Crow's Paradise

On the auction stage, a piece of enamel-colored porcelain was on display.

"Mrs. Bisso, do you like this?"

Beside Yao Yan, Triss asked with a smile in her eyes.

He glanced at her, then picked up the cup on the table in front of him and brought it to his mouth.

However, halfway through this action, he suddenly froze.

Because, he recalled, during his middle school years, there was a time when he was obsessed with European "history" before and after the Napoleonic era.

To be clear, it’s the images in movies and TV shows.

Converting it to the country where he lived during his lifetime, it was probably the so-called studio style.

Gorgeous, visible but unreal.

During that time, a classmate with a slightly greater "knowledge reserve" than him told him that in fact, at that time, Europe imported a large amount of Chinese porcelain, tea, folding fans and other things, so the European aristocrats of that era should have been like a town. Go to a teahouse and hold up various tea sets made of enamel or blue and white porcelain like an old man in a teahouse

After he learned more about this in the next year or two, he also discovered the problem.

It is good to import in large quantities, but the huge profits of this kind of handicrafts have caused many local capitals developed by the nobles to do everything possible to join the business war.

A large number of specious imitations appeared in European countries such as Britain, France and Italy at that time.

And these specious works also have local characteristics.

Because of differences in culture, art, and values, although those porcelain craftsmen did imitate the porcelain of the Celestial Dynasty, the elements they used, such as flowers and birds, would unconsciously use the local plants and birds they were familiar with as standards.

To put it another way, if porcelain originated from Europe and was dumped in large quantities in China, with various elements related to dragons and birds used on it, in China, craftsmen and painters would unconsciously add their own interpretations because of their aesthetics, and the above would be There are many characteristics of dragons and phoenixes.

For example, Western-style dragons with antlers, long beards, long and narrow bodies, and often snake-like movements. When depicting sacred birds, elements of the phoenix will be unconsciously added.

This is a phenomenon that will inevitably occur due to insufficient information exchange and education levels in historical development. It is uncertain whether there is more or less, but there will inevitably be dislocation.

No matter how well the upper class at that time understood these imported products, the middle and lower classes, who were always trying to climb up the ladder and imitated the upper class in all their actions, did not have enough understanding of the shape requirements of these things.

This is knowledge education and a gap in experience. What's more, even at the top, there are many people who don't understand this.

These people prefer "fake goods" that suit their own aesthetics rather than imported goods from fundamentalism.

What they want is the skin, as long as it "looks like", as long as it can fool other people, as long as their vanity can be satisfied, they don't care about what it actually looks like.

Under the influence of many aspects, when a cultural form spreads to another area, it will inevitably change according to the local area.

Even in modern times, many people's impressions of Europe are often limited to a rough combination of certain elements.

When it comes to the West, it means all kinds of Western food that have been transformed from Chinese style. When it comes to prom, it means all kinds of vaguely shaped dresses.

While thinking, Yao Yan already had several ideas in his mind as to why there were objects in this world such as the Eight Immortals Table and the Holding Pot, whose styles clearly made him feel misplaced.

Tapping his fingers on the edge of the teacup with blue and white porcelain patterns, Yao Yan narrowed his eyes slightly.

His main idea is the source of the spirit that forms this world. Those people, just like when he was in middle school, know little about Europe. They only know the outline roughly and ignore many differences in details. This is also a stereotype.

Where is the source?

Some non-European locals just heard about it. Even if they have personal experience and observation, they are not detailed and have only a little knowledge.

The other type, the local Europeans, only have some understanding of the history of that era, but not in detail.

but

These kettles, blue and white porcelain, and even enamel porcelain have the same shape.

It is obvious that the spiritual formation of this world consists of his compatriots.

But I don't know what the proportion is.

He doesn't know how these spiritual worlds and trial spaces are formed, and which people will be spiritually involved in the formation of which parts.

However, there is another problem.

The times of these people.

His and her eyes fell on the porcelain on the auction stand, and then turned to the tables in front of the surrounding seats and the tea sets of the guests.

After recalling the porcelain that appeared at the previous banquet, Yao Yan was sure of one thing.

The host introduced it as a palace vase from 320 years ago. The name was a multi-part naming that people in the area where he lived rarely paid attention to, but it was very deformed.

And so are the shapes of those porcelains.

It feels like imitation for the sake of imitation.

He doesn't seem to be from the same era.

Perhaps later than the era he was familiar with.

Before, he was wondering, are the spiritual sources that make up these trial spaces all from the same era?

What about earlier times?

However, he was unable to conduct a more detailed analysis of these differences.

"Even if you are a detective protagonist in a mystery novel, your knowledge reserve cannot cover all aspects."

He couldn't help but mutter to himself.

Because of his wide range of hobbies, he will study things that appear in various games, novels, animations, TV series, and movies, so his knowledge reserve is not bad, but that's about it.

After all, he himself only had a partial understanding.

However, there is still a difference between 40% and 10%. Regarding myths and folklore, he may be able to achieve 70% or 80%, but for other aspects other than these, he may be the type who only knows 10%.

However, when he said these words, the girl next to her, Triss, suddenly lit up:

"Mrs. Bisso, do you also like detective novels!?"

"Yes, "The Flame at Twelve O'Clock" is my favorite detective novel."

Yao Yan responded.

He did not make it up, because Mrs. Bisso did like detective novels, or in other words, many of the upper class people in this world liked detective novels.

after all

Although there are many types of detective novels in this world, the mainstream detective novels are basically related to phantom thieves, especially the handsome and glamorous phantom thieves in various depictions. From time to time, there are scenes of teasing ladies and ladies, and even a scene with the phantom thief. The romantic love story is loved by many ladies and ladies.

Another reason may be that only nobles are the largest asset owners, with various luxury goods, various works of art, and wonderful battles of wits. The Phantom Thief who steals various things from under the eyes of strict guards is more interesting than the ordinary ones. The heist looks better in every way.

only.

Are you a member of the Phantom Thieves?

It doesn't matter whether it is, after all, Yao Yan is just preparing to spread the story he made up on this occasion.

Mo Crow's ability has been verified in practice, and one of the influencing factors is the degree of communication.

Looking at Triss's smile, he spoke with an indifferent attitude and a gentle tone:

"I heard that the author of "The Twelve O'clock Flame", Peter Rees, wrote this story, which was inspired by an ancient book."

"An ancient book about the 'Fire Eaters'."

Mrs. Bisso's face was full of smiles.

But Triss couldn't help but feel shocked, and the smile on her face froze.

ps: I originally planned to go to Fujian along the coast, but I didn’t pay attention when I came, and I realized that there were several imported cases in Shanghai.

But it should be no problem. After all, it is a centralized quarantine and not nearby.

After that, choose a place where there are no big airports or the like. Although it is not illegal now, it may become illegal if you accidentally enter the code, so it will be miserable if you are strictly quarantined.

Does anyone know of any small places with nice views? I don’t want those tourist attractions that have a strong sense of Hengdian. I was tired of seeing Hengdian when I came to Zhejiang. Although it was quite shocking when I first saw it, it was just like that after seeing it more. After a closer look, it was full of interesting things.