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The Warring States guqins were mostly Shennong styles and Fuxi styles. Among them, the Zhongni style created by Confucius also appeared in historical materials. Other types such as flying pearl styles were created by literati of the Sui Dynasty, so they naturally could not appear on the guqins in the Warring States Period.

The Warring States guqin in front of me is red and black all over, but some of the colors have fallen off and look a little worn. It can be passed down from the Warring States Period to this day. This guqin may have undergone countless maintenance and coloring. In some places, traces of repair can be seen.

This color of red and black blending is the most commonly used for guqin. Its color similar to cinnabar makes the guqin full of ancient meaning.

However, when Fang You looked carefully, he found that the body of this piano was thicker than the Tang Dynasty guqin he obtained. It must be the characteristics of the Warring States guqin. Judging from the shapes of some Warring States guqins discovered in modern China, it is already much different from the subsequent guqins.

I just looked at the shape of the guqin roughly, and then Fang You sat at the table and watched the body seriously. The guqin had no strings, but from the position where the strings were fixed on both sides, it should be a seven-string guqin.

Suddenly, when watching the piano surface, Fang You's face changed slightly, staring at the piano surface, and after only watching for a few glances, he showed a look of surprise on his face, "The plum blossoms are broken, it turns out that what Mr. Chu said is true. Just from the plum blossoms break, you can know the age of the guqin."

"Mr. Li, what is the broken plum blossom? Are these cracks?" Seeing Fang You's surprise expression, Matsumoto Akidao couldn't help but ask with confusion. He could still see other antiques such as porcelain, but he could not know the age of this guqin at all, and even the approximate age could not be guessed.

Fang You smiled suddenly and shook his head, "These are not ordinary cracks, but broken patterns representing the guqin era. Have you seen that these broken patterns intertwined and formed round shapes, like blooming plum blossoms. This is the broken plum blossoms."

"Just like the annual rings of a big tree, the instrument made of wood will naturally change with the age. This broken pattern is a symbol of the age of the guqin and a characteristic that only the guqin can appear among many Chinese musical instruments. This unique phenomenon is due to the wooden expansion and contraction of the guqin, and the degree of aging of the gray paint on the guqin, which has been formed after countless years. The wooden expansion and contraction of the guqin is mainly manifested in the vibration of the surface of the guqin when playing the guqin. Over time, with other influences, broken patterns will appear."

"There are many broken patterns of the guqin, such as the turtle's back, the snake's belly, the cow's hair, the flowing water, the ice pattern, etc. Among them, these broken patterns, which are like plum blossoms, represent the ancient times of this guqin, and are also the rarest and most precious of the many broken patterns. There are records of the history of the guqin, the plum blossoms have not been broken for thousands of years. In other words, the plum blossoms appear in this guqin. At least it represents that it has a history of more than a thousand years." Fang You looked at the broken patterns of the plum blossoms on the face of the zither, and his heart was filled with surprise.

The plum blossom broken pattern can be said to be the most precious one among the broken patterns of the guqin, and it represents a long time. The guqin with broken patterns is far better than the guqin without broken patterns.

After listening to Fang You's narration, Matsumoto Akidao and others were deeply shocked when they looked at the broken patterns on the guqin. They could even know the age of these cracks in the guqin. They felt that Fang You's proposal was very correct, and they should go to the university to learn more about antiques and archaeology to make up for their shortcomings.

Fang You watched the entire face of the piano, a long-standing guqin. Not only would there be a kind of broken pattern, but even if there is a plum blossom in one place, it can be called a plum blossom broken guqin. In addition to the plum blossom broken guqin, he also found some common broken patterns such as the snake belly broken. However, these broken patterns are far less precious and long-lasting than the plum blossom broken.

When he was watching carefully, the broken patterns in one of them made him open his eyes wide, and he couldn't believe it, "It turned out to be a broken turtle back. This is not far from the age of the plum blossoms, and it is even more precious. On this piano, two kinds of broken patterns appeared one after another. These two broken patterns on this piano are already very precious."

On this piano body, Fang You found broken patterns that looked like a turtle's back. Some of the broken patterns on the back seemed to be mixed with plum blossoms, which was beyond his expectations.

Speaking of which, the turtle's back is a rare existence than the plum blossom break. There are few turtle's back broken on the guqin in history. Its age can be said to be more difficult to break with the plum blossom break. There are comments on the history of the zither, and it is difficult to buy the turtle's pattern break, which is used to illustrate the preciousness of this broken pattern.

Listening to Fang You's words, Akidao Matsumoto and others naturally knew the preciousness of this piano, and they couldn't help but feel a little lucky. Fortunately, Fang You came to the small island country in time. Otherwise, if they sent the piano to an auction house or a black market for auction, it would be an irreparable mistake. They could not have imagined that a piano that looked so dilapidated would be a precious cultural relic.

"This piano with the turtle back and plum blossom broken patterns must be not an ordinary thing. It can be passed down from the Spring and Autumn Period and the Warring States Period to the present. Every owner who gets it will definitely do his best to maintain its perfection." Fang You looked at the guqin with two precious guqins, with great expectations in his heart, and began to look for possible guqin inscriptions on the entire guqin.

Most of the guqins that have been passed down from generation to generation are engraved with the name of the piano and some information, just like the name Qin Jiuxiao Huanpeng. The four characters Jiuxiao Huanpeng are engraved at the piano pool, and in other places, there are also inscriptions from celebrities who obtained this piano or some piano poetry clubs.

After watching the front of the guqin for a while, Fang You found some inscriptions, but they were written by some literati who obtained this guitar in the Qingming Dynasty, but they had never found any handwriting about the name of this guitar.

Moreover, there were only a few literati of the Qingming Dynasty, which was just a strange thing. This guqin has been passed down from the Warring States Period to the present, but there are no other dynasties to appreciate the words. This is a very big doubt. On the back, thinking about it, Fang You suddenly turned the guqin over carefully. On the back of the guqin, he also saw the beautiful broken patterns.

The broken patterns on the guqin are not only a symbol of the age, but also add to the beauty of the zither. The broken patterns of plum blossoms are like plum blossoms blooming on the zither, adding a lot of wonderful charm to the zither.

On the back of the piano, it was on the back of the piano, and he also found no handwriting. The Warring States Guqin without handwriting could not be believed.

The things that can be preserved so well are definitely not objects stored in the tomb for a long time. Only objects that have been passed down from generation to generation can be so complete. A guqin made of wood may have long been decayed in the environment in the tomb. In modern times, several Warring States guqins have been unearthed, but their decay is hard to pick up and cannot be played.

It has been passed down from the Spring and Autumn Period to the Warring States Period, and is by no means an unknown person. The literati from the Qingming Dynasty engraved on it have written words that praise the existence of the pure tone and melodious echoes of this piano.

Apart from the handwriting left by these well-known literati, Fang You never found any other texts on the entire guqin. This is what he was most puzzled about. Even if this guqin is not a famous guqin, it is impossible that only the words left from the Ming and Qing dynasties were left.

Fang You also suspected that the guqin was like the Venus Dragon Inkstone, and Yue Fei's righteous inkstone was hidden by others with the outer skin, but he did not find this situation from some of the wooden lacquer falling off.

However, through some gray tires under the wood paint, Fang You learned why this piano could be preserved until now. After the Tang Dynasty guqin of Siren of the Martial Arts Department was taken back to Wuyang, Mr. Chu explained a lot of knowledge about the guqin based on the guqin.

The gray tire under this guqin wood lacquer is used as pure deer antler frost. This is a lacquer tire unique to the Tang Dynasty qin. It was also invented by qin craftsmen in the Tang Dynasty. As the name suggests, the pure deer antler frost tire is made of deer antlers, and then ground into powder. Mixed with paint and applied on the qin. Its most prominent feature is that it is as brilliant as stars, which is a phenomenon manifested by the unique color of deer antlers.

The piano made of pure deer antler frost is strong and durable, and is also the only reason why the guqin of the Tang Dynasty can be preserved to this day. I believe this Warring States guqin was greatly trimmed in the Tang Dynasty, and then it can continue to be preserved for thousands of years.

If the spiritual energy seen in the eyes was not green, I am afraid Fang You would have determined that this piano was a Tang qin heirloom, but anything could be faked. The spiritual energy that evolved over history in its antiques and cultural relics had no possibility of counterfeiting. The green spiritual energy could already represent that this piano existed in the Spring and Autumn Period and the Warring States Period.

As he said that, Fang You activated the escape technique again. In order to carefully observe the piano body, he had stopped the escape technique. Now he activated it again. Suddenly, the green spiritual energy suddenly floated out of the piano body and was absorbed into his body by him.

This green spiritual energy is very rich, which means that this piano is definitely a fine item. Fang You looked at the piano body covered by the green spiritual energy and fell into thought. The green spiritual energy kept floating on the guqin. If it was seen by others, it would definitely be shocked and regarded as an immortal zither.

Suddenly, while Fang You was staring at the piano body and thinking, a yellow color flashed in front of him, which made him come to his senses instantly. He looked at the spiritual energy that was floating out of the piano body. He had not discovered it just now, but now, except for the blue color, there was a trace of yellow spiritual energy in the piano body.

Could it be that this is the guqin in the Song Dynasty, made of the Song Dynasty, and then applied with lacquer invented in the Tang Dynasty, but what should be explained in the blue aura? If the yellow aura was not too rare, Fang You would probably guess this way.

However, the yellow spiritual energy that suddenly appeared was very sparse, and it only appeared little by little, and it was not as rich as the blue spiritual energy.

This situation made Fang You confused. The body of the piano was filled with green aura. The yellow aura may have been revealed by the materials used to repair this piano in the Tang Dynasty.

Why didn't he appear just now? Instead, he waited for a while before appearing? According to some experiences since Fang You obtained the escape technique, the spiritual energy that did not appear at first, but later appeared usually contains objects hidden in it.

Just like the Venus Dragon Inkstone, he first discovered the red aura on it, and then when he was about to leave, he suddenly saw the yellow aura revealed in it, and thus obtained the Venus Dragon Inkstone.

Suddenly, he thought of something, that is, there were only words left by people from the Ming and Qing dynasties on this piano, and before the Yuan Dynasty, no one left handwriting on it. Perhaps this yellow spiritual energy could help him solve everything.

Fang You immediately controlled the escape technique, ignored the green spiritual energy, and focused only on the source of the yellow spiritual energy. The green spiritual energy would emit from every part of the piano body, but this yellow spiritual energy only floated out in a few fixed positions, and there were seven places in total.

Is there something really hidden in this piano? Fang You's heart is full of expectations, just like the kind of expectations when he was hunting treasures, constantly looking through the entire guqin in order to discover the doubts in it.

As he kept watching, he couldn't help but sigh that if he had possessed the Wooden Escape Technique, then the secret of the Guqin would be discovered instantly. Unfortunately, he has now obtained three kinds of escape Techniques, water, earth, and metal, but there is no Wooden Escape Technique.

He inferred from the location and appearance of the spiritual energy that this thing with yellow spiritual energy must be in the body of the piano.

There are several holes on the back of the piano. This is the dragon pool and wind swamp of the guqin, which is an indispensable part of the guqin structure.

From these two holes, you can see some situations inside the piano, but Fang You checked it and found nothing existed.

Looking at the entire body of the guqin, Fang You suddenly stared at the front body of the guqin. He thought of a difference he had observed before, that is, the body of this guqin was far thicker than that of the Tang Dynasty guqin.

However, through the holes on the back of the guqin, nothing was found. Could it be that this thing was hidden in the thick body of the guqin on the front of the guqin?

Fang You tapped it lightly, but found no doubts, as if the piano was solid and nothing existed.

However, he did not give up. He still beat the piano little by little and activated the escape technique. Using the position of the yellow spiritual energy, he discovered the suspicion.

There are seven locations in total, like the seven strings of the guqin, distributed on the guqin, but the aura exposed is very thin.
Chapter completed!