The square looks up at the national flag, and the Panjiayuan market looks down to look for the national treasure, which are the two things that many "international friends" have to do when they come to Yanjing today. Located at the southeast corner of Yanjing's Third Ring Road, the Panjiayuan thrift market was an underground market for players, smugglers and antiquities dealers to trade in semi-illegal antiquities back in the 80s.

At that time, the trading took place in the early hours of the morning, and buyers and sellers took advantage of the pre-dawn darkness to sneak out of the nearby alleys, pushing bicycles, pedaling on three wheels, and flashlights to take out "old goods" and set up stalls in the open spaces on both sides of the street, and disperse before dawn. This market was formed spontaneously, and the people of the rivers and lakes showed their own magical powers, and fought guerrilla warfare with the urban management, industry and commerce, cultural relics inspection and other departments for more than ten years, and was called the "ghost market" among the people.

Taking advantage of the reform and opening up and economic development, the demand for "art" collection in China is increasing. In May 1993, China Guardian International Auction Co., Ltd., the first official art auction company in modern China, was established, and the first spring auction was held in March of the following year. In 1995, with the approval of the State Administration of Cultural Heritage, Yanjing Rongbao, Shanghai Duoyunxuan and other merchants became pilot units for direct management and franchise of cultural relics trading.

Against this backdrop, the authorities also acquiesced to the existence of the Panjiayuan ghost market, and in 1995 set up temporary shops with canvas in the open space next to the street, allowing the "ghosts" of Panjiayuan to enter the market for trading, so as to implement formal unified management. At that time, the ideology was not "open" enough, so it was not called "antique market", but named "Panjiayuan thrift market", and the meaning of the word "old goods" was very subtle.

In December 2007, when the Cultural Relics Protection Law was revised, Panjiayuan has become the largest antique trading and distribution center in China. In 2008, when You Fang mixed into Panjiayuan, there were already thousands of stalls here, nearly 100,000 customers entered the market every day, and politicians and celebrities from hundreds of countries came to visit the store, such as the Thai princess who still bargained in the shop where You Fang worked.

You Fang opened his eyes here, and deeply realized what it is like to enter the city with soil buns, and there are too many things he doesn't understand!

In a courtyard not far from the shop where You Fang is located, there is a store specializing in high-defense ancient porcelain, and there is a large photo hanging in the store, which is a group photo of two mothers-in-law: one of them is Hillary Clinton, the wife of the former president of the United States and the current Secretary of State, who is said to be the most powerful woman on the planet, and the wife who can't even manage her husband well but always likes to take care of China's affairs; The other is the owner of the store's loud voice.

One day, You Fang passed by this store and happened to take a few more glances, a man in his sixties, with white temples, a Chinese face, glasses, and deep forehead lines, and an obvious mole next to his right earlobe, was pointing to a pen wash and asked, "How to sell this thing?" ”

The owner of the loud shop happened to be in the shop, and replied casually: "That's the official kiln of the Tang Dynasty, it's very expensive!" ”

You Fang was drinking a bottle of black tea, and when he heard the words, he almost didn't squirt out, and he couldn't help but laugh very strangely. The antiques mention the official kiln, there is a special reference, first refers to the Song Dynasty Ding, Ru, Guan, Ge, Jun one of the five famous kilns, if you talk in detail, it is also divided into the Kaifeng official kiln of the Northern Song Dynasty and the Hangzhou official kiln of the Southern Song Dynasty. The second is the correspondence with the folk kiln, the Ming and Qing dynasties in Jingdezhen in Jingdezhen special kiln for the royal kiln is sometimes called the official kiln, but this does not need to be deliberately emphasized.

The phrase "the official kiln of the Tang Dynasty" is as funny as "Chiang Kai-shek, the chairman of the United States".

The gray-eyed elder didn't smile, walked out of the store without saying a word, and let out a long sigh of regret as he stepped out of the threshold. Seeing the strange smile of You Fang carrying black tea and probing his brain, he asked, "Young man, what are you laughing at?" ”

You Fang is a delicate and clear businessman in Panjiayuan, usually won the love of the boss and did not take less business, and he also did a lot of private work on the sewing to earn some foreign pieces for himself, and when he heard someone answer, he immediately stepped forward and whispered: "This gentleman, don't listen to her casual nonsense, you can only fool foreigners who don't know how to do it!" …… I see that you are a connoisseur, and if you want to buy porcelain with me, as long as you can afford it, I promise not to hit your eyes. …… What kind of official kiln of the Tang Dynasty, thinking that the more ancient the porcelain, the more expensive it is, it is simply a shame for Pan's homeland! ”

The old gentleman sighed and asked, "Isn't porcelain more expensive the older it is?" ”

As soon as he heard this, he seemed to be a bit of a layman, and You Fang came to the spirit, and said: "You don't understand the market, the most expensive thing to fry now is Yuan Qinghua, but there are too few generations of Pan Jiayuan to see the truth, to pay attention to porcelain, the Ming Dynasty Yongle, Xuande, Chenghua and the Qing Dynasty Kang, Yong, Qian, three generations that is the peak level, we have a global porcelain auction sky-high ranking in our store, I don't believe it will be shown to you as a reference." ”

The old gentleman seemed to be very interested in You Fang, and asked as he walked, "Young man, I see that you are not very old, and you know porcelain very well?" ”

You Fang replied a little proudly: "I won't tell you, even if there is only a broken porcelain piece, I can tell if it is true or false, tell you when it was produced in what kiln, how much this kind of artifact is worth, what price it is on the surface, what is the price of finding the right way, and what is the price of going to the auction house." …… If you don't believe me, you can take something to try my eyes, see if I am telling the truth, if you believe me, you can come to Taobao in the future, you can spend a little money to hire my palm, and then you can pick something to negotiate and see my code. …… But make an appointment in advance, this is my PHS number, my surname is You, everyone calls me Xiaoyou. ”

The old man looked at him with great interest, and took out a small square of jade like a seal from his pocket, a few centimeters high quadrangular prism, which was also engraved with Han Li inscriptions, the strokes were deep and straight and hard like branches, and there was a perforation in the center of the top. ”

This thing is really unrecognizable to ordinary people, You Fang glanced at it a few times and replied: "This is Yan Mao, not the batch imitated in the Ming Dynasty, but the ancient jade of the Han Dynasty, worn on the body to ward off evil spirits and drive away epidemics." The jade material is a little worse, and it is worth thousands of dollars. ”

The old man nodded and asked, "The pen wash I just saw, if it is from Song Guanyao, how much is it worth?" ”

You Fang: "It's hard to say, if the quality is good and there is a door, it is not uncommon to send it to the auction house for millions." ”

Old man: "You just said that porcelain is not more expensive the older it is, what do you mean by expensive?" ”

You Fang smiled, revealing snow-white and neat teeth: "Look at what you always say, of course it's valuable." ”

The old man's expression was a little bitter, and he sighed slightly: "Things are not more expensive the more ancient they are, this is very reasonable, for example, any stone in the wild may have a history of hundreds of millions of years." Some artifacts are precious, of course, because time cannot be turned back, and it is difficult to replicate a historical era, but more importantly, the value given to it by the inheritance of civilization, and the information it carries has indelible significance for today. If the shopkeeper just now lost face, it was not the face of Pan Jiayuan, the real value of cultural relics is first of all given to it by the creator and inheritor of civilization, not anything else. ”

You Fang blinked: "Old man, your words are a bit profound, are you here to Taobao or do something else?" ”

The old man laughed: "I see that you are young, but you can recognize Yan Mao of the Western Han Dynasty at a glance, and I said a few more words with emotion for a while." …… Then ask a few more questions, you just said that you can determine the age by looking at a broken porcelain piece, and know the value of similar artifacts. If you don't use money to measure it, then can you tell its true value, and what does it mean to you and me today? ”

You Fang felt that this old man was very strange, his speech and demeanor were different, and the customers who usually came to Panjiayuan Taobao thought about how to pick up leaks without being blinded, who would tell him this?

Seeing that he didn't answer, the old man continued as if talking to himself: "You can even see the kiln site from a piece of porcelain, and the value you know is nothing more than the transaction in the market, but can you tell why?" Can you see from a piece of porcelain the mental state and social outlook of people in a historical era, the replacement of dynasties and the rise and fall of civilizations, and how much humanistic connotation it carries that is meaningful to you and me? Can you explain why there was such an artifact in such an era? Can it elicit a deep spiritual resonance in your heart and convey that resonance to people? ”

This sentence made You Fang a little confused, he basically understood, but he really couldn't answer! I can't help but think of what my father said about a special phenomenon in antique identification, even if the imitation is used to make it old by clever means, even if it is vivid and can even deceive some modern testing instruments, there is a "thing" that cannot be imitated. That is the bearing of the changes of the years, giving the utensils the "temperament" or "thing surname", which can only be felt when the mind is immersed in silver.

But what my father said was just an indescribable feeling, and the words of the old man in front of me were both questions and answers, which clearly stated another feeling, although abstract but not illusory, and answered where the "temperament" or "thing surname" described by my father came from? Although the old man may not be as good as the upstream party in identifying the "eye work" of antiques, he has a humanistic realm that the tourist side does not have, so that he can truly understand the value of all these utensils.

How to describe it, if someone takes a million-dollar bottle home and takes those simple money figures out of his mind for a while, what is he enjoying and is he not aware of? Man exists in the material world, but lives in the spiritual world, and this is what distinguishes us from the walking dead.

You Fang didn't get any business with the old man that day, and later met this scholarly elder a few times in Panjiayuan, but he didn't have the opportunity to communicate more. The old man said that it may have been just an unintentional remark with emotion for a while, but You Fang was very touched, and often recalled this conversation in the later days.

The more I learned in Panjiayuan, the more I felt that I lacked a lot. Don't look at him, he has two small brushes, but the real level is still far behind, neither do you understand the feeling described by your father, nor do you understand the realm expounded by the old man. This is the difference between a craftsman with good craftsmanship and a master with a superb artistic conception, right?

You Fang realized that his true cultivation was not enough, and his background was far behind, and he would be just an ordinary antique dealer for the rest of his life, and the difference was only the size of the business. So he made another decision - to go to university! Which university to attend? Of course, his brother-in-law Chi Muduo studied at Yenching University, so he at least had some familiarity, otherwise he would have gone to Tsinghua University.

Confucius, the ancestor of Piaomen, said: "If you learn without thinking, you will be reckless, and if you think without learning, you will die." "You Fang is thinking about it, and I'm also going to college. Someone may want to ask, can you go up if you want to? It's not bad at all, you can get on it if you want to!

As far as I know, in the vast majority of higher education institutions in China, as long as you have enough perseverance and perseverance to persevere, you can get a systematic education in most majors, and you don't have to take the college entrance examination, don't have to pay tuition, and there is no trouble such as final exams or class roll calls. The only regret is that I can't get a graduation certificate and degree, if you really want it, you can go to You Fang's cousin Liu Yin to find a way.

The secret is very simple, as early as the Republic of China, many well-known scholars in Beiping have used it, just two words - rub the class!

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