These jades, at a glance, can only be described in two words, that is, beautiful.

The types of jade are mainly cups, bowls, plates and dishes, and the types of utensils are not small, but if you look closely, you can see that these should be practical utensils, not ornamental utensils.

Such a large jade is used to make practical tools, this spirit is really extraordinary.

And the material of the jade itself, most of them are jasper, not the type of mutton fat white jade that our people like, the most important thing is that these jade objects are very thin.

It's just such a thin layer, and the light transmittance is very good, which is not the same as the carving technique of our ancient Chinese jade.

Our Chinese jade is not without cups, dishes and dishes carved out of jade, but most of the cups, dishes and dishes we carved out are used as ornamental vessels.

And even if there is a carving, the utensils will not be carved so thin, and the general thickness is also exquisite, for the transmittance, we are not particularly high.

Because from the perspective of our Chinese jade, if the jade is carved too thin, then the light transmittance is high, but it will affect the identification of the quality of the jade.

After all, our Chinese people prefer to watch the changes in the patterns inside the jade, not like to see a thin layer of jade, and the essence of jade cannot be seen at all.

In addition, our traditional Chinese jade carving masters, if they make such a large type of jade, often like the technique of variegated jade carving.

To put it bluntly, when selecting materials, I like to use variegated jade as raw materials, and I hope to use variegated raw materials. to improve the color of the final product. Improve the aesthetics of the finished product.

If you choose pure color jade as the raw material. Generally, it is also chosen to leave the skin on the final finished product, on the one hand, it is to leave the research method of the origin of the raw materials, and on the other hand, it is also to increase the final beauty of the utensils.

And this kind of jade in front of me does not have the rules and regulations of our Chinese jade carvers when they carved jade.

This is very strange, you must know that so many countries in the world like to play with jade, especially the countries that do jade carving, so far. It can be said that China is the only one in the world.

Even countries such as South Korea and Japan, which are deeply influenced by Chinese civilization, will have no jade carving culture at all because of the poor materials, and even if the upper class in their country has the habit of collecting jade, they all rely on trade means to trade jade from China, and as for themselves, there is no history of jade carving at all.

And where did these jade artifacts in front of me, which are obviously very different from ancient Chinese jade and style, come from?

If you don't know the history of the development of ancient Chinese jade. When you see these jade objects, you will definitely be blinded. But who is Jin Muchen?

Even if he doesn't dare to claim to be just an expert in Chinese antiques now, he still has a certain basic judgment in his heart for such a thing.

However, although he had a bottom in his heart, he did not dare to make a rash conclusion without careful research.

He came to the stall and stood still, and then began to carefully examine the jade objects on the stall, which were of many varieties.

Most of them are cups, dishes, and saucers, of course, among them, there are saucers, and bottles are the most, and there are some beautiful bowls, cups or something, but these things have too many traces of use, although they are also old objects, but Jin Muchen doesn't like them very much.

Before he could take a closer look, the Indian stall owner, who had been doing nothing before, had already greeted him.

"Distinguished guests, welcome to the Tatar stall, I specialize in all kinds of jade here, you can look at whatever you like, if there is something you can see, just beckon me over."

Like the Indian antique stall owners I've met before, this Indian stall owner is just as welcoming, and even though his curry-flavored English is uncomfortable, it's a good attitude.

Jin Muchen nodded at him with a smile, and then waved his hand to signal him to go by himself, don't worry about me, I see what will greet you.

The Indian stall owner was also very sensible, probably because he had dealt with the Japanese a lot of times, and knew the preferences of the Japanese, so he quickly walked far to the side, and then took out a cigarette and began to smoke, while chatting with the stall owner of a stall on the other side.

The stall owner was not here to make noise, but Jin Muchen was happy and quiet, and began to calm down and appreciate the jade on the stall.

At the top of the stall, there are a lot of jade plates with exquisite workmanship, the carving of these jade plates is very good, the use of the ancient Western Regions common geometric figures, the walls are very thin, the light transmittance is very good, the wall and the bottom of the plate can also see the carved ornament of passionflower.

The caliber of the plate is generally not small, the smallest open is more than 20 centimeters, the larger ones can be more than 30 centimeters wide, and the depth is enough.

This should be a plate used to hold fruits, such a plate, even if it has been used by others, Jin Muchen is not annoying.

Looking at the jade bottles placed on the plate, all of them are also very beautiful, most of them are relatively tall, basically twenty or thirty centimeters high, and like the jade plate, the jade is polished very thin, and the light transmittance is very good.

The shape of the bottles is also close to the shape of ancient Chinese and Western style bottles, but through these bottles, you can see the biggest difference between this type of jade and our Chinese-made jade.

The jade made in ancient China is generally very elegant, that is to say, this jade, even if it is also used to carve practical utensils such as cups, dishes, plates, and dishes, but in addition to using variegated jade, or leaving skin on the jade, the rest is only decorated by the carving skills of the jade master and the carved patterns, and will not be used for other decorations.

This is not the case with these bottles, which have a lot of passionflower and Shaoliang flower patterns, and then in the middle of some important petals, there are actually red, green, yellow, blue and other colored gemstone inlays.

And that's not all, on some of the key decorative lines of the pattern, there are actually gold threads, and there are gold edges on the edge of the bottle, such a decoration really opened Jin Muchen's eyes.

Just by seeing this, we can basically conclude that this is definitely not our jade with Chinese characteristics.

Of course, this kind of jade can't be said to have nothing to do with us.

Speaking of us Chinese playing jade, it can definitely be said that we began to play from the era when our ancestors were born into civilization, such as the earliest Hongshan culture on the land of China, when the unearthed cultural relics included Hongshan ancient jade.

Later, after the appearance of the Yellow River civilization, at that time, whether it was the Xia Dynasty, the Shang Dynasty, or the Spring and Autumn Period and the Warring States Period, there were ancient jade cultural relics unearthed in the same period.

And in the Han Dynasty, our ancestors played jade, and finally played a new peak.

In the Han Dynasty, from the emperor to the ordinary people, there were few people who didn't like jade, but anyone with a little status would be buried with some jade after they died.

If you are poor, you will stuff a piece of jade in your mouth or PY, and if you are rich and powerful, and your status is qualified, you will be buried in a golden clothes.

After the Han Dynasty, although our China entered a period of war, the habit of playing jade has never been lost.

In the Tang Dynasty and Song Dynasty, playing with jade also developed to a new period, even when it came to the Yuan Dynasty, a dynasty established by the Mongols, even the Mongols were deeply affected by our image and fell in love with playing with jade.

At that time, many Mongolian nobles liked to wear jade ornaments with them, and when they married girls, they had to bring a string of jade beads to the girls.

In the Ming and Qing dynasties, with the stability of the national territory and the improvement of people's living standards, the culture of playing jade has flourished, and finally when the jade idiot emperor appeared, we Chinese played jade to a peak period.

So now in the antique market, the jade of the Qianlong Emperor's period must be the most valuable.

Even if there is the so-called Han Badao jade, or the treasure like the golden silk clothes of the Han Dynasty, or the ancient jade of Hongshan are worth a lot of money, and the price of some fine products can be compared with the jade of the Qianlong period, but the jade representatives of the first two eras, the reason why the price is high is because they have more archaeological value, and if it comes to artistic value, it really cannot be compared with the jade of the Qianlong period.

And it is precisely because the Qianlong Emperor liked jade that during his reign, not only China's domestic jade industry has flourished, but even some surrounding areas have begun to give birth to the jade industry.

For example, in the northern part of India, Kashmir and western Pakistan at that time, because Fukangan once crossed the Himalayas, the local road was cleared, and a kind of jade was born for the Chinese emperor.

That is, it was later inscribed by Emperor Qianlong with a total of more than 20 poems, and the jade of Hindustan was made!

This kind of jade, to put it bluntly, is an Islamic-style jade.

Because of the difference in aesthetic tastes between the East and the West, jade is not a fine gemstone in the eyes of Westerners, so although it has been in contact with Westerners for so many years, in the Islamic world, there was no such thing as jade at the earliest.

This was true even when there was the most cultural exchange with the Tang Dynasty, but in the Qing Dynasty, this situation changed, especially after Fukangan led the army through the Himalayas and fought all the way to Nepal. (To be continued.) )