"It's a dish (léi). So far, the largest and most exquisitely shaped bronze ware of the late Shang Dynasty has been unearthed, and is known as the king of Fangli. ”

Seeing that Qin Huai couldn't guess, Dean Shan was concise and clear.

According to official statistics, there are hundreds of Shang Dynasty bronzes unearthed and collected in Jing Province, in addition to many local types of bronzes such as striped axes, cymbals, plutoniums and other utensils, there are quite a lot of Central Plains style or bronze vessels influenced by the Central Plains Shang culture, such as Ding, Yao, Jue, Wei, Zun, Arrow, etc.

And among them, the most exquisite is the four sheep square statue, the pictogram statue, the fish pattern, the human face square tripod.

The dish is as famous as the Four Sheep Fangzun, which shows its value.

But—

Qin Huai searched carefully in his mind for a while, but was embarrassed to find that his understanding of the dish was blank.

This situation is very normal, even if Qin Huai has been reading, he has not reached the point where he has three thousand treasures in his mind and knows everything.

In terms of carving, Qin Huai knows a little more, and in other aspects, Qin Huai can't be omniscient.

But if you don't want to......

Qin Huai vaguely remembered a sentence in the Book of Songs: 'I will take care of the other gold, and I will not cherish it forever.' ‘

It means that I am willing to drink wine with glittering golden utensils to comfort my thoughts and sorrows.

Presumably, that Fang Wei is a bronze wine vessel, and as a Shang Dynasty vessel, it should be used to worship heaven and earth.

Qin Huai speculated the specific function of the vessel based on the existing knowledge, but knowing a verse of poetry was far from enough for Qin Huai to systematically understand the past and present life of the bronze vessel.

It's better to let Dean Shan popularize science.

Thinking of this, Qin Huai's eyes fell on Dean Shan, revealing curiosity: "You go on." ”

Dean Shan nodded:

In 1919, the year of the Paris Peace Conference, he was found by a farmer in Taoyuan during a rainstorm and kept it at home as a container.

Four years later, Shi Yuzhang, an antique dealer, rushed to the scene and spent 400 silver dollars to move away.

The peasants gave it to the principal as a tuition.

When the headmaster got the cover, he realized that something was wrong, and he felt that it was a precious artifact that had to be taken seriously.

So the theft of the bronze was reported, and the police immediately arrested Shi Yuzhang, but unfortunately there was no news of him at that time.

It was not until 1931, when the French scholar Georges Soulier de Mourão published The History of Chinese Art, that the traces of the vessel reappeared. This book includes a photo of Fang Fang, and introduces this object as hidden by Yao Shulai, Lu Qinzhai and other big cultural relics dealers.

But there was no way to take it out at the time.

In the mid-twentieth century, the vessel fell into the hands of the Toei collector Nitta Dongichi.

At that time, the director of the Shanghai Museum happened to find it in the collection of Toichi Shinta, and determined that it was the body of the dish that had been lost overseas.

But after many negotiations, Xintian Dongyi was reluctant to let it return to the Jingchu Provincial Museum.

In 2001, the family of Nitta Toichi handed over his body to the auction of New York Just, and the Chinese side sent a representative to bid for it.

But a mysterious French player snatched it at a price 40% higher than that of the Chinese side.

At that time, the auction price was as high as $9.24 million, which caught the Chinese side by surprise.

As a result, Fang Fangli's way home was abruptly cut off. Again disappeared from our sight for seventeen years.

Until two days ago, the news of Fang Fangli's appearance at the auction shook people from all walks of life in Jing Chu, and this time, Jing Chu was bound to win!

I've been wandering for a hundred years...... Let them return to their hometown and blow the familiar wind......"

Dean Shan couldn't help but sigh, and was a little choked up at the end.

A hundred years of turmoil have plunged tens of millions of artifacts into a dark journey.

Some of the lucky ones were bought back, and the unfortunate ones were hidden in foreign museums and private collections, even though they were full of precious symbols and inscriptions, no one could read them.

No one wants to read it.

They only know how precious, how valuable, how beautiful.

But I never know what kind of culture and what kind of belief is behind this exquisiteness.

Those who know them best are always native-born Chinese.

So be sure to welcome them home.

If you don't take advantage of the opportunity, you may have to pass by this bronze forever.

It's like the tiger eats people (yǒu) back then.

The Tiger Cannibal is more famous in the bronze collecting world than the Vessel Fangli.

It is one of the most well-known and valuable ancient Chinese bronze treasures in existence, and can be called the national treasure of national treasures, but it was lost overseas due to war.

Once wandering, it was finally privately collected by the Dongying Springs Museum, unless Dongying made a generous donation in the future, otherwise, generations can only stay in Dongying miserably.

That's the only two tiger pieces so far!

However, both are unfortunately lost overseas!

Every time I think of this, Dean Shan's heart is dripping blood!

Qin Huai patted the dean's back.

He knew that Dean Shan was a scholar with integrity and had a special affection for cultural relics.

This can be seen from his protection of the Forbidden City.

When he was still in the Cultural Relics Bureau, he showed his respect for the Forbidden City and took the initiative to clean up the nail households of the Cultural Relics Bureau in the Forbidden City.

After President Shan took office, he did not hesitate to offend the officials one by one, and he also banned cars in the Forbidden City.

Whoever walks is on foot, no exceptions.

The most difficult foreign guests to forbid.

Because every time a foreign guest comes, there will be officials who will open a way in the Forbidden City to greet them.

On one occasion, French Prime Minister François Hollande drove in with his girlfriend, and there were officials inside, and Hollande was about to drive straight into the Forbidden City.

Dean Shan was furious and directly closed the city gate and stopped Hollande outside the city.

Threatened to talk after getting out of the car, otherwise he would not talk.

Because of Dean Shan's toughness, Hollande's foreign guest team could only walk obediently......

Later, Dean Shan Xiang Guo... Business... Explanation: Like the White House, Buckingham Palace...... Who can drive a long drive?

You can't give special treatment just because you're a foreign guest.

Our Forbidden City has always been a holy place, and what is not allowed is not allowed, it is a matter of etiquette and principles.

At that time, the Eight-Nation Coalition troops came in on horseback and formed a formation in the square.

Now let them drive in, will they have reverence for the Forbidden City?

As a result, later foreign guest teams, such as Obama, prime ministers, and ministers, could only visit the Forbidden City on foot.

This is Dean Shan, full of sassy operations, humorous and funny, but with a literati backbone.

……

"Mr. Qin should be able to feel how important it is to us that Fang Fang is back?"

Dean Shan wiped the sweat from his forehead.

Qin Huai nodded in understanding.

But in my heart, I was surprised that I could sell for 10 million dollars at auction twenty years ago......

If it is put now, it will be at least 600 million.

If Jiashide insists on holding up the card at the auction, this price is only guaranteed.

After all, in the auctions again and again, the fame of the King of Fang Wei has begun.

Twenty years ago, it became the record for the highest price ever paid for cultural relics at auction in China.

600 million ...... Qin Huai's heart began to throb!

"What about Jing Chu's situation?"

"Urgent preparations are underway, there is a buffer time of 40 days, Jingchu Provincial Radio and Television took the lead in donating 200 million, and the others are still making up, this time they are bound to win, and they must return to Hunan after the end. ”

Dean Shan clenched his fists, the sense of responsibility of people from all walks of life in Jingchu Province is very strong, as soon as the news comes out, the responding enterprises come up one after another, and it must not be difficult to make up enough money.

"If you don't have enough money, you can ask me to make up for it. ”

Qin Huai showed a worried expression for the first time.

For Qin Huai, money is a trivial matter, and he wants to study the dish Fangli, draw some portraits of the dish Fangli, and write some detailed information.

If it falls into the hands of other collectors, it will be extremely difficult for Qin Huai to take a look, and he will be able to live under the fence and beg for help!

This is disgusting to Qin Huai, so it is better to let the Chinese museum recycle.

And most importantly......

The cultural relics that have been adrift due to a century of turmoil must want to go home?

Qin Huai often creates works of art, and he knows that each work of art has its own soul and its own thoughts.

The idea of returning to the roots of fallen leaves, the cultural relics of the Chinese family must be inherited in one line.

"There are still 40 days before the Jiashide auction, just wait for the news, I hope this time I won't go out halfway to bite the gold, if it is more than 40% of the price of the Chinese side, it will be bad. ”

Dean Shan looked at the south and sighed faintly.

That is, they want to welcome the national treasure, but they don't want the patriotic sentiment of the Chinese family to be used by capital and suffer unnecessary losses in the capital.

There are 10 million cultural relics lost, and if each one of them is used by the West, then this is a disguised gift to the West for scientific research funds and development funds.

Therefore, after learning the news, Dean Shan immediately called the person in charge of Jingchu and repeatedly told him: Even if it is to welcome the national treasure, a bottom line is needed, and patriotic sentiment must not be used by the West.