Chapter 1

"It's over! Once back before liberation, five years of hard work is in vain! "

Chu Chen (CH ē n) was as pale as death, and a feeling of chagrin came to his heart in an instant.

Chu Chen, a 16-year-old junior high school graduate five years ago, came to Beijing with 2000 yuan in his arms. With what he had learned, his shrewd and studious mind, and his cautious character, he followed the old antique birds and predecessors to learn from experience. He changed from a young mountain village boy to an antique peddler with small eyesight in Panjiayuan.

The energy and sweat and blood spent during this period are really not enough.

The antique trade is too deep, and there are many "mines". During this period, Chu Chen did not know how much he suffered and how many times he hit his eyes. However, this is normal. How can he grow up in this trade without hitting his eyes several times?

Fortunately, Chu Chen was cautious and not greedy. What he lost was a small fortune. Moreover, during this period, his eyesight grew and he was lucky. He found several big leaks for him. After five years, he saved 400000 yuan in the bank except for the needs of life.

It's just that the 400000 yuan of hard-earned money, just because of the current drilling experience, turned into nothing in a flash!

Now in 2001, the house price in CY District of Beijing was just over 4000 yuan. Qian chuchen originally planned to buy a two bedroom house not far from Panjiayuan. After all, he was in the antique business, and it was more or less inconvenient to rent.

Moreover, after five years in the capital, he has a certain feeling for the city. Besides, he has a lonely family and can settle down in the capital and live the life of his wife and children. Now, with his practice, I don't know when this wish will come true.

In fact, the drilling experience is not complicated. In April 2000, a pair of rare Tang tri colored pottery horses collected by a rich man in Hong Kong were bought by a Jewish businessman at Sotheby's New York auction for more than US $1.5 million.

It was this news that attracted Chu Chen's attention, so that he began to pay attention to and infatuate with Tang Sancai.

The Tri Color of Tang Dynasty is a kind of pottery popular in Tang Dynasty. It is the general name of low temperature glazed pottery in Tang Dynasty. On the same object, yellow, green, white or yellow, green, blue, ochre, black and other basic glaze colors are used at the same time to form a colorful artistic effect. Generally, there are many tri colors. Later, people used to call this kind of pottery "tri color of Tang Dynasty".

The three colors of Tang Dynasty are vivid, colorful and full of life flavor. Together with the colorful silk, the beautiful murals, the colorful gold and silver ware, and the open society, they make a brilliant picture of Tang culture.

Tang Sancai not only made great achievements in art, but also made great contributions to later generations in ceramic technology. Its gorgeous decoration techniques broke the situation of monochrome glaze dominating the world, and developed from monochrome glaze to three color glaze, which laid the foundation for the birth of later color porcelain.

After the Song Dynasty, all kinds of low-temperature colored glaze and overglaze colored porcelain were mostly developed from the basis of the three colors of Tang Dynasty.

It is precisely because of its high artistic level and unique position, and its export overseas from the very beginning, which is loved by the people of foreign countries. Since it was rediscovered in the early 20th century, it has attracted people's attention, especially in the recent 20 years, with the opening of domestic and international markets, more and more people like to collect Tang Sancai.

Tang Sancai is used in funerary, as a burial object, because of its fragile body and poor waterproof performance, so it is not easy to preserve. Moreover, foreigners like Tang Sancai very much, which makes it win high prices at auction.

For example, on December 12, 1989, a Tang tricolor black horse sold by Sotheby's international auction house was sold in London with 3.74 million pounds. And tens of thousands of dollars to hundreds of thousands of dollars of transaction price are everywhere, greatly ignited the collectors' enthusiasm for collection.

Since he got to know Tang Sancai, Chu Chen seems to be in a daze. He always fantasizes that he can get a beautiful Tang Sancai, which can bring him great economic value.

Marx once said: "if there are 20% profits, capital will be ready to move; if there are 50% profits, capital will take risks; if there are 100% profits, capital will dare to risk hanging; if there are 300% profits, capital will dare to trample on all human laws."

Since the 1990s, many achievements have been made in the reform and opening up, and people's living standards have been improving day by day. Therefore, the related entertainment and cultural industry has also flourished. Youdao is gold in troubled times, and antique in prosperous times. It's Cheng who enters the collection industry.

Accordingly, some lawless elements have their eyes on this treasure land. It's really full of ghosts and ghosts. Many craftsmen are full of them. Since Tang Sancai is so precious, it must be hard to escape their greedy hands.

Because Tang Sancai is a low-temperature ceramic, its production process is not complicated, raw materials can be seen everywhere, the formula of the body glaze has been made public for a long time, and there are a large number of imitation experts, some of whom are experts in Tang Sancai research.

It can be said that 99% of the highly imitated works are just like the real ones. They are completely fake and confused with the real ones. Only 1% of them have special features. Because they have been formed naturally for thousands of years, they cannot be imitated.That's one percent. If you're not an experienced master, you won't be able to see the fake works.

Fortunately, Chu Chen has always been cautious, and he has gained rich experience as a peddler in the past five years. Although there were many high imitation mines during this period, he was careful to wade through them. Nevertheless, his dream of a fine Tang Sancai has not been forgotten. On the contrary, it has become more intense.

Tang Chen picked up a camel three days ago, so that he could buy one of his best.

Xiang Lao, a professor in the History Department of Jingcheng University, has been dealing with historical relics for many years, so he especially loves antiques. After retirement, I often come to the antique street to exchange all kinds of goods. I'm a long-time guest of the antique street. Basically, as long as it's not windy or rainy, I visit the antique street every day. In his words, antique is my second spring.

Because I have been dealing with historical relics all the year round, and I have learned a lot. Although I have met the old man, there is no lack of high-quality products in my family's collection, including a beautiful Tang tricolor camel.

This business has been maintained by Chu Chen for five years, which is the fundamental reason why he was able to gain a foothold in Panjiayuan antique street when he was young. Xiang Lao is a regular customer of his stall, and he has also found some leaks here. They get to know each other as soon as they come and go. It's time to forget their friendship.

So Chu Chen was lucky to have seen the Tang tricolor camel. It's a Bactrian camel with brown glaze, green, white and yellow, and different shades.

Luo head slightly up, front feet crawling, hind feet standing, mouth wide open, as if calling something, expression is particularly rich. Between its two peaks, there is a piggyback, and on both sides of the piggyback, there are silk, water bottles, etc.

This camel of Tang three colors has natural glaze paste, fine and even opening, and also has the phenomenon of lead returning. As for some genuine Tang three colors, there are some brown and black impurities infiltrating into the glaze. Although there are some small defects on the back foot, it can be said that it is a masterpiece of Tang three colors from the overall performance.

When Chu Chen saw it for the first time, he took a fancy to it. When he saw it at that time, he only had this camel in his eyes, which can be described as his love. He immediately asked xianglao if he could share it with him, but he shook his head and refused to say anything. Then he told him the reason.

Xiang Lao saw this camel in an antique shop when he was traveling to Xi'an last year. When he saw it, he was as fond of it as Chu Chen. At least he got it from the shopkeeper at the price of 420000.

But after returning home, when he played with the camel, he always felt that he had lost some charm, which surprised him. He immediately invited several authorities in the circle to take notice. Only two of them were not sure about the Tang Sancai, but these two were exactly the most influential predecessors in the antique industry. They were Mr. Liu and Mr. Qian.

Old Liu, whose real name is Liu Zhihe, is 82 years old. He was born in an antique collection family with profound knowledge. He began to identify cultural relics for the state in the early days of the people's Republic of China. He once served as a senior official of the Ministry of culture. He has rich experience in antique identification and is a leader in the field of antique collection.

Mr. Qian, whose real name is Qian Zhiyan, is 71 years old. He is the president of Beijing collectors association. He has long worked in the National Museum and is an expert consultant of the Palace Museum. He is also an influential collector of antiques.

Although these two senior figures in the antique industry did not conclude that the Tang Sancai was a fake, they were not sure that it was the real one. Their reason was that there was a lack of charm in the Tang Sancai camel, but they could not see what was wrong.

Xiang Lao used to keep his collection by collecting, but he had a temper. If his collection was wrong, he would not exchange it with others even if it was smashed. Now he has doubts about the Tang Sancai, so he will not sell it again. Therefore, he did not agree to Chu Chen's request.

Chu Chen was deeply moved when he heard this. Since ancient times, Chinese people have regarded honesty and reliability as their moral standards. In recent years, with the reform and opening up, although people's economic level has improved, their moral level has not kept up with the economic improvement, but has declined.

For example, many of the current collectors, especially the new ones, will not care as much as xianglao, as long as they are satisfied with their own interests, and no matter whether they are good or bad, someone will take over. In fact, to a certain extent, this situation also encourages the arrogance of counterfeiters.

Just like Chu Chen now, he still thinks that this tricolor of Tang Dynasty must be genuine. Have you not seen that Mr. Liu and Mr. Qian have not said where there is a problem? How can you say it accurately?

It's not that Chu Chen doesn't respect his predecessors. In fact, it's the normal psychology of a young man in his twenties. Moreover, he thinks that his eyesight is not bad in these years' hawker career, and he hasn't suffered any big losses in these years, so he has some arrogance in his heart.

Sometimes people like this. Once they like something, they will like it very much. They always see the advantages of this thing in their eyes. Now Chu Chen is like this. He never forgets that Tang Sancai camel and dreams of owning it.

Now the opportunity has come. Xiang's only son studied in England, then settled there, married and had children. After that, his son always wanted to take him to live in England, but he never agreed. A few days ago, his son spoke again. If he doesn't come again, he will break off the relationship between father and son. In this way, it's impossible to agree with Lao Xiang.However, the older generation are generally concerned about the country, so he plans to dispose of his collection in China for many years, and there is a condition that he is not allowed to sell his collection to foreigners.

Chuchen heard the news, really excited, thought that this can be the Tang Sancai uniform to me. So he tried hard and soft to persuade the old man, but he still didn't give up his idea. Finally, he had to give the Tang Sancai to him at a price of 420000.

Since he got the Tang tricolor camel, he has no idea to practice the stall. For more than 50 hours, Chu Chen has been enjoying the Tang tricolor except eating and sleeping. Finally, he uses a magnifying glass to watch the whole body of the camel bit by bit. However, there is a big problem.

So there's the picture. (new book release, collection and recommendation! Come on, guys!)