There is a county seat in Linfen, Shanxi called Quwo County. In 1992, there was a sensational event in the archaeological community, and a large number of Zhou Dynasty tombs were discovered.
There are a lot of exquisite ancient jades here, as well as some precious bronzes. Due to the huge profits, the entire village villagers participated in the treasure hunt army, and a large number of treasures flowed into the antique market. The Shanxi Antique Market has attracted antique merchants from all over the country to come to look for treasures.
This story is that in this era, many antique merchants came to look for treasures. Of course, this is a very complex industry, there are true and false, it depends on your vision. Mr. Fu, an antique merchant in Taiwan, who has experienced hundreds of battles, has a poisonous eye and is full of self-confidence, followed the flow of people and came to the Shanxi antique market. He looked at an ancient piece of jade in the tomb of Jinghou, and after some bargaining, Mr. Fu auctioned it off for 200,000 yuan. After that, we set off from Shanxi to Hong Kong, the oldest cultural center in Asia. He wanted to sell for a higher price, so he invited Hong Kong's top ancient jade masters to identify it. These masters said that this is true after reading it, the jade of the Zhou Dynasty is very good, the only drawback is that the tuqin empress dowager jade is not transparent, so it will give a price of 180,000, and it is not even as expensive as when he bought it himself. In this way, I took the treasure with me, thinking that I might be able to find a good buyer and then sell this treasure. However, after many buyers have seen it, Taiwanese buyers also feel that this jade pendant is precious, but it is not very transparent. After meeting several buyers in a row, the price of the other party did not go as desired, and Mr. Fu finally reluctantly brought Yu Pei home. He decided to take a risk and cook the jade pendant. This is a commonly used jade processing method, but there is a certain risk, if handled well, the adhesion and soil on the surface of the jade can be removed, improving the transparency of the jade, thereby increasing the price of jade.
However, if the operation is not good, if you are not careful, the jade pendant will crack, and the 200,000 yuan invested in the early stage will be in vain. In order to sell for a higher price, Mr. Fu decided to take a risk, who knows, after starting to cook, more and more feeling that the situation was not right, and finally boiled the jade bought by 200,000 into a steaming pot of porridge. What's going on here? Seeing this situation, he was so frightened that he realized that he had bought a fake. It turns out that many fakes are made of millet glutinous rice, squeezed by high temperature and high pressure, polished, carved, and finally made into a piece of fine ancient jade, in order to fake the real. Mr. Fu ran around hard, spent 200,000 yuan, worked hard, and finally only exchanged for a bowl of millet porridge. Today's story ends here, we witness Mr. Fu's pursuit of jade, with a keen eye and a clever mind, into the treasure hunt army, and finally found nothing. We can think about it. If the jade pendant does not find out to be a fake, but the buyer treats it as a treasure and leaves it to his descendants, then it will be deceived forever. In our lifetime, how many people want to get it, want to treasure it, but, like this high imitation jade, it deceives many people to pay money and energy for these illusory and ethereal things, but the result is nothing.