Not to mention the old man Kong, even Liu Yuhao himself was stunned the moment he saw the wall tiles being pried open by himself.

No one expected that there would be something else in the bricks of the city wall!

Yes, Old Man Kong didn't expect it, and Liu Yuhao didn't expect it either.

At first, the reason why Liu Yuhao insisted on taking this wall brick was because his ability sensed that there was a very cheerful aura inside the wall brick that kept jumping.

But later, after returning to Old Man Kong's villa, Liu Yuhao was also stunned, and he found that his ability could not penetrate the wall tile, let alone "see" the inside of the wall tile.

It's strange, this kind of thing has never happened since Liu Yuhao saw through the wall that day and saw the little couple next door in love, but today it happened on this city wall brick, how can Liu Yuhao not wonder?

After the shock, Liu Yuhao and Old Man Kong each had an extra magnifying glass in their hands almost at the same time, trying to figure out what was inside the condensed version of the city wall bricks.

Just like that, the grandfather and grandson almost hit each other's heads out of a big bag on the spot.

"Hehe, old man, you first!"

Liu Yuhao smiled, put away the magnifying glass in his hand and stepped aside.

In fact, as far as Liu Yuhao is concerned, it is the same wherever he "looks", as long as he releases a little ability, what is the object in the bricks of the city wall, you can know it at a glance.

Old Man Kong took it as if he was playing a trick with another brush in his hand, only to see the soft brush gently brushing, and soon, the floating soil of the object in the bricks of the city wall was cleaned up.

"What, how can there be a Tang Sancai in the wall tiles?"

Old Man Kong's eyes widened, and he suddenly gasped, and his tone was full of surprise.

It turned out that the object hidden in the bricks of the city wall was actually a Tang Sancai waist drum dance figurine.

Take a closer look, the music and dance figurines are wearing high buns, wearing red open tops, green skirts, holding a waist drum in both hands, and their eyebrows and eyes are very clear.

But it took so much effort to hide Tang Sancai porcelain in a city wall brick, not to mention that the old man Kong had never seen it when he lived so old, but I was afraid that he had never heard of it before, and the old man could not be curious!

Liu Yuhao didn't smile, his eyes were staring at the surprisingly big waist drum of Tang Sancai's waist drum and dancing figurines, and his brows were frowned, as if he had the mystery of the boss in his heart and couldn't solve it.

Old Man Kong looked at the waist drum dance figurines with great interest, and said with a smile: "Yu Hao, the owner of this Tang Sancai is really attentive, you see, so many years have passed, but this object is still vivid, lifelike, tsk is really a good thing to open the door." ”

Tang Sancai was born in the period of Gaozong of the Tang Dynasty, with a history of more than 1,300 years, and is a great achievement in Chinese ceramic art. However, due to the fact that it is full of funerary vessels, it is rarely recorded in historical books, and it has gradually been forgotten for more than 1,000 years.

Until 1905, the Qing government built the Longhai Railway, passing through Luoyang's Pishan, digging many ancient tombs, and also found a large number of Tang Sancai.

At that time, the migrant workers thought that these colorful burial pottery were afraid of bad luck, and many three-color wares were smashed into pieces on the spot after being unearthed; Some of them were sent to Liuli factories in Beijing, but antique dealers also felt that it was not very auspicious, and only treated it as a scrap item, and few people bought it.

However, foreigners have no scruples, marvel at its splendid and colorful, magnificent, and purchase it on a large scale, and finally make a large number of three-color boutiques of the Tang Dynasty flow out of the country.

Later, after the investigation and research of the masters of Chinese culture Wang Guowei and Luo Zhenyu, the Chinese people woke up to its value, but at this time the Sancai resources were nearly exhausted, and they were worth a hundred times for a while.

In the past 100 years, Tang Sancai has been the most well-known Chinese ceramic artwork in the world, and its price has soared, if Mr. Kong is not mistaken, in 1989 Sotheby's auction house in the United Kingdom auctioned a Tang Sancai Malaysia, the transaction price has been as high as 3.4 million pounds.

With the rolling forward wheel of history, the prosperous era of the Tang Dynasty has long gone, but the vigorous artistic vitality of the Tang terracotta figurines has lasted for a long time. The beauty of history lies in its vastness, grace and mystery, just like the starry sky of the long night, which is intoxicating.

Obviously, in the night sky of Chinese history, the culture of the past dynasties is the most moving constellation, although it is untouchable today, but the style of the past dynasties is not just buried in the pile of paper, it was once flesh and blood.

Looking at the natural coordination of colors, smooth patterns of waist drum music and dance figurines, the old man couldn't help but praise again and again: "ceramic art is one of many physical evidence, the optimistic spirit of the times in those years, the psychological characteristics of self-confidence and openness and the enthusiasm to create destiny will not go with the wind, grasp this, from the ocean of ceramic art to confirm, and then to experience the history and culture, I believe that there will be a deeper discovery." ”

Liu Yuhao sighed, shook his head in disappointment, and said, "Old man, that Tang Sancai is a fake. ”

"Well, what am I, you say it's a fake?"

Old Man Kong didn't pay attention to what Liu Yuhao said first, and when he came back to his senses, his face changed sharply, and he inadvertently overflowed with deep confusion and puzzlement.

Are you kidding? How can this Tang Sancai waist drum dance figurine be a fake?

Old Man Kong shook his head vigorously, no matter what, he wouldn't believe it until Liu Yuhao came up with real evidence.

As long as anyone with a little common sense knows, in ancient times, in order to make the bricks of the city wall strong and durable, and strengthen the defense, it was necessary to use loess or black soil to ram and fasten, layer by layer, and each layer would be hit to a thickness of fifteen centimeters.

This alone can imagine how difficult it is to hide porcelain inside a single brick of the city wall.

Old Man Kong waved his hand and said, "Yu Hao, you should be able to imagine that if the force of ramming the adobe is too great, it will definitely damage the porcelain inside, but if the strength is small, the bricks of the city wall will not be strong, wouldn't it be detrimental to the concealment of this Tang Sancai?" Do you think anyone would be stupid enough to go to such great lengths to hide a fake in a wall tile? ”

Besides, hiding an imitation artifact, the person who did it is not a fool!

Liu Yuhao smiled faintly, he was very sure that the Tang Sancai waist drum dance figurines were fakes, but he couldn't tell Old Man Kong that he had identified the authenticity through his ability.

In desperation, Liu Yuhao had no choice but to sit opposite Mr. Kong and said with a smile: "Old man, you should take out a magnifying glass and take a closer look at the opening of this imitation." ”

The three-color ware of the Tang Dynasty was usually made by smearing a three-color glaze on a clay blank made of plain firing, and then firing it by a kiln fire of 800 degrees.

More importantly, Tang Sancai are all burial goods, after more than 1,000 years of underground burial, by the erosion of groundwater and soil acid and alkali substances, the opening will inevitably be more obvious, the general vision of the normal, in about a foot should be able to be clearly observed.

In Panjiayuan, counterfeiters often use chemicals such as hydrofluoric acid and potassium permanganate to corrode and dye the glaze of the utensils.

But imitations are imitations after all, and it is not difficult to find the problem as long as you look closely.

Old Man Kong was stunned, his face was a little complicated, and he said, "Do you think this three-color opening piece is wrong?" ”

It's not just wrong, it's just that the donkey's head is not right on the horse's mouth.

Liu Yuhao nodded, pointed to a place where the opening film was very dense, and said with a firm expression: "Old man, if someone asks me, I may say that I can't watch it well, but you can take a look at the opening film here before drawing conclusions." ”

The study of the opening film is a very important means to identify Tang Sancai, the natural opening film is very narrow, in many cases, even away from a foot of the naked eye can not see the existence of its opening piece.

Old Man Kong hesitated for a moment, picked up a magnifying glass and observed it carefully, and after a long time, he slowly raised his head and said with a puzzled face: "This, the middle of this opening film is protruding." ”

Tang Sancai's natural opening under the high-powered magnification glass is a kind of cracked river mud, which should be upturned upwards on all sides and concave in the middle, while the sour-bitten opening is just the opposite.

Liu Yuhao nodded and said: "Yes, old man, this kind of opening piece that is slightly bulging upwards in the middle, and concave downwards around it, is actually a phenomenon formed by the acid liquid corroding off its edges and corners along this opening piece during imitation." ”

What a fake!

Old Man Kong gasped, first shook his head incredulously, and then denied his thoughts, and said: "Yu Hao, the spray method has been passed down for thousands of years, if this is a fake, I think the imitation people will not even understand the spray method, but choose the most stupid acid bite method to imitate a three-color porcelain." ”

The so-called spray method, is that if the counterfeiters want to make Tang Sancai form a small opening in the natural form, they will use the method of changing the glaze shrinkage ratio, that is, first use a high-temperature furnace to heat the utensils, and then take out the Sancai furnace, and then spray it with cold water, this method is called spray method.

In this way, cold water is sprayed several times on the utensils, and in the process of suddenly lowering its temperature, the surface of the utensils shrinks and fissions, forming small sesame-like open pieces. Such openings are small, and one by one does not appear evenly.

In addition, some counterfeiters take the burned Tang Sancai to the roof with strong sunlight to dry, after a period of sun exposure, the glaze of the utensils will also shrink greatly, forming some natural cracks, and small sesame-like openings appear.

How could Liu Yuhao not know about this three-color porcelain forgery method.

"Old man, I'm sure there's only one reason why this three-color porcelain leaves a lot of horses' feet." Liu Yuhao said with a smile.

Old Man Kong was stunned for a moment, his eyes widened and he asked, "What is the reason?" ”

Liu Yuhao stood up, suddenly his expression became serious, and said word by word: "That is, there are some major unknown secrets in this three-color porcelain, and the owner of the city wall bricks wants to imitate such a fake object to paralyze people, intending to fool people." ”

"What do you mean? I still don't get it. ”

Old Man Kong was confused.

Liu Yuhao smiled faintly, and suddenly made a move when Old Man Kong was not mentally prepared at all, and with a "bang", the three-color porcelain was knocked into pieces by him.