Chapter 1173: Provocation from the Louvre's side
The most important thing is that two different cultures discuss and learn from each other, and the cultural differences between China and the West are very large, which is exactly what can be done for better communication.
Wang Lao, a scholar of cultural relics from China, did not expect that the personnel of the Louvre could be so shameless as to take out the cultural relics looted from China to communicate with them, which is simply an extremely bad behavior.
It is true that with the invasion of Western culture, some ordinary people in China have forgotten some of their own culture, and some foreigners have begun to study and accept Chinese culture, but this does not mean that all Chinese people have forgotten their own culture.
Wang Lao, a well-known scholar in the field of cultural relics in China, is undoubtedly the most profound representative of Chinese culture, and these foreigners actually took out what belonged to them to communicate with them.
Are they showing off the countless Chinese cultural relics they plundered, or are they ready to laugh at the study of Chinese culture, they are not as deep as them.
In any case, this is not a well-intentioned action, thinking of the previous reminder from the State Administration of Cultural Heritage, Wang Lao couldn't help sighing, he is a very pure cultural relics lover, just want to deepen the cultural understanding between the two countries through exchanges, do not want to be mixed with some political factors in these exchange activities, but many things can not go as he expected, now, although there is anger in his heart, but more is disappointed, disappointed for the French cultural relics community.
Sure enough, what kind of president there is, what kind of people there are, the previous French president's eight-faced, left and right surname, is still being ridiculed by the world, this president has just taken office, if you want to change, I am afraid it will take a while.
Seeing the Chinese painting they put in front of him, Wang Lao shook his head and sighed lightly, wanting to show off the looted treasures, they were in the wrong place, and they wanted to show off their understanding of Chinese culture in front of their eyes, they were looking for the wrong person.
At present, the State Administration of Cultural Heritage can only roughly count the cultural relics lost in China to a vague number, as for the real accurate number, or what these cultural relics are, can not be counted.
Seeing that the Louvre took out a fine Chinese painting and began to introduce it in a good way, some impulsive cultural relics scholars immediately showed anger on their faces, they are all people who have been in the antique world for most of their lives, how can they not understand what the Louvre's move means, it is nothing more than to make them lose face, and even a few scholars want to stand up and reason with them.
Wang Lao just wanted to stop it, but he didn't expect Fang You to pat a few impulsive old men with his hand, and then he actually stood up himself, Fang You's action made Wang Lao a little deeply puzzled, with Fang Xiaoyou's surname, he shouldn't be so impulsive, why did he stand up and want to reason with them.
In other words, Fang Xiaoyou still has too little experience in participating in this kind of cultural relics exchange activities, if it were him, he would only use some ways to make the show off that these French people want to become a shame.
Just as he was about to stop it, and then when he stood up by himself, suddenly, Fang You actually looked at him and nodded slightly, Wang Lao was a little puzzled, and looked at Fang You's face, there was no anger on his face at all, some were just light, to be able to have such an expression, it should not be the appearance of being carried away by anger, could it be that what Fang Xiaoyou wanted to do was not to reason with them, but to think of the method he had just thought.
He has been in the Palace Museum for decades, often going abroad to participate in various activities, and in the face of the provocations of some foreign museums, they have very suitable solutions.
Just as he was thinking about it, Fang You had that faint smile on his face, and then he circled around the scroll, and once again asked the people from the Louvre to recount some of the information on the scroll, but Fang You said the shortcomings in their information one by one, and even some information that they had never said at all.
Hearing Fang You's continuous words, the faces of the Louvre personnel kept changing, while some cultural relics scholars in China had their eyes lit up and laughed, they were only angry just now, and they didn't think that the best way to let these show-offs learn a lesson was not to reason with them, but to make their show-offs dim.
Chinese cultural relics, no one can compare with the Chinese people's understanding of it, these French people in front of the Chinese people to show off cultural relics, even want to show off their understanding of Chinese cultural relics and culture, this is simply in front of Luban to get an axe, apprentices to find the ancestor to compete, nothing to find shame.
Next, Wang Lao continued to take out the Chinese painting scroll, but the Louvre did not give up at all, and still continued to take out their treasured Chinese painting and calligraphy works.
Fang You didn't have any anger on his face, he still had a light smile, no matter how perfect these French thought they were, he could always find out the shortcomings from them, find out their mistakes, and say the information they didn't say, although some cultures have been forgotten, but the Chinese people have never stopped learning the ancient Chinese culture, and the poems and songs in the textbooks are undoubtedly the best medium to understand the ancient culture.
Even foreigners who have studied Chinese culture for a long time do not have a deeper understanding of their own culture than Chinese natives.
No matter what age these French people took out the Chinese calligraphy and painting relics, no matter how specific they introduced each painting and calligraphy, Fang You found the huge shortcomings in each of them, so that those Louvre personnel could no longer maintain their calm complexions.
And the Chinese cultural relics scholars who came here with Wang Lao couldn't help but smile in amazement, when they exchanged in the Tianjing Forbidden City before, they were a little surprised by Fang You's antique attainments, but they didn't expect that Fang You's real level was just the level of communication in the museum, in the face of them The older generation, Fang You must have modesty, but in the face of these foreigners who are bullied in the face, how can they be polite.
In the end, the face of the person in charge of the Louvre was a little unbearable, and he wanted to take out these precious Chinese cultural relics to suppress the momentum of the Chinese people, so that they knew that France, as the capital of art, had how precious the Chinese cultural relics were, but he didn't expect to be embarrassed in the end, he couldn't help but look at the Louvre experts who said they knew how well they knew about Chinese cultural relics, if there was a chance, he really wanted to beat these experts, sure enough, it was still a saying on the Chinese Internet, this year, Everything is reliable, that is, the words of experts are not reliable.
At this time, an expert with very high attainments in calligraphy and painting came to the ears of the person in charge, and said a few words softly, the person in charge looked at him with some suspicion, and after getting the confirmation, he thought about it, nodded, and ordered his subordinates to bring the cultural relics.
France, as the capital of art, the temple of art, how can it be suppressed by the Chinese people, more than 100 years ago, they French entered China, but it is like entering their own back garden, now, we must not let the glory of the French disappear in their own hands.
"Good friends from China, wait a while, next, we will let you see a treasure painting from France, this work is also called a national treasure in France, will definitely let all Chinese friends from afar, feast their eyes, worth the trip." The person in charge of the Louvre can barely be regarded as Huaxia Tong, and at the end, he also said two Chinese idioms.
Fang You and the other cultural relics scholars sneered lightly, how could they not know what it meant by the obvious actions of the two of them just now, and I am afraid that this cultural relic will be very precious.
Sure enough, after waiting for a few minutes, a staff member of the Louvre carefully pushed a small car over, and on the small car was a delicate wooden box, which was more than a meter long, which looked very quaint, but was full of majesty.
Looking at the delicacy of this wooden box, Fang You knew that the items in this box should be very precious, although he had not yet understood the wooden escape technique, and could not see through the wooden box, but as soon as the escape technique was released, two red auras suddenly surged.
These two aura, one belongs to the wooden box, the other share, should be the items in the box, from the color of the aura, the wooden box and the items in it, should belong to the Qing Dynasty cultural relics, from the concentration of aura, the items in the box, in terms of value and delicacy, far more than the exquisite wooden box used outside.
More than 100 years ago, the British and French forces burned and looted in the Old Summer Palace, and the cultural relics in the entire Old Summer Palace were robbed by these robbers, some could not be snatched away, and even destroyed on the spot, in terms of calligraphy and painting, it was able to be held in a box of only one meter, and it was a cultural relic of the Qing Dynasty, which was worthy of these people so solemnly, and from the thickness of the box, Fang You had already thought of a cultural relic, this cultural relic, can be described as very precious.
Although it is a cultural relic of the Qing Dynasty, its value far exceeds the calligraphy and painting treasures of other dynasties, Fang You sighed, they took this cultural relic, this is undoubtedly to set off their humiliating history in China.
The person in charge of the Louvre, carefully picked up the box from the car and put it on the table, "Friends from China, what we want to send you below is a treasure stored in the National Library of China, this treasure will not be exhibited to the public at all, the previous exchange groups from China have never had the opportunity to see, this time, the Louvre Museum specially borrowed this treasure from the library, to let all Chinese friends feast their eyes." ”
Saying that, with a smile on his face, the person in charge slowly opened the box, and gently took out a set of things that seemed to be a picture album from the box, and put it on the table, "Dear Chinese friends, this treasure is the silk "Forty Scenes of the Old Summer Palace" jointly drawn by Shen Yuan and Tang Dai, the court painters of the Qing Dynasty in China, and each picture is also equipped with the inscription poem made by the Qianlong Emperor at that time, which is divided into two volumes, which can be described as the pinnacle of Chinese color painting. I will show them one by one and introduce them to all Chinese friends for appreciation. ”
Looking at the two volumes of silk color picture albums placed in front of them, Wang Lao and the others showed regret on their faces, the treasures of China are now in the hands of these clowns who jump off the beam just to show off, which is simply a great shame for everyone in China.
Fang You hung indifferently on his face, nodded slightly, as he just guessed, this is the painted version of the forty scenes of the Old Summer Palace, painted by Shen Yuan and Tang Dai, is drawn according to the real scene of the Old Summer Palace, Shen Yuan mainly painted pavilions and pavilions, and Tang Dai painted landscapes, trees and stones, after eleven years, finally succeeded, after being made, each picture, also equipped with the Qianlong Emperor's poem, its poems by the Ministry of Shangshu, with the great calligrapher known as Wang Youdun ghostwriting, poems, calligraphy, paintings to achieve perfect unity, It can be said that it is the highest achievement of fine brush color painting in China.
What is even more tragic is that after the Old Summer Palace was burned down by the British and French forces, it became a ruin, and for nearly 100 years, the Chinese people could no longer know the real situation of the Old Summer Palace when it was intact.
Until the late twenties, a Chinese from Anhui roamed the European continent, in the collection of the National Library of Paris, France, by chance to see this set of forty scenes of the Old Summer Palace painted book, can not help but sigh as a miracle of national engineering, and because this picture in the history of Chinese diplomatic architecture, are a great sad history, ordinary calligraphy and painting, there is no significance at all, after his many activities, finally asked the owner of the museum for permission, and then with photography technology all photographed and returned, and then by the Republic of China Book Company with glass printing into the Old Summer Palace forty leaves, It was publicly distributed to the nation in 1926.
It's just that due to the limitations of photography technology at that time, these pictures are much smaller than the original pictures, and they are still black and white, but it is with the help of these 40 pictures that the Chinese people re-realize the grand scenery of the Old Summer Palace that has now become a ruin, which can be described as sad and lamentable.
If other lost cultural relics in the Old Summer Palace will make the Chinese people regret and remember that period of history, but the forty scenes of the Old Summer Palace now placed in front of them make them directly face that history, and the beautiful Chinese garden palace has become a ruined ruin.
Now, these people from the Louvre have taken out the forty scenes of the Old Summer Palace, how can Wang Lao and others not understand their intentions, but they didn't expect these people to have no scruples, it seems that they really regard these cultural relics stolen from China as their own.
Wang Lao sighed with a sigh on his face, this exchange was full of gunpowder at the beginning, and now it is even more so, perhaps, the news obtained by the relevant state departments is accurate, the missing snake head has been found, and is ready to be put up for auction for auction, so, it is nothing more than the Louvre personnel will make such a provocative behavior.
It seems that they really want to provoke a fight between the two countries again, so that the scene of the auction that was in full swing a few years ago will be repeated.
The auction was held during the period when they came here to communicate, and I am afraid that these people just wanted to see that even if people from the Chinese cultural relics community were here, they would not be able to stop them from conducting the auction.
Wang Lao shook his head, looking at these Louvre personnel, there was no longer the previous peace in his eyes, and when he was about to stand up and reprimand these people for their behavior, Fang You, who was not far away, stood up again.
"Elder Wang, it's rare that these people from the Louvre can take out this treasure of the forty scenes of the Old Summer Palace for us to feast our eyes on, this opportunity can't be missed, friends of the Louvre, since you just said so, we are welcome, we must see this treasure, in order to live up to your kindness." Fang You smiled, slowly walked over to the person in charge and said.
Hearing Fang You's words, the person in charge of the Louvre couldn't help but smile, "Hehe, this young man really understands our intentions, very good, come, let me introduce you to the preciousness of these forty scenes, each of which is very beautiful, the first one is Zhengda Guangming......"
But before he finished introducing the first picture, he was directly interrupted by Fang You, "First pause, Mr. Er, this is a Chinese cultural relic, we know our own things very well, we don't need you to introduce it to us, in addition, if you think that this Chinese treasure is obtained by you, you can understand the culture contained in it better than us Chinese people, I think, you are wrong, the profundity of Chinese culture is far from what you can understand." ”
"This gentleman, you ......"
"Hehe, some don't give up, right, so can you completely tell us what the meaning of these forty scenes is, Zhengda Guangming just represents the layout of Zhouzheng, can you get the sunshine, you are wrong, Zhengda Guangming represents not only architecture, but also the style of doing things, honest and bright." "In addition to this righteous light, then the names of the next thirty-nine scenes, can you fully explain to us, with the meaning that is most in line with our Chinese culture, diligent government and pro-sage, Jiuzhou please Yan, the moon and the clouds, natural pictures, Bitong Academy, Ciyun Puhu, the upper and lower skylight...... The names of these 39 scenes, as well as the poems given to each scenery by Emperor Qianlong, can you fully explain all the meanings contained in them for us? ”
Fang You's face was indifferent, and he looked at the person in charge without any emotion and said, when these Louvre personnel took out the Chinese cultural relics, he fully understood the intentions of these people, and reasoning with these shameless robbers, the theory would not have any effect, it would only make them more proud.
Only by breaking their self-confidence and making what they originally thought to be showing off turn into a deep shame, only in this way can they not dare to show off their stolen Chinese cultural relics in front of the Chinese people in the future.
The names of the forty landscapes of the Old Summer Palace are all idioms or allusions that are well known to the Chinese people, and with the research of these Louvre personnel, how can they be completely understood and thorough.
Not to mention these names, there are also poems given by Emperor Qianlong to each landscape, the meaning of which is not even fully understood by ordinary Chinese people, where did these foreign foreigners come from, but they obtained these Chinese cultural relics, and they thought they knew better than the Chinese.