Chapter 0880 – Ming Ware (I)

“The origin of China’s tombs, the earliest can be traced back to the Neolithic era, but into a large-scale established tombs, originated in the Shang and Zhou Dynasties, to the Spring and Autumn period when most of the large tombs, but the warring states to the Qin Dynasty, the scale of its far less than the previous, of course, the mausoleum of the first Qin Emperor is an exception. The heyday of Chinese tombs, is to count the Han Dynasty, the Han Dynasty prevailed in the thick burials, tombs in the burial goods is the most abundant and exquisite generations. Most of the Han tombs were cliff tombs, and most of the cliff tombs in the middle and lower reaches of the Yellow River were the tombs of lords and kings or the tombs of aristocrats, which generally had tomb passages, canopies, ear chambers, middle chambers, and back chambers, and a large number of exquisite artifacts were buried with them, and what we are going to talk about today is the distribution of the cliff tombs in the Han Dynasty and their influence on the tombs of the later generations.”

Zhuang Rui sat in the classroom, constantly taking notes, today’s class was one of the few public classes Professor Meng took each semester, not only him, Dr. Ren and Kan Yuhan were also present, taking notes carefully.

It has been more than two months since he returned to the school after the New Year, and this is the first time Zhuang Rui has seen Dr. Ren and Kan Yuhan, listening to Professor Meng say that both of them have gone to the field to carry out on-site excavation.

Before the class, Zhuang Rui and they said hello, reading to the degree of graduate students, the kind of friendship between classmates, far less than in the university when it comes to the sincerity and purity of the time, in the more than a year, Zhuang Rui and a few people’s interactions are not a lot.

Kan Yuhan than Zhuang Rui first acquaintance of some black, this is because she recently half a year in Sichuan to preside over the excavation of a large tomb of the Han Dynasty, all day wind and rain, the skin is naturally not good to go.

But Kan Yuhan’s spirit is good, to twenty-five or twenty-six years of age can preside over a major archaeological excavation subject, under the leadership of a number of forty or fifty years of age of the old scientific research staff, can not be said to have Professor Meng’s face within.

Dr. Ren is even more pleased, last year he assisted Professor Meng presided over a project, got a breakthrough, from which Dr. Ren formally stayed in the university, and assessed on the associate professor, thirty-something years old associate professor, even in the Beijing University, can be considered a young and talented role model.

As for Zhuang Rui’s other two doctoral “senior brother” in June and July last year when they have graduated.

And Zhuang Rui some not quite deal with that Dr. Jiang, although the subsequent very hard and Zhuang Rui to repair the relationship, Zhuang Rui also did not make it difficult for him, but Dr. Jiang ultimately did not stay in Beijing, back to the local museum to serve in a post, after going in was specially recruited for the deputy director of the treatment is quite good.

And has been and Zhuang Rui maintain good relations with Wu Zhao, after graduation, into Zhuang Rui’s stereoscopic museum.

To say that Dr. Wu’s ability is indeed good, after entering the museum, from the very beginning of the very ordinary management personnel, just half a year to become the deputy director of the Dingguang Museum, which makes Zhuang Rui are quite surprised.

Zhuang Rui for this also specifically asked Huangfu Yun, according to Huangfu Yun’s explanation, he himself is responsible for outreach, and the other deputy director is responsible for technology, Wu Zhaoren is young, has the technology and also has the ability to manage, so only then he raised him to the deputy director of the museum, hearing Huangfu Yun’s explanation, Zhuang Rui also relieved.

“Hm? Who’s calling?”

Zhuang Rui, who was seriously taking notes, suddenly felt the cell phone in his pants pocket vibrate, looked up and glanced around, fortunately, he was sitting at the door of the classroom, Zhuang Rui stood up and quietly slipped out.

In the university is this good, when the class comes and goes freely, of course, this is not a food market, you can not disturb the lecturer when you go in and out.

“Hey, monkey, what’s the matter? I’m in class!” Zhuang Rui walked to the corridor outside the classroom and pressed the answer button.

“Brother Zhuang, just now someone brought a few objects, I couldn’t read them, that’s why I called you, if you’re free, come and have a look, right? If you’re free, why don’t you take a look? I haven’t seen you for a few days, so why don’t you come and inspect the work?”

Stayed in Beijing for almost three years, the monkey is now much more stable than before, less fidgety between words, more a little literary.

These years the monkey followed the master Ge learned a handful of seal carving craft, and stayed all day in the Panjiayuan, see the overhand objects really quite a lot, eyesight also exercise out, for some objects identification, can also say a depth.

And Ge master age, hand a little unstable, has rarely personally seal engraving seals, most of the monkey handled, although the price is not Ge master high, but also quite a lot of money, a month at least have three to five million, look at the big Xiong are a little bit hot.

Zhuang Rui heard the monkey words, could not help but laugh and scolded: “You kid, want me to treat on straight ah! Still beating around the bush, is the salary being kept by your daughter-in-law again?”

Monkey married in the fall of last year, his daughter-in-law is a divorced young woman he hooked up with in the community, the young woman also has a two-year-old daughter, directly let the monkey was promoted to become a father.

The woman is good to the monkey, every day laundry and cooking, the only thing is not to see the monkey pocket money, the reason is that the last husband has money in his pocket is bad, so the monkey to implement economic control.

Zhuang Rui also honored the promise, knocked from the hands of Ouyang Jun three houses, to the monkey and Daxiong respectively over the household, the monkey family has no relatives, Daxiong is the old lady received in Beijing, is also considered the return of the prodigal son of the gold model.

“Brother Zhuang, my daughter-in-law is still generous, a day at least give a packet of Zhongnanhai money ah!”

Monkey small life now live very quickly and very satisfied, back home hot food hot soup hot nest, there is a long like a porcelain doll like children shouting dad, so even if every day smoking six dollars a packet of Zhongnanhai, that is also day to night full of joy.

“Oh, your kid is also so a little pursuit, okay, do not bullshit, specifically what is something you can not read? Phone first to me!”

Zhuang Rui know monkey these years in Panjiayuan is cultivated out, the general object can not hit the eye, and now say that can not get attention, that is really encountered a difficult place.

Monkey heard Zhuang Rui’s words, also did not joke, color: “Brother Zhuang, is a few pieces of bronze, there is a jade man, things do not look like a fake, but …… should be Ming ware, I can not accept or not.”

Ming ware refers to the medieval ware, as the name suggests, this object is the artifacts that are specially made for burial. Generally made of ceramic wood and jade, but also metal or paper, in addition to imitations of everyday objects, in some royal tombs, there are also idols of people, animals and birds, and models of vehicles, ships, buildings, tools, weapons and furniture.

The provenance of Ming ware is naturally from the tomb, the reason why the monkey can not get the idea, is also the reason. To know, do antiques this line of work, although it will also receive Ming ware, but that is based on the object, like some sensitive things, such as bronze heavy tripods and other objects, the regular antique store (domestic called art store, has not yet liberalized the approval of the antique store) is not dare to receive, in case of mistakes, that is not eat wool will also cause a mess.

“So? Then I’ll go over there now! You call on Daxiong and Lao Zhao, let’s have a meal at noon, you make an appointment in the afternoon, and I’ll take a look at things before I say anything.”

Zhuang Rui spoke while looking at his watch, it was already eleven o’clock at noon, after hanging up the phone, he sent a text message to Dr. Ren, asking him to help him explain to his teacher, went to the parking lot and drove his car towards Panjiayuan.

“Hey, monkey, your kid doesn’t suffer! This family of three is here!”

Xuan Rui Zhai’s fixed-point restaurant, is not far from Panjiayuan a hotel restaurant, usually lunch is also called from here, Zhuang Rui just entered the package room, saw the monkey is teasing him that daughter to play.

“Hey, brother Zhuang, my daughter is growing body, your treat of course to come to dip some oil!”

Monkey was thick-skinned and didn’t take Zhuang Rui’s words seriously at all, but it was his daughter-in-law who stood up and greeted Mr. Zhuang.

“Come, Niu Niu, uncle hug.”

As soon as Zhuang Rui sat down, he hugged the monkey’s cheap daughter over, this little girl was half a year older than his own two children, and was very cute in pink.

Daxiong’s daughter-in-law was working at the jewelry store and didn’t have time to come over at noon, only the monkey’s family and Zhao Hanxuan were considered to be Zhuang Rui’s earlier squad.

“Old Zhao, you’ve seen the stuff too, right? How does it feel?”

After waiting for the dishes to be served, Zhuang Rui handed the little girl over to his mom, asked for a few bottles of beer, and drank with Zhao Hanxuan and the others.

“Hey, don’t mention which pot is which! I’ve already said that I won’t look at bronzes in the future, that thing is so harsh.”

After hearing Zhuang Rui’s words, Zhao Hanxuan glared at him in a bad mood, since the last time he paid ten million dollars in tuition fees, whoever mentioned bronze with this old brother he was in a hurry with whoever he was, don’t look at Zhuang Rui as the boss, when old Zhao was angry, the boss of the Zhuang had to compensate for the smile.

“Come on, you pretend I didn’t ask, I’ll ask the monkey.”

Zhuang Rui also knows that Zhao Hanxuan is not really angry, then turned his face to the monkey, said: “True or false you can see, this object from what tomb, can estimate out?”

Zhuang Rui this is stored to test the monkey’s mind, now Xuan Rui Zhai collection of antiques, generally monkey eyes, in addition to the amount of money involved is relatively large, Zhuang Rui will only come around.

Mentioned the main thing, the monkey set a straight face, said: “Brother Zhuang, according to my opinion, the estimated head is not small, something like the shape of the Han Dynasty, at least is a princely tomb, and ……”

Monkey looked at the mother and father sitting opposite, lowered his voice and said, “And this object looks like a raw pit contraption.”

The world’s antiques, nine out of ten are flowing from the tomb, only divided into raw pits cooked pits only, cooked pits refers to things that have been unearthed for a long time, before the liberation of the watershed, you can circulate antiques on the market.

Raw pit is not, refers to the liberation of the unearthed objects, which is the state expressly prohibited from selling, if it is something very special, that may be found out to be put on a stolen goods crime.