296 husband Jinshi elite

In today's words, Zhao Mingcheng is a son of a high-ranking cadre. His father Zhao Tingzhi's highest position was Shangshu's right servant (that is, the prime minister, equivalent to today's prime minister), and he himself served as the prefect (equivalent to a department-level cadre). But he doesn't have the stinky problems of ordinary high-ranking cadres, and when he was an official, he was generally good.

Zhao Mingcheng has a hobby, that is, collecting "gold stones". From the three dynasties to the end of the five dynasties, all the inscriptions cast on the bells, tripods, rings, mustaches, plates, Yi, Zun, and Dun, as well as the deeds of prominent figures and hermits in the mountains and forests engraved on tall stone tablets -- these characters that were engraved in gold and stone have a total of 2,000 volumes, all of which have been corrected for typos, and have been selected and evaluated.

This is a meritorious deed, which has played a very important role in disseminating, protecting and carrying forward the cultural heritage of our ancestors. As for Zhao Mingcheng's "Jinshi Lu", experts and professors still use it today.

The female lyricist Li Qingzhao is her husband Zhao Mingcheng's most powerful assistant, and has played a huge role in the process of collecting, researching, and evaluating gold and stones. It can be said that without Li Qingzhao's great help, Zhao Mingcheng would not have been able to complete the masterpiece "Jinshi Lu".

When Zhao Mingcheng and Li Qingzhao first got married, they lived in Bianliang, Tokyo. Later, Zhao Mingcheng's father Zhao Tingzhi was overthrown by Cai Jing and died soon after. Zhao Mingcheng had a hard time in Bianliang, Tokyo, so he returned to his hometown of Qingzhou (now northeastern Shandong Province) and lived there for almost 20 years.

At the beginning, they returned to their hometown in Qingzhou for ten years, which was their happiest and most productive decade. Zhao Mingcheng successively became the Taishou of Laizhou and Zizhou, took out all his salary, and engaged in the engraving of books.

Every time they got a copy, the husband and wife would proofread it together, organize it into a collection, and inscribe the title of the book. Get calligraphy and paintings, Yi, Ding and other ancient wine vessels, but also rub and play or spread out to appreciate, pointing out the faults above. One candle per night is burned. Therefore, the collection of ancient books can be exquisite, calligraphy and painting complete, more than many collectors.

Li Qingzhao is well-read by nature, and every time he finishes eating, he and Mingcheng sit in the return hall to cook tea, pointing to the piled up of book history, saying that a certain allusion is in the pages and lines of a certain book and a certain volume, and the winner is determined by guessing whether it is correct or not, as the order of drinking tea. When he guessed correctly, he raised his glass and laughed, so much so that he poured the tea into his bosom, but when he got up, he could not take a sip......

One day, Zhao Mingcheng rode back to his hometown and met the two in an argument at a market.

"You're obviously a tin teapot, how can you say it's a silver wine jug, aren't you lying?" A man in his thirties questioned an old man with wide eyes.

"This pot of mine is a silver wine jug, which has been handed down by our ancestors for hundreds of years, how can it be a tin teapot? - If you don't know the goods, don't talk nonsense. The old man was so angry that his beard trembled.

"You don't know how to read!" The man snatched the pot and showed it to the people next to him, "There are words on the pot, let's take a look, is it written with the words 'tin teapot'?" ”

There were a few people next to him who agreed, and they all said that those three words were - tin teapot.

"If you don't buy it, give me the pot!" The old man snatched it away.

"How much does this 'silver flask' sell?" Zhao Mingcheng walked over and asked.

"I want 30 taels of silver." The old man said unceremoniously.

Everyone laughed. I feel that the old man is asking for a broken "tin teapot". Zhao Mingcheng took it and only glanced at it, and felt that it was an "antiquity".

"The silver wine jug is something from the Tang Dynasty, give you 40 taels of silver, I bought it." Zhao Mingcheng was ready to dig out the silver.

"Connoisseur!" As soon as the old man grabbed Zhao Mingcheng's hand, "No, I will sell it for 30 taels of silver, and I can't increase the price casually." If it weren't for urgent use, I wouldn't have sold it. ”

"To!" The man in his thirties shouted.

Zhao Mingcheng laughed and said, "I'm Tuo? I didn't know this old gentleman at all. The three words on the silver flask, pronounced 'tin teapot'? ”

The man shouted: "What do you read if you don't pronounce these three words in the tin teapot?" ”

"I mispronounce all three words. Do you take a closer look at how these three words are written? ”

The man looked at it again, gestured, and felt that it was a little different from the "tin teapot"-

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"The pronunciation of these three words is 'yang-picture-bundle'. 'Hammer' is the human bell on the war horse, and 'Tu' is the Tu in full swing, the path of the palace that is fingered. ”

"That's right!" The old man held the other man's hand, "Who are you sacred?" ”

"Sir, I am not holy. My name is Zhao Mingcheng, and I just like 'Jinshi'. Zhao Mingcheng said modestly.

"Let's go, go to my house!"

The old man couldn't help but say, so he dragged Zhao Mingcheng to live at home, and said that he would invite him to dinner. The old man told Zhao Mingcheng that his name was Bai Xiaofan and that he was a descendant of Bai Juyi. After eating, he gave Zhao Mingcheng a copy of Bai Juyi's "Lengyan Sutra".

Zhao Mingcheng left a little broken silver, and gave all the fifty taels of silver on his body to the old gentleman. Ride a horse and gallop home, and when it is almost time to get home.

When Li Qingzhao saw her husband take out two "good things" from his baggage, she knew that all the money for the past two months was gone. I didn't blame him, I just took the treasure and watched it.

"There are three words on the pot!" Li Qingzhao said with a smile.

"You didn't pronounce it 'tin teapot.'" Zhao Mingcheng said with a smile.

"You think I'm a village woman?!"

Zhao Mingcheng told the story on the road to his wife, and Li Qingzhao smiled backwards. Then I looked at the pot carefully, and found the words, which were very small and engraved on the bottom of the mouth—

Chang'an rice is expensive, and it is not easy to live in white; Wild spring sentences, suitable for parents to like.

"This is the story of Gu Jing and Bai Juyi!" The couple said at the same time......

It took them seven or eight years, and now that the task of collecting calligraphy and painting rubbings has been completed, they built a library in the return hall, and put the large cabinet with the numbers of A, B, C, D, and put books in the middle. If you need to speak, you can open the closet with the key, register it in the book, and then take out the book you want.

Li Qingzhao's personality is a bit anxious, and sometimes when the books are damaged or dirty, Zhao Mingcheng will criticize them and order her to finish and correct them. Every now and then, the husband becomes a bit like a "tyrant", and the husband and wife will have a little unpleasantness......

Collecting and sorting out gold and stone is both laborious and costly. Li Qingzhao is particularly able to endure hardships, in order to save money, he does not eat the second meat dish, does not wear the second piece of clothes embroidered with Wencai, has no pearl jade jewelry on his head, and has no gold-plated embroidered furniture in the room. However, when encountering a book from a hundred schools of thought, as long as the words are not broken and the version is not fake, they will immediately buy it and store it as a copy.

The original two versions of "Zhou Yi" and "Zuo Chuan" that they collected were the most complete. So they are listed on several cases, piled up between the pillows, and the husband and wife are scheming, and their eyes are divinely granted, and this kind of fun is far more than the sound of dogs and horses......

During that time, they lived almost a "scholarly" life. In addition to being an official, Zhao Mingcheng spends all his spare time on gold and stone research. He has a pair of discerning eyes, and he can see the truth and falsehood at a glance, and with the help of Li Qingzhao, he has made great achievements. "Jinshi Lu" is a great work: a collection of 2,000 kinds of gold and stone rubbings from the Xia, Shang, and Third dynasties to the Sui, Tang, and Five Dynasties, with 10 volumes of catalogs, 20 volumes of dialectic, and 102 chapters......

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