Xue Baochao and Lin Daiyu: Whose crane is more valuable?

In the forty-ninth chapter of "Dream of the Red Chamber", Jia Baoyu and others saw that it was snowing and wanted to discuss the opening of a poetry club. Li Yi's servant came and asked Daiyu. Bao Yu invited Dai Yu to come to Daoxiang Village with him. Dai Yu changed into a small sheepskin boot with gold digging clouds and red incense, and covered a crane in a white fox with a big red feather veil... The two of them walked together in the snow.

I saw that all the sisters were over there, all of them were a big red orangutan felt and feather satin cloak, Du Li Yi was wearing a green doraemon pair of pants, and Xue Baochao was wearing a lotus green bucket pattern with a brocade of flowers and foreign threads.

Shi Xiangyun came, wearing Jia Mu and one of his mink rat head faces big hair black gray rat inside and outside fever coat. Xing Xiuyan is still a home-worn old clothes, and there is no snow shelter.

The heavy snow set off, the crowd of Fang Douyan, basically Xue Baoqin, Lin Daiyu, Xue Baochao and Shi Xiangyun wore the best. The widow Li Feng did not participate in the competition, and the poor girl Xing Xianyan was not qualified to compete without capital.

Among them, Xue Baochao and Lin Daiyu both wore cranes.

Crane is also known as a cloaked cape coat

The "New Language of the World" writes about this kind of clothing: "When Meng Chang was not yet reached, his home was in Jingkou, and he tasted Wang Gong riding on high public opinion and was craned. When the snow was slight, Chang peeked at it between the fences and sighed: 'This true immortal is a man. ’”

This means that the princes and nobles wear crane fur and are very fairy and fluttering.

Crane in the big red-feathered white fox

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Lotus green bucket pattern icing on the cake of the flowery ocean thread silk crane.

The silk is actually the rice, which is also the cashmere.

The name of the Qin people is "goat", which is different from sheep. The English name cashmere is actually a transliteration of Kashmir, because kashmir used to be a distribution center for cashmere in history. The goats came from the western region at the end of the Tang Dynasty, the outer hair was not very long, the inner hair was weak, and the woven velvet brown was taken.

Fine velvet caught from the goat with a wire comb. According to its different colors, it can be divided into three types: white, purple and green velvet. Among them, white velvet is the best. Good cashmere, as delicate and silky as a baby's skin. Because it is expensive, it is priced in grams in transactions, and foreign countries call it "fiber diamond" and "soft gold".

It is also said that the cloak that Jia Mu gave to Xue Baochao was actually made of hair on the head of a wild duck. The "Smell of Petals" records: "Duck head qiu - duck head green fur sewn into fur, green light flickering, gorgeous abnormal, most of the high-ranking officials for horse coats, on horse clothes, in case of rain is not wet, but not warm, just shine." ”

It protects against rain and snow, but does not keep warm. Jia Mu gave BaoQin Qiao to avoid snow. Although it is also golden and expensive, it is not as good as Xue Baochao's Lin Daiyu's crane.

The final pk is still the Immortal Fighting Method. Work on the two pieces of cranes.

Lin Daiyu is a top fur - white fox fur.

Xue Baochao's is the top cashmere- cashmere.

In the eighteenth century, Napoleon's empress Josephine had many cashmere shawls, each worth between 15,000 and 20,000 francs. The writer Dumas Jr. describes a pair of diamond earrings by Margaret, worth four or five thousand francs.

According to the conversion of gold and silver currency in the 18th and 19th centuries and the comprehensive purchasing power of the project at that time, 12 koku of silver in China was equivalent to 3.64-8.3 francs. (Theoretical Research, 2019, No. 10, "A Preliminary Study on the Purchasing Power of Chinese, British and French Currencies in Engineering in the 18th-19th Centuries")

The piece of crane worn by Xue Baochao does not calculate the artificial value of the handicraft, but only looks at the material, calculated at the most conservative value.

Considering that this is a mixture of cashmere and western thread, but the shawl is often a high proportion of pure cashmere, and the cape area is larger than the shawl, almost equal to the four or five shawls of European noblewomen.

Let's calculate it on a piece basis. They are all royal and aristocratic supplies, and the quality is naturally similar. Xue Baochao's crane was worth at least 15,000 francs in France at the same time, which was about equal to 1800 taels = 4200 taels of silver in the Qing Dynasty.

"Dream of the Red Chamber" was written from the end of the Kangxi Dynasty to the early years of the Yongzheng Dynasty, according to the weight of the Hubu Kuping Silver of the Qianlong Copper Weights held by the Palace Museum, which was 37.3 grams. There used to be many people from rice prices, prices and house prices, converting modern purchasing power, one or two pieces of silver in the Qing Dynasty, equivalent to one or two hundred yuan in modern times.

Coupled with high-end craftsmanship, the cranes worn by Xue Baochao are worth between 500,000 and 1 million yuan.

What about Lin Daiyu's big red feathered white fox in the crane? Fox White Fur: In ancient times, the white fur of the fox's armpit was the most precious, and the collection of robes was named "White Fox Fur".

During the Shunzhi Emperor's Longevity Festival, he recorded how the officials of the Ministry of Rites spent a week wearing mink or fox furs to hold celebrations: "Smell the royal fox fur, straight three thousand gold." "And that's just black fox skin. (Shen Jiake's article, may not be reproduced without authorization)

Basically, the crane that Lin Daiyu wore also had to be thousands of taels of silver. Cashmere is more precious than the white fox. Lin Daiyu's starting line is more than 1 million yuan.

Compared with Xue Baochao, who wears Kaisimi, and Lin Daiyu, who wears white fox fur, Lin Daiyu is better.

In the big winter, the competition for the c position, everyone took out their high-end goods to show.

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