Wu Yong carefully lifted the cloth, revealing a Buddha statue inside.

When Fang Ming saw it, he immediately furrowed his brows.

The collection of Buddha statues is one of the collections, but generally speaking, there are not too many people who play this, and it can be said that it is a "niche" in the antique collection, mainly because first, although the Buddha statues can be seen everywhere in life, there are not many people who really have close contact; Second, in addition to the identification of Buddha statues involving carving functions and the like, there is also an important factor is religion, which is a very important point, that is to say, to identify Buddha statues, collect Buddha statues, then you must have a considerable understanding of religion, or it is very likely that there is no way to start.

Therefore, in fact, the collection and identification of Buddha statues is often extremely complicated, and it is not so easy to handle.

Now Wu Yong's headache is a Buddha statue, this thing is really not so easy to identify.

For the Buddha statue, Fang Ming has studied it for a period of time and has a certain understanding, but he can't identify the statue in front of him, and he doesn't have any bottom in his heart.

This is mainly because the current appraisal is not only to judge whether this Buddha statue is real, or how much it is worth, if it is just like this, then there is no problem at all with Pixiu in hand.

But in front of an expert like Wu Yong, this is not possible, you must tell the reason, this is not so easy.

"Fang Ming, are you sure?"

Ke Liu noticed the expression on Fang Ming's face and asked in a low voice with a little worry.

Shaking his head gently, Fang Ming also suppressed his voice and said, "This is really hard to say, the identification of Buddha statues is not that easy, especially in front of Wu Lao...... This job is even more difficult to take, hey, you know me, it's no problem to pick up leaks, this is a one, two, three, four, five, it's a little choking, I'm from a wild road! ”

Ke Liu nodded secretly, she understood what Fang Ming meant. In fact, this wild way is only pragmatism, and I don't count if there is any evidence to prove that an antique is real or fake, as long as I think it's real, I'll shoot!

Sometimes it doesn't even make any sense, it's just a feeling.

The difference between Fang Ming and his wild way is that his wild way is so precise that he has not appeared once.

However, even if this is the case, if Fang Ming is against Wu Yong, then the difference will appear immediately, this is not to say that Fang Ming lost to Wu Yong in identifying the authenticity, but to say

Dropping the bookbag, Fang Ming is not as good as Wu Yong, and Wu Yong is here to use his set.

It is for this reason that Fang Ming said that this Buddha statue is not easy to identify.

"What then?"

Ke Liu showed a worried look on his face, whether he can get Wu Yong's approval depends on this appraisal, if he messes up, it will not be easy to do. For people like Wu Yong, the most important thing is to have strength, only such people can really be appreciated, and it will definitely not work just by relying on Sun Rong.

"Hey, what else can I do? Anyway, maybe I really understand. ”

As soon as Fang Ming finished speaking, Wu Yong turned his head, glared at Fang Ming, and said, "Muttering or something!" Let's see if this Buddha statue is a good thing. ”

"Hey! This one...... I just told Ke Liu that this Buddha statue is not such an easy thing to identify! ”

Fang Ming stepped forward as he spoke, carefully looking at the Buddha statue in front of him.

Shakyamuni founded Buddhism in about the 6th century B.C., and later, his disciples and descendants used his statue for worship out of his worship, and slowly became an idolatrous religion, and in the whole process of the development of Buddhism, religion and art slowly combined to form a special art form, that is, Buddha art, which is mainly manifested in two major aspects, one is painting, and the other is sculpture.

In the early years of the Common Era, after Buddhism was introduced into China, there were Buddhist statues with Chinese characteristics, from the span of time, the statues of Buddhism from the Eastern Han Dynasty to the end of the Qing Dynasty were more than 2,000 years, and the Buddhist statues of each era had different characteristics, which also brought great difficulties to the identification.

The Buddha statues in the collection, generally do not include those large Buddhist cave statues, but only refer to the Buddha statues enshrined on the family shrines or small individual Buddha statues, such Buddha statues in the treasure image vitality, has a very strong artistic charm, so it has become one of the things that people collect, in essence, the Buddha statue is a set of religion, art and history in one of the special collections.

To identify a Buddha statue, in a big way, one is the material, and the other is the age, that is, the period.

In terms of materials, the materials available for Buddha statues include stone, bamboo, jade, ivory, wood, horn, gold, silver, copper, iron and even ceramics. Among them, wood and metal are the most used.

The reason for the abundance of wooden Buddha statues is some special wood, because of the extremely high hardness that can be used to carve Buddha statues, for example

Nanmu, pear, camphor wood, boxwood forest, etc. However, although this kind of wood is hard and precious, but after all, it is wood, if it is not well preserved, it will often be easily destroyed by fire and the like, so there are very few wooden Buddha statues that really survive now, mainly the works of the Ming and Qing dynasties, at most to the Song Dynasty, and then there is basically nothing.

As for the metals, gold and silver are rarely used, mainly because gold and silver are more valuable. Generally speaking, the golden statue actually refers to the bronze statue, that is, the copper is called gold. This kind of Buddha statue is easy to preserve, and it has a metallic luster, so there are many Buddha statues left in this material, and some are stone and the like.

If it is divided from the era or period, it can be divided into Wei, Jin, Southern and Northern Dynasties, Sui and Tang Dynasties, Song, Liao, Jin and Yuan, Ming and Qing Dynasties.

The Buddha statues in different periods have different characteristics, for example, the Buddha statues in the Eastern Han Dynasty are generally relatively simple, this is because they are at the beginning of development, the level of craftsmanship and art is not high, and by the time of the Wei, Jin, Southern and Northern Dynasties, with the spread and rapid development of Buddhism, the development of Buddha statues has also ushered in the first period. At this time, the Buddha statue is no longer the previous foreign style of "high nose, thin lips and curly hair", but has transformed into a delicate and delicate in line with the aesthetics of China, which is the so-called image of "showing bones and clear appearance". In terms of clothing, it also evolved from the original style of covering the right shoulder and the overcoat with the shoulder to the coat that scholars often wore at that time, and the formation of the Bodhisattva also slowly evolved into the image of a beautiful female body of the folk, and the costume was slowly Chinese.

During the Sui and Tang dynasties, it was the peak of the development of Buddhism, and the peak of the same Buddha statue art belonged to the second ** period, which was also brought about by the extremely high economic development at that time.

At this time, the Buddha statue is obviously more national and personified, that is, it is usually called secularization, that is, it is closer to people's daily life, specifically the face and body are plump, just like the people with good living conditions at that time show a sense of nobility, the carving is very delicate and accurate, but the art shows romantic and exaggerated characteristics, very artistic expression.

All this to the Song Dynasty, there was a change, the main reason is because of the rise of Cheng Zhu Lixue, the Buddha statue at this time has a huge impact, because at this time the status of Buddhism in the society continues to decline, and the secular culture began to prosper, in order to seek development, Buddhism is also further secularized, the Buddha statue is the same, compared to the Tang Dynasty, less of an artistic romantic characteristics, at this time there are more Luo Liu and Guanyin statues, from the characteristics of the more pursuit of secular people" Realistic and truth-seeking", gorgeous is a key feature, but this also causes the Buddha statues at this time to be more delicate from the whole, lacking charm, table

The present strength is lacking.

By the time of the Yuan Dynasty, due to Mongolia into the Central Plains of China, Tibetan Buddhism also came over, so the Buddha statues of Tantra also began to appear, the Ming Dynasty was generally similar to the characteristics of the Tang and Song dynasties, and the Qing Dynasty was mainly the bronze statue of the lama, which was more exquisite, but it was different from the Tang Dynasty in terms of artistic expression and appeal.

Looking at the Buddha statue in front of him, all these things related to the identification of the Buddha statue appeared in Fang Ming's mind like lightning.

In fact, identification is such a process, when you see a thing, you call up all the relevant "things" in your mind, and then compare them to see if there is a suitable one, and if so, then carefully identify them.

"Fang Ming, do you feel anything?"

Wu Yong looked at Fang Ming, in fact, his heart was also full of expectations at this time, he had been appraising the Buddha statue in front of him for a while, but he was not sure. In fact, at the beginning, he didn't pay much attention to this Buddha statue, because the characteristics of the times are obvious, but when he made the conclusion of the appraisal, he "re-examined" it again according to his habit, but he found something different, and then the more he looked at it, the more he felt that something was wrong, and the conclusion of his previous appraisal seemed to be very problematic.

After having such thoughts, Wu Yong carefully appraised it, but he didn't expect that the more he studied, the more he felt that something was wrong, and the more uncertain he was.

In order to identify this Buddha statue, Wu Yong also found several experts in this field to study together, but there was still no conclusion. This matter tossed him a lot, and even when he went to Sun Rong's house to find her old man for tea, he was worried about it, and he really didn't think about tea and dinner during this time.