Chapter 95 Antique Market

Since you have chosen the Sichuan-Tibet Line, you need to rest in Chengdu. From Zhonghai to Chengdu, the fastest route is naturally the Zhongrong Expressway in Hefei.

Everyone took two cars and said nothing all the way. They came to Hefei at about 4 p.m. According to their plan, they will rest for one night in Hefei and then visit Huangshan the next day. The schedule is very tight.

The hotel has been arranged for a long time. After eating the legendary Cao Cao chicken, it was very late. During the long journey, several girls were exhausted and drowsy. When they saw the big bed in the hotel, they could no longer wake up, so they went to rest. Gong Zisheng also said that he was tired of driving and didn't want to go out anymore. Only Liu Dahai was still energetic and insisted on pulling Zhang Ping around.

The hotel is not too far from the famous City God Temple in Hefei, and it is less than ten minutes' walk away. Although it was night, at a glance, it was bustling and there were still a lot of people.

Liu Dahai comes from a rich family and has a high vision. Now that he is quite famous, the old man in the family likes to collect some antiques. This time he came out and had some thoughts. Three months later, it would be the old man's birthday. Naturally, he wanted to send some good treasures to please him. The benefits were great.

When arranging the route in advance, he has already figured it out. The area around Hefei is also a historical ancient city, and there must be a lot of antiques and so on. That's why I specially arranged the hotel near the City God Temple, that is, I want to go back with some treasures. Maybe it's amazing to pick up a big leak.

The City God Temple antique market does not look very big from the ground, but the four-story building is surrounded by a quadrangle. If it hadn't been browsed from the air, Liu Dahai did not know that there was another universe in it, and the door of the market was also very inconspicuous. However, when they passed the parking lot at the door, they saw a lot of good cars. BMW has parked several cars, and even several SUVs such as the Hummer Desert Prince, which also makes Liu Dahai look forward to the City God Temple Antique City, which is known as one of the top ten antique markets in China.

As the evening is approaching, the stalls in the market have begun to show signs of being cleaned up one after another, but even so, there are still many pedestrians and it looks very lively. On the contrary, those antique shops with a door face are full of birds and few tourists.

Seeing that Zhang Ping is a layman, Liu Dahai explained to him that the things on the stall are cheap. In Mandarin, they are called pretty goods, and there are also some fun, which depends on everyone's eyesight. As for those antiques and shops, over the years, there are also some fixed customers. I don't care much about individual customers who want to pick up Taobao. Naturally, the price between the two is also very different.

I often wander around the antique market, which is nothing more than two kinds of people. One person is mostly elderly people. The purpose of coming here is to cultivate their self-cultivation. Of course, you can collect genuine products. If they are not genuine products, you can also appreciate their artistic modeling. Such people have a high taste, and they often see more and less.

And the purpose of another kind of person is to come here for Taobao, just like Liu Dahai. People who come here to Taobao can be divided into two types. One is because they like it. After buying it, most of them are used for collection and play, and rarely sell it. The other is industry insiders, just like many store owners, specializing in antiques to make money. In their eyes, there is nothing that can't be sold. As long as your price is right.

Along the way, Zhang Ping learned a lot of traditional Chinese about antiques.

Antique jargon can be roughly divided into two categories, one is a saying, and the other is a term.

There are a wide range of common sayings, from looking at goods to evaluating goods to doing business, there is slang in the whole process.

If you encounter real goods when looking at the goods, it is called "open the door" and "one-time goods", and the goods reach a certain age are called "generation" and "enough years"; when they encounter new and old goods, they are called "old eight" or "eight masters"; for some stalls, they are collectively referred to as "Singapore", which is homophonic as "new fake broken", and the new goods are called "old" and old. If you do it well, it is "high imitation", and if you don't do it well, it is "judgment".

Before the Republic of China, the old imitation was called "old imitation". Now the old imitation is the "new imitation". For example, because of its preciousness, the Daming Xuande furnace had imitations in the Ming Xuande period, and there are still imitations in the past dynasties until today. There is a kind of person in the antique shop who does not open a store by himself. He specializes in the countryside to collect goods, and then sells them to stores and collectors. The people in the shop are called "guerrillas". The price of the guerrillas' receipt and bids is relatively low, so it is also called "scooping the land". "picking up wheat" and "picking up leaks" means that the buyer has eyes and the seller does not know how to buy good goods or refers to buy from Good goods that slipped in the eyes of insiders.

I don't know how to be cheated. I bought "Gao Lao Ba" called "taking medicine" and " paying tuition fees". I bought "Gao Lao Ba" called "eye-catching" and "eye-catching" and bought a bargain called "Eating elixir".

The old product is broken and has been repaired again. It is called "hands". If the seller says that the goods are absolutely true and swears, and the buyer still has doubts, and it is not easy to say that it is false, he can only say, "It doesn't look good."

Many people always think that the goods bought from farmers will not be fake, but they don't know that some goods were deliberately thrown by the guerrillas to the farmers.

In addition, "laying eggs" refers to replicas, such as copying the framed celebrity calligraphy and paintings sent by others or students copying the teacher's works, and then selling the replicas to others as fake.

In the antique industry, doing business with peers is called "the Bank of Communications" and "Inverted".

Generally, the price profit of the transaction is very low, and sometimes even "the cost is eroded", which is called "the bank price" and the inverted price. If the price is opened all over the world, it is the "sky-high price". An antique is shouted to tens of thousands, or even millions. It is not clear whether it is not clear whether it is understood or intention to cheat people.

It is a "war" to exchange things for things. A batch of goods sold together are called "one shot" and "one kick". Someone brings someone to the door to buy goods, and the rule is to pay a rebate at 10% of the transaction price, which is called "one hit".

When buying goods, if you say "1 yuan" is 100 yuan; "10 yuan" is 1,000 yuan, and "10 cents" is 10 yuan.

The jargon is a special language, which generally does not change much. There are special words in ceramics, as well as special words in emerald jade, bamboo and wood tooth carving, calligraphy and painting, etc.

For example, the light of the glazed surface of the new porcelain is called "thiece light" and "firelight", and the cracks on the porcelain are called "chong"; the old jade is called "old seed", and the new jade is the "new kind". Whether the old goods are unearthed or handed down to the world, there is a layer of natural and old luster, which is called "wrapped pulp", the newly unearthed things are called "raw pits", and the things handed down to the world are called "hot pits" and so on. Because the terminology is relatively professional, it is difficult to master if you are not an sconnotic.  

With the introduction of Liu Dahai, Zhang Ping finally understood something so that he couldn't understand what the other party was saying as soon as he opened his mouth. Fortunately, his memory has always been good. He really remembered so many miscellaneous words, which made Liu Dahai sigh that people's brains are different. How many times did he walk with his father before he barely remembering it?

There are really a lot of stalls here, and the things are sold in a mess. There is everything. Needless to say, calligraphy, painting and antiques, villain books, stamps, cigarette boxes, sparks and all kinds of tickets are actually sold at many stalls, and some stalls are simpler, that is, a bag of broken porcelain pieces or a bag of scattered copper money.

Seeing that Zhang Ping didn't like those small stalls, Liu Dahai said solemnly, "Don't underestimate these things. Maybe there are a few good things in them, which is amazing. Like that broken porcelain piece, have you ever heard such a sentence: There are many things at home, but it's not as good as Jun porcelain. Ha ha, gold is priceless, that's what I'm talking about. A small piece of porcelain, even if it's a fragment, if it's really that Jun porcelain, it's really hard to buy.

The boss of the stall selling broken porcelain pieces next to him saw that he was an understanding person and quickly took the business: "Boss, I see that you are an experts. What's the matter? Let's take a look. If you like it, I'll give you a cheaper price..."

In the antique industry, I'm not afraid that you understand, but I'm afraid that you don't understand. The more sensible a person is, the easier it is to pay some tuition fees. People who think they are smart, hey, there are not a few people who fall down.

Liu Dahai was happy to be told by the boss, so he squatted down and pulled the broken porcelain pieces. Zhang Ping looked at his appearance and felt that this guy was probably just a mouthful, and he might not be able to really pick out something good. Sure enough, after a while, Liu Dahai stood up and said repeatedly, "It doesn't look good, it doesn't look good." He pulled Zhang Ping and left quickly.

I walked through several stalls in a row, but I didn't see Liu Dahai take action. Zhang Ping deliberately asked him, "Dada, why don't you like these things?"

Liu Dahai smiled shyly and said, "Hey, Pingzi, you don't know. This antique must be seen more and less. There are not so many real things for you to see. There are too many fakes these days. Let's go shopping again and go to those stores later.

Zhang Ping smiled secretly in his heart and didn't say anything. Looking around, I suddenly saw a piece of jade on a stall next to me, which was a little interesting.

The workmanship of jade is very good, round and flat, with bats and peaches carved on one side; the other side is covered with thin rectangular holes. The most rare is that the middle of the jade is hollowed out, and hollowing has always been the most difficult process in jade carving.

It looked good, and Zhang Ping asked for the price.

The owner of the stall is a black and thin man. Looking up at Zhang Ping: 1,000 yuan.

Zhang Ping stroked the jade again and held it in the palm of his hand, with a warm feeling. Looking at it more carefully, the jade is slightly yellow, and there is another place that appears brown.

When the boss saw Zhang Ping's hesitation, he raised his voice and said, "Brother, you have vision. This jade is an ancient jade of the Song Dynasty. This price is absolutely not a loss. Look at the color of this jade, or two colors. It can't be wrong.

Next to Liu Dahai saw that Zhang Ping actually picked a piece of jade. He also came over and looked at it and said, "Boss, you can't look at this piece of jade. Look at this speckled jade. It's too ugly."

The boss looked at Liu Dahai contemptuously, directly ignored his existence, looked at Zhang Ping and said, "Brother, if you want it, I will tell you."

Zhang Ping was naturally curious and nodded. The boss continued: The spots outside, in fact, are secret. To put it bluntly, it is the rust on the jade. Like iron and copper, this jade will also rust. However, the rust on the jade is caused by the erosion of foreign objects.

This jade, if it is not directly handed down from the earth, it is called Shigu, which is commonly known as Zilai. If this jade is dug out of the earth, it is called unearthed jade. As long as it is unearthed jade, almost without exception, it will be hung with secret color, which is the jade rust mentioned just now..."