It turned out that at the beginning, they were all small jade workshops like the one on the northern construction site. They were not the places where fakes were made and sold at the beginning.

At that time, the country's various changes were made, and the national antique and cultural relics market had just begun to recover, but it had not yet reached its current level.

At that time, there were also a group of Chinese people who liked jade, but the consumption capacity of Chinese people at that time was really limited. Even if they made exquisite jade, they could only be sold as high-end handicrafts, and they could not buy any good prices.

At that time, some older generation jade masters who went abroad during the liberation returned to China under the name of visiting relatives, brought a lot of information about the foreign antique market, which made the local minds come to mind and began to have ideas.

In the years that followed, various small workshops that secretly made fake antique jade began to be established here like mushrooms after a rain.

At that time, after they made fake antique jade, some people would come to Yangcheng to receive goods, and then transport them to Xiangjiang through smuggling, and then come to those antique shops or auctions through various channels.

Because at that time, there was no fake antique jade in the world at that time, the fakes they produced were quite confusing and were quickly sold out by collectors.

This also made people here taste the sweetness, so the business became bigger and bigger.

Later, the antique fake jade they produced here has become famous internationally. Many antique lovers change their color when they hear it, and almost not many have paid tuition fees.

But in this way, although their products here are famous, they come to see them.

There are antique dealers in Xiangjiang, antique dealers in Baodao, and Singaporeans and the United States. Even some white-skinned ghosts have followed the way and found this place. In this way, their reputation here is getting bigger and bigger, and their business is getting bigger and bigger.

Later, not only those people came, but also as the domestic economic development progressed, the domestic antique and cultural relics market also recovered in full swing. More and more rich people like to be arty and buy a few antiques and put them at home to play with them.

Chinese people have always liked jade. Especially the ancient jade from last year, it was even more pleasing. As long as it was from the Ming and Qing dynasties, it could be bought at a high price of more than 100,000 or even hundreds of thousands. This made the domestic ancient jade market become popular.

As a result, more and more domestic antique dealers or various dealers came to them to shop for goods. In this way, the antique jade market in Zhucheng finally became famous.

This is the origin of this antique jade market. As for fraud, there are many tricks here...

"In fact, fraud can be divided into several aspects, some are mid- and low-end, and some are high-end, but few people have done high-end now, and they are mainly concentrated in the mid- and low-end market."

When Lao Luo talked about these things, he said too much, and Jin Muchen was also fascinated by it.

"Oh? How do you say this?"

"The reason is very simple, it is because of the problem of jade material. In fact, the mainstream consumption in the market is still mid- and low-end jadeware and high-quality jadeware. Although everyone likes it, the price is too high, so the consumption population is specific. There are not many people. And those who can afford such good things will of course ask a few special appraisal masters to help you identify it. It is a bit difficult to get through them. Another key is that if you want to make high-end antique jadeware, you have to pass the materials first.

For example, high-end antique jadeware is basically all of Hetian mutton fat white jade. If you want to make a fake Hetian mutton fat white jade, then you must first ensure that the material you use is also mutton fat white jade. What is the price of this mutton fat white jade now? The output is rare and the price of raw stones is almost as good as jade. Who would be willing to use such precious materials to make fakes? It would be better to use this material directly and find a few masters with superb carvings to make real things. In this way, even if it is not antiques, the price of the products made will not be too low."

After Lao Luo said this, Jin Muchen finally understood the little things here.

"But in the meantime, the mid- and low-end ancient jade market is the same. Because the ancient jade in the mid- and low-end market is generally made of jasper, but ancient jade is also from the jasper in Hotan. Such jade is very valuable, but now because of the discovery of Qinghai jade mine and Russian jade mine, there are more places to do it here. Qinghai jade is also jasper, and the output is large, and the same is Russian jade. Most of them are jasper, with large output and relatively high-quality quality. Therefore, the price of these two jades is not too high, but it is a good material for making antique fake jade. Now here is a specialized use of Qinghai jade to make low-end antique fake jade, and Russian jade to make mid-range antique fake jade. Because Russian jade has fewer impurities than Qinghai jade and better quality, so everyone does this."

After Lao Luo said this, Jin Muchen finally understood that this antique fake jade was also classified according to the materials.

"That means of old things are actually very simple."

When Jin Muchen heard Lao Luo say this, he suddenly pricked up his ears, and finally came to the point. Lao Luo is really a honest person, and he didn't even intend to hide this from himself. It's true that he is Tao Sister's good brother!

"In fact, the so-called fraud, according to our jargon, is to make old, so that those newly carved jades will bring more traces of old. The most common method is to make old, generally, place the carved jade in 10% hydrofluoric acid solution and soak for about 4-10 hours. When taken out, the so-called "white gray skin" will appear on the jade. This white gray skin is usually used by those who go in and out of the journey to judge the age of ancient jade.

The mark of the jade is either soaked in a solution mixed with sulfuric acid, nitric acid and water to make white gray skin. Of course, if you want to add other colors to certain parts of the jade, you can use wax to seal and isolate the parts that do not need to be gray skin before soaking. Some parts of the fake jade produced in this way will not be covered with white gray skin, which will look more beautiful, and will be more confusing when judging and identifying. Generally, people with short-term entry time will easily get hit on this kind of jade."

This old Luo is really honest. He said so much to Jin Muchen in one breath, but it opened his eyes.

And after hearing what he said, Jin Muchen also had a layer of white hair sweat on his back. Fortunately, he had a pair of golden eyes that could remove the false and preserve the truth, so that he could judge that it was the real thing and that kind of thing.

If I didn’t have those golden eyes, I would probably have to suffer a loss if I was on this jade alone.

These fake dealers are really immoral. You should know that Chinese people like jade and like to raise jade. When they get a piece of jade, they will definitely like to keep it in their palms and tray it.

But you actually use various sulfuric acid, nitric acid, or hydrofluoric acid to soak jade. What should you do if someone accidentally gets poisoned when he takes it back to the plate?

This is so immoral, but although he kept cursing in his heart at this time, he was still chatting and laughing on the surface, without showing any dissatisfaction with the couple.

"What about besides these? What other channels will we use to make old things?"

"There is another kind of so-called alkaline old method, which is also called the "high-pressure old method". It is to mix sodium hydroxide, sodium carbonate and sodium brickate in a fixed ratio, wrap the polished jade in lard, put it in a closed stainless steel pressure cooker for heating and pressurization. The pressure is generally controlled at 80-120 atmospheres and the temperature is controlled at 160-200 degrees. After four days, take it out, blow it with carbon dioxide hot air, and then reduce it with sulfuric acid, and the surface of the jade will appear white gray and glass light.

To make color, you can also apply mercury sulfide or iron trichloride to the parts that need to be made before putting the jade into a pressure cooker. The fake jade made in this way will be even more difficult to distinguish the authenticity. This method will be used when it is usually used to make antique jade of mid-priced prices. Compared with real antiques, fake jade made in this way can definitely be said to be difficult to tell the truth. If you are not an old man who has been working hard in the jade industry for decades, you will never be able to judge the difference between this fake jade and real antique…”

When Lao Luo said this, his face turned red with excitement.

Jin Muchen was shocked when he heard this. Damn, the person who invented this method of fraud is really so genius.

If you say you have this skill to study such evil ways, if you use this skill to a serious way, but study and do scientific research, maybe China will have a winner of the Nobel Prize in Chemistry or the Nobel Prize in Physics.

After hearing what Lao Luo said, Jin Muchen only felt that he was very stupid. If someone hadn't told him so much, even if he had broken his head, he wouldn't have thought that this ancient jade was fake, and it turned out that it was such a skillful trick.

It seems that this business of making antique fake jade is really not something that anyone can do.

If you don’t have basic chemistry and physics knowledge, it’s hard for you to get into the threshold.

On the other hand, what Lao Luo said is true is the antique fake jade made by such a profound combination of physics and chemistry.
Chapter completed!