The Treasure Hunt of an Antique Dealer

After several years of intermittent dealings, Boss Ma knows that there is only one object that really arouses Zhang Nan's interest: bronzes, and the others are all floating clouds!

Before contacting him actively, it was because he got an incredible plate in his hand, and someone asked him to get some other bronze wares. If you can sell it to this super rich man who has so much money and nowhere to go, it will really make a fortune!

No nonsense, this is the main dish.

A large flat brocade box with the lid opened was brought up, with a bronze plate lying in it, looking greasy and slippery. It was not a new unearthed new pit, but at first glance it was a masterpiece.

Boss Ma took out the plate and put it on the coffee table. The boss of Iron Army here started as a collection of antiques, but he hadn't seen this grade of antiques, so he got up and took a closer look.

Zhang Nan didn't get up, took a glance, and then said to Boss Ma: "Don't tell me this is the Xijia plate."

Boss Ma smiled and said, "It is very likely that there is a'Xijia plate' hidden in the calligraphy museum of the little devil, but that thing is a fake.

Mr. Zhang, look at this plate, the patina is handed down, and the inscription is exactly the same as the rubbings of the Republic of China, baby! ..."

Boss Ma said it's a baby, this is really not blowing, Xijia Pan is a great thing!

Regarding the Xijia disk, there were records of the meeting in the early years of the Southern Song Dynasty. Over the past few hundred years, there have been hundreds of books and periodicals published, recorded, and discussed!

What's more, among the bronzes of Shang and Zhou Dynasties unearthed from the Han Dynasty to the Song Dynasty in China, the Xijiapan is the only gem that has been handed down to this day!

For more than 1,000 years and more than ten centuries, there has been a single seedling in Xijiapan. Do you think it is rare?

The boss of Jian Ma was able to introduce it energetically, and Zhang Nan got up and took a few more glances, and took a soft ruler to measure: the plate is 11.7 cm high and 47 cm in diameter.

The abdomen is open and shallow, with a narrow square lip, and the inner bottom is slightly concave downward. A pair of attached ears is higher than the disc opening. Each ear has a pair of beams connected to the disc edge, and the circle feet are incomplete. The abdomen is decorated with curved patterns, and the ears are decorated with heavy ring patterns, which are very typical of the Western Zhou Dynasty bronzes and patterns.

However, the ornamentation is secondary. The 133 inscriptions on the bottom of the plate are the key points-Zhang Tiejun on one side asked when the plate was from and what the words said on the plate.

The boss of the Iron Army didn't know what Xijia plate was. Like Zhang Nan in his previous life, he started from the bottom. This would be a genuine super jade expert and gangster, but he didn't recognize any high-grade bronzes.

Back then, there was no such condition. Besides, in the late 1970s and early 1980s, who was selling bronzes, the Jiangnan area did not have this condition, either, or the people’s homes were dumped with old goods.

This is not true. The boss of Tiejun saw that the owner of Xiangjiang was blowing strongly, but Zhang Nan seemed to be interested, so he asked a few words in the dialect of his hometown when he was curious. Anyway, it is not unreasonable for others to understand.

After looking at the plates on the coffee table, Zhang Nan said in Mandarin: "The Xijia plate was a plate made by the people of Xijia, an important minister of Zhou Xuan, in the late Western Zhou Dynasty. It was hidden in the inner palace during the Southern Song Dynasty. At least it was unearthed. It's been hundreds of years.

Later, in the last years of the Southern Song Dynasty, the war was chaotic, and Xijiapan disappeared. In the Yuan Dynasty, the society was exiled to the people. Once, Xian Yushu, a calligrapher and connoisseur, found a Xijia plate in the house of his father Li Shun.

It was very interesting. At that time, the plate was broken by Li Shun's father's family and it was used as a pancake to bake the flatbread. Xian Yushu Zhibao collected this plate. "

Upon hearing this, Zhang Tiejun smiled "hehe" and said, "Don't tell me, this plate looks really suitable for fritters."

Hearing this, Zhang Nan and Ma’s boss both smiled, and Zhang Nan said again: “It’s pretty good, because of this, Xijia Pan has been ridiculed as the'most expensive pancake pan in history'.

If it is auctioned, tens of millions of Hong Kong dollars will be no problem. "

There is one thing Zhang Nan didn't know. In his original time and space, in 17 years, this Xijia plate sold for more than 200 million yuan!

Zhang Tiejun's heart is slightly different: there is no one who makes a price without buying it, there is a problem here!

But the face didn’t show it, but instead he nodded slightly: “I don’t know what the goods are. I remember that there is a big Yuhai in the Yuan Dynasty in Beihai in the capital. It was said that it was a big jar of pickles that had been used for many years. It's not cheap either."

"Dushan Dayuhai, the original base is in my house in the capital, you can go and see if you have a chance..."

Zhang Nan didn't go far, but these few paragraphs were enough to be worrying for the boss Ma on the side!

They are all human beings, and you can hear the voiceover.

Zhang Nan also said on the plate in front of him: "After the Yuan Dynasty, the Xijia plate was missing. I remember that it was not until the Qing Dynasty that it was re-entered into the Baoding official treasury.

At that meeting in the last year of the Qing Dynasty, the plate fell into the hands of the famous collector Chen Jieqi and disappeared shortly afterwards.

The inscription above is of great research value. At the beginning, there was a rubbing in Chen Jieqi's hands. The meaning of the inscription was: On the Gengyin Day in March in the fifth year of King Zhou Xuan, King Xuan first ordered the crusade against the horns and chased Taiyuan.

Xijia Jifu obeyed the king's order. By the way, this Xijia plate was ordered to make a plate. This Xi is named Jia. Modern people usually call him Yin Jifu.

After the Yellow Emperor, the uncle's ethnicity, the monarch of the Yin state, the word Jifu, also called Jifu, and the bronze inscriptions were written as Xijia and Xibojifu. His surname was Xi, and because he was named Yin, he was also called Yin Jifu.

Xijia Jifu obeyed the king's order to defeat the enemy and take prisoners. He returned triumphantly, and the king rewarded Xijia Jifu with four good horses and a wagon.

King Xuan also ordered Xijia Jifu to go east for Zhou, that is, Luo Yang was in charge of law enforcement and ordered the four parties to pay the grain. As for Nan Huai Yi and Huai Yi, farmers who paid tribute silk to our Zhou dynasty were not allowed to owe tribute silk and grain. They must not disrupt local and market establishments when they come and go and do business.

If they dare to violate Zhou Wang's decree, they will be punished and confiscated. I hereby urge the princes and people from all over the Zhou dynasty to engage in commerce and trade in prescribed markets and do not get business in barbarous and remote places, otherwise they will also be punished!

Father Xi Boji made this record specially. The longevity of his eyebrows is to hope that he will live forever, and be used by his children and grandchildren Sun Yongbao. "

Speaking of this Nan, he stopped and said: "Xijia is thought to be spread in an orderly manner, and the historical value of the inscription is extremely high. It records many details of the official system, wars, rewards, taxes, slaves, and trade management of the Western Zhou Dynasty.

The most interesting time is that the earlier Shang Dynasty would record dates with stems and branches, 60 days in a cycle, and also have the concept of year and month, but the concept of time recording at that time is very different from today.

A common routine of oracle bone inscriptions is to record the day of divination first, such as Jiazi, Renyin, etc. This recording method makes it impossible for future generations to determine the specific time.

However, the Zhou dynasty's inscriptions used the "Life Overlord and Death Overlord" related to the phase of the moon to record the time. This is a remarkable improvement. "

"Life tyrant and death tyrant?"

Questioning, it was Boss Ma who was puzzled in his mind, let alone Boss Iron Army who hadn't studied bronzes.

Boss Ma, this is a knot in his heart, put it aside for now, knowing that Mr. Zhang is an expert, let's learn a few hands first.

Zhang Nan is an expert, but if it weren't for the expert teacher and relative of Nongbosheng, Zhang Nan would not have known a "life tyrant and death tyrant". This "Tianba Haiba" knows that there is a Tianba watch of its own.

The two were puzzled, and Zhang Nan said: "There are a lot of moon phase words in the bronze inscriptions of the Western Zhou Dynasty. The most common ones are Chuji, Jisheng Ba, Ji Wang, and Ji Si Ba.

Many scholars believe that the Western Zhou moon phase term is not a fixed point, but refers to a period of time, the so-called "four-cent moon phase". However, many people think that the moon phase words of the Western Zhou Dynasty are fixed-point and specific, that is, each moon phase word specifically refers to a certain day of the month, and this day is fixed.

At that time, people could only observe the phases of the moon with the naked eye. It was inevitable that there would be errors in observing the moon, but the accuracy was not more than one day before and after the error.

The first lucky day is the day when the crescent moon just appeared, that is, the second and third day of each month;

Jishengba is half a month, the moon begins to radiate light, that is, the eighth day of each month;

Jiwang is the second day of the full moon, which is the sixteenth of each month.

The dead tyrant and the dead tyrant corresponded to ~www.wuxiaspot.com~ for a month and a half, and the moon's light began to dim, on the twenty-fourth of each month.

I also know so much, I haven't studied it carefully, and I am not sure about it in more detail.

The first sentence on this Xijia plate is "Only five years and March, the dead tyrant Gengyin", the plate during the time of King Xuan, who came to the throne in 827 BC, five years is 823 BC.

Based on this textual research, the time when the King Xuan mentioned in the Xijia Pan first ordered the crusade against the Huxun was March 24, 823 BC, which is extremely accurate!

Isn’t it interesting that money matters more than two thousand eight hundred years can be accurate to a certain day? "

It was very interesting, but the problem came. The boss Ma here secretly gritted his teeth and said, "Mr. Zhang, can you tell me what the problem is with this plate?"

He heard it, Zhang Nan didn't say that the one on the coffee table was a Xijia plate, and the voice-over was that the thing was a fake.

Zhang Nan smiled, "Simple, because the genuine product is in my hands."