readx;? Immediately, Su Qingqing glared at Huo Sining with surprise and curiosity: "I know, Ning Ning, has Professor Zhou already guessed what those two finale items are?" Tell me quickly, tell me quickly!"

Huo Sining originally wanted to sell it, but this Su Qingqing was too difficult, and if she didn't tell her, this product could stare at her all the time, even if her ears became calloused, she wouldn't stop. Pen Fun Pavilion wWw. ｂiquge。 ｉｎfo

Huo Sining thought for a moment and said, "You should still remember the hint that Clayflow said yesterday, right?"

Su Qingqing nodded: "Of course, she said that those two finale items are related to the Changxin Palace Lantern and Lang Shining's court painting." ”

Huo Sining smiled and asked, "Then have you come up with something?"

Su Qingqing shook his head:

"This hint, I have been pondering it since I came back last night, but I can't figure it out, this Changxin Palace lamp is something from the Han Dynasty, and the court painting is something from the Qing Dynasty, what is it that will be related to the Changxin Palace lamp and the court painting at the same time? Is it something in the emperor's harem? Is it a phoenix seal or something?"

The corners of Huo Sining's mouth couldn't help twitching: "Why do you want to go to the harem? Even if it's a phoenix seal, it can't be two." ”

Su Qingqing scratched the back of her head and said embarrassedly: "Yes, it's two, I was influenced by your jade seal, and this Changxin Palace lamp is something used by the Empress Dowager Dou, and Lang Shining's painting also seems to have Qianlong's daughter-in-law, so I thought that thing had something to do with the queen." ”

Huo Sining said with a smile: "If you really want to talk about it, these two things are indeed related to the Queen Mother, but what is related is not Qianlong's daughter-in-law, nor the Empress Dowager Dou, but the Empress Dowager Cixi!"

Su Qingqing was stunned for a moment, and her brain became even more confused: "Why is this related to Cixi again, I feel that my brain is not enough." ”

"Why did you get involved with her, because these two things were stolen by the coalition forces when she was in power!" Huo Sining said with some sadness.

The Anglo-French alliance is still the eight-nation alliance, Su Qingqing looked at Huo Sining with wide eyes, there were more than 10,000 things stolen by the coalition army when they invaded China, how did she know which one it was.

Huo Sining saw that Su Qingqing was still at a loss, and couldn't help but remind: "Think about it again, what was the Changxin Palace lamp used to cast? What did Lang Shining do during Qianlong's reign besides painting court paintings?"

Su Qingqing kept searching for her few historical facts about Lang Shining in her mind, and finally, after dying countless brain cells, she had a flash of inspiration and suddenly thought of one thing.

Bronze, Lang Shining, casting, designer, her eyes lit up, and she said in surprise:

"When Qianlong was in power, Lang Shining, who was the third painter of the court, was appointed to preside over the design, and a set of bronze statues were made by the court craftsmen.

Huo Sining saw that Su Qingqing had finally opened his mind, and couldn't help but sigh: "I think I guessed slowly enough, and I was scolded by my master for this, but you elm head, you don't know more than me, I feel that Professor Xie accepted such an apprentice as you, it's really bad, I have some deep sympathy." ”

Disgusted by Huo Sining like this, Su Qingqing glanced at Huo Sining with some resentment.

Over there, Li Jun and Yue Shuwen heard it in a fog, and they were even more indignant at Huo Sining and Su Qingqing's behavior of playing dumb riddles, and protested one after another:

"Tell me clearly, what bronze statue, what are you talking about, what kind of bronze statue is it, what kind of bronze statue makes you so mysterious?"

Huo Sining glanced at the two of them and said, "It's not that our gods are mysterious, but this set of bronze statues is mysterious in itself, and they all occupy a very high position in the history of world collections." Qianlong was prosperous, the Qing Dynasty was strong, the level of craftsmanship was at its peak, and the bronze statue was designed by Lang Shining, who was influenced by European art since childhood, so this set of bronze statues not only has a strong traditional Chinese aesthetic taste, but also integrates the characteristics of Western plastic arts, and their craftsmanship level can be said to be the highest display of China's 5,000-mile historical heritage. ”

"Wait—"

The more Li Jun listened, the more familiar Huo Sining's words were, his complexion gradually changed, he raised his head, and looked at Huo Sining and Su Qingqing's eyes became more and more strange, he subconsciously swallowed a mouthful of saliva, and finally, with some hesitation and some disbelief, he opened his mouth and said dryly:

"You can't be talking about this, twelve bronze beast heads, right?"

Huo Sining looked at Li Jun with a smile and asked, "Otherwise?"

Even Su Qingqing sneered unceremoniously: "You are stupider than me, apart from this set of bronze statues, what else is related to the Changxin Palace Lantern and Lang Shining? Has Lang Shining designed other bronze statues, and this set of bronze statues must have been stolen during the reign of the Empress Dowager Cixi, in addition to the twelve zodiac animal heads, do you want anything else?"

Li Jun shook his head, but his eyes were still full of shock and suspicion: "But, how could it be this thing, didn't it say that it was two antiques? Could it be a mistake?"

Huo Sining shook his head: "There will be no mistake, if what Clayflo said is true, then what he said I will definitely be interested in is definitely the bronze beast head, because this is the only thing, which is a Chinese antique that I absolutely cannot refuse." ”

The so-called 12 bronze beast heads, also known as the 12 zodiac beasts, are the heads of the human beasts, and the body of the zodiac statue is the shape of the stone carving wearing robes, according to research, the bronze statue of the 12 zodiac beasts and beasts was initially cast successfully, it was arranged on both sides of a pool in front of the Haiyan Hall in the Old Summer Palace in the shape of eight figures.

Haiyan Hall is the largest European-style garden landscape of the Old Summer Palace, the main building faces west, there are stacked fountains on the left and right of the building door, and a large fountain is under the steps, and the heads of the twelve beasts are arranged in a figure-of-eight shape around this pool.

Because the ancient Chinese divided the day and night into twelve hours, and the twelve zodiac beasts happened to divide the day into twelve sections, each beast capital represents an hour, when the time comes, the bronze statue of the rat head sprays water column at the mouth, and the bronze statue of the cow head spews out the water column when it is ugly, and so on, every other hour, these animal heads take turns to spray water, so it is also commonly known as the "hydraulic clock".

Not only that, but when it was twelve o'clock at noon, the twelve bronze statues of animals sprayed water jets together, and the scene was extremely spectacular in an instant.

Such a design is ingeniously conceived, and the material used for the casting of the beast's head is also the red copper refined by the Qing court at that time, with a deep color on the outside and a golden light inside, even if it will not rust after a hundred years, it can be said to be a must.

But what makes people feel regrettable and sad is that when the coalition invaded China, the Old Summer Palace was burned, and the bronze statues of the twelve beast heads were also lost overseas and disappeared.

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