Chapter 542: The Treasure of the Japanese Army (Part II)

…… And what excites Liu Dong the most is Wang Xizhi's "Orchid Pavilion Preface", which is known as the first in calligraphy!

Of course, it is not Wang Xizhi's calligraphy, but Yu Shinan, Chu Suiliang, Xue Ji, and Ouyang Xun, who is one of the four masters of the early Tang Dynasty!

According to historical records, after Tang Taizong Li Shimin obtained the original copy of "Orchid Pavilion Preface", in order to let all the princes be edified, Taizong ordered Feng Chengsu and others to copy a few copies and give them to the princes. Not only that, the most famous calligraphers under Taizong at that time, such as Chu Suiliang and Ouyang Xun, had copied the "Orchid Pavilion Preface".

Now Feng Chengsu's Shenlong book "Orchid Pavilion Preface" and Chu Suiliang's "Orchid Pavilion Preface" are in the Palace Museum, and later generations of calligraphers copied the "Orchid Pavilion Preface" There are more than 100 versions, the level is uneven, but the calligraphy master Ouyang Xun's copy must be one of the top grades, and Liu Dong also found Tang Xuanzong Li Rongji's "Kaiyuan" small seal on it, the Northern Song Dynasty Zhenzong, Huizong Neifu, Xiang Yuanbian, Dingwu Taishou Song Jingwen, Ming Neifu and other royal and famous promotions and seals!

Originally, Ouyang Xun only had the 'Dingwu Ben' stone carving from the Song Dynasty, but now there is this Ouyang Xun's "Orchid Pavilion Preface" calligraphy authenticity, which finally makes up for the shortcomings!

In addition to this facsimile of Ouyang Xun's "Orchid Pavilion Preface", there is also a "Fish Eating Post" that is not inferior to the former, because its author is the Tang Dynasty cursive master, the same name as Zhang Xu's Huaisu monk!

Huaisu is an outstanding calligrapher in Chinese history, his cursive script is called "wild grass", with a round and powerful pen, so that the turn is like a ring, unrestrained and smooth. Coherent. and Zhang Xu's name. In later generations, it was known as "Zhang Diansu Maniac" or "Bidian Drunken Element". It can be said to be classical romantic art. The impact on future generations is extremely far-reaching. He can also write poetry, and has contacts with poets such as Li Bai, Du Fu, and Su Lian. Good drinking, whenever drinking rises, regardless of walls, clothes, utensils, arbitrary writing, people call it "drunken monk".

The original Huaisu "Self-Narrative Post" that has been handed down to the world is the first wild grass in the history of calligraphy, and has a great influence on later generations.

In addition to these two precious Tang Dynasty calligraphy works, the next is one of the four Song Dynasty Mi Fu's "Manting Fang, Yongcha" picture scroll!

According to history. Su Shi regarded Miyun Dragon as the treasure in tea. In addition to Huang Tingjian, Qin Guan and other "Sumen Four Bachelors" and Liao Zhengyi, the famous calligrapher and painter Mi Fu is also Su Shi's guest. Yuan You four years (AD 1089), Su Shi served as Hangzhou-Zhou Taishou, passing through Yang-Zhou, had summoned Mi Fu to come to meet. Su Shi took out the "Miyun Dragon" again and shared it with him. Mi Fu has written "Man Tingfang" for this reason, and the title is called "Yongcha".

In addition to these three calligraphy and painting scrolls, there are many handwritings of famous artists in the remaining 112 calligraphy works. Like the treacherous minister Cai Jing and Li Jianzhong. Yuan Dynasty calligraphers Zhao Mengfu, Xian Yushu, Ni Zan and so on!

In addition to calligraphy and paintings, there are more than 1,500 inscriptions, more than 20,000 ancient books, and the most precious is the Song Dynasty carved book "Taiping Yulan"!

"Taiping Yulan" is one of the four great books of the Song Dynasty, and "Wenyuan Yinghua", "Taiping Guangji", "Shufu Yuangui" is as famous as "Wenyuan Yinghua", "Taiping Guangji", "Shufu Yuangui", compiled by scholars such as Li Fang, Li Mu, Xu Xuan and other scholars in the Northern Song Dynasty, and took six years to complete the book!

"Taiping Yulan" adopts a group of books to collect, which is divided into 55 parts and 550 doors and compiled into 1,000 volumes, so the original name is "Taiping General Class"; after the book is completed, Song Taizong reads three volumes daily, and reads Zhou at the age of one, so it is renamed "Taiping Yulan". The book is divided into 55 parts in the order of heaven, earth, people, things, and things, which can be said to cover all kinds of ancient and modern things. There are more than 1,000 kinds of ancient books cited in the book, and a large number of documents before the Song Dynasty have been preserved, but seven or eight of them have been lost, which makes this book even more precious and is a precious heritage of the traditional culture of the Han nation.

Liu Dong obtained not all of the "Taiping Yulan", among the fifty-five parts, only the earth department, the emperor department, the partial hegemony department, the imperial family department, the magic department, the disease department, the craft department, and the utensils department are still complete, and the other forty-seven parts are only partial, and many of them are not even partial! All of them add up to a total of 487 volumes!

But despite this, it's still very rare!

In addition to "Taiping Yulan", "Wenyuan Yinghua", "Taiping Guangji", and "Shufu Yuan Turtle" also have them, but they are all engraved copies of the Ming Dynasty, and they are not complete.

However, more than 20,000 volumes of rare books are treasures inherited from thousands of years of Chinese civilization, many ancient inventions that may be extinct, as well as secrets that are not recorded in the annals of history, are recorded in them, but Liu Dong is not a historian, so although he is very precious about these rare books, but he has no intention of researching, and will wait for the museum to be completed in the future, and hand it over to professional people to study!

In addition to these calligraphy and paintings, inscriptions and rare books, there are more than 100 murals and more than 200 pieces of rulers, the Japanese are quite well preserved, and the murals should be from Dunhuang and Kizil Grottoes, although not much, but it is likely that the Japanese raided the house, because during World War II, the Japanese and Chinese troops did not cross Shaanxi-West!

There are about 30,000 paintings, murals, prints, calligraphy, rulers, and tablets!

In addition to the porcelain mentioned earlier, there are more than 500 bronzes among these precious works of art looted by the Japanese, Xia, Shang and Zhou, all the way to the Spring and Autumn Period and the Warring States Period and the Qin and Han dynasties, which are distributed in various dynasties!

And there are more than 100 precious oracle bones in Yinxu!

There are more than 600 pieces of jade, especially one of them, the Tang Dynasty carved dragon jade cup made of Hetian mutton fat jade is one of the treasured things. The number of jade cups in the Tang Dynasty is very small, and the appearance of every jade cup in the Tang Dynasty is a national treasure! What is even more rare is that the carving of this jade cup is very extraordinary, and the volume is not small, the height is 20 centimeters, and the caliber is close to 12 centimeters, which is very rare!

There are more than 300 pieces of lacquerware, most of which are the things of the three dynasties of the Yuan, Ming and Qing dynasties, although they are all very precious, and even many of them are royal tributes of the three generations, but there is nothing that can be called a national treasure.

There are only more than 250 pieces of enamelware, excluding porcelain tires, glass tires, Yixing tires and palace original state displays, including more than 157 pieces of cloisonné enamel, nearly 93 pieces of painting enamelware, the most precious is a 45 cm high Yuan Dynasty cloisonné enamel entwined branch lotus pattern elephant ear furnace!

378 pieces of gold and silverware, only 65 pieces of gold, the most precious is a Qing Dynasty golden hair tower, but the height is only 98 centimeters, although it is also inlaid with turquoise, red sapphire, opal and other precious stones, but the value is still not comparable to the Qianlong golden hair tower in the Forbidden City!

542 pieces of bamboo and wood tooth horns, 192 pieces of bamboo, 287 pieces of wood, 163 pieces of tooth horns, boxwood material of the Yuan Dynasty, the statue of Guan Gong with a height of 67 cm, the bamboo carving landscape pen holder of the Ming Dynasty Zhu Sansong, one of the only five ivory mats in the world, etc.

There are 1,867 pieces of study utensils, 278 brushes, 304 pieces of ink, 678 pieces of paper silk, 347 square inkstones, 131 pieces of miscellaneous documents and 129 pieces of stamp materials. In addition to treasures such as 'Li Mo' and 'Chengxintang Paper', basically from the Song and Yuan dynasties to the end of the Qing Dynasty, precious scholar's utensils are basically available here.

233 pieces of glassware, 121 pieces of jewelry bonsai, and a small number of ware, clocks, ancient coins and precious furniture, as well as a small number of royal items, add up to about 889 pieces!

In addition, there are 233 large and small stone carved Buddha statues, and 189 inscriptions!

In the end, adding all the porcelain, calligraphy and painting and other things together, Liu Dong got nearly 40,000 antiques from this Japanese army treasure house!

According to the news that Liu Dong got from Zhao Rongcheng's diary, these more than 40,000 precious antiques were only the results of the North China Dispatch Army in the past two years!

As for how many precious works of art were looted by the Japanese during the eight-year War of Resistance Against Japanese Aggression, just look at the current title that 'Japan is the country with the largest collection of Chinese art abroad'! If you think about it, even if there are not millions of pieces, it is estimated that there should be 500,000 or 600,000 pieces!

In order to sort out and record more than 40,000 antiques, Liu Dong was busy for three days, but fortunately it was him, otherwise ordinary people would have been unable to stand it!

However, after three days and three nights, the huge harvest couldn't help but make Liu Dong feel the slightest tiredness, and even his spirit was still extremely excited!

With this gain, the collection of his future museum will be closed!

"The scenery of the northern country, thousands of miles of ice, thousands of miles of snow drifting, looking at the ...... inside and outside the Great Wall!" After Liu Dong recorded and archived the last 'copper-gilded writer's clock' and packed up everything, he couldn't help but look at the rising sun in the east, and recited the chairman's name aloud with pride, at this moment, he never felt that his Yuanmingyuan Museum reconstruction plan was as within reach as it is now!

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In the first half of February, Liu Dong dealt with the affairs of Quancheng, and after appeasing Wang Qiang and Yan Qingqing, he took Mu Gang and Ma Chao on the plane to the capital, as for Lin Ling, because of the relatively chaotic situation in Myanmar, Liu Dong did not take her!

"Xiaodong, here!"

"Brother Zhou!" Looking at Zhou Bin, who was standing outside the exit and waving, Liu Dong strode over with a smile on his face.

"Mu Gang is also here?" After greeting Liu Dong, Zhou Bin asked with a smile as he looked at the super strong man who followed closely behind with a strong oppressive force.

After the two said hello, Liu Dong said: "I am not familiar with the place of life in Myanmar this time, and it is convenient to bring more people to deal with accidents!"

Hearing this, Zhou Bin also nodded in agreement.

"Who is this?"

"Oh, this is Brother Mu's registered disciple Ma Chao!" Liu Dong introduced.

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