Chapter 961: Receiving the Three Treasures in a Row
After putting away the pipa, Jin Muchen continued to rummage through the pile of wooden boxes, and soon turned out a long wooden box.
Just by looking at the shape of this box, you can know that it must contain a scroll, which Jin Muchen accidentally found on the list of Tianjing before.
This is a famous painting, and it is also listed as one of the top national treasures by the Japanese, and of course it also came to China, from the hand of Muxi, a famous family in the Southern Song Dynasty of China, who is a painter and a famous master of Zen painting.
Zen painting was very popular during the Tang Dynasty and Song Dynasty in Chinese history, but it gradually declined after the Song Dynasty, but this kind of Zen painting has always been very popular in Japan.
This great painter Mu Xi is a four@Sichuan person in the Southern Song Dynasty, this person has a very good reputation in the Southern Song Dynasty, it is considered a clear stream, when the traitor Jia Nidao was in charge, Mu Xi once publicly opposed Jia Nidao, the big traitor, and was wanted for offending Jia Nidao.
Mu Xi's achievements in painting are very high, his painting skills are very Zen, each painting is made of ink with a pen, the meaning is simple, and it does not need to be decorated.
One of the most classic masterpieces is the "Evening Bell of the Smoke Temple", this painting has been put on hold until now, if you look at his creative process, those painters who study postmodern art, they have to bow and worship, it is a few strokes to become, there is no decoration at all, but just a few strokes, it is a picture of an ethereal temple monks hitting the evening bell pattern, it is simply a work of genius.
Now that Jin Muchen has gotten this group of Guanyin ape and crane pictures, it is also a famous Zen Gate public case map, which is a set of three pictures.
In addition to the portrait of Guanyin, there is another ape and a crane pattern in this set, as for the meaning of the content of the picture is not known at all, especially the mother ape, holding her cubs, like a human, but she is blank and looks directly, I don't know how to understand, as if the painter used a brush to draw a questionnaire full of Zen machine, let the world answer.
It is precisely because of this Zen machine that this painting is particularly sought after in Japan, and the era when it was lost to Japan should be in the late Southern Song Dynasty, the era of the Mongol and Yuan invasions.
After flowing into Japan, it was highly sought after, up to the officials and dignitaries, down to the common people of Li are very fond of this painting, because the meaning of this painting is too profound, so many art lovers with literary and young temperament are particularly fond of this painting.
The painting changed hands several times in Japan, and finally fell into the hands of Daitokuji Temple in Kyoto, and it was also brought to Yoshino during Emperor Daigo's southern journey, and finally fell into the hands of the Kuroda family in Kyushu.
In the end, like the previous luodian rosewood five-string pipa, it will be invited by the Kyushu National Museum every two years to be exhibited for one year, and this time it happened to be the same as the luodian rosewood five-stringed pipa, and was sent to Tokyo from Kyushu to take refuge, but I'm afraid everyone couldn't imagine that this painting would be cheaper in the end Jin Muchen.
After putting away this famous painting, Jin Muchen continued to flip inside, and soon found a small box, this box is not large, about fifty centimeters high, thirty centimeters wide, Jin Muchen saw this treasure on the Tianjing's list, and almost jumped up on the spot without excitement.
Tiger Cannibal !!
This is a bronze treasure from the late Shang Dynasty in China, and it is also one of the two most important pieces of Chinese bronze in the Japanese collection, the other being the hunting pattern bronze mirror of the Yongqing Bunku.
In other words, this is one of the two most precious Chinese bronzes in Japan's collection! This Nima, if you miss this treasure today, it will be a tyrannical thing!
This tiger cannibal is a crouching tiger hugging people, the human head is under the tiger's bloody mouth, and the fear on the human face can also be seen clearly, and the idea is quite peculiar.
It stands to reason that the bronze of the Shang Dynasty is not something that ordinary people can afford, except for the emperor's relatives, the general family can not afford to use it, and the bronze used by the emperor's relatives generally prefer the red shape of the more festive things, but this bronze is the shape of a tiger cannibal, which shows how the owner of this bronze was a brain-opening person, because of this shape.
Some archaeologists in Japan will deduce that this bronze wine vessel should be the last tyrant of the Shang Dynasty, King Xu, because only the faint monarch would like to use such a shape of wine vessel.
And this inference and statement have also been recognized by many people, and even many Chinese archaeological experts feel that this statement is very reasonable.
A thousand-year-old bronze, preserved in such perfect condition, so peculiar in shape, coupled with the tyrant who was the first to go down in history, the value of this bronze immediately turned over and seemed to go up, and now it has basically become a priceless treasure, its historical value, and artistic value, can no longer be measured by money.
That's why the Japanese will regard such a bronze wine vessel as the top national treasure among their national treasures, but it's a pity that these stinky and shameless ones are from China at all, and they have nothing to do with the history of the Japanese.
This bronze, like many of his companions, is from Hu@Nan Province, but the age of the excavation is not very good, it is really from the Republic of China.
Because this bronze is decorated with many special features, and it is also based on **** as the theme, and the strange idea is a rare strange and complex work in the Shang Dynasty bronzes, so it caused a huge sensation once it was unearthed.
At that time, many experts and scholars went to Hu@Nan, just to see the true face of this bronze, and then make their own inferences, but unfortunately, such a sensational thing of course also attracted the attention of the Japanese.
You must know that at that time, the Japanese were making plans to invade China, and this bronze wine vessel of the Shang Dynasty naturally became their target for plunder.
Later, through a lot of illegal means, coercion and temptation, cunning and robbery, etc., all kinds of dirty means were used, and the Japanese finally brought this bronze wine vessel of the Shang Dynasty back to Japan.
After the end of World War II, the incompetent KMT government did not think about it at all when it asked Japan for a national treasure, and the whereabouts of this bronze wine vessel were no longer known.
When it reappeared, it was unveiled at the Kyushu National Museum, and it caused a sensation when it was unveiled, and it became the treasure of the Kyushu National Museum.
After the Chinese government learned of this, it sent people to Japan several times to negotiate with people from the Kyushu National Museum about the issue of this bronze wine vessel, but in the end they were all vetoed by the shameless Japanese.
Now this bronze wine vessel can finally go home, and there is no need for the Japanese to steal and leave it in Japan.
After putting away the bronze wine vessel, Jin Muchen continued to rummage through the pile of boxes, and soon found a small wooden box, which was about the same size as the one he saw before, and when he opened it, it was also a scroll.
After unfolding it, I saw that this was actually a Buddhist scripture "Bodhisattva Virgin Sutra!!
This Buddhist sutra is not only a national treasure in Japan, but even in China, it is also a national treasure among absolute national treasures!
Because this book is quite large, it can be regarded as the oldest scripture handed down from hand to hand in the world, and it may also be the only remaining Western Wei ink in the world, and its value is immeasurable.
This volume of scriptures, is the 16th year of the unification of the Western Wei Dynasty, Tao Tonghu wrote, the font size is like soybeans, the calligraphy is a school of the Northern Wei Dynasty inscription, the pen is free, there is no stone carving square clumsy state, its extraordinary holy place, there is really an incredible wonder.
If you really talk about this writing skill, it is not necessarily much worse than the holy father and son of the book, but the fame is not as great as that of the holy father and son.
This Tao Linghu did not only copy and a set of scriptures, but copied a whole set of scriptures, and these sets of treasures were originally stored in the treasury of the Qing Palace, and later the Eight-Nation Coalition Army entered the capital, it was a burning, killing and plundering, and the treasury of the Forbidden City was not much better.
At that time, the Russian garrison ransacked the south treasury of the Forbidden City, and a large part of this set of scriptures fell into the hands of the Russians, but these Russians did not know how to cherish these precious Chinese cultural relics, so the preservation was not very good, and most of the parts that exist in Russia are dilapidated.
When the Russians ransacked the south treasury of the capital, the Japanese were not idle, because of their understanding of Chinese culture, the Japanese were more ruthless, and they also picked those noble ones, but when they came to the Forbidden City, the south treasury had been almost looted by the Russians.
This made the Japanese very annoyed, but they soon came up with a solution, at that time, the Russians were stationed near the Yakuo Temple, so the Japanese specially organized a group of people, with a lot of Japanese specialties, or women, spirits, to go to the Russians to do business.
The Russians didn't know much about this, but they still liked the business of the Japanese, so they took out a lot of the loot they had stolen from the Forbidden City to do business with the Japanese, and in this way, this set of "Bodhisattva Virgin Sutra" fell into the hands of the Japanese.
Later, after Japan's defeat in World War II, the stupid and incompetent KMT officials, when they were chasing the national treasure from Japan, were fooled by the Japanese and believed that this set of scriptures was introduced to Japan during the Tang Dynasty, so they did not ask for this set of scriptures to return to China at all.
Later, this "Bodhisattva Sutra" has completely become a national treasure of Japan, every time the Kyushu National Museum takes out this sutra to exhibit, this sutra is basically a treasure of the end of the field, exquisite paper, steady brushwork, people who know a little calligraphy know, this is definitely the top masterpiece of ancient calligraphy. (To be continued.) )