Chapter 603: Good things in stock
“The place is really nice.” After Zhou Zhi said this, he saw Mr. Ma raise his hand and click the copper ring under the mouth of the beast head assistant.
"This auxiliary head must be an object from the Jiadao period, right? Just put it on the door like this?"
"Look at the copper nails." Mr. Ma said nothing He didn't take it seriously: "It's a set with all the hair and tail. If you can't put it here, where can you put it? Put it in the house?"
When Zhou Zhi thought about it, it was true. He estimated that there is no safer place in the world than here. Let alone whether ordinary people would recognize the era of this assistant chief, even if they did, the current folk customs The antiques weren't worth much, but I overreacted.
"Old Ma, what kind of place is this?" Feng Cang, who was following behind, looked at the old locust trees on the palace walls at both ends of the alley: "This courtyard is old, right?"
"This courtyard is awesome. , the earliest is Prince Yi Yinxiang is the famous Thirteenth Master of the Yongzheng Dynasty, his fourth generation Sun Miantang's house."
"So even if you tell me, I don't know these feudal people. Only people like Lao Ma can remember the remnant."
At this time, the door opened, and a middle-aged man in a suit and leather shoes saw Ma Wei knocking on the door: "Master Ma, are you here? "
"Bring a few friends to have a look." Ma Wei introduced to everyone: "Yu Bin, the boss of Jingfeng Real Estate Management Company, Lao Yu's business is now growing..."
Yu Bin saw Feng Cang and Pan Shiya: "Hey, Mr. Feng, Mr. Pan! Why are you coming to see something with Mr. Ma?"
Feng Cang reached out and shook hands with Yu Bin: "The ground in the capital is evil. , Lao Yu, we just had a meeting at the Housing Authority yesterday, and we made an appointment to have dinner another day, and we met again today."
"Hahaha..." Yu Bin was very excited. Enthusiasm: “I just don’t know who is the customer?”
“The company has just opened and it’s so empty, so I asked Lao Ma to buy a few things.”
>"Ah, yes, if you go to Mr. Ma for this matter, you are looking for the right person. All the things in this courtyard were all done by him for Director Li."
"If you want to say that Director Li was in the limelight when he rehearsed the drama, he was really the first one. All the props used in the filming were all real guys from the palace!"
"But this guy, thirty years ago Hedong, Hexi for thirty years." Mr. Ma sighed from the front: "Just because he came to the mainland to shoot two movies, Lao Li had to wear small shoes when he came back. These years, he has been sitting on his hands, accepting all kinds of films, and his life has been difficult. ”
"There are some really good things in this courtyard." Mr. Ma said: "I'm not exaggerating, they are no worse than my master's."
"This courtyard is not bad either. Ah, it's really big "Yes," Zhou Zhi sighed as he looked at the courtyard: "The fish tank on the ceiling and the pomegranate tree, sir, the fat dog and the fat girl are well-deserved..."
"That's not a good thing to say," Mr. Ma said with a smile. .
"Isn't this what...'well-off'?" Wang Shuo asked: "This is an old saying in Beijing, right? Why is it not a good thing?"
"You don't read ancient books, They are all people who have been influenced by Soviet literature and Western literature." Liu Zhengyun despised Wang Shuo: "This word was first used to describe Beijing. The masters of Shaoxing, these masters, if they don’t know anything else, they will depend on the officials, instigate them to do bad things, absorb the people’s wealth, and earn such a big fortune for themselves.”
“Is that so?” All I have to do is tell you the title of the book and the passage in the book." Wang Shuo, in turn, despised Liu Zhengyun: "It's said in college. If you can’t tell me the source of the original text, just wait and blame the students! Don’t you know it as a teaching assistant?” “Haha, I really forgot the source...”
"The natives in the capital, other than the gentry, industry and merchants. There are several kinds of people who all work for the officials, called scribes. They follow each other from generation to generation and have the eldest descendants. Most of them are from Zhejiang and Shaoxing, and they have a lot of money. They live in luxury. They have a pergola in the summer, a porcelain tank to raise salmon, and a huge pot to plant pomegranates. There is also a teacher's chair. To show generosity, the scoffer said: "The fish tank on the ceiling is like a fat dog and a fat girl."
Zhou Zhi casually recited an article: ""Miscellaneous Notes of Old Beijing" was written by Xia Renhu, a native of Jiangning, Jiangsu Province, and a member of the Guangxu family. In the 24th year of Guangxu's reign, he came to Beijing to serve as censor. He wrote ten volumes of "Miscellaneous Notes of Old Beijing", namely Customs, language, court trends, palaces, rituals, examinations, time changes, cities, and markets The ten volumes of Si and Fang Qu are important materials for researching and recording the historical institutions, place names, and anecdotes of the late Qing Dynasty. My demeanor when I was a school counselor ”
“ You can do it!" Wang Shuo became even more contemptuous: "No matter how shameless you are, you can't reach this level!"
"Is this a family lesson?" But Mr. Ma understands the foundation of Zhou Zhi's knowledge. : "My master's generation is so proficient in ancient books. I heard that It’s a family study, the Analects of Confucius is learned at the age of six and the Spring and Autumn Period is seven years old. It’s the kind that can be passed before the age of twenty.”
“Almost half, I learned some from my fourth cousin and my godfather. ." Zhou Zhi smiled and said, "Then I got myself some correspondence courses from teachers."
"The heap of brocade ash..." Mr. Ma led everyone into a side room: "There are too few young people willing to learn these things now..."
"There is also gold and jade in the heap of brocade ash. "I'm not worried about my future employment at all." Zhou Zhi smiled at Master Ma and then glanced at the painting table in the room: "Oh!"
"How is it? You are not talking nonsense, are you?" Mr. Ma caressed the painting table in front of him: "There are only one or two styles of this tabletop in the Forbidden City!"
This is a piece of red sandalwood. The painting table is about 85 centimeters high, more than 70 centimeters wide, and about 1.8 meters long. It is quite big inside the painting table.
The shape is also very special. The legs of the table are exposed and the tenons are connected to the surface. The style clearly refers to the shape of the bronze tripod in the Shang and Zhou Dynasties. It is very rare among painting tables.
Especially the tabletop is made of broken wood, with boxwood gall wood for yellow and rosewood for black. One is bright, one is dark, one is warm and one is cold. They are inlaid into a Taisho 400-character comic strip, which is in line with the simple carvings and shapes of the table body. The contrast and echo are very clever.
Such splicing is not so much about saving as it is about showing off skills. The production is complicated and difficult. It can only be made by the palace manufacturing office regardless of the cost.
"This is so beautiful. It should be something from the early Qing Dynasty, and it was archived, right?"
The archive Zhou Zhi said was a special book in the Forbidden City called " "Work File of the Qing Palace Construction Office", all important palace items must be the emperor's will. From the application for production by the Construction Office, to the emperor's approval, to the production process, finished products, and placement in the palace, there is a set of rigorous work The process will be recorded in the "Work File".
Of course, over the course of hundreds of years, many such records have been lost, but for important objects, emperors of all dynasties will have decree inventories, and the records of these inventories will also be archived, so the more For important things, more records will be archived. Even if a lot of data is lost, they will still be found in the remaining data.
The woodwork made in the palace is not necessarily the very precious red sandalwood, huanghuali, and iron wood. There are also common ones, such as walnut wood and longan wood, which are often used to make whole wood furniture.
The most famous one used for inlays is boxwood.
(End of this chapter)