Chapter 255: Smile and be generous
Yao Weige prepared two antiques for Yu Lifei, one is a screen on the bed, one side is written with a poem of Li Bai's "Silent Night Thoughts", and the other side is accompanied by pictures. The painting depicts a scholar in the room, with his hands behind his back, looking at the moon in the sky and contemplating. The other is a blue and white water mountain vase, a typical Qing style. There are mountains, rivers, pavilions, courtyards and characters, concise and clear, and the strokes are fine. Those landscapes and figures look a little weak.
"Boss Yu, you show me these two things, and if you can, make a price. Whoever I sell is not selling, you won't let me suffer. Yao Weige said. After saying that, he returned to the table and ignored Yu Lifei.
Yu Lifei didn't speak, and after bowing slightly, he put on the white gloves he carried with him. In the past, when Yu Lifei wore gloves, he had to deliberately make a small hole in his finger, otherwise he would not be able to judge the authenticity of the object at once. But now, his gloves are all brand new. Don't say that through gloves, even if it's through something thicker, it won't affect his judgment.
But after Yu Lifei put on the gloves, he didn't get started immediately. He circled around the table, first looking closely at the screen on the bed. Li Bai's "Silent Night Thoughts" is popular, and the bright moonlight in front of the bed is suspected to be frost on the ground. Raise your head to understand, bow your head and think of your hometown.
When Yu Lifei saw this poem, he already had a bottom in his heart. Look at the bottom of the screen, which is engraved with the Ming Dynasty Chenghua year. Seeing this bottom paragraph, Yu Lifei showed a determined smile at the corner of his mouth. This bed screen, he judged it completely by his own knowledge, and he was very happy in his heart.
Looking at the blue and white landscape vase again, Yu Lifei looked at it carefully and put it down again. This Qingshui water water bottle is real. But the year was wrong, with the knowledge he mastered, coupled with the clarity of the three-dimensional figures in his mind, he felt that this should be from the middle and late Qing Dynasty. Then take a closer look at the water and mountain paintings on it. Yu Lifei is sure that this is a bottle in the Xianfeng period.
"Boss Yu, how are you looking?" Yao Weige saw that Yu Lifei finished reading it quickly, sat down next to Zhu Huiteng again, and asked with a smile.
"The screen on the bed, I can't see it accurately. There is something wrong with the age of the blue and white mountain water vase, and the price is not high. Yu Lifei said lightly.
"Oh, I don't know much either, can you tell me about it?" Yao Weige was a little surprised and said, these two antiques. He deliberately went to the antique market to ask someone to see it, and the owners of several antique markets said that these two antiques were from the present generation. Why did Yu Lifei only look at it a few times and see the details?
"Li Bai's "Silent Night Thoughts", we all memorized this poem when we were children. In fact, the original text of this poem is not the version we are familiar with. In the Song Dynasty Hongmai's "Ten Thousand Tang Dynasty Quatrains", the original poem is 'Looking at the moonlight before the bed, it is suspected that it is frost on the ground. Raise your head to look at the mountains and moon, bow your head and think of your hometown'. to the Ming Dynasty. "Ten Thousand Tang Dynasty Quatrains" has been revised, and "raise your head to look at the mountains and moons" has been changed to "raise your head to look at the bright moon". In Shen Deqian's "Tang Poetry Tailoring" in the Qing Dynasty, the first sentence 'watching the moonlight before the bed' was changed to 'the bright moonlight before the bed'. and then went to the compilation of "Three Hundred Tang Poems" by the retreat of Yutang, and combined these two sentences together. This screen. The following paragraph is 'Daming Chenghua', and at that time it was still 'watching the moonlight before bed'. Yu Lifei said with a smile.
"Really?" Yao Weige was explained by Yu Lifei in an easy-to-understand manner, and he understood it as soon as he heard it. He put down his cards and ran over on purpose. looked at it, and sure enough, it was as Yu Lifei said. The poems on the screen were compiled by the Qianlong period of the Qing Dynasty. Inscription on the base. But it is the Ming Dynasty, isn't this a big joke in the world.
"Boss Yu, I didn't expect you to know so much." Zhu Huiteng didn't look at it, but he knew that what Yu Lifei said was definitely true. This Yao Weige didn't know what kind of heart An was, so he used a fake one to fool people.
"It's nothing, it's just common sense for antique identification. If you don't even understand these common senses, you are deceived by others, you lose some money and property, you are laughed at by your peers, and those who make fakes succeed, then the gains outweigh the losses. Yu Lifei said.
"Yao Weige, if you don't understand antiques, don't deceive people with these fakes. It doesn't matter if you're embarrassed, our faces are dull. Zhu Huiteng said sneeringly.
"Zhu Shao, I also smacked my eyes. If I hadn't met Boss Yu today, I really didn't know that there would be such a big knowledge in antiques. Yao Weige smiled awkwardly, he naturally knew it. But he never expected that Yu Lifei not only knew that this screen was fake, but also could tell what the problem was. Even if he wanted to refute it, there was no way to say it. If he still denies it, he will be unlearned.
"After all, you're not from the antique world, and it's normal to be eye-catching." Yu Lifei said lightly.
"Boss Yu, can you tell me about this knowledge, so that I don't make such low-level mistakes in the future." Yao Weige had a rare blush on his face, and said embarrassedly.
"Actually, I don't know much, since you want to hear it, then I'll talk about it. Lu You has a song "Shi'er", which is also well-known to everyone. It begins with the sentence 'Death Yuan Zhi Wan is empty', but in fact, the original version reads 'Dead Yuan Zhi Wan Shi is empty'. The original 'yuan' is the yuan of New Year's Day. Because before the Ming Dynasty, 'original' and 'original knowledge' were written as 'yuanlai' and 'yuanzhi', and the word yuan was the original and original meaning. Later, Zhu Yuanzhang disliked the Yuan Dynasty and couldn't even see the word Yuan, so he ordered to change 'Yuanlai' to 'original', which became the current common usage. After understanding this blind spot in knowledge, if someone takes out an antique before the Ming Dynasty, and the word 'original' appears in it, there is no need to do other identification, it must be fake.
There is also an idiom, called 'talking on paper', which refers to Zhao Kuo's boastful talk and was killed by 400,000 Zhao troops in Changping. But think about it carefully, Zhao Kuo was a person in the Warring States period, when was paper invented? During the Western Han Dynasty, there was just the prototype of paper, and in the Eastern Han Dynasty, Cailun, paper in the real sense appeared. In fact, the idiom 'talking on paper' first appeared in the late Qing Dynasty, when it was associated with Zhao Kuo, almost during the Republic of China. If you see an antique book mentioning the story of Zhao Kuo's talk on paper, just throw it away, it is undoubtedly fake.
Previously, there was a pair of blue and white hot water bottles in the Ming Dynasty in the antique world, which was very exquisite. The owner claimed that it was used by Zheng He, which really frightened many people. But when the title of this pair of thermos comes out, as long as you are an insider, you will be happy. The inscription reads: 'Ming Chengzu Zhu Shidi Emperor Imperial Palace, Ming Yongle six years Wuziqiu'. People with a little common sense of literature and history know that Ming Chengzu is the temple number, and the emperor is dead, how can it appear in the sixth year of Yongle?
Some people argue that the temple number may have been prepared by the emperor before his death? Again, this is a standard knowledge blind spot. In fact, the temple name after Zhu Di's death was Ming Taizong, and it was not until more than 100 years later, when Emperor Jiajing was in power, that Zhu Di's temple name was changed to Ming Chengzu. Later generations used to call Chengzu Zhu Di, but people at that time would never call him that. When Yu Lifei talked about these appraisal knowledge, he was like a treasure.
"I really learned a lot of knowledge today, Boss Yu, your bottle is not fake, but the age is wrong, what age is it?" Yao Weige asked, he has always felt that this bottle was in the Yongzheng period, but Yu Lifei said it was wrong, he now knows that Yu Lifei is actually very knowledgeable, even if he wants to refute it, he will not say it casually, so as not to laugh and be generous.
"This involves some professional knowing, this bottle should be from the Xianfeng period. The reason for this judgment is that the characteristics of Xianfeng blue and white are very weak. In the Xianfeng time, no matter what you paint, you don't have power.
For example, the same tree is painted in the early Qing Dynasty, and the tree painted in the Xianfeng period is like a background on the stand, with a piece of paper inserted there, which is a half-dead tree. Xianfeng painted a horse, much like a horse that has just finished a circus performance, and it is wilted and lifeless when it comes out. The mountains painted by Yongzheng are mountains, trees are trees, and animals are animals.
This was caused by the historical period at that time, and everyone knew that the Xianfeng Dynasty was not as good as Yongzhengye, and even the potters knew that they were not as good as their ancestors now, and they were not as good as Yongzheng, so they had to paint like Yongzheng. Therefore, in the Xianfeng Dynasty, a large number of porcelain from the Yongzheng period were imitated, and the bottom was written 'Yongzheng Year System of the Qing Dynasty', and the ancestor's paragraph was written, not his own paragraph. Yu Lifei said.
"Listening to your words is better than reading a book for ten years. Boss Yu, do you want this blue and white water vase? Yao Wei asked with a smile.
"Xianfeng's bottles are not worth a few dollars, and the store next door to me is full of blue and white vases, all of which are from the middle and late Qing Dynasty." Yu Lifei shook his head lightly and said. He was very wary of Yao Weige, he didn't know the origin of this thing, he didn't want it.
"Then forget it." Yao Weige felt disappointed in his heart.
"Boss Yu, Zhu Shao is very lucky tonight, and he is not the banker, do you want to play a few games together?" Lin Xing said suddenly.
"You're only dealing four hands, and I'm not good at betting." Yu Lifei said with a smile.
"It doesn't matter, you can play any hand, run away, don't bet." Zhu Huiteng patted Yu Lifei's shoulder and said.
"Okay, I'll play for a while, is there a limit to betting?" Yu Lifei asked.
"There is no limit today, but my capital is insufficient, only five or six hundred thousand, you have to make me afford to pay." Lin Xing said with a smile.
"Okay. Is there a precedence in this card? Yu Lifei asked again.
"The dealer takes the cards first, and the others can take the cards as they please." Lin Xing said.
"I think it's good to do this, the dealer takes the cards first, and the rest, according to the size of the bet to get the cards? Whoever makes the big bet will let him take the card first. Of course, the all-run doesn't count. Yu Lifei said with a smile.
"Okay, Boss Yu's brain is aura, this is a good idea." Although Lin Xing was a little uncomfortable, what Yu Lifei said was reasonable, and he could only agree.
"Okay, I'll bet 10,000 here with Zhu Shao." Yu Lifei said that they don't need to put money to bet, and only after they lose, they need to pay money. (To be continued......)