Chapter Seventy-Seven: The Peach Talisman
"Yang Fan, what do you see? Why are you so excited? ”
Liu Yutang asked majestically, as if he felt that Yang Fan was so startled, as if he had lost his face.
"Great seal! The font on it is a big seal! ”
Yang Fan's eyes rolled and he spoke directly.
Among the dynasties in history, only the Zhou Dynasty used the Great Seal, and at that time there were different scripts between the various princes, but the mainstream was the Great Seal.
It wasn't until the Warring States Period, after the Qin State unified the Six Kingdoms, that the cars were on the same track and the books were the same, so that the big seal was abandoned and the small seal font was used.
Although Yang Fan doesn't know what the big seal looks like, he knows what the small seal looks like, and knows that the text on it does not belong to the small seal, plus its age, it must be a big seal.
"Little friendly eyesight! This big seal is now very few people can recognize! ”
Because of the age, although many people know that there is a font with the big seal, few people have seen it, and I am afraid that only some tomb robbers and those archaeological experts who serve the country have seen it.
Yang Fan can break it at a glance at this age, which is already very remarkable in Zhang Lichang's eyes, and he also tried his best to find a lot of people to know that the two characters carved on this wooden block are big seals.
"Is it really a big seal?"
Liu Yutang was also shocked, he didn't expect Yang Fan to be so powerful, he actually recognized it at a glance, and Zhang Lichang directly agreed, which means that this unsightly wooden block is likely to be a product of the Western Zhou Dynasty more than 3,000 years ago!
"And what's that on that?"
Liu Yutang suddenly thought of something, and asked again.
"God!"
Zhang Lichang's eyes flashed with brilliance, and he seemed to be suppressing the excitement in his heart.
"Peach Fu?"
Yang Fan and Liu Yutang glanced at each other and said their thoughts in unison.
"Thousands of households always replace the new peach with the old one." This is a sentence in the book of the great poet Wang Anshi of the Northern Song Dynasty, which is the peach charm.
"Yes, it is indeed a peach talisman, the main question is, whether this peach talisman belongs to the Western Zhou Dynasty!"
Zhang Lichang's originally pale cheeks began to flush visibly with the naked eye, and it was obvious that he was now getting more and more excited.
"The Classic of Mountains and Seas" once recorded that there is a seat on the East China Sea, there is a big peach tree, bending and stretching for 3,000 miles, it is a ghost gate, and there are two gods under the tree named Shen Tu and Yu Lei, they are here to guard to keep the peace in the world.
But although the two have great powers, they can't take care of every corner of the world, so the Yellow Emperor ordered that on the eve of the Spring Festival, every household must use peach stalks to carve the appearance of two gods and hang them in front of the door to guard the house.
Over time, people felt that it was troublesome to carve the statues of the gods, so they carved the two gods on the mahogany boards, and wrote the names of the gods and Yu Lei, and hung them on both sides of the gate on the afternoon of Chinese New Year's Eve to suppress evil spirits and drive away ghosts.
This is the earliest record of the peach fu, but all the cultural relics and collections unearthed at present are only after the Song Dynasty, and the peach fu has become a special style to express a certain idea - couplet!
The peach talisman that was regarded as a door god before has not been found, which makes historians have a great controversy about whether this peach talisman has appeared, after all, "The Classic of Mountains and Seas" cannot be regarded as a history book.
But if it is confirmed that this peach talisman is indeed a product of the Western Zhou Dynasty, and not deliberately old, then this remark will naturally be self-defeating, and the true body of the peach talisman will appear in the eyes of modern people.
This is also the reason why Zhang Lichang is so excited.
Yang Fan stretched out his hand and tapped lightly on this peach talisman, as a result, a huge amount of warm current instantly poured into his body, making him almost cry out in comfort, and finally suppressed that impulse, and gently stroked the wooden block with one hand to accept the warm current, while speaking:
"This is a piece of ebony, and it should have taken more than 3,000 years to precipitate, and it is not a big problem for this kind of wood to be stored for 3,000 years, so this piece of wood may really be handed down from the Western Zhou Dynasty."
Ebony, also known as gloomy wood, is Nanmu, red toon, iron wood and other hard wood itself is buried into the ground because of natural disasters, formed in a state of lack of oxygen and high pressure, it will never fade, do not decay, do not give birth to insects, and it basically takes 2,800 to 8,000 years to form!
Because of its characteristics, it is also the only wood found so far that can be handed down from the Western Zhou Dynasty.
"Oh? So this peach talisman is indeed ......"
Zhang Lichang's pupils dilated, and he looked at Yang Fan expectantly and asked.
"Ebony is very valuable, there are only a few pieces of ebony found so far, and the price is extremely high, no one should use this wood to counterfeit, because if ebony is carved by a master carver, its value is immeasurable! There is no need to use it for old fakes. ”
Yang Fan continued to talk eloquently, you must know that the price of this kind of ebony has been speculated to a sky-high price, and the ebony found so far has cracks, which have appeared when it was formed, and can only be made into some small pendants or something.
The value of such a complete piece of ebony is not much different from the sky-high price, who would take this kind of thing out to fake?
"That'...... So you mean, this peach talisman is indeed from the Western Zhou Dynasty? ”
"Boss Zhang, you calm down first, don't be so excited, I think you can take it to the wood appraisal agency for inspection, I guess it should indeed be a product of the Western Zhou Dynasty."
Yang Fan persuaded beside him, seeing that this old man was about to die of excitement, there was a sign that he was about to faint and die here......
Twenty minutes later, Liu Yutang and Yang Fan sent Zhang Lichang out of the door of the antique shop.
"That Peach Talisman ......"
Seeing Zhang Lichang leave, Liu Yutang looked at Yang Fan without saying anything.
"It's something from the Western Zhou Dynasty."
Yang Fan nodded affirmatively and said, "I bet he wouldn't dare to go to a professional institution for identification." ”
"You mean to say?"
"Well, this Boss Zhang should have hooked up with the Tufuzi, and I don't know which tomb this thing stole from."
Yang Fan said coldly, it is precisely because of these people that many treasures handed down from the Dragon Kingdom have been exiled abroad, because these things dug up by the Tufuzi do not dare to sell directly in the country, and the state's control over tomb robbery is very powerful.
Therefore, this group of them had no choice but to take a risk and sell all the good things they dug up abroad, so that the risk would be much smaller.
"Alas, I didn't expect this old thing to be this kind of person, it's ......"
Liu Yutang sighed heavily, looking very sorry.
"It's okay, he'...... His life was short. ”
Yang Fan rolled his eyes and turned back to the antique shop.