Chapter 20 nineteen, great

Dandan: I heard that there was a severe drought in Beijing this winter, and there was no snow for 100 consecutive days, which has not been seen in 60 years.I haven't been back to Beijing for a while, and it's been a while since I've had a drink with you, old brother, in Beijing.Men are easy to be playful. When they were young, they were busy fighting and desperate for their lives. When they grow up, they are busy working and don't know that death is coming.Last time after drinking, we were waiting for a taxi at the intersection of Dongzhimen. You didn't look at me and said, go back to Beijing in a few years. If you don't go back to Beijing, you will be old and dead.I didn't answer the call, I didn't look at you, and then the taxi came.

For so many years, in my impression, your eyes are often half-closed, and you have never looked at people very much, and you have never looked at this world too much.When I saw you, you were basically in two states, one was a half-drunk state, and the other was a half-drunk state.When you are not half-drunk, you have a white face, eyes closed, and drink yourself and others, mainly yourself.Arrived at the station, half drunk, you blushed, closed your eyes, fat, cursing people and people, mainly those who didn't show up to drink. Once we had a drink, cold dishes and wine were served slowly, and after several reminders, the proprietress gave us a plate of free melon seeds.You took out a jade bowl from your coat pocket, poured free melon seeds into it, and told me, don’t be idle when eating melon seeds.That jade bowl is really white, moist, greasy, smooth and without grain, and the mouth of the bowl is inlaid with a circle of one centimeter wide gold.I didn't know anything about these things at the time, so I asked, this jade bowl is an antique, what year is it?You said that the kind of jade is so good, and the craftsmen are so confident that they will not add work and carve flowers randomly, so it must be something between the early Qing Dynasty and the middle Qing Dynasty.I then asked a question that I was often asked by other people later: How do you know it is from the Qing Dynasty?You said, how do you know that it is grass carp and not carp, Tang poetry and not Song poetry, good girl and not Taimei, good company and not bad company, benign tumor and not malignant cancer?The truth is similar, knowledge, knowledge, knowledge, the more you see, the more you ponder, the more you know, the more you know.I asked, what else is in your coat pocket?You took out another pair of jade bracelets, blue and white jade, two dragons playing with beads, oily, under the light, it gave off the luster of a young girl's freshly washed hair, the dragon seemed to be swimming, with a fishy smell, the beads in the middle went up and down Jump.I happened to have an envelope of reimbursement cash in my bag at the time. My wife’s birthday was about to come, so I asked the price and bought it from you.I asked, when was it?You said: "It's in the middle of the Qing Dynasty, do you want to ask why it's in the middle of the Qing Dynasty? I will give you a book tomorrow, and you can learn from it, and then I will take you shopping, buy something, and make it a hobby. Multiple hobbies, It’s not boring to be old. When people are old, they don’t want to work hard anymore, and they can’t write books anymore. In fact, no matter how much you write, you can’t surpass you. It’s moving, but it’s actually just such a small thing, two people hugging each other, screaming a few times, what’s the meaning? I have a hobby of ancient jade, look at it, touch it, don’t bother me. Gentlemen don’t want to get rid of jade for no reason.”

In the antique business, ancient and modern, both at home and abroad, from auction houses to merchants, they never keep their authenticity. If they can sell fakes without making fakes, they are considered good people. Confucius.In a word, the seller said, "I think this thing is true, and I will sell it to you." After a while, the buyer thought it was fake, what should the buyer do?You said, first, we have high knowledge and good eyesight.Second, and more importantly, we have good character, and we also look for good character antique dealers. After buying, we can return them if we feel that something is wrong.

I gradually discovered that there is no other good way to gain knowledge. The first is to read more catalogs to know what the standard looks like.The second is to get more hands-on with real objects, the color, fragrance and touch method. The comprehensive information of real objects is far greater than that of catalogs.When I was studying surgery, I was familiar with the surgical atlas and could draw it by heart. When I went on stage, the patient's abdominal cavity was opened, and it looked completely different from the surgical atlas. I was dumbfounded.The same is true for ancient jade. According to the original spirit of being a good student, six volumes of "The Complete Works of Chinese Jade Wares", fifteen volumes of "The Complete Works of Unearthed Jade Wares in China", the series of the Aurora Museum in Taiwan, the series of the British Museum in the United Kingdom, and "The Age of Jade" written by you, After ripening and ripening again, the ancient jade merchant opened the safe and spread out twenty boxes. Which ones are true?Which ones are fake?Which ones are old imitation?Which old jade new workers?Which new jade and new workers?shocked.The third is to buy more. If you invest, you will be under pressure to figure it out carefully.

In the end, I fell in love with ancient jade not because you said that jade can ward off evil spirits, but because jade allows me to make friends with the ancients and learn Chinese better.I like Chinese, but I can't fully understand the dynasty that wrote the article just by reading the article carefully.Chinese people have used jade for a long time, and it is longer than the history of using characters.Jade and Chinese in the same dynasty are interlinked and complementary.Compared with ancient jade, it is easy to deepen the understanding of ancient Chinese. You have a bump on your left fat cheek.Say it first, drink more spirits and go down.As a result, the wine went down, but the bag didn't go down.You said again, it went down when you picked it out, and you got blood when you picked it out, but the bag didn't go down.I touched it for you and made sure it wasn't something on the skin but something under the skin. I asked you to go to the hospital for a biopsy, but you couldn't wait.Two years later, after you went there, the hospital did not let you go, and you refused to let anyone go to the hospital to see you.Goodbye, in your yard, under the sun, you walked around the yard again and again. The tumor on your left face was cut, and the swelling has not completely disappeared. The left side of your face is two times fatter than the right side, and your eyes are open. Time also seems to be closed.You take out twenty or thirty boxes and say, "The ancient jades I bought before were all from the cultural period, and some of them are still published in the book "Jade Age". I will transfer them to you and exchange some of your silver. I will take these Yinzi takes care of some things that need to be taken care of." I said, "Silver is easy to talk about, how can jade be willing to transfer it?" You said, "It's good to stay with you." I said, "After your operation, you will go for a review later. Do another biopsy." You said: "Never. A drainage tube was placed in the operation, but it was not found, and the wound was opened to find it, and it was found, but it was not the original one. I finally found it. I will never do surgery again. People are mortal, and if they die, they have to die in a decent way.” I looked at your left face, which was twice as fat, and listened to your description, and I remembered a few pairs of chopsticks Scoop in a spicy hot pot.

Coming out of your yard, I carried a large plastic bag with more than 20 boxes of jade from Xia Dynasty in one hand, and held on to the handlebar of my bicycle with the other hand, and rode my bicycle along Ping'an Street, from east to west.At two o'clock in the afternoon, the sun hits down, and the time is crushed like a persimmon. I don't feel hot. Thinking of the gains and losses, reunions, and remnants of ancient jade, "I am happy with what I meet, I get it for a while, and I am happy with myself." .I still can't figure out what's going on in this world. Brother, every time I go back to Beijing, we drink together every time.Because one drink is one less time, so don't save it once.

Feng Tang