Chapter 2 The Sad Years (Second More Praise!!) )
"At the end of the Qing Dynasty, the Qing Dynasty was already stormy, the original feudal program collapsed, the eunuch palace maids in the Forbidden City were repeatedly banned from stealing literary games, and after the final Qing Dynasty, the deposed emperor Puyi also joined the ranks of stealing, and the cultural relics of the Forbidden City were thus left to the people, and at this time, far away in the Tianbian Dragon King Temple, the monks also repeatedly stole the palace Chinese to play and sell, it is said that there were often antique dealers next to the palace at that time, and the treasured cultural relics in the palace began to be scattered and destroyed from this time."
Liu Yi was very emotional, but it was just emotion, if there was no such situation at that time, all the treasures were in the palace of the Dragon King Temple, then now if Liu Yi wants to get one, he must use unconventional methods.
In the Ming and Qing dynasties, river engineering and water transportation have always been regarded as the top priority of the country, and the sacrifice to the river god is considered to be a necessary guarantee for smooth water transportation and disaster prevention.
Along the Yun and Huang rivers, there are many shrines to worship the ancestral river gods, water gods and dragon gods, but the largest of them is the Yuhe Dragon King Temple.
The temple was built in the early Ming Dynasty, since the Qing Dynasty has been added from generation to generation, the Qing Emperor has come to worship the ancestors many times, the original plaques, inscriptions, calligraphy and paintings in the temple are more from the hands of the Qing Emperor, the furnishings and utensils of the gods in each hall are all in accordance with the emperor's ritual system, Jue, Bean, Yao, Zun, three sets of six offerings, all are readily available, all silverware, bronze and even porcelain, jade are the imperial gifts, other woodware, statues, stone carvings, Qing offerings, its abundance of quantity, the essence of craftsmanship, all are brilliant, exquisite and luxurious, far from being comparable to the ordinary folk temples.
With the Qing Dynasty emperor's many blessings, coupled with the year of ancestor worship and reward, the treasures of the Dragon King Temple Palace continue to increase, and some things that seem to be valuable today are commonplace in the palace in the past. According to the memories of the last abbot in the palace, at that time, the worship of the gods in each hall was made of copper Xuande furnace, and the total number was no less than 30.
In addition to the statue of the main hall, the monks enshrined in the house are one or two feet high Luan gold and bronze Buddha, as for all kinds of official kiln porcelain, including the monks of the Ming Dynasty, after returning to the world, they also kept a lot of them as farmhouse pots.
In addition, like the authentic handiwork of Emperor Qianlong's five inscriptions, the plaques, couplets, and praises inscribed by Kangxi and Yongzheng, plus more than 200 pieces of holy decrees and imperial scriptures received over the years, are all treasured by the abbot himself.
Liu Yi stood in front of these splendid pavilions, vaguely still full of cigarette smoke from the past, and hundreds of years of vicissitudes have made the prosperity come to an end, those cultural heritage that once made us proud and admired, those dazzling treasures, most of them have been scattered and lost in a nightmare.
Xiao Wu tugged at his chest: "My heart hurts when I come to my mother!" ”
If it is not damaged and lost, just some Buddha statues and incense burners in the temple are worth a lot of money, thirty pieces of genuine Xuande furnace, it must be the Xuande furnace of the next year, and it is a particularly exquisite kind, the current Xuande furnace is worth at least two or three million, and thirty genuine Xuande furnaces are worth at least between six thousand and ninety million.
Each monk worships a gilded Buddha statue, one or two feet high gilded blessings, the price is higher than the Xuande furnace, and this sister is hundreds of millions.
Don't think about anything else, the value of other things can't be lower than the Xuande furnace, and it can't be lower than the Buddha statue, these two things should be said to be the bottom of all the objects.
If everything in this palace is there, Liu Yi estimates that the total value will be tens of billions.
"Wait a minute, we'll look for it, in case we can find a descendant of a layman monk, then it will be developed, most of them make farmhouse pots and pots are official kiln boutiques, his sister's."
Liu Yi also sighed: "This matter is not in a hurry, if it was easy to find, it would have been found by others a long time ago, and it is estimated that what is now circulating outside, what can be looted, has also been looted." ”
"My heart aches!" Xiao Wu's behavior was extremely exaggerated, and Liu Yi was also a little worried.
**In the early years, social turmoil, the palace was attacked by several soldiers and bandits, such as in the 29th year, the Kuomintang/Kuomintang troops ** knife meeting, burning, killing and looting, and wantonly robbing countless Chinese objects in the palace.
One of the battalion commanders also took a fancy to a large jade Buddha enshrined in the charity hall of the Longwang Temple, and instructed his subordinates to carry it away, who knew that it was carried to the vicinity of the fire temple in the town, but it could not be lifted, and the elders in the town took the opportunity to intercede, and said that the jade Buddha appeared and did not want to leave the bathing river.
The officer was a little scared, had to give up, and the jade Buddha has been placed in the fire temple, after the liberation of the fire temple once became the center of cultural activities, someone put the jade Buddha down, sit on it to play the piano and sing, after the jade Buddha was overturned into the pond in the temple, after the town health center was established here, and in the pond pad soil, built into a dormitory.
After the land reform, the temple of the Longwang Temple was all distributed to the peasants, the monks sat and ate the mountain empty, and sold all kinds of cultural and antique in the temple, at that time, a piece of mahogany in the temple was sold for only two or three yuan, and a hardwood Taishi chair was sold for less than one yuan, and there were still people in the peasant households around the temple who kept the wooden furniture purchased that year.
During this period, the most deplorable thing is the destruction of the Qianlong dragon bed, in the winter when he was driven out of the temple gate, the abbot and a few little monks could not find the firewood everywhere, the one that could be burned has been burned, and the sandalwood strip on the temple can not be removed, so the abbot had to be ruthless, and took the dragon bed from the harem wall with his own hands (the original dragon bed was hung on the harem wall), split it with an axe, and cook it when the firewood pot was cooked.
The abbot remembers this before his death, he also sighed, it is said that the dragon bed is extremely boiling, and it took nearly ten days to cook it to finish, which is the same as the encounter of the statue of the god of the king of Yu in the temple later, before and after the "Wen / Revolution", the statue of the god was all destroyed, the clay sculpture was smashed, the stone carving was smashed, the statue of the king of Yu carved by wood carving was also pulled down the altar, chopped with an axe, and threw it to the village department in the east of the street, the village held a meeting in winter, and the cold day split a statue of the god to roast the fire, it is said that the aroma of the house was burned, and it was baked for a winter before it was burned.
There are two small temples in the north not far from the palace of the Dragon King Temple, one is the Buddhist family, for Guanyin, called Guanyin Hall; One is Taoism, for the queen of heaven, called Huiji Temple, because the Taoist and nuns are women, the common people collectively call the two temples are called grandma temple.
After the Longwang Temple Palace was requisitioned by the food department, the scriptures and tablets of the sweat cow were transported to be stored here, at that time the main hall of the grandmother temple and the two houses were stuffed, no one cared, the farmers around them at first went to pull back as hand paper, because it was mostly rice paper, raw edge paper, paper soft, so it was very popular, and then gradually developed to pull back the pot, the fire was prosperous and smokeless, the villagers rushed to follow suit, and said that the long day was empty. The old accountant of the street village said that he was doing the accounts, and because he had no calculation paper, he wanted to get some scriptures from the grandmother's temple, but when he opened the door, he realized that it was empty. (To be continued.) )