The Treasure Hunt of an Antique Dealer

The shape of the tea bottle is similar to that of a common porcelain teapot, and the function is actually half a catty, but the general tea bottle is larger in size and different in texture.

Compared with the teapot, the tea bottle is crude and crude, which is a typical "silly, big and crude" image.

There are still people in the countryside who carry tea bottles to deliver water, but within a few years, this thing will only accumulate dust in the corner, or simply be thrown away.

Oh, I can see it in some costume dramas in the new century, and I don’t know where the crew got the props. The country’s wild shop heroes often go with it when they drink tea.

Moreover, this gadget has not been popular for a short period of time. There is not much change in its appearance after two or three hundred years. However, after more than ten years of reform and opening up, the traditional farming society was replaced by the industrial society, and the tea bottle was quickly eliminated by the times. .

How did Zhang Nan know that the crude-looking tea bottle has not changed its appearance for hundreds of years?

Seen in the museum?

It can't enter ordinary history museums, but at most find a place in some folk museums.

No, for the popular time of tea bottles, Zhang Nan's understanding comes from the encounters and experiences in real life.

This understanding process...

Not pleasant at all!

Zhang Nan didn’t feel much about tea bottles before he became an antique, but he didn’t hate it either: Although he grew up in a small county, the residents of the small county are mostly rural. Before he became an adult, the whole year would end. Yes, there will always be one or two months spent in rural elders’ homes.

Even the people in the old city pass, the relatives in the countryside will not be few, and there are also many when going to the countryside: in the busy summer season, you can always see half-old children carrying tea bottles and carrying baskets to the farmers in the fields. Adults bring food and water.

In the busy farming season, cooking and boiling water are usually given to the teenage children at home: it’s fine for a family with an elderly person who can do some housework at home. Simple meals are done and the children can be sent to the fields. .

If there are no old people, children will not be able to live without precocity!

If it was just these, Zhang Nan would still pour herbal tea from the tea bottles of relatives and neighbors, which seemed to be a very common cheap daily-use appliance.

But then he started an antiques business, especially after he started dealing with the digging machine brothers. When Zhang Nan went to the countryside, he would feel strange in his heart if he saw this kind of tea bottle that was abandoned because of the development of the times.

Even awkward!

Because in Kuaiji area, in general traditional funeral customs, before the tomb is closed, several wines, vegetables and tea are placed in the tomb and in front of the coffin, so that the deceased can enjoy it in the underworld.

What is the water used for?

Since the end of the century, it has everything, such as hot water pots, thermos pots, and cold teapots.

But in the old tradition, it is the tea bottle!

Stupid tea bottle!

I don’t know when this custom began, but it definitely existed in the Qing Dynasty. You don’t need to check information. There are basically this stuff in the tombs: you can’t stay at home and wait for the rabbits when dealing with the digging machine brothers, and sometimes you have to make a phone call to ask. Ask people what they are up to lately.

Communicate and maintain feelings, and let others remember you, so that people will think of you when something is discovered.

Sometimes when others work in hilly and mid-level areas with beautiful mountains and clear waters, Zhang Nan will even drive around in a car. As a human, it’s better to walk around in the natural environment;

Sometimes "newcomers in the world of digging machines for digging treasures" can't identify the age of the ancient tombs, and they will call you when they dig out the old tombs, without first judging whether they are valuable at all.

The era of WeChat or something is okay. A few photos can be passed over and you will be able to see the value of it. If there is no WeChat or MMS, it is not reliable to rely solely on language description, so you have to personally Go there.

In fact, as long as the excavators call and find time for themselves, Zhang Nan will usually make a trip in person, regardless of whether there is a photo or not.

Even if gasoline and time are wasted in all likelihood, and some cigarettes are still needed, Zhang Nan will still go.

This is how the trust and friendship between people come from. You can’t beat the enthusiasm of "newcomers in the treasure digging world", otherwise he might not call you next time, or think that the things he dug out are worthless, so I'm sorry to give You call.

This kind of lesson, Zhang Nan was dumb who had eaten Huanglian: The two oil drip tea cups from Jianzhou kiln or Wuzhou kiln were just because the excavator brothers thought they were broken and worthless, so they didn’t give Zhang Nan the first time. Call up.

As a result, when Zhang Nan saw the two photos taken by the excavator handily two days later, the oil dripping shards were all under the base of the house!

I almost regretted vomiting blood!

If the relationship is good, "new people" will call whenever they dig the old tomb, but at first they can’t tell the difference between the concept of “ancient tombs and old tombs” among antique players-in the antique circle in Kuaiji In general terms, the tombs from the Qing Dynasty to the Republic of China are considered old tombs, and the tombs from the Ming Dynasty onwards are considered ancient tombs.

As a result, many tombs were discovered in the Qing Dynasty and early Republican burials where silt deposition had just begun, and Zhang Nan would also take the time to travel.

Then tell the excavator that there is no need to pay attention to such old graves in the future, which is boring.

It's useless to run a trip and tell people directly on the phone that this kind of old grave is useless. The effect of this interaction is different, and others will feel respect.

Don’t those digger brothers know that the old graves that can be seen on the ground have no flower heads?

They know that there are only many old tombs in the Qing Dynasty, even the Republic of China, which are invisible on the ground and have long been buried under the ground.

The former custom of tombs near Yanxian County was to build an N-shaped tomb on the hillside with masonry, which is a tomb that completely or mostly exposed to the surface, and then covered with thick soil to form a large tomb bag.

However, as long as the tomb owners and descendants in the tombs are separated by four or five generations, many tombs become unowned tombs, and future generations cannot be checked. In addition, Yanxian County and Xinchang are located in the south of the Yangtze River. As long as no one visits the graves for decades and does not add soil to the graves during the winter solstice, these graves will soon merge with the nearby natural environment as soil erosion, subsidence, and vegetation grow. As one, and gradually forgotten by people.

Sometimes an excavator will build a **** near a village in a hilly area, and it will dig out a few or even a dozen old graves.

In this case, the 80 or 90-year-old people in the village sometimes say: "A piece of land seems to belong to the ancestors of someone, and I heard it about it 60 or 70 years ago."

What about their descendants?

Sometimes, there might be someone going to put incense sticks and burn some paper for his wife, grandma, grandma, and uncle, and then...

What should I do? Just make a sacrifice.

Some people who are particular and rich may ask the "Mr. Caijiao" in the village or nearby villages to help see if there are any bones or something, and then build a new tomb nearby that can barely be made so that the deceased's bones are not left.

But this kind of situation is very rare. Because of the changes in hundreds of years, the blood of the family will be weakened. According to the ancient Chinese system, the paternal line is father, grandfather, great ancestor, high ancestor, and ancestor of heaven.

There are also tomb sweepers for the great ancestors. How many people know where their great ancestors are buried?

Going to the grave is even less!

Not to mention the "Ping graves to create fertile land" movement in the 1950s. Near the rural areas of the Jiangnan area, a small amount of flat surface tombs moved, and many of them were dug out!

No, go to the sacrifice?

Zhang Nan only knew where the tombs of his grandfather and grandmother were, but he didn't even know earlier. On the matriarchal side, I only know where the grandpa and grandma’s cemetery is, and the location of the ancestor’s burial ground is not even known.

Therefore, people like those who will rebuild a grave for the ancestors of a certain generation in the direct line are already very particular, and the proportion is even rarer, and it can even be said that it is rare.

Not to mention the fact that many tomb owners are either extinct, or their descendants are missing, or they have moved out of the village early, even if some old people seem to have heard about it decades ago, those tombs dug out from the ground are the wives of someone's generation. The cemetery was dug.

The sideline is even more, at most, there are a few bold and curious people to take a look.

Zhang Nan has encountered this situation many times: the excavator digs casually, and most people can't avoid it.

As for the old people in the village, they don't even know that there are many cases of old tombs in those places—not much, two hundred years are enough to make many things disappear and be buried by the loess.

"According to the village elders: "When I was young, I listened to who said" such a drama, reliability has been basically line for a hundred years, and it will not be reliable any further.

Therefore, in some documentaries, an ancient tomb of the Ming Dynasty was excavated near the village, and then asked the elderly in the village. The old people said that they did not know that there was an ancient tomb...

Low-level gimmick, more than 300 years, know a ball!

If it is an ancient tomb from an earlier dynasty, it can only be said that adding this drama is a calcium deficiency in the choreographer's brain!

Especially in some special areas, such as Xichuan Province, Zhang Nan will feel sick when such a scene appears in this kind of documentary!

Why?

The people of Xichuan in the Ming Dynasty were almost extinct due to the war. Huguang filled Xichuan. Take Chengdu as an example. At the end of the Qing Dynasty, it was recorded: "Today’s Chengdu people are all from other provinces." Among them, Huguang accounted for 25%, Henan and Shandong 5%. , Shaanxi 10%, Yunnan, Guizhou 15%, Jiangxi 15%, Anhui 5%, Jiangsu, Zhejiang Jiangsu 10%, Guangdong and Guangxi 10%, Fujian, Shanxi, Gansu 5%. "

Ask the old man...

moron!

Such old tombs were dug casually, but Zhang Nan didn’t want to touch it at all: because it was close to modern time, rotten coffin plates and dead human bones were often still there, even some old tombs from the Republic of China that had high terrain and low water seepage. Inside, even moldy quilts and clothes will have remnants.

Of course, regardless of whether the organic matter is moldy or not, even if the bones of the dead are already rotten, this silly tea bottle will still be inside.

So Zhang Nan knew that at the latest in the Qing Dynasty, people in Kuaiji area would put tea bottles in the tombs of the deceased; he also knew that for at least two to three hundred years, even if the size of this tea bottle is different, its shape will not change. .

This will make it clearer: it turns out that there were similar tea bottles in Fujian during the Jiadao period.

Thinking of the scattered brown corpses and the tea bottles placed aside, Zhang Nan didn’t even have any interest in touching the brown tea bottles he picked up. All the bones inside have disappeared in all likelihood.

I am a tutor, but not an enchanter!

I remember clearly that once on a gentle **** near Zhijianlu Village in Yanxian County, a row of century-old graves was dug out on the ground, and it was magnificent!

Because it had been under construction for a day or two, I got closer and wanted to take a look. It turned out that there were two quadruple thigh bones inserted in the leveled soil, and there was a skull and several tea bottles not far away.

What's even more disgusting: A tattered piece of cloth-cotton cloth is still wrapped around a thigh bone, which is quite time-tested.

For this kind of work, the excavator master does not want to get out of the cab at all, so he can finish the work with a bucket, let alone deal with the scattered skeletons.

That feels really bad!

To be honest, the several tea bottles on the deck of this club can be regarded as excellent members in the tea bottle world. There are even "plastic workers" in the external fraud, that is, there are patterns.

Many of the goods on the "Taixing" were ordered by Chinese, Japanese, Dutch, Spanish immigrants, wealthy businessmen, and colonists near Java. There were a lot of wealthy people, and things that were "silly, big and clumsy" were not It's worth getting on board.

These tea bottles can be regarded as high-end products in the tea bottles, but Zhang Nan still looks more and more unpleasant: these things are an eyesore!

I yelled at the sailors twice, "...Hurry up and take it away, and inform the diver~www.wuxiaspot.com~ if there are a lot of this kind of tea bottles below, they will stay on the bottom of the sea instead of getting them!

Seize the time to fish for porcelain, pottery is not used. "

You don’t need to fish too much. There are just a few pieces of sauce-brown pottery. They are not sold in Europe, especially in China. It is better to spend your time on scouring porcelain.

The pottery of the Qing Dynasty is not Tang Sancai. Except for its archaeological value, many values ​​are almost equal to zero.

After staying on the cargo ship for a long time, Zhang Nan discovered a very interesting situation: Dehua kiln porcelain with water, very few bottles and pots, and most dishes and bowls. This is probably because the dishes and bowls occupy the least space. reason.

And with the water coming out of the porcelain counted as "ten thousand", although this porcelain belongs to the Dehua kiln, the firing quality is very different because of the different mouths of the small kilns, and even the green materials used are not even used.

The quality of this porcelain varies greatly between the orderer and the buyer group. Some fine porcelains are almost catching up with the Jingdezhen Daoguang official kiln in terms of craftsmanship.

At this point, Zhang Nan stayed on the cargo ship for a long time and selected nearly a thousand pieces of porcelain, which he could make up as many sets.

"For your own use?"

Regarding the brother-in-law's question, Zhang Nan nodded, and then asked the crane to take it to his yacht.

The “Taixing” shipwreck is a fine piece of porcelain from the sea, and it’s still a bit fanciful to entertain guests.

Early the next morning, Zhang Nan, who got up from the yacht room, did not board the cargo ship, but set up the anchor and set off for Belitung Island: This is to use the super yacht as a transport ship to purchase the freshest ingredients for the guys.

If you don’t need Indonesian monkeys, you don’t need Indonesian monkeys. As for fresh water, they are transported by ships sent from Borneo. The Lin family leads them to avoid complications.

The day after tomorrow, the day after tomorrow at the latest, Zhang Nan will leave this sea area and will return when the "Black Rock" is salvaged.

For the "Taixing", I have no interest at all.