Chapter 385: The Destroyer of Cultural Relics - Qianlong

In addition, Chairman Fang also sent a message to Hu Yang, they investigated, and the grapevine reported that the "Xiaoxiang Lying Tour Picture Scroll" in the existing Japanese museum seems to have really been stolen.

Although they are still trying to cover it up and come up with alternatives, some news will not be groundless.

In other words, the "Xiaoxiang Lying Tour Picture Scroll" that appeared at auction is very likely to be true.

Soon, the "Xiaoxiang Lying Tour Picture Scroll", which is known as the first landscape painting masterpiece of the Southern Song Dynasty, appeared. The auctioneer first spent a full five minutes to introduce the "Xiaoxiang Lying Tour Picture Scroll", which shows the degree of attention.

"Xiaoxiang Lying Tour", ink pen on paper, 30.2 cm long, 399.4 cm wide, the frontispiece has the Qianlong Emperor's imperial inscription "Qi Swallowing Cloud Dream" four characters. Emperor Qianlong also inscribed a poem in two places in the volume, the inscription was insufficient, and he drew a clump of bamboo at the end of the volume and had a sense of style.

According to legend, this is the Southern Song Dynasty's Yungu Zen master after traveling all over the world, living in seclusion in Jindou Mountain in Wuxing, Zhejiang. He regretfully thought of the Xiaoxiang landscape that he had not yet set foot in, so he asked a painter surnamed Li to paint the beautiful scenery of Xiaoxiang landscape for him, and hung the painting in the room, so that he could enjoy the beautiful scenery without leaving home. The painting scroll as a whole is made of light ink, and the subtle changes in light and shade are successfully expressed in the shades of ink. Hu Yang also introduced to the audience in the live broadcast room.

The auctioneer on the stage was also talking, and even told some interesting points about the scroll.

For example, the leftmost part of the scroll was originally scrolled in the scroll and could not be seen, but the restorers found that the rolled part was actually the payment of the collector before Qianlong.

Their appraisers speculated that Emperor Qianlong was probably unwilling to let future generations know that there were other collectors before, and deliberately rolled them up. The most conspicuous place at the top of the picture is Qianlong's imperial pen inscription poem and vermilion seal.

Hu Yang complained to the audience in his live broadcast room: "If you want me to say, Qianlong is the biggest destroyer of cultural relics, as long as there is an eye-catching ancient painting and ink treasure, he must be stamped with his seal." What's the difference between this and when we go on a trip and leave traces of our visit?

Actually, leaving your own seal is nothing, many collectors do it.

But Qianlong, this bastard, is special, and when he meets someone he likes very much, it is not enough to stamp a seal, and more than ten of them are stamped, which is simply frustrating.

Moreover, sometimes even a seal is stamped on the top of the work, rather than in a blank space.

If he hadn't been the emperor, he would have been beaten up for doing this. ”

Hearing Hu Yang explain to everyone like this, even President Fang's professionals who were watching laughed. Indeed, this is the biggest headache for restoration experts.

The other viewers in the live broadcast room laughed when they heard Brother Hu's ridicule.

Compared with other expert explanations, Brother Hu's live broadcast is undoubtedly much more interesting, with his own opinions, rather than blowing nonsense.

For example, this Qianlong Emperor, who is like a god in the history books, what a perfect old man and so on. Damn! Is there such a person? There are still records that when Qianlong was alive, he composed tens of thousands of poems.

Damn!Almost since birth, an average of one or two songs a day. He alone is worthy of the poems of the entire Tang Dynasty, right?

Well, the Qing Dynasty had nothing else, and it was particularly bragging about it.

On the stage, the auctioneer was still boasting about the picture scroll, explaining the twists and turns of "Xiaoxiang Lying Tour Picture Scroll".

At the end of the Qing Dynasty and the beginning of the Republic of China, Harada Goro began to engage in the trading of Chinese cultural relics, and once entered the Qing palace to visit the collection of the inner government, and got acquainted with Chen Baochen, Guo Baochang and many other high-ranking officials of the Qing court. Through his introduction, many Chinese treasures were resold to famous Japanese collectors.

Harada Goro bought two treasures at one time, "Cold Food Post" and "Xiaoxiang Lying Tour Picture Scroll", and when he returned to Japan by boat with the treasures, he wrapped the two paintings in layers with oil paper, and even prepared to be shipwrecked during the journey and jump into the sea with the picture scroll to survive.

Later, Shinji Kikuchi, a Japanese banker who loved collecting, bought the "Cold Food Post" and the "Xiaoxiang Lying Picture Scroll" and hid the scrolls in the depths of the cellar where the light of day did not see the light of day.

During the 1923 Tokyo earthquake, Kikuchi's house caught fire, and he struggled to snatch out three of his favorite treasures, "Cold Food Post", "Xiaoxiang Lying Tour Picture Scroll" and the Japanese Watanabe Huashan's "Yu Gong Gaomen Map".

In the end, someone asked us to auction this painting, and this is how we can meet you.

Okay, without further ado, 10 million starts shooting, let's start now. The auctioneer finally finished his rambling and announced the start of the bidding.

It is worthy of being the first landscape painting masterpiece of the Southern Song Dynasty, with a starting price of 10 million US dollars and more than 60 million yuan!

Although the audience in the live broadcast room had expected the value to be very high, they were still taken aback when the price was more than 60 million yuan.

Of course, some people have noticed that "Cold Food Post" and "Xiaoxiang Lying Tour Picture Scroll" were lost overseas, and it seems that they were made by traitors, which is really infuriating.

In fact, a small number of national treasures and cultural relics that have been lost in Japan were purchased by the Japanese at low prices through traitors.

This seems to be a little more civilized than the robbery behavior of Britain and France. As long as everyone thinks of the Old Summer Palace, they will smash what they can't snatch, and they will probably grit their teeth.

"His grandmother's! traitor really damn it. ”

"Not to mention ancient times, there are many modern times! There are many people who kneel and lick foreigners, and there are even rich and powerful ones, who it is, let's not discuss it! ”

"Alas, the loss of this national treasure can only be blamed on one's own people. ”

"After all, it's still the bastards of the Qing Dynasty, who are too incompetent. The Manchus have collected so many treasures, and in the end they are not cheap powers?"

Moreover, now the Manchus seem to control radio and television, filming and broadcasting some TV dramas of the Qing court all day long to promote the Qing Dynasty. Of the ten costume TV series, eight or nine are from the Qing Dynasty. ”

"What can be done then?"

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"Brother Hu, do you think that's true?" Jiang Nan couldn't help but ask.

The painting was painted in the Southern Song Dynasty, obviously influenced by the Mijia landscape, the painting style is ethereal and scattered, the distant mountains are empty, the sea of clouds is vast, and the rivers and rivers are the same color as the sky.

Since the appearance of "Xiaoxiang Lying Scroll", Hu Yang has been observing that painting, and he is already sure that it is a genuine work. Just now, he had already sent a message to President Fang, explaining his judgment.

"Well, it should be true. Just now, President Fang sent a message. They investigated, and it seems that "Xiaoxiang Lying Tour Picture Scroll" was really stolen. Populus nodded.

Tsk, museums aren't safe either!

However, this is not an uncommon thing, it seems that all major museums in the world have been stolen, even our Palace Museum is no exception.

"Then I'll shout for a while, Brother Hu, you will make a move last. In my opinion, if you want to bring this national treasure back, the price will be very high. Jiang Nan said.

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