"Really? Uncle Feng, your copper stove has an unusual origin?" Zhang Junping smiled.
"That's natural. This is a secret treasure of the Qing Palace. The last emperor Puyi mortgaged this Xuande stove to the Bank of Communications..."
"Uncle Feng, your story is very exciting, but orderly inheritance does not depend on whose story is wonderful.
If you want to hear stories, I'll go to Panjiayuan and Liulichang. Those who are messing around with antiques have much more exciting stories than what you tell them." Zhang Junping curled his lips and said with a sarcastic smile.
"It's different, this is not a story!" Old Fengtou said as he took out a package wrapped in kraft paper from the box.
Opening the kraft paper, there is another layer of kraft paper inside. After opening five layers of kraft paper, the contents inside are revealed, which is still a kraft bag.
Old Fengtou carefully took out a stack of documents.
"Before the founding of the People's Republic of China, the old man was the youngest comprador of the Bank of Communications." Old Fengtou said with some pride.
Zhang Junping looked at Old Feng with some differences.
“This old thing hides so deeply!
Before the founding of the People's Republic of China, being a comprador in a bank was not something that ordinary people could do. First of all, one had to understand English, and secondly, one had to have a certain amount of property or credit guarantee in the family.
This old guy actually pretends that he doesn’t understand English.”
"This Xuande furnace was purchased at that time. The documents here are the mortgage loan procedures for Puyi at that time, as well as photos of the record documents secretly hidden in the Qing palace."
"Uncle Feng, according to your age, the time doesn't seem to match, right?" Zhang Junping questioned softly.
After the end of the Qing Dynasty in 1912, Puyi continued to live in the palace until 1924 when he was kicked out of the palace by Feng Yuxiang.
In these twelve years, Puyi sold many secrets from the Qing palace in order to maintain his luxurious life.
Some of the secret treasures of the Qing palace that were lost among the people were stolen by the eunuchs and maids of the time, and a large part were sold by Puyi.
"Haha, I didn't mention the loan business I personally handled for Puyi.
My father is also a comprador of the Bank of Communications, and it was my father who handled the mortgage loan business for Puyi...
It's just that this loan business was not accounted for by Bank of Communications, but was bought back privately by my father...
At that time, it cost my father ten pieces of small yellow croaker!" Old Fengtou told an even more exciting story.
"The story is very exciting, with ups and downs..." Zhang Junping applauded gently.
"Master Zhang, you can take a look at this document from the Bank of Communications, or you can have people from the Bank of Communications verify that these documents are genuine..." Old Fengtou applauded Zhang Junping mockingly, not angry at all.
Instead, he explained it very seriously.
After saying that, he picked up another document, which was a yellowed ancient book, "There are also these. These are files recording the secrets of the Qing Palace. My father specifically asked Puyi to find them for the price and mortgage together with the Xuande furnace!"
"Pu Yi was dumping a lot of things back then. Uncle Feng was so thoughtful, so his father didn't accept a few more items?" Zhang Junping did not continue to worry about the authenticity of the Xuande furnace, but asked with a smile.
Although he did not read the ancient book, Zhang Junping basically believed what Old Fengtou said. The yellowed ancient book was authentic, and Zhang Junping had such Qing palace files in his hands.
The Qing palace archives record various secrets in the palace of the Qing Dynasty. There are records of the daily life of the emperor and concubines in the harem, as well as records of the secrets of the Qing palace. Every detail is recorded.
During the Republic of China, Feng Yuxiang's army, in order to raise military expenses, took 150,000 kilograms and 8,000 sacks of Ming and Qing Palace archives and sold them as scrap paper, for a total of 4,000 yuan.
Except for a small number of people who were interested in collecting them, the country later recovered less than a tenth of them despite all its efforts. A large number of precious archives and classics were destroyed and lost. From this aspect, Feng Yuxiang can be said to be a sinner of history.
And Old Fengtou's father is obviously a thoughtful person.
"Of course there is, but this one has not been settled, and it is difficult to come up with the rest." Old Feng stroked his beard and said with a calm smile.
"If there is one, you might as well take it out together and price it together!"
"Okay!" Old Feng hesitated for a moment, then turned around and walked into the back room again.
Once again, he took out a wooden box. This wooden box was very fine in workmanship and made of more sophisticated materials. It was made of small-leaf red sandalwood and was carved with cloud and dragon patterns.
This is another antique treasure box from the Qing Dynasty, which is valuable.
Open the treasure box and reveal the item inside, which is a golden item.
Zhang Junping's eyes narrowed. This was actually a bright yellow dragon robe.
"Uncle Feng, can you get started?" Zhang Junping asked directly as he looked at the bright yellow clothes in the treasure box.
"Master Zhang, please!"
Zhang Junping stood up, put on his gloves, and carefully picked up the bright yellow clothing.
When I picked it up, I realized that it was not a dragon robe, but a formal dress.
The Qing Dynasty emperor's clothing was divided into three categories: formal clothes, auspicious clothes and ordinary clothes.
Dragon robe is a small piece of auspicious clothing, which includes auspicious crown, dragon robe and dragon coat.
The formal dress is the highest standard of clothing worn by the emperor and can only be worn a few times in a lifetime.
During the seventeen years of Emperor Shunzhi's reign, he wore formal clothes seventeen times, an average of once a year.
In fact, Jifu can only be worn a few times a year. It is usually worn on important occasions such as sacrifices and weddings.
What I wear most is casual clothes.
Because formal clothes are rarely worn and are only worn on major occasions, such as worshiping heaven, enthroning, and court gatherings, etc., the regulations are particularly strict. To put it more casually, among the three types of emperor's clothing, formal clothes are the most expensive and have the highest collection value.
In the treasure box are court robes, court crowns, hoods, side robes, and a complete set of ceremonial robes.
It's just that this dress is a bit small, and I guess it's just for a three or four-year-old child.
"This is the dress Puyi wore when he first ascended the throne!" Lao Fengtou explained beside him.
Zhang Junping nodded, this is right. Puyi was three years old when he first ascended the throne, and his dress was small. This is right.
What Zhang Junping picked up was the court dress, which had one dragon embroidered on the front, one on the back and two arms, five rows of dragons on the waist, nine folds of dragons on the front and back, two dragons on the skirt, and four rows of dragons.
; There are two rows of dragons embroidered on the shawl, and one dragon on each sleeve.
There are also sun, moon, stars, mountains, dragons, Chinese insects, 黼, and 黻 on it. These are the eight patterns on clothing among the twelve patterns.
Clothes, clothes are upper garments, and Shang are lower garments.
The upper garment has eight chapters of sun, moon, stars, mountains, dragons, Chinese insects, 黼, 黻, and the lower garment has four chapters of algae, fire, Zongyi, and rice noodles, a total of twelve chapters of patterns.
Although this is a small court dress, it is still made in strict accordance with the Qing Dynasty court regulations, and there is no deviation at all.
Puyi ascended the throne for the third time, and when he ascended the throne for the first time, his dress was carefully made according to the regulations of the Qing Palace.
The next two times, each time was worse than the last.
After looking at it carefully, Zhang Junping picked up the imperial crown, imperial crown, end shield, gongfu, and mended the clothes and looked at them again.