Chapter 369 of the text volume Wang Yuanzhen Tibetan Scripture

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Geng Lao put on his gloves, took the brown paper envelope handed over by Tang Dou with both hands, opened the unsealed envelope with trembling slightly, and took out two plain notes that had turned yellow. … ≦。 … ≦

Plain paper is a common letterhead in the late Qing Dynasty, with red grid and no embellishment.

The plain paper is densely covered with calligraphy, and if you only look at calligraphy, it is average at best.

Those experts and officials couldn't wait for a long time, and some people who were familiar with Geng Lao had already spoken: "Geng Lao, you read to people, what is written on Wang Yuanji's letter." ”

Geng Lao had already quickly finished reading half of the letterhead, calmed down for a moment, turned to the people who were looking forward to it, and said, "Submit to everyone's request, and the old man will read this letter to everyone now." ”

The cave was silent again.

Geng Lao cleared his throat and slowly read in his deep old voice:

Tell the donor:

Poor Taoist King Yuanzhen, the road number Fazhen, traveled all over the world, in the eighteenth year of Guangxu even to Dunhuang, saw the temple withered, the Buddha statue was damaged, the rest of the mind was uneasy, and then stationed.

After eight years, the temple only poor road and two children who were later accepted, every day to eradicate the floating sand, reshape the Buddha statue, but the Mogao Grottoes are huge, although the strength is also a little bit of a can't.

On May 26, the twenty-sixth year of Guangxu, the hole of the Tibetan scriptures was accidentally discovered, the wall was broken, and there were ten thousand volumes of the Tang scriptures in it, and there were many antiquities.

Poor Dao knew that the matter was big, so he walked fifty miles to Dunhuang County to meet the county commander Yan Ze, Yan Ze laughed at the waste paper, and blasted out.

In the twenty-eighth year of Guangxu, Wang Zonghan of Dunhuang Zhixian took up his new position, and the poor road was again hiked for fifty miles to present this matter, and Wang Zhixian withered.

Yu Xin was unwilling, so that the donkey carried two boxes of scriptures, the journey lasted more than 800 miles, to Suzhou to meet the Ansu soldiers Beidao Daotai Tingdong lord, Tingdong actually said that the calligraphy of the scriptures is not as good as him.

Ignorant of the husband, Yu was ashamed to be with him, and angrily submitted a letter to the queen mother, and went straight to the heavens.

The poor road returned to the temple, and waited for several years, but there was no news of the stone sinking into the sea.

The court is so mediocre, which is a sign of the country's demise.

Lonely and lonely, the rest of the power to resist the sky, fear that the treasure will be lost in my hands, after consideration, then in the Tibetan scripture cave to open another hole, select the Tibetan scriptures in the incisive scriptures and antiquities to transfer to it, close the hole, and wait for the future generations to open the fate.

If in the prosperous times, I hope to open this cave to keep the antiquities, will be the literature and the court, this is the shadow and the merits of the descendants, hope that the Taoist friends must not make mistakes.

In troubled times, Wangdaoyou re-sealed the cave and left the scriptures in the cave to future generations.

The gods have eyes, and Taoist friends will be punished by heaven if they mistake themselves.

The poor Dao Fa really worshipped

Pen on the fifth day of January in the thirty-third year of Guangxu.

After reading Wang Yuanji's letter, Geng Lao's eyes moistened, and the eyes of many people in the Tibetan scripture cave were also moistened.

'Yu is powerless to resist the sky', in just five words, has already expressed the sorrow of Wang Yuanqi's little character.

A weak court that is about to collapse, a land trampled by foreign powers, what can Wang Yuanqi do as a small person?

He could think of hiding these precious Dunhuang classics separately, which was already the only thing that a sad little person could do.

Geng Lao carefully put away the two yellowed letterheads in his hand, put them back in envelopes and put them in a special sealed bag, raised his head, swept the people in front of him, and said categorically: "Daoist Wang Yuanqi is the pride of the nation, and I think he should be awarded the title of national hero." His epistle is a piece of history, and the value of this epistle is ten or a hundred times higher than that of the Dunhuang scriptures. ”

"That's right, Daoist Wang Yuanqi is indeed worthy of the title of national hero." Song Lao took the lead in raising his hand to echo.

"I agree, we should all collectively write an article to correct the name of Daoist Wang Yuanji."

"Count me in."

People raised their hands one after another, and for a while, the cave of the scriptures became a voting scene, and the only one who did not raise their hands was Secretary Jiang and several of their leaders, which seemed a little embarrassed.

Secretary Jiang coughed twice, and waited until people consciously put down their hands before he spoke: "I personally agree with what Geng Lao just said, our Dunhuang Municipal Party Committee and Municipal Government will report this matter to the higher departments in the form of a document, and I hope that the higher departments can do their best to correct the name of Daoist Wang Yuanqi." ”

Although it is not a political incident to correct Wang Yuanzhen's name, after all, it also involves many sensitive matters, and it is reasonable for Secretary Jiang to give such an answer on the spot.

Tang Dou, who was in the cave in the cave, exhaled softly, he knew that with Wang Yuanji's letter, and with the promotion of Geng Lao and others, the matter of justifying Wang Yuanji's name could basically come to an end.

Tang Dou couldn't help but secretly laugh, it turned out that this Wang Yuanqi looked like he had no scheming, but it turned out to be an old Jianghu, and he even left such a letter similar to a suicide note, as long as this scripture cave did not fall into the hands of thieves, he always had a chance to avenge his grievances.

It's just that pinning my hopes on the unknown descendant who discovered the cave of the scriptures makes people always feel a little bleak in retrospect.

The sentence 'In troubled times, I hope that the Taoist friends will re-seal this cave and leave the scriptures in the cave to future generations.' Wang Yuanji's patriotic feelings have been fully demonstrated, Wang Yuanzheng probably doesn't know what the fate of these scriptures will be in the future, he is powerless to resist the sky, but he is borrowing the power of the gods and Buddhas to make the last effort, "the gods have eyes, and the Taoist friends will be punished by heaven if they mistaken."

Sorrowful......

Glad......

Tang Dou's children's shoes are inevitably a little sassy.

Without his own appearance, the fate of Wang Yuanji's canons is really confusing, and there is a great possibility that some of them will fall into the hands of foreigners again.

The follow-up excavation work has become much simpler, since Tang Dou has already drilled into the cave, there is no need to go out again, he played a role of supervision and command in the cave, and with little effort, the hole closed by Wang Yuanqi has been completely opened.

Long before the entrance of the cave was completely opened, Geng Lao couldn't wait to get into the cave, holding a cold light to inspect the scriptures piled up throughout the cave.

The entrance of the cave was opened, and under the command of Geng Lao, Song Lao and others, the sand and soil that closed the entrance of the cave was quickly cleared out, and a cordon was also set up at the entrance of the cave.

This temporary expert group was put together haphazardly, and it was not as orderly as those professional archaeological teams, but Geng Lao, Song Lao and others were all figures who had experienced strong winds and waves, and they quickly arranged work for everyone, and the scene was in good order.

The inventory work officially began, Geng Lao completely used Tang Dou's children's shoes as a stupid boy, and the work arranged for Tang Dou was to take down the Tibetan scriptures that were covered with a thick layer of dust and give him a look, and then pass them to the outside of the Tripitaka Cave, and the scriptures have been registered and numbered in the process of transmission, and then after the most preliminary cleaning they were sealed separately, waiting to be transported to the professional cultural relics protection unit for further processing.

After the cave was opened, Secretary Jiang couldn't sit still, and at his request, Geng Lao could only reluctantly agree to let him take a few photos, and personally handed over Wang Yuanji's letter to him after processing.

Secretary Jiang hurriedly returned to the municipal party committee, convened an emergency standing committee, and then personally went to the provincial capital with the photos that had been printed out and copies of Wang Yuanqi's letters, and personally went to meet Secretary X to report this important discovery in person.

The cleaning of the cultural relics in the cave is still continuing, and the image of Tang Dou's shoes has been completely destroyed at this time, except that the teeth are still white, just like a native man, his body has already been covered with dust falling from the scriptures.

The small Tibetan scripture cave was narrow and stuffy, and Tang Dou's shoes were sweating like rain, and in the end, he also let go, so he simply took off his coat and went into battle shirtless.

Think of yourself as a petty worker today.

Wang Yuanqi selected and concealed these scriptures are mainly scroll binding, and there are various binding forms such as Sanskrit binding, sutra folding, butterfly binding, booklet binding and single page, as well as some rubbing, printing and embroidery books, there is no doubt that these canons provide rare material materials for the development of Chinese books, the history of book binding, and the history of printing.

This is only from the point of view of binding, this is only the most superficial thing, and it already contains its great historical value.

From the clean-up of the tip of the iceberg of the Tibetan scriptures, Geng Lao has found the Tibetan books as far as the Eastern Jin Dynasty, including the Northern Wei Dynasty, the Western Wei Dynasty, the Liang Dynasty, the Northern Zhou Dynasty, the Sui Dynasty, the Tang Dynasty, the Five Dynasties, the Northern Song Dynasty, the Western Xia, the Yuan Dynasty of various scriptures and documents, almost covering the Yuan Dynasty to the Eastern Jin Dynasty of the various historical dynasties, almost the entire history of China is expressed in Wang Yuanji's Dunhuang Canon.

These canons are mainly in Chinese, and some of them are ancient languages of many ethnic groups, such as Tubo, Uighur, Tangut, Mongolian, Sogdian, Turkic, Khotanese, Sanskrit, Tocharian, Hebrew, etc., and some of them are even unrecognizable by experts who enjoy high prestige in the industry, and they are even more precious.

In addition to Buddhist scriptures, the contents of the Tibetan scriptures include astronomy, calendars, history, geography, chronicles, picture scriptures, medical books, folk customs, famous books, account books, poems, songs, dialects, travelogues, miscellaneous writings, and ...... It can be said to be all-encompassing, and its value is immeasurable.

When the experts cleaned up these Wang Yuanqi scriptures, some people would let out exclamations, and people were stimulated by the continuous new discoveries, including Geng Lao, who also felt as if he had suddenly become twenty years younger, full of inexhaustible vitality.

At lunchtime, the mayor of Dunhuang City invited all the experts of the expert group to the nearest Mogao Grottoes Hotel for dinner, but the mayor touched his nose in front of the experts.

Well, the experts have indeed basically become gray men now, most of the experts are already sitting on the ground with no image to sort out the scriptures that have been passed over, and Tang Doutong, who is in charge of the first-hand work, is even worse, if he maintains a posture now, people are definitely likely to carry him to the second pit as a terracotta warrior.

The mayor had no choice but to instruct the Mogao Grottoes Hotel to send the most expensive lunch packages and various drinks to the experts, but few people touched these packages, but most of those drinks were quickly consumed.

At this moment, the number of scriptures that have been cleared out has reached 421 volumes, and it is not even one percent of the scriptures in the cave that are not even 1 percent...... (To be continued.) )