Chapter 547: Visiting the Museum
Standing in the museum square, Chairman Yamada smiled and introduced to Fang You, "Fang Xiaoyou, on the road just now, I seem to have explained some knowledge to you, the Toto National Museum is divided into four pavilions, and directly opposite us is the Kojima National Museum, and on the left side of the main museum, is the Oriental Pavilion, and those cultural relics from China and other Asian countries are exhibited in the Oriental Pavilion. β
"The Horyuji Treasure Museum is located in the southeast corner, but it is only open every Thursday, so I don't have a chance to see it today, and the Horkei Hall, which commemorates the marriage of Prince Yoshihito, is on the right side of the main building, one on the left and one on the right, and is surrounded by the main building."
After the introduction, seeing that Fang You didn't say anything, President Yamada smiled, "Fang Xiaoyou, according to what you just said, let's go to the main museum first and watch the exquisite cultural relics of the small island country, what do you think?" β
Fang You nodded slightly, his understanding of the ancient culture of the small island country was limited to Chu Lao's general explanation, and he only knew a little fur, now he wanted to take a look at the cultural relics in this museum, to see what kind of culture it was, creating a psychologically distorted nation.
Facing their main building, the architectural style seems to be built in imitation of a temple, and the eaves above are made of bricks and tiles, revealing a bit of antiquity, but when combined with the Western-style walls, it gives people a very awkward feeling.
This point Fang You has discovered since he came to the small island country, and the ancient buildings of the small island country have given him such a feeling, which is not at all like the ancient Chinese buildings, such as the cordiality of the courtyard.
Fang You shook his head, throwing these feelings out of his mind, and then gently pulled Ye Yuqing's Rouyi, followed behind Chairman Yamada, and walked towards the pavilion.
Seeing Chairman Yamada's figure, a somewhat obese middle-aged man greeted him, and he had already received the news that Chairman Yamada had entered the museum and asked them to do a good job of hospitality.
"President Yamada, you are welcome to visit the museum, but I haven't seen you old for a few days, but I see you again today, you are old and glorious, and you have become young again." The obese middle-aged man walked up to Chairman Yamada, bowed deeply, and said respectfully, but from the words, it seemed that he had known President Yamada for a long time.
"You big fat man Suzuki, don't be a sycophant, I didn't have anything else to do this time, just a casual visit, not to study the jade in your pavilion, don't be so nervous." Chairman Yamada said with a smile.
This made Suzuki breathe a sigh of relief, usually when this old man came, he borrowed the precious jade in his exhibition hall for research, and it was ten days and a half a month to borrow, if he didn't borrow it, the identity of President Yamada's predecessors was placed there, and most of the jade artifacts in this museum were identified by the old man's hands, which made Suzuki have a kind of helplessness and fear when he saw President Yamada, and he had to say something good, patting his ass, and setting it off, thinking that maybe he could make this old man's subordinates merciful.
Under Ye Yuqing's translation, Fang You understood their words, and couldn't help but be stunned for a moment, and then smiled helplessly, it seems that the skill of patting sycophants is common all over the world, judging from President Yamada's joyful expression, I know that this fat man named Suzuki is very cool to shoot President Yamada.
From the sign hung by the middle-aged fat man, although Fang You can't understand the words of the fly in half China, but with the help of the English below, he can also understand the meaning of the above, this fat man sycophant is the branch director of the museum, named Yuichi Suzuki.
"Hehe, I can't hide anything from you, what do you need, just ask." Suzuki Yuki had a relaxed smile on his face, as long as he didn't borrow the jade from the pavilion, he could say anything.
Chairman Yamada shook his head and smiled helplessly, pointing at the fat man who looked a little naΓ―ve and bowed, "Suzuki-kun, I really can't help you, help us find a better commentator, and then you can do whatever you want, don't follow us." β
"Hay, President Yamada, your request is very simple, I'll do it right away, and I'm sure you'll be happy." Yuichi Suzuki smiled and barely saw his eyes on his face, and looked at the two behind Chairman Yamada with some curiosity, "Chairman Yamada, I don't know who these two are......"
"Hehe, they're my friends, okay, don't ask so much, hurry up and do your business." Chairman Yamada said with a smile that without Fang You's permission, he didn't dare to reveal Fang You's identity on his own.
Yuichi Suzuki seemed to have an understanding, nodded to Chairman Yamada, and then smiled at Fang You, leading the three of them into the hall.
Then, he asked the three of them to wait at the door for a while, and in less than five minutes, he brought a beautiful female narrator, wearing a uniform white shirt and black uniform, looking like a youthful white-collar aura rushed towards him.
"President Yamada, this is the best commentator here, the tone is gentle, the attitude is peaceful, it will definitely satisfy you, Suzuko, this is President Yamada of our Jade Association, we want to treat you well, okay, old man, I still have some business, go first." Yuichi Suzuki took the commentator over, put down a word, and ran away, as if staying by Chairman Yamada's side, making him feel a lot of pressure.
"Ladies and gentlemen, I'm the narrator of the main building's No. 003, Suzuko Hoshino, please advise." The beautiful commentator bowed slightly to a few people and said in a gentle tone.
Chairman Yamada looked at Yuichi Suzuki's back with some anger, and finally heard the gentle tone of the commentator, and couldn't help but shake his head and smile, "Suzuko, roughly explain to us some cultural relics that can represent the culture of the small island country, and let these two distinguished guests visit it." β
Suzuko Hoshino smiled and made a gesture, "Okay, please come with me here." β
A few people followed Suzuko Hoshino to the exhibition hall of the museum, and in the slightly dim light, only those exquisite artifacts were radiating light, attracting everyone's attention.
The exhibition hall is very clean and concise, except for the cultural relics in the tempered glass cover, there are no other superfluous things, giving people a sense of comfort.
"Ladies and gentlemen, the museum exhibits exhibits such as carving, dyeing and weaving, metalworking, weapons, swords, ceramics, calligraphy and painting, architecture and other aspects of the island country according to the times, so that foreign tourists can enjoy and understand the different cultures, arts and people's lives of the island countries in various periods...... β
The beautiful narrator named Suzuko Hoshino is very talkative, and in the exhibition hall of the main building, from time to time, she points to an item that represents the important culture of the island nation, and explains the knowledge contained in it to Fang Yu.
"Ladies and gentlemen, this is our museum's calligraphy and painting exhibition hall, which has our calligraphy and painting exhibits that can best represent the cultural connotation of our small island country, especially this snow boat splashed ink landscape map, which was made by the famous historical painter Xue Zhou of the small island country, who visited China by boat in 1467, traveled to famous mountains and rivers, and sketched a lot, returned to China two years later, opened a picture building, specializing in the creation of ink landscape paintings."
"He traveled to many mountains and rivers in China, and felt the difference between the mountains and rivers of China and the small island country, and then developed the unique style of landscape painting of the small island country." Hoshino Suzuki said softly, with a bit of respect in his tone.
Chairman Yamada smiled, "Among the first-class painters of the ancient island country, there is only one person who has been to China, and strictly speaking, there is no Chinese culture, and there will be no snow boat, and if you have not been to China, there will be no snow boat." β
Fang You looked at it quietly, the landscape on this scroll is completely different from Huaxia, the landscape picture of China has always been known for being tall and majestic, and the mountain peaks are prominent, while in this picture of a small island country, the mountains are short and weak, as if they are piled up with small stones, and it looks like a different feeling.
The peaks of the world, all along, have been given to people are only majestic and magnificent, so short, it is no longer a mountain, but a pile of stones, Fang You shook his head gently, perhaps this is caused by the difference between the culture of China and the small island country, just like the height of the small island country, which is like Wu Dalang.
This may be caused by the mountains and rivers of the small island country, Fang You smiled, unique style, just this small mountain, you can know how narrow-minded the people of the small island country are.
In the main museum, there are many things that are called national treasures by small island countries, such as the snow boat splashed ink landscape map, and the ten other disciple statues, Fujiwara Buddhist paintings, and Kano Eitoku pine and cypress screens, and so on, there are more than 10 national treasure-level cultural relics.
It's just that most of these cultural relics have elements of Chinese culture, plus various so-called masters of the small island country, processed according to their own understanding, and some of the cultural relics produced may be called national treasures by the people of the small island countries, but in Fang You's view, in addition to the long historical years, according to the artistic conception of the painting, it is not enough to call it a national treasure.
After reading this, Fang You seemed to understand that because of the spread of these cultures, the psychological distortion of the people of the small island country was inevitable, so they wanted to plunder the cultural products of China in the time of war to make up for their own shortcomings, which was due to their hearts.
In the end, Fang You saw the calligraphy of Ono Michifu, which was called the treasure of the country by the people of the island country, Ono Michifu was a calligrapher in the middle of the Heian period of the island country around 900 A.D., and the handwriting he wrote on the basis of imitating Wang Xizhi, created his own delicate style, and the other two calligraphers of the small island country, called the three traces, he is the wild trace, Fujiwara Sari is the trace, and Fujiwara Yuki becomes the right trace.
However, in the opinion of Fang You, who has seen Wang Xizhi's rubbing calligraphy, these handwriting emphasizes too much on the center, the handwriting lacks changes, and there is no sense of natural atmosphere and fluency of Wang Xizhi at all.
"President Yamada, let's go to the Toyokan." Not interested in looking at anything else, Fang You said lightly to President Yamada.
President Yamada nodded, and walked out of the main museum with Fang You, before leaving the door, Fang You glanced back at the exhibition hall full of cultural relics, and a smile appeared on his face.
Come and be rude, little islanders, you are destined to pay a serious price for your mistakes.
"Fang Xiaoyou, how do you feel after watching the historical relics of our small island country." On the way to the Toyokan, Chairman Yamada said with a smile.
Fang You smiled lightly, "I understand what the culture of a country is, then what the people born will be, the cultural relics of the small island country have allowed me to see a culture that is completely different from that of China, but these cultures are a little off." β
Chairman Yamada had a puzzled look on his face, "I would like to hear about it." β
"If you take the cultural relics here to the Toyokan and compare them with the same kind of cultural relics, you will be able to feel it." Fang You said with a smile.
President Yamada shook his head and smiled disappreliantly, in his opinion, it is understandable that Fang You has a good eyesight on jade wool, but in terms of antiques and cultural relics, it is just his own rhetoric, which is really not enough to take it seriously.
Seeing President Yamada's appearance, Fang You smiled lightly and did not speak.
The Toyo Pavilion is located not far to the left of the main building, and the exhibition hall is divided into three floors, the first floor of which exhibits artifacts and excavated relics from Southeast Asian and West Asian countries such as Egypt, India, and Pakistan.
The second floor can be said to be the Huaxia Museum, and the five exhibition halls on the entire second floor are all exhibiting cultural relics of China, including those extinct precious items.
Entering the exhibition hall, Fang You did not go to look at the exhibits below, but went straight to the second floor, if in addition to the collection in the National Museum of China, where are the other large number of rare collections in China, then you should go to the national museums that waged war against China to find them.
When she stepped into the second floor, Ye Yuqing gently squeezed Fang You's hand, looking at him with some concern, in Ye Yuqing's heart, she was very clear about Fang You's character, she was really worried that Fang You would not be able to control her emotions after seeing these cultural relics plundered by the small island country.
"Hehe, Yuqing, don't worry, these things will be ours sooner or later." Fang You smiled, pulled Ye Yuqing, and strode into the exhibition hall.
President Yamada, who was behind him, shook his head helplessly, not to mention through personal means, even if it was through government means, it was impossible for these cultural relics to be returned to Huaxia, in his opinion, this was Fang You's young nature, a little whimsical.
Even if you have money, it is impossible to buy these cultural relics back with money, not only the people in the museum will not agree, but even the government of the small island country and people from all walks of life will not agree, just because these cultural relics have been in the small island country for a long time and have been deeply branded as a small island country.
There are five exhibition halls on the second floor, four of which are Chinese archaeology, the last one is Chinese calligraphy, and the first exhibition hall exhibits early cultural relics unearthed from the Neolithic period to the Han Dynasty.
A total of more than 100 years of exhibits, covering bone tools, stone tools, pottery, jade, bronze and other varieties.
The remaining three exhibition halls are the Chinese archaeological porcelain exhibition halls, from the Three Kingdoms period to the Qing Dynasty, all kinds of precious porcelain, almost all of which can be seen here, a total of more than 100 pieces.
The rest of the Chinese cultural relics, which are numerous, amounting to more than 100,000 pieces, are probably stored in the museum and are not on display.
This porcelain includes the celadon Shenting pot produced by the ancient Yuezhou kiln in the Three Kingdoms period, the celadon amphora, the various yellow glazed porcelain produced by the Changsha kiln in the Tang Dynasty, and a large number of Tang Sancai, especially the porcelain of several famous kilns in the Song Dynasty, which can also be seen here.
The people of the small island are fond of white, green and black glaze and other ancient and far-reaching porcelain, and these Song Dynasty porcelains cater to their preferences.
In this Huaxia Pavilion, Fang You did not skip roughly like the main museum of the small island country, but carefully watched each item on display.
In Fang You's view, each piece is beautiful and rare, but unfortunately, it has become a utensil in a museum of another country, which is really sad.
In the first exhibition hall, jade axes, jade walls, jade rings, jade ornaments and other jade artifacts from 5000 BC to 3000 BC made Fang You very fond of them.
The soft yellow jade axe, crystal clear, and simple in shape, gives people a feeling of wanting to hold it in their hands and play with it.
There are also gluttonous pattern jade, dragon pattern jade, jade dragon, jade fish, jade bird in the Shang and Zhou dynasties, glazed elephant inlaid jade in the Warring States Period, Kui dragon pattern jade, etc., these jades, some in China, are extremely rare and rare existence.
Fang You shook his head and sighed, when the robbers arrived at your house, would they put those valuable things and pick up some garbage, this is simply impossible.
In this pavilion, jade is only a small part of it, and you can imagine how rampant the small island country was in China at that time.
In the porcelain exhibition hall, Fang You watched every piece of each piece, and completely waved off the commentators, in terms of ancient Chinese porcelain, he probably knew how many times stronger than these commentators.
For a long time, porcelain and jade antiques have been the categories he attaches the most importance to, as for other aspects, Fang You didn't pull down a little, but when he saw these clay antiques, his heart couldn't help but feel a little intimate.
Ding kiln, Yaozhou kiln, official kiln, Yuezhou kiln, Longquan kiln, Cizhou kiln, Jizhou kiln, Jianyao, almost in the Song Dynasty famous kiln porcelain, can be seen here, when you see the Jun kiln indigo glaze wheel bowl on the purple Tibetan blue, blue in white, white in the strange color of red, Fang You seems to have returned to the time when he just got the escape technique and found the fragments of the Jun kiln.
Jun kiln, into the kiln one color, out of the kiln colorful, can be described as the magic of porcelain, watch the Jun kiln, can lead people to endless reverie, comprehend the realm, let people enjoy themselves, this can only be on the Jun kiln, can feel the unique fun.
"Yuqing, I just entered the antique business, the first thing I found was the fragment of this Jun kiln, I mistakenly thought it was worthless, but because the color on it was beautiful, so I bought it, and in the end its value surprised me." Fang You smiled and told Ye Yuqing about his original experience.
(To be continued)