The article jointly signed by Lin Zixuan and Ding Wenjiang has received many responses.

Most of them are archaeologists and historians, and many researchers of Chinese studies have also expressed their support and are willing to contribute.

However, the response in the society is not enthusiastic, the concept of cultural relics is quite vague, they do not think that cultural relics can be worth anything, and the scriptures and scrolls are not as stable as the ocean in their hands.

The so-called gold in troubled times, the collection of prosperous times, is about this truth.

In this era of war and chaos, it is good to be able to survive, who cares about those cultural relics!

No matter how sensational Lin Zixuan's "Mogao Grottoes" is, no matter how wonderful the Dunhuang culture is, it can only cause repercussions in the academic circle, and readers are not very interested.

Some readers felt something after reading it, and they couldn't do anything after scolding a few words.

The reality is that the state is weakened and robbers are bullied.

The Old Summer Palace has been looted, and the Mogao Grottoes can still be more important than the Old Summer Palace, and if foreigners want to rob it, there is no way to stop it.

This is what the average reader thinks.

Lin Zixuan's suggestion of Dunhuang culture has been echoed by historians, and some scholars are preparing to visit the Mogao Grottoes to judge the value of the culture in the Mogao Grottoes.

Dunhuang culture began in 1900 when Wang Daoist discovered the Tibetan scripture cave, and 26 years have passed.

In the past 26 years, a large number of Dunhuang testaments and cultural relics have been bundled away by foreign expeditions and scattered all over the world.

In 1909, after the Qing court learned of the news of the dispersal of the Dunhuang stone chamber literature, it ordered the Gansu feudal department to transport the remaining scriptures to Beijing for safekeeping, and when they were transported to the capital, only more than 8,000 volumes remained, and then stored in the Beijing Library.

In addition to scriptures and relics. The most valuable thing in Dunhuang is the murals in the caves.

Some Western scholars refer to the Dunhuang murals as "libraries on the walls".

However, these frescoes were also damaged during this period.

1921 year. Hundreds of white bandits who had been defeated in the Russian Civil War fled to the Mogao Grottoes, where they painted and depicted the murals at will. And in the cave to burn the kang for cooking, resulting in a large number of murals being smoked by the fire.

In 1924, Warner, an American, went to the Mogao Grottoes to steal a large area of murals and looted the painted sculptures.

In the article, Lin Zixuan put forward the initiative of protecting Dunhuang culture, which was supported by the Chinese academic circles.

Among them, Chen Yingge, a tutor at the Tsinghua Research Institute, was the most enthusiastic, and he wrote an article to support Lin Zixuan's proposal to study Dunhuang culture as a discipline, that is, "Dunhuang Studies".

He carefully studied the more than 8,000 volumes of Dunhuang manuscripts in the Beijing Normal Library, and put forward nine aspects of research value.

That is, Manichaean scriptures, Tang Dynasty historical events, Buddhist texts, novels and literary history, Buddhist stories, Tang Dynasty poetry, ancient languages, old translations of Buddhist scriptures, academic research, etc.

He believes that "Dunhuang scholars are also the new trend of today's world academics".

And sighed "Dunhuang people." The sad history of our country's scholarship".

Lin Zixuan became the first person to put forward the concept of "Dunhuang Studies", which Chen Yinge defined and supplemented.

However, Lin Zixuan himself knows that like explaining "Dream of Red Mansions", he is just reading according to the views of later generations, and Chen Yinge is the real master of Chinese studies.

Therefore, he wrote to Chen Yinge, not daring to take credit, and praised those scholars who studied Dunhuang culture.

For example, the Chinese archaeologist Luo Zhenyu can be said to be the founder of Dunhuang Studies, and it was he who wrote to the Qing government to transport the remaining scriptures of the Mogao Grottoes to the capital for preservation.

As early as 1909, he published "The Bibliography of the Dunhuang Stone Chamber and the Original Discovery of It" and "The Secret Record of the Stone Chamber of the Mogao Grottoes".

In the Hereafter. Chinese scholars generally believe that the three major scholars of the twentieth century were Red Studies, Oracle Bone Studies, and Dunhuang Studies.

Among them, Dunhuang Studies has become an international science. It is valued by countries all over the world.

Ding Wenjiang's action was very fast, and the approval of the China Cultural Relics Rescue Association came down, indicating that this organization is an officially recognized non-governmental organization. Although Sun Chuanfang was only a local warlord in the strict sense, he was not recognized by the Beiyang government.

Presently. The nominal government of China is still the Beiyang government, but it is occupied by Zhang Zuolin and others.

Ding Wenjiang allocated 50,000 yuan from the treasury. Lin Zixuan also took out 50,000 yuan, and with 100,000 oceans as a foundation, the Chinese Cultural Relics Rescue Association was established, and eight historians from major universities in Shanghai joined in.

For example, you can subsidize scholars to visit Dunhuang, and you can send people to all parts of the country to conduct investigations.

Get things done first, and then slowly improve.

Lin Zixuan didn't think it before, but now he found out that the money is really not enough, he has two foundations, one is the Hope Project, plus this rescue cultural relic, no matter how much money can be used.

It seems that it is still necessary to continue to make money, preferably with foreigners' money.

As soon as he thought of a foreigner, he received a letter from England, from the International PEN in England.

This PEN invited Lin Zixuan to join, and his introducer turned out to be George Bernard Shaw.

PEN International, the International Association of Poets, Playwrights, Essayists, Literary Editors and Novelists, was founded in 1921 by the British writer Dawson Scott.

It was based in London, and its first president was the British writer John Goldsworth.

In later generations, PEN International became known as the United Nations of writers, with 141 chapters in 99 countries around the world.

It is a worldwide non-political, non-governmental organization of writers with UNESCO A status.

Its purpose is to promote friendship and intellectual cooperation among writers from all over the world, regardless of their political or point of view, to fight for freedom of expression, and to actively protect writers from political oppression.

George Bernard Shaw was an early member of PEN International.

In 1926, PEN International's membership consisted mainly of British and French writers, but also writers from other countries in Europe and the United States, and very few Asian writers.

The reason why Lin Zixuan received the invitation was because of George Bernard Shaw's recommendation, and the other was the best-selling novel "Lord of the Flies" in the UK.

"Gone with the Wind" and "The Catcher in the Rye" were not to British taste, and "Lord of the Flies" was a subversive desert island literature that fascinated British readers.

thus established Lin Zixuan's status in the European and American literary circles.

Lin Zixuan felt that this was a good thing, and after he became a member of PEN International, he could set up a branch of International PEN in China to better introduce Chinese writers abroad.

Moreover, PEN International is qualified to recommend candidates for the Nobel Prize in Literature to the Nobel Committee.

All he has to do is fill in his personal information, mail his work to it, and strive to get a recommendation place after becoming a member.

In fact, past Nobel laureates can also nominate candidates for the Nobel Prize in Literature, such as George Bernard Shaw.

It's just that Lin Zixuan feels that he is not familiar with him, there is no need to make this request, it is better to rely on the work to speak, otherwise he will be looked down upon, not to mention that the candidate may not necessarily win the award.

Some writers have been nominated countless times and still haven't won awards, he is still young, and he will always wait for the opportunity to write a few more famous books in the future.

In this way, Lin Zixuan became the first Chinese writer to join PEN International. (To be continued.) )