Actually, Old Xiong doesn't need to be ashamed!

Collecting celebrity paintings and calligraphy, to a certain extent, is to play hide and seek between the true and the false, the false and the real, how to see the flowers in the fog, and want to really "not hit the eye" and avoid the minefield of "pit dad", for collectors, it is almost impossible.

I also used to collect calligraphy and painting works for a period of time before the ancients, but then I simply gave up, not because the ancient ones didn't have that cultivation, but because they really couldn't grasp the degree between the "real and the fake".

Like Master Hongyi's calligraphy, there are more fakes. His words are mostly copied from the Diamond Sutra of Buddhism, or simply a Buddha word, in the ancient view, Master Hongyi's words are soft, in fact, his words are soft and rigid, not hiding the edge and not showing the tail, very round.

If you can't see it clearly, you give up, probably only the old people have these straightforward pride.

"Yu Hao, this is the Xuande furnace you said last time?"

Old Man He was more interested in antiques than jade, and after careful identification, he was still not sure, so he simply asked Liu Yuhao to confirm.

Liu Yuhao smiled, motioned to Qin Weixian to open the glass cover, and said, "Old man, this Xuande furnace is rare to see, why don't you get started and take a look?" ”

Old Man He nodded, put on the gloves that Qin Wei had brought for him first, and then picked up the Xuande furnace on the crystal base.

Although it was just a small move, Liu Yuhao nodded and praised it again and again.

The reason why he didn't give the old man gloves was because he was afraid that He Lao would reprimand him for being stingy, but now it seems that he did something wrong, and Old Man He's respect for the inheritance of ancient civilization is no worse than that of a fanatical collector.

The shape of the Xuande copper incense burner is simple and solemn, the workmanship is exquisite, and it is also the extreme in China's casting process after the Shang and Zhou bronzes. The Xuande furnace was cast by the advanced lost wax method at that time, and no traces of the mold and casting mouth could be found after polishing. Liu Yuhao did not explain, but stood quietly and waited.

After the old man He took the furnace, he found that the furnace in his hand did not have decorative ears, and the furnace body was plain and not decorated, so that it showed the beautiful and simple copper color and solemn shape of the Xuande furnace, and vaguely saw that the outside of the furnace should have been knocked on some small pieces of gold leaf before, the furnace wall was thick and heavy, and the hand felt a heavy feeling.

"How can you be sure that this must be the Xuande furnace in the Xuande period?"

After pondering for a long time, Old Man He gently put down the Xuande furnace in his hand and asked with a smile.

There are only 3,000 incense burners cast in Xuande years, and then a large number of them were destroyed after the war, and the genuine Xuande furnace that has been handed down to this day has been very rare, so now the Xuande furnace of the Ming Dynasty has become a treasure that collectors can not find.

The reason why the old man asked such a question is also because the Xuande furnaces currently traded in major auction houses are mostly imitations after the middle of the Ming Dynasty, and the prices of high-quality imitations are also amazing, it is difficult for him to imagine how Liu Yuhao has such good luck and got the objects that others dream of.

Liu Yuhao smiled, took out the strong flashlight he carried with him and hit the inner wall of the furnace, and suddenly, the furnace wall revealed a dazzling and strange luster, constantly changing the light points, and the strange luster was also changing, which was pleasing to the eye.

"Old man, the reason why the Xuande furnace has become a heirloom is not only well-made, but also the materials are expensive. In addition to copper, there are 33 kinds of precious materials such as gold and silver, so the furnace quality is particularly delicate, dark purple or black-brown. Liu Yuhao said with a smile.

Old Man He smiled and nodded, "What else?" ”

Liu Yuhao smiled and said: "Generally, the furnace material only goes through 4 refining, but the Xuande furnace has to go through 12 refining, so the furnace quality is more pure, like baby skin." Just now you saw the golden light flashing in the furnace wall because this Xuande furnace is gilded or inlaid with gold, which looks golden to the naked eye, but the light is different when it hits. ”

"The painter Xiang Yuanbian once said that the magic of the Xuan furnace is pearlescent in the treasure color, and there is a surging Mu Mu on the outside, which is to explain the phenomenon just now."

Old Man Qi didn't know when he came over, and as soon as Liu Yuhao finished speaking, he added.

Old man He looked down and looked at the Xuande furnace and nodded secretly, its treasure light is contained, the pulp is rich, the furnace body is finely carved, the lines are beautiful and smooth, and it is not an exaggeration to describe it as a heavy weapon of the country.

"Stinky boy, if you have time, you can take grandpa to Panjiayuan to pick up the leak, I haven't enjoyed that kind of refreshment."

Old Man He laughed.

"You're worthy?"

Qi Lao didn't save any face for Old Man He, so he snorted coldly with disdain and left with his back hand.

No matter what time it is, Old He will never argue with Old Man Qi.

Although Liu Yuhao looked funny, he also knew very well in his heart that this was limited to the two old men, and if he was someone else, how could he dare to stare at the founder of the founding fathers like Old Man He?

One of the greatest pleasures of gathering together is to talk about your own personal experience of missing stories, or to talk about some people in the circle who are talking about it.

The Luohan money in the glass cover reminded Master Wang of one of his old brothers.

Master Wang's old friend surnamed Zeng, the name Jingyi, love "money" like life, 60 years to collect more than 7,000 ancient coins, including Qin large "half tael", Wang Mang's "young spring twenty", Tang Dynasty silver "Kaiyuan Tongbao" and other treasures; And his collection of national treasure-level "Kaiyuan Tongbao" Qian Taofan said that it filled the gap of the Tang Dynasty without money.

Zeng Lao was born in a scholarly family, and his ancestors collected thousands of ancient books and a large number of calligraphy, paintings, and ancient money.

After a rain in the youth, he carried a load of dung water to water the vegetables, when he walked to the slope of the garden, his feet slipped and fell, his right hand instinctively propped up to the ground, and suddenly felt that there was a hard object in the palm of his hand, and he grabbed it from the mud and looked at it, it turned out to be a Song Weizong Zhao Ji's original thin gold body imperial book "Chongning Tongbao" folded ten copper coins!

Since then, Zeng Lao's interest in collecting ancient coins has increased day by day.

After joining the work, Zeng Lao always used the weekend to go to the scrap shop to collect ancient money, and rode his bicycle to Tongguan every weekend, going down to Jiahu Lake, Oath Gang, passing through Jinggang, to Qiaokou, turning back to Jinggang through Xinkang, Gaotangling, to Baishazhou.

Whenever he received ancient money, he would wipe the ancient money and try it, compare and compare, compare the map, check the age, and he didn't know the morning and night as soon as he got started.

Once, when the old man came out of the attic of a scrap collector's house, he cried when he covered his head from the cobwebs, his face was black, and only his two eyes moved.

Through unremitting efforts, Zeng Lao actually collected shell coins from the Xia and Shang eras, and the "Republic of China Tongbao" in the early years of the Republic of China. There are some shell coins, cloth coins, knife coins, round coins, clay coins, square hole coins, copper plates, nickel coins, iron coins, and lead coins; The text on the ancient money, seal, li, true, line, grass five bodies are available.

What's even more amazing is that a large part of his many rare things were unearthed from "waste products", which makes people envious when they hear it.

I have to admit that people in the world may have different visions, but their understanding of beauty is the same.

By playing with antiques, people will find that they can understand the long history and culture, civilization and development and evolution of China through those objects that could not speak, which is probably the most attractive part of antiques.

"Yu Hao, how can there be an empty box here?"

Jiang Kui was the only person closest to Liu Yuhao's age in this private exhibition today, probably out of caution, he didn't talk much until he found an empty box in a booth and inquired curiously.

Liu Yuhao glanced at Qi Lao, and seeing that the teacher didn't stop himself from explaining, he stood up with a faint smile and said, "Brother Jiang, don't underestimate that empty box, in this exhibition room, I'm afraid that only the box is the most precious object." ”

Jiang Kui was stunned, and glanced at the empty box with a puzzled expression, his face full of puzzlement.

If you want to talk about the word precious, in Jiang Kui's opinion, there are countless in the entire antique hall, among which Tang Bohu's "Hundred Beauty Pictures", as well as the three-eyed dzi, and the Fang Dai Yan are the most.

Any one of the three old objects is not less than 10 million in private exchange, and if it is auctioned, the value is even higher and scary, and it is not uncommon to meet buyers who love such objects and sell hundreds of millions.

But Liu Yuhao actually said that the most valuable thing is an empty box?

Jiang Kui couldn't figure it out, his head was confused, and he couldn't think of any treasures that could be related to this box.

Anyway, those who can come here today are not "outsiders", but there is no need to hide it, Liu Yuhao smiled faintly and said: "Brother Jiang, let me tell you the truth, that box is made of thousand-year-old snow cherry wood, do you say it is valuable?" ”

Millennial snow Sakura?

What a big gimmick!

More than a dozen pairs of curious eyes suddenly converged on Liu Yuhao, there are many types of thousand-year-old trees, such as agarwood, ebony and so on, but many people have heard of thousand-year-old snow cherry trees for the first time.

"Yu Hao, what is the thousand-year-old snow Sakuragi, you explain it to us."

Old man Zheng is considered well-informed, but his old man has never heard of any thousand-year-old snow cherry trees, so he suddenly became interested, and sat down next to Liu Yuhao with a smile.

Liu Yuhao instructed Qin Wei to pour tea for everyone first, and he took a sip before saying slowly: "The thousand-year-old snow cherry tree is native to Africa, and it was extinct as early as 3,200 years ago. ”

Listening to Liu Yuhao's words, Master Wang frowned deeply, as if he was thinking about something, but he couldn't think of anything for a while.

Old Man Xiong smiled and interjected: "Yu Hao, how can such a long ancient wood species be preserved until now unless it becomes a fossil, let alone made into a brocade box, are you exaggerating?" ”

Liu Yuhao waved his hand and said with a smile: "Xiong Lao, what I said is not an exaggeration at all, the thousand-year-old snow cherry tree is warm and moist, at least eight hundred years old, and grows in distant Africa, so few people know it, but it has a very peculiar role, and Zeng Guofan, a famous minister of the Qing Dynasty, has described it in his family letter." ”