Ma Weidou: In order to make "blood jade", cultural relics dealers put jade in the leg of lamb. What happened three years later?

In fact, counterfeiting has existed since ancient times. In literature, some literati want their articles to be read by more people, so they put their articles under the names of others. For example, when Su Guo's works were banned because of his father Su Shi, the world thought of a way to preserve Su Guo's poems, that is, to record his poems in the name of the poet Wang Zao. Of course, this is out of kindness. The ancients were not aware of copyright, so people often do this. This is only in literature, but sometimes people fake calligraphy and paintings, or celebrities fake them, mainly to train themselves to copy ancient paintings, such as the most famous fake painter Zhang Daqian.

However, most fakes in modern society are for profit. They use unscrupulous means to copy the fakes in their hands and sell them at high prices. The most cruel fake is "blood jade". Blood jade is a kind of red jade produced in snowy plateau, which refers to jade with a hint of red veins in white jade. It can be clearly seen in the sun, usually used as a bracelet, and occasionally there are pendants. It is an extremely rare real jade, and it takes hundreds of years to form a blood jade.

As we all know, jade symbolizes beauty. The ancients often used jade to describe a gentleman. Xiao Rong in the Book of Songs: "A gentleman speaks like jade." Therefore, jade occupies an important position in the history and culture of China, and there is even a saying that "gold is valuable and jade is priceless". It makes sense that people love to collect jade articles now. Jade can be seen everywhere, but good jade is rare, especially blood jade, which is rare in a hundred years. I still need some opportunities to meet blood jade, so the price is extremely expensive.

Ma Weidou, who has been ups and downs in the antique world for many years, has exposed the method of illegal businessmen forging blood jade. It is said that jade can support people, and unscrupulous businessmen use sheep blood to support jade. They choose the best jade materials, then make a hole in the leg of lamb, and then bury these good jade materials in the leg of lamb, so that the blood of the sheep can be soaked in the jade, so that it can last for three years. The inner veins of jade will be dyed red by sheep blood. After three years, kill the sheep to get jade, and then an old blood jade will come out. Most people have no experience and can tell the true and false jade without bleeding at all, so many people make money by this method.

Imagine that if you put a foreign body into a person's body for no reason, you will feel uncomfortable. Jade is still a cold thing, and sheep can't talk, so they can only endure the pain of jade in their bodies. Although the farmed sheep will eventually be eaten, they will kill animals for their own benefit, which is also a manifestation of moral deficiency.

The reason why those vendors use sheep blood to raise jade is probably because of the legend of blood jade: "It is said that the formation of blood jade is related to corpses. When people die, jade is forced into people's mouths as a topic jade. If you put it in your throat when you swallow your last breath, it will fall into your throat, enter your blood vessels, and be left behind for thousands of years. The blood of the corpse will penetrate the jade and reach the jade heart, and the blood jade will be formed. "

But in fact, the formation of jade has nothing to do with blood. Blood jade appeared because jade was buried in the coffin as a funerary object. After a long time, magnesium in the soil or iron in funerary objects will be oxidized and decomposed into jade, so the "blood" in blood jade is dark red or reddish brown, not "blood", but the color caused by iron or magnesium.