The next day, a director surnamed Wang from Longxi took Chu Chen and the four of them to the Longxi Museum to find Professor Qin yesterday.

When Chu Chen and the others came to the museum, Professor Qin hadn't come over yet, so Director Wang took the four of them around the museum.

Longxi is one of the birthplaces of the Chinese nation, Dadiwan culture, Majiayao culture, Fuxi culture, Zhou culture, etc., have developed and grown up, and Longxi is also the key to the ancient Silk Road and the golden section. Such a special geographical environment and long-standing historical and cultural relics also make Longxi one of the major provinces of cultural relics in China.

The Longxi Museum is a platform to display and understand the culture of Longxi, which is rich in collections, with more than 300,000 pieces of historical relics, modern cultural relics, ethnic cultural relics, and paleontological fossils and specimens.

Among them, from the Cretaceous paleontological fossil specimens to the painted pottery culture of the Neolithic and Paleolithic Ages; From the bronzes, ceramics and jade of the Shang and Zhou dynasties to the Silk Road civilization of the Han and Tang dynasties; Including Song, Yuan, Ming and Qing dynasty porcelain, wood carvings, silk fabrics, paintings, etc., there are very rich collections.

With such a rich collection, everyone who saw it was in vain, especially the treasure of the town hall "Horse Stepping Feiyan", which made everyone really breathtaking.

"Horse Stepping Feiyan", also known as "Ma Chao Dragon Sparrow", "Copper Galloping Horse", was unearthed in Longxi in 1969. It is a classic work of Eastern Han Dynasty artists, a rare treasure of ancient Chinese sculpture art, and represents the highest artistic achievement of the Eastern Han Dynasty in the history of Chinese sculpture.

The image of the whole work is vigorous and handsome, and it has a unique style. Fat and healthy, well-proportioned body. The mane is neat and the hooves are tough and powerful. Its head tilted back slightly and tilted slightly to the left. The tail is raised back, and the mouth is wide open. It was as if it was hissing.

And the artist is ingenious enough to have the horse's hind hooves step on a delphinium.

The weight of the copper galloping horse is concentrated on the right hind hoof, how can it maintain balance? It's a conundrum. The artist deliberately retracted the horse's head and neck so that the center of gravity shifted as far back as possible. At the same time, make the hind hooves of the swallow stretch forward as much as possible, so that the horse's support point and center of gravity are exactly on a vertical line.

This, combined with the two legs sticking out from front to back and the raised tail, not only keeps the horse balanced overall, but also makes the horse's shape more graceful.

In this way, with the swallow lining the horse, the speed of the flying swallow and the galloping horse is obvious to all. It vividly shows the majestic posture of the horse soaring in the air and running at high speed.

Such a bold and wonderful idea, romantic technique, and exquisite craftsmanship made Chu Chen and them can't help but be amazed after appreciating it.

Not long after Chu Chen and the others watched "Horse Stepping on Feiyan", the staff informed them that Professor Qin had arrived.

Chu Chen, led by the staff, came to a room where many cultural relics were placed. Many of these artifacts should have been unearthed not long ago. I saw that several staff members were carefully cleaning up the cultural relics, their expressions were so focused that they didn't even raise their heads when Chu Chen and them came in.

Chu Chen: They are under the leadership of the staff. When I came to Professor Qin's side, I saw that he was admiring a green jade lezi.

Lezi, also known as "wax". There are two kinds of round lezi and square lezi, which are jade ornaments that are hung on the chest or waist. It can be hung alone or in combination with other jade ornaments.

Chu Chen saw it. The green jade lezi in Professor Qin's hand has soil on the surface, and the whole body is carved with multiple groups of deformed dragon patterns, and a slender hole is drilled at both ends for wearing, and it is in a good state of preservation.

Looking at the appearance and carving techniques of the ornamental pattern, Chu Chen thought that this should be a green jade lezi in the early Warring States period, thinking of this mission, and then seeing the characteristics of the pit mouth and the leather shell of this green jade lezi, he felt that this was probably unearthed at the mouth of a pit with the white jade tripod before.

After a while, Professor Qin put down the green jade in his hand, pointed to some bronzes and jades on the table in front of him, and said:

"Xiao Chu, these things I have here are all confiscated by us according to clues, and we think they should be unearthed at the same time as the white jade tripod, haven't you seen the white jade tripod, then can you give us an appraisal!"

Chu Chen didn't feel disgusted when he saw that Professor Qin asked him to identify it, after all, you are a hairy young man, and you are actually called an expert, especially an expert in the antique industry, which takes time to accumulate experience, not to mention Professor Qin, even if Chu Chen doesn't have a special ability, he won't believe it either.

"Professor Qin, let me start with one thing, I have no problem identifying, but I can only classify them according to the age of the things and the characteristics of the pit mouth and the skin shell, as for whether it was unearthed at the same pit mouth or not, then I really can't guarantee that it must be."

Chu Chen said this for a reason, in the case of ancient jade, different pits, different jades, and different eras, the same color presented is different from each other, light and dark, new and old. This is the uniqueness of the authentic ancient jade, which cannot be identified.

Even a pair of jade artifacts unearthed at the mouth of the same pit, if carefully identified, there are obvious differences. Only contemporary imitations produced in the same furnace, in the same pot, and in the same trough will have a large number of the same skin color.

It is precisely because of this characteristic of jade that although the characteristics of jade unearthed at the mouth of the same pit are somewhat similar, for the sake of prudence, Chu Chen really will not say that things must have been unearthed at the same pit.

Hearing Chu Chen say this, Professor Qin's impression of Chu Chen has changed a little, no matter what the level of identification of Chu Chen's cultural relics is, at least his attitude towards cultural relics is rigorous, this attitude is a very important point when studying cultural relics.

"Hehe, it doesn't matter, no one is perfect, we are not machines, a little bit of discrepancy, as long as it's not too serious, it's okay."

“haode。”

Chu Chen smiled and nodded, and then began to look at the cultural relics on the table. There are still many types of cultural relics, including jade huang, sword grid, jade pendant, bronze cup, bronze mirror and piano button, etc.

Chu Chen looked at them carefully one by one, among these things, there is no shortage of fine products, but since it is Professor Qin's test, of course it will not be simple, among these things, in addition to a few things that are not a pit according to various characteristics, there are actually a few of them that are fakes.

What made Chu Chen a little ridiculous was that there was actually a copper peck in the middle. This copper peck is also true, but what makes him laugh is that the copper peck was mainly popular in the southwest of the Dian Kingdom in the pre-Qin period.

The Dian Kingdom is an ancient kingdom established by the ancient ethnic groups in the southwest frontier of China, and its existence time is equivalent to the Warring States Qin and Han dynasties. During the Warring States Period, the metallurgical industry of the Dian Kingdom became the pillar industry of the country, relying on the rich mineral resources to produce a large number of bronzes. It includes not only daily edible utensils and shellfish storage vessels, but also a variety of weapons and ceremonial weapons.

To say that this copper peck is not bad, it is overall in the shape of a "T", the spines are slender, the back end is diamond-shaped, the front is arc-shaped, sharp and easy to peck. Circular chisel transverse device, three-dimensional round carving of two fat bullocks at both ends of the chisel. The ox stands on all fours, with its horns high, its jaw looking straight ahead, its shoulder blades towering, and its fat buttocks high, as if it is majestic and high-spirited.

The ox is a symbol of wealth and might, and has a special meaning for the ancient Yunnan Dian Kingdom. This kind of ox-shaped decoration is mostly seen in the bronzes of the Yunnan Kingdom, and the most well-known is the four-ox gilt knight shell storage vessel now displayed in the South Yunnan Museum. The vessel is decorated with an ornate and expressive ox, indicating that it is no longer used for battlefield pecking, but has become a ceremonial weapon.

However, you said that a thing in southern Yunnan, with a Bashu in the middle, how could it be possible to run to Longxi? Even if you come to Longxi, this thing is obviously the corrosion traces of the southern pit, which is also different from the climatic conditions in Longxi.

Chu Chen took the copper peck and asked with a smile, "Professor Qin, I don't know where you got this copper peck?" ”

Professor Qin was also stunned when he saw this copper peck, isn't this the copper peck he bought in the antique market some time ago? Why did he come here, but he immediately remembered that some of the things in here were brought for him by asking his students to help him last night, and it is estimated that he didn't pay attention to them, so he took them all in one go.

Thinking about what was going on, Professor Qin couldn't help but secretly scolded that student, he had really studied with him for so long, and he didn't even understand the southern pit and the northern pit, and now he has lost such a big face.

"This, haha, should be my student taking it wrong." Professor Qin said with some embarrassment.

Chu Chen smiled slightly when he heard this, and didn't say anything more, after that, he quickly classified the results of the previous appraisal and said, "Professor Qin, okay, this is the result of my appraisal." ”

Professor Qin was very surprised when he saw Chu Chen's appraisal results, but he didn't expect it to be all right.

You must know that there are two things in it that he has eyed as a high imitation, and he has also studied them for a long time before he found that these two things are high imitations, but he didn't expect the young Chu Chen to see it so quickly, which really made him a little unbelievable.

Professor Qin picked up a bronze mirror and asked, "Xiao Chu, how can you be sure that this bronze mirror is wrong?" ”

Chu Chen smiled and said: "It's actually very simple, the entire inscription engraved on the bronzes of the Spring and Autumn Period and the Warring States Period, but the original engraved text was not long after the bronze was out of style, because there was no steel knife in ancient times, it was carved out on the bronze with a small wheel, so the font is relatively smooth, only scratch marks, and no knife marks." ”

"After the Song Dynasty, many bronzes without inscriptions were forged with inscriptions, and the forgery inscriptions were engraved with knives, and several knives were engraved at one stroke, often leaving traces of blades. This bronze mirror is indeed very realistic, but the knife marks on the inscription reveal its true face. ”

After listening to Chu Chen's explanation, Professor Qin smiled and said, "Haha, I deserve to be an expert from the capital, hey, if I had had your level at the beginning, I wouldn't have been blind!" (To be continued......)