China is a country with a long history, and China's ancestors have left many cultural treasures to future generations.
However, the antique market is not something that ordinary people can touch, and it is very easy to be deceived in the antique industry without a little research on history and culture and the level of antique identification.
But there are always people who like to look around for "treasures", such as antique calligraphy and paintings, antique decorative vase utensils, etc., to show their identity or as a form of investment.
They don't know much, but they more or less have a fluke mentality, thinking that the "treasure" in their hands must be real, so they have spawned a lot of treasure hunting programs, popularizing antique knowledge to the public while tasting treasures for the masses.
Once, the treasure show ushered in a rural aunt, and the phoenix crown she brought made the experts cry out: Hurry up and take it off! What is the crown she brought? Is this artifact real or fake?
Rural aunts wear "royal gifts" on their heads to treasure
This rural aunt wore a phoenix crown on her head, only to see her wearing a phoenix crown on her head, striding on the stage, looking very sure that her phoenix crown was genuine.
At first, the experts were very surprised to see that The Aunt did not have the treasure in her hand, until the Aunt pointed to the crown on her head and said that this was the treasure she wanted to identify, and this treasure was a "royal gift".
The antique experts at the scene were shocked to hear this, and they hurriedly asked the aunt to take the phoenix crown off the head, after all, if this phoenix crown is real, it is a valuable treasure that should be properly kept, rather than being worn on the head at will.
The eldest aunt felt reasonable when she heard it, and took off the phoenix crown with a very good attitude. Subsequently, she told the history of the phoenix crown.
According to the eldest aunt, the phoenix crown she brought was from the collection of Empress Dowager Cixi, which was once given by Empress Dowager Cixi to the palace maid, and the phoenix crown experienced war in the palace, came to the people several times, and finally was obtained by cultural relics dealers.
The big aunt bought the phoenix crown for tens of thousands of yuan from the cultural relics dealer, and the purpose of her show this time is to identify how much the "royal gift" bought for these tens of thousands of yuan is worth.
So, is the phoenix crown brought by the big mother real or fake, and is it worth a lot?
The mystery of the true and falsehood of the "Royal Gift" phoenix crown
After some appraisal, experts believe that the phoenix crown brought by the big mother is fake.
First of all, experts pointed out that there was an obvious structural error in the pattern style of the "Double Dragon Play Bead" on the top of the phoenix crown.
In the production of the ancient Chinese phoenix crown, the pattern style of "Double Dragon Play Bead" will be made into the shape of "dragon head to dragon head", and the big mother wears the phoenix crown of the program, and the pattern style of "Double Dragon Play Ball" is made into the shape of "dragon back to dragon back", such a pattern design obviously does not meet the standards of traditional Chinese phoenix crown production.
If it is true that as Big Mama said, the phoenix crown she brought is a royal "royal gift", it is even more impossible to make such a low-level mistake, so from the perspective of traditional manufacturing technology, Big Mama's phoenix crown is forged.
Secondly, experts judged through the way of visual identification and percussion to identify the sound, the material of the phoenix crown brought by the big mother is not expensive, and the phoenix crown of the big mother is not cast in gold, it is just a gold-plated product.
Compared with the pure gold crown, gilding is obviously much cheaper, if the crown is really from the royal family as The mother said, it is impossible to use such a cheap material to manufacture, therefore, from the perspective of material use, the crown of the mother is also forged.
Finally, the expert told the mother that the "gem" on the phoenix crown was also fake, and the expert continued to explain that as long as you looked closely, the "gems" on the phoenix crown brought by the big mother were all imitations made of plastic, and the price was very low, and it was impossible to come from the royal workshop.
After the Fengguan was falsified, the aunt did not behave too sullenly, it turned out that she just bought the Fengguan with the mentality of "picking up a small leak", and did not spend a lot of money when buying, so she described herself as just "eating a small loss" and did not feel painful.
However, the "small loss" of the big mother also further reminds the audience not to be greedy and cheap, and must learn more knowledge, especially the common sense of ancient Chinese traditional culture.
The real phoenix crown is made of excellent materials and is expensive
Crowns, in the ancient Chinese etiquette system has a very high status, even in many cases, wearing a crown is a symbol of status, for example, the official position of the official will be called "black hat", ancient children will be tied at the coming-of-age ceremony, wearing a crown.
Among the many kinds of crowns, the phoenix crown is the top hat of the ancient aristocratic women to embody the noble status, symbolizing auspiciousness, hope and power.
After qin shi huang realized the great unification, the phoenix crown gradually took shape and became a headdress worn by women in the court, and during the Han Dynasty, the phoenix crown could only be worn by the empress dowager, empress and other noble people.
In the Tang Dynasty, the use of the phoenix crown gradually became widespread, and the concubines and ordinary palace ladies of the imperial palace began to have the qualification to wear the phoenix crown, and the phoenix crown became a kind of courtesy used by the folk bride, which was a thing that gradually became popular in the late Ming and early Qing dynasties.
Since the beginning of the Song Dynasty, the phoenix has become the main ornament on the crown of the empress, according to the "Literature Examination", the phoenix crown worn by the empress of the Song Dynasty is exquisitely made, decorated with nine dragons and four phoenixes, 12 large and small flowers, and two sideburns on the back.
In the Song Dynasty, the use of phoenix crowns was included in the rules and regulations, as long as noble women attended formal occasions, they must wear phoenix crowns, otherwise they would be severely punished.
In the Ming Dynasty, the process of making the phoenix crown was more mature, and the decoration of the phoenix crown was added to the original Nine Dragons and Four Phoenixes, 12 Large Flowers, 12 Small Flowers, and two Sideburns.
During the Yongle period of the Ming Dynasty, the production of the phoenix crown was further standardized, and the phoenix crown must be equipped with nine green dragons and four golden phoenixes, one of which was set at the top of the phoenix crown, with a large pearl in the mouth, and the dragon's head should be decorated with a green cover, and a beaded knot was dropped below.
The remaining 8 dragons all have pearls in their mouths, decorated with 40 pearl clouds, and a pair of green mouths, decorated with 12 jewels and 12 jade flowers.
The wrap is a gold mouth ring decorated with 5 beaded flowers and a pair of beaded rows, and a soapy forehead on the crown of the phoenix, decorated with a golden dragon pattern and 21 pearls.
In the three years of Yongle, the production of the phoenix crown has new template regulations, such as, the crown soap should be decorated with a golden dragon and two jade phoenixes; two peony flowers, two pearl green flowers, and 21 pearl green clouds; 9 golden treasure flowers; 2 golden phoenixes; and twenty-four golden phoenixes.
In the middle and late Ming Dynasty, the decoration of the phoenix crown became more and more exquisite and complex, the phoenix crown was worth a lot, as of now, the phoenix crown unearthed in the mainland is exquisitely crafted, the material is expensive, and most of the phoenix crown is decorated with gemstone pearls as jewelry.
Among them, the mainland archaeology has found the most gem-set phoenix crown, which is inlaid with 128 gems, dazzling, so the phoenix crown has always been a "sought-after" in the antique market.
brief summary
Cultural relics should not be sold as ordinary goods.
Respect for cultural relics is to respect the ancestors, no matter whether the phoenix crown of the rural aunt is true or false, the ancient phoenix crown of the mainland should be properly preserved as an important cultural relics of the mainland because of its excellent workmanship, high cost, and representative of the ancient ceremonial culture.