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Jadeware from the Shang Dynasty, this is a fucking thing. As long as you get such jadeware in China, it will definitely be a national treasure of level 1!

Even if Jin Muchen didn't understand jade, he knew the status of jade in the Shang Dynasty in the history of Chinese jade development. It can be said that this is the ancestor of Chinese jade, which is not an exaggeration.

As we all know, Chinese people love jade, and they have played with jade for a long time. This can be seen from the jade artifacts unearthed during the Hongshan culture period.

The Hongshan culture is the culture that has been positioned by many Chinese historical researchers to the origin of our Chinese culture.

We Chinese often say that our history and culture have 5,000 years. This so-called 5,000 years requires cultural relics and 5,000 years recorded in literature.

As early as more than 5,000 years ago, humans living in mainland China had no writing, so how could we say that we had cultural heritage at that time?

This mainly depends on historical relics unearthed from that era, and cultural relics that can represent human civilization are also considered production tools and living tools used by humans at that time.

The earliest cultural relics found on our country's territory are relics of the Hongshan culture, which is also the earliest record of human civilization in our country.

The birthplace of the Hongshan culture is in the current Liaoning and the northeastern area of ​​Inner Mongolia. So to be precise, our Chinese civilization originated from the Yellow River area, which is incorrect. In fact, our civilization should originate from the modern Liaoning and the northeastern area of ​​Inner Mongolia.

As for why he moved eastward to the Yellow River area later, it requires the examination and reasoning of historical workers. However, at present, no reasonable inference has been drawn.

There is a precise beginning document or written record era in our country. In fact, to be precise, it should have been more than 4,000 years ago, which is the beginning of the Xia Dynasty.

However, people from the Xia Dynasty actually don’t play with jade. Even if they have fun, they are very rare. So far, only ancient jade from the Xia Dynasty has been found in modern Hebei.

The dynasty that really started playing with jade in our country should have started from the Shang Dynasty, and the witchcraft of the Shang Dynasty was prosperous. Many jade artifacts existed in the form of magical instruments used by wizards at that time. The shapes of many jade artifacts were the shapes that wizards could customize back then.

Even if thousands of museums of all sizes in China have only collected a few hundred pieces. Moreover, these jade artifacts are almost the same as bronze artifacts in the domestic antique circle. They are definitely minefields.

The country has explicit regulations and prohibits circulation. You can play with ancient jade from the Tang, Song, Ming and Qing dynasties at will, while the ancient jade from the Shang Dynasty, as long as you touch it, it will be illegal and it will touch thunder. If someone reports it, it will be absolutely necessary to catch it.

Because the jadeware of this era is really important, it has extraordinary historical and scientific significance, because most of the writings of that era exist in the form of oracle bone inscriptions, it is difficult to decipher those words.

However, if you decipher the symbols on this jade, it would be relatively simple. Maybe you can understand more about the living conditions of people at that time without deciphering the symbol patterns on the jade. Therefore, it is precisely because these jades have extraordinary archaeological and historical significance that the status of these jades in the history of Chinese jade is particularly important.

Unlike the ancient jades in the Tang, Song, Yuan, Ming and Qing dynasties in later generations, most of the jades at that time were decorations and small toys for literati and scholars. The role of decoration and play is more important, and there is no longer much historical and archaeological value, so the country allowed the jades of that period to be circulated on the market.

Looking at the rows of ancient Shang Dynasty jades on the bookshelf in front of him, Jin Muchen felt that his mind was numb. These were all priceless treasures!

Not to mention the quality and quality of these jade wares, Paul Singer's vision is really good, because judging from the jewels shining on these jade wares, these jades are basically treasures and cannot be wrong.

The first thing Jin Muchen saw was a cow head carved with green jade. When Jin Muchen saw this, he knew that this was a typical representative work of jade artifacts in the Shang Dynasty, a magic weapon specially used by wizards.

When wizards were psychic, they liked to use this jade bullhead as a magic weapon. The Shang Dynasty people also believed it very much, so the manifestation of bullheads was often seen on the Shang Dynasty jade and bronze ware found in China.

So this bullhead is a typical representative work of jade wares in the Shang Dynasty!

There is also a jade tiger next to the cow's head, which is also vividly carved, especially on the tiger's tail and the tiger's head, which is very easy to see. The shape of the instrument is not big, and it can be held with one slap. On the other hand, there is also a jade turtle, which is also very outstanding. Even the neck and back shell of the jade turtle were carved clearly. It can be seen that when carving these jade artifacts, the jade carving master was very troublesome.

These things are definitely not treasures that ordinary wizards can afford, and they must be treasures that only great witches can use at that time. This can be judged by just looking at the shape of the instrument and carving.

Because the Shang Dynasty was still in the Bronze Age, there was no iron at that time, and the copper was very soft and could not be carved with jade. Therefore, jade-carving masters usually use hard wooden sticks, dipped in agate powder or crystal powder, and it took a long time to make a jade piece.

And the three small jade pieces in front of you are so exquisitely made, which was simply unimaginable in that era.

Jin Muchen took out a high-power magnifying glass and carefully looked at the periphery of the patterns on the jade cow head, jade turtle, and jade tiger. Sure enough, he found a large number of irregular wear marks.

Seeing these scratches, Jin Muchen could basically conclude that these jade artifacts must have been used by the great witches of the Shang Dynasty.

A great witch who can use such exquisite magical tools must have a very impressive identity. At least it must be used by a national teacher back then, that is, the people that the Shang kings had to please at that time.

You should know that the status of wizards was not low back then, because they not only could pretend to be a psychic, but also knew a lot of witch doctor skills, which was to rely on jumping to the great gods or making some fake medicine to save people.

In such an ignorant era, those who can save people were gods, so even the King of Shang sometimes dared not offend such great witches.

So is it still simple for a person with such a status to use jade artifacts?

Although there is a ban on people playing with jade from the Shang Dynasty in China, because Chinese people like jade, they have already liked it to the core. Therefore, although the country explicitly prohibits the circulating of this thing on the market, some people will actually collect it secretly.

After all, this thing is different from bronzes without a mass base, and the country generally adopts a attitude of turning a blind eye. As long as the trouble is not too big and not being photographed, the people will not be promoted and officials will not be investigated.

Therefore, such jadeware is still very marketable in China and the price is not low. It is possible to use only three pieces of them, which can be easily sold for tens of millions.

Although the texture of these jade wares is not as good as that of the Hetian jade that the Chinese people praised, and the carvings are incomparable to the jade wares of the peak of the Qing Dynasty, their historical status is there, which establishes its position in the domestic black market.

This is the ancestor of Chinese jade, so the price is too expensive.

Even if it is white jade of this size in the Qing Dynasty, even if it is mutton fat and carved by famous artists, it would be a big deal if it could buy hundreds of thousands of yuan. Even if there were bonuses used by emperors or celebrities, it would be a million.

But there are so many pieces in front of you, even though the carvings are rough and the jade is not of good quality, as long as you take them out, there will definitely be countless people carrying millions of cash and asking you for purchases. The reason is that their status in the world is there!

Then stop talking about anything, just accept it, it’s just 20,000 US dollars per piece anyway!

When Fang Bo saw Jin Muchen pulling the jade into the bag of cloth he held in his hand, he twitched his lips at the corner of his mouth, and raised his hand and gave him a chestnut: "You should be gentle! What should I do if I bump into it?"

Jin Muchen could only deal with it with it, and at this time his energy was placed on the jade artifacts in front of him.

The name of Paul Singer as an expert in Chinese antiques is indeed not for nothing. Look at how many pieces of Shang Dynasty jadeware we have collected in China, and I don’t know how many pits and ancestral graves of Shaanxi, Shanxi and Henan have been digging.

But what, I’ve put up a whole bookshelves now!

There are a wide variety of jade varieties, which can be said to be dazzling. Some people in China have them here, but they don’t have them in China, and they also have them here.

In addition to the typical representatives of the three Shang Dynasty jade wares, Jin Muchen also saw several other representatives, such as the jade spear, jade axe, jade knife, jade axe, jade shovel, jade adze, these are all representatives of weapons and tools.

In that era, because the main metal ware was bronze, and bronze was relatively soft, in order to pursue a harder effect, people would use jade to make some weapons and tools.

Of course, such weapons and tools are not something that ordinary people can use. In that era, even bronzes with softer textures were not popular with ordinary people, let alone such jade weapons and tools?

So there is no doubt that these were used by the princes and nobles at that time. This can be judged by these weapons and tools with very exquisite and beautiful patterns.

Most people can’t afford an ordinary bronze kitchen knife, so how can they still have the intention to carve flowers on jade weapons and tools?

Next are some decorative jade artifacts, such as jade cong, jade gui, jade huang, jade rabbit, jade handle shaped artifact, jade cylinder artifact, etc. There are no less than a hundred of them alone. When Jin Muchen saw these things, he felt that he was almost crying.
Chapter completed!