It is not an exaggeration to say that Sean James is a private collector, his collection room is like an underground vault, Wang Ding winds into the basement, the incandescent halogen lamp is turned on, and the warm, golden ground is magnificent, like a palace.

The basement is not damp at all and is well ventilated.

In this basement collection, in addition to some exquisite porcelain, oil paintings, sculpture artworks, there are many things that Wang Ding has never seen.

Naturally, the collection of the East is slightly different from the collection of the West, the development history of the West is relatively short, mostly sculpture and oil painting art of the Renaissance, and then there are some imported products from all over the world, so the collection categories appear to be varied and quite rich.

Sean directly led Wang Ding to the area of the Chinese collection, in Sean's collection of Chinese cultural relics, there are blue and white porcelain, silk paintings, bronzes, these Wang Ding abound in the country to see, so I did not feel fresh.

However, in addition to these popular cultural relics, Wang Ding also found a small number of Dunhuang suicide notes and oracle bone tablets in Sean's collection room.

Wang Ding Zhilu said that at the beginning of the 20th century, a French Chinese scholar bought a lot of Dunhuang testaments from the Qing government at that time, and now two-thirds of the 50,000 suicide notes in the Dunhuang grottoes are abroad, and France naturally has China's Dunhuang suicide notes.

If blue and white porcelain silk paintings and the like are not attractive to Wang Ding, but this Dunhuang testament is a Buddhist classic and all-encompassing. It can be divided into religious classics, official and private documents, four Chinese books, non-Chinese documents, etc., and is an important research material for the study of history, archaeology, religion, linguistics, literature and art history, science and technology, history and geography related to medieval China, Central Asia, East Asia and South Asia, and it can be described as a national treasure of China. It's worth a lot of money.

Because a large number of Dunhuang testaments are collected in foreign museums. It cannot be recovered for a while. It has caused a lot of historical evidence to be unfounded, and now you can see the Dunhuang suicide note here in Sean, Wang Ding is a little excited.

Sean seemed to see Wang Ding's eyes lingering on the Dunhuang suicide note, and said with a smile, "Wang Ding, are you interested in this Dunhuang suicide note?" ”

"Yes, I want to ask, Uncle Sean, how many Dunhuang suicide books do you have?"

The Dunhuang suicide note that Wang Ding saw in his sight. In addition to the manuscript, there are also printed copies, to know the road, the real printed matter, among which the "Diamond Sutra" engraved and printed in the ninth year of Tang Xiantong is the oldest. The printed copy of the Dunhuang testament that appears at present definitely has a certain research value.

Sean smiled and said, "There are 23 volumes of my Dunhuang testament, including 17 volumes of manuscripts and 6 volumes of engravings. There are also folded suicide notes, which are mainly Buddhist books. However, its content covers all aspects and is of great guiding significance for the study of Chinese and even Asian history. ”

"Can I take a look?" Wang Ding felt that this Buddhist book brought him a vigorous aura, and he wanted to touch it.

"Absolutely."

After Sean agreed, Wang Ding opened a Dunhuang book, the paper is slightly rough, because the paper has long been yellowed, between the hands is the influx of aura, and Wang Ding's calligraphy is written by Liyi, the handwriting is vigorous, it can be seen that it is written by a brush.

At this moment, Sean explained on the side, "The book you see is written by the Northern Dynasty and written by a brush. In fact, the Dunhuang testament, you can judge its dynasty by his calligraphy, the Northern Dynasty is basically the official script, the Southern Dynasty is mostly regular script, there are cursive scripts. At the end of the 8th and 9th centuries, there were scrolls written with wooden pens, and before that, there were brushes. ”

Wang Ding knew something about this, because at the end of the eighth century and the beginning of the ninth century, Dunhuang once severed relations with the Central Plains Dynasty, so the locals used wooden pens to write brushes.

"Wang Ding, what's the matter, are you very interested in this Dunhuang testament? I know that a large number of Dunhuang testaments in your China have been lost overseas, which seems to lack some documentary support and verification for the study of your country's history. As far as I know, there are only 10,000 volumes of Dunhuang testament in your Beijing Museum in China, but there are 10,000 Dunhuang testament books in the British Museum, and there are more than 6,000 volumes in France. So I believe that every Chinese has the responsibility to redeem the Dunhuang documents from overseas. Most of your Dunhuang testaments in China are also the contents of religious classics, which is equivalent to the Christianity I believe in, and my desire for the Old Testament in your hands is equivalent to your desire for the Dunhuang testament, so you see that we will exchange it, right? ”

Sean has laid down so much, it is undoubtedly the last sentence to cut the topic, of course Wang Ding understands what Sean means. exchanged a copy of the Old Testament for the 23-volume Dunhuang suicide note, Wang Ding's deal did not suffer, but if it was exchanged like this, Wang Ding would lose the weight to continue talking with Sean.

Yes, Wang Ding still has other ideas at the moment, indeed, the Dunhuang testament is quite valuable, and it is of great significance to himself, so he must get it. But there is another treasure that Wang Ding favors, that is, those oracle bone tablets in Sean's collection room.

The oracle bone inscription is a script engraved on the tortoise shell or animal bone used by the royal family for divination in the late Shang Dynasty of China, and was used for a period of time after the fall of the Yin Shang dynasty and the rise of the Zhou Dynasty. It is the earliest known systematic form of writing in China, which inherits the original carved symbols and the bronze inscriptions, and is the key form in the development of Chinese characters. Modern Chinese characters evolved from oracle bone inscriptions.

Although 150,000 pieces of oracle bones on tortoise shells and animal bones excavated by China in Yinxu in Henan Province, the result was that "one gainer loses a thousand" because of the countless diggings and indiscriminate excavations by local villagers in the early days.Chinese The excavated oracle bones were swept away by merchants and foreigners who bought them on the ground, and a large number of them were lost or lost overseas.

These lost oracle bones contain China's research materials on the history of the Shang Dynasty and the ancient era, and it is of precious significance to the blank history of the ancient era, so each piece of oracle bone inscription as a Chinese has the responsibility to redeem it to China for the Chinese people to study.

"Uncle Sean, I really want the Dunhuang testament you said, but because the Old Testament can be said to be the supreme national treasure for you Western countries, I wonder if it is a bit thin to exchange it just for the Dunhuang suicide note, I mean, if Uncle Sean can also give me these ten pieces of oracle bones, this business will be done. You see? ”

"You're still trying to swallow my oracle tablet?" Sean James saw Wang Ding's ambition, this kid really has a lot of appetite, but how can he give him this valuable oracle bone piece for nothing.

"Hehe, it's okay to give it to you, but you have to do one thing for me."

"Oh, what's the matter?" Wang Ding said curiously. (To be continued......)