When Chu Chen returned to the store, Zhou Wenping saw the jade cong in his hand, and asked a little strangely:

"The jade cong in your hand, why does it look like Liangzhu culture?"

Chu Chen smiled and said, "Brother Zhou, you're right, but I haven't looked at it carefully, but before I thought in my heart that this jade cong was more likely to be Liangzhu culture." ”

"Really?" Hearing Chu Chen say this, Zhou Wenping was really surprised.

Liangzhu culture is the late Neolithic culture represented by black pottery and polished jade distributed in the Taihu Lake Basin, dating back to 5300-4000 years ago, the most famous of which is its jade, which is known for its dense and meticulous carvings and decorations, and harmonious and neat.

The typical utensils in the Liangzhu jade are the jade cong, because of its exquisite ornamentation and important historical value, as well as the great artistic charm, it has been sought after by jade lovers since ancient times, and some shadow celadon in the Song Dynasty began to imitate the shape of the Liangzhu jade cong, which shows its great influence.

Because of the great influence, coupled with the extremely high price of Liangzhu jade, the current market is constantly imitated, it can be said that it is not an exaggeration, there are Liangzhu jade sold everywhere, in the store, on the stall, expensive to hundreds of thousands, as small as dozens of yuan, all kinds of things, dizzying.

It is precisely because the market for Liangzhu jade is so chaotic that Zhu jade lovers often want to collect but dare not collect, mainly because they cannot judge the authenticity of these jades. This is actually the most important reason why Zhou Jude will sell the real one to Chu Chen as a fake, and Zhou Wenping is so excited now.

At the same time, Lao Wu happened to walk out from behind the store and saw Zhou Wenping's excited appearance. I couldn't help but feel a little strange and asked, "What's wrong with you guys?" ”

Chu Chen raised the things in his hand. smiled: "Let's go, go upstairs and talk about it!" ……”

After each of the three sat down. Lao Wu looked at Chu Chen's jade cong on the table, his expression was a little incredible, and said: "Such a big jade cong, don't tell me that I am Liangzhu Yucong!" ”

Chu Chen said with a smile: "I think the possibility is still very large, as for whether it is true or not, let's wait until I have seen it first!" ”

Liangzhu jade cong is carved from nephrite jade, which is square on the outside and round on the inside, large at the top and small at the bottom. The fine Yin line engraving technique on its surface has reached a point that is almost beyond the reach of later generations.

Not only that, Liangzhu Yucong also prides itself on being big, which shows its unique charm. Like this jade cong in Chu Chen's hand. The visual length is estimated to be about 144 or 5 centimeters, even if it is not as tall as the 17 centimeters of the Liangzhu Yucong King, it is quite rare and rare.

Of course, big is another side, if it is big that can not attract the attention of the majority of lovers, in addition to those exquisite and cumbersome ornaments, the square cylindrical jade cong is a vertical groove in the middle of the four sides, the two sides of the groove are basically equitant, and the error is about 1 mm. The spacing between the top and bottom of each section is also almost exactly equal.

And the composition of the face pattern of the jade cong beast is basically the same. There is half a beast face on the corner of each face, and half of the beast face on the corner of the adjacent side forms a complete beast face, which makes the original dull beast face more vivid and varied.

For example, the jade cong in Chu Chen's hand is engraved with a composite image of a god, man and beast face in the four straight grooves. It is carved with line relief combined with fine line carving.

On the rectangular convex surface divided into two sections in the shape of an angular ruler, the corners are used as the central axis to spread out to both sides, and a group of simplified symbolic patterns of gods, men and beasts are carved on each two sections. The four corners are the same, symmetrical to the left and right. The simplified section of the mythical beast is also decorated with a bird pattern. And with each ornament on the cloud and thunder pattern.

These intricate totemic ornaments are a combination of hair-thin lines. After letting Chu Chen appreciate it, he couldn't help but let out a sound of admiration.

In fact, this is also a difficult problem that has plagued many experts and scholars to this day, because people really can't imagine how to process jade materials that are harder than ordinary rocks and various metals in the Liangzhu period, when there was neither bronze nor steel, to make it so beautifully decorated?

In addition, how did the people at that time control the error of Yucong so accurately? Especially in the relatively primitive society four or five thousand years ago, Chu Chen felt very incredible when he thought about it.

It took more than twenty minutes for Chu Chen to carefully read all the features of this jade cong with the help of a magnifying glass, although judging from Baojue's reaction, he guessed that this was probably a genuine product, but when he could confirm that this was really a genuine product, he couldn't help but show excitement.

When Zhou Wenping and Lao Wu saw Chu Chen's expression, they immediately understood the meaning, and asked in surprise: "Is this really true?" ”

"Yes, just look at it!" Chu Chen said with a smile.

Zhou Wenping and Lao Wuyi heard this, and hurriedly took turns to observe.

At this moment, Gu Jianming came here to take a rest, and when he saw that Chu Chen was also there, he greeted him with a smile, and then asked, "Boss, when did you come back?" ”

"Yesterday afternoon!" Chu Chen replied with a smile, and then asked, "How is the family lately, and what are your living habits?" ”

Gu Jianming said happily: "It's good, it's a little drier here than in the south, the children were a little unaccustomed to it at first, but they have adapted to it in the past two days." ”

"That's good!" Chu Chen said happily: "By the way, how is the progress of jade jewelry carving now?" ”

Gu Jianming replied: "The progress is about the same, and it will definitely be enough by the day of opening!" Why don't we go and see the works we carved now? ”

Chu Chen agreed: "Okay, but after Brother Zhou and the others finish reading, I'll go." ”

"Okay!"

Gu Jianming nodded, and then looked at Zhou Wenping and them, but found that the things in Zhou Wenping's hands were a little familiar, so he asked with some curiosity: "Xiao Zhou, what are they looking at!" ”

"It's a piece of Liangzhu Jade Cong that I just got."

"What, Liangzhu Yucong?!"

Gu Jianming was very surprised when he heard this, and looked at it fixedly, but he didn't expect that it was really the Liangzhu Yucong that he had always wanted to appreciate and study, which made him really surprised.

Seeing Gu Jianming's expression, Chu Chen asked a little strangely, "Master Gu, are you also very interested in the Liangzhu Jade Sect?" ”

Gu Jianming said quite excitedly: "Of course, you must know that the decoration of Liangzhu jade, even if it is a millimeter wide Yin line, there are more than three obviously targeted engraving Yin lines, this kind of engraving process until today, even with the help of modern processing machine Qì method, it is difficult to achieve." Such a superb carving process is of great reference significance to us in this industry. ”

Hearing Gu Jianming say this, Chu Chen said with a smile: "Okay, I'll not be busy after a while, I can put this jade Yicong in the store for you to study for a while." ”

"Thank you! Thank you! When Gu Jianming heard Chu Chen say this, he was quite excited, and he thanked Chu Chen repeatedly. ……

After the three of them finished reading this jade cong, the fifth child couldn't help but sigh: "Liangzhu jade cong, it really lives up to its reputation, if it weren't for the fact that there are too many fakes and the price is so expensive, I really want to buy one too." ”

Zhou Wenping said with a smile when he heard this: "Come on, cheap is not good, good is not cheap, do you think such a beautiful Liangzhu jade will be cheap?" ”

Gu Jianming, who was next to him, smiled when he heard this, and then said to Chu Chen: "Boss, can you introduce to me the key points of the identification of Liangzhu jade, and I will also go to the Panjiayuan next door to try my luck one day." ”

Chu Chen said: "It's okay to introduce it, but I want to remind you that you must not be sloppy and impulsive when buying antiques, otherwise it will be easy to be blind." ”

Gu Jianming nodded and said: "I also know this, anyway, if I really want to buy it, I will definitely look at the artistic conception of the thing and buy it again." ”

After all, Gu Jianming is also a skilled craftsman, and he can still see the artistic conception of the jade expression, and fakes are often only rigid, unless they are high imitations, it is really difficult to deceive Gu Jianming.

Chu Chen smiled and said, "Okay, I'll tell you about some of the characteristics of this Liangzhu jade now." ”

As he spoke, he picked up the jade and explained: "First of all, the identification of Liangzhu jade should carefully distinguish the quality and color of the jade. There are many kinds of materials used in Liangzhu ancient jade, the most important of which is nephrite from tremolite to actinolite series, as well as fluorite, pyrophyllite, chalcedony, turquoise and other jade. ”

"As for the characteristics of these jades, I will bring a book to you tomorrow to see, and it will be easier to understand according to the color pictures above. Speaking of jade, let's talk about the color of Qin, most of the Liangzhu jade is white after being Qin. ”

Speaking of this, Chu Chen pointed to the color on the jade cong and said:

"However, just like the chicken bone white on this jade, the real Liangzhu ancient jade does not have a purer chicken bone white, and the jade whitening formed in the natural environment is due to the gradual loss of the crystal water inside the tremolite, which generally undergoes a gradual process of redness, opacity, and whitening, which is the most basic feature of distinguishing Liangzhu jade."

"In addition, the processing method of Liangzhu jade is very advanced, which can make a very good polishing effect. In addition, due to the combined influence of more than 4,000 years of burial environment, the effect of glass light will eventually be formed, and irregular fine wear marks can be seen in the high-power magnifying glass, which is a characteristic that cannot be imitated by modern power tool processing. ”

"In addition to the characteristics mentioned above, there are two most important characteristics of real Liangzhu jade, these two points are the Yin carved line you just mentioned, as well as the charm in it."

After Chu Chen took a sip of tea, he continued: "At that time of Liangzhu culture, it was definitely impossible to have so many advanced automatic tools like now, so these exquisite jade artifacts were definitely not able to be completed in a short period of time, coupled with the special function of jade at that time, it contained the author's hard work and solemn charm. ”

"This can be felt by more experienced experts, or skilled craftsmen like you. ......" (To be continued......)