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Chapter 328 Chicken Blood Longevity Lock

"Okay." Yu Yao responded.

"In this way, I'll ask someone to contact me first, and after I've made an appointment, I'll say hello, and then Mr. Yu can take the tapestry and go."

"Young Master Cong, let me ask one more question, do you want to search within a certain range, or has someone already chosen?"

Lin Shaocong smiled and said, "I didn't make it clear, there is someone to choose. A friend once had a silk curtain, which was also dirty, so I found this person. However, this person is in Shao City, Zhejiang Province, and she is an old woman. , I also have to ask a friend to deliver the message, I think it’s not a big problem.”

"Understood, then thank you, Young Master Cong."

"Mr. Yu, you are polite." Lin Shaocong had completely recovered by this time, and the problem had been solved, and he was in a good mood.

At this time, Lin Shaocong knocked on his forehead suddenly, "Just in time, I suddenly thought of something, I asked someone to look at it, but I couldn't figure it out. Today is a coincidence, can Mr. Yu help me?"

After Yu Yao nodded, Lin Shaocong turned to look at Xiao Ying again, "Would you not delay Master Xiao's rest?"

"I am not tired."

"Okay, two, please come to me." Lin Shaocong raised his hand and led to the door.It turned out that things were not in the collection room.

Lin Shaocong led the two of them up to the second floor and entered a room similar to a study.However, half of this room is occupied by a sofa and coffee table, like a reception area.

The nanny brought tea, snacks and dried fruits, and Lin Shaocong closed the door after the nanny left.

"Sit down, both of you." Afterwards, Lin Shaocong went to the bookcase area and took out a small wooden box from the safe placed in the cabinet below.This safe is not big, presumably it is for storing small items.

"Mr. Yu, please!" Lin Shaocong put the small wooden box on the coffee table.

This small wooden box looks like it is newly made, the best blood dragon wood, the wood is delicate, oily and thick, deep red and black.

Regarding the blood dragon wood, there are many false rumors on the market. In fact, it is not so magical, but it is not an ordinary wood, and it is also divided into three or six grades. Red and yellow are more common, red and black or even black are rare, and the oil content is high. The value is relatively high.

Yu Yao opened the box, the inside was lined with sapphire blue flannelette, and inside was a bloodstone.

But not a seal.

It is an approximately oval long-lived lock with a button on it, and the button is perforated.The width is six centimeters, the height is slightly smaller, about five centimeters, and the thickness can be more than one centimeter.

Yu Yao took a closer look at the shape and patina, and preliminarily concluded that it should be from the late Ming and early Qing Dynasties.

This is a Changhua chicken blood stone.There are two famous stone materials in Zhejiang Province, one is Qingtian Stone and the other is Chicken Blood Stone.

The value of chicken blood stone needs to be distinguished very carefully, and there is a big gap between high and low.At the same time, not only Changhua, Zhejiang Province has chicken blood stones, but also Bahrain chicken blood stones, Guilin chicken blood stones, and so on.

As far as Changhua bloodstone is concerned, there are many grades of appearance.From the basic characteristics of texture, there are four categories: frozen ground, soft ground, rigid ground, and hard ground.And if it is divided into specific varieties, there are more than 100 kinds at least.

Simply speaking, the value of chicken blood stone mainly depends on two aspects, one is naturally "chicken blood", whether it is bright, dignified, thick, and the size of the area, mainly judged from these aspects.

On the other hand, nature is texture.The so-called chicken blood is actually mercury sulfide crystals, and the texture is what kind of "ground sheet" the chicken blood is attached to, and the "ground sheet" is the original stone bottom.

Among them, the frozen ground is the most expensive, and the soft ground is the most common. Because the rigid ground and the hard ground are too hard, there are few engravings, and most of them are large-scale handicrafts.

Frozen ground chicken blood stones also come in many varieties. The purer the better, the better the light perception is translucent. At the same time, it is best to complement each other with chicken blood and blend with blood and ground.

This Changhua chicken blood stone seal is suet jelly, one of the most precious varieties of frozen blood stone. One side is almost full of blood, with only the edge showing the frozen ground; the other side is half blood, revealing an irregular area in the middle.Although the blood color is not thick enough, it is bright and eye-catching, and the color is even.

Just such a piece of Changhua chicken blood stone material, regardless of the value of the antique and the carving process, the raw material may be fried for more than one million.

Generally speaking, ancient longevity locks are made of gold, silver or jade, and bloodstone is rare.

However, bloodstones in Changhua flourished in the Ming Dynasty, and many emperors in the Qing Dynasty also used bloodstones to seal seals, and there are also some folk crafts.It is not surprising that some people used it to make longevity locks in the late Ming and early Qing dynasties.

Strange is the lettering on it.

On the half-blooded side, two characters were engraved in the open space in the middle.

One character is too large, with a round border, in seal script, it is a "Zheng" character in Yangwen.

One character is too small, with a square border, official script, also in Yangwen, is a character for "Sen"
Of course, this is not a strange place, obviously this should be the name of the doll wearing the longevity lock.The strange thing is that on the other side full of blood, there are also engraved words, which are directly engraved horizontally without a frame.

Yu Yao didn't know it.

Because this is the Japanese language, it looks like four characters.

Yu Yao pointed to these Japanese characters, looked at Lin Shaocong, and Lin Shaocong responded, "I got this Changhua Chicken Blood Longevity Lock from the Japanese country. Translate these characters, It should be 'Fusong'..."

"Zheng Sen, Zheng Fusong?" When Yu Yao saw "Zheng Sen", his heart was already fluctuating, adding the word "Fusong", he immediately showed surprise.

Zheng Sen, also known as Fusong, is named Mingyan and Damu.

These names sound relatively common, but he is more famous if he has another name.

Zheng Chenggong.

Lin Shaocong nodded, "The carving and patina of chicken blood stone are more difficult to identify than ordinary jade, so I would like to ask Mr. Yu to accurately date."

"The year is correct, in the late Ming and early Qing dynasties. The use of chicken blood stones also makes sense geographically; as for the Japanese characters, it also fits his background."

After Xiao Ying heard this, she couldn't help but look at Yu Yao, "This?"

Seeing that Xiao Ying didn't understand very well, Yu Yao explained in an outline manner.

"At the end of the Ming Dynasty, there was a great pirate Zheng Zhilong on the southeast coast. He was not a pirate in the general sense. He had a powerful navy, and he flourished in Japan; The establishment put up a shelf and rebelled."

"The Ming Dynasty adopted the method of enlisting security. Zheng Zhilong liked it very much and was recruited. However, after Zheng Zhilong had been an official for more than ten years, the Qing army entered the customs; two years later, he went to Jiangnan. Perhaps Zheng Zhilong was old , I don’t want to toss anymore, I didn’t fight against the Qing court, I just surrendered.”

"Father and son fought in battle, but the Zheng family was different. Laozi surrendered to the Qing Dynasty, but the son vigorously resisted the Qing Dynasty. Zheng Zhilong's son was Zheng Chenggong. Zheng Chenggong fought against the Qing Dynasty along the southeast coast, and was repelled later, but he was still able to hold on to Jinxia."

"Because of resisting the Qing Dynasty, Emperor Longwu of the Southern Ming Dynasty gave him the national surname 'Zhu' and the name 'Success'. Therefore, this well-known name actually came halfway."

(End of this chapter)