But what Bai Gaorui was a little confused was that organic gems like pearls are particularly delicate and how they have been preserved for so long.

Of course, he was just confused. Miracles always happen, and the main thing was to save the environment.

Moreover, Bai Gaorui knew that in the treasures of the shipwreck, organic gems such as pearls, corals, amber, ivory, rhinoceros horns, etc., all existed.

The pearls that Xia Yu took out were also very new.

Anyway, Bai Yujiao will never dislike it. Women are born to like shiny things, and women are also the main consumer force in jewelry and jade.

But even the freshest pearls are easily turned into "old pearls" if they are not preserved properly, which means that pearls have a lifespan.

Unlike gems such as red, sapphire and diamonds, it will be fine if you store them for a long time.

Bai Yujiao was happy. After Bai Gaorui received the "surprise", he also started unboxing and checking other good babies that Xia Yu brought back.

As Xia Yu said, men don’t wear many jewelry and jade, and Hetian jade and other jades are the most made. There are also more generous men or people who do jade business and will bring jade rings. The diamond rings are basically brought when they are engaged and married.

Women are completely unrestricted, such as jewelry, jade, rings, bracelets, necklaces, earrings, earrings, etc.

The result of unboxing also brought them great surprises. When they opened the bubble paper, they saw the celadon as bright as jade.

"Is this a secret color porcelain?" Bai Gaorui recognized it immediately.

"It's similar to the secret color porcelain unearthed from Famen Temple!" Bai Yujiao was also very excited. She went to the Famen Temple Museum with Bai Gaorui and saw more than a dozen pieces of celadons as standard instruments for secret color porcelain.

But unfortunately, I can't get started with those precious secret porcelains myself.

The porcelain that Xia Yu has created now is a secret bowl with lotus patterns on the inside and curly grass patterns on the inside. It has a porcelain glaze as bright as lake water, exquisite and transparent, like ice and jade.

It is the most typical secret color porcelain feature.

The two of them knew best that the source of Xia Yu's treasures, at least, would not be modern imitations.

This type of fine porcelain in Yue Kiln celadon can be regarded as secret porcelain.

And it is obvious that this bowl is not the only secret porcelain that Xia Yu has created.

His box of porcelain is a fine work of Yue Kiln celadon, secret color porcelain.

This also made Bai Gaorui and Bai Yujiao, who like cultural relics, feel like they were treasured.

Every piece of porcelain in it is quite telling and rarely seen on the market.

Among them is a large plate of secret color porcelain. The bottom of the plate is covered with lotus leaves and a lifelike turtle stands in the middle.

This made several people more interested in exploring it.

This kind of "turtle swimming lotus leaves" appeared very early as a decorative pattern.

Bai Yujiao believes that "the allusion of turtle swimming in lotus leaves should be from the "Biography of Turtle Ce" in "Records of the Grand Historian", that is, "The turtle is swam on the lotus leaves for thousands of years, with yarrows and stems in one piece. It is also born, and the beasts are not tigers and wolves, and the grass is not poisonous. The family members of the river often eat turtles, thinking that they can lead to qi and help to nourish the elderly."

This passage is translated into vernacular, "When I visited Jiangnan, I learned about tortoises and yarrows and visited local elderly people. They said that turtles lived to a thousand years old and could walk on lotus leaves. The yarrow grew to 100 stems and stems still had a root. They also said that there were no ferocious beasts such as tigers and wolves, and no poisonous weeds. Residents by the river often raised turtles to provide their diet, believing that turtles could help people regulate their breathing and increase vitality, and help people fight aging and nourish their elderly. Are these words untrue?"

Bai Gaorui also said, "The Jin Dynasty document "Baopuzi" also said, "The turtle of a thousand years old has five colors. The two bones on its forehead are like horns. It explains people's words, floats on lotus leaves, or under yarrows, and there are white clouds and snakes on it."

Xia Yu, who is also familiar with history, also knew that the story of turtles swimming in lotus leaves was deeply influenced by the world. In the Tang Dynasty, it was still very popular. "I remember that there was a Ruiying Picture from Dunhuang, including a turtle lying on lotus leaves, which is one of the "spiritual turtles" of Ruiying. The mouth of the turtle should be the yarrow with "a hundred stems in one"."

Bai Gaorui even said, "The gilded silver incense burner unearthed from the underground palace of Famen Temple is decorated with the lid of the turtle lying on the lotus pattern for a week."

In addition, Bai Gaorui, who is knowledgeable, also mentioned that the patterns of turtles wandering lotus leaves were more common in porcelain during the Five Dynasties. For example, the fragments of celadon cups unearthed from the Huangbao Kiln site in Shaanxi Province were covered with a turtle in the inner bottom and lotus petal patterns were carved outside the belly.

The former site of Yue Kiln celadon is a fragment of celadon plate unearthed from the Yue Kiln site in Shanglin Lake. The center of the plate is marked with turtle-wild lotus leaf patterns. Its era was from the Five Dynasties to the early Song Dynasty.

The most complete example is a celadon cup found at the base of the tower of Jingzhi Temple in Ding County, Hebei Province. It was a thing from the early years of Taiping Xingguo in the Northern Song Dynasty.

By the Southern Song Dynasty, the turtle-going lotus leaf pattern had become a popular theme in porcelain wine making utensils, not only for domestic market, but also sold overseas.

The Jingdezhen green-white glaze turtle swimming in the lotus leaf pattern plates were found in the South China Sea waters.

The plates and lotus leaves of the sinking shipwreck of Huaguang Reef are decorated with tortoises, cranes, auspicious clouds and immortals, and the meaning of birthdays and auspiciousness is even more vivid.

In addition, it can also be proof from poetry works. Bai Yujiao said, "The Song Dynasty poet Hong Shi sent a poem to "Sheng Chazi", "Yao's mother's birthday meal, and used a turtle to swim in a lotus leaf and drinks wine with a cup of wine." The lyrics say, "There is a divine turtle in the green stream, and travels in a lotus leaf for thousands of years. It has been rare since seventy years, and the cup of longevity is frequently connected"; "Linjiang Xianshou Zhoucai" ends with "The lotus turtle in a nest, and the wine turtle in a nest is the allusion of the lotus leaf for the turtle."

Bai Yujiao also said, "My husband's secret color porcelain with turtle gourd lotus leaves is of complete quality and is of high value. It can be regarded as a rare treasure. There are not many pieces in the world."

Bai Gaorui nodded, "This is the first time I have seen such a special secret porcelain."

However, this piece of porcelain is not the biggest shock to them.

A lotus petal relief secret color porcelain bowl taken out from behind is engraved with the four words "Peace in the World" inside.

Such styles of porcelain have always been particularly precious.

Because this is the most indicative of the time when porcelain is fired.

Bai Gaorui guessed, "Does the four words "Taiping Xingguo" refer to the first year of "Taiping Xingguo"?"

Xia Yu nodded, "I have this idea, but whether it is specific remains to be verified."

Bai Yujiao also knew that after Emperor Taizong of the Northern Song Dynasty, Zhao Guangyi changed the Yuan Dynasty to Taiping Xingguo. It means to follow the heavens and carry on the world peace.

Then, it is very likely that this piece of porcelain was burned that year.

Of course, it’s just this piece of porcelain. It cannot be said that this whole batch of porcelain was fired at that time.

After Bai Gaorui got started with the appraisal for a while, he also remembered, "This "Taiping Wuyin" Yue Kiln celadon pot in the Monkhai Museum has the same effect. Taiping Wuyin was in 978 AD, which was the third year of Taiping Xingguo in the Northern Song Dynasty."

What Bai Gaorui used to compare is that, "There is a set of square Japanese horn boxes among the secret color porcelain of Famen Temple, which is a classic work of Yue Kiln secret color porcelain."

Bai Yujiao also smiled and said, "I don't think this set of four-curve petal sets brought by my husband is inferior to the secret porcelain sets of Famen Temple."

This set of boxes is hollowed out into a flower shape, which should be used for breathability.

When Bai Gaorui and Bai Yujiao started to use the appraisal, they carefully stacked the sets and layered "home dolls", with as many as six.

This set of boxes has also been cleaned and desalted.

While several people were savoring and playing, Bai Hanhai had already returned home and came to the study to ask them to go downstairs to have dinner.

Bai Yujiao was sighing, "Time flies so fast, it feels like it's not a while!"

"A Yu has made a lot of good things back. This is secret porcelain!" Although Bai Hanhai did not inherit his father's business, he continued to engage in antique cultural relics, but he was very impressed by it and still had basic knowledge of identifying antique cultural relics.

Xia Yu smiled and nodded, "Yes, uncle, hello."

"Let's have a meal first, and it's not too late to taste it slowly after you finish eating. The food, especially seafood, will not be so delicious after you have been left for a long time."

"Okay." Xia Yu and Bai Yujiao, the two foodies, nodded in unison and said yes. Bai Gaorui also knew that they would not count them all in a short while.

They all went downstairs to have dinner with Bai Hanhai first.

Bai Yujiao wanted to go to the table directly, but her mother reminded her to wash her hands first. The girl laughed and said to her mysteriously, "My husband brought us some good things, and grandma and mother have a share."

"Ayu is always so polite, and he doesn't dare to call him over in the future." Zhou Xiuying said with a smile.

"How could it be? Just take care of anything good if you have something." Bai Yu said with a smile, then reached out to pull Xia Yu to wash his hands and prepare for dinner.

The two went to the kitchen, washed their hands, and helped grandma take the freshly steamed crabs to the table.

The seafood that Xia Yu brought this time was the same as what he put at home for Xia Xue and the others to eat. They were all seafood with long-lasting vitality, and they didn’t take grouper or something. After all, they still had to pretend to get it from the side of Zhawa. In the port city, the sea area was also polluted heavily, and Xia Yu had no idea to go to the sea to catch seafood.

However, these seafoods have already made everyone particularly satisfied. When Bai Yujiao peeled crabs, she said happily, "If you have a husband, you won't have to worry about not having delicious seafood."

The seafood was steamed with flower crabs and green lobsters that night, both of which were the most produced, and it was just a few other home-cooked dishes.

Originally, in the most nutritious and healthy way, lunch should be the best, and dinner should be lighter. But everyone has to go to work and school, and there are not so many conditions, so they can only eat the best meal at night.
Chapter completed!