Volume II: Energy War, Chapter 139, Jade Cabbage II
Hearing this, Deng Lao was not in the ink, and said directly, "Speaking of jade cabbage, you can't say that it adheres to the Chinese court-style architectural style, with green tiles and yellow walls, carved railings and jade masonry, and looks elegant and magnificent Taiwan Museum under the shade of green mountains." At present, it houses more than 600,000 precious cultural relics brought from the mainland since 1948.
Due to the limited exhibition space of the National Palace Museum in Taipei, the exhibits are usually changed every 3 months, and even so, it will take at least 30 years to show the more than 600,000 rare cultural relics in the collection here one by one in front of the world. Although the cultural relics on display here are always changing, there are three treasures that have never been changed, namely jade cabbage, Dongpo flesh-shaped stone and Mao Gongding, which are known as the treasures of the National Palace Museum in Taipei.
"How is the jade cabbage compared to this cabbage?" Dong Lao on the side asked directly.
Seeing his friend like this, Deng Lao gave him a blank look, and then continued.
According to research, Mao Gongding is the "heavy weapon of the country" in the period of King Xuan of Zhou more than 2,800 years ago, named after the engraver for Mao Gong, unearthed in Qishan, Shaanxi Province in the last year of Daoguang in the Qing Dynasty.
In China, there are two bronzes that can be called the most bronze, one is the Simu Wu Dafang Ding, which is preserved in the National History Museum in Beijing, which is the largest and heaviest bronze ever discovered; The other is the Mao Gongding with the most inscriptions. Mao Gong Ding is only 30.75 centimeters high, but it is engraved with 32 lines of 497 seal scripts, which records the historical fact that Mao Gong assisted King Xuan of Zhou, and later received the reward of the Son of Heaven to make this tripod. The handwriting of the inscription is clear and neat, and the seal character is strong. The whole thing is done in one go. The inscription is a real historical material of the Western Zhou Dynasty, the most precious document for the study of the history of the Western Zhou Dynasty, and the most classic work of China's "Character Creation Era". Therefore, Mao Gongding can be called a treasure of unparalleled value.
Just like on February 22, 2003, China issued a set of calligraphy for the first time special stamps "Ancient Chinese Calligraphy - Seal Script", a set of two, one of which is the inscription of Mao Gongding. It can be seen how much the state attaches importance to this! ”
Dong Lao was not dissatisfied with Deng Lao because he saw him like this just now, and listened carefully from the side.
And Professor Xu directly asked: "Old Deng, you should be the National Palace Museum in Taipei, right?" ”
Seeing Professor Xu interrupting himself, he pondered for a moment and recalled, "I remember that time I left the bronze exhibition hall from the National Palace Museum in Taipei. We came to the jade exhibition area. Go in search of two other world-famous treasures – jade cabbage and Dongpo flesh-shaped stone. At the entrance of this jade museum, there is a line of words "more delicate than God", and we enter the world of beautiful carving. We are now next to the treasure of the National Palace Museum in Taipei, one is jade cabbage. One is Dongpo meat. Dongpo meat is a meat stone. There are 67 pieces in the whole world, which is one of the larger ones, and its base is made of pure gold. Jade cabbage is in accordance with the jade homeopathy. Carve a lifelike cabbage according to its color. ”
It's really better to see than to hear, this jade cabbage is made of a piece of half-white and half-green jade as raw materials, the green part is carved into vegetable leaves, and the white part is carved into vegetable gangs, which looks fresh and vivid.
According to reports, there are two insects on the jade cabbage, a locust and a mantis. It is the Qing Dynasty Guangxu Emperor Jin concubine of the dowry, cabbage means innocence, symbolizing the purity of the bride, but what is the purpose of staying two insects on the cabbage leaves? It turns out that the mantis represents the meaning of having many children and grandchildren.
This flesh-shaped stone of the Qing Dynasty put together with jade cabbage is a natural stone, the color and texture are all naturally formed, and it looks like a lifelike piece of pork belly, which is a kind of meat stone. I believe that people who see it for the first time will not regard it as a hard stone, because no matter how you look at it, it looks like a piece of Dongpo meat with belt meat and fat and thin. ”
The old Deng swallowed a mouthful of foam, and then sighed, "There is a feeling of wanting to take a bite." I really have the urge to stir-fry jade cabbage and Dongpo pork together! ”
In addition to these three treasures, in the 13 exhibition halls of the National Palace Museum in Taipei, we have found many art treasures that we have learned about in historical materials and textbooks in the past, but have never been encountered. For example, we have seen in many albums the baby pillow of the Dingyao of the Song Dynasty, the blue and white dragon pattern Tianqiu bottle of the Ming Dynasty, the royal carved hat rack of the Qing Dynasty, etc., all of which are exquisite and ingenious. According to statistics, a total of 600,000 pieces of cultural relics were transported from the mainland to Taiwan that year, although they only accounted for 1/4 of the cultural relics of the southward relocation of the Forbidden City in Beijing at that time, but most of them were carefully selected and priceless fine products. Among them, there are more than 50,000 pieces of utensils, calligraphy and paintings, nearly 160,000 rare books, 380,000 Qing court archives, and a total of 650,000 cultural relics collected later. Bai Yansong: "The collection of calligraphy and painting in the National Palace Museum in Taipei is very worth mentioning, and some experts once said this: to write a history of Chinese painting, about 80% of the most representative paintings of each dynasty may be in the National Palace Museum in Taipei. ”
The calligraphy and painting exhibition hall of the National Palace Museum in Taipei is the most inestimable value of all the exhibition halls, not only because it has the largest collection of famous paintings and calligraphy before the Yuan Dynasty in China, but more importantly, these paintings and calligraphy are "aging" day by day, and some can no longer be reproduced.
Xie Niansun, a volunteer tour guide at the National Palace Museum in Taipei: "Every time I see some paintings and calligraphy, I feel that it is 'getting old' day by day...... It's sad every time I see it, and it's destroyed once it's on display. ”
In order to protect these rare and authentic works as much as possible, the number and time of calligraphy and painting exhibitions are strictly limited, and our photography is also limited, so we can't photograph more authentic works of masters, which is a bit of a pity.
There are Wang Xizhi's "Sunny Post when the Snow is Fast", which is the three calligraphy posts of Wang Xianzhi's "Mid-Autumn Festival" and Wang Xun's "Boyuan Post", which represent the highest level of Chinese calligraphy art, and are called "Three Xi Posts" by Emperor Qianlong. At present, the authentic works of the "Three Hopes" are "Two Hopes" in the Palace Museum in Beijing, and Wang Xizhi's "Sunny Post in the Fast Snow" is in the National Palace Museum in Taipei.
The most regrettable is Huang Gongwang's "Fuchun Mountain Residence Map" in the Yuan Dynasty, this painting is a masterpiece of painting, but unfortunately this landscape painting is divided into two sections, the first half is preserved in the mainland, and the second half is preserved in the Taipei Museum. ”
After speaking, Deng Lao exhaled heavily, took the water handed by his student, sat on a chair not far away, and waved his hand to Director Feng and told him to protect the jade cabbage.
And Wang Chuyang, Professor Xu and Dong Lao gathered around to savor everything Deng Lao said just now, although Deng Lao didn't say too much.
After a long time, the three antique lovers separated, Wang Chuyang came to Na Mufeng's side alone, and then called Director Wang to him and said, "Director Wang, this is my certificate in the training office, and the rest of the trivial things can be sent directly to my store!" ”
"Director! You are, what's wrong? Seeing Wang Chuyang like this, Director Wang was not calm, and said in surprise.
"Nothing! Even this mission, I can't help much, I have other things to deal with, so ...... "Although we have been together for a short time, there is still a little bit of reluctance when we are separated."
"Director Wang has one more thing to trouble you, my girlfriend needs you to take care of her in Tianyang, and I may leave Daliao for a while! And the general manager of her company may have a bad attitude towards her. So...... "Wang Chuyang was just about to continue when he was interrupted by Mu Feng on the side, "Director, I'll go and discount the general manager's leg in a while!" Na Mu Feng immediately rolled up his sleeves, which made those graduate students jump.
"So impulsive, this is what you should say? Can I do this without documents? ”
Listening to this, Director Wang, who was on the side, laughed.
Seeing this, Mu Feng was very surprised, and in a blink of an eye, the three of them all laughed, and these staff members in the distance thought they were crazy.
"Director, is there evidence to ...... him," Mu Feng said with a smile.
Wang Chuyang and Director Wang looked at each other and smiled, but they didn't say much. (To be continued......)