"It's over! Once I returned to the pre-liberation period, five years of hard work were in vain! ”

Chu Chen's face was as if he was dead, and a wave of chagrin instantly surged into his heart.

Chu Chen, who graduated from junior high school at the age of sixteen five years ago, came to the capital with 2,000 yuan to work hard, relying on what he had learned, his shrewd and studious mind, his cautious character, and little by little following the experience of antique veterans and predecessors, from a young boy in a mountain village to a discerning antique vendor in Panjiayuan.

The energy and sweat and blood spent during this period are really not enough for outsiders.

The water in this antique industry is too deep, and there are many "mines", Chu Chen doesn't know how many losses he has suffered during this period, and how many times he has hit his eyes, but this is normal, how can he grow without hitting his eyes a few times?

Fortunately, Chu Chen is cautious, and he is not greedy, and all he loses is some small wealth. And during this period, his eyesight grew and his luck was good, he picked up several big leaks for him, and in five years, in addition to the necessities of life, he still had 400,000 yuan in the bank.

It's just that the 400,000 hard-earned money, just because of the current eye-beating experience, has come to naught in an instant!

Now in 2001, the housing price in Chaoyang* District of the capital was only a little more than 4,000, and Chu Chen originally planned to buy a two-bedroom apartment not far from Panjiayuan, after all, he was in the antique business, and there was always some inconvenience in the rented place.

And after five years of life in the capital, he also has a certain affection for the city, and he is alone, and it is also his most urgent wish to settle down in the capital and live a life of wife and children. Now, with his practice of stalling, I don't know when this wish will be realized.

In April 2000, a pair of rare Tang San painted pottery horses from the collection of a wealthy Hong Kong man were purchased by a Jewish businessman at Sotheby's New York auction for more than $1.5 million.

It was this news that caught Chu Chen's attention, which made him begin to pay attention to and obsess Tang Sancai.

Tang Sancai is a kind of pottery that prevailed in the Tang Dynasty, it is the general name of the Tang Dynasty low-temperature colored glazed pottery, on the same vessel, with yellow, green, white or yellow, green, blue, ochre, black and other basic glaze colors staggered at the same time, forming a gorgeous and colorful artistic effect, generally more three-colored, and later people habitually called this kind of pottery "Tang Sancai".

Tang Sancai's vivid shape, bright color and full of life, together with the bright silk, beautiful and dazzling murals, colorful gold and silverware, as well as the open society, together painted a glorious picture of Tang culture.

Tang Sancai not only has very high achievements in art, but also has made great contributions to later generations in ceramic technology. Its gorgeous and colorful decorative techniques broke the situation of monochrome glaze dominating the world, and developed from monochrome glaze to three-color glaze, laying the foundation for the birth of colored porcelain in later generations.

After the Song Dynasty, all kinds of low-temperature color glaze and glaze colored porcelain, most of which were developed on the basis of Tang Sancai.

It is precisely because Tang Sancai has a high artistic level and unique status, and it has been exported overseas from the beginning, and it is loved by people in dark and exotic countries. Since the beginning of the twentieth century has been rediscovered, it has attracted much attention, especially in the last two decades, with the opening of the domestic and international markets, more and more people like to collect Tang Sancai.

Tang Sancai is used for burial, as a vessel, because of its brittle fetal quality, poor waterproof performance, so it is not easy to preserve so far, and foreigners are very fond of Tang Sancai's style, so that it has repeatedly won high prices at auctions.

For example, on December 12, 1989, a Tang Sancai dark horse auctioned by the International Sotheby's auction house was sold for 3.74 million pounds in London, England. Tens of thousands to hundreds of thousands of dollars were also sold for a variety of dollars, which greatly ignited collectors' enthusiasm for collecting.

Ever since he got to know Tang Sancai, Chu Chen seemed to be stunned, always fantasizing that he could get a beautiful Tang Sancai, not to mention that it was eye-catching, but it could also bring him huge economic value.

Marx once said: "If there is a twenty percent profit, capital will be ready to move; If there is a fifty percent profit, capital will take risks; If there is a 100% profit, capital dares to risk hanging its head; If there is a profit of 300 percent, capital will dare to trample on all the laws of the world. ”

Since the nineties of the last century, many achievements have been made in reform and opening up, and people's living standards have been improving day by day, so the related entertainment and cultural industries have also flourished. There is a way to be gold in troubled times, antiques in prosperous times, and people who enter the collection line are Cheng Geometry rising.

Correspondingly, some lawbreakers have their eyes on this treasure land, it is really a bull ghost and snake god, there are everything, many masters of old and fake are full of it, since Tang Sancai is so precious, it will definitely be difficult to escape their greedy hands.

Because Tang Sancai is a low-temperature ceramic, its production process is not complicated, the production of raw materials can be seen everywhere, the tire glaze formula has long been disclosed, imitation masters have come out in large numbers, and some are experts in Tang Sancai research.

It can be said that 99 percent of some high-imitation works are the same as the real ones, and only one percent of them have special characteristics, which cannot be imitated because they are naturally formed over thousands of years.

It is this one percent, and some of the works of the masters are fake, and if they are not particularly experienced senior masters, they may not be able to see it.

Fortunately, Chu Chen has always been cautious, and the experience gained from his hawker career in the past five years is also extremely rich, although there are many high-imitation mines during this period, he still cautiously walked through. Despite this, his dream of having a boutique Tang Sancai has not been erased, on the contrary, it has become more intense.

Three days ago, an opportunity for Chu Chen to buy a high-quality Tang Sancai camel at the price of picking up leaks came to his eyes.

Xiang Lao, a professor of history at Jingcheng University, has been dealing with historical relics for many years, so he is particularly fond of antiques. After retirement, he often came to the antique street to exchange various items, and was a long-term visitor to the antique street, basically as long as it was not windy or rainy, he would go to the antique street every day to inspect it, in his words, the antique is my second spring.

Because of the perennial dealing with historical relics, the learning is solid, although Xiang Lao has also looked at it, but there is no lack of fine products in the collection at home, including a beautiful Tang Sancai camel.

This business has been maintained by Chu Chen for five years, which is why he was able to gain a foothold in Panjiayuan Antique Street at a young age. Xiang Lao is a frequent customer of his stall, and he has also picked up a few leaks here, and the two of them have become acquainted with each other after coming and going, which can be regarded as a year-old friend.

Therefore, Chu Chen was fortunate to have seen that Tang Sancai camel. It is a Bactrian camel, the whole body is dominated by brown glaze, interspersed with green, white and yellow colors, and the shades are different.

Luo's head leaned up slightly, his front feet prostrate, his hind feet standing, his mouth was wide open, as if he was calling for something, and his expression was particularly rich. Between its two peaks are panniers, and on both sides of the panniers are silk, kettles, and other things.

This Tang Sancai camel, glazed bread pulp is natural, the opening is fine and even, and there is also the phenomenon of returning lead, and some genuine Tang Sancai generally has some brown, black and other color impurities penetrated into the glaze, although there are some small residues on the hind feet, but looking at its overall performance, it can be said to be a masterpiece in Tang Sancai.

When Chu Chen saw it for the first time, he fell in love with it, and when he saw it, he only had this camel in his eyes, which can be described as love. He immediately asked Xiang Lao if he could give it to him, but Xiang Lao shook his head again and again, refusing to say anything, and then told him the reason.

This camel was seen in an antique shop when Xiang Lao traveled to Xi'an last year, and when he saw it, he couldn't put it down like Chu Chen, so he got it from the shopkeeper at a price of 420,000 yuan.

It's just that after going home, he always felt that there was a little less charm when he played with this camel, which made him feel shocked, and immediately invited several authorities in the circle to palm, only two of them were not sure about this Tang Sancai, but these two were the most influential predecessors in the antique industry, they were Liu Lao and Qian Lao.

Liu Lao, whose real name is Liu Zhihe, is 82 years old this year, born in a family of antique collectors, knowledgeable, began to identify cultural relics for the country in the early days of the founding of the People's Republic of China, and was a senior official of the Ministry of Culture.

Qian Lao, whose real name is Qian Zhiyan, is 71 years old this year, president of the Beijing Collectors Association, has worked in the National Museum for a long time, is an expert consultant of the Palace Museum, and is also influential in the direction of antique collection.

These two predecessors in the antique world, although they did not conclude that this Tang Sancai is a fake, but they are not sure that it is genuine, their reason is also that this Tang Sancai camel lacks a trace of charm, but they can't see what is wrong.

Xiang Lao usually uses collection to keep it, but he has a temper, if his collection is not right, even if it is smashed, it will not be communicated to others, and now he has doubts about this Tang Sancai, then it will definitely not be sold again, so he did not agree to Chu Chen's request.

Chu Chen was very moved when he heard this, since ancient times, Huaxia has been a moral standard for a person who is honest and reliable, and with the reform and opening up in recent years, although people's economic level has improved, but the moral level has not kept up with the improvement of the economy, but has declined somewhat.

Like this Tang Sancai, the current collectors, especially some new collectors, many of them will not be as concerned as Xiang Lao, as long as the interests can satisfy themselves, regardless of the quality of the thing, someone will take over, this situation actually to a certain extent also fuels the arrogance of counterfeiters.

Just like Chu Chen now, he still thinks that this Tang Sancai must be genuine, didn't he see that Liu Lao and Qian Lao didn't say what the problem was, as for the feeling, how can they say accurately?

It's not that Chu Chen doesn't respect his predecessors, in fact, this is the normal psychology of a young man around twenty years old, and he thinks that his eyesight is not bad in these years of hawker career, and he hasn't suffered any big losses over the years, so he is a little arrogant in his heart.

People are like this sometimes, once they like something, they will like it very much, and they often see the advantages of this thing, and now Chu Chen is like this, he has always been obsessed with that Tang Sancai camel, and he wants to have it in his dreams.

Now the opportunity has come, Xiang Lao's only son studied in the UK that year, and then settled there, married a wife and had children, and then his son has always wanted to take him to live in the UK, but Xiang Lao has not agreed. A few days ago, his son spoke again, and if he didn't come, he would sever the father-son relationship, so that Xiang Lao couldn't agree or not.

However, the older generation of figures generally cares about the country, so he intends to dispose of his collection for many years in the country, and there is a condition that his collection is not allowed to be sold to foreigners.

When Chu Chen heard the news, he was really excited, thinking that he could give me that Tang Sancai now. So he grinded hard bubbles to Xiang Lao, and Xiang Lao still didn't dispel his thoughts after repeated persuasion, and Zuihou had to give him this Tang Sancai at a purchase price of 420,000.

Since he got this Tang Sancai camel, he has no mind to practice the stall, from the camel to the present more than 50 hours, Chu Chen has been playing and appreciating this Tang Sancai in addition to eating and sleeping, and Zuihou is using a magnifying glass to watch the whole body of the camel little by little. It's just that this look at it, but there is a big problem.

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