when he sees it.

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In the Joseon Dynasty, Insadong was a place where the government and the private houses of the two classes were concentrated. In the later period of the Japanese occupation of Korea, the two classes of Insadong took out their belongings and sold them for money, so some antique shops came into being.

Later, Insadong Antique Street was equipped with antique galleries and associated shops, and Insadong gradually became a cultural street in Seoul, South Korea, where cultural goods were bought and sold.

Although the antique street in Insadong is not very long, it is home to 41% of Korean antique shops. In addition, compared to other ancient art streets, it mainly sells high-value items.

The ancient art items traded in Insadong include ancient paintings, ceramics, woodware, metal products, antique furniture, and ancient household items, especially ceramics, ranging from earthenware from the Unified Silla era to white porcelain from the Joseon Dynasty.

On the central street where Son Ye-jin walked with Yoo Dong. Liu Dong can see a dazzling array of goods from these well-preserved, antique-style, and distinctive shops.

Most of them are Korean modern art, hanbok, ceramics, various crafts, and other tourist souvenirs, among which the most are related to modern art.

However, Liu Dong has little interest in these modern art works, not because he looks down on Korean culture, but because there are too few fine works.

You're in Korea and want to pick up Korean artifacts. It's definitely more difficult.

But it's relatively easy to find a leak in the Chinese artifacts here.

In particular, Liu Dong found that there were cultural relics from China in many shops here, especially after seeing a lot of good Chinese porcelain in the stalls and windows, Liu Dong's mind about shopping suddenly rose.

But what he didn't expect was that he had just entered the first store and had a harvest.

Taking out the Korean won that he had specially exchanged, Yoo Dong spent about 20,000 won to pick out one of the many jade items that the store placed on the stall outside the door.

Because things don't stand out. In addition, the volume is not too large, so the price is not expensive.

But Liu Dong understands that this inconspicuous-looking jade Buddha is indeed a piece of high-grade Hetian jade!

Although the carving period is only a little over 100 years, jade is different from porcelain and calligraphy and painting, and it is not worth about a lot of money over time.

Compared with the inheritance time, the value of jade is more reflected in the quality of jade.

Jade with good quality, even if it is new jade, is worth more than old jade. The second is the knife work, the better the carving work. The higher the value added to the jade.

Finally, there is the condition and inheritance time.

I took the Jade Buddha in my hand and wiped it, and secretly repaired it with the relics Yuanguang. Liu Dong bought a red string on the side of the road, tied the jade Buddha together, and made a pendant.

"For you!"

"Give it to me?"

Looking at Son Ye-jin, who looked stunned, Liu Dong smiled and said, "What's the matter, do you think my thing is worthless?"

"Of course not. Is it just that a girl wears a pendant like this?"

"Men wear Guanyin, women wear Buddha, keep safe! Chinese girls wear this!"

"Really?"

Sun Yezhen curiously reached out and took the finger-sized Buddha statue in Liu Dong's hand, put it in his hand and looked at it a few times, and said in surprise: "It looks so beautiful!"

"Isn't it beautiful? This is a high-grade Hetian jade, such a small piece, hundreds of thousands of Huaxia coins!" Liu Dong said in his heart.

But. By now, tens of thousands, hundreds of thousands of antiques have become too ordinary in Liu Dong's eyes. Even if he picks it up, he doesn't have the slightest interest in collecting it, so it's better to give it to a friend.

"Take it and take a look!" Liu Dong said.

After nodding, Son Ye-jin did not refuse.

Soon he put the Jade Buddha on his chest.

"How is it, is it good-looking?" After turning around happily twice, Son Ye-jin asked Liu Dong expectantly.

"Of course it's pretty!Besides, you become more beautiful with her!" Liu Dong praised without hesitation.

This sentence was both sincere and subconsciously blurted out. The reason why it is subconscious is also because I talked too much with Wang Qiang, Lin Ling, and Jiang Tingting when I went shopping, and I had already honed it.

For a creature like a woman, whose emotions are greater than reason, no matter what time it is, reasoning will not work, and praise and praise are the best way to solve the problem.

No, as soon as Liu Dong's words fell, he obviously felt Son Ye-jin's emotions, which were a little higher than just now. Pretty blushing and fluttering, especially seductive.

Son Yezhen, who saw Liu Dong buy this jade Buddha with his own eyes just now, thought that the price was not too expensive, so he didn't be polite to Liu Dong, and accepted the gift directly.

"Thank you!"

"You're welcome, just when you pay back the money you gave me to buy clothes! Let's go, let's go shopping, there are a lot of good things here!"

Regarding Liu Dong's proposal, Son Ye-jin, who was happy in his heart, naturally had no reason to refuse.

Don't say it, after shopping around this circle, Liu Dong has really gained a lot of good things. In addition to more than half of the Korean cultural relics, at least 30% of the remaining cultural relics come from China.

This ratio is not low among the hundreds of antique shops and galleries in Insadong. What's more, although most of these Chinese cultural relics are fakes, the probability of authenticity is much higher than that of the domestic antique market.

This is also understandable, after all, this is South Korea, and antique appraisers naturally specialize in the identification of Korean cultural relics. Therefore, with relatively little competition, it is relatively easy to pick up leaks in Chinese cultural relics.

Still, as easy as it is, the really good stuff is in the minority. No, Liu Dong didn't pick up a few first-class cultural relics, but he bought a lot of good objects in the second- and third-level cultural relics.

Because porcelain is fragile, calligraphy and painting are easy to break, and cultural relics are too precious, the things that Liu Dong bought were all put in the trunk of Son Ye-jin's car in advance!

To Liu Dong's surprise, Son Ye-jin, a girl, not only did not have any aversion to these seemingly dilapidated cultural relics, but followed Liu Dong all the way to the street with great interest. What an outlier number!

"Liu Dong, there are so many people there, let's go over and have a look, shall we?"

"That's the gallery, what were we doing in the past?"

Following the direction of Son Ye-jin's finger, Liu Dong saw a modern building with a large number of people, a large number of luxury cars, the exterior decorated with glass curtain walls, and the use of stained glass to spell out artistic patterns.

The sign of 'Heunghan Gallery' above the building glistens in the summer afternoon sun.

"Hello gallery, don't you know how to draw, let's go over and have a look!Oh, let's go, it's still early anyway!" Seeing that Liu Dong didn't move, Son Ye-jin stepped forward and took his arm and walked towards the door of the gallery.

Maybe today is the time for the exhibition, and the security guard at the door did not prevent the two from entering.

However, after entering, Liu Dong looked around and completely lost interest.

It is true that Korean calligraphy and art are exhibited here, and its roots are the same as Chinese calligraphy and Chinese painting. The content of the paintings is roughly the same as that of Chinese paintings, and they are also divided into landscapes, figures, and flowers and birds.

But what the hell is this Korean calligraphy?

A bunch of 'OOXX-' calligraphy, Liu Dong looks like those fake Taoist priests in China who have been deceived and deceived to draw 'ghost drawing talismans' to cheat money! No, not even ghost talismans. He really didn't see any beauty in this so-called calligraphy that only changes in thickness, let alone any need for development.

However, since people feel good about themselves, Liu Dong is not easy to say anything as a foreigner.

Fortunately, Koreans have a long tradition of writing in Chinese, and there is no shortage of works of Chinese calligraphy here, although the level is limited, but it is barely a look.

Originally, after coming in and taking a walk, Liu Dong, who was deeply disappointed, planned to leave quickly, but seeing Son Yezhen's full of interest, Liu Dong couldn't disturb people's interest. Anyway, people have been shopping with him for a long time before, and this will be his turn to accompany others, and he can't leave right away, so Liu Dong, who has put his mind down, reluctantly follows her to tour this gallery.

"Liu Dong, Liu Dong, there is pen and ink there, can you also go and paint?" Son Ye-jin suddenly said excitedly.

The space in the venue is very large, and in the corner of the first floor, there is a three-chapter solid wood long table, on which is placed pen, ink, paper and inkstone.

However, only one of the three tables of pen, ink, paper and inkstone has a person using it, and the others are all vacant. Obviously, this is a place reserved for insiders to try their skills.

"What kind of painting do you want?" landscapes, figures, flowers and birds, or something else?" After being pulled here by Son Ye-jin, Liu Dong did not refuse.

"I don't understand this, anyway, you just have to look at the painting!" said Son Ye-jin after pouting.

"Okay!"

After nodding, Liu Dong glanced at Son Ye-jin a few times and waved his hand, "You take a few steps back!"

"How many steps back? Why?"

"Of course it's a painting, didn't you ask me to paint for you?

"Alright!" (To be continued.) )