Speaking of which, the young man also put on a look of jiashi who didn't want to talk about it anymore, as if the price of 8,000 yuan was already his bottom line.

"This ......" Chu Chen showed a thoughtful look.

"Big brother, don't worry, the things are definitely passed down from my family." The young man patted his chest and reassured.

Chu Chen didn't speak, but pretended to be in love and kept playing with the things on the stall, and after half a sound, he said: "Little brother, let's do it, I'll add another thousand, you see, this bowl, and this plate, there is a punch." ”

As he spoke, Chu Chen pointed to one of the edges of the bowl and plate respectively, not to mention, there was really a punch.

"Big brother, your eyesight is so good." The young man gave Chu Chen a thumbs up and said, "But then again, after all, it's a thing that has been around for hundreds of years, and bumps and bumps are inevitable, so let's take a step back if you really want to, how about these things, five thousand five?" ”

Chu Chen lowered his head, hesitated for a while, but still took out the money from his bag, counted it, handed it to the young man and said, "Okay, but you have to help me wrap it!" ”

"Great!" The young man took the money, counted it carefully, and then suppressed the excitement and joy in his heart, and quickly wrapped everything in the old newspaper.

When he was about to wrap the folding fan, Chu Chen waved his hand and said, "Just put this fan in my bag, don't need to wrap it." ”

"Okay! ……”

After Chu Chen left with the bag, the young man couldn't help cheering, hurriedly picked up his mobile phone, and called his girlfriend.

"Hadron. What's the matter? I'm eating! ”

"What a good thing! I sold all the things you gave me yesterday. Sold for 5,000! ”

"Isn't it, the rags my dad bought sold so much? But there's really something in there, right? ”

"Come on. If your father's eyesight is so good, will he still lose all your family's money? ”

"That's right! Okay, let's not talk about this, since we have so much money, you can buy the jewelry I liked last time, Qiangzi, you go there and wait for me first, I'll come over in a while......"

Chu Chen hummed a little song and came to the Haode Hotel before, and followed the waiter to the private room. Zhou Wenping and Lao Wu have already ordered food and are waiting for him.

After the three of them greeted each other, Zhou Wenping said with a smile: "Xiaochen, you are in such a good mood, it can't be a leak, right?" ”

Chu Chen said with a smile: "Brother Zhou, you guessed accurately, I really picked up the leak just now." ”

"Isn't it?" Zhou Wenping and Lao Wu were very surprised, and then they all looked at the bag in Chu Chen's hand.

"The things are not in it, these are all fakes, let's wait until we have dinner." Chu Chen said with a smile.

"Yes, yes, yes! Eat first......"

When eating. Chu Chen told the cause and effect of the leak just now, and the two people who listened to it were amazed.

"It's really a loss to steal chickens and rice, and I lost my wife and soldiers!" Lao Wu smiled dumbly and said, "But I'm really curious, Xiaochen, what kind of treasure did you get?" ”

Chu Chen smiled mysteriously and said, "Let's wait until we are full of wine and food, I believe that we will not disappoint you." ”

"That's good. We'll see......"

After eating, wait for the waiter to clean up the table and make a cup of tea for everyone. After Chu Chen spread a newspaper on the table, he took out the folding fan from his bag and put it on it.

"Huh! Folding fan! ”

"Looks like it's supposed to be purple wax bottom!"

Folding fan. It is a foldable fan made of bamboo, wood or ivory as a fan bone, tough paper or silk as a fan surface. It is also the favorite of traditional Chinese literati. When used, it must be spread out, formed into a semicircle, and the head and tail should be scattered. It is also known as sprinkling fan, pinching fan, folding fan, folding fan, gathering fan, etc.

There are different opinions about the origin of the folding fan, but in my personal opinion, it is more reliable to originate from the Southern Qi Dynasty.

"Banana Window Fan" has: "The folding fan is commonly known as the folding fan, the ancient name is the head fan, and it is also called the bone fan, which began in the Northern Song Dynasty, and its promiscuity is far away in the Southern Qi Dynasty." "Book of Nanqi": "Chu Yuan uses his waist fan to make a day", and "Tongjian Note" cloud: "Waist fan is a folding fan". But it wasn't popular at the time. In the Northern Song Dynasty, "folding fans made in the market are ...... The width of the exhibition is three or four, and the combination of two fingers is allowed", the market has a system, which shows that it is no longer exclusive to a few people. ”

However, regardless of the origin of the folding fan, the unified view is that the folding fan has gradually improved and innovated from the original fan-shaped, and has given a new national traditional cultural significance.

Chu Chen nodded and said, "Yes!" This is indeed a folding fan with a purple wax bottom of Xiangfei bamboo, and I think the time of production should be the end of the Ming Dynasty and the beginning of the Qing Dynasty. ”

"Xiangfei bamboo" is always the word of the most suction folding fan bone collectors, not only collectors are proud of having a high-quality Xiangfei bamboo folding fan, but also collectors who have Xiangfei bamboo folding fans often like to secretly compare to see whose Xiangfei bamboo fan is more beautiful and in better condition.

Why is this material so attractive?

Speaking of this, I have to first talk about an ancient legend about Xiangfei Bamboo: legend, Emperor Shun's second concubine Empress Ehuang and Nuying faced Cangwu Mountain and cried to Emperor Shun, tears sprinkled on the bamboo mountain of Jiuzhi Mountain, and the bamboo pole showed a little tear spots, some purple, some snow-white, and blood-red, this is "Xiangfei Bamboo".

Some of the bamboo images are printed with fingerprints, and legend has it that the second concubine wiped her tears on the bamboo. Some of the bright red blood spots on the bamboos were dyed with blood and tears from the eyes of the two concubines. The reason why the Xiangfei bamboo fan collection continues to heat up, in addition to this ancient and poignant legend, is more because of its beautiful patterns and rare quantity, after all, its growth period is only two months.

It is said that in ancient times, when the value of the Xiangfei bamboo was calculated, it was necessary to weigh it on the scale, and there was an inch of Xiangfei and three taels of gold. The Xiangfei bamboo fan bone is the best product before the middle of the Qing Dynasty, and the material is based on reddish-purple round spots and waxy yellow bamboo ground, and the contrast effect is obvious, which is played by high-ranking officials and nobles, and is not available to ordinary people.

Moreover, due to the preciousness of the material, the workmanship of the fan bone of the "purple wax bottom" is extremely exquisite, and it is mostly made by the master of fan making at that time. "Purple wax bottom" has been popular since the beginning of the Ming Dynasty, but due to climate change and other reasons, the material is basically in the endangered variety after the middle of the Qing Dynasty, and the late Qing Dynasty has been lacking in materials, so in the collection world, a high-grade purple wax bottom folding fan can be described as the treasure that folding fan collectors dream of.

Seeing this, Zhou Wenping and Lao Wu were a little eager to try, the two glanced at each other, and Lao Wu smiled: "Brother Zhou, it's better for you to watch first!" ”

"Then I'll be disrespectful." Zhou Wenping smiled, did not twist, carefully picked up the folding fan and observed it carefully.

Zhou Wenping picked up the folding fan and didn't let it go, first carefully looked at the fan bones, and also took out a magnifying glass to carefully observe the pulp of the fan head, and after half a sound, he nodded and said: "Yes, this should indeed be the purple wax bottom of the late Ming and early Qing dynasties." ”

Then, Zhou Wenping spread out the folding fan and carefully observed the fan surface, but when he saw the fan painting, especially the inscription seal, he was stunned.

"Eight also?!"

"What? Is it really eight also? Hearing the word "eight returns", the fifth child couldn't sit still, stood up instantly, rushed to Zhou Wenping's side, and went up to take a look.

Don't talk about Zhou Wenping and Lao Wu, when Chu Chen saw the seal of "Eight Returns" before, he was not much better than them. The nickname "Eight Returns" may not be very well-known, but this person's other other "Bada Mountain Man" must be familiar to everyone.

Bada Shanren, that is, Zhu Qi, his real name is Tong, alias a mountain, a house, etc., a descendant of Zhu Quan, the king of Mingning. After the fall of the Ming Dynasty, the country was ruined, the mood was sad and indignant, Shunzhi cut his hair for five years and became a monk, the name of the law was passed on, and the word blade hermitage. He was loyal to the Ming Dynasty all his life, regarded himself as a remnant of the Ming Dynasty, and refused to cooperate with the Qing. Kangxi was 14 years old and 60 years old, and signed the Eight Mountain People until the year of his death, and the four characters of the signature were even grassed, like "crying" and "laughing".

Bada Shanren are good at painting landscapes, flowers and birds, bamboo and wood. Flowers and birds learn from Shen Zhou, Chen Chun, and Xu Wei, and they are unique in Jingwu. Huang Gongwang was influenced by Dong Qichang. It has a great influence on the flower and bird painting of the Qing Dynasty, and is called the "Four High Monks of the Early Qing Dynasty" together with Yuan Ji, Hongren and Zhu Cripple.

His works often use symbolic techniques to express his heart, and exaggerate the flowers, birds, fish and insects he paints, with his peculiar image and concise shape, so that the image in the painting is prominent, the theme is distinct, and even the eyes of birds and fish are painted as "white eyes to people", in order to express his arrogant and cynical character, thus creating an unprecedented shape of flowers and birds.

The characteristics of pen and ink are good at laissez-faire, vigorous and round, clear and elegant, whether large or small, there is a simple and hearty and bright and healthy wind god. The structure of the chapter is unconventional, and it seeks completeness in the incomplete.

The painter Zheng Banqiao once praised when he painted the Bada Shanren: "Thousands of horizontal and vertical paintings, there are no ink spots and many tears." The imagery of "simplicity", "elegantness", "loneliness" and "ethereal" is the main tone of the Eight Great Paintings, and it is also the realm of "quietness", "Xuanyuan", "indifference" and "profundity" pursued by ancient Chinese literati.

The fan painting on Chu Chen's folding fan is the flower and bird "Lotus Stone Perching Birds" that Bada Shanren are best at.

The lotus shape in the fan surface is refined, a weak lotus rod, connecting the flowers and leaves together, a few ink spots, depressed and indifferent, idle and quiet.

The nameless bird standing on the dangerous rock with one foot, moving in the stillness, seeking quiet in the crisis, cocking the tail and bulging the belly, standing majestically and looking down, despising everything, it can really be described as round eyes expressive, quite modal, vivid, quite vivid.

The stones painted in the painting are also abnormal, large at the top and small at the bottom, precarious, and the danger arises spontaneously.

The lotus, nameless bird and dangerous stone in the painting can be said to have completely walked out of the author's mental state, and fully demonstrated the author's stubborn and arrogant character. (To be continued......)