Chapter 595: Western Xia Cultural Relics
Walking and walking, it seems that Viagra is separated and no one can be seen.
Everyone looked around for a while, but they still didn't see anyone, and they were about to call him when Viagra suddenly appeared.
"Brother Hu, help me look at something. ”
Uh, is it so sudden?
Hu Yang and the others had no choice but to follow him back, turned a corner, and then saw a woman in the corner, nervously looking around, holding a bag tightly in her hand, as if she was afraid of meeting a bad person.
Just now, Viagra was walking behind, and suddenly someone was selling family heirlooms.
Viagra thought, it doesn't hurt to take a look, as long as he doesn't buy it, others can't fool him.
He followed the woman to a corner, and gradually got some information from the woman's mouth, as for whether it is true or not, it is difficult to say, after all, Brother Hu just reminded everyone just now that they can't listen to stories, especially any family heirlooms, eight times out of ten are lies.
He looked at the thing, it was a painting, and it was a little broken, and one corner was missing, and it happened to be the part that had been torn off the author's signature, so that the painting could not be seen who painted it.
Viagra observed this painting and thought it was an old thing, after all, the silk looked a little old. And some of the image quality has been blurred, as if it has been caused by a lot of time.
It was precisely because of this that he approached Populus euphratica and helped him look at the painting.
In his opinion, the painting was an antique, and a voice in his heart told him that he could not miss it.
And the woman also told him that this painting was an heirloom of her family, and that some experts had recently targeted them and persuaded them to hand it over to the state and get a reward of 1,000 yuan.
Her mother-in-law was not happy, because the previous generation left a word, this is a treasure, and a fist-sized piece of gold can't be exchanged. So, if you give a thousand yuan, isn't it called Hanako?
Therefore, her mother-in-law asked the expert for a million.
Other experts don't bird you, a million, you want to eat fart.
Every once in a while, the expert went to her house to harass her, and it was still the same sentence, this kind of painting had reached the point where it had to be repaired, and if it was missed, it would be destroyed. When the time comes, your family will be sinners and so on.
Annoying, the woman's mother-in-law asked her to take it out and sell it, how could she not be cheaper for a thousand yuan.
The audience in the live broadcast room, when they heard Viagra's words, this cost one million, and they laughed at it: One million, you might as well go to a real antique store to buy it?
As for the stories that women told Viagra, everyone also found it unbelievable. Although some experts are very shameless and persuade people to turn over to the state at every turn, their own are hiding strange goods to live in and have bad intentions, but they are not shameless to the point of constantly harassing people, right?
Seeing that the woman was nervous, Viagra smiled and said, "Don't be nervous, this is my friend, you take it out and show it to my friend, he said it's no problem, I'll buy it from you." ”
Hearing this, the woman carefully took out the painting.
Hu Yang was slightly stunned: "This is really an ancient painting, it should be said to be a Buddha picture." ”
He told everyone that the types of Buddhist paintings, in general, can be divided into two categories: pictures and images. The so-called image refers to the painting of a single image, or the painting in a painting, although there are many similarities, the content only focuses on the appearance of each image, and has no other meaning. The so-called picture refers to a painting with a statue as the main body, or multiple statues together to form the main body, in which the main body and companions, together embody a story.
Obviously, this painting has a story, so it is a Buddha picture.
China's Buddha image painting has a great position in figure painting. Since the Six Dynasties, there have been famous players.
Buddha painting was founded in the Three Kingdoms Cao Buxing. The history of painting records that he wrote Buddha statues in the West, which were widely spread all over the world. In the Eastern Jin Dynasty, Cao Buxing's students carried forward; in the Sui Dynasty, there was an exhibition to reverently stand on the image of Guanyin, and in the early Tang Dynasty, there was Wei Chi, and the Brahmin painted the Bodhisattva Spring. In the Kaiyuan Dynasty of the Tang Dynasty, Wu Daoyu painted the image of Vilujana, which was the culmination of all families, and it can be said that he was the first person to paint Buddha in ancient times.
"Is it really an ancient painting?" Viagra excited.
The others were speechless, even if it was an ancient painting, it wasn't necessarily worth a million, right? What are you excited about?
"This picture, it's kind of interesting, you look at the text. Hu Yang said.
When everyone saw it, they all shook their heads: "I don't understand." ”
"If you don't understand it, it's not Chinese, it's Uighur, a script that the Uighurs of Gaochang converted to Sogdian writing in the 8th and 15th centuries A.D. ”
Before Hu Yang finished speaking, someone asked: "So, this painting is not our ancient painting, it is from other countries?"
In their opinion, although the so-called Gaochang was founded in the area of today's new Xinjiang, it did not belong to China at that time. The Gaochang dynasty is not an ancient Chinese dynasty.
Hu Yang suddenly smiled and said: "It is also ours, and this time the Huhu script is not only used in the kingdom of Gaochang, but also in Western Xia, Mongolia and other countries." The current Mongolian language is adapted from the Uighur language.
And this ancient painting you see, I think it belongs to Western Xia. The Western Xia civilization used to be very bright, but it's a pity that those cultural relics in Blackwater City are cheap Russians. ”
Western Xia was founded in present-day Ningxia, Gansu, Qinghai, northeastern Qinghai, Inner Mongolia, ancient western China, and northwestern Shaanxi, all of which are China's land, and of course they can be regarded as Chinese dynasties.
It's just that the relationship between the Western Xia and the Song Dynasty at that time, everyone naturally regarded the Song Dynasty as an orthodox dynasty.
In terms of painting, Buddhist paintings have been handed down to this day, mainly presented in the grottoes and temple murals, etc., the famous Mogao Grottoes, many murals, Buddhist scriptures, etc., are inherited from the Western Xia.
As for Blackwater City, everyone is familiar with it, at least they have heard of it.
When Genghis Khan destroyed the Western Xia, the city of Heishui experienced a devastating bloody battle, and in the end, the gateway city of the Western Xia Dynasty was slaughtered after being broken by the Mongol army, and now the outside of the city is full of broken bones, half-buried in the sand, and then quietly sleeping for more than 600 years.
It wasn't until 1907 that Kozlov, a Russian geographer, explorer, and lieutenant commander of the Navy, organized another "trip to the dead city" and dug up the city of Blackwater.
In Hu Yang's view, the so-called explorers are actually robbers.
This robber had seen the legendary Blackwater City mentioned in the travelogue of the famous 14th-century traveler Marco Polo, so he was interested in this ancient city that slept under the sand.
In order to allow himself to enter Blackwater City smoothly for "investigation", he found the local "manager" of Blackwater City in advance, and gave Darcy some "valuable gifts". With Dahi's help, Kozlov and his 4 expedition members moved forward "lightly" and smoothly entered Blackwater, where his excavation began.
This digging, he dug up tens of thousands of various cultural relics. The precious relics of Blackwater City were arrogantly transported back to Russia by him and given to the Russian Royal Geographical Society and the Russian Academy of Sciences.
Not satisfied, he then organized more people to dig deeper, and he found a large stupa, which is simply a glorious "history museum".
It is a pagoda-like building with many Buddhist statues and hundreds of books, paintings, scriptures, etc., which still shine brightly on the ruins.
After Kozlov discovered this "great tower", he dug it almost as soon as he saw it, and dug up more than 30 towers around the Black City, almost destroying 80% of the towers in the Black City!
It's a tower-pushing maniac.
At that time, there were more than 8,000 world-famous Tangut periodicals and manuscripts alone, and you can imagine how many Chinese cultural relics he plundered, and later generations of Chinese antiquities experts were eager to eat all his ashes. ”
After listening to Brother Hu's words, everyone was silent for a while.
At that time, China was so weak that anyone could bully it. It is not without reason that everyone hates the Qing Dynasty, just thinking about it, makes me feel aggrieved.
Blackwater City is just one of the microcosms, but what about Mogao Grottoes?
Among them, the precious cultural relics were also snatched by the Russians.
"I heard that almost a fifth of the collection of the Hermitage Museum was taken from our country, I don't know if it's true or not. ”
"It's too much, you don't know how weak the Qing government was at that time. It is a country that can step on it, let's just say that the cultural relics of the Mogao Grottoes, I saw it last time in South Korea, it is really wonderful. ”
"There is no doubt that Chinese cultural relics support many overseas museums. What is the British Museum, the Boston Museum, the Met, the Louvre, etc., you will know how many Chinese cultural relics are lost during the Qing Dynasty, and this dynasty can really lose. ”
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According to statistics, the United States has the largest collection of paintings of cultural relics that China has lost abroad, with more than 1,200 paintings at the Freer Museum in Washington alone, and the British Museum has the most exquisite collection of Chinese paintings. In terms of porcelain, the Jimei Museum in France, known for its collection of Asian art, has the best collection, and in terms of oracle bone pieces, Japan has the largest collection......
Hu Yang saw the discussion in the live broadcast room and said to everyone: "There are many cultural relics in Mogao Grottoes, and many countries have come to bite it, not to mention the big robbers of Russia, Britain, France, and the United States, in addition, Japan, Sweden, Austria, and South Korea all have a share, which is outrageous!"
After speaking, Hu Yang returned to the topic: "Okay, let's go back to this painting! I think it is not only a cultural relic of Western Xia, but also from Blackwater City, as for why it became the heirloom of this eldest sister, it doesn't matter." ”
Subsequently, Populus euphratica points out several characteristics that prove that it came from Blackwater City.
At the end, Hu Yang said to Viagra: "If you start with one million, you won't lose money." ”
With Brother Hu's words, Viagra was relieved and did not lower the price. This practice made many viewers in the live broadcast room have a good impression of him.
This is indeed a family heirloom, and it is not easy to sell it for some money. On the contrary, what kind of bullshit expert persuaded people to hand over a thousand yuan, it's really damned.
The woman didn't expect it to be sold so easily and was very grateful. Originally, she was very worried, her mother-in-law asked for a million, who would give so much!