Chapter 359: An Siyuan

A businessman who has no love for culture, and the purpose of stealing and selling cultural relics is to promote international cultural exchange?

The unique connotation of Chinese culture and those unique handicrafts for thousands of years, condensing the wisdom of the ancestors for thousands of years is what really moves the Western cultural relics community, even if there is no Lu Qinzhai, this day will come as it should be. Pen Fun Pavilion wWw. ｂiquge。 ｉｎfo

Because what is good is good.

It is impossible that just because someone shot Hitler, who was learning to paint, shows that the hero who saved the Jews is still a murderer.

And the Red House in Paris is not Lu Qinzhai's work to commemorate his motherland.

When Lu Qinzhai was 40 years old, his business as an ancient director was in full swing. At this time, he had a new idea, which was to build a completely Chinese-style building to display and sell treasures from China. But this idea is almost impossible in Paris, where municipal planning is very strict.

The architecture of Paris has a uniform style, and the height, design style, and materials of each house must be strictly approved, and must be in harmony with the surrounding buildings as a whole.

At that time, Lo had already bought a mansion built during the reign of Napoleon III in the wealthy 8th arrondissement. This mansion has 4 towers, and Lu Qinzhai plans to convert these 4 towers into 4 rooms for his four daughters to live in. Located on the corner of a small square near Parc Monceau, the mansion is ideal for doing business, and Lo decided to turn it into his third shop.

Lu Qinzhai's ultimate goal is still a store, a shop dressed in oriental clothes.

Inside, there are relics lost to a foreign land, bleak, like a lost child huddled in a dark corner, no matter how good this red mansion is, no matter how rich Paris is.

But this is not home.

Lu Qinzhai presided over two auctions, the first time sold more than 2,800 pieces of Chinese cultural relics, the second time sold more than 3,000 pieces, according to statistics, at least half of the overseas cultural relics sold in China through Lu Qinzhai's hands, not including some of the shady ones.

In his later years, Lu Qinzhai was talking about his autobiography and defending himself that art has no borders, which seemed a little pale and weak.

Art does not have borders, but cultural relics have a homeland.

Chinese people pay attention to the integrity of being broken jade rather than being complete, and also pay attention to the nostalgia of falling leaves returning to their roots, and these are not things that Lu Qinzhai can understand.

Because art in his eyes is just a commodity that can be exchanged for money.

It is true that a work of art should be valued, but it should also be respected.

Although Lu Qinzhai sends money to his hometown every year, hoping to make up for the debt in his heart with money, why doesn't he go back and take a look? Because in his eyes, money can mean everything.

It's a terrible value.

In 1937, he participated in a Geneva women's joint charity sale, provided nine plaques to donate to the Dragon Cross Society, and the next year he held a superstar exhibition of cultural relics in London, and the proceeds were donated to the China Aid Association, and in 1947, he donated a bronze "heir pot" from the Warring States period to Tsinghua University.

But so what? Everything he did was out of guilt of his own conscience, and the combined value of the things he donated might not be as good as the proceeds of the sale of an artifact in the first place.

When a billionaire gives away a dollar, no one thinks he's generous, what people really care about is his attitude.

No one can be a bitch and set up an archway, even if you have money, you don't want to, justice is in the hearts of the people.

He confessed that he loved the motherland, and at the same time ransacked the motherland for 50 years.

The moment he stepped into the Red Mansion, the independence inside made Wang Yao think of Mr. Zhang Boju, who died in the motherland because of his lack of rank.

This comparison is judged by high and low.

But Wang Yao still had to buy this red mansion, not for anything else, just to welcome the cultural relics home.

It's just that the price is a problem, and Wang Yao knows that unless he releases the next "Zodiac Turn", it is impossible for him to buy it.

He'll have to think again.

Just as Wang Yao was standing in front of a Buddha statue from the Northern and Southern Dynasties period in the Red Mansion and pondering, an old white man had been silently observing him.

The news of the auction of the Red House in Paris is currently only announced for the antique collecting community, Lu Qinzhai has no sons, only four daughters, and after his death, his antique business has gradually declined, and the company he formed is slowly on the verge of bankruptcy due to the lack of core sources.

So the daughters decided to auction off the Red Mansion, but because the value of the Red Mansion is not only a company or collection, but also an important museum in France, so the French government intervened in this auction, and the first auction in the circle did not adopt a public model, if the price or conditions were not negotiated, then consider whether it was a public auction.

Wang Yao's news was received by Judith, because it involved the cultural relics of Daohuaxia, Judith knew that Wang Yao must be very concerned, so he informed him that the quota for this auction was Judith's friend and alumnus, and the current world's deadliest collector of Asian cultural relics, Ellsworth.

An Siyuan is an American imperialist, born and raised in the country, and his name was given to him by Wang Fangyu, his instructor at Yale University.

When Ellsworth worked in an antique shop in high school, he had trade contacts with Lu Qinzhai's company, and was deeply attracted by Chinese culture.

So when I was studying at Yale University, I deliberately apprenticed to Master Wang Fangyu.

Master Wang Fangyu was born in the Republic of China, graduated from Fu Jen University, and later became deeply interested in calligraphy and painting, and became a great painter Zhang Daqian, especially the works of Bada Shanren.

(Note: Bada Shanren is the name of a person, called Zhu Qi... Not eight people. ）

After receiving a master's degree from Columbia University, he taught at Yale University, specializing in teaching Chinese calligraphy and painting, and was also a very famous collector of cultural relics at that time.

In terms of cultural relics culture and collection, Wang Fangyu is the enlightenment teacher of Ellsworth.

Ellsworth is one of the world's top collectors in the collection of cultural relics and the study of Chinese cultural relics, and has been involved in the collection of inscriptions, calligraphy and paintings, wood carvings, porcelain, furniture, stationery and other diverse collections.

Moreover, it is the first collector's book in the world, including Longguo, to publish the appreciation of antiques of Chinese furniture culture, "Chinese Ancient Furniture" and "Chinese Modern Calligraphy and Painting" and many other works.

Moreover, all his collection works are international collection-level cultural relics, which are equivalent to the collection of first-class cultural relics, which shows his status in the collection world.

In 1993, Sotheby's New York held a special auction for his collection of modern and contemporary paintings and calligraphy, including works by Qi Baishi, Fu Baoshi, Xu Beihong, Zhang Daqian, Pan Tianshou and others.

In the collection of inscriptions, there are eleven kinds of "Song Tuo Jin Tang Xiaokai" (biography "Yuezhou Shi's book"), four volumes of the most rare book of "Chunhua Pavilion Post", Song Ta's "Huairen "Holy Order", Song Ta's "Huaisu Cursive Script "Thousand Character Text", Shui Tuo's "Crane Ming", Ming Tuo's "Tianfa Oracle Tablet", Ming Tuo's "Ritual Tablet", the unbroken version of "Cao Quan Tablet", Jiutuo's "Stone Drum Text" and so on.

An Siyuan's collection and research on the stele were even earlier than Huaxia, and the stele forest that Wang Yao had described before was only valued in the late period of the founding of the People's Republic of China.

Among them, the most important of Ellsworth's collection of inscriptions is a set called "Chunhua Pavilion Posts".

This stele is known as the encyclopedia of inscriptions, is the Song Dynasty, Song Chunhua three years, Taizong Zhao Jiong ordered out of the ink of the past dynasties hidden in the inner house, ordered the Hanlin Shishu Wang to compile the second copy of the stone in the forbidden, the name of "Chunhua Pavilion Post".

It contains 420 works of calligraphy and ink from the pre-Qin to the Sui and Tang dynasties in China, including 103 emperors, courtiers and famous calligraphers.

Among them, the first volume contains the calligraphy of 19 emperors from Emperor Zhang of the Han Dynasty to the Tang Dynasty, including the Tomb Post of Emperor Sima Shao of the Eastern Jin Dynasty, the Lu Girl Post of Emperor Kangdi Sima Yue, and the Chinese Book Post of Emperor Mourning Sima Pi.

The value of this inscription is comparable to that of the "Qingming Riverside Map".

At the beginning, this national treasure was lost overseas, and Western collectors did not know much about calligraphy culture, so this inscription was not taken seriously at first.

In 1994, Mr. Qi Gong heard about the movement of "Chunhua Pavilion Post", and asked someone to visit An Siyuan, and hoped that he could take this tablet back to China for exhibition, and An Siyuan exhibited the sixth, seventh, eighth and fourth volumes of "Chunhua Pavilion Post" in the Northern Song Dynasty to the Palace Museum.

At that time, it caused a great sensation in the world of calligraphy and painting.

The Palace Museum wanted to bring this national treasure back, but due to the price, it has not been negotiated, although the price given by Ellsworth is not very high, and it does not sit on the ground, but the Palace Museum really can't get the money.

Ellsworth has a good impression of Chinese culture, but he is still a merchant collector after all.

"Mr. Wang Yao?"

Wang Yao turned his head to look at the white old man in a suit with a smile on his face, and bowed slightly, "Mr. An Siyuan." ”

"You're a little different from what I imagined. An Siyuan looked at Wang Yao and said with a smile: "The young ones are a little scary. ”

Wang Yao smiled: "Thank you again for giving me the admission ticket." ”

"Even if you're not a friend of Judith, for the sake of Master Qigong's face, I will help, not to mention, you are now the hottest director in the United States. An Siyuan laughed and said, "But it may still be a little difficult to buy this red mansion." ”

Wang Yao pursed his lips, "Yes, but I do want to try." ”

"The French people value this red mansion very much, and you are a Chinese, you may suffer a little. An Siyuan said with a smile.

Since it is an auction, there must be bidding, there must be bidding, even if it is a large auction agency like Sotheby's or Christie's, sometimes it will play some small tricks.