Chapter 47 [Stationery Box in the Middle Qing Dynasty]

Looking at his baby son, he didn't know what to do, and his mother Yang Lan also knew that she was a little strong, and her baby son Yang Nianzhong had received an American-style educator since he was a child, and he didn't have the literary and entertainment background that his baby son was exposed to.

Although I systematically studied Chinese culture under my own teaching, my foundation was too thin, and I didn't have access to the learning atmosphere of Chinese culture all the time, so I had forgotten it for a long time. But his son Yang Nianzhong's curiosity made Yang Lan very happy, and he knew how to learn and began to introduce the origin of this ink block in detail.

"This is the best product in Lumo, whether it is the production process or the raw materials, it is the top. Even the carvings and paintings on it are divided into ink blocks, ink ingots, and ink strips by everyone's hands. ”

"If my expectations are correct, the modules in spring and summer are all high-quality Lumo, and in autumn and winter, they may be loaded with Huimo, which is the best in ink."

Put this module in the box, open the other three boxes, and sure enough, as my mother Yang Lan expected, the first drawer is placed in the top-level rice paper, and the second-layer drawer is placed in the top-level ink block. If this is calculated, the third drawer and the fourth drawer should be a brush and an inkstone, which can be calculated as the four treasures of the study.

Unfortunately, when I opened the third drawer, I found that instead of a brush, I saw a variety of tools, all of which were contained in a lacquer box with their own unique design.

When I opened these big and small fits, there appeared, paper cutters, Indonesia, and tools for drawing, and these things were all brand new, and they had not been used in any way.

The things in such a stationery box are not like those actually used, but like collectibles, top-level cultural toys collected by literati and artists. The third drawer is opened before the brushes, and there are more than 16 brushes of all sizes, all of which are covered with silver caps, and the engravings and poems on the pen body have a unique charm.

Through the introduction of his mother Yang Lan, Yang Nianzhong learned that these are the top lake pens, some are sheep's hair, some are wolf's hair, and they are the most favorite famous pens used by literati and ink writers. But it has never been used and it is brand new, and it is not even stained with dust, and people like mother and son expect that the collection value is large, which is more than the actual use value.

What is it that excites my mother the most on the fourth floor? Inkstone? There are four inkstones in total, only the size of a palm, neatly stacked in the drawer, and the middle is a cotton interlayer.

It is for fear of moving the stationery box, the inkstones collide with each other and hurt the epidermis, although each inkstone has different shapes, carved poems and inscriptions, but these four inkstones actually occupy all the places of the four famous inkstones in China.

The four famous inkstones are all there, and it is spring, summer, autumn and winter, and an inkstone is used in each season, and the carving is actually the shape of the four holy beasts. What is it, the green dragon and white tiger, the red bird, the Xuanwu, the size of the inkstone is not big, but it is definitely from the hands of famous artists, plus the material cannot be said to be priceless, but it is terrifying enough.

Appearing at the auction, any inkstone can be exchanged for a house of about 300,000 US dollars, no wonder my mother said that she was rich. Hearing the introduction and origin of these inkstones, Yang Nianzhong felt that his luck was bursting red and purple, if there was a teapot sitting on Yang Nianzhong's forehead now, it would be able to boil it for you in less than five minutes, and it would be able to make tea and coffee.

After the pen, ink, paper, inkstone, and gadgets are added, the drawers below are not rectangular, but square, and even have a five-pointed star shape. The position he stood in the center of the first floor, and when he opened the drawer in the shape of a five-pointed star in the center, four 20-centimeter-long paperweights made of white jade appeared inside.

The carving of the paperweight is also the four gentlemen of Meilan bamboo chrysanthemum, and the drawer in the upper left corner is a pen wash the size of two small bowls. The most surprising thing is that these two brushstrokes are actually a dark green jadeite, and the other is pink, which is red and green, the only drawback is that it is too small, but the value of these two tourmalines is immeasurable.

Another drawer is placed in the pen holder carved by Hetian jade, Shanzi stand, pen holder can be disassembled and assembled, there is a small silver hook inside, can be hooked on the other end of the pen, the next two drawers appear things, you must guess what you can guess.

Inside the drawer in the lower left corner is a brocade box with a seal, and when opened, it is full of 10 centimeters high and 2 centimeters square. And there is no engraving at the bottom, and the owner's name is all new seal material, 12 pieces of seal material of different materials. Yellow Tianhuang stone, white Hetian seed jade, red bloodstone up to 80%, the top shape is the zodiac, this little thing is only the size of peanuts, but the carving is lifelike.

The four major seal materials of China and some rare materials can be found here, but the fly in the ointment is that the volume of these seal materials is really limited, and they all say that one or two fields of yellow and one or two gold. However, the weight of Tian Huangshi's seal material is only 30 grams, which is the size of an adult's finger, and even so, the mother and son are already very satisfied.

Many of these seal materials have been extinct, can no longer be dug up, to make up 12 pieces, different colors and volumes, first-class carving technology seal materials, it is too difficult, but also too precious.

The price is too high, even in the middle of the Qing Dynasty, it is even more difficult, judging from the material of these four treasures of the study, the person who owns this set of stationery boxes is not a prince and nobleman, but also a top rich man.

So what's in the last drawer? Beyond people's imagination, this is a stationery box for those literati and ink writers.

Or carried him to the capital to take the top prize, although every literati is under great pressure to study, but they also need to relax their spirits, otherwise they will have to break a nerve all day long.

So what's inside the last drawer? It's actually a deck of carved retro chess, each small piece is the size of a beer lid. Its material is not natural stone, but pure natural ivory, the surface looks a little yellow, but even if the surface color is yellow, it is the true color of the real ivory.

The chessboard is actually carved with red sandalwood, and in the busy study tasks, you can relax with your friends, and the next game of chess can relieve your nervous emotions and combine work and rest. This concept has been there for hundreds of years, and the Chu River and Han realms are all painted with gold, which is all the things in this Huanghuali wooden box in the middle of the Qing Dynasty.

Even hundreds of years ago, the owner of this stationery box was either rich or noble, but there was no trace of the owner in the box, not even a seal was left.

In the evening of the same day, the mother and son studied the letters and diaries left behind by the owner of the warehouse, and learned that this stationery box was actually the residence of a major of the Sichuan army named Tian Shengcai, who was exterminating a county town, and the Japanese army searched the residence of a Dazuo-level officer.

And the identity of the original owner of this stationery box is even more intriguing, it was actually obtained by this Dazuo officer in the hands of the Mongolian prince. The process of getting it is quite disgraceful, and it is nothing more than the three-light policy.

It is unbelievable that even in the middle of the Qing Dynasty, the top-level stationery boxes that those literati and writers flocked to actually appeared in the hands of a Mongolian prince. This is equivalent to a Wasinger holding an embroidery needle embroidering mandarin ducks is the same reason, anyone who sees such a thrilling picture will feel chilled, the contrast is too big.