Chapter 1174: The Sorrow of the French
The culture nurtured in China for 5,000 years, even Chu Lao, Wang Lao, these cultural relics scholars, dare not say that they know it completely, and some foreigners do not know the height of the sky.
"Can you do it, can you explain these things to us, and if you can, then what about this treasure, which you can introduce, if not, then don't disturb us to see this treasure that belongs to us." Fang You said lightly, looking at the Louvre experts opposite, without the slightest emotion on his face.
And hearing Fang You's ruthless words, those experts in the Louvre couldn't help but change their faces, and their expressions were a little embarrassed, as Fang You said, they really couldn't fully explain all the meanings contained in these names, including the poems, sometimes just the meaning of a word in Huaxia, in different sentences, there would be different meanings, they had no way to fully understand, naturally they couldn't fully explain it like Fang You.
The original self-confident show-off, but it has become like this, how can these experts not feel embarrassed, the previous brilliance has completely disappeared.
Seeing the expressions on the faces of these experts, Fang You smiled slightly, but took out his mobile phone from his pocket, "Hehe, I forgot, just now, in order to better record the Chinese cultural relics you took out, I specially turned on the mobile phone recording function, and I have been recording until now, I don't know what kind of consequences you have to compare with us to understand the cultural relics of this recording and spread it because you have our Chinese cultural relics." β
"Sir, I don't have the intention of comparing cultural understanding with you, I just want you to see this treasure." When the person in charge of the Louvre named El heard Fang You's words, his face changed suddenly, he looked at the mobile phone Fang You was holding in his hand, and then hurriedly said.
Although they do mean this, it can only be tacitly understood by everyone, and once they admit it, it will be a huge disaster for their French antiquities community.
More than 100 years ago, France robbed countless countries of precious cultural relics, and once such a high-profile provocation of the robbed country is exposed, it will definitely arouse the common condemnation of all the robbed countries.
One or two countries can cope with the occasional recovery of cultural relics, and if all these countries join forces to denounce France and formulate a common policy of confrontation or sanctions, then France will be in a very serious diplomatic dilemma.
"Very well, I also believe that you are just doing it with good intentions, and since you say that we are feasting our eyes, then we should have no objection to this treasure now that we are free to look at it ourselves." Fang You smiled, handed his palm to the person in charge, and then looked at him lightly.
Fang You's indifferent eyes couldn't help but make the person in charge feel a little frightened in his heart, and he couldn't help but hand the two volumes of the Forty Scenes of the Old Summer Palace in his hand to Fang You.
Even if he couldn't really confirm whether Fang You had turned on the recording, but at this juncture, he couldn't take the risk, although he denied Fang You's words just now, but what they had done before, what they said, was already a huge provocation to the country that owned the cultural relics, and if it was spread, not to mention Huaxia, the whole world would no longer have a good impression of them.
A country that claims to be great and romantic, but does such a shameless thing, this will simply make the good impression that France has established in the hearts of the people of the world collapse in an instant, he can't take risks, absolutely can't take risks, he can only do what Fang You said.
"Very good, thank you for your kindness, we will study this treasure of our own, perhaps, you can learn more from our research, Chinese culture of 5,000 years is broad and profound, not like you who only learn a little skin, and then be complacent." Fang You smiled slightly, then took the forty scenery atlas in his hand to Wang Lao and put it down, "Wang Lao, we can't live up to the kindness of the Louvre, come on, let's appreciate this treasure that belongs to our China together." β
Wang Lao and the cultural relics scholars beside him looked at Fang You, and couldn't help but smile, Fang Xiaoyou's approach was very correct, he was not prepared to go up to theorize impulsively like them, if he could theorize them, it is estimated that these cultural relics would not have been recovered for so long.
For this kind of robbers, they can only be stronger than them, don't they rely on the Chinese cultural relics, they confidently think that they fully understand, then what they have to do is to make their previous self-confidence become the current landless self-esteem.
Especially when Fang You took out his mobile phone, the panicked look on the faces of some experts and staff of the Louvre did not make Wang Lao and others feel relieved, but only made them feel ridiculous.
Those people in the Louvre Museum in France looked at the eyes of Wang Lao and the others, but they didn't dare to have any emotions, and the person in charge named El was even more sad in his heart, from a glorious host to a current person, which made him a little unacceptable.
But now they have to accept it, because once this recording is exposed, then even if France will not fall into diplomatic difficulties, the reputation of the Louvre as a palace of art will be completely destroyed, and he, the main person in charge of exchanges with the Chinese side, may become the most directly responsible person, and the disgrace of his reputation will be the least consequence.
Wang Lao and other Chinese scholars had a smile on their faces, not caring at all that this was a place for exchange, and they gathered around Wang Lao very casually, looking at the table and the forty scenes of the Old Summer Palace that were constantly turned over by Wang Lao.
After the liberation and founding of the People's Republic of China, a French scholar presented the Chinese side with a set of 40 scenic maps, which made the Chinese people see the colorful scenery of the Old Summer Palace.
A few years ago, what was even more humiliating was that a company in Tianjing spent several million yuan to buy a clearer base plate of the Forty Scenes from a photographer in the original picture, and also purchased the copyright of the Forty Scenes of the Old Summer Palace from the National Library of France, as well as the right to use it in China for ten years, which was used to distribute the out-of-print collection of the Forty Scenes.
This made some Chinese scholars at home and abroad feel deplorable and angry, and the things that originally belonged to them were snatched away by the robbers, and in the end, they wanted to publish and distribute their own things, but they wanted to buy the copyright from the robbers, which was simply a shameful thing for the whole country.
Now, this treasure is really in the hand, placed in front of the eyes, so that Wang Lao and others feel a little excited, although they have a casual face, but they are very cherished by the forty scenes of the Old Summer Palace, everyone put on white gloves, Wang Lao looked at the power, it is very small, for fear of hurting this treasure in general, and some people around Wang Lao research, are also soft-spoken, when studying a certain scene, are empty and pointed, did not touch the painting silk entity.
The treasures of the forty scenes of the Old Summer Palace in the upper and lower volumes, although they are now French, but they believe that sooner or later they will return to China and treat the cultural relics that belong to their own country, they are very, very careful, if the people in the Louvre show love only because this cultural relics can bring them the opportunity to show off, then Wang Lao and others, including Fang You, show from the inside to the outside, it is a complete and real love.
In addition to the original paintings, there are woodblocks and other versions, but these versions hidden in the Old Summer Palace were all snatched by the British and French forces, otherwise, the Chinese people would not wait until nearly a hundred years later, in the hands of an Anhui man who traveled in Europe, to see the scenery of the Old Summer Palace in the past.
Among these editions, this is the most precious of the 40 color scenes on silk, which is far easier to preserve than rice paper and does not fade.
The experts from the Louvre next to them, listening to these Chinese people constantly exchanging and studying this treasure, asked the translators next to them to translate it completely.
They wanted to know what they didn't understand and discover in the forty picture books.
It wasn't until he watched and studied for more than an hour that Wang Lao was a little reluctant to take his eyes off the forty scenes, this treasure is really the pinnacle of Chinese Gongbi painting.
In the end, Wang Lao handed over the two albums to Fang You, and sighed a little, such a precious thing was used by the people of the Louvre as a show-off.
Fang You smiled slightly, then carefully took the two albums and came to the person in charge named El, "Mr. El, you may be worried that we will accidentally damage this treasure, but we cherish it more than you. β
"In addition, there are some things I want to tell you, there are a few cultural relics exchanged below, I hope that you will no longer take out the cultural relics of other countries, but the cultural relics created by your own France, and take the cultural relics of other countries as your own culture, to communicate with us, this cannot show the huge size of your museum, it can only show that you France has no culture, no art, no cultural relics, and some are just forcibly seized cultural relics from other countries."
"A country's culture, not that you have some cultural relics, you can completely study thoroughly, we are here this time, for cultural exchanges, if you just take out the cultural relics of other countries, the culture of other countries, to communicate with us, then this time, including future exchange activities, can no longer be carried out, just like Italian cultural relics, I think Italians, will know their cultural relics better than you, of course, if you insist on thinking, you loot the cultural relics, can be regarded as your culture, Well when I didn't say those words before. β
Fang You's words came out in a very flat tone, and the experts of the Louvre were completely disgraced, they didn't expect that after studying in the Louvre for most of their lives, in the end, they would be taught a lesson by a young man, and it was a lesson they had to accept.
At the same time, these Louvre cultural relics experts can't help but ask themselves, how many cultural relics they can get in France, as most people think, if the Louvre, a world-famous art palace, is returned to the country to which it belongs, then the Louvre will really become an empty museum, which is also the main reason why the French cultural department ignores the recovery of cultural relics from various countries.
But Huaxia is different, even after the plundering of the Eight-Nation Alliance, even after the plundering of the small island countries in World War II, but the cultural relics that Huaxia now has are still incalculable, the number of cultural relics in the two museums of Tianjing Forbidden City and Baodao Forbidden City alone is far from several times that of all the cultural relics in the Louvre, not to mention that other museums in mainland China still have collections in private hands, which shows that it is enough to show that the cultural crystallization of China's five thousand years is far from being comparable to them.
The art palace of China is real, and their so-called Louvre art hall is just a pile of cultural relics from other countries.
They France is known as the capital of art, but there have never been famous figures such as the eight masters of the Chinese Tang and Song dynasties and the three masters of the Italian Renaissance, and the works of some famous figures that occasionally appear are also hidden in the precious cultural relics of many countries.
The person in charge named Er couldn't help but nod when he heard Fang You's words, even if Fang You didn't say it, they wouldn't dare to bring up the Chinese cultural relics again, in case they angered these people and spread the recording, they didn't know if the Louvre was finished, but they could be said to be finished.
According to what this Chinese man just said, they can't take the cultural relics of China, and they can't take the cultural relics of other countries, they can only take the cultural relics that appear in France, and if there are no such restrictions, even if they can't bring the Chinese cultural relics, they can take the same in the Louvre, which is a very precious thing.
However, the words of this Chinese man completely blocked their way, if they take out the cultural relics of other countries now, then it already means that they have no culture of their own in France, no cultural relics of their own, which makes the French people who have thousands of glories in one How can they accept it.
Before, the main focus of the person in charge of the Louvre was on those world-renowned cultural relics, but now he suddenly thought about it, but he was a little dazed, and then slowly remembered some famous French cultural relics from his memory.
Looking at the expression of the person in charge, how could Fang You not know his mental activities, he couldn't help but shake his head and smile, the saddest thing in the world is to spend a lot of effort to study the cultural relics and culture of other countries, but in the end, he slowly forgot his own culture.
Previously, under the continuous teaching of Chu Lao, he can be said to have a certain understanding of the culture and history of major countries in the world.
France also has a glorious cultural history, but this history is not as brilliant as Greece, Egypt, and China.
Next, the exchange of cultural relics continued, but the French on the Louvre side lowered their posture as hosts, and did not seem to want any more conflicts with the Chinese side.
There are not many precious cultural relics brought by the Chinese side this time, only 22 pieces, but these 22 pieces are completely the crystallization of Huaxia's own culture, each of which is extremely precious, and almost all the culture taken out by the Louvre before is just cultural relics they plundered from other countries.
Before, the Louvre only prepared some very precious cultural relics in its museum, and the cultural relics produced in France are very rarely on the preparation list, fortunately, some experts of the Louvre, for the country's famous cultural relics have a very clear memory, and soon, they came up with some paintings of famous French figures.
The most influential of them all, Edward? Manet, he was one of the founders of Impressionist painting in the nineteenth century, breaking the traditionalism and creating the Impressionist painting style, the painting taken out by the Louvre is one of the most famous Olympias, with a female surname on the picture [***], in France at that time, this is undoubtedly an act of challenging the whole society, after the painting was exhibited, it was immediately criticized by the media, and even banned, but more than ten years later, this Olympia was included in the Louvre as a collection, It has to be said that for the society before France, it is a huge irony.
And his artistic creation attitude with a certain new spirit also deeply influenced later French paintings, Monet, CΓ©zanne, including the world's top painter Van Gogh, who was born in the Netherlands.
Soon, all the twenty precious cultural relics brought from the Huaxia Palace Museum have been taken out for the people of the Louvre to appreciate one by one, and the last two treasures are naturally the Liangliang Guqin owned by Fang You, as well as the sword that bears the shadow and contains light.
Fang You smiled slightly and slowly stood up, "Dear French friends, the two treasures on display below are not owned by the Palace Museum, but at the invitation of your museum, I have brought two precious treasures that belong to me, and below, I will let you enjoy these two rare treasures one by one." β
Hearing Fang You's words, those people in the Louvre couldn't help but become serious, they wanted to see what kind of precious cultural relics this young Chinese man who had repeatedly challenged them just now would come up with.
Some of the things that happened before, at the beginning, they may be a little angry, but as things develop, the anger in their hearts is gradually replaced by embarrassment, and in the end, it becomes a place of shame, even if the matter has passed now, and the exchange activities continue, they still feel that there is no light on their faces, this matter itself is their mistake, lack of professional knowledge, and they came to Luban to get an axe, and they were very shocked that a young Chinese man could know so much about cultural relics.
They didn't know anything about Fang You, after determining the personnel in Huaxia before, they sent a list of personnel to the Louvre, with photos and general personal information, almost all of them were over middle age, but there was a young man less than thirty years old, which surprised them very much.