Who among those who work in the preservation of ancient bronzes has not heard of the Da Qi Tong Bao, one of the fifty rare ancient coins?
This thing is even rarer than the Daxia Zhenxing ancient spring just now!
Old Liu trembled as he picked up the ancient coin covered with green copper rust. He felt it over and over again, and even did not measure the diameter or weigh it. He said in a voice with a hint of tears: "This, this, this is indeed a genuine Da Qi Tong Bao! I am lucky enough to see a genuine Da Qi Tong Bao with my own eyes. This, this is really..."
The group of people who rushed into Mr. Liu's office saw that Mr. Liu was so excited that he couldn't even speak, and they all looked at each other.
Cai Yi certainly understood why his old friend was so excited. He gently patted Old Liu on the shoulder and said, "Old Liu, don't get excited. Don't get excited. Don't let the younger generation laugh at you."
Old Liu shook his head slightly, took a deep breath, raised the Da Qi Tong Bao with his gloved hand, put it in front of his eyes, took a deep look at it and said, "How can I not be excited? This is a legend in the ancient coin world of our country. There are thousands of people in the world who like ancient coins, but the number of people who can actually see the Da Qi Tong Bao with their own eyes can be counted on two hands. It really takes great luck and opportunity to see such a legendary ancient coin! I, Old Liu, have been tinkering with ancient bronzes for my whole life, and today God finally let me see it!"
In order to distract Mr. Liu, Yang Jing took the opportunity to say, "Mr. Liu, can you tell me about this Da Qi Tong Bao?"
This method really worked. After Yang Jing said this, Old Liu's expression gradually returned to calm. Then he said to the disciples who rushed in: "You see, I didn't measure the diameter or weigh the weight today, and I didn't look at this ancient coin carefully, but I directly concluded that this ancient coin is authentic. Do you know why?"
All of Master Liu's disciples shook their heads.
Mr. Liu smiled and said, "This is a feeling! Our skills are very important for those of us who do cultural heritage preservation and appraisal work, but sometimes we cannot ignore the sudden feeling that comes to us. Yes, as your teacher, I use this illusory feeling to explain things, and you may find it a little unreliable, but what I want to tell you is that when you have been immersed in an industry for a lifetime and have explored it for a lifetime, then you will find that sometimes that sudden feeling is actually more important than any skills and experience."
"Although I haven't carefully identified this Da Qi Tong Bao, when I touched this ancient coin, my heart told me that it was a genuine one. I believe in my feeling!"
Cai Yi smiled and said, "You are still young. You may have had the feeling your teacher talked about before, but you may not care about it. Sometimes you even forcibly suppress it. This is actually wrong. When you have a strong feeling about an object, don't suppress it. Instead, use the knowledge you have learned and your experience to verify the correctness of your feeling from all aspects. As long as you do your job well, you will find that the final verification result is often the same as your feeling."
Mr. Liu also smiled, and he was very grateful to his old friend for his support. "But you should also be careful not to not verify just because you have a feeling. That approach is wrong. You are still young, and no matter how experienced or knowledgeable you are, you are far from being able to judge the authenticity of an object based on your feelings. You need to use that feeling as an introduction, and then use your skills, knowledge, and experience to verify. Among them, your knowledge and experience are also very important and cannot be ignored."
Xiao Zhao suddenly asked: "Teacher, what if there is a mistake between the feeling and the final verification?"
Mr. Liu smiled and said, "That's often because you haven't learned enough knowledge, or your experience has deceived you, which ultimately led you to a wrong conclusion. In fact, your initial feeling is often correct."
Xiao Zhao looked confused, it was obvious that what his teacher said was different from what he usually learned.
Seeing that the other disciples were also confused, Elder Liu explained, "This kind of thing can only be understood but not explained. Only when you have done enough, seen enough, and experienced enough mistakes, can you slowly understand what your feelings are. It's still a little early to tell you about this now."
Cai Yi smiled and said, "What your teacher just said is actually a mastered BOSS ultimate skill. Only old guys like us who are about to die can comprehend this ultimate skill. How can you little brats who haven't even gotten to an elite monster understand your teacher's ultimate skill?"
Everyone burst into laughter.
Old Liu said to Xiao Zhao, "I see you still don't understand, so let me ask you, how many Da Qi Tong Bao coins have been discovered so far? When did the earliest one appear?"
Xiao Zhao was stunned for a moment, then realized that the teacher was questioning him, so he calmed down and said, "Teacher, according to historical records, three genuine Da Qi Tong Bao coins have been discovered since the Qing Dynasty. The first genuine one is the legendary Da Qi with a missing corner. It was first seen in the book "Ancient Coins Collection" written by Weng Shupei, which records that this ancient coin originally belonged to the Dai family in Renhe (Hangzhou)."
After a pause, Xiao Zhao continued, "According to the Collection of Ancient Coins, 'This coin was collected by Renhe Dai, with a slightly missing rim, the copper is quite old, and the characters are also clumsy.' This missing corner Da Qi was given to a drunkard by Dai. There were more than a hundred ancient coins, among which only two were outstanding, one was 'Tie Baoqing' and the other was 'Missing Corner Da Qi'. At that time, Wu Yi'an, a coin collector in Hangzhou, liked the two coins very much and proposed to exchange them with several Han seals. Dai only gave him Baoqing and kept the 'Missing Corner Da Qi' for his collection. Wu Yi'an then made dozens of rubbings of the 'Missing Corner Da Qi', and everyone was able to see its true appearance. This was the first time that Da Qi Tong Bao appeared in front of the world."
"Later, Dai gave the Da Qi to his son Dai Xi. Dai Xi, whose courtesy name was Chunshi and whose posthumous title was Wenjie, was good at poetry and calligraphy, painting, and liked bronze and stone carving. He first disclosed the rubbing of the 'Da Qi with missing corners' coin in his masterpiece on coin studies, 'Ancient Coins Conghua'. All the 'Da Qi with missing corners' in later genealogies came from this, and this coin has always been kept in Dai Xi's hands."
"However, it is said that after the Taiping Army captured Shanghai in February 1860, Dai Xi, who lived in Shanghai, committed suicide by drowning as a Qing official. Before his death, he buried all his cherished ancient coins underground, including rare treasures such as the Da Qi Tong Bao. In order to get this 'Da Qi with a missing corner', an antique dealer bought Dai's house at a high price, and then dug three feet underground and searched hard, but he found nothing after searching the whole house and digging the ground several times. Other antique dealers were still unwilling to give up, and after several twists and turns, they resold the house, dismantled and dug again, sifted the soil and left nothing behind, and turned the whole house upside down, but still found nothing. From then on, this 'Da Qi with a missing corner', like its owner, slept forever in the ground like a mystery."
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