Chapter 13: The Mud in the Torrent
Doing something you love, or chatting with people on the same frequency, time always flies.
"Okay, let's get here first, in order to welcome our new members to join, I'll treat you tonight, just order!" Ouyang looked at everyone and said.
"Whatever? Okay, the eldest prince is magnanimous, Linsha Pavilion, the largest private room! Liu Sasa shook his curly hair, turned off the phone, got off the stool, and pulled out the power in one go.
If you don't eat actively, there must be a problem!
The restaurant in Linsha Pavilion does not have a hall decorated with Swarovski crystal chandeliers, nor does it have Roman columns with a strong European retro style, nor does it have the Rialto Bridge and gondola of Venice.
What is here is the prosperity of a thousand years ago and the yellow sand a thousand years later, as well as the Dunhuang culture after the restoration and development of modern scientific and technological means.
"Hello, do you have a reservation?"
Welcoming everyone at the door is an interactive AI projection of the flying statue.
"We're set for 1900." Ouyang replied.
"Okay, please go up to the third floor, the innermost private room on the right, and I wish you a pleasant meal." AI Flying Image said.
"That's the specialty of this shop,"
Ouyang said as he walked up the stairs,
His boss, a graduate of computer engineering at Stanford University and an avid follower of Dunhuang art, has always believed that technology and art should meet at the top.
"The master is in the folk!" MAY SIGHED.
"He has another identity, my brother-in-law!" Ouyang continued.
"Oh, I'll go, it turns out that you are a relative of the emperor here."
MAY suddenly turned on the gossip 30 seconds mode,
"Your brother-in-law is such an excellent person, he can be literate and martial, if your sister wants to win your brother-in-law, is it not excellent before?"
"Of course, hehe!" Liu Sasa interjected beside him.
"Not really!" Ouyang said calmly,
"I have a twin sister named Ouyang Jingting, she is very beautiful, beautiful and unforgettable.
My brother-in-law met my sister when he traveled to Dunhuang that year, and just that glance opened his transnational pursuit mode. One email a day, one bouquet of flowers a day, as long as my sister looks for him, she is always there, no matter whether it is day or night on his side.
My sister was finally impressed by him, so she tried to get along first. Although it is now a global village, it still has a flight distance of more than 10,000 kilometers. Later, my brother-in-law felt that it was unscientific to fall in love like this, and he wanted to talk about pornography, so he made an AI portrait projection terminal for my sister, and every time he chatted, he turned on the AI projection to transmit data, just like two people chatting face-to-face.
Later, he simply quit his job and came to guard my sister every day. He is engaged in artificial intelligence, and he can't find a job here, so he can watch murals, art history, and Guazhou County Chronicles when he has nothing to do, anyway, as long as it is related to Dunhuang, he can read everything.
Suddenly, one day, he put forward an idea, how to make Dunhuang art more real and long-lasting, so that all the descendants of Yan and Huang can see our precious historical and cultural heritage, we must use modern scientific and technological means to reproduce the original appearance of history, which is the respect for the development of human civilization.
As a result, there is this restaurant that combines Chinese and Western. ”
Yes, in another thousand years, we are now already green smoke loess, but Dunhuang art still has its mission, it carries countless memories and expectations to this day, will continue to circulate, and what we can do is to use all the technology and means that can be used in a limited life, to pave the way for the infinite Dunhuang art, so that it can go further in the long river of history.
Push the door into the 1900 private room, if it weren't for the faint smell of rice, I thought I had arrived at the library pavilion. This private room is about 150 square meters, and except for the dining table in the middle, the walls are surrounded from bottom to top by lattice, and each lattice is made of bamboo slips, and old scrolls fall one by one.
"Just sit down!"
Ouyang picked a place to sit down,
"Press the button on your seat and the menu will come out. Each dish has its name and production process, touch it twice if you want to eat it, and the dish will be automatically ordered! This sentence is for MAY, everyone else is familiar with the road, only MAY is in a hurry.
"It turns out that the motherland's artificial intelligence technology has gone from research to civilian stage, which is amazing!" MAY THOUGHT AS HE LOOKED AT THE RECIPE.
"Along the way, I see that the private rooms are all represented by numbers, but these numbers are irregular, what does it mean?" After MAY finished ordering and had nothing to do, my curiosity came out again.
"The numbers on the door of the private room are all dates. Those years represent the major events that took place in Dunhuang in that year, commonly known as the year of major events. Ouyang explained.
"So we mean 1900 means park 1900, what happened that year?" MAY CONTINUE TO ASK
"In 1900, the Taoist priest Wang Yuanqi accidentally discovered the cave of the scriptures, and the dusty 60,000 volumes of Dunhuang cultural relics came out." Ouyang replied.
"I see. And then what? ”
And then:
In 1907, the Englishman Stein used 500 taels of silver to take away 10,000 rare treasures;
In 1908, the Frenchman Birchhe smuggled most of the Dunhuang cultural relics to Paris, France;
In 1912, the Japanese expedition of Tachibana Ruichao and Yoshikawa Koichiro arrived in Dunhuang and took more than 500 volumes of documents from the hands of Wang Daoshi.
In 1914, Stein came to the Mogao Grottoes again and took 570 volumes of documents from Daoist Wang for 500 taels of silver;
From 1914 to 1915, the Russian Odenburg expedition stripped away many murals from the Northern Wei, Sui, Tang, and Five Dynasties, and stole some statues.
In 1924, Warner, an American, arrived in Dunhuang, a man who was an out-and-out robber. Obtained three volumes of Tibetan scripture cave documents, and stole a Bodhisattva in the Tang Dynasty. He then used special adhesive tape to remove the most wonderful part of the precious mural, with a total area of 32,006 square centimeters. Warner's approach to unveiling the mural was so ignorant, stupid, clumsy, and brutal that it permanently destroyed the precious dry fresco.
At present, the general situation of Dunhuang cultural relics in the world's museums is as follows: the Englishman Stein twice plundered more than 10,000 cultural relics; The number of British and Tibetan cultural relics has reached No. 11604; The Frenchman Bo Xihe plundered about 6,000 Dunhuang documents; The Japanese plundered more than 500 volumes of Dunhuang documents; The Russians Oldenburg plundered the document unknown, and the number of the Russian-Tibetan has reached No. 18943.
So far, most of the more than 50,000 volumes of ancient documents in the cave have been looted abroad and scattered all over the world......"
AFTER LISTENING TO MAY, HE FINALLY UNDERSTOOD OUYANG'S ANGER AND TEARS ON THE NIGHT OF WATCHING THE PLAY.
A stormy society, a Qing Dynasty full of holes, what do you rely on to protect your property and culture?
Many people say that Wang Daoist is a thief who sells national treasures and a sinner of history, but a grain of ash of the times falling on the head of an individual is a mountain, and in the torrent of history, even if you try your best, you will only be drowned by the torrent in the end and become a puddle of mud in the torrent.