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couldn't help but be fascinated by Li Mobai, although people who have studied junior high school history know the "Yongle Canon", but that little bit of content is almost not even clear, of course, to explain this masterpiece clearly, it is not three or two sentences that can be said clearly. Pen % fun % Pavilion www.biquge.info

"Yongle Canon" by the Ming Taizu Zhu Di ordered Xie Jin and Yao Guangxiao to preside over the compilation, the original name is "Literature Dacheng", before and after six years, a total of 2,169 Confucians and bachelors to complete, a total of 22,877 volumes, 60 volumes of contents, divided into 10,095 volumes, the number of words in the book is about 370 million words, all fonts are hand-copied in a unified pavilion style, the existing Jiajing copy calligraphy is relatively slender and long, similar to the European style.

A complete volume of "Yongle Canon", 50.3 centimeters high, 30 centimeters wide, measured with the Ming Dynasty construction ruler, should be one foot five inches six minutes high, nine inches and three minutes wide. The book is magnificent, with royal majesty and courage. Each volume of the "Great Canon" has about 50 leaves (pages), mainly in two volumes, but also in one volume or three volumes. The leaves of the book are made of snow-white, thick bark paper, and when the book is opened, it emits a faint bookish fragrance, which is very exquisite and beautiful.

The book jacket of "Yongle Grand Canon" is hard mounted with multiple layers of rice paper, and the so-called book jacket is what modern means as the cover, and there is a layer of yellow (emperor) silk on the outermost part of the book, which is particularly solemn. This method is very similar to the binding form of modern books called "bag back binding", which was a common way to bind books in the Yuan and early Ming dynasties. Books on the back of the bag should be inserted on the bookshelf vertically, unlike later thread-bound books that lie on the shelf. There is a rectangular bookmark glued to the upper left of the front of the book, and the four characters "Yongle Dadian" are inscribed in the frame, and there are double lines of small characters below the words, indicating the number of volumes of this book. There is also a box glued to the upper right of the front of the book, in which the rhyme of this volume is inscribed with an ink pen, and the lower word indicates that this volume is the first volume of the rhyme, which is very convenient to search.

Open the book jacket of "Yongle Dadian", which is the end of the volume, that is, the first leaf (page) of the text. It can be seen that the entire "Great Canon" is written with Zhu and ink pens. The red pen is mainly used to draw the boundary lines of the sidebar, and to write the author and title of the book cited; The ink pen is used to write the title, the number of volumes, rhymes, the text of the book and draw pictures; The circle points are stamped with a reed, bamboo, bone or jade pen tube dipped in cinnabar ink. The overall look is dignified and beautiful, and the ink is brilliant.

The sidebar of the "Great Canon" is painted on both sides on all sides, and the "Zhu Silk Column" divides each half leaf into eight lines, and there is a thick "elephant trunk" at the top and bottom of the center, and there is a "fish tail" in the middle, and the title and volume number are recorded above the "fish tail", and the number of leaves is recorded below. The strokes of the line are evenly thickened and meticulously drawn.

All the sidebar lines of the whole book are hand-drawn, and the pictures are all drawn in white, and the mountains and rivers, famous objects, people, and castles depicted are realistic and exquisite, and they are rare to see in the ancient book illustrations.

The original Yongle was probably burned by Li Zicheng, and only 800 volumes and 400 copies of Jiajing are known all over the world, and the rest were basically defeated by the Tartars, or stolen or sold, and some were burned by the Eight-Nation Alliance, and many were destroyed in the catastrophe of the 60s, of course, there must be a certain number of hidden in the people.

This kind of book can be said to be the earliest encyclopedia in the world, 370 years earlier than the "Encyclopedia Britannica", and the content is countless times richer than the castrated version of the "Siku Quanshu" compiled by Qianlong children hundreds of years later.

I have to say that Zhu Di is an emperor with great ambitions, not only the Son of Heaven who fought the border, but also vigorously developed Chinese culture, worthy of a generation of Ming monarchs, and by no means slandered by later generations.

Speaking of this book, I have to say that Xie Jin and Yao Guangxiao are the first genius in the early Republic of China, and Yao Guangxiao is a great monk, Zhu Di opposes the incompetent and cowardly Zhu Yunwen, it is precisely because this person was agitated when he was a military advisor, and played a key role in the conquest of Zhu Yunwen, but he had no intention of pursuing a career, and always regarded himself as a monk, I have to say that he is a strange person.

However, it is such a book, but in the end, there are only 400 copies left, and how can Li Mobai not be surprised when he sees these 5 copies of Jiajing, if he is not surprised, it is not Li Mobai.

Just when Li Mobai was looking at the 5 solitary books in a daze, Zhang Qunlai walked over, patted Li Mobai on the shoulder and said, "Mobai, there are still a few paintings in the VIP room, are you interested in going to see them?" ”

"Oh, forget it, take out these books for me and read them." Li Mobai said without thinking about it, Western oil paintings are precious, how can they compare to the status of these books in Li Mobai's heart.

Besides, even Leonardo da Vinci, Titian, Raphael, and Botticelli, although they are representative figures of the European Renaissance, but in terms of the development of oil painting, their methods have long been outdated, that is, they are no longer popular, and these books are priceless and completely national treasures.

"Cheng, you will have time to take a look at it later, it is a masterpiece of contemporary art, not an old antique." Zhang Qun knew that Li Mobai had been attracted by these solitary books, so he said with a smile, while calling the staff to take out these books for Li Mobai.

Li Mobai saw that the book was taken out, and he didn't pay attention to Zhang Qun, he looked at it to himself, first of all, he was to identify the authenticity, the overall preservation was not too bad, and there were no stains, but Li Mobai knew that this was repaired, and the technique was qualified.

When I looked at the content again, I found that the first volume was Lao Tzu's "Tao Te Ching", which was used from the annotation of the Western Han Dynasty Heshanggong, Li Mobai couldn't help but be a little surprised, but it was a little different from the common Cao Wei Wang Bi's annotation; Looking at the other volumes and finding that it is the annotated version of "Zhou Yi" annotated by the Jingfang of the Western Han Dynasty, Li Mobai can't help but be a little overjoyed, "Tao Te Ching" and "Zhou Yi" are the most famous classics of Chinese philosophy, and these two annotations are quite academically valuable, especially the version compiled 600 years ago, which is even more valuable for research.

Li Mobai was a little out of his mouth, his heart said that this trip was really worth it, it was too valuable, as for the other objects, he was really not interested, and he reluctantly returned the book to the staff, Li Mobai couldn't wait for this auction to start.

But it was still early, so I paced a small square step to look at other objects, and before I had walked a few steps, I heard Scott next to me say, "Mr. Li, Mr. Zhang said that if you are interested in going to see the painting, let me take you to the VIP room." ”

Li Mobai thought about it, and had nothing to do, so he motioned to Scott to lead the way, and paced to the VIP room, but his mind was still on the books.

"Mo Bai, how do you feel?" Seeing Li Mobai walking in, Zhang Qun greeted him.

"Very good, in very good condition." Li Mobai replied, "In the future, there will be similar solitary books, I will have as many as I want." ”

"Today, there are a group of guests on the ship, many of whom are collectors from Asia." Zhang Qun said with a smile, suggesting that Li Mobai had strong competitors.

"It doesn't matter what comes from heaven, God blocks and kills God, and Buddha blocks and destroys Buddha." Li Mobai said disapprerovingly, at this time, it doesn't matter if Zhang Qun knows his goal, the starting price has already been set.

Zhang Qun laughed when he heard this, "Mo Bai, take a look at these paintings, maybe you are also interested." ”

Li Mobai knew that these paintings could be placed here, they must be the most precious auctions today, of course, the price will also be sky-high, 100 million pounds is not unusual, the private auction lot and price will not be announced, and the general public will not know.

After walking a few steps, Li Mobai raised his eyes and found that it was a painting of Zhao Ji of Song Huizong in the Song Dynasty, Li Mobai couldn't help frowning, this painting doesn't need to look at it to know that it is a royal painting, but this real painter should be well-studied and elegant, maybe he is still a person with a higher status than Zhao Ji of Song Huizong in the painting world.

Although Song Huizong is an incompetent emperor, but his calligraphy is indeed commendable, and his paintings also have a very deep foundation, among all the emperors in history, it can be said that it is second only to Xiao Yi of Southern Liang, but the market value is several times higher than Xiao Yi.

During his reign, he greatly improved and enhanced the status of calligraphers and painters, and made courtyard painting a genre of Chinese painting.

"Get rid of a copy of Li Yu!" Li Mobai looked at this painting and couldn't help but sigh in his heart, the literati can save the country and mislead the country, the Great Song Bianjing, which was originally several times ahead of the world economy, was finally trampled under the iron hooves of the Tartars, and since then the people in the north have been crying under the humiliation of the Tartars, when will the Han nation recover the blood of the Qin, Han and Tang dynasties.

Li Mobai knew that he was thinking far away, and focused his attention on this painting, which was obviously a copy of Gu Kaizhi's "Cutting the Qin", but it was indeed profound, and the pen power was deeply rooted in the essence of Gu's painting style, and the lines like spring silkworms spinning silk can not only vividly outline the image characteristics of the characters, but also properly grasp the inner surnames of the characters, which is obviously not something that Zhao Ji, who is good at flowers and birds, can achieve.

The "Diagram of Chopping the Qin" depicts the scene of an ancient literati scholar making a guqin with beautiful sound and charm. There are 14 people in the painting, either breaking the board, making strings, trying the piano, or watching the conductor, and several waiters holding fans or cheering. Most of the expressions in the paintings are literati, all of them are long eyebrows and trim eyes, square faces, solemn expressions, majestic and elegant, the most amazing thing is that everyone's demeanor is very expressive, or do the listening of the tuning, or do the hard work, vivid and amazing.

"Mo Bai, this painting of Song Huizong is good, right?" Zhang Qun saw that Li Mobai withdrew his eyes, so he said with a smile next to him.

Li Mobai smiled when he heard this, "This is the imperial inscription painting of Zhao Ji of Huizong." ”

(To be continued)