Chapter 125: Nine Dragons Flying in the Sky (4)
Time flies very quickly in the busyness, Jiang Wuwei devotes all his energy to learning and practicing, and it has been a few months since he came to the farm unconsciously. On this day, Jiang Wuwei was concentrating on reading in his room, and suddenly Zhou Gong asked someone to call Wuwei to his study.
Wuwei immediately rushed to Zhou Gong's study and saw Zhou Gong reading, so he asked softly, "Master, are you looking for me?"
"Wuwei, you're here. Zhou Gong put down the thread-bound book in his hand as he spoke, and greeted Jiang Wuwei with a smile.
"Is there something wrong with the master looking for me?"
"Wuwei, when you were in Las Vegas, you proposed to join our Treasure Hunting Organization, in order not to disturb your training, I haven't talked to you about it, and now your training and learning have begun to bear fruit, I think I should let you know a little about this organization. ”
"Great, I've been thinking about this all the time, but I didn't dare to ask the master, I really want to do something for the motherland. Jiang Wuwei said happily, he vaguely felt in his heart that the master was about to explain something important to him.
Zhou Gong beckoned Wuwei to sit down, then got up from behind the desk, walked over and sat opposite him, and continued to say to him: "Wuwei, the master knows that you have a patriotic heart, which is the main reason why the master likes you. The people in our organization are just like you, and they all have a fiery patriotic heart. ”
Jiang Wuwei looked at the master and nodded, he believed what the master said, through his interactions with Haosheng and the Shuangjiao sisters, Wuwei was deeply moved by their behavior.
Zhou Gong continued: "I didn't feel the seriousness of the loss of our national treasures when I was in China, because I studied archaeology, so I have a special interest in cultural relics, and after going abroad, I will always go to various museums to see each place, whether it is public or private, I have to go around, and with the visit I found that the museums of Western countries actually collect a large number of precious cultural relics of our country, I was deeply shocked, and at the same time my heart was also stabbed." I spent a year doing a simple survey and verification, and found a staggering number. The 20th century was the period of the largest loss of cultural heritage in China, and the two peaks of the loss occurred during the Opium War and after the reform and opening up. According to a UNESCO statistic, there are 1.67 million Chinese cultural relics in more than 200 museums in 47 countries. During the Japanese invasion of China alone, more than 3.6 million pieces of cultural relics were lost in China, and almost all of Japan's more than 1,000 public and private museums have Chinese cultural relics, and the number is about hundreds of thousands. At present, according to preliminary statistics, there are 23,000 Chinese paintings in exile abroad, with the Americas (mainly the United States and Canada), Japan and Europe accounting for one-third each. Europe is mainly distributed in Germany, Britain, France, Belgium, Sweden and other countries. These are well documented, and the loss is even more numerous in private hands. After painful thinking, I decided to do my best to recover our national treasures, and to try my best to return the precious cultural relics to China, and to let the great treasures lost overseas return home is an important way to restore our national self-esteem, so it has also been highly praised and supported by many patriotic overseas Chinese......" Zhou Gong said here and stood up.
"Wu Wei, I'll take you to see some of our achievements. Zhou Gong beckoned Jiang Wuwei and walked towards the side of the study.
Jiang Wuwei hadn't noticed that there was an inconspicuous small door on the side of the study before, Zhou Gong pushed open the closed door, walked in, and Wuwei followed.
Behind the small door is a closed corridor, four or five meters long, and then a security door with a password, only to see that the heavy security door opens automatically after Zhou Gong enters the password.
Jiang Wuwei walked into the security door with Zhou Gong, which turned out to be a vault of thirty or forty square meters, and the two sides of the warehouse were display shelves, on which were mostly some ceramic cultural relics, and there were two large safes at one end of the vault.
Zhou Gong pointed to the porcelain on display and said to Jiang Wuwei: "These are just a part, a few national treasure-level treasures have been sent back to the museum in China, and the object of my research is ancient ceramics, so the cultural relics collected are mainly porcelain." ”
Zhou Gong put on a pair of white cloth gloves as he spoke, and gently picked up the cyan flower-mouth bowl from the display shelf.
Jiang Wuwei noticed that after the master picked up the porcelain, his eyes seemed to be much brighter than usual, revealing a gentle gaze, that look was like a loving mother looking at her favorite child, the master didn't know how many times he had seen these porcelain, and now he was still full of surprise as if he had just discovered it.
"Wu Wei, since you are a student of Ouyang Mingbo, then you must know this thing in my hand, can you tell the master its origin?" Zhou Gong said and handed the flower bowl in his hand to Wu Wei.
Jiang Wuwei's heart moved, could it be that the master was investigating whether he was really a student of Teacher Ouyang? He didn't have time to think about it, he hurriedly put on the white cotton gloves, carefully took the cyan flower mouth to play, and then looked carefully under the light for a while, and couldn't help but say in admiration: "It's the first time I've seen such a beautiful secret color porcelain." ”
"Oh! you can tell it's 'Secret Porcelain'. Zhou Gong showed a look of surprise on his surprised face, and hurriedly urged Wuwei to say, "Very good, keep talking." ”
"'Secret color porcelain' is what people often call high-grade celadon, is a kind of high-grade celadon specially fired by Zhejiang Yue kiln for the court worship in the late Tang Dynasty, the Five Dynasties and the Northern Song Dynasty, and the poets of the Tang Dynasty have compared the Yue kiln celadon to 'Qianfeng emerald color', 'ice', 'jade' and so on. It is not that the general Yue kiln celadon is called secret color porcelain, but it should be comprehensively judged according to its glaze color, the regularity of the shape and the fineness of the glaze. It can be said that the secret color porcelain can be preserved intact to this day, and it can be said that it is a state-guest level cultural relic. Jiang Wuwei carefully put the cyan flower bowl back as he spoke, and then continued: "This kind of 'secret color porcelain' flower bowl should be a variety of the late Tang Dynasty, this petal bowl is a kind of Yue kiln bowl, with beautiful shape and delicate glaze, which is a fine product in the Yue kiln." This is supposed to be a tomb item, which was dug up by the tomb robber and smuggled abroad, which can be said to be a national treasure. ”
Zhou Gong nodded again and again while listening, with an expression of appreciation on his face, and when Wuwei finished speaking, he said happily: "Okay, that's a good story, and it deserves to be a rising star in the archaeological field." Wuwei, you are completely right, as you said, this porcelain is indeed the secret color porcelain of the late Tang Dynasty, which I just bought at a high price from the black market not long ago. ”
Jiang Wuwei's explanation also aroused the interest of Zhou Gong, he also opened the conversation box with great interest, and said endlessly, "Wuwei, our Chinese culture is broad and profound, just all kinds of porcelain are enough for us to study for a lifetime, porcelain is developed from pottery, there have been more than 3,000 years, to the Song Dynasty, famous kilns and famous porcelain have spread all over most of China, is the most prosperous period of the porcelain industry." At that time, Jun kiln, Ge kiln, Guan kiln, Ru kiln and Ding kiln were called the five famous kilns. The blue and white porcelain produced in Jingdezhen, Jiangxi, known as the porcelain capital, in the Yuan Dynasty has become a representative of porcelain. The blue and white porcelain enamel is as transparent as water, the fetal body is thin and lightweight, and the white porcelain body is covered with blue ornamentation, which is elegant and ......fresh," Zhou Gong said while pointing to a small blue and white porcelain bottle more than 20 centimeters high on the display shelf and said to Wuwei: "This is the blue and white porcelain, which is a product of the Ming Dynasty." ”
Zhou Gong looked at these porcelain, his eyes were full of joy, as if he had forgotten the purpose of coming in, such as a number of treasures to Wu Wei one by one, "Together with blue and white porcelain, there are also blue and white exquisite porcelain, pastel porcelain and colored glazed porcelain. In addition, there are sculpture porcelain, thin porcelain, colorful porcelain, etc., which are very exquisite, and can be said to be colorful and have their own characteristics. ”