Jin Yongshun did not come empty-handed, but carried a large box. The box was made of wood and looked quite heavy. In the cold weather, Jin Yongshun was so tired that he was sweating.
"Hey, Brother Jin, you are a rare visitor! Why do you have time to come here today?" Zhang Junping greeted with a smile.
"Master Zhang, I went out recently and I just came back." Jin Yongshun put the box on the ground and smiled, very respectfully.
"What are you carrying? Such a big box?" Zhang Junping asked curiously.
"No, last time I said I would give Mr. Zhang some antiques as a gift. I went home to pick and choose, but there was nothing I could do with them.
I just took a trip to Xishan and just came back yesterday." Jin Yongshun said as he opened the box.
"These are what you gained from your trip to Xishan this time?" Zhang Junping was curious about what treasures Jin Yongshun received from Xishan.
Xishan is the general name for the mountains in the west of Beijing, which belongs to the Taihang Mountains. It is bounded by Guangou near the south entrance to the north, Juma Valley in Fangshan District to the south, the city boundary to the west, and Beijing Xiaoping Plain to the east.
Xishan is famous because it has been a retreat for dignitaries since ancient times.
Many emperors and their relatives, as well as civil and military eunuchs, all took a fancy to this treasure land in the northwest suburbs of Beijing where they could enjoy the joy of mountains and rivers, and rushed to build large-scale royal gardens and private villas.
It was the emperors of the Jin Dynasty who first built royal gardens and palaces here. Among them was the emperor Jin Zhangzong who loved hunting the most. He built the famous "Eight Great Water Courtyards" only in the Xishan area of Beijing.
There are not only the temples of the eight major water courtyards, but also many emperors' tombs.
This also means that there are many interesting things hidden in the countryside here in Xishan.
In the early 1990s, many antique dealers said they went to the countryside to collect goods, but they actually went to the countryside here in Xishan to collect goods.
Even here in Xishan, several national treasure-level cultural relics have been exported abroad.
"Master Zhang, please take a look at this thing first." Jin Yongshun first took out a bowl and gently placed it on the coffee table.
Is this blue and white porcelain?
Zhang Junping found a pair of gloves and put them on. He picked up the bowl and looked at the bottom of the bowl. There were six words below, "Ming Dynasty Chenghua Year System".
"Is this a Chenghua blue and white palace bowl with entwined branches and okra patterns?" Zhang Junping suppressed the excitement in his heart and asked.
The Chenghua period was the heyday of the development of porcelain. There is a saying that "the Ming Dynasty looks at Chenghua, the Qing Dynasty looks at Yongzheng", which means that Chenghua porcelain was the best among all dynasties in the Ming Dynasty. There were two main varieties of porcelain during the Chenghua period.
One is blue and white, the other is doucai.
"Master Zhang is indeed very knowledgeable. This is the Chenghua blue and white palace bowl with entwined branches and okra patterns.
It was also thanks to Mr. Zhang that when I arrived in Xishan, I went to a house to ask for water. As a result, the sister-in-law of that house gave me a bowl of water using this bowl.
My hands were shaking and I almost dropped the bowl." Jin Yongshun vividly recounted his adventures in Xishan.
"Then you bought this bowl?"
"Yes, I bought this Chenghua blue and white palace bowl with entwined branches and okra patterns for five yuan.
As a result, guess what?" Jin Yongshun got excited about it and started to talk about it.
"Brother Jin, I think if you change your career to story telling, you will definitely become a great actor!"
"Hey, Mr. Zhang, you just said this. When I was young, I loved listening to books and spending the whole day in the teahouse with my Ama.
If Ama hadn't stopped me, I would have almost become my disciple Yuan Jieting.
What the book says this time is that during the Kangxi period of the Qing Dynasty, the country was peaceful and the people were peaceful, and there was a young talent..." After that, Jin Yongshun showed off a piece of storytelling to Zhang Junping.
"Not bad, not bad! What a flavor!" Zhang Junping applauded in a dignified manner.
"Thank you, thank you Mr. Zhang for the compliment. When one day I don't have enough food, I will go to the teahouse to talk about storytelling!"
"The relationship is great. When the time comes, I will definitely go to support you, Brother Jin!"
The workers were all on holiday, so Zhang Junping had nothing to do, so he chatted with Jin Yongshun for a while.
"Let's talk about it quickly. What's going on behind the scenes? Brother Jin, you're really worried about selling this."
"Hahaha!" Jin Yongshun laughed proudly and took out a stack of sky blue glazed bowls from the box.
"Then the sister-in-law stopped me and said that she had such a big bowl at home, but you saw it, Mr. Zhang.
There were eight blue and white palace bowls with entwined branches and okra patterns. I was so happy that I gave my sister-in-law fifty yuan.
As a result..." Jin Yongshun wanted to sell out again.
Zhang Junping simply joked: "As a result, my sister-in-law brought you eight more Chenghua blue and white palace bowls with entwined branches and okra patterns?"
"Uh, that's not the case.
However, the sister-in-law brought out another pile of plates." Jin Yongshun smiled awkwardly and took out another pile of plates from the box.
Like the Chenghua blue and white palace bowl with entwined branches and okra patterns, each plate is wrapped in newspaper.
Jin Yongshun slowly opened it, revealing the true face of the contents inside.
"Is this a large plate of Chenghua blue and white flowers with tangled branches and folded edges along the edge of Lingkou?"
After Zhang Junping finished speaking, he was stunned. Did this sister-in-law dig up the tomb of a prince from the Ming Dynasty?
"Master Zhang, I was also shocked at that time. I thought to myself that this sister-in-law's family must be a traitor, right?
Otherwise, why would you take out so many Chenghuanian things at once?
Then I asked..." Jin Yongshun became addicted to storytelling again, and danced and told Zhang Junping what happened.
Fortunately, this time I didn't make any excuses. I just paused and then continued: "These things really come from the ground.
It is said that in the year of heavy rain in 1963, an ancient tomb came out of Xishan. Her father-in-law was the first to discover it. There were a lot of broken porcelain inside. Finally, he picked through and picked out a batch of unbroken porcelain to take home.
Later, many people from their team went to pick up things in ancient tombs, and some even found gold."
"Then you will make a fortune this time." Zhang Junping said with a smile.
"Oh, I finally found a few things that caught Mr. Zhang's eye, otherwise I wouldn't have the shame to come see Mr. Zhang.
It's a pity that the ancient tomb has been disturbed a long time ago, and all the burial objects such as gold, silver and jewelry have been taken away, leaving only some broken porcelain.
However, I still found a lot of good things.”
Zhang Junping discovered that Jin Yongshun said that storytelling was a waste of talent and that he should go into acting. After a while, he changed his face three times in a row.
One moment I was happy, another moment I was upset, and finally it turned into joy.
As he spoke, he took out another piece of porcelain from the box, also wrapped tightly in newspaper.
"What is this?" The package was too tight, and Zhang Junping couldn't tell the shape of the instrument inside.
When Jin Yongshun opened it, Zhang Junping couldn't help but laugh, "Brother Jin and Chenghua Blue and White have sex today, another blue and white porcelain.
Is this a three-legged stove with a blue and white lotus pattern and eight treasures pattern?"
"Master Zhang really has good eyesight. This is the Chenghua three-legged furnace with blue and white lotus and eight treasure patterns!"
"You just confiscated a few pieces of Chenghua Dou Cai?" Zhang Junping joked with a smile.
Sure enough, things are rare and valuable, and Zhang Junping was shocked by Jin Yongshun seeing such good things one after another.
Seeing Chenghua's blue and white three-legged stove with lotus and eight treasure patterns, my mood didn't fluctuate at all. Instead, I joked about Jin Yongshun.