Jianbao life

Chapter 516 Did You Misunderstand
Bronze ware is just what modern people call this kind of vessel. The ancients did not have such a name for it. Documents before the Han Dynasty mostly called bronze "gold" and pure and beautiful bronze "jijin".

The reason why the ancients called the pure bronze "auspicious gold" is that in the book "Mozi", when referring to Dayu's casting of Jiuding, he wrote: "Make Feilian mine gold from mountains and rivers, and pottery cast it from Kunwu".

The "gold mining" mentioned here refers to the mining of copper mines to obtain the bronze needed to cast tripods. At that time, these precious bronze objects cast a golden light and looked very auspicious, so they were called auspicious gold.

But as time went by, the bronze vessels gradually turned into the rusty color that people see today.

In fact, bronze itself is an alloy of copper, tin, lead and other chemical elements. After being placed in the air for a period of time, a patina will appear, and this patina often plays a protective role.

This film prevents the metal from continuing to oxidize and corrode. The main component of the patina is basic copper carbonate, which has a protective effect.This point is not only based on the theory of metal corrosion protection. Among the large number of unearthed copper wares, they are all covered with verdigris, and the wares have long been rusted. Therefore, most of the bronze wares often do not need special protection.

Those young men are all done.

Only Li Heng remained silent. Liu Hao looked at Li Heng confidently at this time and said, "You are the only one who has not spoken. Tell me your opinion!"

Li Heng nodded, stood up, straightened his clothes first, and then cleared his throat.

Seeing Li Heng's appearance, the people below all laughed with disdain: "Looking at his appearance, I think he looks like an old pedant!"

"Haha, isn't that right? I haven't learned much from any of them. If you dare to compete with us, die."

"That's right, if you don't do it, you won't die!"

"Be quiet for a while and let's see what he has to say first."

Qin Manman from behind smiled slightly, took out his mobile phone, and pointed the camera of the mobile phone at Li Heng.

She wanted to take a good note of this boy's unwilling expression, and she would point at this for fun.

You deserve it, who told you to fight against them when you are full!

Li Heng looked around, and finally stopped pretending to be mysterious, and said, "This is true, but... in terms of the age of identification, whether it is an authentic work or a forgery, the answers you give are too far apart! "

"Oh? Your answer is quite interesting. A group of people say that the bronze wares from the Western Anniversary Period are real. You are unique in terms of age and imitation of the bronze wares!" Liu Hongyi narrowed his eyes, a little meaningful He looked at Li Heng intently.

On this first bronze ware, everyone is an authentic work of the Western Zhou Dynasty, but Li Heng is far behind. There are different opinions, so let Li Heng say a thing or two.

Liu Hao glanced at Li Heng contemptuously, and sneered, "Please tell me why!"

This kid is obviously doomed to lose, and he is so unconventional when he comes up, isn't this sending him to his door to slap him in the face?

Moreover, both the shape and pattern of this bronze yu are indeed the characteristics of bronze wares produced during the Western Jubilee period!
Liu Hao's self-confidence is simply because his family is specialized in bronze and porcelain, and some things have been familiar to him since he was a child. When he comes into contact with this thing, he thinks that he is much better than Li Heng after he has touched and appraised the parts. !

If it was to be replaced with something else, such as calligraphy and painting, miscellaneous items, etc., Liu Hao might really not be sure about himself... But this is a bronze ware, and he thinks that there is absolutely no problem.

If he has a problem, will the two old patriarchs present and the two elders on both sides be mistaken?

"During the late Western Zhou Dynasty, bronze wares were mainly made of molds, that is, they were first made into strong molds, which could save time and effort to reproduce many of the same molds, especially the patterned molds, which required mold making molds."

Liu Hao unceremoniously put forward his own set of rhetoric, and while speaking, he glanced at Li Heng with his eyes, saw a little more thought in Li Heng's eyes, and said more happily: "Bronze wares in the Shang and Zhou Dynasties are exquisitely crafted, with patterns Random, such as Simuwu Fang Ding, Shuangyang Zun, Dake Ding, Lianhe Square Pot, Goujian Sword, Changxin Palace Lantern, Bronze Chariots and Horses... Each piece is unique. We have seen the second one! That’s why we are certain that it was unearthed during the Western Zhou Dynasty.”

"Oh? Then how do you think you need to identify it?"

Li Heng cooperated with Liu Hao's performance very well, as if he really had never touched this kind of device.

"Well, why don't you look at the inscriptions on the utensils? The inscriptions on utensils can be said to be the biggest feature of bronze wares. However, in the Xia, Shang and Zhou dynasties, there were very few inscriptions... Apart from the repeated exquisite Taotie In addition to the pattern, there will be any inscriptions, don't even think about it, it must be from that period!"

Liu Hao glanced at Li Heng contemptuously, and thought that he was a bastard. Obviously his parents were from a family of appraisers, so could they only appraise jade and nothing else?
"...Are you really sure that this is from the Western Anniversary?" Li Heng's expression suddenly changed into a somewhat embarrassed expression. "No matter how I look at it, it doesn't look like it. Have you misunderstood it?"

(End of this chapter)