Chapter 008 [Kangxi Dictionary]
This night, Qin Fan had many dreams, both in the past life and in the present life. Pen | fun | pavilion www. biquge。 info
Each character passing by his life played a different role, flashing like a marquee, and finally the picture was frozen in the dark tomb, and the moment Qin Fan pushed the old professor out, the tomb collapsed.
Qin Fan woke up in horror and found himself sleeping on a familiar bed in his hometown, and the time on the electronic clock was fixed at 6:55 a.m. on January 12, 2003.
"I'm not dreaming, I'm really going back thirteen years ago!"
Qin Fan clenched his fists vigorously, and suddenly felt completely sleepy, so he simply got up from the bed, opened the window and took a deep breath of fresh air.
The milky white light sprinkled on Qin Fan's side face, looking up at the vast blue sky outside the window, Qin Fan couldn't help but shout, "I'm back!" ”
His voice went far and wide, startling a flurry of birds.
"What are you yelling about on a cold day, don't you hurry up and close the window."
Qin Xuedong, who was about to go out to buy groceries, opened the door, poked his head out and came in, and said angrily.
Qin Fan smiled, obediently closed the window, and lay down on the bed to get some sleep.
At this moment, Qin Fan's gaze accidentally glanced at it, and an extremely faint treasure light flashed into his pupils.
Qin Fan's heart trembled, as if he had inadvertently grabbed something, he took out a black square brocade box from the bedside table, opened the brocade box, and there was a string of turquoise jade beads lying quietly inside.
This jade bead chain is a souvenir that Qin Xuedong and Jiang Yulin brought back when they traveled to YN Kuncheng a few years ago.
At this time, in Qin Fan's eyes, the jade bead chain was actually covered with a layer of treasure like cow's hair. However, the treasure light on the jade bead chain is much weaker than the Hetian jade Buddha carving and rhino horn wrench on Meng Xiaowei's body.
Qin Fan has no research on jadeite, only knows that jadeite species can be divided into old pit species and new pit species, the so-called old pit species refers to green pure, uniform division, delicate texture, good transparency of jadeite. The new pit species refers to jadeite with poor transparency and rough texture.
In addition, the market is also flooded with shoddy B and C jadeite.
A jadeite is a natural jadeite that is carved, polished and polished by physical methods, and the internal structure is not damaged by any chemical or radiation methods.
B jadeite is pickled, washed out of impurities and particles in the jadeite, and then injected with glue.
C goods are dyed jadeite.
The jadeite bead chain that Qin Fan's parents bought back from YN Kuncheng is a natural jadeite, but the water is not very good, and it should be a new pit plant.
"This jade bead chain must be a modern handicraft, and it can even appear with treasure light, could it be that my eyes can not only distinguish antiques, but also all treasures?"
"And there is an obvious difference between the strength and weakness of the treasure light on those antiques, is it that the greater the value of the treasure, the stronger the treasure light?"
Qin Fan's eyes were a little sour when he was holding the jade bead chain, and the more he thought about it, the more excited he became, and he suddenly lost all of his sleep.
In order to test the conjecture in his heart, Qin Fan rummaged through all the things in the house, and to his disappointment, apart from this jade bead chain, he had not found anything that could emit treasure light.
Just when Qin Fan was a little disappointed, his gaze inadvertently swept over Qin Xuedong's bed, and he was suddenly stunned.
He actually saw a purple glow shining under Qin Xuedong's bed.
"There's a baby!"
Qin Fan didn't hesitate to open Qin Xuedong's bed and pulled out a mouthful of a black box the size of a watermelon from under the bed.
This black box looked like it had been around for some years, and to Qin Fan's surprise, the material of the box turned out to be ebony!
Ebony is a national treasure of Indonesia and grows on the stone island of Sulawesi near the equator in Indonesia. Due to the year-round drought, the ecological environment of the trees is extremely harsh, and the growth is slow, so that ebony can take at least 500 or even thousands of years to reach maturity.
Because ebony is a rare wood of national treasure level, with high hardness, heavy specific gravity, and sinking in water, it is known as a rare wood by the world.
Ebony is very resistant to corrosion and insects, making it an excellent wood for furniture, and the price is quite high.
Not to mention the contents of the box, just this small box made of ebony wood had already surprised Qin Fan.
Qin Fan put away his apprehension, took a deep breath, carefully opened the box, and took out a few ancient books wrapped in oiled paper from inside.
These ancient books look to be some years old, and the paper has been yellowed, but because they are stored in ebony boxes, they are relatively well preserved, and the handwriting is relatively clear.
Qin Fan's eyes fell on the cover, and the four big characters [Kangxi Dictionary] were written on it.
"Kangxi Dictionary!"
Qin Fan had heard that his grandfather and grandfather were both teachers, and this set of [Kangxi Dictionary] should have been handed down by the ancestors of the Qin family, which had extraordinary significance to the Qin family.
No wonder Qin Xuedong is reluctant to sell these ancient books even if he is poor, because they contain the inheritance of the Qin family from generation to generation.
Seeing this set of [Kangxi Dictionary], Qin Fan was in awe of the ancestors of the Qin family.
As far as he knows, the Kangxi Dictionary was compiled by Zhang Yushu and Chen Tingjing in the 49th year of Kangxi in the Qing Dynasty, and the whole book is divided into 12 episodes, each of which is divided into three volumes, including 47,000 and 53 Chinese characters, which is one of the main references for the study of Chinese characters.
There are many editions of [Kangxi Dictionary], and the collection value of different editions is also very different.
For example, the Kangxi Inner Mansion carved version, which is the so-called Wuyingdian version. This kind of version is mostly used for rewards in the inner court of the palace, and it is rarely seen by the people.
There is also a reprint of the inner government in the seventh year of Daoguang, as well as the lithograph of the seal of the same bureau in the late Qing Dynasty and the version of the periodical printing and distribution of the Republic of China.
Among them, the [Kangxi Dictionary] published in the Republic of China has a large number of surviving in the world, and basically has no collection value.
"I don't know what version of this Kangxi dictionary is collected by the Qin family."
At this time, Qin Fan's eyes stared at the rich purple-red treasure light on the ancient book in his hand, and his face showed a look of shock.
These [Kangxi Dictionaries] collected by the Qin family are not the version of the Tongshu Bureau or the Republic of China period, which has the largest circulation, but the most rare version of Wuyingdian!
During the Kangxi period, the first Wuyingdian bookstore was opened. After 1701, Wuyingdian published a large number of engraved books, using copper plate engraving movable type and special Kaihua paper printing, the font is beautiful and neat, the drawing is perfect and exquisite, and the book quality is very high.
Wuyingdian carved book to Kangxi, Yongzheng, Qianlong period is the most prosperous, because of the excellent paper and ink, the collation and fine examination, the world is called "the palace book".
Among all the editions of the [Kangxi Dictionary], the Wuyingdian version has the highest collection value and is also the rarest.
"Sure enough, as I thought, the greater the value of the antique, the stronger the treasure."
Qin Fan forcibly suppressed his ecstasy, and now finally confirmed the guess in his heart.
"It's a pity that these Kangxi dictionaries are not complete, there are only so many left, if it is a complete set of well-preserved Wuyingdian Kangxi dictionaries, the price is probably more than 2 million yuan."
Qin Fan sighed with some regret, 2 million yuan was an astronomical amount for the Qin family.
Even so, these well-preserved [Kangxi Dictionary] in the Qin family's collection are also expensive, and if they are taken out for auction, a volume can be bought for a high price of 200,000 yuan.
However, with Qin Xuedong's character, even if he knew that these [Kangxi Dictionary] were worth so much money, he would not take them out for auction.
For the Qin family, the cultural inheritance of these ancient books is far more important than the economic value.
Of course, Qin Fan would not take out these [Kangxi Dictionary] for auction without authorization, not to mention that Qin Xuedong would definitely break his legs after he knew about it, with Qin Fan's innate advantages as a reborn person and those pair of treasure pupils, it would not be difficult to make money, so he would not fight the idea of these ancient books.
And although Shen Hongmei promised the idea of not fighting these ancient books again, if she knew that the few ancient books collected by Qin Xuedong were so valuable, she would definitely regret it as soon as possible and force Qin Xuedong to buy the ancient books for a cent.
Qin Fan had seen many things in the antique world that his relatives had turned against each other for a valuable antique, and he didn't want such a thing to happen to Qin Xuedong.
Thinking of this, Qin Fan carefully wrapped these [Kangxi Dictionary] back, and then put them in an ebony box and put them back under the bed, as if nothing had happened.