That night, the three of them crowded into a car and spent the night together. They were all grown men and there was nothing to be embarrassed about.

A group of them spent the second day of their self-driving trip amidst the noise. Although it was a chaotic day, it was an experience that these young men had never had before. When they drank in the evening, it still felt fresh when they talked about it.

On the third day, Chen Jiayi, who led the team, regrouped and rushed into the urban area of ​​West Lake in only half an hour. He got off to a good start right out of the gate, making everyone very excited. All the difficulties on the first day were gone.

Delete it from their minds.

When they arrived at West Lake, they naturally wanted to take a good rest, so no one wanted to leave. Some people suggested finding a hotel to rest for a day before leaving, but Han Kongque and the others had no such intention. The reason why they entered West Lake City early in the morning was naturally

Came here for the Xihu City Antique Market.

West Lake City, one of the six ancient capitals, has a profound history and culture, and is rich in fine cultural relics left over from past dynasties.

In today's society, folk antique collection is on the rise. Thousands of years of Chinese culture can be condensed into a small antique. When you carefully play with the ancient art treasures in your hands in your spare time, you will involuntarily develop the profoundness of Chinese culture.

I feel that collecting cultural relics and antiques is also collecting history and passing on history.

One of the characteristics of Wuzhai Antique Market is its unique location. It was a mansion of wealthy families in the past, but now it is a place for ordinary people to enjoy and rest. While enjoying the ancient treasures, you can also appreciate the perfect state of ancient Chinese architectural art.

The antique products here are rich and colorful, ranging from antique furniture to hairpins and earrings used by women.

This place has convenient transportation. The market is located in the city center. It is only a few dozen minutes away from the train station and long-distance bus station. It is only a 10-minute drive from the West Lake Scenic Area. In addition to appreciating the rare antiques, it is also a great way to enjoy the beautiful scenery of the West Lake.

Happy news.

Walking between the stalls, Han Peacock looked at the items that were almost the same as those in the Magic City Antique Street, and could only shake his head helplessly.

Modern porcelain, imitation thin-skin bronzes, mottled ancient jade of unknown origin, and piles of copper coins. These things can be seen in almost every antique market in every city.

After going around in a circle, both Han Kongque and Liu Mingyu were disappointed. On the contrary, Zhu Feiyu, Long Lin and Jiang Lin watched with great interest.

"Look what this is?" Long Lin knelt down and picked up a piece of jade.

The jade huang is half-moon shaped. It is bluish white and carved with complex patterns. It looks very beautiful.

"Brother, you have good eyesight. This is the Warring States Period Dragon Pattern Jade." The stall owner was a fair-skinned man in his forties. Although he didn't speak much, he said everything he needed to say.

Han Peacock looked over and saw that this was a piece of jade with a dragon pattern imitating the Warring States period. Its carving technique was not in line with the Warring States period. The dragon pattern was not powerful enough, the corner bending and arcing knife skills were soft, and the jade color was unnatural. Some people had artificially designed it.

It is suspected of being a fresh color, the patina is unnatural, and it is also suspected of being artificially aged.

Such things are all made by machines and can be found in antique markets all over the city. Although they look beautiful, they have the patina and color that they think are old, so Han Peacock will not even touch them.

Han Kongque and Liu Mingyu are experts, while the other three are pure laymen. They can only watch the fun. As long as they see something a little prettier, they think it may be the real thing, and they will stay and evaluate it carefully. They can only wait for Han

Peacock and Liu Mingyu refused, and they left unwillingly.

"There seems to be something lively to see over there, let's go and have a look." Just when Han Peacock was feeling bored, Long Lin shouted beside him.

"Exciting? Is something good coming out? Let's go and have a look." Liu Mingyu became more energetic after hearing this.

After finally squeezing into the crowd, I found a young man selling something. After watching for a while, Han Kongque finally knew that what he was selling was actually a tin pot.

"I cleared this out when I was dredging the West Lake. You can tell it's old just by looking at it." The young man was wearing a muddy camouflage uniform, and he looked like a worker working on the construction site.

"Is it really a tin kettle?" someone asked.

"Of course it's a tin pot, that's what our rural wine pots look like."

"You got it from the West Lake, how dare you sell it here?"

"What is there to be afraid of? I didn't get this from a grave. I picked up a piece of tinware. Does the state still want to rob it? You must know that all the garbage picked up by dredging belongs to us."

"Tsk tsk, it's really a tin kettle. Isn't this the one Su Dongpo used?"

"Pull it down! Give it back to what Su Dongpo used. Why didn't you say what the Jade Emperor used?"

"I can't say for sure. The most famous tin pot in West Lake is the one Su Dongpo threw into the West Lake to show off. Maybe this is the one he still owns."

It is said that Dongpo and other scribes were visiting Yanxi Lake. A singer was pouring wine, and a tin pot accidentally fell into the lake. Dongpo then wrote a couplet saying: Carrying the tin pot while visiting the West Lake, the tin pot fell into the West Lake. What a pity! The tin pot fell into the West Lake.

.Everyone can't be right, so it has a great reputation.

In many people's minds, tinware is a common thing and an unpopular item for collection, because "the price of tinware is disdainful to rich people and out of reach of poor people."

However, although tin ware is not as extensive as porcelain, jade, calligraphy and painting, it is also a treasure of my country's excellent traditional culture. Nowadays, the collection world is flourishing, and there are all kinds of toys, and tin ware is naturally no exception.

Nowadays, the collection of tin ware has become increasingly popular, and now major domestic auction houses have begun to auction tin ware. The once simple and unpretentious folk objects have now become the "new favorite" of many auction companies.

Tin kettle is a collection of tin ware and a representative of tin ware handicrafts, including tin wine kettle, tin teapot, tin hand warmer kettle, tin warm wine kettle, tin charcoal kettle, tin backflow kettle, tin inkstone drip kettle, etc.

A kind of tin vessel with the shape and function of a pot.

Tin pots with written records began in the Song Dynasty, but the tin pots with the longest history that exist now are generally from the Ming Dynasty. Genuine tin pots from the Song Dynasty are rare or even invisible.

In fact, the price of the tin pot is not high. The most important reasons why the tin pot in the hands of this young man is attractive are two points. The first is the location where it was unearthed. It was dug out from the West Lake, which is very likely to be related to Su Dongpo.

relationship.

The second point is that this is probably a pewter pot from the Song Dynasty. Due to the rarity of pewter pots from the Song Dynasty, the value of this pewter pot is a bit higher.

But these are all based on Su Dongpo. If this tin pot has nothing to do with Su Dongpo, then naturally there is not much possibility that it is a Song Dynasty tin pot.

"When you didn't come, you were calling for the West Lake to be cleared. Now things have really been cleared out. Why don't you stop?" He Chengqian said to Liu Mingyu.

"Who knows if it's a tin pot from the Song Dynasty? What if I buy a fake one? Xiao Han, what do you think of this tin pot?" Liu Mingyu said.

Han Kongque naturally looked at it carefully. From the outside, this tin pot looked very simple, just an ordinary wine pot. Such wine pots are still used in many rural areas.

This shape is the same as the earliest porcelain wine flasks. It has a slender handle, a slender waist, a large belly and a small mouth. If there is no handle, it is just like a vase.

It is not wrong to say that this style comes from the Song Dynasty, but other dynasties also have this style. This is the most classic and common style.

In the Song Dynasty and Yuan Dynasty, tinware had various shapes, but they were all inseparable from the range of porcelain shapes.

Until the beginning of the Ming Dynasty, due to the participation of literati, the shapes of tin wares were unique and colorful.

The tin ware of the Qing Dynasty drew on the strengths of all other ware, combined with the metallic properties of tin and folk customary requirements, to form the unique shape characteristics of the tin ware itself.

Since the Ming Dynasty, tin ware has borrowed shapes from pottery, bronze ware, gold and silver ware and has developed greatly. At this time, literati tin pots also began to become popular.

This tin kettle has no characteristics of the Ming, Qing and Republic of China periods, so Han Kongque believes that it may be a tin kettle from the Song Dynasty. However, it cannot be ruled out that later generations imitated the characteristics of the Song people and cast such tin kettles. Therefore, the value of this tin kettle is really

It's hard to be sure.

Han Kongque whispered his thoughts. As for the result, it depends on Liu Mingyu's own decision. It doesn't matter if he wants to buy it. After all, it's just a tin kettle, and the price is not much higher.

"How much does this cost?" Liu Mingyu finally couldn't help but ask.

"Thirty thousand, we won't sell it for a penny less," the stall owner said.

Liu Mingyu said in surprise: "Thirty thousand? A tin pot worth thirty thousand? The quality of your tin pot is not good!" Thirty thousand is not impossible, but it must have its value.

Tinware is the same as other antique collections. The collection value of tinware is closely related to the year, shape, craftsmanship, decoration, engraving, meaning and bezel.

Whether there is a famous signature on the tinware is also an important factor in determining the current value of the tinware.

Nowadays, with the frequent transactions, the price of tinware continues to rise. Although the tinware worth tens of yuan is no longer on the market, the price is only hundreds or thousands of yuan.

It is rare that some old and good-quality tinware can be sold for tens of thousands of dollars, and the high-quality tinware that has a market price soaring to hundreds of thousands of yuan is even rarer.

"Can we get started?" Liu Mingyu said.

"Yes, but you have to be careful. If you break it, you will have to pay for it." The stall owner carefully placed the tin pot on a rag on the ground.

Liu Mingyu said: "Do you think I'm a fool? If the tin pot is so easy to break, why don't you say 30,000 yuan, and I don't even want three yuan, and you still want me to pay for it?"

Tin kettles are not easily damaged and will not rust even if they are old. Therefore, if you look at it or drop it, it will break. It is porcelain, definitely not tin. Liu Mingyu still knows this.

This tin pot is engraved with some slender flowers. Although nothing can be seen, the flowers are carved very finely. Although they are just simple lines, they can fully depict the grace of the flowers. This is a very

Exquisite simple drawings, although simple, are absolutely exquisite.

"Xiao Han, please take a look for me. I think it's okay." Liu Mingyu looked at it for a long time and didn't see anything. He directly handed the tin pot to Han Peacock.

Han Kongque took the tin pot and looked at it carefully in his hand. There was no writing on the tin pot, and no origin could be seen. It was quite heavy and felt heavy in the hand. The whole tin pot had a beautiful shape, as if it were

A graceful lady standing quietly with arms akimbo, looking very extraordinary.

The shape of this tin pot is very similar to a vase that Han Kongque has seen. It is a bright red vase with a narrow waist and a small mouth. It is almost the same shape as this wine pot.

That kind of vase only gave him the feeling of "beautiful", and this wine bottle also gave Han Kongque such a feeling, which gave him some ideas.

Such a wine jug must not be used at home, and ancient literati were all romantic, and prostitutes gathered in the West Lake at that time. Such a wine jug was probably a utensil on a flower boat. If it is really such a utensil

, maybe it will be different.

Han Kongque looked at the wine pot himself and quickly noticed something strange. The wine pouring mouth of this tin pot had two holes that resembled Bagua, and the spout was also divided into two parts.

There is a mechanism in this wine pot. The hidden weapon is the handle of the wine pot. There are two holes on it. Press the upper hole to pour the wine on the right side, and press the hole to pour the wine on the left side. This is a rare yin-yang pot.

The main body of the yin-yang pot is generally divided into two compartments vertically. One compartment contains wine, and the other compartment contains medicine.

There are two small holes at the handle of the pot. They are connected to the two partitions respectively. According to the principle of atmospheric pressure, you can pour out the wine or medicine accordingly by covering the two small holes. If you want to pour out the wine, you should cover it with the medicine.

The medicine can't come out of the small hole connected by the partition; on the contrary, when you want to pour the medicine, cover the hole in the wine partition.

This kind of pot was lost from the Song Dynasty and is rare to see. So after seeing that it was a yin and yang pot, Han Kongque immediately knew that it was probably a tin pot from the Song Dynasty.

Although I don't know if it was used by Su Dongpo, the possibility that this tin pot is from the Song Dynasty has increased a lot. Such a tin pot is worth 30,000 yuan just for its craftsmanship.

"This wine pot is very beautiful, it costs three thousand! It's worth this price." Han Kongque finally asked the stall owner tentatively.

The stall owner was a bit dark-skinned and tall. He looked like he worked regularly. When he heard Han Kongque's price, he shook his head and said, "Thirty thousand, we won't sell it for less."
To be continued...