Rebirth 93: Break off the engagement at the beginning and marry Bai Fumei

In Yanjian Village, Gezhai Town, Yichuan County, Henan Province, the smoke is outside the sky and the water flows in the quiet stream; the humanities are rich through the ages, and you can recognize bronze as soon as you get drunk!

In ancient times, this was a precious place for the royal family to use bronzes to worship the gods. As early as the Xia, Shang and Zhou dynasties, the emperors traced the Yi River Shuanglong River to the Jiugao Tianshi Mountain area to worship the gods. Yanyun Stream was a must-go place. Jian' has become a specialized place for casting and supplying various types of bronze sacrificial vessels and ritual vessels for sacrifices.

In later generations, this was the first village of antique bronze ware in my country, such as the Stepmother Wu Ding, the Four-Yang Square Zun, the Lotus and Crane Square Pot... Here you can see various national treasure-level bronze wares. On both sides of the Bronze Avenue, shops stand along the street, and you can walk into a shop at will. There are low-price wholesale horse-stepping swallows, high-quality and low-priced stepmother Wuding, and even at the entrance of the village committee, you can see a huge bronze square statue.

In this village, where bronze ware processing is its pillar industry, one-third of the people in the village are engaged in the production and sales of antique bronze ware, with annual sales of several hundred million yuan. The bronze ware processing also radiates to the surrounding 5 towns and 8 administrative villages. It is the largest bronze production and processing base and distribution center in the country. It is known as "my country's No. Antique Bronze Village". The products are exquisite in craftsmanship, lifelike, and fake. All of this starts with an old man.

Fang Xingqing was born in Yanjian Village in 1942, an authentic rural person. When Fang Xingchu was young, he was very skillful with his hands. He helped the villagers build tables, chairs, benches, cabinets, etc., and even helped the villagers make some tools for farming. Anyway, as long as he showed him how to make things, he could make them.

One day while working in the fields, Fang Xingchu discovered a bronze mirror. Its surface had become dilapidated due to the ravages of time, and even a large crack appeared on its surface. Fang Xingchu liked this bronze mirror very much and thought about how to repair it all day long. His wife told him that you might as well fix something with Rong, so Fang Xingchu couldn't bear to part with it.

In this way, while Fang Xingqing was thinking about it on his own, he found a coppersmith to learn from the experience. He felt that he could try repairing it, so he planned to try repairing the bronze mirror. But when he took the bronze mirror into his hands and was about to start repairing it, he was worried that his mistake might destroy this thousand-year-old cultural relic.

At this moment, he had an idea: "Why don't you just try to imitate a bronze mirror?"

Thinking of this, Fang Xingqing called in two "experts". Lu Zhiqun was a young carpenter and Liu Keduo was an old silversmith. One is good at carving and making molds, and the other is good at tinkering with utensils. The three of them finally made an identical bronze mirror after several flips.

It was the 60s, and in that era when food and drink were scarce, having a full stomach was the first priority. Fang Xingchu's wife saw that Fang Xingchu had begun to neglect his job in order to show his face, and she scolded him every day. When Fang Xingchu got angry, he took the mirror he made and went to the city.

You must know that Yanjian Village belongs to Luojing. Even in the 60s, in addition to cultural relics shops, there were still several time-honored antique shops, such as Qunguzhai. In the late Qing Dynasty, this shop almost monopolized Luojing, A large number of bronzes from the Three Dynasties, ancient jades and tricolors from the Tang Dynasty are produced in Anyang. Most of the Jun and Ru porcelains from the Song Dynasty from Yu and Ru are also managed by this shop.

Fang Xingchu didn't dare to try his luck in a cultural relics store with the mirror he made. After much deliberation, he walked into a time-honored antique store. When he came out, Fang Xingchu had two hundred yuan in his arms.

In the 60s, 200 yuan was a huge sum of money for Fang Xingchu! This time, Fang Xingchu and the others tasted the sweetness, and his wife stopped stopping him when she saw this, so the trio of hand-rubbed bronze ware went online. Let's put it this way, in the 80s, some museum experts chased Fang Xingchu on the street to buy the bronzes made by Fang Xingchu and others, then bought them back and placed them in the museum.

The first incident occurred in 1992, when a businessman returned from Luoyang, Henan, and was preparing to travel from Shanghai to Shanghai. During the security inspection, the customs discovered that the businessman was carrying a large number of exquisitely crafted bronzes. Among the consigned packages, It includes a square tripod with an animal face pattern, the shape of which is exactly the Luoyang tripod, the treasure of the Luoning Museum.

After detaining the person, the customs officers found an expert in this field. After repeated identification, the expert confirmed that it was the Luoyang tripod unearthed in 1949. At that time, Liu Nongjun of Wuhan stole 69 collections from the Kaifeng Museum. Although the police chased the culprit for thousands of miles to arrest him and prevented the leakage of cultural relics, they did not rule out the possibility that criminals wanted to imitate the crime, so the customs contacted Contact the local public security bureau.

"Our Luoyang Cauldron? How is it possible? Our Luoyang Cauldron is on display in the museum!"

"No need to confirm, it's impossible to throw it away. Don't slap us with random labels!"

Since the Luoning Museum said so, it’s not the one in the museum. Could it be that another tomb robber discovered another one? In order to seize the time to solve the case and prevent more cultural relics from being lost, dozens of police cars from Yanjian Village rushed over, kicked up dust all over the sky, went straight to Fang Xingchu's home, and took Fang Xingchu away.

As the investigation progressed, the police looked helpless and respectfully sent him back in a police car. The reason is very simple. Fang Xingchu admitted that he made these things by himself, but he sold them not at the price of antiques, but at the price of handicrafts. Moreover, he also searched the account books from Fang Xingchu’s house. Every transaction was recorded. It did not constitute a crime at all. It's just...the profit has already reached millions.

The reason is very simple. The trio of hand-rubbed bronzes make something so authentic. Everyone knows that the most difficult part of bronze is how to age it. When it comes to antique restoration, distressing and mature patina techniques, many experts are stumped. But in Fang Xingqing's case, he found a unique way to make it, and he made it with his own secret recipe.

With the opening of the cultural relics market, the bronzes made by Fang Xingchu became very popular in the market. Most people buy it as an old thing. The key is that when they first sold it, they told others, "This is a work of art, not an antique. Don't use it to deceive others!"

Who believes it! With this craftsmanship, this material, this rust, whoever believes what Fang Xingchu said is true, they all think that Fang Xingchu robbed the tomb, but they just don’t say it. After all, even experts say it’s not a fake, so who still believes what Fang Xingchu says.

The second incident happened in 1995. This time it doesn’t matter that Fang Xingchu was a museum director. He is still there, and the museum is still there, so we won’t mention the specific name. This museum director bought a bunch of bronzes made by Fang Xingchu from somewhere. You just bought them if you said you would, but this guy actually wanted to report all these bronzes for credit.

The sudden appearance of bronze wares made the superiors feel that something was wrong, so they sent people down to investigate. They really didn't see it at the beginning, so they had a suspicious attitude. By chance, a leader met a stall owner selling bronze wares when he was wandering around. Good guy, several bronzes on the stall are genuine, which makes experts alert. Could it be that a large tomb has been stolen?

After further investigation, the vendor said that the goods were purchased in Luojing. As the public security agencies intervened, when they arrived in Luojing, the local public security agency said, "Yes, that's right, it's Fang Xingchu from our Yanjian Village. He now leads the entire village to make bronze crafts, earning an annual profit of nearly 10 million!"

The whole village? Profit of tens of millions? Experts were shocked at the time.

After this incident, almost everyone in the antique shop knew that there was such a place in Luojing for counterfeiting bronzes, Yanjian Village!