introduction
Liu Changqing has a saying in "The Master of Furong Mountain in every snow": "ChaiMen smells the barking of dogs, and the wind and snow return to people at night." "Poets who pay attention to allegory in scenery since ancient times have presented their inner thoughts and thoughts, relying on many environments, of which animals are also one of the most common images they express. However, unlike the love and love of these literati and inkers for animals, many people only see benefits and benefits in animals.
The ancients emphasized that everything has spirituality, and people naturally have a lot more reverence, but this reverence is shattered in the face of money. Antiques have always been very valuable objects all over the world, and their high prices have also led to the rise of the counterfeiting industry. Counterfeits or counterfeits, even if they reach the point of being fake, but what is fake will always be fake. However, the methods of counterfeiting can be varied, how cruel is the counterfeiting of cultural relics dealers? The jade is stuffed into the body of the live sheep, and after 3 years, the sheep is killed to get the jade and then sold at a sky-high price. So what's going on?
Among the cultural relics and antiques, whether it is the valuable masterpieces of famous calligraphy and paintings that have been preserved so far, or the porcelain preserved by the official kilns, especially the jades fired during the Tang and Song dynasties, and the jades whose texture is superior in carving, they have always been warmly sought after by people and have a very high price. However, although the price of cultural relics is high, according to their age and texture and the owner who has been used, there will be different fluctuations in the price. Only the older the object, the higher the price. The price of a royal object once used by the emperor and the ordinary objects that were everywhere at that time will certainly be very different.
Therefore, the counterfeit cultural relics dealers are aiming at these valuable objects, whether they are imitations or fakes, almost nothing. In fact, if they can use this fake craft to do other things, it is estimated that the achievements are not small, but it is a pity that the clever use is in the wrong place. The counterfeiting method used by the counterfeiters is not only to imitate a fake by themselves, but also to use many other tools, even animals are used.
So how cruel are these cultural relics dealers in counterfeiting? One of the most cruel things is to stuff an ordinary piece of jade into the body of a live sheep, just put the jade in, although it will feel uncomfortable, but the sheep will not die, but continue to live. So after 3 years, you can slaughter the sheep and take out the jade in the body, at this time, this jade, from a simple ordinary texture jade, to a valuable, rare amount of blood jade.
The ancients always liked jade, especially beautiful jade, which was almost monopolized by the magnates at that time, and had no chance to meet the lower classes. Jade can also be made into various ornaments to be worn on the body, so that with the help of jade, it will show its prominent identity and add a temperament out of thin air. In fact, the quantity of high-quality jade is also very rare, and even the seal used by the emperor is called a jade seal, which is actually carved from valuable jade. And many jade pendants, can also become people's status symbols, so a good jade, the number is certainly rare, the ancients are not easy to find, not to mention modern people?
So the jade counterfeiting industry also began, these traders through the artificial way of making blood jade, can make the price of a piece of jade increase many times in an instant, after all, the natural formation of blood jade is actually very small, all have to be under the fate of the meeting, accidentally obtained. However, artificially can make a large amount of blood jade, and then use it in exchange for a large amount of money, which is simply a stable and profitable transaction, because the relevant identification can not be fully recognized, which also leads to the cultural relics dealers are more rampant.
epilogue
The Book of Rites and Moon Decrees says: "Sacrifice is not to use a mule (a female beast), and logging is forbidden; no nest is covered, and no child is killed." "The ancients still knew how to protect animals and not to do too many immoral things that are contrary to heaven and harmony, but many counterfeiters do such immoral things for the sake of profit, which is despised." In the face of a series of counterfeiting behaviors, we should also crack down hard.
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Liu Changqing,"The Master of Furong Mountain in The Snow"
Etiquette and Moon Order