But the incense burner, which looked like it had peeling skin, was severely faded, and looked particularly rusty, made Xia Weixing and others who opened the box look grim and serious.
"Could it be the object I imagined?" Goldman's face changed when he saw the appearance of the incense burner.
"Looking at it, it's a bit similar, but we still have to take a closer look." Xia Weixing said as he took out a pair of gloves and put them on.
He carefully picked up the incense burner wrapped in silk from the wooden box and carefully examined the different parts of the incense burner.
Finally, I turned the incense burner upside down and looked at the bottom.
[Hey, there are words engraved on the bottom of this incense burner? ]
[Let me see, let me see. It was made during the Xuande reign of the Ming Dynasty. Could this incense burner really be an antique?]
[What kind of antique is this? I didn't see that the engraving below is wrong.]
[Exactly, the character for "德" is missing a stroke, and the character for "掣" should be "制" (system), right? They can even get this wrong, and it's an antique.]
[Wait, I think I saw a treasure appraisal program. It mentioned a very famous incense burner with a unique inscription. Because the engraving was missing a stroke, it was often considered a fake...]
[What you're saying is, is this incense burner really real? But it looks so shabby. Any random incense burner on the street would look better, right?]
[Even so, this incense burner is genuine, and it is the famous Xuande incense burner.]
What? This is a Xuande furnace?
[No way, brother above, you must have made a mistake, right? Aren't Xuande furnaces famous for their jewel-like brilliance? How could it possibly look so shabby and dilapidated like the one in the livestream?]
For a while, the live broadcast room was arguing about whether this copper incense burner was the famous "Xuan De furnace" in history.
At this time, Xia Weixing, who had also seen the inscription, couldn't help but take a deep breath: "Lao Gao, we, we seem to have really found the Xuande furnace."
"Are you sure?" Goldman asked with a quick breath, "Is there any mistake?"
"Look at this inscription. The character 德 (De) is missing a stroke, and the same is true for the lever. It's the same as what I saw in the professor's materials." Xia Weixing said excitedly, "I can confirm that this is a genuine Xuande furnace."
As Xia Weixing said this excitedly, Wu Ketu, who had come with Song Tiantian and the others to watch the fun, couldn't help but complain: "What kind of real Xuande furnace is this? It looks tattered and shabby, and it's not even as good-looking as the incense burner at home."
"Hey, you little brat." Goldman Sachs looked at the little guy and said, "Do you know what a Xuande furnace is?"
"This tattered Xuande incense burner is the real one. Those Xuande incense burners that look exquisite and look like they have been polished are mostly fake!"
"But why are most of these exquisite-looking stoves fake?" Wuketu asked in confusion.
He Jingnian, who was standing nearby, also asked curiously, "Yeah, isn't it enough for a stove to look good? How can there be real or fake ones?"
"Because this is a cultural relic, passed down from the Ming Dynasty." As he spoke, Goldman Sachs gave these little guys some popular science information about the cultural and historical background of the Xuande furnace.
Moreover, I explained to them why those exquisite-looking Xuande stoves on the market are fakes.
It turns out that the Xuande furnace of the Ming Dynasty was made of materials other than copper, as well as many other precious metals such as gold and silver.
Therefore, the texture of a real Xuande furnace is particularly delicate and lustrous, and at first glance, people can feel that it has an extraordinary luster.
Because of this characteristic, when later generations counterfeited Xuande incense burners, they would make them very gorgeous, so that people would be amazed by their appearance at first glance and could mistake them for the real thing.
However, few people know that after being lost, buried, etc., most of the real Xuande furnaces will appear in a dilapidated state due to lack of good maintenance, with more or less rust and peeling of color on the furnace body.
Hearing this, Wu Ketu suddenly realized, "So that's how it is. Does that mean the uglier the stove is and the more rust it has, the more likely it is to be real?"
"Of course not." Goldman said quickly: "The one you are talking about is very likely just an ordinary incense burner that has really rusted."
"Isn't that the same as the Xuande furnace you mentioned?"
"How can they be the same? The magic of the Xuande furnace is that it can be restored after being reborn in the fire." As soon as Goldman Sachs finished speaking, the audience in the live broadcast room were also surprised.
【Return from the ashes?】
[Is what he said not what I imagined?]
[No way? This incense burner has become like this, and it can be restored by burning it with fire?]
[I don't believe it, unless you burn it now and let me see! ]
"That's right, now that you've said it, if you have the guts, burn it and show us what you can do. Otherwise, I won't believe such a thing exists!"
"Old Gao, now that things have come to this, it would be unreasonable if you don't burn it!"
Of course, no matter what Goldman Sachs said, he still didn't dare to burn it.
After all, this Xuande furnace can be shown to be a genuine Xuande furnace both in terms of appearance and inscriptions.
But what if?
What if there are replicas that are very realistic?
If he sets fire to the furnace, not only will he not be able to restore the real Xuande furnace to its original color and luster, but he may also destroy a precious imitation.
After all, this Xuande furnace, which has been buried for more than a century, is a precious cultural relic even if it is a fake.
For this reason, after explaining some basic knowledge to the little ones, Goldman Sachs and Xia Weixing carefully put away the Xuande incense burner and went to open another wooden box.
As soon as the second wooden box was opened, a golden light flashed, dazzling the onlookers and the audience who were waiting expectantly in the live broadcast room.
As soon as the wooden box was opened, it was filled with large yellow croakers, neatly stacked one by one.
[Fuck, gold bars! ]
[Hiss... so much gold, how many grams does it weigh?]
[What's the use of grams? This is directly measured in kilograms! ]
[As expected, I'm just an ordinary person. I didn't see the furnace earlier, but this box of gold instantly ignited my urge to take a bite!]
[That’s right, gold and other things are only real the moment you bite them. Otherwise, you can only watch the live broadcast like me (spreading hands)]
【Seeing the gold, I finally felt like I had truly seen a treasure!】
[No, I need to change my phone. I tried so hard to get the gold out of this crappy phone, but I couldn't. This is a terrible review!]
[I'm different. I connected the TV to the AR glasses, and sure enough, the realism changed instantly!]
[Wow, there is still this operation! ]
[I'm done with my studies. I'm going to put on my AR right now. I want to enjoy the feeling of being surrounded by gold and treasures!]
After the second wooden box was opened to reveal gold bars, more than ten wooden boxes were opened in succession, and they were all filled with gold bars.
"It's worthy of being called a treasure trove. I actually found so many boxes of yellow croaker." Goldman Sachs said, and looked at the dozen or so boxes of gold on the side. It looked so golden at a glance, which was really tempting.
"Yes, there are so many boxes of gold bars, and there are so many wooden boxes underneath." Xia Weixing looked at the boxes that were still being dug out from the pit and said, "I'm worried now. Is it possible that only the first item in these boxes is a cultural relic, and the others are all gold bars?"
"Shouldn't it be?"
As soon as these words were spoken, another box of gold bars was opened.
Goldman Sachs looked at the facts before him and suddenly began to worry.
Fortunately, the box that was opened later did not disappoint.
After opening countless boxes of gold bars, they finally opened another box of cultural relics, and most of the cultural relics in this box were jade products.
Moreover, most of these jade products were packed in boxes made of precious wood. Xia Weixing and his team opened various boxes made of sandalwood, rosewood, and gold-thread wood, and exquisite jade pendants, jade seals, mutton-fat jade bracelets, etc. suddenly appeared before their eyes.
In addition to these, there was also a jade seal placed in an agarwood box, which made Goldman Sachs look at it with great interest.
Xia Weixing was taking photos of these cultural relics when he saw Gao Sheng holding a jade seal and flipping through it.
"Is there something wrong with this jade seal?"
"There's nothing wrong with that. It's just that I finally saw a jade seal, so I wanted to take a closer look to see who could be so foolish as to make such a fine piece of mutton-fat jade into a replica of the Qin Emperor's imperial seal."
Upon hearing this, Xia Weixing stepped forward to take a look and was immediately amused: "It's true! As expected, the jade seal used by the Qin Emperor is still the object of imitation by everyone in later generations."
"That's not the case." Goldman Sachs said with a smile, "After all, that is the famous Imperial Seal."
The legend of the imperial seal is not only because the Qin Emperor took jade and ordered jade craftsmen to make the imperial seal after he unified the country.
Also because of the fate it was given from the very beginning, it was closely cared about by those in power, and thus passed through the hands of many emperors.
Moreover, during these processes, the imperial seal was lost many times.
Later, in order to prove that they were the ones who were granted the Mandate of Heaven, those in power imitated the imperial seal and claimed that it was the one that was passed down.
Because of this, many imitations of the imperial seal appeared in later generations...
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