The "Shitang old ginger" that is difficult to distinguish between true and false
Rubble. It is not an exaggeration to praise a piece of "old ginger" with beautiful words such as fake and true, vivid, beautiful and delicious.
This piece of old ginger is the size of a tiger's palm, and the skin color, nodes, young shoots and the shape of the whole piece of old ginger are distinct. Thick and sturdy, the muscles are old and spicy, like the ginger that has just been taken out of the cellar, ready to obey the owner's arrangement, one by one in the fertile soil in the spring season, and will glow with a new round of life journey.
Shitang old ginger] Shoushan stone front Wang Kaiyu collection.
Why is a piece of old ginger praised so beautifully?Could it be that this piece of old ginger is stained with the fairy spirit in the peach orchard of the Queen Mother on Kunlun Mountain? !In fact, this is a piece of "stone ginger" carved out of stone, and I am sure that if this piece of "stone ginger" is mixed and sold on the ginger beach, it can be completely fake, and if it is not checked, customers and passers-by who buy ginger will not know that it is a piece of "stone ginger!" carved out of stone”
Mao Shi, Mr. Wang Kaiyu and [Shitang Old Jiang] took a photo
I really saw this piece of "old ginger" at noon on October 4, 2022, because the day before, I made an appointment with the stone friend of the "Quanzhou Calligraphy and Painting Strange Stone Club Group" with the online name "Kaikai", and I wanted to send a newly published book "Rocky Beach" to him for sale.
At about 11:20 p.m., I went to the "Kaikai" garage to open the "Fuxin Jade Wholesale Department" store as promised, to be honest, I was the first time to meet with Mr. "Kaikai", in fact, "Kaikai" was named Wang Kaiyu, after 70, although we have an age gap, but we hit it off at first sight.
After the greetings, I enthusiastically made tea, washed cups, and poured tea for me.
Kaikai joined the "Quanzhou Calligraphy and Painting Strange Stone Club Group" after me, and then met each other and added friends, and slowly learned that Kaikai opened a jade shop, mainly engaged in jade and jade. Beautiful stone for jade, jade, strange stone collection is not divided into each other, whenever recalling in the 2009 years, the strange stone world of Yunnan Huanglongyu crazy pursuit of the boom vividly.
Three cups of tea, at this time, Kaikai took out a brown square towel wrapped in a brown square towel from the safe standing on the left back and put it on the tea table, while opening the towel and said to me sincerely: "Brother Mao, you came just in time, I bought a few days ago a 'ginger' shaped carving, since I bought it back, my heart is always unsteady, I showed it to other people and said: This thing should be fake!."Brother Mao, I won't tell you, I bought this carving back for tens of thousands, if it's fake, then I'll lose it!”
Shitang old ginger] Shoushan stone back Wang Kaiyu collection.
Yes, as a collector, if the "leaky eye" not only loses money, but also will be used as a joke by others, this is not self-forgivable.
The towel was slowly opened: "Ahhh"It turns out that in my "Guilin Quanzhou Strange Stone Hui Group", Wang Zhiwen Shiyou posted the "Shitang Old Ginger", I really didn't expect to meet here unexpectedly!
After a careful examination of this "old ginger", through my understanding and cognition of Fujian Shoushan stone on various ** over the years, I think that this "old ginger" is a handicraft carved from Shoushan stone, which is just a kind of leftover material carved from Fujian Shoushan stone.
Because in the Fujian Shoushan stone carving industry, in recent years, the rise of the stone color, stone type will be a variety of "corner waste" to carve into "vegetables and fruits", "food", "insects and birds", etc., thus forming a new "skillful carving" category, so ingenious, the work that comes out is enough to be fake, in many appreciative people hesitate, when they know that the truth is the real stone carved out, but they have to admire the exquisite skills of the carving master to the ground.
My nonsense and self-righteous "crooked fallacy" also relieved the knot in my heart that had been depressed for a long time.
Then, I asked puzzledly, "What is the relationship between Wang Zhiwen and you?"Kai Kai replied to me: "Wang Zhiwen and I are from Shitang, we are aunts and cousins, and he is a cousin. ”
Oh, I see.
I also know that Wang Zhiwen is a native of Shitang, Quanzhou, and because of his love for strange stones, I added him to the "Guilin Quanzhou Strange Stone Hui Group". Soon after, Wang Zhiwen posted a ** that looked like old ginger in the group, and at that time I felt that a piece of old ginger was worth drying in the strange stone group, and Wang Zhiwen Shiyou explained: "This is not ginger, but a piece of 'ginger' carved out of stone", many stone friends did not believe it at that time, and later he simply changed his screen name to "Shitang Old Ginger", and wrote here, which is why I spent a lot of time at the beginning of this article.
As the people of the whole state know, Shitang Town has outstanding people, and lives in Hunan, Guizhou and Guangdong and other traffic "cross" arteries, and ginger has been flourishing since ancient times. Because of its crisp, tender and fragrant ginger, thick and mellow old ginger, it is one of the important cash crops in the state, so it is included in the "National Geographical Indication List". A few years ago, I also wrote an article on "Quanzhou Shitang Zijiang" for this purpose, which was published on the "Nanguo Everyone" platform. I think it's not surprising that this piece of "old ginger" is named "Shitang old ginger".
Fujian Shoushan Stone "Shitang Old Ginger" this handicraft, the world is different, I am curious about how to have a beautiful stone relationship with the Shitang people and Shitang ginger in Quanzhou, Guangxi.
Then I asked, "When and where did you buy this carving?"”
"A few years ago, I once met a native of Yongzhou, Hunan Province when I was engaged in the mobile phone industry, he was not our peer, but an expert in the jade industry, and often walked between Hunan, Guizhou and Fujian. Because I often listen to this brother surnamed Tang joke about all kinds of anecdotes in the jade world, this kind of 'close to Zhu Zhechi' gradually made me hear and see that I became interested in jade and jade. Once I told him, next time I go to Fujian I will accompany you to see, so in October last year, we came to Fuzhou City, Fujian Province to visit the Shoushan stone carving master trip. ”
Great auspiciousness] Shoushan stone carvings Wang Kaiyu collection.
As we all know, Shoushan stone is a unique precious stone in the history of Fuzhou, and its stone is crystal clear, greasy, red, colorful, and natural. The color boundary is clear, with the characteristics of rarity, humanity and appreciation, and is deeply loved by people at home and abroad, and in 2003 it was identified as a candidate stone for the "national stone". As a seal carving enthusiast, Shoushan stone billet is also one of the choices for seal carving.
Kaikai continued to introduce to me: "In the home of a skilled but humble and low-key master Xie in the Shoushan stone carving industry in Fuzhou City, on the Bogu shelf and on the glass counter, under the just right lighting, a dazzling and exquisite array of works are vivid and lifelike, which seems to have made me enter a fantastic mirage. One by one, there are imitations of a spike shell red, flesh white water spirit 'lychee';Because of the shape and carving, imitation fried crispy 'phoenix claws' and other ingenious Shoushan stone carvings, at this moment, in addition to the soul shock, the Zunzun carvings make people dizzy and beautiful.
At this time, one of the things I am most familiar with comes into view: a lifetime of ginger, and it is still old ginger.
I was suspicious, so I stopped in front of the 'ginger' to take a closer look, is this piece of ginger real?!This ginger can't be real?!Countless questions are knocking on my heart, this is too much like the old ginger grown by the ginger farmers in Shitang, our hometown!
Brother Mao, I won't tell you that at that time, I was in front of this 'old ginger' for more than half an hour to distinguish the real from the fake. At the same time, this piece of old ginger seems to have been waiting for a person who has a common spirit, one by one, I think this person is me, this "old ginger" belongs to me!
When I told Master Xie that I had the heart to invite this baby home, Master Xie did not hesitate to decline my kindness, and explained to me that this 'ginger' carving work was a proud work of mine a few years ago, and the stone is our Shoushan stone in Fuzhou, which is not a matter of money, but a proud work that condenses a lot of my hard work, therefore, this 'old ginger' is reluctant to be taken away by others!
I can't bear to take people's love, since this is the case, I have to add him as a WeChat friend first, and then talk about it slowly.
Since I added friends with Master Xie, I usually chatted with Master Xie about this 'old ginger' Shoushan stone carving from time to time in WeChat chats, and often revealed my love for it. About five or six times this year, Master Xie saw that I really had a soft spot for this 'ginger' work, and coupled with my sincerity and perseverance, he finally gave me his beloved treasure Hui. ”
Huaguo Mountain] Shoushan Stone Wang Kaiyu Collection.
In the end, Kaikai said to me with deep feelings: "Brother Mao, through the contact with Master Xie for more than half a year, I have realized a truth: to be honest and do things one by one, but also to have a hard and persistent heart, in this way, every wish will eventually be rewarded, I think this is my chance encounter and strange fate with this 'Shitang Old Ginger'!."”
Note: 1[Shitang Old Ginger] is the hibiscus stone of Fujian Shoushan Stone, and [Huaguo Mountain] and [Dajidali] belong to Fujian Shoushan Stone Cave Gaoshan Stone.
2.Except for group photos, the above ** are all photographed by Mao Shi.
endAbout the author】Mao Shi, born in 1962 in Quanzhou, Guilin, Guangxi, his ancestral home is Zunhua, Hebei, and he is of Manchu nationality. He graduated from Quanzhou High School in July 1977 and graduated from the Quanzhou "Political Management Class" of the Guangxi District Party School of the Communist Party of China in 1994. In October 1979, he joined the Chinese People's Liberation Army, served as a clerk of a certain company, and retired from an administrative department. He has published nearly 200 articles in "Everyone in the South" and "Exploring Guibei". He is a member of the Quanzhou Xiangshan Poetry Society and the author of the book "Rocky Beach".