Since the explosion of the red net at the Sanxingdui site, some Sanxingdui cultural relics have also begun to appear in many parts of the country, and it is difficult for people to distinguish between true and false for a while. For example, there is a Sanxingdui double-game jade carving in the Chengdu Antique Market, and experts say that if it is genuine, it will rewrite the history of China's chess development. Is this jade carving real or fake? If you also want to know, the following Xiaobian will reveal it to you:
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As the saying goes: immortals are difficult to break the jade, although this sentence is often used to describe the gambling stone, but experts also use it to describe the difficulty of identifying jade. In the Yunnan region, there is an ancient custom of gambling on stones, buying a stone and cutting it, if it is a gem inside, it will be earned, and if it is an ordinary stone, it will lose. Before the gambling stone is cut, no one can know what is inside, even experienced teachers and masters will sometimes lose their families, so people often say that one knife is poor, one knife is rich, and one knife covers linen (death). When identifying jade, experts also have a gambling ingredient in it, after all, it is really difficult to distinguish between true and false.
For jade cultural relics, some are imitations of ancient cultural relics with modern jade, which is also the most common and simplest, only need to use some acidic chemical reagents to make it old, so there are also netizens who summarize it as a bubble of Clear, two bubbles of Tang, three bubbles back to Xia Shang Zhou. There is also a category, that is, the use of fake jade to imitate some cultural relics, experts not only identify the authenticity of the jade itself, but also determine the authenticity of the cultural relics themselves, that is, whether it is in line with history, and this kind of cultural relics are mainly fake cultural relics of sanxingdui folk, such as sanxingdui warrior command group carving, sanxingdui fishing jade carving and Sanxingdui mermaid jade carving, etc., so that experts are crying and laughing.
As we all know, the Sanxingdui site was discovered in the late 1920s and was not excavated until the 1980s, when it was not properly protected for nearly 50 years, and it also experienced 14 years of war. Therefore, cultural relics experts said that during this period, there were indeed cases of sanxingdui sites being stolen and excavated, so there may be cultural relics flowing into the people, but it can be determined that the number of cultural relics is not much. In September 2003, some experts spent more than two years investigating the folk Sanxingdui cultural relics, and found that there were more than 20,000 pieces, and there were many kinds, but most of them were fake cultural relics at first glance.
Experts said that 90% of sanxingdui's folk cultural relics are fake, or not sanxingdui cultural relics at all, but it is difficult to distinguish these cultural relics without some professional knowledge. For example, the Sanxingdui double game jade carving mentioned at the beginning of the small editor, it was accidentally discovered by an expert in the antique market, and the boss also offered a sky-high price of 20 million yuan for sale, which also caused a big sensation in the antique market for a time. This set of jade carvings is composed of two jade figures, a chessboard and 15 pieces, the most important thing is that the whole looks very old, very old, very old, so many people also think that it is an ancient jade relic from a thousand years ago.
The two jade figures are kneeling, and their faces are similar to the bronze heads unearthed from Sanxingdui, with a thin face, a dignified expression, and a high nose and eyes, which also look like that. The chessboard is rectangular, 65 cm long and 58 cm wide, and the front is connected by geometric patterns, which have not been excavated in previous archaeological discoveries, so experts are not sure what it is. The most puzzling thing is the chess pieces, some of which are symbols, some of which are animals, and some of which are gods, and what the specific meaning is not clear at all. Experts said that it is certain that this set of jade carvings depicts two ancient people playing chess in sanxingdui, but it is not easy to determine what chess type, but according to the pattern of the chess pieces, it is called fighting beast chess.
Chess has a long history and rich variety in China, such as the earliest Go, which can be traced back to more than 4,000 years ago, that is, Yaozuo Go, to teach his son Danzhu ("Natural history"), but it was not mature until the Spring and Autumn Warring States Period; there is also chess, which originated in the Warring States period, when it was called Wenbo Qi, but there were only 6 chess pieces, and later to the Tang Dynasty, there were great changes, and gradually developed into today's chess. As for the fighting beast chess in ancient China, there is no record, so if the Sanxingdui double game jade carving is true, then it will rewrite the history of China's chess, and if it is fake, people will sweep into the garbage heap of history.
If you don't discuss the chess itself, you can look at the jade first to find that there is a problem with the sanxingdui double game jade carving. "Zhou Li Chunguan Dazongbo" records that with jade as six instruments, to ceremonize the heavens and the earth, which shows that jade was a sacrificial object in ancient times, this can also be found from the jade excavated from the Sanxingdui site and other sites, and the Sanxingdui double-sided jade carving is not a sacrificial product at all, so the ancient Shu people will not use jade to carve such a thing, so experts have come to the final conclusion that the Sanxingdui double-sided jade carving is a fake cultural relics that are not genuine and untrue.
"Sanxingdui The Ninth Wonder of the World" Author: Exploring the World, Publisher: Comprehensive Agency