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It is really rare that "Xijiapan"'s homecoming trip is well-founded and circulated in an orderly manner.

Therefore, Chen Wenzhe didn't think that the one in front of him was real.

Although I don't think it is really authentic, this one is definitely an old imitation.

Chen Wenzhe looked at the inscription inside it. If he wanted to imitate this thing well, he must have some understanding.

If you don't understand the Zhong Dingwen inscribed on it, if you are a little negligent, you may make mistakes.

Therefore, if you have enough knowledge to identify bronzes, the easiest way is to look at the inscriptions inside.

There may be problems with writing, font shape, meaning, word formation, line breaks, etc.

Of course, the other most important thing is to look at the means of imitation.

Bronze ware has existed for thousands of years, and at least since the Song Dynasty, it has been known that it is a treasure, so there have been imitators since then.

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It has been passed down to the present, and various imitation methods have emerged as the times require.

But no matter how good the means are, there are ups and downs.

Chen Wenzhe looked very carefully, because he didn't find any problems.

This is his eyesight, if there is an obvious mistake, he will definitely be able to see it at a glance.

The inscriptions of "Xijiapan" describe the official system, wars, rewards, taxes, slaves, trade management and many other detailed inscriptions of the Western Zhou Dynasty.

If you are not an expert, you will definitely make mistakes.

But this one, no matter how you look at it, doesn't look like a fake.

At this time, Chen Wenzhe remembered a rumor about "Xi Jiapan", mainly a debate about its authenticity.

Xijiapan, made in the Western Zhou Dynasty and unearthed in the Song Dynasty, was collected by the calligrapher Xian Yushu in the Yuan Dynasty.

Since the collection of Chen Jieqi, a collector in the Republic of China, this plate has been lost, and only rubbings survive.

Now in the Neon Calligraphy Museum, there is a bronze plate called "Xi Jia Pan".

However, after research, this plate is different from the Xijia plate preserved by Mr. Chen Jieqi, and the existing bronze plate in the Neon Calligraphy Museum is a forgery.

The real rubbings of "Xi Jia Pan" in the late Western Zhou Dynasty can be seen with the seals of Chen Jieqi and Wu Dacheng.

This proves that the rubbing is from the original "Xijiapan" and is therefore authentic.

The rubbings were compared with the "Xijia plate" in the Neon Calligraphy Museum, which proved that the plate was forged.

There is also a bronze plate in the Cultural Relics Museum of Chinese University of Hong Kong, which is strikingly similar to the legendary lost "Xijia Plate" in terms of size, inscriptions, and decorations!

When Du Naisong, an expert in the identification of Zhongding ancient artifacts in my country, and Professor Wang Rencong, a professor at the Chinese University of Hong Kong, identified the plate, they found that this "Xijia plate" was also forged.

The inscription on the plate was forged, by a method of corrosion.

They made this inscription with nitric acid or ferric chloride.

Such a strong acid corrodes on it according to the strokes of the characters.

When strong nitric acid touches metal objects, these metal objects will be corroded, and the writing will come out.

When casting fake characters, if you use a chisel to carve it, it is easy to show the traces of the chisel.

With the corrosion method, this defect can be removed.

But there will also be many flaws, such as the strokes are too fat, or the strokes cannot come out.

Although the object of Xiangjiang Chinese University is a real copper plate, it is not the "Xijia Pan" handed down from the Western Zhou Dynasty. "

The best evidence is the flaws in the inscriptions on the fake "Xi Jia Pan" in the Cultural Relics Museum of Hong Kong Chinese University.

The inscription on this dish was faked based on the true inscription on the Xijia plate in the "Three Daiji Jinwen Cun".

The fake inscriptions used the corrosion method, and there were many flaws in the fake inscriptions.

For example: "A" in the fourth line, "Zhu" in the tenth line.

These are all due to excessive corrosion, the strokes have not come out, and they are no longer written.

Some characters show a lack of strokes, such as "No Border" in line No.13.

Some are due to the uneven injection of strong acid when corroding the strokes of the characters, resulting in uneven thickness of the strokes, such as the word "no" in the tenth line, and so on.

In ancient my country, there were many famous collectors and connoisseurs, many of whom liked to collect ancient bronzes.

According to historical records, in the Yuan Dynasty, Yao Sui was an official and a scholar of the Imperial Academy. He had no other hobbies in his later years, but he was so happy that he forgot to sleep when he acquired ancient bronze wares from the Shang and Zhou dynasties.

I usually go in and out of the house, follow the left and right, play with it from time to time, regard the bronze as a treasure, put it in and take it out, I must do it myself, never let anyone do it for me, lest it will be stained.

Xian Yushu, who was an official to the third division, was with Bronze in his spare time, except for the official business of the court.

Once, he found a copper plate at the home of Li Shun's father, a member of his staff, whose legs had been broken off by his family members and used as a cake plate.

Xian Yushu inspected it carefully and concluded that it was an ancient utensil, so he collected the plate.

This disc is the Xi Jia Pan, a famous treasure handed down from generation to generation, with a long inscription.

This utensil still existed until the end of Qing Dynasty and the beginning of Republic of China. During the Republic of China, it was collected by collector Chen Jieqi.

Since then, his whereabouts have been unknown, but counterfeit products have appeared from time to time.

But because the original "Xi Jia Pan" has a real rubbing copy, it is extremely difficult for forgers to succeed.

Difficult to imitate does not mean that no one can imitate authentic works.

After all, from the appearance of the Yuan Dynasty until the loss of the Republic of China, only the rubbings of this treasure survived.

In the following decades, people did not know its true whereabouts, and because of the loss, the Xijia Pan became a cultural relic that was constantly imitated.

For example, the one in the collection of the Neon Calligraphy Museum, they said it was genuine, but after careful research, it was found that it was not.

There is also one from the Cultural Relics Museum of Hong Kong Chinese University. This one is completely similar to the Xijia Pan, but it was also identified as a fake.

Up to now, many people in the industry can clearly point out how to forge it.

Since all the ones handed down in the world are fakes, where is the real Xijia plate?

Is the copy taken by Mr. Du, a Chinese in the United States, authentic?

He photographed it by chance at the time, and he didn't know there was such a collection beforehand, so Mr. Du was actually a little risky in photographing it.

Firstly, the Xijia plate has never been found and passed away, secondly, there were many fake Xijia plate on the market at that time, and thirdly, if it is genuine, the price must be more than 300 US dollars.

But with years of vision, he thought it was the real thing.

Such a price is probably because the organizers don't know about it.

Afterwards, Mr. Du returned to China with the Xijia plate he had photographed, with the purpose of seeking experts to verify its authenticity.

Unexpectedly, all the experts he found said it was a counterfeit product. Mr. Du was not reconciled, and has been on the way to find experts to identify it.

Because I live in the Ugly Country, it is inconvenient to come and go. In addition to the research time, it has been delayed for a long time.

In 2014, Yuan Zhenghong, an expert on intangible cultural heritage in Sy City, Beihu Province, and several other experts gave the results at the same time, and this is indeed the real thing.

It is completely integrated with the comparison between rubbings, which is a very important means of identification.

Those Xijia discs that were not sure about the authenticity in the past were also the result of comparing with the rubbings.

The only regret is that there is no cross-legged Xijia plate, but generally speaking, it is still a national treasure.

In the eyes of many scholars, the scriptures and history of Xijiapan, its feet and wings, are even higher than Maogong's tripods.

Its return is of great significance to the study of the history of the Western Zhou Dynasty, as well as the culture and system at that time.

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