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"Where did you get this thing?"

Holding the stone frog, Chen Wenzhe looked at it fondly, the more he looked at it, the more he liked it.

Although this thing looks simple, it should be a jade product. If it is a real stone frog from the Shang Dynasty, it will be of high value.

If you don't say it, ordinary people will not be able to guess its price even if they guess to the sky.

Chen Wenzhe knew that such a stone frog was auctioned for 2880 million at Sotheby's in Hong Kong.

A seemingly ordinary stone frog from the Shang Dynasty was sold at a price of 2880 million. For a while, the collection circle stirred up a wave of waves!

Many people think that the buyer is a fool who bought a stone for more than 2000 million!

So is this buyer stupid or not?Nature is not stupid!

"You can never imagine what channel I got it from."

Looking at Cao Qingchun's smug eyes, Chen Wenzhe blurted out: "Could it be taken through an online platform?"

"Fuck, you guessed all of this?" Cao Qingchun was really shocked this time.

Chen Wenzhe was even more shocked: "Really?"

He just looked at Cao Qingchun's complacent look, and then thought about the unreliable sources of antiques that could make him complacent.

Where is there an online platform that is even more unreliable?

If you can buy a real antique on the real thing, many people want to eat it directly.

But, is Cao Qingchun really so lucky?

Don't talk about buying Shang Dynasty stone frogs online, even if you buy one at a world-class auction house, it can cause an uproar. Naturally, there is a reason for this.

A Shang Dynasty stone frog sold for 2880 million by Hong Kong's official auction agency also vividly interprets the saying "one stone stirs up a thousand waves".

And in the collection field, it has also sparked fierce debate.

One of the logical and self-consistent viewpoints is that the value of cultural relics has nothing to do with the material.

Didn't Xu Shen say that too? "The beauty of stone is jade".

So there is nothing special about Hetian jade, it is just a beautiful stone.

Other beautiful stones can replace it, and this little stone frog with a turnover of nearly 3000 million is a proof!

Those who hold this attitude are mostly impetuous and impetuous.

Most of their cognition of "Shuowen Jiezi" comes from taking it out of context on the Internet.

Why not take a look at the suffixes like "Qi has five virtues" in the original text?

If these jade virtues are used to limit, all kinds of "beautiful stones", including nephrite from other producing areas, can only be called "stones like jade" in the perception of the ancients.

As for the small stone frog that was sold at a high price, it just proves the truth that Hetian jade is seriously underestimated.

Please note that Chen Wenzhe's point of view here is not to simply suppress "stone" and promote the "jade" he admires.

He always thought that the value of a collection can be divided into material and spiritual parts.

And the two, like the human body and soul, complement each other and are indispensable.

As for this kind of marble frog, it is reflected in the organic combination of cheap materials, long history, exquisite art, and profound cultural value, which is the fundamental reason why it can be sold at a high price.

Similar to the situation, in 2007, a stone lion from the Mesopotamian civilization was sold at a high price of 4.7 million yuan.

This stone carving, named the Lioness of Ge Nuo, is considered to be the most expensive stone carving in the world.

The sky-high price of 5720 million U.S. dollars was sold that year, which shows the value of spiritual civilization and occupies a high position in these collections.

So here comes the question, why did a foreign stone frog sell for 800 million yuan, while a domestic stone frog from the Shang Dynasty only sold [-] million yuan?

This is not even a fraction of others. In fact, it also depends on the overall national strength of a country.

In the final analysis, it is still a manifestation of our country's weak national strength and insufficient self-confidence of the people.

Marble statues like this are not uncommon in China. For example, several pieces were unearthed from the Yinxu site.

For example, the stone tiger building stone tomb of Tomb No. 1001 in Xibeigang, Yinxu, and the vertical withering of tiger head, human body and tiger claws and marble owl.

There are many stone carving works in the Yin Ruins. Of course, the value of these cannot be discussed, because it is impossible to appear on the market.

However, compared with other antiques, such as calligraphy and painting, the material support is just some paper, ink and paint.

The essence of porcelain is nothing more than mineral powder. The reason why their prices can hit new highs repeatedly is mainly due to the humanistic value attached to them.

So is it true that beautiful stones are more valuable than all beautiful jade?

Chen Wenzhe still didn't dare to admit it, and he wouldn't use this to deduce the strange theory of "jade is not as good as stone".

Because most of them have not studied it. During the Neolithic Age, jade and stone coexisted in the stage of human civilization, and there is obviously a huge gap between the two levels.

For example, in the excavations of sites such as Shijiahe, Songze, and Dadianzi, we have seen that in high-level tombs with many unearthed cultural relics, there are more jade and less stone, and the amount of labor and exquisiteness of jade wares They are far superior to the stone tools of the same age.

In low-level small tombs, there are only a small number of stone tools.

Lingjiatan 07m23 unearthed 214 pieces of jade, 98 pieces of stone tools, many small tombs unearthed only one or two stone tools.

Just imagine this stone frog, if there is a Hetian jade of the same style with similar craftsmanship and similar age, then the value of the two should be higher or lower?

What's more, the material of jade is more rare and rare, and the difficulty of processing is also higher.

It can also better reflect the key information such as the level of productivity development and cultural aesthetics at that time.

These are enough to prove that Hetian jade occupies an important position in our historical research.

But there is another problem hidden under these appearances, that is, in many cases, the raw materials are too expensive, which will blind people's eyes and cover up the higher-level spiritual and cultural value of the collection.

For example, there have been countless tragedies that the unearthed gold and silver wares of the Tang Dynasty were smelted to make gold bracelets.

And this deformed value, reflected in Hetian jade, is the current "Kewan" phenomenon.

Fully understand it as a stone that can be used to exchange money, and there is no time to take into account the "soft value" such as history, art, and culture condensed on it.

Such self-righteous driving up prices is actually a self-deprecating behavior of money fans.

Just imagine that in the eyes of Grandet, the gold coins in his hands are simply gold.

With his short-sightedness, how could he consider whether it was a relic from Alexander's time?

But now, what is Hetian jade in the heart of the "Qian Chuanzi" who advertises the sky-high price deal all day long and the price exceeds [-] gram?

It's just a money-making tool they use to harvest fans.

How can these people care about the essence of traditional culture naturally revealed in its texture, shape and craftsmanship?

To sum up, the warm and elegant material of Hetian jade helps it capture thousands of interesting souls.

But this double-edged sword also delayed it from showing its own cultural value.