Early the next morning, after saying goodbye to Zhou Wenping's family, Chu Chen and the others went to book the Haode Hotel. The hotel, they specially booked a place closer to the Eight Immortals, and the Eight Immortals is not far from the Xijing Railway Station, so they don't have to be in such a hurry when they go back.

After Chu Chen and the others arrived at the established hotel and sorted out the salute, Chu Chen's mobile phone rang.

"Xiao Chu, have you arrived, I have already arrived at the lobby of the hotel you said."

"Brother Hou, wait a minute, we'll come down immediately."

The person who called, needless to say, was the Hou Yuanming mentioned before, when he was in the car before, Chu Chen called him and told him about the hotel where he was staying, but he didn't expect Hou Yuanming to be quite fast, they just arrived on the front foot, and he came on the back foot.

Hou Yuanming's appearance is very recognizable, about forty years old, with a Chinese face, thick eyebrows and big eyes, it looks like everyone is full of a sense of justice, giving people a sense of steadiness. Of course, what the specific person is like still needs to be known after contact.

After the two sides introduced each other, Hou Yuanming complained to Chu Chen:

"Xiao Chu, you are really not interesting, you have been here for a few days, and you only called me today, are you still afraid that I will not be able to meet the landlord's suitability? No, you must punish yourself with three glasses at noon. ”

Chu Chen said apologetically: "Brother Hou, I'm really embarrassed, I'm really busy these days, I didn't have time to contact, I didn't say three cups at noon, and six cups were all done." ”

Hou Yuanming daxiao said: "Haha, Xiao Chu, I like your refreshing energy." Where do we go next? ”

Because it had been discussed before, go to the Eight Immortals Nunnery Antique Market to have a look, Chu Chen replied: "Let's go to the Eight Immortals Nunnery first, and then go to Brother Hou's shop to chat, what do you think?" ”

"Okay, let's go."

The distance from the hotel to the Eight Immortals Nunnery is only about one kilometer, and a group of six people (Zhou Sister-in-law and the two children did not come) did not take the means of transportation, and browsed the surrounding scenery all the way to the Eight Immortals Nunnery Antique Market.

In fact, the Eight Immortals Antique Market is the common name of the locals, the official name is the Eight Immortals Palace Antique Market, from its door to the eyes, it is the ancient wood, smoky Taoist Temple of the Eight Immortals Palace.

The Eight Immortals Palace is one of the birthplaces of Taoist culture of the Chinese nation and a place where cultural relics gather. In that year, the Empress Dowager Cixi fled westward and ran to Xijing with Guangxu, where she stayed in the Eight Immortals. Every January, fifteenth and April temple fairs are full of incense, and many merchants and collectors gather here, so it constitutes this Xi'an folk antique trading market.

After the reform and opening up, due to the requirements of market-oriented norms, in the early nineties, the current Baxian Nunnery antique market was built.

As soon as Chu Chen and the others stepped into the antique-style gate, they were attracted by a faint and antique atmosphere. Then as far as the eye can see, the whole market is a two-story antique Langfang-style wooden building, which looks like there are about dozens of shops, and the central axis of the corridor in the middle of the ground floor is placed with street stalls.

The antique market in Xijing, backed by the long cultural heritage of the ancient capital of the Thirteen Dynasties, has a unique domineering and brilliant king, even if you don't know anything about the collection, you will not fail to understand the weight of this ancient city. The Eight Immortals Antique Market also adheres to this characteristic, Qin bricks and Han figurines, Tang Sancai, etc., which is really dazzling.

This situation made Chu Chen and the others immediately become interested, especially Wen Yuting, basically every stall and shop she would stop and take a look, and pulled Chu Yulan is comments for a while, I don't know, I thought she hadn't been to the antique market.

Chu Chen was not surprised to see this, this girl is the character of a crazy person, as long as there are many people, she will chatter non-stop, while Chu Yulan will only listen with a smile, interjecting from time to time, the two personalities are really moving and static, complementing each other.

After visiting a few shops, Chu Chen also has a certain understanding of the shops here, don't look at the shops here, but there are bronzes, jade, four treasures of the study, ancient pottery, Tang Sancai, Song, Yuan, Ming and Qing dynasty porcelain, old furniture and even calligraphy and painting collections, etc., which are very complete, giving people a feeling of small and complete.

If you want to pick up the missing or pick your favorite things in the antique market, it is best to be alone, because only one person can calm down and appreciate it carefully.

And if you want to play, it is best to have a person with a certain strength in antiques in the team, so that while playing, you can not only learn things while listening to the person introduce relevant antique knowledge and stories, but also quite interesting. At this time, Chu Chen played this role.

When everyone came to a stall that specialized in selling all kinds of wadang and wadang inkstones, Wen Yuting asked:

"Brother Chu, is this the Wadang mentioned in the history books?"

Wadang, also known as "tile head", refers to the specific part of the clay cylinder tile where the top of the tile hangs. tiles, i.e. pottery shards with rounded arcs, are used to cover the roof; The so-called "dang", according to the explanation: "when, the bottom also, the tile covers the eaves, just the bottom of the tiles, and the knots are compared to the eaves end, the tiles and tiles shield, so there is a name."

The main function of the tile is waterproofing, drainage, and protecting the roof truss part of the wooden structure, but in addition to these, there are various decorations on the tile, which also increases the beauty of the building.

Now archaeological findings show that the earliest tile appeared in the Zhou Dynasty, and the ornamentation on the tile at that time was mostly animal face pattern, and with the passage of time, there are more and more types of ornamentation. By the time of the Qin Dynasty, the tile decoration was widely used, the air of the mountain peaks, birds, deer badgers, fish, turtles, grasses and insects were all there, and the patterns were realistic, concise and vivid.

The highest peak of the production process of the tile should be the Han Dynasty, and its ornamental themes include the four gods, the winged tiger, birds and beasts, insects, plants, moire, words and clouds and characters, clouds and animals, etc.

At the same time, there is also a layout form in which the picture is separated by tile breast nails. The tiles with the word range from one character to twelve characters, and the content has auspicious words such as "Changle Weiyang", "Changsheng Weiyang", "and the sky Wuji", etc., and there are also ornaments that indicate the name and purpose of the building.

After the Han Dynasty, the Wei, Jin, Southern and Northern Dynasties period of the tile face was smaller, the ornamentation was dominated by cloud patterns, and the text tile was sharply reduced. In the Tang Dynasty, lotus pattern tiles were the most common, and the text tiles were almost extinct. The Song Dynasty began to use animal face pattern tiles, and the Ming and Qing dynasties mostly used Panlong pattern tiles.

"Several, I'm all the same Hanwa, there are all kinds of styles and types, if you like, the price is negotiable, and the quantity is preferred." After the stall owner saw that Chu Chen had finished introducing Wadang, he immediately picked up.

Seeing this, Wen Yuting sneered and said: "I said boss, you are too blind, you don't want to think about it, we are girls, what is the use of buying this thing?" ”

The stall owner smiled and said: "It's really inappropriate for you to buy this tile to play, but isn't there a tile inkstone?" This is one of the four treasures of the study, just suitable for cultural people like you, don't you say? ”

Wadang inkstone, commonly known as Watou inkstone. During the Qin and Han dynasties, the bricks and tiles used to build palaces were mostly made of clear mud, and later some people used these bricks and tiles to transform into inkstones. Wu Rong of the Tang Dynasty once described in "Ancient Yan Tile Fu": "It is meaningless to be soft and not rigid, and the earth is a tile; Don't say it's wasted and not used, and the tile is broken and turned into an inkstone."

After listening to the boss's words, Wen Yuting noticed that there were still some kinds of long round and cute inkstones on the side, and she suddenly became a little moved.

Chu Chen smiled on the side: "Boss, you can really speak, if you have a good thing, it doesn't hurt for us to buy some back, and I won't hide it from you, we are still together, but I am in the capital Panjiayuan." ”

As soon as the boss heard it, the feelings were still peers, the peers were good, although the income was small, but the amount was not large, and he suddenly became a little more enthusiastic, and said with a smile: "Yo, I didn't expect to meet my peers in the capital today, I don't say much, how about Wadang, you can see it at a glance, or that sentence, the amount is preferred." ”

Chu Chen has an indifferent attitude towards the tile, but Zhou Wenping is indeed interested in these tiledang, because these tiledang are really like the boss introduced, more exquisite, if the price is right, take it back to the capital, and the fare for this trip home can at least be earned.

So a group of people began to pick and choose, but on Wadang's side, there were only Chu Chen and Zhou Wenping, and the others were on Wadang's side. And Chu Chen picked these tiles, firstly, to increase some knowledge, and secondly, to select some fine products for Zhou Wenping.

When Wadang was almost picked, Chu Chen came to Wadang Yan to see what others were picking.

Wadang inkstone actually belongs to Chengni inkstone, but since there is blue and white porcelain, there are more inkstones made of blue and white porcelain that are shaped like tiles, so the inkstones here are also divided into these two categories.

And Chu Chen's four companions are also divided into two sides, the men are all choosing Chengni inkstone, saying that they like the shape of the simple, and the blue and white side is needless to say, the girls generally prefer elegance.

When Chu Chen moved here, Li Guodong was discussing with Hou Yuanming which inkstone was better to choose between the two inkstones in his hand, and after seeing Chu Chen coming, Li Guodong immediately asked his opinion.

Chu Chen took the inkstone and observed it, and found that the value of these two tiles was actually about the same, but one was a plain and untextured moire tile inkstone on the front, and the other was

"Yi Yanshou" Wadang inkstone, the front is remnant, and it looks like there is a trace of charm.

"These two pieces are actually about the same, the key depends on what you like, whether you like plain or like styling, it's up to you to choose." In this case, it can only depend on his own meaning, so Chu Chen told the truth.

After Li Guodong heard this, he was still very entangled, so he started a psychological struggle again.

Seeing this, Chu Chen smiled and said: "Isn't it just two inkstones, they are both handicrafts, and they are not expensive, so if you like them, you can buy them back." ”

Li Guodong thought about it, it was really, it was not a valuable thing, what was there to worry about, and he immediately decided to buy it all. And when Hou Yuanming saw this, he also smiled and shook his head, he was also a little confused just now.