Chapter 1104 Dragon-shaped Jade Heng

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After raising his hands high, a long yawn, and a lazy waist, the sleepy-eyed Chen Bao got up from the bed.

Glancing at the sun outside through the window, the hunger in his stomach was so hungry that he had to give up the idea of continuing to sleep!

He got dressed haphazardly and walked out of the room with his slippers on.

When he came to the living room, he glanced at Liu Dong, who was sitting on the sofa reading the newspaper, rubbed the messy hair on his head like a bird's nest, and asked in a dry and eager voice, "Brother Dong, do you have anything to eat?"

"Go wash first, go to the kitchen after washing, and let Zhang's mother heat it in the pot for you for lunch, and take it out to eat yourself!" Liu Dong didn't raise his head, and said directly.

"Got it!"

After this period of getting along, Chen Bao, who had long been accustomed to his attitude, yawned and returned to the room to clean up.

Maybe he was really hungry, and after bringing lunch to the dining table, in less than fifteen minutes, Chen Bao had already eaten and burped!

"Just now, I told you to eat slowly, and no one grabbed it from you!" Liu Dong, who frowned, stretched out his hand and tapped Chen Bao's body a few times! Chen Bao, who was still burping just now, immediately became calm.

Sensing the changes in his body, Chen Bao, whose eyes lit up, quickly touched his belly with both hands, and immediately said, "Brother Dong, how did you do it?"

"Don't care how I did it, I told you that you can't learn it!

looked at the warm, white, simple and generous jade that appeared in Liu Dong's hands. Chen Bao's attention was immediately drawn to the past.

Seeing that Chen Bao, who was happy to hunt his heart, took the jade in his hand. After looking at it twice. It was very precious and said to Liu Dong: "Brother Dong, this jade is so beautiful, did you really give it to me?"

"Well, here you go! This was originally bought for you last night!" Liu Dong nodded.

"Did you buy it for me last night?" Chen Bao, who was puzzled, glanced at the jade in his hand, and a sense of familiarity immediately appeared in his heart.

"Ah, this is the jade dragon that was picked out of the trash can?" Chen Bao, who suddenly understood, said loudly.

"Trash can?" Liu Dong, who was stunned for a moment, shook his head speechlessly.

"Brother Dong, is this really that jade dragon?" glanced at his hand. The jade dragon with concise lines, exquisite and generous, and a simple atmosphere, Chen Bao couldn't associate it with the piece of jade that Liu Dong picked out from the plastic bucket of the Imperial Pavilion that was stained with dust and even some blackened.

"Hmm!"

Seeing Liu Dong nodding, Chen Bao hesitated: "However, the gap between the two sides is too big?"

"Just in the morning, I have already cleaned and repaired this dragon-shaped jade for you!" Liu Dong said.

"I mean, why is there such a big difference between before and after! What is Jade Heng?"

Faced with a cousin who didn't even enter the door, he preferred a strange heart far beyond ordinary people. Liu Dong had to explain patiently: "Jade Heng is an ancient ornament, and it is the most important component in a group of ornaments. It plays the role of balancing the outfit. As early as the Western Zhou Dynasty, jade heng began to appear, when people were used as ornaments to wear on the chest, the shape is more irregular, more varied. During the Spring and Autumn Period and the Warring States Period, jade heng appeared in large numbers as a component of a group of peiyu, its form and ornamentation were extremely rich, hollowing, relief and other techniques were widely used, and there were many special-shaped heng at that time. After the Han Dynasty, as the popularity of jade in society began to decrease, the number of jade heng was also very small. In the Ming and Qing dynasties, in order to enjoy and collect, many small jade hengs appeared in the pseudo-ancient jade, and the jade heng worn by people in daily life has gradually evolved into new forms such as jade locks and jade plates. And jade heng is also one of the oldest jade forms in China!

"Understood!" After Chen Bao nodded incomprehensibly, after glancing at the exquisite dragon-shaped jade heng in his hand, he hurriedly continued to ask, "Hey, Brother Dong, Brother Dong, then what dynasty is my jade heng from?"

"Sengoku's!"

"Warring States, Warring States are also good, more than 2,000 years!" After a pause, "Then how much is it worth?"

"According to the current market price of about 100,000!" Liu Dong said after a brief estimate.

"100,000? This is too little, this is a jade pendant from the Warring States Period, an antique of more than 2,000 years!" Chen Bao said in disbelief.

And his performance is also one of the typical characteristics of many outsiders who go in and out of antique shops!

"What's wrong with 100,000 yuan? 100,000 yuan still looks at the jade quality of this piece of jade, and the craftsmanship is exquisite, otherwise there is not even 100,000!"

"This, how is this possible? Doesn't it mean that the longer something is circulated, the more valuable it is?" Chen Bao asked.

"The longer the antiques are circulated, the more valuable they are, and it is generally true! However, not all things are more valuable the longer they are circulated! Jade is one of them! Although there are a lot of jade artifacts before the Han Dynasty, most of the jade quality is rough and there are not many fine products, so many ancient jade before the Han Dynasty are not as good as the Ming and Qing dynasties, and even the new jade of modern times!"

"In addition, the same is true for ceramics, although the pottery of the Qin and Han dynasties has been circulated for a long time, it is not as exquisite as the porcelain of the Song, Yuan, Ming and Qing dynasties, so when it comes to the value of the two, it is natural that the latter is far ahead of the former!"

"Therefore, in the antique shop, judging whether something is worth a lot of money or not, and how much it is worth? The length of time it has been circulating is only one aspect, the most important thing is to look at its exquisiteness and scarcity! and the artistry contained in an antique, this kind of artistry contains aesthetic and humanistic ......!"

"Stop, Brother Dong, it turns out that there are so many things in the identification of an antique?" Looking at Liu Dong's slightly dissatisfied eyes, Chen Bao, who had a headache from the lesson, smiled.

"You can't teach a child!" Liu Dong shook his head in his heart. Just now, he finally found a little pleasure of being a teacher, but he was interrupted by Chen Bao just at the beginning. Let him down.

However, Liu Dong also understands that Chen Bao is not the material for learning antique appreciation at all.

Seeing Liu Dong's slightly disappointed look, Chen Bao, who knew that he had made a small mistake, immediately changed the topic!

"That's right, Brother Dong, I remember that we bought two things from that Imperial Treasure Pavilion, except for my jade dragon, oh no, it's Yuheng!" Chen Bao, who found the slip of the tongue, immediately corrected it, "...... So what's so good about the rest of the Maitreya Buddha statues?"

Originally, I was thinking of adding the word 'broken' in front of the Maitreya Buddha statue, but thinking of the changes in the dragon-shaped jade heng in his hand, he swallowed the words back when they came to his mouth.

Hearing Chen Bao mention the Maitreya Buddha statue, Liu Dong's face showed a hint of excitement.

"Wow, that's it!"

As he spoke, Liu Dong took out a jade cicada that was no more than three or four centimeters long, clumsy and generous in appearance, concise in ornamentation, but vivid, brightly colored, and condensed like blood!

"Hey, Brother Dong, what is this? It looks much more beautiful than my jade heng!" Chen Bao, who was happy to see the hunting heart, hurriedly came up.

"Is this a jade cicada?" Liu Dong said with fiery eyes.

"Jade cicada, hey, don't say it, it's quite similar!" As he spoke, Chen Bao reached out and touched the jade cicada in Liu Dong's hand.

But before he could touch the jade cicada with his hand, he was blocked by Liu Dong by holding his palm.

"Don't move yet, this is priceless!"

"Priceless treasure?" Chen Bao was stunned for a moment!

Although he admitted that this jade cicada did look very beautiful and carved well, how could it be a priceless treasure if it was so small, even three or four times smaller than his own jade heng?

Looking at the disapproving look on Chen Bao's face, Liu Dong said in a slightly excited tone: "Don't believe it, just this bloody jade cicada in my hand, if it is really sold at auction, I can easily auction more than 10 million Huaxia coins!"

"Ten million, whatever?"

Chen Bao, who was stunned, looked at the small jade cicada in Liu Dong's palm, how could he not equate it with the sentence 'casually auction a price of more than 10 million'!

"Brother Dong, tell me about it. Oh no, why is this jade cicada so valuable? I'm going to buy two of them!"

Looking at Chen Bao, who came up licking his face and was full of curiosity in his words, Liu Dong didn't care about the mistakes in his words.

"The jade cicada, named Kouhan, is a kind of burial vessel in ancient China, or burial jade!"

"Burial jade?" Chen Bao immediately became interested in this new term.

And Liu Dong, who was excited at the moment, did not bother to explain to him: "That's right, in ancient China, there was a custom of 'treating death as life'. Attaches great importance to funerals, and the most obvious manifestation is that the emperors of the past dynasties, often succeeding to the throne as emperor at the beginning, spend extravagance and overhaul the royal tombs. ”

"I know this, I have been to the Ming Tombs, the Qing Emperor's Tombs, and the Qin Emperor's Tomb!" Chen Bao nodded.

"Don't interrupt me!, or you can check the book yourself!" Liu Dong said angrily.

"Okay, okay, I won't interrupt, you continue!" Chen Bao hurriedly said. Check the book yourself, and you can understand it clearly after listening to the explanation.

The ancients believed that burial with jade could keep the body from decay and make resurrection possible, so in the Han Dynasty, burial jade was extremely common, and had gradually evolved into a complete form of burial jade including jade clothes, jade grips, jade nine orifices, and jade Han. Ritual utensils are the utensils used in ancient ritual activities, and jade ritual utensils are mainly used for sacrificial activities, but they do not refer to all jade utensils used in rituals, but specifically refer to the six kinds of jade utensils of Bi, Cong, Gui, Zhang, Huang and Amber, which are called "six instruments". Speaking of this, Liu Dong suddenly reacted that he was a little off-topic, so he hurriedly pulled the topic back again.

"The jade cicada is one of the burial systems of the 'Jade Nine Trick Plug'!"

As soon as he saw the look on Chen Bao's face, Liu Dong knew what he wanted to ask.

"The jade nine orific plug refers to the part of the jujube core-shaped jade eye that covers the eyes of the deceased, with a jade cicada in the mouth, and an octagonal prism jade plug in the nostrils, ears, anus, and vagina!" Liu Dong said.

"Oh, so that's the case?" Chen Bao said suddenly. (To be continued.) )