The journey back home of "Xijiapan" is well-founded and circulated in an orderly manner, which is rare.

Therefore, Chen Wenzhe did not think that the thing in front of him was real.

Although I don't think it's really an authentic product, this one must be an old imitation.

Chen Wenzhe looked at the inscription inside and said that if he wanted to imitate this thing well, he must have some understanding.

If you don’t understand the bell and tripod engraved on it, you may have an error if you are a little careless.

Therefore, if you have enough knowledge to identify bronze ware, then the easiest way to look at the inscriptions inside it.

There may be problems with writing, character shape, meaning, word formation, line breaking, etc.

Of course, the most important thing about other things depends on the means of imitation.

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

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Up to now, various imitation methods have emerged.

But no matter how good the method is, it has its own advantages.

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

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

The inscription of "Xijiapan" records many details of the Western Zhou Dynasty, including official system, war, rewards, taxes, slaves, trade management, etc.

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

But this one doesn't look like a fake.

At this time, Chen Wenzhe remembered a rumor about "Xijia Pan", mainly a debate on its authenticity.

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

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

Now in the Neon Book Museum, there is a bronze plate called "Xijia Pan".

However, after investigation, this plate is different from the Xijia plate preserved by Mr. Chen Jieqi. The bronze plate of the existing Neon Book Museum is forged.

For the rubbings of the late Western Zhou Dynasty, you can see the seals of Chen Jieqi and Wu Dacheng.

This proves that the rubbing comes from the original "Xijia Pan", so it is real.

The rubbing is compared with the "Xijia Pan" collected in the Neon Book Museum, proving that the plate is forged.

There is also a bronze plate in the Cultural Relics Museum of the Chinese University of Xiangjiang, which is surprisingly similar to the legendary "Xijia plate" in terms of size, inscriptions and patterns!

When Du Naisong, an expert in the identification of ancient bells and tripods in my country, and Professor Wang Rencong, a professor at Xiangjiang Chinese University, identified the plate as well, it was found that this "Xijia plate" was also forged.

The inscriptions on the plate are forged and a corrosion method is adopted.

They made this inscription, which was made with nitric acid or ferric chloride.

Such strong acids are corroded on it according to the pen and pen on the letter.

When a strong nitric acid touches metal objects, these metal objects will corrode and the pen will come out.

When casting fake characters, if you use a knife to carve them, it is easy to show the marks of the knife.

By using the corrosion method, this problem can be removed.

But there will also be many flaws, such as the strokes that are fat or the pen cannot be revealed.

Although this utensil at Xiangjiang Chinese University is a real copper plate, it is not the "Xijia plate" handed down from the Western Zhou Dynasty."

The flaws in the inscriptions on the plate are the best evidence for the pseudo-"Xijia Pan" collected in the Cultural Relics Museum of Xiangjiang Chinese University.

The inscription of this pan is faked based on the true inscription of Xijia Pan in "Three Dynasties Ji Jinwencun".

The fake inscription uses the corrosion method and has many flaws in the fake inscriptions.

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

All of these are due to excessive corrosion and the strokes have not been released and no longer become characters.

Some characters show missing strokes, such as "Borderless" in the thirteenth line.

Some people are corroded when the strokes of characters are not uniform, resulting in uneven stroke thickness, such as the character "天" in the tenth line, etc.

There were many famous collectors and connoisseurs in ancient my country, including many people who like to collect ancient bronzes.

According to historical records, Yao Sui was appointed as a Hanlin scholar in the Yuan Dynasty and had no other hobbies in his later years. He only got the bronze ware of Shang and Zhou dynasties, and he was happy and forgot to sleep.

When you go in and out of your residence, you will play with it all the time, treating bronze as a treasure, and putting it in and out, you will do it yourself and never letting someone do it for fear of defiling it.

Xian Yushu, who served as the official of the Three Secretariat, had a free time with bronze in addition to the official duties of the court.

Once, he found a copper plate at his father's house in his subordinate Li Shun's house, which had been broken by his family as a pancake plate.

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

This plate is a famous "Xijia Pan" with a long inscription and a famous treasure of the Western Zhou Dynasty.

This instrument was still alive until the end of the Qing Dynasty and the beginning of the Republic of China, and was collected by collector Chen Jieqi during the Republic of China.

After that, there was nowhere to be found, but fakes appeared from time to time.

However, because the original "Xijia Pan" has real rubbings, it is extremely difficult for the forger to succeed.

It is difficult to imitate, and does not mean that no one can imitate a real-level work.

After all, from the Yuan Dynasty to the loss of the Republic of China, only rubbings of this treasure remained in the world.

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

For example, the one in the Neon Book Museum once collected, they said that it was the authentic product, but after careful research, it was not.

There is also a piece from the Cultural Relics Museum of the Chinese University of Xiangjiang. This piece is very similar to Xijia Pan, but it has also been identified as a fake.

Now, many people in the industry can clearly point out what method to use forgery.

Since all the things that are circulated in the world are fakes, where is the real Xijia Pan?

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

It was just a chance for him to take a photo, and he didn't know of such a collection beforehand, so Mr. Du's photo was actually a bit risky.

First, Xijia Pan has never passed away. Second, there were many fakes on the market at that time. Third, if the genuine product was, the price would be more than US$300.

But with his years of eyesight, he thought that it was the authentic one.

This price is probably because the organizer is not aware of it.

Then Mr. Du brought the Xijia Pan he photographed back to China, with the purpose of finding experts to identify the authenticity.

Unexpectedly, the experts I looked for said that this was a copycat. Mr. Du was not willing to accept it and has been on the way to find experts to identify them since then.

Because living in the Chou Kingdom, it is inconvenient to travel, and the research time has delayed for a long time.

In 2014, Yuan Zhenghong, an intangible cultural expert in SY City, Beihu Province, and several other experts also gave the results, and this document is indeed the authentic one.

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

The Xijia Pan, which was not sure about the authenticity in the past, was also the result of comparison with the rubbings.

The only regret is that Xi Jia's legs are gone, but in general, it is still a national treasure.

In the eyes of many scholars, the classics and history of the armor plate and its feet are even more important than Mao Gong's tripods.

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