Chapter 379: The Emperor's Complete Map (I)
After asking for directions, the two sides went their separate ways.
Wu Chen and the others walked along the pedestrian streets on both sides of the western coastal avenue, and after a short time, they arrived at a square surrounded by large stone pillars.
At night, above the lakeside, all kinds of lights appear to be empty and deep all around, although life is boiling, but there is a cold and far-reaching feeling. Although most of the willow trees have already lost their leaves, in the cold season at the end of the year, the breeze blows and the slender willow branches sway, but it also has a special charm.
Jiangzhou was called Rulin Township in ancient times, the Song Dynasty was prosperous in the market, to the end of the Song Dynasty and the beginning of the Yuan Dynasty, in the south, because there are nine large and small water sources, they flow into the confluence here from the outside, and connect the Xijiang River, so it is called "Jiujiang". The famous city has its own profound historical and cultural heritage, although in today's complicated era, the folk customs are still simple and simple, and there is a cultural atmosphere everywhere.
On the antique square, there are still people coming and going, in addition to some shops and stalls, there are also many artists performing on the street, which is very lively.
Wu Chen and Kong Si walked in the crowd, feeling the gentle breeze with a slight wetness, not cold, but a little cool and comfortable. Wu Chen squinted his eyes slightly, carefully savoring this somewhat familiar artistic conception.
"Let's go" Kong Si didn't forget the original intention of coming here, and when he saw Wu Chen's leisurely pace and slow take-off, he reminded him that there was a small stall distribution center like a big shed in front of him, selling some scattered antiques and trivialities, which were planned by the government at a glance.
The two stepped in, walked slowly with the flow of people, and looked through the likes when they saw them. Antiques are not comparable to Chinese medicine pharmacies, and there are no fakes in shops with government certification, so you still have to rely on your own eyesight.
"The two of you are cultural people at a glance, how about it, let's take a look, you can get started with what you like, the price is easy to discuss." The stall owner is a middle-aged man, wearing coarse cloth clothes, looking a little down-and-out literati, and his words are not so smooth, not so much shouting, but muttering, it is estimated that Wu Chen and their temperament are not like ordinary citizens, so they greet them.
Then take a look! Kong Si is rarely replaced by a "cultural person", so he has to give him a show, right?
To put it mildly, this stall is indeed a little shabby, scattered with a lot of "antiques", mostly calligraphy and painting, there are also some gold, stone and jade, in addition to some at a glance, contemporary old porcelain, Kong Si can see at a glance that it is the goods that are imported from porcelain.
"Big brother, you don't have a lot of goods. Are there any others? Wu Chen glanced at it slightly, and it was also the same feeling as Kong Si. Although he saw that the middle-aged man was friendly and wanted to help him with his business, he couldn't buy some stall goods, so he just smashed them on the ground.
"You wait!" The middle-aged man seemed to be a sincere person, and when he saw that Wu Chen and the others were not like ordinary tourists, he beckoned them to sit in the lattice room, squatted down again, and touched under the stall.
This kind of cubicle is a temporary place to put things, and it is very cramped, and it is a little cramped for a few people to squeeze in it. Wu Chen saw that the middle-aged man was pouting, which was very laborious, and he was not very confident in this kind of stall, so he said, "Forget it, I will come to visit you again next time." ”
"Don't!" The middle-aged man also knew that his words were polite words, and when he heard it, he knew that he was a foreigner, and he didn't know the next time he didn't know the Year of the Monkey. He set up a small stall here to make some hard-earned money, and it was rare to have a little business, so he naturally refused to let it go.
"Okay, you look for it slowly, don't rush." Wu Chen saw him drilling underneath, twisting his head, very hard, and hurriedly comforted him.
It is estimated that it was put too low, and the middle-aged man pulled it in a pile of canvas bags for a long time, and finally took out a "pipe", because it was too long, it stretched up diagonally, and almost stabbed them, "Please help me pick it up." ”
Kong Si stretched out his hand to help him pick it up, but it was a paper tube, and at a glance, he knew that the road was a painting, but this one was too long, more than two meters!
What kind of painting does this have to be! None of them had ever seen a paper tube of this specification, but they were **** a little curious.
The middle-aged man looked quite educated, stood up, took the paper tube from Kong Si's hand, and didn't forget to thank him. After he placed the paper tube on the table, he opened one end and slowly pulled out a large roll from it, and sure enough, it was a scroll.
"It's ......"
Wu Chen and Kong Si saw that the entire scroll was really more than two meters wide, and it was thickly rolled into a ball, a bit like the thickness of cloth, so they were really surprised, such a huge calligraphy and painting was really rare. But at the same time, there is also a bit of disappointment, even those modern murals above the lobby now, most of them are not worth much, not to mention in the antique industry, such a large picture scroll, unheard of, its authenticity is worth doubting first.
"An old painting, look at it." The middle-aged man said with a smile as he slowly unfolded it, and it seemed that he was very bottomless in his heart.
Although they had doubts in their hearts, they had been delayed for so long, and they didn't care about looking at it for a while, Wu Chen and Kong Si saw that the middle-aged man was unfamiliar, so they took the initiative to step forward and help him unfold the scroll.
When he started, Wu Chen felt that the feel was different, neither like the texture of paper nor silk painting, but a little soft and smooth, could it be satin?
I haven't heard of painting with satin, so could it be that this middle-aged man mistakenly took the previous printed cloth for a picture scroll? But looking at this color yellow with brown, it is unlikely to be the previous fabric, and the possibility of modern counterfeiting is also greatly reduced, who would use such a high cost to make a fake that makes people suspicious at first sight?
"Slow down, I can't put it down!" Kong Si was helping to release the exhibition on the other side, although he was also confused, he did not have Wu Chen's habit of wandering.
This table is of uniform specifications, more than three meters long and two meters wide, and the three of them slowly rolled it up like this, less than half of it, and there is no place for it!
"Let's do this first, fourth, you hold it, I'll take a look!" After Wu Chen transitioned from a daze, he looked at the picture for the first time. At a glance, he was shocked, and his previous doubts were suddenly thrown out of the clouds!
Map!
That's right, this is a map, on the huge yellow-brown picture, mountains, passes, cities, houses, all available, the most eye-catching is naturally the famous "several" shaped river! Although with the thickness of the lines, it seems to be as faint as a watermark, but for Chinese people, they can recognize it as the Yellow River at a glance.
It's kind of interesting! Wu Chen took a few steps back and carefully looked at the huge picture in front of him, only to see that it was not an ordinary symbol marking, that is, a symbol such as a triangle or XX was used to represent the terrain, but a real scene! Rolling mountains, clouds and mountains and foggy seas, majestic cities......
In addition to these dense graphics, there are also a lot of text annotations, naturally all of which are traditional characters, he tried hard to distinguish them, and soon locked a few places, such as Jingshi, Baoding Mansion, Shanhaiguan and so on.
The more Wu Chen looked at it, the more shocked and even incredulous. Who drew this pattern, judging from the picture, the person who made this painting should not be a well-known painter, although the pen is good, after all, there is some distance from those in history.
But! The majestic atmosphere revealed on the picture has a faint hint of the world's spirit! This is not comparable to ordinary paintings!
"Good painting!" Kong Si held the part that had not yet been unfolded with both hands, and he couldn't look down like Wu Chen did, but he was also taken by it, and couldn't help but praise it!
When the middle-aged man heard their praise, he was secretly happy in his heart, and laughed with him, but he didn't dare to say more, for fear that he would disturb them, and a business would be yellow again.
"Fourth, you pull back." Wu Chen stood up, suppressed the excitement in his heart, and said to Kong Si.
This painting is too big, and only a small part of it is exposed at the moment, although it does not have the outline of the provinces like modern maps, but he can probably judge that it should be the area of Beijing and Hebei and Shandong. If you come up from the direction, the south end is in Kong Si's hand, and half of the boss is still rolled, while the north end is resting on the table, but it is not fully expanded, and there is still room for it.
Helping Kong Si move to the back, Wu Chen walked over and completely unfolded this end, and sure enough, he saw the three eastern provinces and the Mongolian Plateau, from the location, it seems that there is also Siberia, but his geography is not too good, so he doesn't dare to confirm it.
What really shocked him was that there were a few big characters on the top side, framed in a box with black lines, and if you carefully identified it, it should be "The Whole Map of the Emperor".
"The Complete Map of the Emperor" ?!!!
Wu Chen's head buzzed, and he only felt that the two temples were beating hard, it turned out to be it!
If it were someone else, maybe they wouldn't care about it, and they might even think it was a fake! Because in the history books, there has never been a "Complete Map of the Imperial Opinion", and there is a "Complete Map of the Imperial Opinion".
"The Emperor's Panorama Map" is known as "the most refined and complete map of the Qing Dynasty", and it is also "the most accurate and complete map of China since ancient times", historical records record that the map was compiled and drawn by the order of the Kangxi Emperor, carried out by astronomical observation and astrological triangulation, and was drawn by trapezoidal projection method, with a proportion of 1/400,000. The map depicts the area from Sakhalin Island in the northeast, Taiwan in the southeast, the Ili River in the west, Lake Baikal in the north, and Hainan Island in the south.
It is a well-established fact that this map has epoch-making significance in the history of Chinese mapping, and from the middle of the Qing Dynasty to the early years of the ********, various maps of the Celestial Empire published at home and abroad are basically derived from this map.
Another well-known fact is that the picture was painted after the recovery of Taiwan and the pacification of Dzungaria, and the participants included Jesuit Europeans Lei Xiaosi, Bai Jin, Du Demei, Chinese scholars He Guodong, Suo Zhu, Bai Yingtang, Gong'e, Ming Antu, and more than 10 people, including Lama Chu'er Qinzang Bulanmu Zhanba of Qintianjian and Shengzhu, the head of the Li Fan Yuan.
However, in the record of the "Treasure Road" of the Guigu Society, there is an earlier version, "The Complete Map of the Imperial Opinion", which came from the hand of Zhou Peigong and was presented to Kangxi before his death, which led to the later "The Complete Map of the Imperial Opinion".
More importantly, the "Imperial Opinion Panorama Map" is only used as a map, and there is even a public version, but the "Imperial Opinion Map" is obviously much more mysterious, and it is vaguely mentioned in the "Treasure Road" that this map is Zhou Peigong's gathering of many mysterious people, secretly drawn, not so simple as a map, after being dedicated to Emperor Kangxi, it has never been published, and no one has ever seen it. After asking for directions, the two sides went their separate ways.
Wu Chen and the others walked along the pedestrian streets on both sides of the western coastal avenue, and after a short time, they arrived at a square surrounded by large stone pillars.
At night, above the lakeside, all kinds of lights appear to be empty and deep all around, although life is boiling, but there is a cold and far-reaching feeling. Although most of the willow trees have already lost their leaves, in the cold season at the end of the year, the breeze blows and the slender willow branches sway, but it also has a special charm.
Jiangzhou was called Rulin Township in ancient times, the Song Dynasty was prosperous in the market, to the end of the Song Dynasty and the beginning of the Yuan Dynasty, in the south, because there are nine large and small water sources, they flow into the confluence here from the outside, and connect the Xijiang River, so it is called "Jiujiang". The famous city has its own profound historical and cultural heritage, although in today's complicated era, the folk customs are still simple and simple, and there is a cultural atmosphere everywhere.
On the antique square, there are still people coming and going, in addition to some shops and stalls, there are also many artists performing on the street, which is very lively.
Wu Chen and Kong Si walked in the crowd, feeling the gentle breeze with a slight wetness, not cold, but a little cool and comfortable. Wu Chen squinted his eyes slightly, carefully savoring this somewhat familiar artistic conception.
"Let's go" Kong Si didn't forget the original intention of coming here, and when he saw Wu Chen's leisurely pace and slow take-off, he reminded him that there was a small stall distribution center like a big shed in front of him, selling some scattered antiques and trivialities, which were planned by the government at a glance.
The two stepped in, walked slowly with the flow of people, and looked through the likes when they saw them. Antiques are not comparable to Chinese medicine pharmacies, and there are no fakes in shops with government certification, so you still have to rely on your own eyesight.
"The two of you are cultural people at a glance, how about it, let's take a look, you can get started with what you like, the price is easy to discuss." The stall owner is a middle-aged man, wearing coarse cloth clothes, looking a little down-and-out literati, and his words are not so smooth, not so much shouting, but muttering, it is estimated that Wu Chen and their temperament are not like ordinary citizens, so they greet them.
Then take a look! Kong Si is rarely replaced by a "cultural person", so he has to give him a show, right?
To put it mildly, this stall is indeed a little shabby, scattered with a lot of "antiques", mostly calligraphy and painting, there are also some gold, stone and jade, in addition to some at a glance, contemporary old porcelain, Kong Si can see at a glance that it is the goods that are imported from porcelain.
"Big brother, you don't have a lot of goods. Are there any others? Wu Chen glanced at it slightly, and it was also the same feeling as Kong Si. Although he saw that the middle-aged man was friendly and wanted to help him with his business, he couldn't buy some stall goods, so he just smashed them on the ground.
"You wait!" The middle-aged man seemed to be a sincere person, and when he saw that Wu Chen and the others were not like ordinary tourists, he beckoned them to sit in the lattice room, squatted down again, and touched under the stall.
This kind of cubicle is a temporary place to put things, and it is very cramped, and it is a little cramped for a few people to squeeze in it. Wu Chen saw that the middle-aged man was pouting, which was very laborious, and he was not very confident in this kind of stall, so he said, "Forget it, I will come to visit you again next time." ”
"Don't!" The middle-aged man also knew that his words were polite words, and when he heard it, he knew that he was a foreigner, and he didn't know the next time he didn't know the Year of the Monkey. He set up a small stall here to make some hard-earned money, and it was rare to have a little business, so he naturally refused to let it go.
"Okay, you look for it slowly, don't rush." Wu Chen saw him drilling underneath, twisting his head, very hard, and hurriedly comforted him.
It is estimated that it was put too low, and the middle-aged man pulled it in a pile of canvas bags for a long time, and finally took out a "pipe", because it was too long, it stretched up diagonally, and almost stabbed them, "Please help me pick it up." ”
Kong Si stretched out his hand to help him pick it up, but it was a paper tube, and at a glance, he knew that the road was a painting, but this one was too long, more than two meters!
What kind of painting does this have to be! None of them had ever seen a paper tube of this specification, but they were **** a little curious.
The middle-aged man looked quite educated, stood up, took the paper tube from Kong Si's hand, and didn't forget to thank him. After he placed the paper tube on the table, he opened one end and slowly pulled out a large roll from it, and sure enough, it was a scroll.
"It's ......"
Wu Chen and Kong Si saw that the entire scroll was really more than two meters wide, and it was thickly rolled into a ball, a bit like the thickness of cloth, so they were really surprised, such a huge calligraphy and painting was really rare. But at the same time, there is also a bit of disappointment, even those modern murals above the lobby now, most of them are not worth much, not to mention in the antique industry, such a large picture scroll, unheard of, its authenticity is worth doubting first.
"An old painting, look at it." The middle-aged man said with a smile as he slowly unfolded it, and it seemed that he was very bottomless in his heart.
Although they had doubts in their hearts, they had been delayed for so long, and they didn't care about looking at it for a while, Wu Chen and Kong Si saw that the middle-aged man was unfamiliar, so they took the initiative to step forward and help him unfold the scroll.
When he started, Wu Chen felt that the feel was different, neither like the texture of paper nor silk painting, but a little soft and smooth, could it be satin?
I haven't heard of painting with satin, so could it be that this middle-aged man mistakenly took the previous printed cloth for a picture scroll? But looking at this color yellow with brown, it is unlikely to be the previous fabric, and the possibility of modern counterfeiting is also greatly reduced, who would use such a high cost to make a fake that makes people suspicious at first sight?
"Slow down, I can't put it down!" Kong Si was helping to release the exhibition on the other side, although he was also confused, he did not have Wu Chen's habit of wandering.
This table is of uniform specifications, more than three meters long and two meters wide, and the three of them slowly rolled it up like this, less than half of it, and there is no place for it!
"Let's do this first, fourth, you hold it, I'll take a look!" After Wu Chen transitioned from a daze, he looked at the picture for the first time. At a glance, he was shocked, and his previous doubts were suddenly thrown out of the clouds!
Map!
That's right, this is a map, on the huge yellow-brown picture, mountains, passes, cities, houses, all available, the most eye-catching is naturally the famous "several" shaped river! Although with the thickness of the lines, it seems to be as faint as a watermark, but for Chinese people, they can recognize it as the Yellow River at a glance.
It's kind of interesting! Wu Chen took a few steps back and carefully looked at the huge picture in front of him, only to see that it was not an ordinary symbol marking, that is, a symbol such as a triangle or XX was used to represent the terrain, but a real scene! Rolling mountains, clouds and mountains and foggy seas, majestic cities......
In addition to these dense graphics, there are also a lot of text annotations, naturally all of which are traditional characters, he tried hard to distinguish them, and soon locked a few places, such as Jingshi, Baoding Mansion, Shanhaiguan and so on.
The more Wu Chen looked at it, the more shocked and even incredulous. Who drew this pattern, judging from the picture, the person who made this painting should not be a well-known painter, although the pen is good, after all, there is some distance from those in history.
But! The majestic atmosphere revealed on the picture has a faint hint of the world's spirit! This is not comparable to ordinary paintings!
"Good painting!" Kong Si held the part that had not yet been unfolded with both hands, and he couldn't look down like Wu Chen did, but he was also taken by it, and couldn't help but praise it!
When the middle-aged man heard their praise, he was secretly happy in his heart, and laughed with him, but he didn't dare to say more, for fear that he would disturb them, and a business would be yellow again.
"Fourth, you pull back." Wu Chen stood up, suppressed the excitement in his heart, and said to Kong Si.
This painting is too big, and only a small part of it is exposed at the moment, although it does not have the outline of the provinces like modern maps, but he can probably judge that it should be the area of Beijing and Hebei and Shandong. If you come up from the direction, the south end is in Kong Si's hand, and half of the boss is still rolled, while the north end is resting on the table, but it is not fully expanded, and there is still room for it.
Helping Kong Si move to the back, Wu Chen walked over and completely unfolded this end, and sure enough, he saw the three eastern provinces and the Mongolian Plateau, from the location, it seems that there is also Siberia, but his geography is not too good, so he doesn't dare to confirm it.
What really shocked him was that there were a few big characters on the top side, framed in a box with black lines, and if you carefully identified it, it should be "The Whole Map of the Emperor".
"The Complete Map of the Emperor" ?!!!
Wu Chen's head buzzed, and he only felt that the two temples were beating hard, it turned out to be it!
If it were someone else, maybe they wouldn't care about it, and they might even think it was a fake! Because in the history books, there has never been a "Complete Map of the Imperial Opinion", and there is a "Complete Map of the Imperial Opinion".
"The Emperor's Panorama Map" is known as "the most refined and complete map of the Qing Dynasty", and it is also "the most accurate and complete map of China since ancient times", historical records record that the map was compiled and drawn by the order of the Kangxi Emperor, carried out by astronomical observation and astrological triangulation, and was drawn by trapezoidal projection method, with a proportion of 1/400,000. The map depicts the area from Sakhalin Island in the northeast, Taiwan in the southeast, the Ili River in the west, Lake Baikal in the north, and Hainan Island in the south.
It is a well-established fact that this map has epoch-making significance in the history of Chinese mapping, and from the middle of the Qing Dynasty to the early years of the ********, various maps of the Celestial Empire published at home and abroad are basically derived from this map.
Another well-known fact is that the picture was painted after the recovery of Taiwan and the pacification of Dzungaria, and the participants included Jesuit Europeans Lei Xiaosi, Bai Jin, Du Demei, Chinese scholars He Guodong, Suo Zhu, Bai Yingtang, Gong'e, Ming Antu, and more than 10 people, including Lama Chu'er Qinzang Bulanmu Zhanba of Qintianjian and Shengzhu, the head of the Li Fan Yuan.
However, in the record of the "Treasure Road" of the Guigu Society, there is an earlier version, "The Complete Map of the Imperial Opinion", which came from the hand of Zhou Peigong and was presented to Kangxi before his death, which led to the later "The Complete Map of the Imperial Opinion".
More importantly, the "Imperial Opinion Panorama Map" is only used as a map, and there is even a public version, but the "Imperial Opinion Map" is obviously much more mysterious, and it is vaguely mentioned in the "Treasure Road" that this map is Zhou Peigong's gathering of many mysterious people, secretly drawn, not so simple as a map, after being dedicated to Emperor Kangxi, it has never been published, and no one has ever seen it. After asking for directions, the two sides went their separate ways.
Wu Chen and the others walked along the pedestrian streets on both sides of the western coastal avenue, and after a short time, they arrived at a square surrounded by large stone pillars.
At night, above the lakeside, all kinds of lights appear to be empty and deep all around, although life is boiling, but there is a cold and far-reaching feeling. Although most of the willow trees have already lost their leaves, in the cold season at the end of the year, the breeze blows and the slender willow branches sway, but it also has a special charm.
Jiangzhou was called Rulin Township in ancient times, the Song Dynasty was prosperous in the market, to the end of the Song Dynasty and the beginning of the Yuan Dynasty, in the south, because there are nine large and small water sources, they flow into the confluence here from the outside, and connect the Xijiang River, so it is called "Jiujiang". The famous city has its own profound historical and cultural heritage, although in today's complicated era, the folk customs are still simple and simple, and there is a cultural atmosphere everywhere.
On the antique square, there are still people coming and going, in addition to some shops and stalls, there are also many artists performing on the street, which is very lively.
Wu Chen and Kong Si walked in the crowd, feeling the gentle breeze with a slight wetness, not cold, but a little cool and comfortable. Wu Chen squinted his eyes slightly, carefully savoring this somewhat familiar artistic conception.
"Let's go" Kong Si didn't forget the original intention of coming here, and when he saw Wu Chen's leisurely pace and slow take-off, he reminded him that there was a small stall distribution center like a big shed in front of him, selling some scattered antiques and trivialities, which were planned by the government at a glance.
The two stepped in, walked slowly with the flow of people, and looked through the likes when they saw them. Antiques are not comparable to Chinese medicine pharmacies, and there are no fakes in shops with government certification, so you still have to rely on your own eyesight.
"The two of you are cultural people at a glance, how about it, let's take a look, you can get started with what you like, the price is easy to discuss." The stall owner is a middle-aged man, wearing coarse cloth clothes, looking a little down-and-out literati, and his words are not so smooth, not so much shouting, but muttering, it is estimated that Wu Chen and their temperament are not like ordinary citizens, so they greet them.
Then take a look! Kong Si is rarely replaced by a "cultural person", so he has to give him a show, right?
To put it mildly, this stall is indeed a little shabby, scattered with a lot of "antiques", mostly calligraphy and painting, there are also some gold, stone and jade, in addition to some at a glance, contemporary old porcelain, Kong Si can see at a glance that it is the goods that are imported from porcelain.
"Big brother, you don't have a lot of goods. Are there any others? Wu Chen glanced at it slightly, and it was also the same feeling as Kong Si. Although he saw that the middle-aged man was friendly and wanted to help him with his business, he couldn't buy some stall goods, so he just smashed them on the ground.
"You wait!" The middle-aged man seemed to be a sincere person, and when he saw that Wu Chen and the others were not like ordinary tourists, he beckoned them to sit in the lattice room, squatted down again, and touched under the stall.
This kind of cubicle is a temporary place to put things, and it is very cramped, and it is a little cramped for a few people to squeeze in it. Wu Chen saw that the middle-aged man was pouting, which was very laborious, and he was not very confident in this kind of stall, so he said, "Forget it, I will come to visit you again next time." ”
"Don't!" The middle-aged man also knew that his words were polite words, and when he heard it, he knew that he was a foreigner, and he didn't know the next time he didn't know the Year of the Monkey. He set up a small stall here to make some hard-earned money, and it was rare to have a little business, so he naturally refused to let it go.
"Okay, you look for it slowly, don't rush." Wu Chen saw him drilling underneath, twisting his head, very hard, and hurriedly comforted him.
It is estimated that it was put too low, and the middle-aged man pulled it in a pile of canvas bags for a long time, and finally took out a "pipe", because it was too long, it stretched up diagonally, and almost stabbed them, "Please help me pick it up." ”
Kong Si stretched out his hand to help him pick it up, but it was a paper tube, and at a glance, he knew that the road was a painting, but this one was too long, more than two meters!
What kind of painting does this have to be! None of them had ever seen a paper tube of this specification, but they were **** a little curious.
The middle-aged man looked quite educated, stood up, took the paper tube from Kong Si's hand, and didn't forget to thank him. After he placed the paper tube on the table, he opened one end and slowly pulled out a large roll from it, and sure enough, it was a scroll.
"It's ......"
Wu Chen and Kong Si saw that the entire scroll was really more than two meters wide, and it was thickly rolled into a ball, a bit like the thickness of cloth, so they were really surprised, such a huge calligraphy and painting was really rare. But at the same time, there is also a bit of disappointment, even those modern murals above the lobby now, most of them are not worth much, not to mention in the antique industry, such a large picture scroll, unheard of, its authenticity is worth doubting first.
"An old painting, look at it." The middle-aged man said with a smile as he slowly unfolded it, and it seemed that he was very bottomless in his heart.
Although they had doubts in their hearts, they had been delayed for so long, and they didn't care about looking at it for a while, Wu Chen and Kong Si saw that the middle-aged man was unfamiliar, so they took the initiative to step forward and help him unfold the scroll.
When he started, Wu Chen felt that the feel was different, neither like the texture of paper nor silk painting, but a little soft and smooth, could it be satin?
I haven't heard of painting with satin, so could it be that this middle-aged man mistakenly took the previous printed cloth for a picture scroll? But looking at this color yellow with brown, it is unlikely to be the previous fabric, and the possibility of modern counterfeiting is also greatly reduced, who would use such a high cost to make a fake that makes people suspicious at first sight?
"Slow down, I can't put it down!" Kong Si was helping to release the exhibition on the other side, although he was also confused, he did not have Wu Chen's habit of wandering.
This table is of uniform specifications, more than three meters long and two meters wide, and the three of them slowly rolled it up like this, less than half of it, and there is no place for it!
"Let's do this first, fourth, you hold it, I'll take a look!" After Wu Chen transitioned from a daze, he looked at the picture for the first time. At a glance, he was shocked, and his previous doubts were suddenly thrown out of the clouds!
Map!
That's right, this is a map, on the huge yellow-brown picture, mountains, passes, cities, houses, all available, the most eye-catching is naturally the famous "several" shaped river! Although with the thickness of the lines, it seems to be as faint as a watermark, but for Chinese people, they can recognize it as the Yellow River at a glance.
It's kind of interesting! Wu Chen took a few steps back and carefully looked at the huge picture in front of him, only to see that it was not an ordinary symbol marking, that is, a symbol such as a triangle or XX was used to represent the terrain, but a real scene! Rolling mountains, clouds and mountains and foggy seas, majestic cities......
In addition to these dense graphics, there are also a lot of text annotations, naturally all of which are traditional characters, he tried hard to distinguish them, and soon locked a few places, such as Jingshi, Baoding Mansion, Shanhaiguan and so on.
The more Wu Chen looked at it, the more shocked and even incredulous. Who drew this pattern, judging from the picture, the person who made this painting should not be a well-known painter, although the pen is good, after all, there is some distance from those in history.
But! The majestic atmosphere revealed on the picture has a faint hint of the world's spirit! This is not comparable to ordinary paintings!
"Good painting!" Kong Si held the part that had not yet been unfolded with both hands, and he couldn't look down like Wu Chen did, but he was also taken by it, and couldn't help but praise it!
When the middle-aged man heard their praise, he was secretly happy in his heart, and laughed with him, but he didn't dare to say more, for fear that he would disturb them, and a business would be yellow again.
"Fourth, you pull back." Wu Chen stood up, suppressed the excitement in his heart, and said to Kong Si.
This painting is too big, and only a small part of it is exposed at the moment, although it does not have the outline of the provinces like modern maps, but he can probably judge that it should be the area of Beijing and Hebei and Shandong. If you come up from the direction, the south end is in Kong Si's hand, and half of the boss is still rolled, while the north end is resting on the table, but it is not fully expanded, and there is still room for it.
Helping Kong Si move to the back, Wu Chen walked over and completely unfolded this end, and sure enough, he saw the three eastern provinces and the Mongolian Plateau, from the location, it seems that there is also Siberia, but his geography is not too good, so he doesn't dare to confirm it.
What really shocked him was that there were a few big characters on the top side, framed in a box with black lines, and if you carefully identified it, it should be "The Whole Map of the Emperor".
"The Complete Map of the Emperor" ?!!!
Wu Chen's head buzzed, and he only felt that the two temples were beating hard, it turned out to be it!
If it were someone else, maybe they wouldn't care about it, and they might even think it was a fake! Because in the history books, there has never been a "Complete Map of the Imperial Opinion", and there is a "Complete Map of the Imperial Opinion".
"The Emperor's Panorama Map" is known as "the most refined and complete map of the Qing Dynasty", and it is also "the most accurate and complete map of China since ancient times", historical records record that the map was compiled and drawn by the order of the Kangxi Emperor, carried out by astronomical observation and astrological triangulation, and was drawn by trapezoidal projection method, with a proportion of 1/400,000. The map depicts the area from Sakhalin Island in the northeast, Taiwan in the southeast, the Ili River in the west, Lake Baikal in the north, and Hainan Island in the south.
It is a well-established fact that this map has epoch-making significance in the history of Chinese mapping, and from the middle of the Qing Dynasty to the early years of the ********, various maps of the Celestial Empire published at home and abroad are basically derived from this map.
Another well-known fact is that the picture was painted after the recovery of Taiwan and the pacification of Dzungaria, and the participants included Jesuit Europeans Lei Xiaosi, Bai Jin, Du Demei, Chinese scholars He Guodong, Suo Zhu, Bai Yingtang, Gong'e, Ming Antu, and more than 10 people, including Lama Chu'er Qinzang Bulanmu Zhanba of Qintianjian and Shengzhu, the head of the Li Fan Yuan.
However, in the record of the "Treasure Road" of the Guigu Society, there is an earlier version, "The Complete Map of the Imperial Opinion", which came from the hand of Zhou Peigong and was presented to Kangxi before his death, which led to the later "The Complete Map of the Imperial Opinion".
More importantly, the "Imperial Opinion Panorama Map" is only used as a map, and there is even a public version, but the "Imperial Opinion Map" is obviously much more mysterious, and it is vaguely mentioned in the "Treasure Road" that this map is Zhou Peigong's gathering of many mysterious people, secretly drawn, not so simple as a map, after being dedicated to Emperor Kangxi, it has never been published, and no one has ever seen it.