Chapter 943: The Greatest Collector in History!

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Liu Dong really couldn't think of anyone with such a great ability to collect so many heavy treasures here, unless it was the emperor! But it's not like the Imperial Tomb!

"Whatever, it's mine when it comes to me anyway!" Liu Dong made a decision that ordinary people would make!

After he put away Gu Kaizhi's "Female History Atlas" in his hand, he picked up a scroll from the box again, and among the hundreds of scrolls inside, it was the one that Liu Dong picked up for the third time!

He really wanted to see what kind of masterpiece it was, it was even more precious than Gu Kaizhi's real work!

When Liu Dong peeled off the wax layer and oilcloth with anticipation, and slowly opened it, what appeared in front of him was not the ancient painting he thought before, but a word!

"'The minister said: Rong road and road, brave the cold. Surrender to no ......! 'This is Zhong Xuan's "He Jie Watch"? Liu Dong was surprised.

Zhong Xuan was a famous calligrapher and politician of Cao Wei during the Three Kingdoms period.

He successively served as Shang Shulang, Huangmen Shilang and other positions, helped the Han Dynasty to return to the east and made meritorious contributions, and was named the Marquis of Dongwu Pavilion. Later, he was entrusted with an important task by Cao Cao, and was the captain of the school, guarding the Guanzhong, and made outstanding achievements. Move the former military division with merit. The Wei State was established, Ren Dali, and was promoted to the Xiangguo. Cao Pi was called the emperor, as the court lieutenant, and entered the noble township. Later, he moved to Taiwei and was transferred to Pingyang Township. and Hua Xin, Wang Lang and the three dukes. Emperor Ming succeeded to the throne, moved to Taifu, and entered the Marquis of Dingling.

Compared with Zhong Xuan's achievements in politics, his calligraphy attainments are more prominent!

Zhong Xuan is the founder of regular script (small Kai), and is respected as the "originator of regular script" by later generations. Zhong Xuan had a profound influence on later generations of calligraphy, and later generations of calligraphers such as Wang Xizhi had devoted themselves to studying Zhong Xuan's calligraphy. Together with the Eastern Jin Dynasty calligrapher Wang Xizhi, he is called "King Zhong". The Southern Dynasty Yu Shouwu listed Zhong Xuan's calligraphy as "above the top grade". Tang Zhang Huaijun commented on his calligraphy as a "divine product" in "Book Break".

And "He Jie Table" is also known as "Rong Road Table" and "Rong Lu Table". In the twenty-fourth year of Jian'an in the Eastern Han Dynasty, Zhong Xuan wrote when he was sixty-eight years old. The content is a He Jie performance written when he learned the good news that Shu general Guan Yu was killed. This is the most representative of the face of Zhong Shu. "Xuanhe Book Pedigree" said: "The book of the law is also the book of today." Zhong Xuan's "Hekejie Watch" is fully equipped with the law and is the ancestor of the book. ”

When Liu Dong used to learn calligraphy, he also copied Zhong Xuan's "He Jie Watch" many times, so he is very familiar with the content of it!

However, compared with "He Jie Watch" itself, Liu Dong is more concerned about whether it is the real work of Zhong Xuan!

Obviously, in addition to Zhong Xuan's authentic calligraphy, there is no second possibility that can suppress Gu Kaizhi's "Female History Atlas"!

Looking at the slightly broken but well-preserved calligraphy handscroll in his hand. Liu Dong's heart swelled with indescribable excitement and excitement!

This authentic calligraphy of Zhong Xuan, with more than 400 seals and more than 300 promotions, is probably unique in the world!

After all, during the Three Kingdoms period, 1800 years ago, even a piece of cloth that can survive is unimaginably precious, not to mention Zhong Xuan's calligraphy!

After carefully reading all the words and seals on the handkerchief with a width of about 50 centimeters and a length of 6 meters, and a seal that is more than the text of the calligraphy, Liu Dong found that the last person who left the seal and promoted on it was the Qianlong Emperor who was jokingly called the 'big player' in the antique industry!

However, this "He Jie Table" has a total of 19 large and small seals such as "Treasure of Qianlong Imperial Reading", "Treasure of Qianlong Imperial Pen", "Treasure of Emperor Taishang", "Qianlong Chenhan" and "Treasure of Ancient Son of Heaven"!

And the promotion left by Emperor Qianlong above is more than 300 words. It can be seen how much the emperor who created the last glory of the Qing Dynasty liked this character!

However, combined with Yan Liben's "Emperors of the Past Dynasties" and Gu Kaizhi's "Female History", plus Zhong Xuan's "He Jie Table" now. Liu Dong also discovered a feature, among the three paintings and calligraphy, the last one to leave a seal and promote was Emperor Qianlong!

After Qianlong in the Qing Dynasty, Jiaqing, Xianfeng, Daoguang and other emperors did not leave any traces on it, and this is obviously a little unreasonable, after all, these three paintings and calligraphy are the top treasures of Chinese calligraphy and painting for thousands of years, any emperor, even Liu Dong also hopes to leave his own seal and promotion on it, so as to make himself famous in history!

Therefore, after reading these three pieces of calligraphy, I have a rough guess about the origin of these incredibly precious works of art in front of me!

But whether it is or not, more evidence is needed!

So, in a quick put away this piece of immeasurable value? After Zhong Xuan's authentic handwriting, Liu Dong once again dismantled the remaining calligraphy and painting scrolls!

A priceless celebrity calligraphy and painting is presented in front of Liu Dong's eyes, the most of which is the Northern Song Dynasty Qixu's "Crossing the Water Cow", you must know that his other "Picture of Grazing in the Mountains and Rivers" collected in the Forbidden City is regarded as a national treasure!

The precious one is the painter of the Western Jin Dynasty, who studied under Cao Fuxing, and Zhang Mo is also known as the 'painting saint' of the real work of the Wei Association "Mu Tianzi Banquet Yao Chi Map"!

In addition to the Wei Association, there are 5 paintings belonging to the Wei, Jin, Southern and Northern Dynasties periods, namely Lu Tanwei, one of the 'Six Dynasties and Four Masters', "Yellow Emperor Fighting Zhuo Deer"; It is known as the history of painting with the Tang Dynasty painter Wu Daozi's Wu Daidangfeng painting style, and Cao Zhongda's "Portrait of Murong Shaozong" is known as "Cao Yi out of the water"; Yang Zihua, a painter of the Northern Qi Dynasty who is sometimes known as the "painting saint", "Northern Qi Noble Relatives Visiting the Garden"; Northern Zhou Dynasty painter, together with Zhan Ziqian, known as 'Dong Zhan' Dong Boren's authentic work "Maitreya in disguise"; and the famous painter Zheng Fashi, a contemporary of Dong Boren, "You Chun Yuan"!

and 4 pieces of calligraphy in the same number of Northern and Southern Dynasties, respectively, the "Wei and Nanti" by the enlightenment teacher of the 'calligraphy saint' and the famous female calligrapher Mrs. Wei of the Jin Dynasty; One of the 'two kings', Wang Xianzhi's "Mid-Autumn Festival"; the Eastern Jin Dynasty celebrity Wang Meng's "Five Words Orchid Pavilion Preface"; and the famous pharmacist, alchemist, and writer, known as the "Prime Minister of the Mountains" Tao Hongjing's "Seven Words Rhythm Poem"!

In addition to a total of 11 authentic paintings and calligraphy of the Northern and Southern Dynasties, there are 28 paintings and calligraphy of the Sui and Tang dynasties, including many famous works by Zhan Ziqian, Wu Daozi, Chu Suiliang, Yan Zhenqing and others!

There are 39 paintings and calligraphy in the Five Dynasties period, and the works of Gu Hongzhong, Jing Hao, Dong Yuan, Guan Tong, and Juran are all listed!

On the contrary, the paintings of the Song Dynasty are the least except for the Northern and Southern Dynasties, adding up to only 27!

However, Liu Dong was very excited to receive so many precious paintings, but he also discovered a common feature of these paintings!

That is to say, the promotion and seal of basically every painting stopped when it reached Emperor Qianlong, and in the future, no one familiar with Liu Dong left his own seal on it!

And through this feature, Liu Dong is 80% sure that these priceless works of art come from Emperor Qianlong, more precisely from Emperor Qianlong's Yuling!

Qing Gao Patriarch Tianlongyun Zhicheng Xianjue Ti Yuan Li Ji Fu Wen Fen Wu Qin Ming Filial Piety Divine Pure Emperor, surnamed Aixin Jueluo, Shengzhi Hongli, is the fourth son of Emperor Yongzheng. He was also the fourth emperor after the entry of the Qing Empire.

Emperor Qianlong is indeed a generation of heroes, and he is also a very blessed and blessed emperor.

In his later years, he was deeply intoxicated by the comparison with the emperors of previous dynasties, believing that not only "the righteousness of the country, the breadth of the territory, the universality of submission, and the peace of the people" are rarely compared, but even the time of reign, longevity, and the number of children and grandchildren are among the best. The feudal system reached its historical peak under Qianlong's power.

During his reign, he pacified Xinjiang Province and Mongolia, and also made Sichuan Province, Guizhou Province and other places continue to change the land and return to the river, the population continued to increase, breaking through the 300 million mark, accounting for about one-third of the world's population at that time, and creating the last prosperous era of China's feudal society - "Kangqian Prosperous Era", and the powerful China stood tall in the east of the world.

His 60 years of stable rule maintained the last prosperous era of China's feudal dynasty, and his era was the era of the culmination of China's feudal politics, economy, and culture after a long period of precipitation, and he himself became the general representative of all this. At the same time, Qianlong was also a great poet, writing tens of thousands of poems in his life, and was the person who created the most poems in the world.

Behind so many achievements, Emperor Qianlong is also a famous and even the most famous collector in Chinese history!

He is known as the "Ten Perfect Old Man" and "Ancient Rare Son of Heaven", and is the person who loves to collect and has the most ability to collect the world's treasures in Chinese history. His collection has benefited generations to this day. Now we go to the Forbidden City in Beijing and Taipei, where many of the treasures displayed are from his collection. And the largest number of auctions in the world's major auction houses also have many of his collections.

Emperor Qianlong inherited calligraphy and painting treasures from his grandfather, and the number of rare treasures collected in his lifetime is unparalleled in the world. Some of the collections come from the contributions of the courtiers. There is also a considerable part of it that is made by the inner government.

Decades of art from the whole country to search for fine art, Qianlong appreciation often stamped "Qianlong Imperial Treasure of Appreciation", "Sanxitang Jing Jian Seal", "Yi Descendants" and other chapters, in order to show the meaning of the collection, and then let the elegant ministers of their own way, divided into categories, compiled into a catalog, approved by the emperor, and then compiled and printed into a book, such as "Western Qing Ancient Jian", "Ningshou Ancient Inkstone" is a collection of ancient bronze catalogs, "Western Qing Dynasty Yan Spectrum" is a collection of ancient inkstone catalogs.

As early as the eighth year of Qianlong, he decided to carry out a large-scale sorting of the paintings and calligraphy collected by the Inner Palace. First of all, the works related to Buddhism and Taoism were compiled into a catalogue "Secret Temple Pearl Forest"; In the following year, the compilation of the Shiqu Baoji, which included the entire collection of paintings and calligraphy, began. This is an unprecedented reorganization effort that will bring to an end the collection of Chinese court calligraphy and paintings that has existed for 2,000 years.

After the completion of the "Shiqu Baoji", including the sequel and three parts, a total of 225 volumes. This is a summary of the 600 years of court collection in the Ming and Qing dynasties. It is also the last scale of the collection of the emperors of the past dynasties. In its heyday, there were more than 10,000 pieces of Qing Dynasty court collections, including 2,000 pieces of paintings and calligraphy from the Jin, Tang, Song and Yuan dynasties, and 2,000 pieces of paintings and calligraphy from the Ming Dynasty, which was the largest scale of Chinese classical calligraphy and painting works at that time. (To be continued......)