In martial arts novels, the general temple represents the court power, and the jianghu represents the folk force. There are changes in temples, and there are bottom lines in rivers and lakes, and this bottom line is the great righteousness of the nation and the survival of the country.
No matter how changeable the temple is, how bloody and rainy the rivers and lakes are, the nation and the country are the supreme law! Huang Rongguo and Jing died in the battle for this righteousness, and Zhu Yuanzhang won the world through the Ming Sect. During the power change, some people fell from the temple to the rivers and lakes, and some people climbed from the rivers and lakes to the temple. There is a dark passage between the two, and mastering this dark passage allows the former to have a place to make a comeback, and the latter to ascend the sky.
The movie "Antiques Bureau Central Bureau" is about this "dark road". If you understand the background knowledge of some antique shops, you can find that there is still a dark line buried in the movie: the dark passage between the rivers and lakes and the temple, and the bottomless relationship network behind the antique shop.
Then combined with the plot of the movie, you can better understand what is the "middle game"?
01 Glass Factory: A tangible dark passage
Everyone knows the depth of the rivers and lakes, and as the ancient capital of the Liao, Jin, Yuan, Ming and Qing dynasties, Beijing, one of the political centers in modern times, is the closest to the temple. Among them, the most representative industry is the antique shop, and the most representative place is the antique street Liuli Factory in Beijing.
The name Liulichang originated from the Yuan Dynasty, when the Yuan Dynasty opened an official kiln to burn glazed tiles, and in the Ming Dynasty, it expanded its scale, and it was still a kiln factory dedicated to the firing of glazed tiles for the royal family, so it was named "LiuliChang".
The beginning of this street prosperity and special significance began in the Qing Dynasty. At the beginning of the Qing Dynasty, the capital was divided into inner and outer cities, and the Manchu and Han dynasties were divided into cities, and many Han officials lived in the Liulichang area in the western part of the outer city.
For example, in the forty-second year of the Kangxi Dynasty (1703), Cha Shenxing, who was born as a scholar and was taught the Hanlin Academy, and was known as one of the "Six Houses of the Early Qing Dynasty" in the poetry world, lived in Liulichang. Hundreds of years later, he had a descendant of a generation of people who had become a generation by writing martial arts novels called Zha Liangyong, and his pen name was Jin Yong.
There are official homes here, and in order to facilitate the work of various places, the guild halls in various places are naturally built near the official homes. The southern city of Beijing will start with a guild hall for you and a guild hall for me, and people from all walks of life in the rivers and lakes will gather here.
As a result, officials from other places entering Beijing, those who rushed to the examination and read books often gathered here, and the number of shops selling books and pens, ink and paper began to increase, and the Liuli Factory gradually formed a literati jianghu.
On the other hand, as a temple, the Qing court did not want to give these Han scholars, literati too many positions, then these people need a non-temple certification, but enough to recognize the identity of the literati and the profession that can deal with the temple - antique shop.
As a result, the glass factory eventually became a place where antique shops gathered, forming an antique street.
So why does the antique shop deal with the temple?
Obviously, since the Liuli Factory has gathered a large number of talents who can enter the army but do not do it for the officials, who is most worried about here? Naturally, it was the Qing court, and since it could not give iron rice bowls and could not let these people do things, it was necessary to encircle this large group of literati with other rice bowls.
Since ancient times, the status of merchants was far lower than that of the imperial princes, nobles and officials, and the officials and princes of the Qing Dynasty naturally could not directly engage in business, and even if they did business indirectly with their financial resources, they could not be small businesses that could not be on the table. So they hired these people to be treasurers and set up shops here to run antique businesses.
Jade, gold, calligraphy and painting, antiques... With culture and face, you can still make money, why not enjoy it? Of course, there is a face and a secret.
To give a few examples, the most famous Rongbaozhai of Liulichang, formerly known as "Songzhu Zhai", was a "Southern Paper Shop" opened by a zhejiang surnamed Zhejiang who used his official silver in Beijing to open a "Southern Paper Shop" in the eleventh year of the Qing Kangxi Dynasty (1672).
The Pen Cai Zhai was the hereditary king of the Iron Hat King in the early Qing Dynasty, and was funded and opened in the fourth year of the Qing Dynasty (1865). At the end of the Qing Dynasty, the regent and puyi's father, Prince Zaifeng invested 9,000 taels of silver and opened it in the twenty-seventh year of the Qing Dynasty (1901).
Therefore, the large and small shops in the Liuli Factory are ostensibly antique shops, and the real bosses behind them may go up to the princes and nobles and down to the Futai Yamen. Don't look at some of them inconspicuously, maybe the eyes of the hand are in the sky. Therefore, generally no one dares to smash the field.
Over time, these shops have become a distribution center for antiques and talents from all over the country, and the princes, nobles, civil and military officials can put such a place where they can exchange information with the whole world and attract talents?
So here eventually became a huge network of relationships and information, each store treasurer is naturally a treasure hunter or a university to ask talents, for the owner behind the palm eye (identification) text play to make money, but also palm eyes to attract talents from all sides, collect all kinds of news.
Let's take an interesting example. Chen Yanshu, an official of the late Qing Dynasty, invested in the Liuli Factory and opened the famous "Chonggu Zhai" antique shop and set up a branch in Fengtian (Shenyang). He took Zhang Zuolin as a righteous son. Later, Chen Yanshu came to Beijing after the eldest brother's son, who later became the dean of liberal arts at Peking University and founded the magazine New Youth.
At the beginning of the Republic of China, Zhang Zuolin was well aware of the hidden dragon crouching tiger of the Liuli Factory, and before he entered the customs, he let his relative Zhang Ruiting open a Jian Guang Ge Antique Shop in the Liuli Factory, and invited Zhang Xiaoyu, a master of calligraphy and painting appraisal, to be the treasurer.
You sang and I appeared, in short, the liulichang is inextricably linked to the temple. In other words, the Liulichang is a "secret passage" that is promoted from the jianghu to the temple, or from the temple to the jianghu.
02 Treasure Hunter: The Invisible Dark Passage
As mentioned earlier, the job of many treasure hunters is to identify treasures and identify people for the owners behind them. But it is easy to identify treasures, but it is difficult to identify people. First, they exclude the "mallet" through an "incision". What is an incision?
The so-called incision is the code word in the old gangs or certain industries. Why do antique lines have so many code words? Because this is the most basic threshold, it can wash away the vast majority of laymen.
The "Five Pulses" in the movie is a civil group composed of five top treasure connoisseurs, including the Xuanmen Pharmacist who identifies porcelain, the Huangmen Huangjia who identifies Ming ware, the Baimen Xu Family who identifies jade, the Qingmen Shen Family who identifies woodware, and the Liu Family of The Red Gate who identifies calligraphy and painting.
The five families are proficient in five categories, known as the five veins, and because the "palm eye" (identification) antiques never "hit the eye" (misread), they are known as the plum blossoms with five petals, collectively known as "bright-eyed plum blossoms". Later, the open antiques industry represented by them was incorporated into the official folk antique group, that is, a certain association.
Huang Yanyan, played by Xin Zhilei, is a descendant of the Huangmen Huang family.
Yaolai, played by Li Xian, is a descendant of the Xuanmen pharmacist.
The wish played by Lei Jiayin was originally a descendant of the Five Pulses White Gate, because Grandpa Xu Yicheng gave a national treasure-level cultural relics to the Japanese, and the Jade Buddha Head of Tianming Hall was given to the Japanese, carrying the insult of traitor, and the Xu family was also expelled from the Five Pulses since then.
A few years later, Japan returned the Buddha's head, made a wish to find that the Buddha's head was a fake, in order to rehabilitate his grandfather, the family name was corrected, and began a journey to find the real Buddha's head.
At first, the experts were very dismissive of this wish to repair electrical appliances for a living, but when his jargon popped out, everyone had a lot of numbers in mind.
I remember making a wish say:
"Open door goods", usually refers to things at a glance, there is nothing to say, the word "open door" is also the highest level of description of real things.
"Raw pit" refers to bronzes, bronzes and ancient coins that have not been excavated for a long time and have rust.
On the contrary, it is called "cooked pit", one is always in folk circulation or collection, and the other is cleaned up after the "raw pit" is excavated. Therefore, raw pits can be converted into cooked pits.
Therefore, if when you collect antiques, someone dares to claim that you are selling "raw pit" bronzes, then you should be careful, because "raw pit" bronzes are basically cultural relics, true or false you will know as soon as you hear it.
There are a lot of cuts in the movie like this kind of antique line, which is very interesting. In short, these industry code words, outsiders may listen to the clouds in the fog, and even if the insiders are not good at judging whether he really understands or understands, at least he knows that he is an insider.
It's still like the old antique shop, what you care about most is not those antiques, but the original circle. Understanding this, we can understand why no matter what the wish is in the movie, the news can immediately spread to the north and south of the river.
Why is it that even though the Xu family has been expelled from the Five Pulses and is saddled with infamy, Xu Heping, the father of wishing played by Guo Tao, can still find out so much news? Because the status is gone, but the identity of the insider is still there.
Therefore, the whole story seems to have only two people and horses, Wish and Yaolai, looking for the true Buddha's head, but in fact, the network of relationships covered by several waves of forces is passing information back and forth and secretly competing. This is also the underground tunnel that the dark line of the film wants to show.
And these treasure hunters who have the ability to find treasure are like invisible secret paths, or the gatekeepers of the dark paths.
03 Ghost City: New Order
After the founding of New China, the Liuli Factory basically lost its role as a secret passage.
Some of the treasure hunters were incorporated into non-governmental associations, subject to the supervision of the new temple, and could only buy and sell on the countertop. And some people sink into the ground and continue to build a dark passage between the countertop and the countertop , the ghost city.
Wish and Yao Lai went to the ghost city with separate clues, to find Shen Ye.
The role of Shen Ye is not in the original work, belongs to the original of the film, the reason for setting this role is actually that the main creator wants to show what kind of form an unregulated antique line is through Shen Ye.
A whole street of antique shops plus an auction house, all listen to Shen Ye, what does this mean? Shen Ye is the gatekeeper of this underground exchange, the "dark road" under the new order.
In such an environment, the two descendants only have two ways to meet Shen Ye, abide by the rules and pay tribute, and break the rules and be beaten.
The offspring cultivated by the five veins were of course well versed in this way, and directly gave Shen Ye a real blockbuster antique. And Wish has no capital, so he can only use the game of lifting the table, he picked out the real goods of the whole street and sold it cheaply, which is equivalent to smashing Shen Ye's field. So in the end, although I saw Shen Ye, my life was almost gone.
But in the end, Shen Ye actually recognized them both, why? Nature is still a circle!
The reason why Shen Ye is Shen Ye, what does it depend on? This dark passage between the countertop and the under-the-countertop. The upstream is the antique identification channel, and the five veins are passed. Downstream is the antique circulation channel, through the counterfeit Zhengjia Village.
Shen Ye can occupy an antique street and directly monopolize here, is no one in charge? Now, back to the story about the glass factory at the beginning of the article:
The big and small shops in the Liuli Factory are ostensibly the real owners behind the antique shops, which may go up to the princes and nobles and down to the Futai Yamen. Don't look at some of them inconspicuously, maybe the eyes of the hand are in the sky. Therefore, generally no one dares to smash the field.
Now all understand, Shen Ye wants to maintain this circle, baishanmen's gift. Those who dare to smash the field must suffer hardships. But in the end, she also had to give back, because the two people who came were also in the circle.
Coming and going, or the past of the Glass Factory, this is just the old pattern and the new order. But the film must give a result.