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The reason why the contents of Semya's box surprised Huo Sining so much was entirely because except for the Changxin Palace lamp, everything else appeared in pairs.

The rarest place of Chinese antiques is here, many foreign civilizations pay attention to a unique, so many European antiques are often unique, because the maker only designed one piece when it was originally designed.

However, the Chinese civilization is different, and when designing and producing, the ancient Chinese craftsmen often pay attention to pairs, so many things are made in double numbers when they are first made.

It's just that, after hundreds of thousands of years of changes, many objects have been lost or damaged, and finally the things that have really been handed down have become individual objects, and few can be put together into a complete pair.

However, the things in Semiya's box turned out to be a complete pair very coincidentally, except for the Changxin Palace lamp, there was only one, but this was not because the other one had been lost, but because the thing was hidden in the Jibei Museum.

Things that have been handed down for hundreds of years, it is rare to maintain the integrity of the items themselves, and very few appear in pairs, so many collectors, in order to put together the objects in their hands, do not hesitate to spend huge financial and material resources, but even so, most people still can't ask for it.

Even in the market, the price of objects that appear in pairs is often higher than the price of a single one, and it is not as simple as one plus one equals two, it is a geometric multiple, and some may not be able to buy it even several times.

Just when Huo Sining was playing with these objects, suddenly her eyes fell on the bottom of the wooden box, and found that there was a scroll at the bottom of the box.

He placed the scroll on the table, untied the hemp rope that was tied in the middle, and carefully spread out the painting.

Huo Sining's action immediately attracted Su Qingqing, Li Jun, and others to come together, and when Huo Sining completely unfolded the scroll, Su Qingqing, who was standing on the side, was suddenly taken aback, and said, "This is a palace painting!?"

Huo Sining was stunned, when she just picked up this painting, she did feel the purple aura rushing to her face on this painting, but this aura does not look heavy, it is estimated that it is just a work in the middle and late Qing Dynasty.

But now when she heard Su Qingqing say this, she subconsciously looked towards the inscription of this painting, and sure enough, in the lower left corner of this painting, there are five words inscription: Lang Shining Gong painting.

Huo Sining didn't expect that this painting turned out to be Lang Shining's work, and it was also a palace oil painting, seeing the things depicted on this painting, Huo Sining's heart felt like a stormy wave, and he couldn't calm down for a long time.

Lang Shining, whose original name was Giuseppe Gastrione, was an Italian born in Milan and came to China as a missionary of the Catholic Jesus Church in the 54th year of the Kangxi Emperor of the Qing Dynasty.

Because Lang Shining loved art and science since he was a child, although the Kangxi Emperor at that time did not believe in the religion that Lang Shining believed in in the southern city, the emperor who was over sixty years old admired Lang Shining's painting talent very much, and regarded Lang Shining as an artist, which was very courteous.

After that, Lang Shining became a court painter, painting for the emperor and his concubines.

After the death of Emperor Kangxi, the fourth son of the emperor Yongzheng ascended the throne, and many missionaries suffered bad luck after that, but Lang Shining served in the court and received special courtesy.

Not only that, Lang Shining has served in the Kangxi, Yongzheng, and Qianlong dynasties, and his official title has reached the court painter of the three grades, which can be said to be the exclusive weight of the three generations of emperors, not to mention as a foreigner, even if it is a local Chinese painter, he can do the three products, which is unique in the Chinese dynasties.

Lang Shining has been engaged in painting in China for 50 years, and has also participated in the design of the Western building of the Old Summer Palace, perhaps because of the influence of Western sketch painting, Lang Shining's painting will be Chinese and Western techniques in one, in the plane marked a new depth and three-dimensional sense, formed a fine and realistic effect, and created a new style of painting unique to Lang Shining, his painting in the Manchurian aristocratic circle at that time, became a popular fashion of art, and even in the history of Chinese painting, also left a strong stroke.

However, because most of Lang Shining's paintings are court paintings, his works are mainly stored in the Palace Museum, the Liuli Palace Museum, and one or two in a few museums in China, and there are also individual works in the Cleveland Museum of Fine Arts in Berlin abroad, but there are very few of them circulating among the people and overseas, at least before that, Huo Sining has never seen or heard of it.

This oil painting in Huo Sining's hand depicts the scene of Qianlong and several concubines visiting the garden, in the painting, Qianlong and several concubines are playing and playing in the imperial garden, and the people on the painting are dressed in the same color flag, wearing the bottom of the flower pot, holding an embroidered handkerchief, or chasing butterflies or leaning over to sniff the flowers, and the movements are varied.

This painting uses Western techniques, so each of the concubines on it has its own characteristics, and the shape and appearance are also different, or Chu Chu is moving or plump and graceful, or the face is like a peach and plum or the muscles and bones are smooth, the demeanor is elegant but not delicate, the slender waist is like spring water, a little pink but the eyes are tender, everyone's appearance is very realistic, and the most beautiful demeanor of these concubines is completely vividly displayed.

Seeing this painting, Huo Sining suddenly remembered that she had seen a TV series, and there was a plot in the TV series, which was said to have been changed according to historical facts, saying that Emperor Qianlong asked Lang Shining to draw a portrait of him and the harem concubines, including Qianlong and the queen, a total of thirteen people.

This painting was named "Heart Writing Zhiping" by Qianlong, after Lang Shining finished this painting, Qianlong only took out the painting three times when the painting was just completed, 700,000 years of life and abdication, and then sealed the painting, and decreed that anyone who peeped at this painting would be executed by Ling Chi.

The painting was later lost during the invasion of the Eight-Nation Alliance, and later appeared in the Cleveland Museum of the United States, where it is still housed.