Originally, Chu Chen planned to fly back to Beijing early tomorrow morning, but because of the matter of "Zhang Huoni", it is estimated that he will have to wait another day or two before leaving, so there is nothing to do when he goes back.

Du Hou very politely poured Chu Chen's cup full of tea, and then said gratefully: "Xiao Chu, I really thank you today, if it weren't for you, it is likely that I would never have known in my life, the blue and white bowl I bought at the stall with curiosity at the beginning would be a real Yuan blue and white bowl!" ”

Chu Chen waved his hand again and again: "It's just luck, and if it weren't for the fact that this bowl of yours has its own contents, I wouldn't have found the problem!" ”

Du Hou didn't say much about this, and said with a slight smile: "You sit here for a while, and I'll come when I go!" Then he got up from the couch and walked into the room.

After a while, Du Hou walked out with a brocade box, and then carefully placed it on the coffee table, and said to Chu Chen with a smile while opening the lid of the box: "Xiao Chu, you helped me realize my dream of Yuan Qinghua this time, and I can't repay it, this precious purple clay pot I got in the early years, I will transfer it to you!" ”

When Chu Chen and Uncle Wu heard Du Hou say this, they immediately knew that this purple clay pot should not be simple, so they all looked into the box curiously, but when the two of them saw the unique form of the purple clay pot, they couldn't help but be a little stunned.

After half a ring, Chu Chen came back to his senses, and asked Du Houdao with some disbelief: "Old Du, is this a spring pot?" ”

Du Chachu spread his hands and said: "I think this should be a spring pot, but the spring pot is too famous." And his pots are relatively few, even if they are now considered genuine, the controversy is relatively large, whether my pot is really a spring pot or not! Whether this pot is real or not, let's discuss it after you have seen it! ”

Chu Chen nodded in agreement, and then politely asked Uncle Wu to look at it first, and Uncle Wu didn't shirk it, put on gloves and carefully took out the purple clay pot in the box, and looked at it carefully.

Speaking of purple clay pots, the name of the spring is no matter whether it is in the purple sand pot artist. It is still in the ears of the majority of purple clay pot lovers. It's all familiar.

For Chun is the Ming Dynasty Hongzhi, Zhengde period people, also known as Gong Chun, he was originally the servant of Wu Yishan, Xuexian. Wu Yishan, celebrity. Word Kexue. Friendly with Suzhou Tang Bohu and so on. Zhengde Jiaxu year jinshi. Later, he was promoted to Sichuan to participate in politics as a deputy envoy, and this person was also a well-known person at that time.

According to records, Wu Yishan was not in front of the Jinshi. Reading is appropriate. Xingjinsha Temple. The scholar offered the spring to "give it time", and found that the monks of Jinsha Temple would make the fine soil of the clay urn of the clay jar, and then pinch and build it as a tire, and make it hollow to make a pot sample. Then he "imitated the old monk's heart craftsman, also scooped the fine soil, kneaded the teaspoon in the hole, and swept the inside and outside", and made a teapot that was "chestnut dark as the ancient golden iron", which was the famous purple sand teapot later.

Later, the skills of offering spring, coupled with the reasons of its owner Wu Yishan, finally made him the first famous artist in the history of the purple clay pot and sat in the position of the ancestor.

Because of this, the spring pot is particularly precious, and has been a rare treasure pursued by people for hundreds of years since the late Ming Dynasty. Zhou Shu's "Taiyang Hundred Songs": "The heaviest spring pot, a body used for decades, is worth a wat of gold." ”

However, the spring pot is rare, and there are only three in the bibliographies, and the most famous of them is the old one. The collection of Xingxiang Xianchu Nanqiang is the tree gall for spring pot that is now stored in the National History Museum in Beijing......

At this time, the purple clay pot in Uncle Wu's hand is also a tree gall pot, the pot is as its name suggests, the body of the pot is made of pine galls, and the handle of the pot is made of branches, but the lid of the pot is not melon-shaped like the tree gall pot in the museum, but an ordinary round lid, but the surface is also as concave and convex as the body of the pot, which matches the body of the pot, like a whole.

In fact, the lid of the gall pot in the museum is not the original. The pot was purchased by Mr. Chu Nanqiang at a street stall in 1928. After many investigations and research, he learned that this pot was once collected in the late Qing Dynasty collection Wu Dacheng's house. He believes that this pot is genuine for the spring pot, but the lid is equipped by Huang Yulin, a famous pot maker in the late Qing Dynasty.

After the painter Huang Binhong saw this, he thought that Huang Yulin's back cover was "Zhang Guan Li Dai", so he asked Mr. Pei Shimin, a famous pot maker in the Republic of China, to rematch the tree gall-shaped cover, and wrote down the title.

In other words, no one can say what the lid of the tree gall pot was originally, and the spring pot is more casual, so it should not be the same compared to the two real tree gall pots.

Uncle Wu looked at the tree gall pot in his hand again and again, and after a long time put the pot back in its original place, seeing this, Du Hou hurriedly asked: "Xiao Wu, what do you think of this pot?" ”

Uncle Wu smiled and said: "I think the charm of this pot is very good, and the possibility of being a spring pot is very high, as for what it is, let's wait for Xiaochen to see it!" ”

Chu Chen nodded, and after making preparations, he couldn't wait to take the pot out of the box and look at it carefully.

This pot shape is simple and seiko, the whole body is natural and simple, although it is the same as the tree gall pot in the museum, but the surface looks different, the two are compared, it looks like two completely different tree galls, of course, because the pot for spring is all hand-kneaded, if the appearance of the two pots is the same, then at least one of the pots is a fake.

This pot looked like the carcass was thick and heavy, but when Chu Chen took the pot in his hand, it felt quite light, and when he opened the lid of the pot and observed it carefully, he could also see that the lid was indeed very thin, which fully reflected the characteristics of the pure and solid quality of the pot for spring, and the word "for spring" was engraved next to the handle.

Chu Chen was also the same as Uncle Wu, after a long time, he carefully observed this spring offering pot, and finally used the ability again, and the result also surprised him quite a lot.

"Xiao Chen (Xiao Chu), what do you think of this pot?" Seeing that Chu Chen had also finished reading it, Uncle Wu and Du Hou asked in unison.

Chu Chen said with a smile: "I think this should be a genuine product for the spring pot!" ”

"Oh? What do you think, can you tell us about it? Du Hou hurriedly asked.

"Then I'll just say a few things about my opinion."

Chu Chen said eloquently: "We know that the process of the purple clay pot at that time was still very primitive, and the technology of beating the body tube, inlay tube and mold blank could not appear at this time, so the spring pot could not have the above technical characteristics, primitiveness, is a major feature of the spring pot, I think the spring pot at that time should be hand-kneaded, and then trimmed with simple tools, and even finger marks can be seen on the body of the pot." ”

And this pot embodies such characteristics. In addition, because the technology at that time was very primitive, the fetal soil should be very rough, the particles should be very coarse, and at the same time, due to the open flame firing, and the same kiln as the urn, the color of the firing vessel is not uniform enough, and the body should be splashed with the glaze tears of the urn, and this pot is also the same as the table xiàn out of these two points. ”

Uncle Wu and Du Hou nodded again and again when they heard this, and they agreed with the two points that Chu Chen said, and Chu Chen also continued to say his opinion:

"Also, we know that the making of the spring pot is very casual, and it doesn't matter if you accidentally touch it in the process of making the zuò and scratch the skin, but even so, if it is a real spring pot, you can also fully express the meaning he wants to express."

"And this pot is like this, although the surface looks pitted, and some places seem to have handprints, but the vigorous, clumsy, natural and simple meaning on this pot is unobstructed, I don't know who else can express these meanings easily and casually except for a few purple clay pot masters in history!"

Chu Chen finally concluded: "To sum up, I think this purple clay pot should be a real spring pot!" ”

"Smack!"

After listening to Chu Chen's explanation, Uncle Wu and Du Hou couldn't help but applaud him.

Chu Chen humbly said that he had won the award, and after a while, he asked with some curiosity: "Old Du, take the liberty of asking, I don't know how you got this spring pot?" ”

Du Hou laughed when he heard this: "Speaking of this, I think it's very funny when I think about it now!" ……”

Ten years ago, Du Hou went to the capital because of something, because he had to stay for a long time, and he didn't have any other hobbies in his spare time, so he often went to the antique market to go around, and he was very happy to buy some gadgets.

Once, Du Hou walked to a relatively secluded place and found an old man with a face full of vicissitudes, his clothes were very shabby, and he was very rustic, which made Du Hou immediately think of the tenants before liberation.

At this time, the old man was taking the goods out of a very shabby cloth bag, and soon filled the patched old stall on the ground in front of him.

But what made Du Hou feel strange was that before the old man could put things on the table for a long time, several people surrounded him, and in the blink of an eye, everyone picked something up, some of them picked up a magnifying glass and looked at it fiercely, some people turned over and over to find faults, and even more only looked at it a few times, and then happily paid and left.

This made Du Hou very surprised, secretly wondering, is the thing on the stall so good, it is so sought-after, and it looks like taking money is not money, this in the eyes of him who has been playing antiques for many years, no matter how he looks at it, he feels that there is a sense of evil.

But the next scene made Du Hou immediately understand what the lively scene just now was for.

I saw that those people picked and chose for a while, and there was a middle-aged man with a fat head and big ears, dressed as a nouveau riche, and hurriedly walked to the old man's stall.

But just as the middle-aged man was about to leave, a half-hundred-year-old man with glasses, neatly combed hair, plain but clean clothes, and looked like a high-level intellectual, walked to the stall...... (To be continued......)