The current jewelry market is mainly dominated by simple and bright Western jewelry, and the jewelry processing industry often uses machines to replace manual labor. Therefore, the path of Chinese retro jewelry, which is mainly artificial, is really possible to make it work.

But even if it can be done, it is probably not something that has no foundation like Yicheng. But if your heart is not that big and you just choose one of the small branches, Li Yi thinks that you can still try it.

In fact, there are still some traditional techniques that are very valuable in Chinese jewelry craftsmanship. It is like burning blue and inlaid with filigree. In fact, it is not worse than the current jade carving and cloisonné. It is just that there are too few people who know this precious craftsmanship, and the style of the jewelry conflicts with modern outfits and cannot be sold at the price, so it slowly fades into demise.

Li Yi thought about it all the way, and soon they rushed to Mr. Ota's jewelry store.

Ota's jewelry store is the best and largest in the antique store chosen by Aita Misa. Because Ota mainly sells modern jewelry, antique jewelry accounts for less than one-third, and there are about five or six counters.

"Aita is here, I don't know what to buy this time? Come here, let's see it for you. This time our Ota found a good thing and he specifically told me to keep it for you." As soon as I entered the door, an amiable aunt greeted Aita Misa.

"Oh? Mrs. Naoko, this time, what good things did Mr. Ota prepare for me?"

"A little green hairpin, I heard that it was a good thing in the Qing palace that year, worn by my concubine."

Ai Tian's face showed a hint of surprise, but he hadn't forgotten to greet Li Yi, "Mr. Li Yi, let's go over and take a look together? If you are interested, I will give it to you this time. How about it?"

Li Yi raised his eyebrows. He was thinking about traditional craftsmanship just now, but he didn't expect to see the same thing immediately. Diancui, but a good thing has never been seen much before!

The green coloring process is a traditional Han gold and silver jewelry making process. It first originated in the Han Dynasty, developed to its peak during the Third Qing Dynasty, and was almost extinct in modern times.

Green means the feathers of kingfishers. Green dot jewelry is made of gold or gold-pinched metal to make a base with different patterns, and then the bright blue feathers on the back of the kingfisher are carefully inlaid on the base to make it.

The jewelry made from this craft is bright and flowing, never fading, and looks very beautiful.

During the Ming and Qing dynasties, gems were generally luxurious items in the palace. In fact, as early as the Song Dynasty, the famous poet Su Dongpo once wrote a palindrome "Bodhisattva Man". The "cui" in the first two sentences refers to gemstone jewelry.

The green hair is slanted with clouds hanging down the ears. The ears are slanted with clouds hanging down the ears. The clouds hanging down the sky are slanted with clouds hanging down the sky. The hair is slept with drowsy in the Spring Festival Gala. The spring evening is slept with drowsy in the late spring.

The thin rosewood is falling in the snow. The falling is falling in the flowers. I miss you who is thinking of you. Who is thinking of you?

There are also ancient jewelry such as the phoenix crown of Emperor Xiaoduan of Wanli, the phoenix crown of Emperor Xiaoduan of Wanli, the jewels embedded in the silk, the five phoenix ornaments of silver-plated squirrels, the head of the hairpin, the dotted green beads and stone phoenix ornaments of flowers, and the finest products.

However, because of the use of kingfisher feathers and the major changes in traditional clothing after entering the industrial age, the demise of the jade-die craft has become an irreversible trend.

In fact, in the late Qing Dynasty, due to the rareness of kingfisher feathers, the imitation of the dot-dished green craftsmanship using peacock feathers, dyed goose feathers, rough-patterned paper, blue satin ribbons and other objects instead of the kingfisher feathers, but the effect is far less than that of real dot-dished jewelry.

The hairpin found by Ota is indeed a real piece of jade jewelry, and it is a relatively precious soft jade.

Soft Cui refers to the green feathers used in the green are the smaller feathers on the kingfisher. Correspondingly, Hard Cui refers to the large feathers on the kingfisher's wings and tail feathers. Because there are relatively large numbers, there are about 28 in total, so as early as that time, the price of Soft Cui would be about twice as expensive as the same style of Hard Cui.

"Madam Naoko, how do you sell this hairpin?" Misa Aida saw at a glance that Li Yi was attracted to this piece of jewelry, so she asked the price directly without waiting for him to remind him.

"This piece is called the beaded gourd flower butterfly dotted green hairpin. It is a real palace craft, so the price may be a bit expensive."

"It's okay, good things are like this, just like the last time the burnt blue bun."

Mrs. Naoko smiled knowingly, "Although it will be a bit expensive, if Aita wants to buy it, you have to offer a discount, so that it will be 3.7 million yen."

"Thank you, Mrs. Naoko." Aida Misa took out her credit card and handed it to Naoko. While she was swiping the card, she quietly said to Li Yi: "Mr. Li, you will pay me the original price later. Of course, if you don't like it, I will collect this one by myself."

Li Yi smiled and expressed his gratitude. This piece is a treasure in Chinese traditional craftsmanship. Naturally, he cannot say anything polite or what a gentleman does not win the favor of others.

After finishing the jewelry specially prepared for Misa Aita, Li Yi began to carefully look at other jewelry from the Ota family.

Originally, he thought that a piece of Diancui jewelry might be a better thing in the store, but he didn't expect that after just looking at it for a while, he saw several things that were much better than this one. However, the prices of these things are often tens of millions. It seems that the Diancui hairpin was specially prepared for her after the other party measured Ai Tian's purchasing power.

"Mrs. Naoko, can you help me take out this bracelet with filament inlaid? "

Li Yi stopped at a counter. He took a fancy to a wide-edged bracelet inlaid with filigree. He did not collect it, but just to buy a souvenir for Lu Ningshuang.

"No problem! Are you a friend of Ai Tian? If you want to buy it, I can also give you discounts."

Li Yi hurriedly thanked him, then picked up the bracelet and looked carefully.

Fragrance inlay is also a traditional jewelry craft, also known as the fine gold craft, which was mainly used in the production of royal jewelry in the past.

The filament inlay is mainly composed of two parts, the part is "fiber". Gold, silver and copper are usually used as raw materials. First, by drawing, they are made into metal filaments with a maximum diameter of 4 mm and a minimum diameter of 0.2 mm. Then, these filaments are woven into various jewelry through filament, filling, weaving, welding and other processes.

Inlaying is to make metal sheets into retention and claw-shaped grooves, inlaid with pearls, gems, etc., and finally combined with filaments to make a complex and precious filament-shaped jewelry.

The wide-edged bracelet used in this wide-edged bracelet is definitely not more than 0.3 mm in diameter. Moreover, the metal support used for inlaying is also the shape of a flower made of filaments. It is inlaid with more than a dozen small particles of purple tourmalines, making it look like a stamen, and looks very beautiful.

"This one was also produced by the Qing Palace. Although purple tourmaline is not valuable, due to craftsmanship, it will be slightly more expensive than the Aitian one, and it costs 4.8 million."

Li Yi nodded, not to mention the difficulty of inlaying dice and filigree. Just look at this bracelet woven from gold wire with a few millimeters of zero points. It has been left without any damage after being left for so many years, and there is not even a bent gold wire. It is worth this price.

Putting this bracelet aside, Li Yi continued to choose, and after a while, he fell in love with a piece of silver, blue, white, jade and other miscellaneous treasures.

This piece of Ruyi has an ancient and simple shape, and presents a variety of colors such as blue, white, green, and yellow, and looks a bit magnificent.

"I just scratched it, but I can still like this. Could it be that deep in my heart, there is also the potential of such a super sexy man?"

Li Yi carefully looked at the various gems inlaid on Ruyi, but Naoko didn't know what he was thinking at the moment and smiled: "Mr. Li is definitely a very knowledgeable expert. This Ruyi's blue-burning craft is definitely the best in our store."

"Oh, burning blue!" Li Yi smiled bitterly, and then suddenly realized that he was interested in this Ruyi burning blue. How could he suddenly get distracted and attracted by the variegated gems?

Speaking of which, burning blue is also a traditional ethnic craft of the same level as dot green and filigree inlaid. This burning blue, like cloisonné, is actually a type of enamel color.

But the biggest difference between it and cloisonne is that burning blue can only be performed on the surface of silverware, and the effect of burning is more fluid and luster than cloisonne.

"Since Mrs. Naoko has said that, then take this one too."

"Thank you, Mr. Li, I will charge you 6.2 million yuan for this item."

Li Yi nodded. He had roughly known the price level of this store. Overall, it was slightly lower than the market price. It seemed that it was indeed cheaper for Aitan's sake.

However, compared to filament inlaid and burning blue, Li Yi wanted to collect more of the jade jewelry. Although the first two are rare at present, the craftsmanship has been passed down after all. If you look carefully, you can still see some of them. Moreover, because of the integration of modern craftsmanship, the quality may be better than those ancient jewelry.

But Diancui is different. Kingfisher is now a second-level protected animal, and foreign resources are also very tight, so the real Diancui jewelry has disappeared, so you can only find it from the old jewelry. If you don’t collect it now, you will only have fewer and fewer in the future.

"Madam Naoko, I wonder where you got the green hairpin from. Do you have such similar accessories?"

"Oh? Mr. Li is also interested in Diancui Jewelry? However, I'm very sorry, we didn't have a good way to acquire it."

"Oh, then forget it. I originally said that I wanted to replace it with a batch of Shixuan Lingchuan's hand rolls."

As soon as Li Yi finished speaking, he heard a thick male voice coming from behind him.
Chapter completed!