Chapter Twenty-Nine: The Book of Food and the Bada Shanren

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After Fang Hong returned to China, he has been contacted by several famous scholars and collectors in North America.

Fang Hong didn't mind who revealed his number, just said, "Just exchange it, don't sell it." ”

At this point, the private collector had no choice but to retreat.

Next up are the museums of North America.

Several museums, including the Metropolitan Museum and the Potuton Museum, have come to the door.

The specific replacement method is well known to everyone.

However, Fang Hong still found the SC Museum, because he was not familiar with this aspect of things, and if he was deceived, he would not be able to cry.

There's a problem here, though.

Fang Hong found Huo Wei, a professor at University C, through the relationship between the old professors in the previous school.

In China, the first level of the archaeology department is Capital University, and the second level is Liao University and C University.

Twenty years ago, Harvard University tried to connect with the Department of Archaeology at University C, and the Department of Archaeology and the Department of Anthropological Studies were working closely together.

However, the situation in China was not so lenient at that time, and in the end, Professor Li, the dean of the Department of Archaeology at C University, opposed it, which also deprived C University of its only chance to compete with Capital University academically.

However, the Department of Archaeology of University C is still very famous in China, especially the temporary professors of the SC Museum, almost all of whom come from University C.

There are also some not-so-pleasant things happening.

The director of the SC Museum, Comrade Li, strongly asked Fang Hong to leave the three clay pots in the museum, instead of replacing them with museums in North America.

From his point of view, it's certainly simple, the SC Museum has always strived to be a comprehensive museum, and three pieces of Egyptian pottery from North America can definitely hold up an Egyptian pavilion, and it will also be a special one in the world.

However, this matter was unanimously opposed by Huo Wei and Fang Hong.

Huo Wei's point of view is that Egyptian culture belongs to Egypt, and whoever loves to study and who studies has not preserved his own culture completely, and the world is full of cultural relics, and he still cares about Egyptian cultural relics.

And Fang Hong's point of view is that Lao Tzu's things are Lao Tzu's decision, and whoever asks for it will get out.

Of course, this is very unpleasant, so unpleasant that the curator is not willing to cooperate with this time.

So, Huo Wei personally found the secretary and explained the whole story.

The secretary speaks, and the curator's words are equal to fart.

Soon, the Potuton Museum and the Metropolitan Museum each made a list of the items they could get out of, and gave several sets of replacement options in detail.

The small family of the Metropolitan Museum, Huo Wei told them directly: "You can put away the things, don't talk about it." ”

The reason is very simple, in the big museums in North America, the number of cultural relics in the Chinese Pavilion is numerous, more than in China, however, all of them are not in the right way, and they are not necessarily true.

Fang Hong didn't quite understand this, and only after asking did he feel ridiculous.

For example, a total of 150,000 pieces of Yin Shang oracle bones have been unearthed, of which 130,000 pieces have been collected in China.

However, the Quenanque Museum in Canada alone has a collection of 45,600 pieces.

Where did it come from?

Experts on the Chinese side have already gone to see it, and of the 4,700 pieces on display, more than 3,900 are fakes, all of which are carved on pig bones, concocted in vinegar and dung and then buried with soil to make old fakes.

The oracle bones in Quenanke's collection are not from their museum, but were deposited here by an archaeologist a hundred years ago, with the intention that if the situation in China is stable, the oracle bones will be returned.

Quenanke has repeatedly set up obstacles in the way of returning, and the Chinese experts can only tell them to play with pig bones.

This time, the Metropolitan Museum did the same thing, also wanting to exchange fakes for the real thing.

Fortunately, Fang Hong found Huo Wei, and without even looking at anything, he knew that many of the lists they provided were fakes.

Honesty is all about doing business, and if you are not honest, then don't talk about it.

However, this also happened to be in line with Fang Hong's expectations, because from the beginning, he decided that the Potuton Museum and the Metropolitan Museum did not have what he wanted.

Fang Hong wrote the two things he wanted to Huo Wei in particular.

Huo Wei was still surprised after reading it, because the two things that Fang Hong wanted were indeed in Potuton, and they were exhibited as cultural relics by Botuton, but they didn't actually have much value.

Fang Hong explained the reason to Huo Wei, two things, one is a manuscript of the late Ming Dynasty, and the other is a spoon in the late Qing Dynasty.

There was nothing strange about the late Ming Dynasty manuscript of Shi Zhen Lu, but Fang Hong could only tell Huo Wei about this matter, this late Ming Dynasty manuscript of Shi Zhen Lu should have been copied from the sixteenth volume of the Yongle Grand Canon by himself when the Bada Shanren Buddha was young.

As for the spoon at the end of the Qing Dynasty, the Seven Star Spoon, it was the imperial chef of the year, Tang Yaochuan's tool, which was lost in the cholera of the Eight-Nation Alliance, and finally appeared in Boston.

With such an explanation, Huo Wei felt strange: "How do you know this kind of secret? And with the level of the Boston Sino-Japanese Cultural Center, they didn't find out that the food treasures were written by the Bada Shanren?"

If it is just a copy of the food treasure record at the end of the Ming Dynasty, the price is about 200,000 RM coins, but if it is a handwritten copy by the Bada Shanren, the book is worth hundreds of millions.

In recent years, the auction of calligraphy and paintings of Bada Shanren has repeatedly hit high prices, with a maximum of more than 100 million, which is a picture scroll, but Bada Shanren is most famous for words, and his paintings are famous because they influenced Qi Baishi, Zhang Daqian and other painters of the Republic of China, and from the perspective of size, the manuscript of food treasures is definitely larger than a painting.

Fang Hong could only be helpless: "Because the signature of this book is not Bada Shanren, nor Zhu Daolang, but Wang Sun." This is a pun, people who don't know will think that this is a person called Wang Sun, in fact, the Bada Shanren is saying that he is a child of the Zhu family's royal family.

"I see, the artistic style of the Bada Shanren at the end of the Ming Dynasty had not yet taken shape, and the signature was not correct, so it was not identified, so it was not identified, so the food treasure record and the Seven Star Spoon were lost by the same person, and finally appeared together in Potuton?"

Facing the expert, Fang Hong could only nod and admit: "That's true, no one knows the secret information of the family, but after taking it back, we can use our means to compare whether it is true or not, if the food treasure record is indeed from the Bada Mountain people, I am afraid that in the end, the acting director of the Sino-Japanese Cultural Center of the Potuton Museum, Yoshiyama Qingfeng, will vomit blood." ”

Huo Wei smiled: "Do you understand how to talk about business? These two things are regarded as adding heads, and in the end, they will definitely not think that adding heads is the key." Huo Wei sighed: "Shizhenlu, if it is the Yongle version, it is from the hands of the Bada Shanren, and the price is more than 300 million...... Haha, shouldn't talk about this, let's study the main list. ”