Although Zhao Zhuo's judgment was agreed by everyone, it was getting late now, and there were a lot of things in the cellar, so it might not be easy to find clues about the hidden treasure, so the matter could only be postponed until tomorrow.

Returning to the Ji family's mansion and lying down in the room, Zhao Zhuo thought about the treasure of the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom the most, but the young man who might have special abilities, if things were really as he thought, then he had to find out this person.

Early the next morning, Zhao Zhuo and Ji Xiaofan went to the Convention and Exhibition Center together to participate in the fourth Dou Porcelain Festival, after all, the Dou Porcelain Festival was not over, and the two were not absent, Ji Yuan and others rushed to the old site of Xiping Village with the staff of the museum to excavate the cellar.

The fourth scene of the Dou Porcelain Festival is the Tang Dynasty and the five dynasties of porcelain, the five dynasties refer to the dynasties that followed Zhu Quanzhong at the end of the Tang Dynasty after Zhu Quanzhong usurped the Tang Dynasty and changed the country name to Liang, which were the Later Tang Dynasty, the Later Jin Dynasty, the Later Han Dynasty, and the Later Zhou Dynasty, which were called the Five Dynasties together with the Later Liang.

The development of the porcelain industry during the Wei, Jin, Southern and Northern Dynasties laid a good foundation for the porcelain industry in the Sui and Tang dynasties, and the unification of the whole country opened up a new historical stage for the development of the porcelain industry in the Sui and Tang dynasties.

The two major porcelain systems of the north and south produced during the period of the Northern and Southern Dynasties, under the social, political, economic and cultural unification of the Sui and Tang dynasties, the two sides had the tendency to speed up exchanges and blending. But after all, they are the product of hundreds of years of antagonism, it is difficult to eliminate the cultural differences between the two places in a short period of time, the celadon system represented by the Yue kiln and the white porcelain system represented by the Xing kiln, relative to each other, self-contained, formed the Tang Dynasty porcelain industry layout of the "south green and north white" significant characteristics.

Of course, many white porcelain kilns in the north also fired celadon, but the celadon fired was inferior to the southern celadon in terms of quantity, quality, glaze color and technology. The Yue kiln in the south represented the highest level of the porcelain industry at that time. Moreover, because the aesthetic taste of the Sui and Tang dynasties was based on jade-like, Lu Yu, the tea saint of the Tang Dynasty, when evaluating the Xingyao white porcelain and Yue kiln celadon with the highest level of porcelain burning in China at that time, believed that "Xing porcelain is silver, and Yue porcelain is jade", so "Xing is not as good as Yue", and the Yue kiln celadon with "jade-like" is the top grade of Tang Dynasty porcelain. In the Yue kiln celadon, the secret color porcelain, which is known as "Qianfeng emerald color" from the late Tang Dynasty to the early Song Dynasty, is the highest level.

Compared with those who like primitive celadon and porcelain of the Six Dynasties, there are obviously more people who like the mature porcelain of the Tang Dynasty, and the audience seats in the fourth session are almost full, if there is still a standing position, it is estimated that even the corridor will be crowded with people, and at the same time, the number of contestants is also more than the first three games, more than 200 people.

With the beginning of the game, ordinary players will take the collection one by one after another, interestingly, there are several people on the stage turned out to be Tang Sancai, the audience who does not understand did not see anything strange, but those who know know that Tang Sancai is not porcelain, but genuine pottery, and it is a more popular painted pottery handicraft at that time, mostly used for burial.

Originally, Tang Sancai's status in the ceramic industry is still quite high, but in the eighties of the last century, because of the hot research of Tang Sancai, many experts published the research results, including the production process of Tang Sancai and the glaze formula, resulting in countless fakes of Tang Sancai.

The same is true for Tang Sancai taken out by these people, they are all fakes.

Zhao Zhuo and Ji Xiaofan are not interested in these little farces, after all, the two of them are still concerned about the excavation work in Xiping Village, but it is a pity that they lack skills.

However, Jing Yao, who was present, carefully posted the excavation process, and even included photos in the field, so the two of them sat on the contestant seat as if they were on the spot.

Because last night just flashlight into it, so the situation in the cellar did not see clearly, today with the excavation only to know, the area of the cellar is far beyond everyone's imagination, although the entrance is outside the courtyard, but in fact, the entire land behind the house and the underground in the backyard are all hollowed out.

The area of the cellar is almost comparable to that of the entire mansion, and the food stored in it is also several tons, in addition, cloth, ironware and other military supplies are everything.

Since it is an antiquity from 200 years ago, these things are also very valuable for research, and the next step is a long process of transporting all the contents of the cellar and finding clues related to the treasure.

Therefore, this time, Ji Yuan mobilized almost everyone in the museum who could be mobilized, but even so, there was still a shortage of manpower.

Two hours passed quickly, and Zhao Zhuo and the others leaned their heads to look at the messages and videos that kept being sent on their mobile phones, feeling itchy in their hearts, and they couldn't wait to fly over now.

However, although the heart is at the excavation site, this competition still has to be compared, and the Dou Porcelain Festival is also a very important competition field for the younger generation of the three major families.

Therefore, when Fang Lu came to the stage, he still let Zhao Zhuo and Ji Xiaofan pay attention.

Fang Lu's expression looked very serious, in the current three games, Ji Xiaofan has won one, three or two, Tong Feiyu has also won the second one, only he has not won a single one.

What Fang Lu took out this time was a white glaze to ward off evil spirits, as soon as he saw this evil spirit, Ji Xiaofan couldn't help but sigh lightly, looked at it fixedly, and said, "Brother Zhao, is that inlaid with gemstones?" ”

Zhao Zhuo also noticed the difference between this evil spirit at this time, this evil spirit is born with two horns, the face is like a lion, the body is like a tiger and a leopard, the head is roaring angrily, the eyes are open angrily, domineering and mighty, its overall glaze is blue in white, quite good, the most special thing is that its eyes are two black gems.

He squinted and said: "That should be the inlaid ink crystal, that is, the black crystal, the price is not expensive, but this process is a little complicated, this first of all, the gem is polished smooth and round and then inlaid into the eye hole, and then fixed with tire mud, into the kiln after the second firing to make it firm, in fact, as early as the Northern and Southern Dynasties Buddha statue eye decoration can be seen similar inlay techniques, but this one is more fine." ”

Although this is a porcelain festival, whether it is inlaid with gold or precious stones, porcelain has become a whole in itself, so it is not beyond the scope of the competition, and the more superb the inlay technology, the more it can enhance the value of porcelain.

Ji Xiaofan nodded when he heard this: "The whole of this evil spirit is very good, his eyes are blazing, his eyes are wide open, and he seems to want to overwhelm all evil qi." ”

Zhao Zhuo said with a smile: "This is the mastery of carving techniques, the more superb ancient craftsmen do not need to emphasize the details of the fine carving and too much decoration, the use of concise and concise, delete the complicated and simple techniques, in the rough and unrestrained, unrestrained, produce a strong sense of antiquity, to create a deep and majestic 'momentum' beauty." Moreover, looking at the glaze color to ward off evil spirits, it should be the porcelain of Xingyao. ”

"I look like Xingyao's, but I didn't expect Fang Lu to really get a good thing." Ji Xiaofan laughed.

Although the white porcelain of Xingyao is inferior to the celadon of Yue kiln in terms of technology and price, there is no lack of a large number of fine products coming out, this white glaze of Xingyao is exquisite and atmospheric, and simple and natural, as soon as it comes out, it won a full house, and the judges are quite appreciative, and finally gave a high price of six million.

It didn't take long for Ji Xiaofan to follow, and what Ji Xiaofan took out was a Yue kiln celadon carved crouching beast from the Tang Dynasty, this piece of porcelain was found by Zhao Zhuo in the Baicheng porcelain market some time ago.

Originally, Ji Xiaofan had prepared a piece of Tang Dynasty porcelain to participate in the fourth scene, but because the value could not catch up with this piece, he used this one on the field.

Like the white glaze to ward off evil spirits, this celadon crouching beast shape is also quite powerful, the lines are strong, the mane limbs and the ruyi lines are graceful, the momentum is extraordinary, the most rare thing is that the fetus is quite delicate, the glaze is shiny, coupled with the craftsman's skillful hands, this crouching beast is placed on the table, it is like a living thing.

At this time, in Zhao Zhuo's opinion, he could clearly see the little spiritual light emanating from the lying beast, like the moon and stars surrounding, which was beautiful.

In the end, this porcelain was inferior to the white glaze in terms of craftsmanship to ward off evil spirits, and the final estimate was 5.5 million.

Shortly thereafter, Tang Feiyu also came to the stage, and what he brought up was also a vessel from the Yue kiln, which was a celadon lotus tray.

The cup and the tray are connected into one, it is a typical tea set from the Tang Dynasty to the Song Dynasty, its whole body is covered with green glaze, the glaze is moist, smooth and clean like jade, the whole body is decorated with a large lotus petal pattern, and the pattern and the shape of the vessel achieve perfect unity.

However, the price of this porcelain still did not exceed that of white glaze to ward off evil spirits, and Fang Lu played four games in a row, and finally won one, and suddenly felt a bad breath.

Ji Xiaofan looked at this victory and defeat very lightly, and he didn't think much about it if he lost, as soon as he returned to his seat, he asked if there was any progress in excavation during his time on stage.

The excavation of the cellar progressed quite slowly, because the cellar entrance was already small, which greatly restricted the entry and exit of personnel, and from the standpoint of protecting cultural relics, it was not easy to remove the bricks on the entire cellar.

Every time a bag of rice comes up, everyone has to look inside, whether there are clues about the treasure hidden, of course, about the treasure of the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom, Ji Yuan did not completely tell the staff, after all, the matter is very important, in case it is an oolong in the back, or it will not be good to cause the prying eyes of people with a heart, so just regard this excavation as an ordinary excavation task.

Time passed minute by minute, after dinner in the afternoon, the competition continued, the highest price of porcelain in the field has reached 6.5 million, and the number of fine products is very frequent, almost every seven or eight people, there will be something that makes the judges' eyes shine.

(To be continued)