Yu Bi Ji - Pan Jiayuan Sanji

"Source of this article: Xinmin Network"

Among Chinese jades, the use of top number jade bi is the highest. The value of Yubi, such as "Heshi Bi", is worth fifteen cities, plus Lin Xiang's enthusiasm and patriotic loyalty, so later generations have the saying of "Liancheng Bi".

Behind the story of HeShibi is the tragedy of Bian He, who broke his hands and feet for this jade, and wept in vain, which is in essence an eternal contradiction that talents are not appreciated by the monarch, and a sigh that is often found in Thousand Mile Horse and not often found in Bole. The funny thing is that I came across such a jade bi.

Panjiayuan flea market stalls are very many, each hawker occupies a place, put their own goods, anyone to buy, they look or serious or calm or smile can be, some also have sharp teeth, derogatory, this kind of hawkers are mostly Tianjin people; some have no two prices, cut through the iron, this kind of hawkers are mostly northeast Hanzi. Among these many vendors was a big man, up to one meter and nine meters tall, wearing a Mongolian robe, wearing a bright blue hat, very eye-catching, this is a dealer with Mongolian ancestry, in front of him there are a number of stone tools with Hongshan cultural characteristics, Liaojin style horse harnesses, and sometimes there are Mongolian Buddhist scriptures and rosaries purchased from which lama temple, in short, this big man named Bart is a scenery of the Panjiayuan flea market.

At Barthes's feet is a stone bi, as large as a medium plate, with holes in the middle, and the four sides are obliquely ground into a blade, judging from the shape of the vessel, it should be a Neolithic artifact, but the stone bi is dark in color and does not look beautiful, so this stone bi rests at Bart's feet for many months.

Whenever we saw a buyer, such as a familiar guest like me, Bart always sold us the stone, he seriously said that it was not a stone bi but a jade bi, he swore to heaven, said that the petrification was only the shell, and the inside was definitely jade... Although the price is not expensive, no one can make up his mind, after all, there is an essential difference between stone and jade.

Suddenly one day to see Bart, see Bart also saw a piece of déjà vu big jade bi, colorful, polished a new, a question, is indeed the former piece of inconspicuous stone bi, because no one cares, Bart in a huff to ask a Henan friend to polish, after polishing, although destroyed the ancient sense of history, but the jade is present, touch it warm and moist.

I bought this huge jade bi, which still has a small stone mark on it, confirming its former ugly duckling identity. Now that this jade bi no longer has the characteristics of the Neolithic age, only someone like me, who has witnessed it countless times and has ignored it, can buy this destroyed jade bi, and at the same time buy a piece of history, a story, a philosophy. (Gao Hongbo)