Rebirth: I am a first-line antique dealer

Although the old saying goes well: strike while the iron is hot!But Ding Mao still wants to go on a long trip recently and not receive the goods for the time being. There are only two reasons for this. One is that he wants to understand the current market conditions, and the other is that he needs to purchase some necessary professional tools.

At this time, Ding Mao had already placed all the items in the corresponding places. He had just finished dinner and was compiling the set of Five Emperors' coins in the room where the goods were placed, when Cui Miao came.

Finding that Ding Mao was not in the living room, Cui Miao turned up the volume and asked, "Is Ding Mao at home?"

"It's classmate Cui Miao who's here. I'm knitting something in this room! You sit down for a moment and I'll be right over."

From the sound, she already knew that Ding Mao was in the room on the west where items were placed. She didn't want to wait boredly in the living room alone. At the same time, she was also curious about what Ding Mao was making up, so she walked over.

"What are you making up, Mr. Ding?"

Hearing this, Ding Mao raised his head and showed a nice smile: "Make up a Chinese knot to use as money from the Five Emperors!"

In his last life, Ding Mao was also in the art business, and weaving all kinds of beautiful flower knots was no problem for him.

"I didn't realize that your hands are so skillful and you can weave such complicated knots!"

Cui Miao looked at Ding Mao's skilled hands and the Chinese knot that was gradually taking shape, and couldn't help but praise it in surprise!

"It's still a bit worse than those professionals. Fortunately, I have nothing to do and there's nothing I want to watch on TV, so I just make up my own fun!"

"You are so humble. This is no worse than what is sold on the street."

"It's your fault. Those things on the market are just produced in batches and can't be compared with those with good craftsmanship."

"Anyway, I think this one you made up is very nice."

"It's so easy for you to make me proud! Just sit down for a while, I'll finish editing it soon."

Cui Miao also pulled up a stool and sat down. Looking at Ding Mao who was working hard, he was in a trance for a moment!It wasn't until Ding Mao's voice sounded again that she woke up.

"I've compiled it. How about Cui Miao help me take a look?"

Cui Miao's face was slightly red, but she still accepted the Five Emperors' Money generously.

"It's so beautifully written. What's the point of these big bucks?"

Ding Mao explained with a smile: "This is called Five Emperors' Money, which is a coin minted in five different periods of the Qing Dynasty."

With that said, Ding Mao seriously told him the composition and origin of the Five Emperors' Money.

Because the shape of ancient copper coins is round on the outside and square on the inside, it resembles heaven and earth, which corresponds to the theory of yin and yang and the five elements. Therefore, ancient people have always used ancient copper coins to ward off evil spirits and attract good fortune. Five copper coins are usually strung together to represent the power of the five directions and five elements. .

The Five Emperors also refer to the five heavenly emperors of the east, west, south, north and center. They are the gods of the five directions and distribute the five elements and colors: gold, wood, water, fire, earth, white, clear, black, red and yellow.Therefore, five ancient copper coins with a round outside and a square inside represent the power of the Five Emperors to ward off evil and attract good fortune, and are connected in series with red threads to ward off evil spirits.

In order to conform to the five heavenly emperors, people selected five emperors with outstanding merits from ancient emperors and represented them with round coins with square holes cast during their reign.

Since ancient times, people have believed that ancient copper coins have the function of Feng Shui, especially the emperors who established great achievements. They believed that the ancient coins cast during their reign brought together more aura of heaven and earth, the spirit of protection, the luck of the dynasty, and the domineering spirit of the emperor. , the wealth of hundreds of families.

There are two types of Five Emperors' coins. One refers to the half-liang coins cast in the Qin Dynasty, the five-baht coins of the Han Dynasty, the Kaiyuan Tongbao of the Tang Dynasty, the Song-Yuan Tongbao of the Song Dynasty, and the Hongwu Tongbao or Yongle Tongbao of the Ming Dynasty, which is called Da Five Emperors.

Needless to say, the achievements of these few people are all rare in the history of more than 2000 years. They are the most outstanding and representative emperors in each dynasty.

The other type is Shunzhi Tongbao, Kangxi Tongbao, Yongzheng Tongbao, Qianlong Tongbao and Jiaqing Tongbao from the Qing Dynasty.Known as the Little Five Emperors.

These five emperors reigned for 180 years one after another, which was the most glorious period of the Qing Dynasty. Shunzhi was the first emperor after the Qing Dynasty entered the customs; Kangxi was the longest-reigning emperor in history, and had great achievements, including destroying Obai, He pacified the three vassals, defeated Tsarist Russia, conquered Galdan three times, etc., and was also called one emperor through the ages by later generations.

Emperor Yongzheng strengthened his rule, implemented land reform, abolished the system of low status, implemented the system of dividing the land into acres, returning the envious to the public, establishing the system of raising honest silver, and quelling the Luobuzangdanjin rebellion.

Emperor Qianlong attached great importance to social stability. He exempted the world's money and grain five times and exempted eight provinces' canal grains three times. He suppressed border rebellions, improved his rule over Tibet, and further developed the economy and culture. He said that the Kangxi and Qianlong Dynasties were prosperous.

Emperor Jiaqing reorganized the internal affairs, purified the laws and disciplines, and killed He Shen, a generation of powerful ministers who had been extremely corrupt throughout the ages. He also issued orders to speak out, open up avenues of speech, eliminate evil and strengthen righteousness, stop contributions, and depose extravagance and favor frugality.

Although some of the five emperors of the Qing Dynasty were criticized for their future affairs during their tenure, they all did have achievements. Moreover, because their coins were exquisitely minted and were relatively short in the current world, most people basically kept them. Therefore, the coins of the Little Five Emperors are more For more applications.

Cui Miao looked at Ding Mao who was talking eloquently, with admiration in her eyes.

"You know so much. Seeing how beautifully you made it up, this Five Emperors Money must be quite expensive, right?"

Ding Mao did not weave the Five Emperors' money in the conventional form, but in the shape of a flower buckle.

"The price is not high now, but the potential for appreciation is quite large. The five I compiled were made from different bureaus. The homophonic sounds of these bureaus coincide with the auspicious words."

As he spoke, Ding Mao took the Five Emperors Money and turned it over to the back. Except for Shunzhi and Kangxi, which were in Manchu and Chinese, all the other words were in Manchu.

"Look, the Chinese character for Bao in Manchu means Chang, which proves that it belongs to the Baochang Bureau!"

Cui Miao immediately came closer to watch. At this time, neither of them noticed that they were very close and ambiguous!

"Hey! These other ones also have this word in them!"

"Yes, this thing that looks like a three-coil spring is the Manchu word "宝", which means "treasure money". As long as "Qingqian" has a word after it, it basically has this word, and the other word represents the bureau that cast it at that time. It means province. At that time, more than 20 bureaus were minting coins."

"Oh! So that's it, then the word Ning means Ning Ju?"

"Yes, Baoning Bureau was cast by Jiangning Bureau. Look at these, they are all in Manchu! This is Bao'an Bureau, this is Baofu Bureau, and this is Baogui Bureau. Read these bureaus together! "

Listening to Ding Mao's detailed explanation, Cui Miao was thoughtful and murmured in succession according to his instructions: "Chang, Ning, An, Fu, Gui!"

Then he also discovered the mystery in the words, raised his head suddenly, and stared at Ding Mao with his big watery eyes.

"It's Changning An Fugui!"

Because the distance between their heads was close, Cui Miao's fragrance and Ru Lan's breath made Ding Mao's face turn slightly red, but he still pretended to be calm.

"That's right, because I didn't compile it in order, you can also read it as Fu Gui Chang An Ning or Fu Gui Chang An Ning. Anyway, no matter how you read it, the literal meaning is auspicious language."

Cui Miao also noticed that the distance between the two was a little awkward, and quickly stepped back.

"It's true, you are so talented!"

Ding Mao touched his nose slightly in embarrassment: "I'm embarrassed to be praised by you. Since you are so complimentary, I'll give this set to you. This is the first set of Five Emperors' Money I received. It's in pretty good condition. Carrying it with you can ward off evil spirits and ensure safety."

With that said, Ding Mao handed over the Five Emperors' Money.

Cui Miao waved her hands when she saw this: "This should be quite valuable, I can't have it."

Ding Mao looked obviously disappointed, but he still smiled and said in a self-deprecating tone: "Actually, it's not worth much! But it's true that not many girls like this kind of thing. It was just a whim of mine and I didn't think about it. No one gives this to a girl!"

As he spoke, he took back the hand he held out.

Cui Miao naturally noticed the change in Ding Mao's expression, and immediately grabbed the set of Five Emperors Money when Ding Mao stopped.

"Who says I don't like it? It's so well made, I thought it would be valuable!"

Cui Miao didn't know why she behaved in such an impulsive manner. Her face instantly turned red with embarrassment and she didn't dare to raise her head to look into Ding Mao's eyes.

"By the way, grandma asked me to invite you to come to my house for dinner tomorrow night. Thank you for helping me that day, and also welcome the new neighbors!"

Only then did Cui Miao remember the purpose of coming here.

"Well, okay, thank grandma for me!"

Ding Mao looked a little crazy looking at the shy Cui Miao, and finally agreed without hesitation.

Cui Miao felt that the current atmosphere made her heart beat faster, so she said, "Then I'll go back first. See you tomorrow!"

After saying that, he turned around and walked out. When Ding Mao saw this, he quickly saw him off.

But when the two of them walked into the living room, all the lights went out in an instant, and everything in front of them became dark. Cui Miao accidentally tripped her legs on the sofa, and fell forward with a cry.

Because of the instantaneous change, Ding Mao's eyes did not relax. Hearing the voice and arguing, he ducked very quickly and just caught the fallen Cui Miao.

Fortunately, Ding Mao reacted quickly, and after catching Cui Miao without sight, he tried his best to fall down according to the position of the sofa in his memory, otherwise he might have fallen completely.

On the sofa, Wen Yu was in his arms, and their posture was extremely ambiguous, making Ding Mao reluctant to let go of Cui Miao's hand.

Ding Mao knew that because of his timely action, Cui Miao was not injured at all, so he did not want to ruin the atmosphere and did not ask.

From the initial fright of Cui Miao when she suddenly turned black, to the fright of being tripped, to the surprise when she was caught and rescued, and finally to the embarrassment of the ambiguous position, she also tacitly agreed not to say anything again.

Ding Mao was intoxicated by the warmth of Yu's arms and the refreshing fragrance, while Cui Miao felt the other person's vigorous and powerful heartbeat, feeling shy and relieved.

After being quiet like this for a while, Cui Miao said timidly: "I have to go back, otherwise grandma will be worried."

Ding Mao reluctantly let go of his hands: "I'll get a flashlight to light up and take you back!"