Chapter 639 Omnipotent
In the end, in Zhou Zhi’s words, the two parties reached a “strategic cooperation agreement”, and Haitong also found its first auction agent client, and that was Zhou Zhi.
In future large-scale international auctions every year, Zhou Zhi can participate in them through Haitong as an agent. This business originally requires the payment of agency fees and deposits. Now most domestic players cannot afford this kind of gameplay.
Of course, until now, Lin Wanqiu still doesn’t know Zhou Zhi’s true strength.
Zhou Zhi was still very busy in the following days. During the day, Mr. Qiao followed Yuan Quanyou to the Capital Art Academy, and Zhou Zhi followed the old man to the Forbidden City and the National Museum of China for work.
The cultural relics in the National Museum and the Forbidden City can be said to be the essence of Chinese cultural relics. The simplest example is that the bronzes that can be displayed in the National Museum basically have inscriptions.
Bronze ware was a very valuable ritual vessel in the Pre-Qin period, and the inscription records the historical events at that time that led to the casting of this bronze ware.
Historical events like this can often be corroborated with historical data. This type of bronze is the most important of all bronzes, even more important than the "standard vessel" that marks the typical age characteristics of this artifact. It is known as It's called a "generation breaker."
For example, the famous bronze Gui Gui of the National Museum is not big, only thirty centimeters high, but there is a very important inscription on it, which mentions a major event and the celestial phenomena that occurred at that time.
Li is a minister of King Wu, but his position is "Yousi". During the Shang and Zhou dynasties in China, bronze was called "gold" and was a precious metal that could only be used by the royal family. After the defeat of the Shang army, Li, as a minister, received a bronze reward from King Wu of Zhou Dynasty and cast a bronze gui as an eternal souvenir.
Before the emergence of Li Gui, due to the lack of physical data, there have been many disputes in the historians over thousands of years about the specific date of the Battle of Makino. Scholars in the past have calculated dozens of dates based on relevant records.
During the implementation of the "Xia, Shang and Zhou Dating Project", carbon 14 dating experts used carbon samples unearthed from the remains of the early Western Zhou Dynasty for dating, and concluded that the battle of King Wu against Zhou occurred in 1050 BC -chronological range of the first 1020 years;
days Based on the celestial phenomena recorded in the inscriptions on the "Jiazi" day and the "Sui" star in the mid-heaven, referring to the celestial phenomena records recorded in "Guoyu·Zhouyuxia", and comparing them with the scientifically calculated position of Jupiter in the sky, the writers calculated that King Wu defeated Zhou The exact date is January 20, 1046 BC.
Thus, this famous battle in ancient history has an absolute date; it provides an important chronological basis for the division of the Shang and Zhou dynasties.
In addition, the discovery of Li Gui not only clarified previous doubts about the specific date of King Wu's defeat of Zhou, but also confirmed the records recorded in "Shang Shu·Mu Shi", "Yi Zhou Shu·Shi Jiao" and other documents. Some specific historical facts.
For example, King Wu attacked Zhou in the morning of Jiazi day, and the stars were in the sky during the New Year. This corroborates the record in "Shang Shu·Mu Shi" that "Jiazi day was refreshing, and the king went to Muye in the suburbs of Shang". It is also consistent with "Huainanzi·Bingluexun" etc. The records in ancient documents are consistent;
Another example is that the Li Gui inscription confirms the correct record in the ancient books that "the country of Zhou was destroyed in one day of fighting".
This shows the value of Li Gui, and it is not an exaggeration to call it a national treasure.
Most of the cultural relics in the National Museum are like this.
Therefore, needless to say, Zhou Zhi's sense of happiness is like a mouse falling into a rice vat. At the same time, his own knowledge has also improved by leaps and bounds.
Even for ceramics, Zhou Zhi still has big deficiencies. For example, he is not very familiar with Yuan and Ming porcelains. As for the pottery of the Three Kingdoms and the Southern and Northern Dynasties, it is almost blank to him
At the National Expo, it is considered a ruthless one. Made up a lesson.
The same is true for the Forbidden City. Zhou Zhi is very familiar with Song porcelain and Qing Dynasty porcelain, and he also opened his eyes here.
China’s accumulation in this area is so vast that it’s hard to just look at the color classification.
Red can be divided into Jihong, cowpea red, ruby red, Langyao red, rub red, Shanshan red, carmine red, pink, Begonia red, Shuhong, Jihong, meat red, bright red and vermilion. , bright red, persimmon red, baby face, etc. Green colors include azure, pink green, bean green, holly, emerald green, gray green, astaxanthin, shadow green, egg green, plum green, etc.
Yellow includes egg yolk, delicate yellow, chicken fat yellow, ginger yellow, goose yellow, caviar yellow, honey wax yellow, etc.
These things are not included even in the auction albums and the Forbidden City albums, but you can see them all here.
What’s more important is that Zhou Zhi purchased a large number of books, materials, papers and albums from two places that only real researchers can access. Comparing these things with the actual objects, one can imagine the progress they have brought to Zhou Zhi. And know.
Today's experts are still quite noble-minded and have a very noble vision. They still attach great importance to Zhou Zhi, who has restored the reputation and losses of the two places. They think that this child may be a future colleague and is worthy of vigorous training.
Coupled with Mr. Wang's reputation and Zhou Zhi's sweet-mouthed and generous nature, he was able to trick him into getting an old copy of "Yin Liu Zhai Shuo Porcelain" collected by Director Zhou of the porcelain restoration institute.
The place where I work is not far from the old man and Zhou Zhi’s house. They can get there with a bicycle.
The transfer procedures of Miantang House were quickly completed, and then Feng Cang found a design team and completed the decoration design plan with Zhou Zhi.
There is good news from Director Liao. A total of more than 1,600 pieces of 7501 porcelain have been received, more than 300 pieces of Jianguo porcelain with the prefix 5 have been received, and more than 2,000 pieces of porcelain have been imported from Gansu. The province will ship it to Beijing.
One hundred thousand yuan was completely spent, and Director Liao was so happy that he gave it to Zhou Zhi as a discount.
The even more exciting news is that under the work of Director Liao, the Dishuidong Porcelain Research Institute is also willing to sell a set of plum blossom porcelain and a set of peach blossom porcelain in the institute, but the price is much higher, forty-seven. The porcelain with plum blossoms costs five thousand, while the porcelain with ninety-eight peach blossoms costs ten thousand.
Equivalent to one hundred yuan a piece, the price of a single piece is doubled compared to those that do not come in sets.
This little money was really nothing to Zhou Zhi, so Zhou Zhi entrusted Director Liao to help him get it and remitted the money that afternoon.
In the busy and happy days, the old man took him to visit an old friend again, and asked for two gifts that he had promised to Zhou Zhi earlier.
Then Zhou Zhi had to lament again that the top circle of friends of the bosses were really just those people. This boss was also the old man’s superior, the chairman of the National Cultural Relics Appraisal Committee, and the director of the Central Research Institute of Culture and History. , the ninth generation grandson of Emperor Yongzheng, started work.
And he also has many identities, such as a red scholar, a calligrapher and painter, and a master of Chinese studies.
Lu Zhouzhi felt a little strange, so he asked Mr. Wang, since Mr. Qi is your official boss, why haven't you seen him these days?
Mr. Wang said that Mr. Qi has other academic tasks these days and is not at the institute. He also has the identity of a professor and doctoral supervisor at Beijing Normal University. He is currently busy editing the "Twenty-Four Histories".
So Zhou Zhi had to sigh with emotion. Today's group of masters can no longer be described as having one specialty and many abilities. They are simply omnipotent.
(End of this chapter)