Chapter 853: The Infamous Expedition
Such a fragment of calligraphy, although it was the handwriting of Zhao Mengfu, but Emperor Qianlong couldn't look down on it, so this Weng Fanggang was able to accept this fragment of calligraphy.
After that, this calligraphy somehow fell into the hands of Kikujiro Takashima, this guy is very famous in Japan, he is a famous papermaking king in Japan before World War II.
His Oji Paper is now one of the largest daily chemical companies in Japan, and the well-known Kao diapers are all products of this company.
Before his career, Takashima had been a seafarer for a period of time, and often went to China at that time, and later when World War II broke out, he had become one of the most famous celebrities in Japan.
At that time, he had a very good relationship with several powerful people in Wang's puppet government, such as Wang Jingwei and Zhou Fohai, who were all his good friends, so from those guys, he got a lot of good things to Japan.
Later, after World War II, after the establishment of the Tokyo National Museum, this guy donated a lot of good things to the Tokyo National Museum, it is said that there are more than 300 pieces, the most precious of which is the fragment of Zhao Mengfu's calligraphy.
But today, this fragment of Zhao Mengfu's calligraphy is going home, and it will never be left in the disgusting land of Japan again, and let these Japanese bastards desecrate.
Jin Muchen put away the calligraphy and continued to walk forward.
Then he collected a few ancient famous calligraphy calligraphy, which ended the trip to the calligraphy and painting museum in a hurry, although there are still a lot of good things left, but his purple jade space capacity is really limited, although these things he is unwilling. I could only endure it and give up.
Because there are still many things in this exhibition hall that are worth exploring and taking away.
Soon Jin Muchen stood in front of a bronze Buddha head, and this bronze Buddha head told the truth. The last time he came to step on the spot, he was very impressed.
Because of this bronze Buddha head, if it weren't for the introduction of the following short article, as well as the Dharma seal on the forehead of this head, Jin Muchen really found it hard to believe that this would be a Buddha head, because this Buddha head was not the same as any Buddha head he had seen before.
The face of this Buddha head looks very worldly, and there is a circle of beard on the upper lip. It's not a bald head like a shaved monk, and there is a Han-style bun on his head, but the part of this bun has been damaged. Half of it was lost.
So if it weren't for the introduction under the bronze Buddha head and the Dharma seal on the forehead, Jin Muchen would really think that this was the copper Buddha head left by someone in the Han Dynasty.
As for why this bronze Buddha head is so strange, it is mainly because. The origin of this bronze Buddha head. This bronze Buddha head is produced in Hotan City, Frontier Province.
And this Buddha head is not only a copper Buddha head, he is a gold and copper Buddha head, that is, a gold-plated Buddha head, which can be seen from the ears of this copper Buddha head, as well as a little gold paint on the sideburns, this Buddha head was over gold.
The most important thing is that this Buddha head is not actually produced in China. Rather, the park is a treasure trove of early Central Asia from the 3rd to 4th centuries.
In those days. Central Asia has not yet been dyed green by cults, and the faith in that land was still relatively free at that time, and there were Greek states left behind with Alexander the Great's crusade to the east, and they still believed in Zoroastrianism in the Khorasan region.
In the southern part of Central Asia, Buddhism came from India, and these regions were dyed green by cults, and it was only after the Turkish Sultan in the Middle East became stronger.
Moreover, the Mongols also helped a lot in their later expeditions, and they captured many slaves from the Middle East, and these slaves played a great role in the spread of the Green Religion.
Even the little white cats in China today are almost all brought back by the Mongols after their crusades.
These people now occupy the northwest region of our country, including the ancient capital of Chang'an, almost all of them are a lot, it is a pity to think about it, the Kyoto area left by the ancestors of our Han Empire has now become a place where there are many people in the Green Sect, and it is infinitely emotional to think about it.
When you play the game of Three Kingdoms, look at the names of places in the northwest that are infinitely fascinating, but now when you look at it, it has almost become the private land of the descendants of the Green Sect.
Said that it is far away, now let's take a look at this Buddha head, that day after seeing this Buddha head, Jin Muchen also went back to carefully verify the history of this style of Buddha head.
The fame of the Buddha head like the feeling is not small, it first appeared in Pakistan, and at that time, where the people who believed in Buddhism, the Buddha in their minds was like this.
And they call such a Buddha head a Kendra!
And the reason why this head of Kendra appeared in Japan is also thanks to the infamous Otani expedition that came to Japan!
The Otani expedition in China and Japan have almost worlds of different evaluations.
The reputation of the Otani expedition in China is extremely poor, for the simple reason that in the eyes of Chinese archaeologists, these guys are not worthy of the title of expedition at all.
They are a bunch of robbers, a bunch of shameless antiquities dealers, who have no right to explore China and grab treasures.
The crimes they committed in China were no worse than those beast soldiers who slaughtered ordinary Chinese people, and they set out from Japan to China in the name of scientific investigation to collect Chinese cultural relics and historic sites.
As long as the cultural relics they find, almost they cannot escape their poisonous hands, and if they cannot move them, they will be destroyed directly, and they will not be left for the Chinese.
Therefore, the sins they have committed can definitely be said to be innumerable, and now those captains who have a bad reputation are much stronger than them in terms of character.
Of the many Chinese cultural relics that Japan now has in its collection, I dare not say that half of them, but at least 20 to 30 percent of them were forcibly seized from China by this notorious expedition through all kinds of shameless means.
Therefore, if the Chinese archaeologists know about this expedition, they almost all hate them so much that they grit their teeth, and even some young archaeologists, after knowing their evil deeds, are even more eager to come directly to Japan and dig up the ancestral graves of these guys, directly crushing their bones and scattering ashes.
In Japan, the reputation of the Otani expedition is very high, and it is very respected by those Japanese archaeologists, the reason is naturally very simple, these Japanese archaeologists, to put it bluntly, are the descendants of these robbers, for their robber grandfathers, how can they deny their merits.
And if it weren't for their robber grandfathers, how could there be so many collections of Chinese antiques in Japan now?
Therefore, of course, they want to glorify these robbers in Japan, and no one will be allowed to tarnish their reputation, so that the crimes committed by the Otani expedition in China are glorified as virtues, and they have a very good reputation in the Japanese archaeological community.
Regarding this Buddha head, it was also after the expedition team learned that those European antiquities dealers, Stein and Sven Heding, had found a lot of good things in China's frontiers and the Western Regions, and returned to Europe to make a fortune.
So in the Meiji period, the Otani expedition went to the Chinese frontier and Central Asia three times, frantically searched for local treasures, and used various shameless means to transport these treasures back to Japan, and the treasures sent to Japan were collected in the Tokyo National Museum and Ryukoku University respectively.
During the Meiji period, which happened to be the era when Japan advocated civilization and enlightenment, Mitsurui Otani, the initiator of the Otani expedition, and the expedition team led by him, were the embodiment of the Meiji spirit of pioneering and enterprising, so the Otani expedition has a good reputation in the Japanese academic circles.
And this Otani Mitsurui is actually not from an ordinary person's background, he is the eldest son of the head of the Nishi Honganji Temple in Kyoto, and he has studied and studied in Europe for a long time.
During his investigation in Europe, it was also during that time that he learned that Stein and others had discovered Buddhist relics in Central Asia, and brought back many precious cultural relics to Europe, sold them to European museums, and made a fortune, and he felt extremely excited.
He then immediately returned to Japan, and after returning to Japan, he began to plan an expedition to Central Asia, because of his Buddhist background, which also determined that the main purpose of his expedition was to investigate the transmission route and Buddhist relics, so it is understandable why the collection of the Otani expedition at the Tokyo National Museum is related to Buddhism.
But the treasures placed in Ryukoku University are completely different from those in the Tokyo National Museum, and those cultural relics are all treasures of various styles that the Otani expedition later looted from all over China.
The Great Valley Expedition brought back a lot of sculptures from the Chinese frontier and Central Asia, but most of these are small works, and there are many damaged parts, because the scale of the expedition is relatively small, so they failed to bring back too many complete mural relics, most of the murals they brought back are fragmentary fragments, and it is they who dig up such murals everywhere, which causes them to destroy many more murals than they found, which is also a reason why the Great Valley Expedition has a bad reputation in China.
Later, it was precisely because he realized the shortcomings of his team that this Ohtani later raised funds several times to expand the team, and as he successfully brought back a lot of cultural relics from China every time, he was successful in raising funds every time, so that his Ohtani expedition team became bigger and bigger, and finally simply turned into a specialized cultural relics skewer company, in the Chinese archaeological community, once the reputation was stinky, because they did a lot of things that were sorry for the Chinese. (To be continued.) )