Chapter 0319 – Folk Treasure Appraisal (VIII)

“Mr. Zhuang, are you up yet. Go out for breakfast.”

Just put down his cell phone, there was a knock on the door, but it was the TV station’s staff who came to notify for breakfast, Zhuang Rui looked at the time, it was already seven thirty, and hurriedly rushed into the restroom, and after washing up, he put on that green colored tunic, before he walked out of the room.

“Good morning teacher Zhuang.”

“Good morning, Teacher Zhuang.”

“Teacher Zhuang, will you give me an autograph?”

After walking out of the room, Zhuang Rui felt a little uncomfortable, it seems that all the attendants in the hotel recognized themselves, greetings called a passion, making Zhuang Rui a little overwhelmed.

“Grandma drop, five-star hotel service is good.”

Zhuang Rui in his heart muttering, take the elevator to the restaurant located on the third floor, but found that Professor Tian they have been drinking morning tea and chatting, it seems that he is the last one to come.

“Sorry, I got up late today.”

Zhuang Rui greeted the crowd and found a chair to sit down.

“Xiao Zhuang, it’s fine. It’s not bad if you can get up today, you know, yesterday you alone put down four of their Jinan Collection Association ah!” Fatty Jin laughed out loud when he saw Zhuang Rui coming.

“Yeah! We just bet that you couldn’t get up in the morning?”

Prof. Tian also joked with Zhuang Rui, Zhuang Rui’s performance in yesterday’s on-site treasure appraisal, from a professional point of view, is already qualified enough to be equal to these experts of theirs, so there is no one who is fiddling with the old qualifications here.

“Drink some hot porridge, clear your stomach, you still have to be busy this morning!”

Seeing that Zhuang Rui still had a hint of alcohol on his face, Sun Lao played a bowl of congee and put it in front of Zhuang Rui.

“Several teachers, yesterday’s program has been broadcast on Beijing and Shandong stations, when we return to Beijing, we will make a CD of the program and present it to several teachers.”

At the expert’s table, only Liu Jia was accompanied by one person, it was said that that Vice Director Zhu also collapsed on the wine table yesterday in order to work for the revolution, only he didn’t have Zhuang Rui’s good physique, and hadn’t climbed up until now!

“I said it, so many people greeted me when I got up today.”

After hearing Liu Jia’s words, Zhuang Rui realized that, dare I say, those waiters have watched yesterday’s program ah! It’s no wonder, a program filmed in their hotel would naturally pay a little attention to it. When he took off his glasses and walked out of here, it was estimated that no one would recognize him.

Hurriedly eat breakfast, a few people and rushed to the hotel’s conference room, although the morning only three hours of treasure appreciation time, not to come over to the collectors do not reduce but rather increase, will be outside the conference room surrounded by water, if it is not a compartment can enter, I’m afraid that Zhuang Rui and others can not be squeezed into it.

Time is tight, the task is heavy, the two hosts have nothing to say, on the stage to announce the folk treasure appreciation activities began after the experts began to busy again.

Today and yesterday is different, yesterday just started, Zhuang Rui’s table in front of the door, no one came to find him to identify antiques, today is the opposite, in front of Zhuang Rui’s table, lined up a long line, many people are rushing to him.

“Mr. Zhuang, just take a look for me! You say it’s real is real. If you say it’s fake, I’ll immediately drop him.” The treasure holder, who was now standing in front of Zhuang Rui’s table, was holding a blue and white porcelain, and said that he wanted Zhuang Rui to give him an appraisal.

“This collector, and the following friends, I am the director of the Jade Association, this time to also specialize in the identification of jade, as for other objects, a few other teachers, are more experienced than me, we first look at their own antiques belongs to which category, and then choose the expert appraisal, OK ah!”

Zhuang Rui to the front of this person behind a glance, found that these collectors to identify the object, from painting to bronze, is what all have, actually there are people carrying a mahogany chair, make Zhuang Rui is laughing and crying, can only stand up to explain, they only look at the jade.

After Zhuang Rui so said, the following people although some reluctance, but not play jade people, also row to another few teams to go, Zhuang Rui this side of the pressure suddenly greatly reduced.

Jade appraisal is more troublesome, because some of the jade although it is old, but the jade itself is good, it also contains aura, if it is not the ancient jade inside the aura of the color is different words, Zhuang Rui is really difficult to identify out. Because now the technique of making old is really too clever, a little carelessness, it may hit the eyes and be fooled.

“Mr. Zhuang, this is an object I bought the year before last, found someone to see it, it should be the old jade of the Han Dynasty, you give another palm to the eyes?”

Zhuang Rui is now holding this jade toad is so, is a good white jade carved, hold in the hand there is a kind of wet feeling, it is obvious that the object is coiled, there are three kinds of percolating color on it, according to the owner’s statement, this thing is an object of the Han Dynasty.

“Jade is good jade, good Hetian white jade, such a big piece, it can be worth ten thousand eight hundred thousand, but this percolating color is made old, the color is too positive, and with a magnifying glass to look carefully, the color does not penetrate deeply, but this thing still has a collector’s value, you keep the plate to play a little, you do not see it is not much worse than the ancient jade.”

After observing it with his aura. Zhuang Rui found that although the amount of aura inside is quite a lot, but it is white, and does not have the kind of rich purple color before the Tang and Song Dynasties, that is to say, this so-called Han Dynasty jade toad, is also a later imitation of the old made.

Today Zhuang Rui said, there are very few people to question, the owner of the jade toad heard Zhuang Rui’s explanation, but also very grateful to the Zhuang Rui bowed, which if changed yesterday. It is not allowed to point to the nose to open the curse.

Because there are too many people, Zhuang Rui also accelerated the appraisal speed, basically two or three minutes a, these objects, from ornaments to ancient sacrificial rituals, is everything, almost all the types of jade, although it is true that less fake, but also let him see, because even if it is a replica, from the modeling point of view, and the real object is similar, the difference is only the age of it.

“Huh?”

Zhuang Rui looked at the hand of this only seven or eight centimeters in size of the green jade jade cong, heart some doubt, just when he just detected from the aura, found that the aura inside is actually a golden yellow color, from Zhuang Rui know that the aura can be discerning objects since, this is the first time that this color he stumbled upon.

This jade cong is quadrangular, the shape of the vessel is square on the outside and round on the inside, the center hole is through, the four folded corners of the vessel body are shallow relief carving of gods and men with animal faces, in the four straight grooves up and down the carving of a composite image of gods and men with animal faces, the main body of the pattern of the gods and men with inverted trapezoidal faces, the eyes of the heavy circle, on both sides of the corner of the eyes of the small triangular corners of the eyes, the image of the bizarre and mysterious.

The carving of the whole jade cong, the lines are slim and powerful, while the area interval lines are rough and rounded, the shape is ancient, the pattern is mysterious and unpredictable, showing the primitive religious consciousness and the theocratic idea of totem worship, only the preservation is not very good, there are some defects in all parts.

“Could it be a jade artifact from the Liangzhu culture?” Playing with this jade cong, Zhuang Rui can feel a kind of ancient atmosphere from it, the heart flooded with this idea, and then the information of Liangzhu jade culture also came to mind.

Liangzhu culture about 5300 to 4000 years ago. Mainly distributed in the middle and lower reaches of the Yangtze River, Liangzhu culture jade processing is very developed, in addition to decorative mainly used for witchcraft, rituals and burial, Liangzhu culture has strict provisions for the use of jade, is the beginning of China’s ritual jade system.

And the jade cong is the most characteristic jade in Liangzhu culture jade, is also the core of Liangzhu culture jade ritual, in that era, has used the technology of drilling and wire cutting, has reached the peak of the jade processing technology at that time.

“It shouldn’t be wrong.”

Although it was Zhuang Rui’s first time to come into contact with Liangzhu Jade, but the aura contained inside this jade, and the exquisite carving process, could prove that this was a representative work of Liangzhu Jade culture.

“Mr. Sun, take a look at this Jade Cong, I think this is a Liangzhu Jade, it can be used as one of the important treasures in this folk treasure appraisal.”

Zhuang Rui greeted Sun Lao who was identifying the miscellaneous pieces and handed over this jade cong, the TV station in order to increase the ratings and attract the audience’s eyeballs, purposely let the experts evaluate the three most precious antiques, but so far, except for a pair of authentic Shen Zhou’s works from the Ming Dynasty identified by Mr. Jin, the rest of them have not had that thing that can be designated as a heavy treasure.

“Well, this thing is a bit interesting, Xiao Zhuang, can you be sure?”

Sun Lao put this jade cong in his hand after playing some, asked Zhuang Rui, one of the conditions for assessing the heavy treasure, is to be recognized by all the experts, so Zhuang Rui first play miscellaneous pieces of Sun Lao pull on, in addition to himself, for the identification of jade, Sun Lao is the most vocal.

“Xiao Zhuang, tell us your opinion.”

Seeing Zhuang Rui selecting an object to rate as a heavy treasure, Fatty Jin and the others also gathered around.

Zhuang Rui took the jade cong, pondered for a while and said, “I look at it this way, as all teachers know, there are not many jade congs from the Shang and Zhou periods, and from the physical objects unearthed, the congs of this period are generally shorter and smaller in form, and are mostly glossy and veinless, so they can basically be ruled out. After the Song Dynasty, some imitations of the ancient jade cong appeared, but the imitations from the Song to the Ming Dynasty were mostly decorated with the popular decorations of the time, which obviously did not match with this one. The end of the Ming Dynasty to the Qing Dynasty of the pseudo-antique jade, in order to imitate the Shang Dynasty and Zhou Dynasty plain short body jade cong, although there are also imitation of Liangzhu culture jade cong, but because of the processing tools, habits of different, most of the fake products appear to be more than rounded and not enough of the ancient meaning of the degree of ripening is even more difficult to do a real degree of old. Comprehensive the above points, I can conclude that this jade cong really for Liangzhu jade culture in the outstanding works, according to the current division of cultural relics, seems to be able to be categorized into the national level cultural relics inside, as this time one of the three important treasures, should not be too much, right?”

Zhuang Rui words just fell, the audience’s applause on the stage, Professor Tian and others are also repeatedly nodded, and ultimately this Liangzhu Jade Cong determine to ask the folk treasure appraisal of one of the important treasures.