Regarding the improvement of the gambling market, there may only be so much that Han Chong can do at present, but looking at the contribution he has made to world peace and people's happiness, Han Chong smiled knowingly.

Do your best.

That's it, in the end, Han Chong and the heads of the SAR both had a cordial meeting, and Han Chong didn't know that the driving force behind this was actually Brother Jiang Yuan Jiang.

In short, Han Chong had a good meal and a good meal.

enjoyed a high-level treatment that ordinary people could not enjoy.

At the end, knowing that Han Chong was playing antiques, the SAR dignitaries also recommended a place for Han Chong, St. Paul's Street Ao Men Antique Market.

St. Paul's Street is actually the antique market of Macao.

The street is very long, stretching out of several small alleys, and hidden in the small alleys is the famous antique market in Australia.

Friends who have been to the Ruins of St. Paul's must know that it is one of the favorite places for tourists to go shopping, and in addition to shopping, antiques are naturally a good scenery.

Wang Tian came to St. Paul's Street today with Tu Yuwei and Xu Guang, Tu Yuwei naturally needless to say, Han Chong will basically bring her if he can.

Xu Guang, this kid decided not to gamble or steal in the future, and after following Han Chong, he thought about entering the antique industry, or learning some crafts, so he couldn't eat and drink for nothing.

Naturally, if you want to learn, you have to accumulate a little more, otherwise, judging from Xu Guang's current ability, he is also the level of a janitor.

Speaking of the antique street in Macao, there are still differences from the mainland, such as porcelain, calligraphy and painting, calligraphy and painting, and some other miscellaneous items are still similar, but in this fashion capital, there are more fresh gadgets in the tourist capital. For example, carved chests with European style, toilet furniture, as well as some stamps that are unique to Australia, some oil paintings and coins with unique collection value.

When Tu Yuwei and Han Chong were shopping, they were in a very happy mood, but Xu Guang had to remember a lot of things, and he didn't understand what the two of them were talking about.

interjected from time to time, Han Chong taught him a few words, and he was like an initiation.

It was cold from head to toe.

I searched the street for a short time. Han Chong saw that the "Huayutang" in front of him seemed to be very lively. Unconsciously, the pace quickened and went inside.

Tu Yuwei followed closely and also walked into the store.

The shopkeeper of this Hua Yutang is a woman in her forties, and the things she deals in are mainly some bird cages, teapots, lighters, fans, statues, etc., and Han Chong only knew why there were so many people here after Han Chong came in.

For example, these gadgets are basically inexpensive, and tourists are willing to spend a few dollars less to buy a souvenir to go back.

Han Chong took a look at the gadgets here, and there were exquisite statues that had not yet been carved.

Craftsmanship, good quality teapot.

Including the birdcage, it also has the characteristics of this side. Han Chong also thought it was good to buy one for Tu Yuwei.

As we all know, the birdcage is the main environment for ornamental birds to carry out activities and inhabit, so it is necessary to have requirements for the shape, structure and technology of the birdcage to make it suitable for bird activities. It is also delicate and beautiful.

His birdcages are made of bamboo, wood, or wire, and are rectangular, round, square, flat, semicircular, room-shaped, and drum-shaped. After looking at it for a long time, Han Chong chose a round birdcage made of bamboo and wood, which was elegant and atmospheric.

When Han Chong was choosing a birdcage. Xu Guang was there looking at the chapter.

Portrait stamp collection has now become one of the hot spots in the collection market. In the past, people thought that there was little room for the appreciation of the image badge, because there were too many image badges issued, basically every province and city. Even factories issue their own stamps. But everyone doesn't know that so far, the name of the chapter has appreciated to more than 10,000 yuan.

One of the top ten most expensive medals, Chairman Mao has reported to the people as high as more than 1.6 million yuan. And the chapter set is appreciating rapidly, and it has risen to more than 10 times in the past 10 years.

Xu Guang flipped through the portrait chapter there, and naturally accepted the popularity that the shopkeeper gave him and other customers.

"Tourists, you don't know, like the chapter collection is now a hot collection, like the price of the chapter is rising, come to our Australia, you can not buy anything else, but like the chapter you must bring back one, in a word, like the chapter, you deserve it."

"Why? What's the room for this thing to appreciate? A tourist asked.

The proprietress was happy, "You don't understand this!" There is a lot of room for appreciation of the image chapter, and there are several reasons, one is the establishment of the image chapter museum. You don't know that there is a museum in the mainland that has a collection of more than 300,000 iconograms. This is where there is a market, and there will be a market to increase prices. The second is the increase in the number of collectors. There are more than 200 million collectors in my country, think about it, can it not be hot? Third, as a modern and contemporary cultural relic, there are no import and export restrictions, and a large number of statues and medals have flowed into foreign countries, mainly as gifts. As a result, the emergence of the collection of image chapters led to the emergence of the image seal collection craze, and the number of image chapters on the market decreased rapidly, and the price also climbed all the way. ”

"Really."

"Makes sense."

Sure enough, as soon as she said this, the crowd was full of emotion, and they were all scrambling to ask her how much a statue is. But Han Chong Dafan glanced at those portraits and smiled.

Han Chong knew that the earliest statue badge was made in 1937, and it was a silver medal issued by the Northeast Anti-Japanese Allied Army. In 1942, the first statue was issued. Since then, the image chapter has never stopped making zuò.

From the summer of 1966 to the summer of 1971, the statue became a fanatical object of worship in the whole society; According to statistics, in the five years before and after, a total of about 10,000 types of zuò were produced, with a total of about 2 billion pieces.

Among the portrait chapters, Mao Zedong's portrait chapters are the most popular, and the popularity has not decreased.

Here is a word about the image of Mao Zedong.

The main body of Mao Zedong's portrait chapter is Mao Zedong's head (to the left), bust or full-body portrait, mostly red and gold statues, with Mao Zedong's handwriting, with the revolutionary holy land as the background, surrounded by pine, bamboo, plum, moon and stars and other mascots, eight model plays and other patterns, some of the statue chapters still retain the forest. Biao's inscription.

Besides, the shape of the chapter is generally round, and there are also peach heart shapes and pentagonal ones; The shape is getting bigger and bigger, and the largest can reach more than 20 centimeters in diameter.

It can not be worn with pins, can only be hung on the neck and chest with a ribbon, and its materials are mainly aluminum, but also more than 20 kinds of materials such as copper and iron, gold plating, sterling silver, crystal stone, plastic, plexiglass, and ceramics. Therefore. Even from today's point of view, the medallion is still collectible.

The most delicate and precious image medals are a set of two star-shaped medals and a handwritten strip of "serving the people" made by the General Political Department of the People's Liberation Army, which are commonly known as "military stars". At that time, the number of "military stars" and another "seven-cent" red ground gold statue gave away nationwide reached 100 million.

As you can imagine, how hot!

However, with the continuous development of the image collection craze, some illegal traders naturally saw the violence, and they have thrown themselves into the ranks of making false image seals, making the image seal market more and more confusing. The badges that circulate in large quantities in the market are already fake, but the badges on this stall are basically fakes.

Han Chong's smile is because so much foreshadowing in front of her really doesn't match the fake portrait at the end, and she is still ashamed to say it.

"Xu Guang, don't look at it, let's go, I think you still don't want to buy this chapter."

Han Chong and Tu Yuwei tacitly agreed, and Tu Yuwei had already seen the clues.

But Xu Guang was stupid and still wanted to buy it. Han Chong pulled Xu Guang, Xu Guang didn't understand, Han Chong said don't buy it. Natural collections are not of much value. Nodding.

"Oh."

Xu Guang was pulled out by Han Chong, and the two just said that they wanted to leave the small shop, but another treasure of Hua Yutang suddenly entered Han Chong's sight.

And, that baby dragon feedback. There is also a hint of golden light.

Wow, there's something good!

Just as Han Chong was about to come forward to admire this treasure, Jiang Yuan and He Zhiyuan also appeared in this "Flower Jade Hall".

Jiang Yuan and He Zhiyuan didn't play much in Aomen Antique Street, and they were both curious about everything. In addition, I have recently wanted to go to antiques, and I came to the antique street.

Han Chong saw He Zhiyuan and Jiang Yuan coming over, and said hello. Continue walking towards the treasure you found.

Because of the feedback of the golden light, Han Chong knew that this must not be an ordinary thing, and what Han Chong touched in his hand at this time seemed to be a mirror. It's just that unlike ordinary mirrors, the mirror surface of this mirror is a layer of flowing clouds, crystal clear, and dazzling glass.

"Brother He, Brother Jiang, you can also come and take a look, this piece of glass in my Brother Han's hand is particularly beautiful."

"Xu Guang, don't talk yet." Han Chong walked up to the boss and said with a smile, "Boss, how much does this thing cost?" ”

I didn't buy anything, praise him for being good, this is the most taboo in collections, and the bosses are likely to change their hexagrams and not sell them. Fortunately, the proprietress saw that Xu Guang was a layman, so she simply didn't care about his words.

The boss of Hua Yutang then glanced at the things in Han Chong's hand and stretched out three fingers, "Three thousand, a fixed price, no bargaining." ”

The boss of Hua Yutang was happy, but Xu Guang couldn't think that no matter how beautiful a glass mirror was, it couldn't reach three thousand, but who knew that Han Chong also took out three thousand pieces of ocean and handed it to the proprietress happily.

After buying this "glass", Han Chong did not continue to stay in Huayutang, because there was really nothing to be desired, and just now, after Han Chong took a fancy to the glass, in fact, Tu Yuwei also found out, maybe Han Chong's thing was missed again, but unfortunately, he was one step too late.

After leaving the store, before he had gone far, Xu Guang asked puzzled.

"Brother Han Chong, I don't know why you spent three thousand yuan to buy this piece of glass?"

"Glass? It's not glass, it's glass. Before Han Chong could say anything, Tu Yuwei spoke first to judge.

Seriously, Tu Yuwei is also a senior in this industry, and for Xu Guang, Tu Yuwei knows a lot more than him.

After Tu Yuwei said it, Jiang Yuan and He Zhiyuan, who were in the store, also came out.

Keeping up, Jiang Yuan was well-informed, he approached Han Chong, and when Han Chong took a fancy to this baby, Jiang Yuan already felt that he had it.

Seeing that this thing was good, Jiang Yuan said boldly, "If I'm not mistaken, this should be the ancient method of glaze." ”

"Ancient glaze?" Everyone else knew that Xu Guang didn't understand it at all, and he blinked depressedly and asked, "What is that?" ”

"You don't even know about Ruri?" Jiang Yuan frowned.

"I must know Liuli, one of the Seven Treasures of Buddhism. The sand monk in Journey to the West, wasn't he demoted to the mortal world because he broke one of the Jade Emperor's glass cups. "What Xu Guang said is very serious,

"What I don't know is the ancient method of glass, and what is going on with the ancient method."

Jiang Yuan smiled. One meaning, just to distinguish between modern water glass and ancient glass, the glass fired with ancient technology is called ancient glass. The process of making zuò in ancient glaze is quite complicated, and it takes dozens of processes to complete. And it mainly relies on handmade zuò, in which the grasp of each link is quite difficult, and the difficulty of grasping its heat can be said to be half by skill and half by luck, so it is much more precious than ordinary glass. ”

"Oh" After listening to Jiang Yuan's explanation, Xu Guang suddenly realized, pointed to the glass mirror in Han Chong's hand, and said with a smile: "Then the things in Han Chong's hands should be antiquities." It's worth a lot of money, but I really don't seem to see this kind of glass on antiques on the market. Is it just admired in ancient times, and now it is in decline? ”

Seeing that Xu Guang was quite interested in ancient glass, Han Chong said. "In fact, the history of firing glaze in ancient times can be traced back to the Western Zhou Dynasty, and in the Han Dynasty, the level of glaze making has been quite mature. However, the smelting technology was in the hands of the royal family and nobles, and it has been kept secret. Because it is difficult for the people to obtain, people have always regarded glass as a treasure more precious than jade. ”

"There are five famous artifacts in China, namely glaze, gold and silver, jade, ceramics, and bronze. Among them, the glass is in the first place, which shows everyone's cherishment of it. ”

Speaking of this, Han Chong still shook his head and sighed: "However, just like you said, in the Yuan Dynasty, there was a fault in the production technology of colored glass, so in the early Ming Dynasty, colored glass became something that only appeared in myths and legends...... As for the few things that are glazed now. ”

"yes." Xu Guang empathizes, because the preciousness of glass can be seen in the creation of Journey to the West novels. Sha Seng was a curtain general, just because he broke a glass cup by mistake, he was degraded so badly, which is enough to show the preciousness of glass in the minds of people at that time.

"Since it is very cherished, then the glass is very valuable?"

Tu Yuwei shook her head, "I can't conclude that modern glass is definitely not valuable, because it is difficult to reproduce the glaze process before the Yuan Dynasty, but the fact that modern glaze is worthless does not mean that ancient glaze is worthless in modern times." You must know that the ancient glaze, which can be handed down to the present, is also a very precious art treasure. What's more, the glass is also divided into types, and most of the ones on the market are water glass, which is an imitation of the glass. The glaze that is really fired by the ancient method has a high cost and has a certain collection value. (To be continued......)