Looking through the nearly 10,000 cultural relics and classics, the two teenagers exclaimed from time to time: "What is this? Could it be the Mobao of the Wei and Jin dynasties? ”

After the three hundred and forty-two boxes of artifacts were unboxed, there was no time to deal with them carefully, just to put together roughly the same things according to the basic classification. Books, calligraphy and paintings, porcelain, jade, on the premise of ensuring that they are not damaged, are full of two or three cabins.

The two teenagers first started to sort out books, calligraphy and paintings, and text classics. This category is the largest number of antiques in this batch. If you live here for the rest of your life, it is easy to identify something that a teenager suspects to be Mobao in the Wei and Jin dynasties, and this hand-copied Buddhist scripture is the only Mobao "Bodhisattva Virgin Sutra" of the Western Wei Dynasty in later generations. It is the oldest scripture in the world. This volume is written by Tao Tonghu in the sixteenth year of the Great Unification of the Western Wei Dynasty, the word is as big as a bean, the calligraphy is a school of the North Tablet, the pen is free, there is no stone carving font of the clumsy state, its transcendent place into the holy place, there is really an incredible wonder.

"I don't know, I have to wait for Uncle Ye to invite someone to palm my eyes. But I'm pretty sure this is one of the zero copies of the Yongle Canon! The young man who spoke held in one hand a scroll that was much larger than the other thread-bound books. In his other hand, there was a basic scroll of the same shape.

The boy was holding a few scrolls in his hand. The book is large, 50 centimeters high and 30 centimeters wide. The bearing is very good, and it is clearly different from other books. This single volume has fifty pages, each of which is made of thick, snow-white bark paper. Hundreds of years have passed, and the pages have remained undamaged, except for a slight yellowing of the pages. It is obviously an heirloom and has been treasured for a long time.

The only thing that is a little broken is the book jacket wrapped around the book, which is actually equivalent to the cover of later books, because the "Yongle Canon" is an encyclopedia dedicated to the emperor. Therefore, the book jacket of the "Yongle Grand Canon" on the back of the bag is hard-mounted with multiple layers of rice paper, and there is a layer of yellow silk wrapped in the brain. Very royal demeanor.

After the two teenagers looked through it carefully, they could basically confirm that this volume of "Yongle Canon" was genuine.

Antiques are easy to counterfeit in later generations, but there are not many that can really be imitated. Even if the imitation is sometimes too standard, like a top student who can get 100 points in every subject, it looks fake. When you meet someone who doesn't understand half-understanding, you can still get by. Once you meet an expert. From the defects in the details and the charm of the object, it is easy to distinguish the authenticity of the object. It is difficult to distinguish the authenticity of antiques in later generations, not only because of the high counterfeiting technology, but also because there are fewer experts and real masters of Chinese culture.

If even the money detector is fake, how can it detect counterfeit money!

In this "Yongle Canon", the sidebar is hand-drawn with a red pen, and the author and title of the book are cited. Use an ink pen to write the title, the number of volumes, rhymes, the text of the book, and draw pictures. The sidebar of the canon, which is depicted with a red brush, is painted on both sides on all sides.

These "vermilion columns" divide each half leaf into eight rows, and there is a thick "elephant trunk" at the top and bottom of the center. There is also a "fishtail" in the middle, with the title and number of volumes at the top of the "fishtail" and the number of leaves at the bottom. The strokes of the line are evenly thickened and meticulously drawn. If you take a closer look. You will also find that there are needle holes on and below the vermilion fence. These needle eyes are the secret of the equal spacing of the silk railings. And these hand-painted vermilion lines themselves also contain the softness and warmth of the temperament of pen and ink.

Such a delicate handiwork cannot be imitated by a machine. Even if it is imitated manually, it is difficult to achieve the effect of the original product. In addition to the hand-painted vermilion silk railing, I want to imitate the "Yongle Canon". It is also necessary for the scribe to have a beautiful pavilion style script, and to be proficient in Chinese landscape brushwork, ink and danqing, and to be able to draw exquisite and exquisite mountain artifacts and portraits with white drawing. He is proficient in mounting, and can find paper from the Ming Dynasty, and is proficient in antique and distressed techniques.

Don't say it's the people of later generations, even in the Republic of China, where masters of Chinese studies are everywhere, there are almost no people who can do these things at the same time. Even if there is, it is also a master with great prestige and knowledge, and it is estimated that there is no leisure to create a single volume of "Yongle Canon".

When two teenagers specializing in the identification of ancient books and cultural relics basically concluded that this volume of "Yongle Canon" was genuine, the onlookers let out bursts of exclamations. The reputation of "Yongle Grand Canon" is too loud. Hundreds of years of dispersion and circulation, although the "Yongle Canon" has suffered heavy losses, but it is also famous.

"Yongle Grand Canon" is a great canon compiled by Zhu Di, the king of Yan, in order to gather the minds of literati after seeking power and usurping the throne. The ancient Chinese had three immortals, namely speech, morality, and meritorious service. The compilation of the canon is purely a move by Emperor Yongle to make a good name in the later World Expo.

However, because the emperor personally took care of it, this canon was compiled with great care. Although most of it has been lost to later generations, it is estimated that the book contains about 370 million words. The number of words, the speed of the update, and the high quality will complete any web article with saliva as the main content in the future.

The Yongle Canon has a total of 60 volumes, with a total of 22,937 volumes, a total of 11,095 volumes. It is estimated that there are nearly 8,000 kinds of ancient and modern books, many of which have been lost in later generations. Therefore, in the "Encyclopedia Britannica" of the later British, the "Yongle Canon" was called "the largest encyclopedia the world has ever seen".

It is a pity that hundreds of years later, only more than 800 copies of the 10,000-volume "Yongle Canon" have survived. The original book is missing, and the "Yongle Canon" in the hands of the two teenagers is a copy ordered by Emperor Jiajing of the Ming Dynasty to be copied. With the dispersion of the "Yongle Canon", many things of ancient Chinese civilization have been lost. For example, in the "Yongle Canon", the records and drawings of the Song Dynasty's artifact divine arm bow.

The "Yongle Canon", which spoke for Emperor Yongle of the Ming Dynasty, did not receive much attention from everyone in the late Ming Dynasty, and because of the large volume, it was not engraved. The public's understanding of the preciousness of this book was in the overwhelming newspapers during the Republic of China.

In 1912, Zhou Shuren, then the head of the first section of the Social Education Department of the Ministry of Education of the Republic of China, suggested that the Ministry of Education consult the ****** and send the 64 fragments of the Yongle Dadian stored in the Hanlin Academy to the Ministry of Education, of which 60 volumes were handed over to the Beijing Normal Library for storage. This is the first batch of "Yongle Canon" in the collection of the Beijing Normal Library.

Subsequently, the Peking Library tried its best to collect the scattered "Yongle Canon". Throwing money at it is never distressing. And after receiving donations, they will also be widely advertised. It is reported in the news from time to time. By 1934, the Peiping Library had 93 volumes of the Yongle Canon. And the reputation of "Yongle Canon" also spread in the collection.

And when the Chinese are collecting their own civilization classics. People from other countries are also moving on to it. The most experienced were the British, who led the Eight-Nation Coalition all the way to attack Beijing. In the process of burning down the Hanlin Academy, the British examined a large number of "Yongle Canon". People in the British Embassy who have studied Chinese culture were shocked when they saw the Yongle Canon. After searching all the way through the fire, it became an object that was collected by various book collectors. In later generations, the Yongle Canon was also found in England from time to time.

In addition to the British, the Japanese are the ones who have the deepest plot against the "Yongle Canon". Among the foreigners who collect the Yongle Dictionary, the largest number of collectors are the Japanese. What is known hereafter. There are as many as 30 units in the collection of the Yongle Canon, and there are 11 in Japan! More than a third! After the First Sino-Japanese War, the Japanese plundered millions of books in the premeditated invasion of China. Among them, there are 100 volumes of "Yongle Canon", which is really a normal thing.

Moreover, this is only the number of recorded large-scale plunder, and the sporadic plundering is innumerable. This time, it was collected by several chaebols. The several volumes of "Yongle Canon" that were stolen by Chen Tian are the private collections of Japanese people. And its specific circulation process has long been impossible to verify.

And these 342 boxes are Chinese antiques that are regarded as treasures by several chaebols. It's definitely not just the treasure of "Yongle Canon". After the two teenagers cherished the "Yongle Grand Canon" into a wooden box that was insect-proof, moisture-proof and bump-proof, they began to count other cultural relics.

For those who are more familiar with ancient Chinese civilization, it is generally clear what the cultural relics and classics of which dynasty look like. Two teenagers took the lead in tidying up. It is not a variety of thread-bound books, but some ancient bamboo slips, wooden slips, and silk silk scriptures that you can know at a glance. These old classics are obviously things that were unearthed not long ago. I don't know exactly when the Japanese invaded China. Which grave was dug up?

Among these scriptures, some of them were presumed by two teenagers to be Dunhuang scriptures that were deceived by foreigners in large numbers half a century ago. The Dunhuang Scroll was discovered on May 26, 1900, June 22, 1900, by Wang Yuanji, a Taoist priest guarding the Mogao Grottoes in Dunhuang.

This Wang Yuanzhen came from a humble background and did not have a wide vision, but he had a sincere awe of Taoism, and he also had great admiration for Tang Xuanzang, who went west alone to learn scriptures. Because these discovered scriptures were not the gold and silver jewelry that Wang Yuanji expected, they did not receive Wang Yuanji's attention at all. After being fooled by the British adventurer Stein, he exchanged 24 boxes of Dunhuang suicide notes for money to repair the Taoist temple.

And these twenty-four boxes of scrolls immediately caused a sensation in the West. Explorers from all over the world flocked here, and the Japanese gained a lot. After learning the true value of these scriptures, Wang Yuanzhen regretted it, and in his later years, he was under tremendous mental pressure, and finally died of shock.

When the Chinese began to pay attention to these Dunhuang scrolls, it was too late. A large number of Dunhuang scrolls were lost overseas, most of which were stored in the library of the Museum in London, England, the National Library of Paris, France, and the Leningrad branch of the Institute of Asian Peoples of the USSR Academy of Sciences. In later generations, some foreign scholars even bluntly said that although Dunhuang is in China, Dunhuang studies are not in China.

These dozens of volumes were presumed by two teenagers to be the classics of the Dunhuang scriptures, which can only be regarded as pearls in the sea, and they are only slightly beneficial.

In addition to these outstanding classics, other thread-bound books are easy to handle. Among them, in addition to dozens of Song engravings and 100 Ming engravings are more precious, most of the others are engraved by the former Qing Dynasty. Although valuable, it is not so precious except for a few solitary books and manuscripts.

Three hundred and forty-two boxes, nearly 10,000 pieces of cultural relics and classics, the number is already equivalent to the scale of a small museum in later generations. Even the Japanese who collected them, in their hasty collection, only knew the general age and value of these things, and did not have the opportunity to study them carefully.

After two or three days of inspection, these nearly 10,000 pieces were basically registered and made in a general classification, and some of them basically deduced the age of manufacture. And among these nearly 10,000 cultural relics, there will always be one or two, which makes people feel very strange, for example, a mouthful of iron boxes that these two teenagers don't know how to open anyway. There is not even a lock on the surface of this iron box, not even a keyhole, it is obviously a modern thing that is to be opened by a special method, and it will definitely not be an antiquity, and the Japanese put it in this pile of cultural relics, naturally it is not unintentional. Eighty percent of the iron box, there are some valuable and precious antiquities.

However, the combat effectiveness of the teenagers is not good, but Chen Tian's combat effectiveness is very strong. The sensing ability of the realm of sincerity, after Chen Tian washed away the arrogance of a martial artist, was extremely sensitive and subtle. He could fully sense the weakness of this iron box. He didn't need to pry open the wire of the secret lock, just screamed with both hands, twisted along the gap between the iron boxes, and all kinds of secret locks were broken under Chen Tian's twist. When the large iron box was opened, there were no gold and jade jewels in the box, and there were no books in the box. There were only a few odd bones. In one of them, the shape of the skeleton can be faintly discerned.

Chen Tian and the others wondered - what the hell is this? Although the Japanese are very perverted in China, they are not perverted to the extent of collecting human skulls, right?

Only the two teenagers were shocked after taking a closer look, and confirmed to each other: "Could this be the legendary Peking Man skull?" ”

"Quite possibly! These two teeth are like! We're not anthropologists or biologists, though. However, the loss of the skull of the Peking people was inseparable from the Japanese. It can be cherished by several major chaebols and placed in an iron box with several hidden locks, except for the skull of the Pekingese who was lost back then, what else can it be! ”

The identification of some ordinary antique calligraphy and paintings by these two teenagers is acceptable, but the identification of ancient human fossils is not their strength. Whether it was or not, the two teenagers decided to treasure a few fossils in the iron box. Leave it for later verification. (To be continued.) )