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People who like to engage in collecting, the vision of unique can get huge benefits, poor vision will be a failure.
Once, a collector named Luo Jun exchanged two boxes of cigarettes for an "ashtray", went through many ways, and finally sold a high price of 1.8 million, what is this treasure?
Luo Jun, as a person who likes to engage in collecting, as long as he has time, he will ask a few friends to go to the countryside to receive goods. Once, he went to Shanxi with a friend. Because it was summer, there was no harvest after a few turns, and I went to the farmer's house with a dry mouth and begged for a drink.
While drinking water, he looked at the farmer's home, and he found it. On the table, there is an ashtray, although it looks old, but the texture is very unusual. So he asked the farmer: Did you buy this ashtray? The farmer replied, "I didn't buy it, I dug it up in my own field three years ago, and it looks good, so I used it as an ashtray." ”
Luo Jun picked it up and looked at it carefully, and felt that it was not ordinary, so he said that he wanted to buy it. The farmer felt useless and said that two packs of cigarettes could be taken away. Soon, Luo Jun went to the supermarket to buy two packs of cigarettes and returned to the house to give to the farmers.
After taking it home, Luo Jun gave the "ashtray" a comprehensive cleaning, and after the cleaning was completed, he took it to the antique shop. Generally speaking, the owner of the antique shop has some understanding of the cultural relics, the boss picked it up and looked at it, directly judging that this "ashtray" is a Song Dynasty cultural relics drum nail washing.
Drum nail washing is a kind of pen washing, shaped like a drum, mainly for royal use, the first piece unearthed is in The Bagua Cave in Henan, which can also be said to have become an official kiln of the Song Dynasty. Until now, not much has been excavated for this artifact.
There is also a fantasy legend about this artifact:
According to legend, Emperor Huizong of Song was proficient in song and dance painting, but not in calligraphy, so he kept practicing. After a banquet, Emperor Huizong of Song was so drunk that the attendants helped him back to the palace to rest. Suddenly, Song Huizong, who had fallen on the bed, stood up and hurriedly let people write and ink to serve, waving the paper like a cloud of smoke. After writing it, he fell back on the bed.
When he woke up again, he found that there were some newly written words on his desk, which were very beautiful, so he asked the waiter who wrote it, and the waiter was very puzzled, so he told him everything that happened after getting drunk. When he picked up his pen and wrote again, he couldn't write the words he wrote after getting drunk.
Later, Song Huizong had a dream, in which he took a pen and dipped it in the pen wash, and then wrote it against the drum, and the handwriting was very good, the same as the last time he wrote it after getting drunk. When he woke up, he couldn't remember all of his dreams, only that he dreamed of half a drum, and this half of the drum could support him.
Later, the minister interpreted his dreams and suggested that he let the official kiln burn paper drum-shaped pen washing. In the end, the pen washed and burned the paper well, and gave it to Song Huizong, who used this pen to wash and write a beautiful hand.
This is a legend, and there may be some exaggerated elements. However, the rarity of this object is real, and it is a blessing to see it.
When the antique shop owner saw this cultural relic, he offered Luo Jun 60,000 yuan to buy, and Luo Jun considered that this price was quite a lot, so he sold it.
Later, some customers came to the antique shop to see the cultural relics and picked up the drum nails for 300,000 yuan. Later, this cultural relic appeared in Hong Kong and became an auction item. At that time, the use of Song Huizong's drunken writing as a gimmick was favored by many collectors, and finally sold for a high price of 1.8 million.
From digging out of the field as an "ashtray" to being bought by two packs of cigarettes, from 60,000 to 300,000, and finally 1.8 million was auctioned off, the fate of this cultural relic is really bumpy.
Although drum nail washing has become a history, it has bloomed and is part of Chinese culture.
No matter when, it is "rare things are precious", which is best reflected in cultural relics. But the significance of the existence of cultural relics is not only to be collected, mainly the history behind it, mainly because it has research value.
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