Dark wood is generally used to make coffins, as well as Buddhist halls, incense tables, and shrines. In ancient times, the last three items were common facilities in wealthy families.

Among the items cleared out, there was also a set of Jinsinnan Buddhist temple utensils.

It includes an incense table, a shrine, a small square altar table, a sutra bed, a pair of couplets carved from red sandalwood, and a hanging portrait of Guanyin Guanyin.

However, the hanging portrait needs to be restored due to poor storage and storage.

In addition to the furniture for the Buddhist hall, there is also a set of rosewood furniture for the master bedroom, including two pairs of top cabinets, two pairs of standing cabinets, a square table, a coffee table, eight chairs, an Arhat bed, and a pair of bed cabinets.

, a footstool.

There are exactly eighteen pieces in total.

These eighteen pieces of furniture are extremely exquisite, such as the rosewood used for the front panel of the Luohan bed, and the vertical panels are hollowly carved with patterns of peonies and longevity peaches.

The side cabinets and top cabinets are carved with red sandalwood and inlaid with blue and white jade lions. Each side has a pattern of a big lion guarding a little lion. No matter what posture the big lion is in, his eyes are always looking at the naughty little lion beside him.

Love and kindness overflow the picture.

But the little lion is naughty and mischievous, proving that he has all the looks.

The lion is also surrounded by ribbon patterns, cloud patterns, and flame patterns, which are full of divinity.

The Eight Immortals table and chairs are also in the late Qing style, full of complexity and cumbersomeness. The four sides of the table and the legs and feet are all decorated with intricate carvings.

There is one more thing to do before leaving, and that is the plaque.

The weather is a bit hot, so the Malatang store no longer sells Malatang, but instead sells night beer.

Then don't bother the two masters. Zhou Zhi knows the double hook method. Use the double hook method to outline the edges of the two elders' Dharma books and let Lao Hu take care of it.

But Zhou Zhi shook his head: "Although this set of furniture looks extremely exquisite and luxurious, and is made of blue and white jade carvings and inlays, its craftsmanship value is much higher than its cultural relic value. It belongs to the objects from the late Qing Dynasty to the Republic of China."

Then it was time to go home, but Guan Ma said that Lao Yan would drive a pickup truck to pick up the goods in another day, and we could take a ride back then.

Fortunately, the furniture has been piled here since it was cleaned, and the military is in charge of it, so no one has damaged the accessories above.

"The highest official positions in ancient times were Taishi, Taifu and Taibao, while Shaoshi, Shaofu and Shaobao were called 'Three Young Masters'. In the middle of the Qing Dynasty, only the official kilns dared to bake such patterns, and it was not until the late Qing Dynasty that they began to spread.

And it spread to other decorations other than porcelain, and became especially popular in the Republic of China."

This makes sense. When Su Huaxuan was welcomed here to make friends with powerful people, he probably bought these pieces of furniture as practical items, not as furnishings.

Thinking that he would take the valuables gained during the trip and many precious books he picked up with him when he returned, Zhou Zhi agreed. He still had a free day the next day, so he took his adopted brother and Guan Tingting to visit the attractions in the city.

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"Why do they always have such patterns?" Master Qiao asked: "There must be something to this, right?"

After all the furniture was cleared out, the third floor was truly revealed. It has a large pavilion with a height of more than 200 square meters and a roof garden with more than 100 square meters. The total area is almost the same as that of a courtyard house in the capital, and the space is quite large.

Abundant.

The implication is very obvious, wealth and power means being well-paid and high-ranking officials from generation to generation.

The door plaque given by Mr. Qi had the inscription "Sui Huaxuan" and the couplet given by Mr. Wang "Thousands of Wang Mang Du's poems and hundreds of vast Han Lang's poems" had to be made into wooden plaques and couplets to hang at the door.

Zhou Zhi left it to Jiang and Wu to figure out how to decorate the master room.

Another feature of these furniture is that the handles of drawers and cabinet doors and other copper parts use separators made by punching holes in Guangxu and Hongwu silver coins. It has a nouveau riche style that seems to have originated in the early Republic of China.

The remaining items are rosewood. The rosewood is simple and has the style of Ming-style furniture, but they are all small samples. This may be related to the fact that rosewood was very valuable in the late Qing Dynasty and the Republic of China and was not very affordable.

There are only so many valuable things. The rest are all made of boxwood, cypress, and camphor wood. The style is more Western-style. Fortunately, except for the corners, the paint is well maintained and the signs of use are not particularly obvious, which shows the quality.

Still very good.

"The age is not as good as that set of gloomy golden nanmu Buddhist hall furniture and hangings. That one is at least from the mid-Qing Dynasty."

Then in the evening everyone met again in the back alley of the Shizhong District Fire Brigade and invited Yan Xiao and Zhao Zhonggang out to meet.

Hu Chu introduced him to a person who was said to have repaired the Wuhou Temple, and most of the updated couplets there were made by him.

The window in the middle is inlaid with circular marble, with black and white intersecting on the marble. The marble on the back of each chair is a "Landscape with Misty Rain" pattern, which is a masterpiece of heavenly craftsmanship.

I'm really unfamiliar with this kind of thoughtful service, but I can get it done with just one phone call.

The tables and chairs were heavy and took a lot of effort from the soldiers.

The chair is square and solid, and the back panel is made of "shovel relief" technology. The upper part of the pattern is the "Dark Eight Immortals", and the lower part is the auspicious pattern of "Yun Fu Jie Chi".

"This pattern is a very commonly used pattern in the middle and late Qing Dynasty. It is called Taishi Shaoshi, or Taishi Shaobao." Zhou Zhi explained.

If it can be repaired and restored to its luster, it should look good.

After counting the things, Zhou Zhi sighed with Wu Qiaomu: "This shows the difference in cultural levels. You still have to go to the capital to get these things. Compared with Mr. Wang's collection, the collection of my elders is completely inadequate."

Zhou Zhi likes this set of furniture very much. It has a simple shape and smooth lines carved on the edges. It is all based on the pattern of the fabric itself.

"Is there another possibility?" Wu Qiaomu said: "That is, Taigong Su did not keep it as a collection at all, but bought it as a practical tool."

They are all small supplies used in the study, including two ancient bookshelves, two flower stools, and a table screen.

"The lion is homophonic to the teacher's teacher, the big and small lions, the homophonic word is 'grand master', 'young master', or according to the protection meaning on the pattern, the homophonic word is 'shaobao'."

Zhao Zhonggang didn't even know Wu Qiaomu or Guan Tingting, but he was already immune to the phenomenon of beauties constantly rotating around Zhou Zhi.

But Yan Xiao had a shadow on Guan Tingting, because when he was playing with Zhou Zhi in the dormitory of the sugar and wine company, Guan Tingting was there one time, and then Guan Tingting had the "young lady's head" made up by Guan's mother standing high on her head. He was curious.

I pulled it with my upper hand and it collapsed!

Then she couldn't be coaxed anymore, Guan Tingting burst into tears, the little girl's voice was so loud and clear that the whole building, ah no, in this area, the tax bureau on the left, the Sugar and Wine Company in the middle, and the Industrial and Commercial Bank of China on the right heard it.

The key is that Guan's mother's craftsmanship cannot be "repaired". Zhou Zhi and Yan Xiao spent a long time trying to get the hair girl to stand up. In the end, mother rushed back and scolded the two of them, and took Guan Tingting to buy rice crackers.

The sugar was slowly coaxed.
Chapter completed!