Chapter 470

When Chu Chen returned to the shop, Zhou Wenping saw the jade Cong in his hand and asked strangely:

"how do I look at the jade Cong in your hand like Liangzhu culture?"

Chuchen said with a smile: "brother Zhou, you're right, but I haven't looked at it carefully. Just before, I thought that this jade Cong is more likely to be Liangzhu culture."

"Really?" Hearing Chu Chen say so, Zhou Wenping is really surprised.

Liangzhu culture is a late Neolithic culture represented by black pottery and polished jade distributed around the Taihu Lake Basin, 5300-4000 years ago, among which the most famous is its jade ware, which is famous for its dense and meticulous carving and decoration, harmonious and neat.

Among Liangzhu jade wares, the typical one is jade Cong, which has been sought after by jade lovers since ancient times because of its exquisite patterns, important historical value and great artistic charm. In Song Dynasty, some shadow celadon began to imitate the shape of Liangzhu jade Cong, which shows its great influence.

Because of the great influence and the extremely high price of Liangzhu jade, there are many imitations in the market. It can be said that there is a flood of Liangzhu jade. There are many shops and stalls selling Liangzhu jade, which cost hundreds of thousands or tens of thousands of yuan.

It is because the market of Liangzhu jade is so chaotic that lovers of Liangzhu jade often want to collect but dare not. The main reason is that they can not judge the authenticity of these jade. In fact, this is the most important reason why Zhou Jude will sell the real thing to Chu Chen and Zhou Wenping as a fake.

At the same time, old five just walked out from the back of the shop. Seeing Zhou Wenping's excited appearance, he couldn't help feeling a little strange and asked, "what's the matter with you?"

Chu Chen raised his hand and said with a smile, "let's go upstairs!"

After the three of them sat down, Lao Wu looked at Chu Chen's jade Cong on the table. His expression was a little inconceivable. He said, "don't tell me it's Liangzhu jade Cong for such a big jade Cong!"

Chuchen said with a smile: "I think it's very possible. As for whether it's true or not, I'd better wait until I see it first."

Liangzhu jade Cong is carved from soft jade. From the appearance, it is square outside and round inside, big up and small down. Its surface fine Yin line engraving technology has reached the point that the later generations can hardly catch up with.

Not only that, Liangzhu jade Cong also regards itself as a big body, which shows its unique charm. For example, the jade Cong in Chu Chen's hand is estimated to be about 14.5 cm in length by visual inspection, which is quite rare even if it can't match the 17 cm size of Liangzhu jade Cong king.

Of course, big is on the other hand, if it is big, it will not attract the attention of the majority of lovers. In addition to those exquisite and tedious decorations, there are vertical grooves in the middle of the four sides of the square column shaped jade Cong, and the two sides of the groove are basically equidistant, with an error of about 1 mm, and the upper and lower spacing of each section is almost equal.

And the composition of jade Cong animal's facial pattern is basically the same. There are half animal faces on the corner of each face, and the half animal faces on the corner of its adjacent side form a complete animal face. This combination makes the original rigid animal face more vivid and changeable.

For example, the jade Cong in Chu Chen's hand is carved with a composite image of the face of God, man and beast in the four vertical grooves, and is carved with line relief and fine line carving.

On the rectangular convex surface, which is divided into two sections to make a square shape, the corner is taken as the central axis to expand on both sides, and each two section is carved with a group of simplified symbolic facial patterns of God, man and beast, with the same four corners and left and right symmetry. Among them, the simplified divine beast section is also decorated with bird patterns, and decorated with cloud and thunder patterns.

These complicated totem patterns are composed of lines as thin as hair. After Chu Chen appreciated them, he couldn't help but praise them.

In fact, this is also a problem that has puzzled many experts and scholars up to now, because people can't imagine how to process jade with hardness higher than that of ordinary rocks and various metals in Liangzhu period, where there was neither bronze nor steel, so as to make it a jade Cong with exquisite and complicated patterns?

In addition, how did people at that time control the error of Yucong so accurately? Especially in the relatively primitive society four or five thousand years ago, Chu Chen thought it was incredible.

It took more than 20 minutes for Chu Chen to read all the features of the jade Cong carefully with the help of a magnifying glass. Although from Bao Jue's reaction, he guessed that it was probably an authentic one, but when he was able to confirm that it was really an authentic one, he couldn't help showing his excitement.

Seeing Chu Chen's expression, Zhou Wenping and Wu immediately understood the meaning of it and asked in surprise, "is this really true?"

"Yes, just look at it!" Chuchen said with a smile.

As soon as Zhou Wenping and the fifth listen, they take turns to observe.

Just then, Gu Jianming came here to have a rest. Seeing Chu Chen was there, he said hello with a smile, and then asked, "boss, when did you come back?"

"Yesterday afternoon!" Chuchen replied with a smile, and then asked, "how's your family recently? Do you have any living habits?"Gu Jianming said happily: "it's very good. It's a bit drier here than in the south. At the beginning, the children are not used to it. They have adapted to it in the past two days."

"That's good!" Chuchen happily said: "by the way, how is the progress of jade carving?"

Gu Jianming replied: "the progress is almost the same. It must be enough on the opening day! Why don't we go and see our sculptures now? "

Chu Chen agreed: "OK, but I'll go after brother Zhou and them."

"All right!"

Gu Jianming nodded, and then looked at Zhou Wenping. However, he found that Zhou Wenping was familiar with the things in his hand, so he asked curiously, "what are they looking at, Xiao Zhou?"

"It's a Liangzhu jade Cong I just got."

"What, Liangzhu jade Cong?"

Gu Jianming was very surprised when he heard Yan. He took a close look at it. He didn't expect that it was Liangzhu Yucong that he had always wanted to appreciate and study. He was so surprised.

Seeing Gu Jianming's expression, Chu Chen asked strangely, "master Gu, are you also interested in Liangzhu Yuzong?"

Gu Jianming was very excited and said: "of course, you know, the patterns of Liangzhu jade, even in a millimeter wide shade line, there are more than three obviously targeted carved shade lines. This kind of carving technology until today's modernization, even with the help of modern processing machines, it is difficult to achieve. Such superb carving technology is of great significance to us as a pedestrian. "

Listen to Gu Jianming say so, Chu Chen said with a smile: "that's OK, after a period of time is not busy, this jade Cong I can put in the store for you to study for a period of time."

"Thank you! Thank you When Gu Jianming heard Chu Chen say this, he was very excited. He repeatedly expressed his thanks to Chu Chen

When the three of them finished reading the jade Cong, the fifth man couldn't help sighing: "Liangzhu jade Cong really deserves its reputation. If it's not too many fakes and the price is so expensive, I really want to buy one."

Zhou Wenping said with a smile: "come on, cheap goods are not good, good goods are not cheap. Do you think such exquisite Liangzhu jade can be cheap?"

Gu Jianming, who was next to him, laughed and said to Chu Chen, "boss, can you tell me the key points of Liangzhu jade identification? I'll try my luck in Panjiayuan next door one day."

Chu Chen said: "it's OK to introduce it, but I want to remind you that you can't be careless and impulsive when buying antiques, otherwise it's very easy to make eye contact."

Gu Jianming nodded and said, "I know that. Anyway, if I really want to buy something, I will definitely buy it after seeing the artistic conception of the thing."

Gu Jianming, after all, is a skilled craftsman. He can still see the artistic conception of jade objects. However, counterfeits are often copied mechanically. Unless they are highly imitated, it's really hard to deceive Gu Jianming.

Chuchen said with a smile, "OK, I'll tell you about some characteristics of Liangzhu jade now."

Then he picked up the jade Cong and explained: "first of all, the identification of Liangzhu jade should distinguish the quality and color of the jade. There are many kinds of materials used in Liangzhu ancient jade, the most important of which are nephrite from tremolite to actinolite series, as well as fluorite, pyrophyllite, chalcedony, turquoise and other jades. "

"As for the characteristics of these jades, I'll bring you a book tomorrow. It's easier to understand according to the color pictures above. When it comes to the quality of jade, let's talk about Qinse. Most of Liangzhu jade is white with chicken bone after Qinse. "

However, just like the chicken bone white on the jade Cong, the real Liangzhu ancient jade has no more pure chicken bone white. The whitening of the jade formed in the natural environment is due to the gradual loss of crystal water in the tremolite, which generally goes through the gradual process of reddening, losing permeability and whitening. This is the key to distinguish Liangzhu The most basic characteristics of jade. "

"In addition, Liangzhu jade processing method is very advanced, can make a very good polishing effect. In addition, due to the joint influence of the burial environment for more than 4000 years, the glass light effect will eventually be formed, and the irregular fine grinding marks can be seen in the high-power magnifying glass, which is a feature that cannot be imitated by modern electric tool processing. "

"In addition to the features mentioned above, there are two most important features of real Liangzhu jade. These two points are the Yin lines you just mentioned, and the charm of them."

After a sip of tea, Chu Chen went on to say, "at that time, it was impossible for Liangzhu culture to have so many advanced automatic tools as it is now. Therefore, these exquisite jades could not be completed in a short time. In addition, the special functions of jades at that time contained the author's painstaking efforts and solemn charm."

"This can be felt by experienced experts or craftsmen like you."