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

A land purchase certificate is a special contract document that marks the legal ownership of a certain land by the owner of the document. Its special feature is that it is not prepared for the living, but for the use of the deceased.

Almost all funeral customs in our country can be traced back to one principle, that is, "treat death as life."This special concept makes China’s funeral customs unique in the world.In the hearts of Chinese people, death is not the end, but another beginning.

There is warmth, coolness, and warmth in the human world, so we need to wear clothes. After death, there will also be coldness and heat in the underworld, so we need to prepare shrouds for the deceased. The rich are buried with gold-stitched jade clothes, and the poor burn paper clothes as a memorial.Qin Shihuang ruled the six seas during his lifetime, and he would also rule the kingdom of the underworld after his death, so he prepared a group of underworld armies and terracotta warriors for himself!

Well, our Chinese people have been thinking about it for thousands of years. An important symbol of starting a family and starting a business is a house. You must have it when you are alive and you must have it after you die!Even in ancient times, a house could not be built by just pulling out a few pieces of wood and hiring some craftsmen. Unless it was in the wilderness and was uninhabited, otherwise, it was also necessary to acquire land and report it to the government before construction could begin.

So, when it comes to buying land, the most important thing is the property deed.So who will buy the deceased’s house from, and how will it be reflected?This is "land coupons".

On this small land purchase certificate, the name, life, place of birth, date of birth and death, and where he was buried are usually recorded, and a certain amount of money is used to pay tribute to Huang Tianye, Hou Tu Niang, Xiang Tu Gong, and Dong Dong. The prince, the Queen Mother of the West and other immortal gentlemen purchased a section of land for their family use.

The ancients believed that this small party buying land certificates was sacred and had legal effect.With this coupon in hand, if lonely ghosts want to invade the house of the dead, or if those poor ghosts want to take over their own luxurious residence, they can take this land coupon and roar : "A ghost is robbing my haunted house!"

Of course, all this is what living people think about. Whether it has happened or not, and whether buying land coupons is useful or not, no one knows.

Land purchase certificates first appeared in the early Western Han Dynasty, and were initially called "land policy". They were usually written on wooden slips and buried with the deceased in underground tombs. The content was relatively simple. It was usually in the name of the above-ground officials to inform the underworld officials that a certain person In what year, month and time, someone from a certain township in the county reported to your place with whom and what they brought (buried figurines and objects), which is similar to the nature of household registration migration in the real world. Later, as it developed, more and more content was included in it, and even There was a breach of contract agreement. Of course, the materials also started with wood, and developed to bricks, stones, tiles, lead, iron, wood, paper, etc.

For example, what Uncle Jiang now puts in the box is a blue brick land coupon. In Chen Yang's impression, this thing should be with the burial objects of his ancestors. He doesn't know why the land coupon is in the box. In his hands, unless they dig up their ancestral graves.

"What did you say?" After listening to Song Qingyun and Chen Yang's explanations, the old man's expression suddenly changed. He never expected that the object he had always regarded as a treasure at home was actually the deed to his ancestor's cemetery.

"You can't get it wrong!"

Chen Yang shook his head, pointed at the words on it and said, "Uncle, doesn't it say on it, therefore Mr. Jiang is granted a land certificate?"

It also shows how much money was spent and where it was purchased.Uncle Jiang looked at the place Chen Yang was pointing at, and nodded silently after listening to Chen Yang's words, indicating that this was indeed the place where his family's ancestral grave was, and that his father was also buried on that mountain after his death.

"Brother," Song Qingyun looked at Uncle Jiang and said, "the land coupons can be passed down to the emperor, down to the common people, and will be available after death. If they belong to some emperor, minister, or famous person, they can still have some scientific research value. You...are only useful to you."

Uncle Jiang sighed slightly, and Chen Yang and Song Qingyun persuaded him. After a while, he finally calmed down and pushed another box in front of them, "Look at this, this It’s definitely not ours, and someone saw it a few years ago and said it was a good thing.”

When the uncle opened the box, Chen Yang and Song Qingyun looked inside the box at the same time. They looked at each other for a while. Lao Jiang was right, he did have good things!

There is a jewelry box in the box, but this jewelry box is different from other jewelry boxes. It is a pink glass product!

Song Qingyun could tell at a glance that this was a good thing, while Chen Yang trembled slightly beside him because he knew this object. Later generations called it: Pink Glass, Grape Flower Double Ring Ear Powder Box, which is from the Shencheng Forbidden City Exhibits in the museum!

This pink glass grape flower double hoop earrings powder box is brightly colored, intricately patterned, exquisite and unique, and exquisitely carved. The milky white and pink tones on its exterior are breathtakingly beautiful.It is a glass utensil specially made for the palace. It has a slightly restrained waist and a burr-shaped copper hoop on the edge. It has a copper bayonet and two ring handles.The edge and bottom edge of the box are inlaid with copper openings, and there are three copper legs at the bottom.

"Doesn't it look good?" The uncle was stroking his beard and looking at Song Qingyun with a smile and asked.

How can it not look good? This is what the concubines in the palace use for makeup.It seems that this object has not been found in the second one. There is only one in the Shencheng Museum. In the last life, I saw it through the glass. This time, it is right in front of me, and it looks even more beautiful.

Song Qingyun nodded slightly, "This jewelry box from the early Republic of China is not bad. The body of the powder box is made of white frosted glass. The waist is slightly restrained. The copper hoop on the edge is burr-shaped, with a copper bayonet and two ring handles. This box The shape is exquisite, the craftsmanship is unique, and the object is not bad.”

After watching Song Qingyun put the jewelry box on the table, Chen Yang stretched out his hand and slowly picked it up. He finally discovered Song Qingyun's problem. No matter how good the object was, he would always outdo the same dynasty, and it was the first time he collected it. The same goes for the red sandalwood box. It is obviously from the Ming Dynasty, but when I opened it, I said it was the late Qing Dynasty.The jewelry in front of me can be seen from the workmanship that it is from the third generation of the Qing Dynasty. In one word, it is from the early Republic of China.

Chen Yang held the jewelry and looked at it with emotion in his heart. This jewelry box is really like a peach, shining with its beauty. This exquisite and beautiful powder box is like the treasure left by the fairy in the Yaochi in the world.The peach pink glass texture is flowing with milky white cloud-like texture, just like the lingering fairy spirit.The box body is filled with grape twigs using cloisonné enamel technology, which is beautiful but not seductive, gorgeous but not vulgar.

"So, this item is pretty good, right?" Uncle Jiang smiled at the side, "When my father opened a pawn shop, someone else pawned this for fifty silver dollars!"

Hearing what Uncle Jiang said, Chen Yang put the jewelry box back into the box and couldn't help but smile.In the antique business, there are two things you should not believe. You cannot believe No. 1. You cannot believe the second story. You can only believe the object in your hand, and you must not listen to other people's nonsense.

For example, if you fancy an object and think it is from the late Qing Dynasty, and the seller tells you that it belongs to the early Qing Dynasty, don't believe it. You are on your own.Especially stories. Whether you are buying or selling items, you will always add various stories to an antique. What is passed down by my family, what is left by my grandfather, and what my ancestors have high officials, all of them are... It’s nonsense, it’s whatever you think it is.

Putting aside whether this jewelry box is an item passed down from the palace, just the five silver coins that Uncle Jiang said are wrong.During the Republic of China, there were indeed many declining royal nobles who exchanged old objects for money to survive, but after all, this was a glass product, and it was impossible to be worth fifty silver dollars in that era.

Song Qingyun chuckled and said, let's not talk about the price now. This is just one piece. If there are other good items at home, you can take them out. After looking at the items, you can give the price together.Uncle Jiang thought for a while and said that there was still a bottle at home. He originally wanted to keep it, but now there is an item that cannot be sold, so he might as well sell the bottle.

After the two waited for three to five minutes, they saw Uncle Jiang coming out holding a large object wrapped in blue cloth, which was also tied with a rope.When Uncle Jiang put the object on the kang, he untied the rope, removed the blue cloth on the outside, and wrapped it with one layer on the inside. After removing the two layers of wrapping, he found a yellow ground pink and green bottle with hollow patterns. The bottle was displayed in front of the two of them.

Turn the bottle?

Song Qingyun and Chen Yang looked at each other suspiciously. Uncle Jiang smiled and motioned to the two of them to see how this thing was. Song Qinghua and Chen Yang squatted by the kang and looked at the bottle carefully.

The bottle has a folded lip, a wide neck and shoulders, with a fine yellow ground and a brocade ground. The lower edge is painted with Ruyi cloud heads, which are well rendered and three-dimensional. It is decorated with necklaces and beads. Four groups of them are decorated with auspicious characters, and there are chimes like auspicious bats. And add four blooming florets, orange and bright blue, fresh and graceful.

The body of the bottle is decorated with four groups of Pisces, which adds to the auspiciousness, and is supplemented by curling ocean flowers, which are filled with wind.The lower part of the sloping shoulder gradually converges. Between the red dragons on the outer green space of the vessel's belly, there are hollow Kui patterns painted in pink and green with gold, and embossed with reliefs on all sides. It depicts a pair of abundant fish, swimming freely in the soft waves, among falling flowers and algae. The two mandarin fishes face each other and the red carps swim together, leisurely and lifelike.

Through the gaps in the carvings, one can see the inner vase imitating the Ming Dynasty blue and white intertwining flowers, with different flowers and blooms, which is wonderful and interesting.The feet are decorated with yellow ground brocade patterns of rotating branches of foreign flowers, chamomiles and anemone, which are elegant and affectionate and echo the decoration on the neck.Even though the decorations are dense, they are orderly and orderly.

Qing Qianlong Yangcai hollowed-out Ji Qing Yu Yu Zhuan Xin vase!

When Chen Yang saw the pattern on the bottle, he was secretly surprised. From 1905 until his rebirth, there were only two of these in the world.

The first item was originally hidden in the Mountain Chamber of Commerce in Little Guizi. After it was recorded in the catalog of the Mountain Chamber of Commerce in 1924, it remained untouched for nearly a century. Until 2010, it was found in Bambu, Rice, Middlesex, England. Bainbridge's auction house sold it for a high price of 300 million pounds, setting a world record that year, and the news shocked the world.

However, it was put on hold due to non-payment at that time. Two years later, due to failure to collect payment, the seller sent the lot to the market again.According to insiders, in 2012, this bottle successfully changed hands at a private sale at Bonhams Auction House in the UK for a price of 2000-2500 million pounds. The buyer was an Asian collector, who at the time believed that the bottle was an orphan.

At Sotheby’s Autumn Auction in 2018, I saw another one, and I realized that the concentration bottles were actually a pair. The two were almost identical. The difference was the striped strip on the shoulder. The glaze color of the Sotheby’s Hong Kong bottle was green. , the one auctioned in London is a gold mine.

In addition, the base models are also different. The one in London is blue and white, while the exquisite one at Sotheby's in Hong Kong is made of blue material. Although this type of turquoise blue material is rare, there are still examples to be seen, such as a pair of pictures of babies playing. The bottles are hidden in the Forbidden City on both sides of the Taiwan Strait.

Thinking of this, Chen Yang glanced at the stripe on the shoulder of the bottle, green land!Seeing this, Chen Yang reached out and picked up the bottle. The inner neck and bottom of the bottle were painted with turquoise green, with blue material on the bottom, and a six-character seal inscription on both sides. It was made in the Qianlong year of the Qing Dynasty.

Chen Yang licked his lips with his tongue. This is 1.5 million!