Speaking of this red mountain jade, it can be said to be extremely precious in the world.

At the earliest, after it was discovered in the areas of Inner Mongolia and Liaoning@Ning, it did not receive enough attention at first, so it was stored in some low-level local museums.

Later, when the country's archaeologists needed these red mountain jades to prove the connection between the red mountain culture and the Yellow River culture, people remembered this red mountain jade.

At that time, the state really attached importance to this kind of red mountain jade and collected it.

However, at that time, only a few dozen pieces were found, and later with the arrival of archaeological experts and the discovery of a large number of Hongshan cultural sites, this kind of Hongshan jade was more and more discovered.

But even so, up to now, there are only about 200 pieces of real Hongshan jade registered in China.

Of course, this is officially recorded, but I don't know how many of those tomb robbers excavated and smuggled overseas.

It is precisely because of this scarcity that Hongshan jade was once sought after in the foreign antique market.

The pursuit of these foreign enthusiasts has also caused domestic tomb robbers to frantically dig the ancient tombs of Hongshan.

Especially in recent years, this situation has become more and more intense, and many tomb robberies who originally operated in He@Nan and Shaanxi@West have spread to the northeast, waiting for opportunities to commit crimes.

Jin Muchen remembered that once, he saw a certain legal program in China, which described a case of theft and excavation of Hongshan cultural tombs cracked by domestic police.

At that time, a major tomb robbery syndicate was cracked, and the group members were as high as dozens of people. They are all professional tomb robbers who have fled from the He@Nan area to the Northeast to commit crimes.

They specifically focused on the ancient tombs of the Hongshan culture. A few years. Dozens of ancient tombs of Sequoia culture were excavated one after another, and a total of hundreds of Hongshan jade were stolen, and then smuggled overseas through various channels.

And in the end, if it weren't for the infighting between their gangs, and the two brothers who took the lead turned against each other because of the distribution of interests, the police might not have known about the existence of such a tomb robbery gang.

After watching which episode of the show, Jin Muchen was full of emotion for a while, Hongshan Jade. This is a masterpiece of the origin of our Chinese civilization.

In our country, there are only more than 200 pieces of Hongshan jade that are really recognized, but just such a tomb robbery gang can rob dozens of tombs in the northeast region in just a few years, dig up hundreds of Hongshan jade, and then sell them overseas.

And when it was even more hateful, such a national treasure-level Hongshan jade, when they bought it abroad, it would cost more than 100,000 yuan. The better ones will cost hundreds of thousands.

And once these red mountain jades enter the international market, they will immediately double their value. When it is put up for auction, the price often increases dozens of times.

After watching that episode of the show at that time, he could be said to grit his teeth with hatred for those tomb robbers, these rat-eyed guys, just for the sake of a little bit of immediate interests, they treated the treasures of our Chinese civilization as garbage, and packaged and disposed of them to those white-skinned ghosts, and they were not afraid that after they died, they would be scolded by their ancestors?

Driven by interests, the distortion of human nature of those guys is really terrifying.

But that gang is just a part of many tomb robbing gangs, and there should be many tomb robbers like them in China.

If it was really all arrested by the police, I am afraid that I would not have seen such a red mountain ancient jade in this venue today.

The number of red mountain jades in front of him was not much, only about five, and they were lying alone in the red silk satin tray on the stage.

The size is not big, the quality does not look very good, the carving is even more crude, if you just look at the quality, these red mountain jade, there is no way to compare with the Ming and Qing dynasties he has seen before, the exquisite carving of mutton fat white jade.

Even if it was the batch of Shang Dynasty ancient jade that he had collected in the United States before, it couldn't be compared at all.

But when it comes to cultural values, it's a big difference.

Jin Muchen once again focused his attention on the few Red Mountain Ancient Jades in front of him, these Red Mountain Ancient Jades, to be honest, look really bad, and they are all carved from yellow and green Xiuyan jade.

Because of the material of jade, these jade carvings do not look as transparent as mutton fat white jade, and there is no color of pulp at all, which looks very dull.

The carving is even more simple, there are only a few simple lines, and in the potholes, you can even see the traces of polishing and grinding.

If such jade is placed in the Ming and Qing dynasties, it is definitely a garbage road goods that cannot even be compared to the level of roadside goods, but if it is placed more than 4,500 years ago, it is simply a great achievement!

You must know that it was an era of extremely backward productive forces, and many people in that era could not fill their stomachs, and even the most basic primitive prototype of human society had not yet been formed.

People's living utensils, not to mention iron, not even bronze, at that time people used the most production tools, is sharpened wooden sticks, and sharpened stone axes.

However, the fact that people at that time were able to use such simple tools to make such jade already shows that human beings at that time already possessed extremely high wisdom.

Of course, a series of discoveries by archaeologists later also verified the speculation of later generations about the Hongshan culture.

According to the archaeologists, after the excavation of several large human settlements of the Hongshan culture, which were later discovered, the archaeologists came to a conclusion.

Hongshan culture can record the progress of Chinese civilization by 3,000 years, that is to say, we used to think that Chinese civilization was up and down 5,000 years, but in fact, after we have the evidence of Hongshan culture, we can record our civilization and raise it forward by 3,000 years, that is, up and down 8,000 years.

However, there is one thing that has been widely recognized by international archaeological experts, that is, during the Hongshan culture period, people at that time had gradually evolved from the very beginning of the primitive society, like the later slave society.

And what can prove this is these red mountain ancient jade.

Don't look at these ancient jades of the Red Mountain, the materials used are not very good, and the carvers are all rough line carvers, but such things, at that time, were also amazing treasures.

In a tribe, only those who are powerful, or the high priests, can have such things.

And such jade, in the later stage of the development of Hongshan culture, often became a necessary object for a tribal leader, and their role was like the jade seal of the later emperors, which was a necessary weapon for them to prove that they were the Son of Heaven.

In other words, with such jade, you can rule this tribe justifiably, otherwise...... Hehe......

Jin Muchen focused his attention back on these ancient jades, the carvings of these ancient jades were very simple, but the carved things made him a little confused, and he always felt that there was such a paradoxical feeling.

It felt like this thing was a little familiar, but he couldn't remember where he had seen it, until he suddenly remembered that there seemed to be such a jade dragon in the ancient jade of the Shang Dynasty that he had collected before, so he slapped his thigh and hit it.

This piece of red mountain jade seems to be carved with a dragon, and when he thinks of this, he can't help but want to pat his thigh excitedly, and he can't stop patting.

The reason why later archaeologists were able to associate the Hongshan culture with the later Yellow River culture was because of the jade dragon carved in the Hongshan jade.

You must know that there was no Yellow River civilization at that time, and the people of the Hongshan civilization at that time already knew to worship the dragon, and what is the dragon to the Yellow River civilization?

That is the recognized ancestor of the Yellow River civilization, and until now, we still claim to be the descendants of the dragon.

Do you say that there is a relationship between the Hongshan culture and the Yellow River culture? If it doesn't matter, then why does the Yellow River culture worship dragons? And why is the dragon totem of the Yellow River culture so similar to the dragon totem of the Hongshan culture?

However, at this time, Jin Muchen didn't have the heart to talk about historical research, he focused all his attention on this jade dragon, which was carved from a whole piece of dark green nephrite, and the body curled up in a "C" shape.

Raise the neck, bend the back and curl the tail, the snout stretches forward, the nose is truncated, the shuttle eye is upturned, the head is like a pig's head, the neck is rolled up, the center of gravity of the dragon's back is pierced with a hole, and this dragon in addition to the dragon head part with relief and Yin carving techniques to express the eyes, nose, mouth, the dragon body is light and plain, the whole body is polished, so that it looks like a python like a snake, angry and awe-inspiring.

Jin Muchen estimated that it was likely to be the god worship object of the ancestors of Hongshan or the symbol and protector of the clan and tribe, and it could also be a ritual for the priest to pray for rain.

This discovery, and speculation, made him ecstatic.

Although this jade dragon looks extremely crude on the outside, if you just look at the appearance, Jin Muchen feels that even those roadside stalls of more than a dozen yuan are more beautiful than him.

But can those roadside stalls emit such a strong blue light? Of course it can't be, so this alone is enough to prove the authenticity of this jade dragon and his value.

Looking at this jade dragon, Jin Muchen was slap in the face, and if he could find such a good thing, of course he should not miss it.

So he cautiously raised his head, intending to see if there were any potential competitors next to him, but this glance surprised him, there was no one beside him...... (To be continued......)