received three standing statues of Guanyin Bodhisattva in a row, and finally Jin Muchen encountered something more interesting.

But it's not so much an interesting thing as it is a set of interesting bronze statues.

This set of Buddha statues is composed of a bronze statue of a dancing woman, plus three bronze Buddha statues in the shape of a half-crouching and kneeling.

Originally, Jin Muchen thought that this set of bronze statues was finally out of religious themes, because no matter how you look at the shape of this set of bronze statues, they don't look like Buddha statues.

The bronze statue of a dancing woman stands, her clothes are fluttering, and judging from the shape of her head, hair accessories, and clothes, it is completely the appearance of a woman in the Tang Dynasty.

And the several half-crouching bronze statues around him are also the appearance of the soldiers of the Tang Dynasty and the Han Dynasty, wearing the armor of the Ming Guang armor of the Tang Dynasty, but the bun on the head is indeed the shape of the Han Dynasty sergeants during the Han Dynasty.

Just looking at the armor and hairstyles of two different dynastic styles appearing on the body of a bronze man, it can quite make people feel that Guan Gong is fighting Qin Qiong's time and space chaotically.

This is too out of bounds, right, who made this bronze statue?

If he wanted his Chinese master to know that he could actually make a bronze statue like this, he would have to jump out of the grave in anger and beat his brain out.

Looking at the introduction under a set of bronze statues, Jin Muchen was also relieved.

This was originally a set of Maya statues made by Japanese craftsmen during the Asuka period, that is, in the 7th century AD.

If you want to talk about this Maya lady, people who don't know Buddhism probably don't know, if you know Buddhism. That would surely know such a great person.

If you put it in Western mythology. This lady Maya. That's what they call the Virgin Mary, Jesus Christ and his mother!

According to Indian historical records, this Maya lady is the biological mother of Shakyamuni, the founder of Buddhism, so in the Buddhist scriptures, she is regarded as the queen of Maya, she is the wife of the king of the ancient Indian Kapila Weiguo Jingfan, and the daughter of the king of Shanjue in the neighboring Tianjian City.

According to the legend of Mahayana Buddhism, she married King Johan for 20 years. But he has never had children. Then suddenly one day, Lady Maha dreamed that a white elephant entered her left rib, and then she found out that she was pregnant.

Ten months after she was pregnant, she returned to her mother's house to give birth according to the custom of the time, and on the eighth day of April she stopped at the Lumbini Garden, where she raised her hand to climb a branch to rest, and Shakyamuni was born from her right side.

Legend has it that the sacred pool in the garden was the place where she bathed before giving birth and where she bathed Shakyamuni for the first time afterwards.

So in Buddhism, this Maya lady has a very important position.

Later, Buddhism was in the period of Wuhu Chaohua. It was popular in China for a while, and later came to the time of the Tang Dynasty. It is even more out of control, especially the Empress Wu Zetian of the Tang Dynasty, who believes in Buddhism very much.

Because of her female identity, she secretly encouraged Buddhism at that time to vigorously promote this Maya lady, and even hinted on many occasions that she was the reincarnation of Maya.

Of course, most of these statements belong to some small Taoist histories, and they have not been too obviously recorded in the official history books.

After Buddhism was introduced to the Tang Dynasty, the Japanese also began to believe in Buddhism, because their Buddhism was very deeply influenced by the popular Buddhism of the Tang Dynasty, and they had not yet developed their own school at that time.

Therefore, it is not an exaggeration to say that in the Asuka period, Japanese Buddhism copied the Buddhism of the Tang Dynasty in its entirety.

And it is precisely because of the copying of Buddhist allusions in the Tang Dynasty that the Japanese also know that there is such a name of Maya Lady in Buddhism.

Later, after Buddhism flourished in Japan, some good men and women hoped to cast a complete set of statues of Buddha and Bodhisattva in Buddhist allusions in the temple, and then for the people to worship.

So there was this set of Maya statues, but because Buddhism was just beginning to become popular in Japan at that time, and the craftsmen who were responsible for casting these bronze statues did not know what Maya looked like, they simply cast this Maya statue according to their own ideas.

And the statue of Mrs. Maya they cast was simply imitated according to the pottery figurines of the beauties of the Tang Dynasty who were more popular at that time, because the status of this Maya lady was more noble, and they simply took it upon themselves to match this Maya lady with three attendants.

But at that time, these Japanese slaves had no idea what the Indians looked like, so they simply made up some Indian appearances in their minds.

After all, in the impression of the Japanese at that time, the two dynasties that were the strongest and had the greatest influence on them were the Han Dynasty and the Tang Dynasty.

So there is such a strange set of Maya statues!

If you take such a set of things that are not like the four things in China, I am afraid that in any antique market, as long as you take it out, it will attract people to laugh.

Just looking at the shape of your bronze guard, people will laugh at you for making this thing too fake, and you don't use your brains to fake it.

He must be poked in the back and looked down upon.

But in Japan, this set of things is different, according to the records of Horyuji's own temple, this set of bronze statues of Lady Maya is definitely not small.

This was specially cast by the people of Horyuji Temple in honor of Emperor Motomei, the grandmother who made him the crown prince, in honor of Emperor Motomei.

Because after embracing Buddhism, Emperor Shomu unconsciously imagined his wise grandmother as Mrs. Maya.

Later, the older I get, the more cranky I think, and finally I simply ask the people of Horyuji Temple to cast such a set of Maya statues, which are specially placed in their own homes, and taken out to worship on important festivals.

So this set of things has undoubtedly become the heirloom of the Heavenly Emperor Family, and it is also the treasure of the very great treasure!

After all, this set of bronze Buddha statues, although it looks like four dissimilarities, and the workmanship is also rough, but after all, in the imperial family, it has extraordinary significance.

In the middle of the long-sleeved and good dancing lady Maya, in the hearts of the Heavenly Emperor, that is their ancestor, the forty-third emperor Yuan Meidi!

So the status of this set of Maya statues is immediately unusual!

In front of this set of Buddha statues, although there are so many straight words, there are many things, Jin Muchen can guess as long as he guesses.

Since it is such an important thing for the Heavenly Emperor Family, then Lao Tzu can only laugh and accept it.

Anyway, the Japanese emperor, a family that sells fame and reputation, has also fished out of us Chinese I don't know how many good things.

It is said that now Wang Xizhi's only authentic handwriting is hidden in the house of Emperor Dog.

During World War II, this family didn't know how many treasures they had collected from China, although those treasures were not, the people of the Emperor personally went to China to rob them, but they were also those mad dog generals under their family, after grabbing from China, they were presented to their family.

And after World War II, this family has been lying at MacArthur's feet pretending to be grandsons, if it weren't for the ugly appearance of the emperor's wife and daughter, the dog emperor might even have to give his wife and daughter to MacArthur to sleep.

It was precisely because of this shameless kneeling and licking that their family was forgiven and protected by their godfather MacArthur.

And it was precisely because of MacArthur's forgiveness and protection that the Chinese government encountered many difficulties when it later recovered cultural relics from the Imperial Family.

Whenever these turtle grandsons chase down cultural relics, they all push two or six five, either pretend to be stupid, or play Tai Chi with you, anyway, nothing can be returned.

Since their family likes to rob us Chinese treasures so much, then they don't blame Jin Muchen for being polite today.

Isn't this your ancestor's 'spirit card'? Hi hey, today will belong to Lao Tzu, so that you will have nothing to worship in the future!

A set of Maya Lady statues came into his hands, Jin Muchen was in a good mood, and finally bought a set of things that he could see.

He continued to walk inside, but what he saw next was something that made him jaw-dropping.

This is actually a pair of stirrups, but it is not the same as the stirrups in Chinese history, which are all front and back and open.

And this set of stirrups turned out to be sealed, and the front was made in the shape of a shoe, and when it was sealed, it looked like half a shoe.

I really don't know what the heads of Japanese craftsmen at that time thought?

It is possible to make such a strange stirrup, such a stirrup, if it is taken to China, it will definitely be sprayed to death with saliva.

However, in Japan, this thing is a national treasure, even though it is a stirrup used by a certain generation of emperors of the Imperial Family! ~

Well, although he didn't like it very much, Jin Muchen could only take this set of stirrups into his pocket.

As we move on, we finally pass the exhibition area of the Bird Era, and then see rows of bronze mirrors.

These bronze mirrors have various shapes, but the regulations and patterns are basically exactly the same as the ancient Chinese bronze mirrors, and they can even be said to be knockoffs made by the Japanese.

If it weren't for the fact that these bronze mirrors were all used by the Japanese imperial family, Jin Muchen couldn't look down on these bronze mirrors, and he really had too many bronze mirrors in his hands.

Many of them are top works of ancient China.

And these Japanese knock-offs, if they are compared with our top bronze mirrors, they will not be able to see it at all.

However, after all, these were used by the Emperor of Heaven, and they were also copied by those top craftsmen in Japan back then, so it is natural that they will be rated as Japanese national treasures. (To be continued.) )