Chapter 0175 – Identifying Jade

As soon as Zhuang Rui’s words fell, the crowd gathered here. Eyes all looked towards Elder Gu.

Ancient is very focused on lifting up the juniors in the jade line, and used to often go to various jade associations to give lectures or teach apprenticeships, and there are a lot of people who know him, however, in recent years, ancient is getting older, and seldom goes out to give lectures or attends various jade exhibitions and sales, and today, being able to have the opportunity to hear ancient speak on jade appraisal is a great opportunity for the crowd.

“You brat, you’re actually using your senior as a shield.”

Seeing the crowd’s expectant gazes, Ancient smiled and scolded Zhuang Rui, and then unclipped a piece of jade from his waist.

“Ancient jade play, now more popular is the combination of rapid and slow disk to use, just now Xiao Zhuang also said, the intention disk has almost no one to try, but the old man I was in the young, got a good piece of jade, these decades, is to use the intention of the disk of the method, and everyone and the intention of the disk of the experience of it!”

Ancient this words just exported, immediately is the four seats shock ah! Zhuang Rui has previously mentioned the difficulties of the Italian disk, and also explains the Italian disk is almost a legendary play, did not think that the ancient actually will be this disk method inherited, can personally hear the ancient teaching experience, the crowd are all feel that the trip is not false, whispering and discussing, the eyes are staring at the ancient hand of that piece of jade.

Ancient spoke while handing the piece of jade in his hand to Zhuang Rui, saying: “We all know the eight words, ‘Sincerity is felt, and gold and stone are opened’, in fact, this sentence is from the ancient jade of the intention of the disk inside the law, the ancients said this paragraph: when rubbing, think of the virtues of jade, enough to transform my temperament, good my temperament, so that I can make the best use of the jade, and the best of my character. I am always thinking of the virtues of jade, which are enough to transform my temperament and improve my character, so that I will be pure and free from selfish desires. I have this piece of jade disk for almost forty years, now as long as you hold it in your hand, you will feel yourself and this jade, there is a kind of blood connection feeling, this jade is like a life, will breathe generally, the old man stormy weather experienced a lot of things, but as long as it is a piece of jade in the hands of the mood will be calm, I personally feel that this is the intention to disk the efficacy brought about by the disk.”

Old man Gu’s words caused the crowd to look at the piece of jade in Zhuang Rui’s hand. There was no lack of envy in their eyes, with the ancient vision, the jade that they played with must not be of poor quality, a piece of jade that had been disked for forty years, coupled with the value of the jade itself, it could almost be called a priceless treasure.

The old man took out this is a piece of jade pendant, the volume is not large, only the size of a child’s palm, the front of the jade pendant carved with a beast, feet on the wind and clouds, short wings, the dragon’s head on the feet, horse body, unicorn feet, the shape of a lion like the general ferociousness, the eyes protruding, the mouth has a long fangs, and its minutiae carved lifelike, the hairs are visible.

This shape Zhuang Rui is recognized, should be the evil beast brave, but let Zhuang Rui surprised is this piece of jade color, hold in the hand, Zhuang Rui carefully distinguish, this brave piece. Actually have six kinds of color, to know, color is formed, two or three kinds of color is more common, more than four kinds of jade is extremely rare, five kinds of color of ancient jade is priceless, this piece of jade surprisingly have six kinds of color, no wonder the ancient master will use the intention of the disk method to raise jade.

Tied to the jade pendant is a crimson rope with a Chinese knot, Zhuang Rui powerfully pulled it and felt very tough.

“Master Gu, is this a piece of warm jade?” Zhuang Rui held this piece of jade and felt a warm wetness in his hands, he couldn’t help but speak out and ask Master Gu.

“Yes, this is the warm jade produced in Lantian, high quality, I got it unintentionally when I was young, and it has been with me for more than forty years, although I’ve played with other jades over the years, this one has never been changed, huh, many times I’ve relied on it to drive away evil spirits and take refuge, and turn misfortune into good fortune!”

Ancient words let a few young people feel quite unimpressed, this jade can ward off evil spirits is just a legend, I have never heard of anyone who carries a piece of jade on his body to be free from illness and disaster.

“Uncle, I’ve heard that it’s rare to see jade with five colors of seepage, and I’ve never heard of this six-color seepage.”

“Oh, don’t say you haven’t heard of it, there are not many people who have seen the six colors of ancient jade, and the Palace Museum is now hiding more than 30,000 pieces of ancient jade. Six-color Qin can not find a few pieces.” Ancient talked about this, and could not help but show a hint of complacency on his face.

“This piece is the third generation of ancient jade, that will get the hands of the time, only unearthed not much time, the surface color and lime is almost, the texture is like a clay general, to the bright light can not see the jade color, now is barely considered to be a plate cooked, this red seep more places, commonly known as children’s face …… ”

Ancient from Zhuang Rui received the jade brave, very lovingly in the hands of the rubbing.

“Ancient, you this piece of jade it can be worth how much money ah?” Boss, the vulgar man, asked for the price in one mouth, but this is what the crowd wanted to know, all perked up their ears and listened.

“Oh, this jade with me for decades, you take a seat of gold mountain to, I also do not change ……”

The old man smilingly replied, but did not point out the real price of this jade bravery, heard the boss in the heart cursed a: old fox.

“Ancient, this intention disk we realm can not reach, you old can not say this ancient jade identification method ah! I’ve been playing with jade for a few years here. I’ve spent a lot of money, but none of the ancient jades I’ve bought are real, the water in this jade business is too deep!”

A voice emerged from the crowd, listening to the crowd nodded their heads, inside the people present, also including those jade merchants, which have gone out of their way to buy fake jade.

“Now the antique market of ancient jade, nine times out of ten is fake, the real ancient jade price is very high, I don’t agree too much with the beginner to play the ancient jade, it is difficult to find good things. Spend money for nothing, not to mention, but also engage in their own bad mood. Not long ago, the market suddenly appeared a large number of imitation of the Warring States, Han Dynasty jade. Like jade carriages and horsemen, as well as jade chimes, jade walking sticks, including jade horn cups, some people spent hundreds of thousands, and some people spent millions, buying this batch of jade.”

“Old master, it must be fake, right?” Someone in the crowd laughed.

“That’s right, what’s more, one person bought six sets of golden wisps of jade, not long after, these things, a steady stream of them appeared inside the antique market, and cheaper and cheaper, this does not need to be taken to the appraisal, but also know that it is a fake, so we do not deliberately go to look for ancient jade, or the next person who has bought a fake jade, it may be you. ”

Old man Gu’s words immediately caused a burst of laughter from the onlookers.

Ancient waved his hand, waited until the side had quieted down, and said, “Don’t laugh, don’t say it’s an outsider in the business, it’s an insider in the business that often hits the eye, that batch of counterfeit high antique jade mentioned just now is something that happened in the life of an old friend of mine.”

“That is an old friend of mine with a doctoral student, studying archaeology and museum profession, the young man will often go to the antique store to pick up some small objects, last year, he saw a batch of high antique jade in an antique store, there are jade jangs, jade knives, jade jade biscuits, jade Juan, jade horn cups and other objects. According to the owner of the store, these jade wares were dated to the Han Dynasty, and some were even as early as the Shang and Zhou Dynasties, especially some of the wares inside. Like the jade horn cup, jade bi, jade Juan, etc. belong to the Han Dynasty jade in the typical artifacts.

“As we all know, the Han Dynasty jade wares more than 2,000 years ago are considered to be the highest peak of the development of Chinese jade wares. Among them, the most representative of the craftsmanship level of Han Dynasty jade is the living jade, furnishing jade and jewelry jade. The Jade Angle Cup is a very important vessel in the Jade for Daily Life, which is a kind of drinking vessel used by the princes and nobles; while the Jade Bit and Jade Juan are both ceremonial jades and can also be used as furnishing jades. These jade objects are generally carved in the round and in high relief, reflecting the exquisite and noble artistic style.

“This antique store attracted a lot of peers in the circle to appreciate, there are some people in here, that student also know, at that time that store owner found that he was very interested in these jades, said to the student, if you want to buy, you can transfer at a favorable price. The student, who was thirty-five or thirty-six years old and had a certain economic base, bought the jade horn cup and some other jade objects after several rounds of bargaining, with the jade horn cup being the most expensive. Since then and many times to this store to buy ancient jade, last year’s year, it bought the Han Dynasty jade more than seventy pieces, a total of more than 400,000 yuan.

“I happened to go to that city last month, an old friend asked me to look at it, oh, the result is known to everyone, all modern jade made old, the reason why the appearance of these fake jade looks ancient, Qin color realistic, is that some professional traffickers with special means to make it.”

“Master, how can this percolating color be faked? And how to recognize it? I was planted on this last year, eighty thousand dollars to buy a three-color seep of ancient jade of the Han Dynasty, who knows that a appraisal is fake.” A voice came out from the crowd.

“Oh, that is you greedy, now inside the antique market, Han jade is almost rare, you have to know, Han Dynasty jade, it is not as a commodity circulation, it is the emperor monopoly production, monopoly use. The common people use jade from when it started, is the three kingdoms period, because the three kingdoms military chaos, tomb raiding into the wind, some people robbed out the Han dynasty gold and jade coat, was three kingdoms Cao Pi see, after the gold and jade coat is not like the legend of the bones can be preserved, so abolished the gold and jade coat system, from that will be, the jade only to the people’s. The bigger Han dynasty jade, it is not as a commodity circulation, it is the emperor monopoly production, the monopoly use. Big point of the Han dynasty jade, the market is basically can not see, now can be handed down, only some small pieces, like jade sword ornaments, small jade jade bib pendant and so on, and only a very small chance will go to the market, other things, nine out of ten are fake.

“As for jade counterfeiting, color formation method is more than, no less than a dozen, I probably say it! Firstly, the method of soaking in medicinal liquid: it is to put the jade into the chemical liquid laced with color, and after several days of soaking, there will be this kind of percolating color on the surface, which usually appears as reddish-brown, yellowish-brown, and other colors. This is the most common method of ‘making old’ jade, also called ‘artificial coloring method’, which is used by most unscrupulous merchants. There is also a method of counterfeiting in the jade surface to form a black-brown percolating color, which is called the smoked method; that is, the artifacts are placed in a smoldering fire to smoke, after a short period of time after the smoked jade, the surface will show a sense of deeply buried dark brown, quite a black lacquer of the ancient jade flavor.

“In fact, to identify the authenticity of the Qin color is very simple, fake Qin color is usually hair color bright, we if you want to buy the jade is doubtful, may wish to take alcohol cotton, in the jade above more than wipe for a while to see the cotton there is no Qin color color, if there is, then it is worth doubting, most likely is false. There is also in the strong light, the color of jade is very consistent, and with fog, the lack of transition color, color is relatively single, then this jade is also doubtful, encountered this situation, it is best not to go out to buy.

“Alas, nowadays people ah! More and more impetuous, in the liberation of the former time, those jade do old old, or speak a little ‘honesty’, that is, ‘conceal the age not conceal the material’ is in the old or new serious Hetian white jade carving new work, do old and then sell big price. If these things are put into today, then it is also considered ‘good stuff’! It’s a pity that the so-called jades on the market today are made of glass, plastic, quartz, and whatever else they dare to sell.”

Ancient said to the back of the time, some excited up, the emergence of these unscrupulous businessmen, for the development of the jade industry, is extremely unfavorable, is because of these people, so that many interested in the jade collection of people to stop, the reason is very simple, ask all of you, if you buy jade, and even ate a few times of loss, the next time you still dare to buy it?

Now these people fake, although the level of culture is not very high, but speculate on the psychology of people, each is a good hand, what jade on the market is popular, they can produce what kind of, whether it is the workmanship, materials or color, that are able to be fake, not to mention newcomers to the industry, that is, rolled over several decades of the old birds, “eyes “A little less will hit the eye to pay tuition.

“Ancient, you see this surrounded by so many people, the hotel have opinions, you are not first upstairs to rest? This side of the evening also give you to receive it!” See the crowd of onlookers are still talking about the problem, the middle-aged man with the ancient, really can’t sit still, walked to the ancient front whispered.

Ancient heard, want to look around, indeed this side is surrounded by water, so helplessly said: “Well! Let’s go upstairs first, Xiao Zhuang, I don’t have time at night, let’s have dinner together at noon tomorrow.”

Zhuang Rui had long been made uncomfortable by these people, and hurriedly agreed, “Okay, Senior, you go rest first, I’ll call you tomorrow.”

Zhuang Rui and Wei several people wasted the old nose effort, escorted the ancient old man on the elevator, the body is out of a stinking sweat, the oldest four said with a smile, “The youngest, you guys in this antique world also pay attention to chasing the star ah!”

“Alright, go upstairs and take a shower!”

Zhuang Rui saw that the people over the sofa area hadn’t dispersed yet, he couldn’t help but shiver, and when the next elevator came, he hurriedly drilled in.

“Wait a minute ……”

Just when the elevator doors were about to close, Zhuang Rui suddenly saw a familiar figure walk in at the hotel’s main door.