Chapter 293: Countless Treasures

There are many fine works in these 1,500 calligraphy and paintings, these calligraphy and paintings in the Ming and Qing dynasties account for eighty percent of them, Xie Huan, Shang Xi, Ni Duan, Li Zai in the early Ming Dynasty, 'Wumen Four Families' in the middle of the Ming Dynasty, Dong Qichang and Lan Ying in the late Ming Dynasty, 'Four Monks' in the early Qing Dynasty, 'Four Kings', 'Yangzhou Eight Monsters' in the middle of the Qing Dynasty, and the three masters of the late Qing Dynasty Ren Bonian, Wu Changshuo, Zhao Zhiqian and many other paintings are listed one by one!

There is even a painting of Tang Bohu here, which paints a plum branch with nine branches and leaves, so as to bloom nine cold plums, which means nine hundred and eighty-one numbers.

This is a "ninety-nine cold plum summer map", from the day of the winter solstice is counted as nine, in the winter solstice Chinese folk have the custom of pasting the ninety-nine cold map, the cold map is recorded in the nine after the weather is cloudy and sunny "calendar", people look forward to it, to predict the next year's abundance and arrears, is a very traditional characteristics, good-looking calendar. It has a total of 9981 units, so it is called "Ninety-Nine Chilling Diagram".

And this picture is exactly the number of ninety-nine eighty-one.

Although it is only a picture of nine plum blossoms, the idea of this painting is definitely not simple. Although it is only a few brushstrokes, there are mountains, trees, and plum blossoms in this painting, which can be said to be a standard Chinese ink landscape painting.

Although this painting looks simple, it has everything it should have, and the mountains and rocks are stacked and green. The mountains and trees are hidden, the trees are hidden in the mountains, and the mountains are hidden in the flowers, so that the focus of the whole flower is concentrated in the nine plum blossoms.

Although the plum blossoms in this painting will be attracted by the eyes at first glance, the mountains above are not only embellished, but the mountains and mountains in the painting are complex. It seems to be split with a small axe, majestic and steep, and the pen and ink are delicate, and the layout is sparse. The style is elegant and handsome.

This landscape painting has a rigorous layout, vigorous brushwork, neat painting method, smooth lines, in addition to mountains and trees, the most attractive is the nine plum blossoms.

Because the characteristics of the ninety-nine cold picture is to record the weather conditions of the eleven days after the nine, so each of the nine plum blossoms on each plum blossom is different, the author of this painting, according to the weather every day, the shade is distinct, the plum blossoms are painted vividly.

"Try to count the ninety-nine pictures between the windows, and the remaining cold will disappear and return to the beginning. The plum blossoms are white, and I see that it is an apricot plant. The four lines inscribed in the corner of the scroll are just four lines of poetry, but they give people a different feeling.

When the author wrote this poem, he did it in one go. The pen is delicate and delicate, the posture is tilted to the right, and the posture is vivid and abnormal.

It's just twenty words, but it gives people the feeling of a leisurely stroll. The words are filled with a kind of transcendent bookish atmosphere, such as an elegant person strolling among the trees of Langyuan, which is intriguing.

The upper right side of the inscription poem two lines, after the payment of the "Tang Yin" name medal, black and red contrast; the lower left ethereal place to fill the corner of the horn chapter two, and the name of the medal echo each other, the formation of symmetry, so that the composition is stable but not shoe, there is movement in the stillness.

According to the time of this scroll and the seal, Lin Yi confirmed that this was Tang Yin's authentic handiwork.

Although this is just a hanging painting, but it is from the hand of Tang Yin, then it has a very high value and is a good thing.

And among the calligraphy and painting boutiques, is one of the four Song Dynasty Mi Fu's "Manting Fang Yongcha" picture scroll! And there is Su Shi's promotion and seal on it.

and Huang Tingjian's copy of Su Shi's "Red Cliff Fu".

Mi Pei, Cai Xiang, Su Shi, and Huang Tingjian are collectively known as the "Four Song Families", and their calligraphy and paintings are all treasures, especially Huang Tingjian's copy of "Red Cliff Fu".

In addition to calligraphy and paintings, there are more than 800 inscriptions, more than 12,000 ancient books, and the most precious are two copies of the Ming "Yongle Canon"!

"Yongle Canon" was compiled in the Yongle period of the Ming Dynasty, the cabinet chief assistant Xie Jin edited a Chinese classical collection of the great classics, the original name of "Literature Dacheng", is a Chinese encyclopedic style of literature collection, the whole book 22937 volumes (table of contents accounted for 60 volumes), 11095 volumes, about 370 million words, bringing together seven or eight thousand kinds of ancient and modern books, showing the glorious achievements of ancient Chinese science and culture, but "Yongle Canon" In addition to the fact that the original has not yet been determined whether there is a Changling Tomb, the Yongle copy was tragically destroyed, most of them died in the war, and now only more than 800 volumes remain and scattered around the world.

Nowadays, a large part of the surviving "Yongle Canon" has also been circulated abroad, and only a small part has survived in China, and the discovery of these two books is also a great blessing.

In addition to these two "Yongle Canon", there are also Ming carved copies of "Dongpo Poetry Collection", "Wenyuan Yinghua", "Taiping Guangji", "Shufu Yuan Turtle", all of which are engraved in the Ming Dynasty, the only pity is that it is not complete, more than hundreds, less dozens, scattered seriously!

More than 10,000 rare books are treasures inherited from thousands of years of Chinese civilization, many ancient inventions that may be extinct, as well as secrets that are not recorded in the annals of history, are recorded in them.

In addition to the porcelain mentioned earlier, there are more than 200 bronzes in these precious works of art looted by the Japanese, which are distributed in various dynasties from the Xia, Shang and Zhou dynasties to the Spring and Autumn Period and the Warring States Period and the Qin and Han dynasties!

There are more than 600 pieces of jade, especially one of them, the Tang Dynasty carving "Nine Dragons Coiled Jade Cup" made of Hetian mutton fat jade, which is one of the fine products.

Mutton fat jade is already rare, not to mention that such a big mutton fat jade is still from the Tang Dynasty. If you want to talk about the lack of jade, the Tang Dynasty should be regarded as one of the most scarce countries in history for a period of time.

The Tang Dynasty was the heyday of China's feudal society, due to the development of the Western Regions, Xinjiang Hetian jade was imported into the hinterland in large quantities, therefore, the Tang Dynasty jade materials were mainly Hetian jade. Although the number of jade produced in the Tang Dynasty is not much, it is meticulously carved in quality, and its varieties and artistic styles have new developments, with obvious characteristics of inheriting the past and opening up the future.

The number of jade cups in the Tang Dynasty is very small, and the appearance of every jade cup in the Tang Dynasty is a national treasure! What is even more rare is that the carving of this jade cup is very extraordinary, and the volume is not small, the height is 20 centimeters, and the caliber is close to 12 centimeters, which is very rare!

There are more than 100 pieces of lacquerware, most of which are the things of the Yuan, Ming and Qing dynasties, although they are all precious, and even many of them are royal tributes of the three generations, but there is nothing that can be called a national treasure.

There are only more than 250 pieces of enamelware, excluding porcelain tires, glass tires, Yixing tires and palace original state displays, including more than 157 pieces of cloisonné enamel, nearly 93 pieces of painting enamelware, the most precious is a 45 cm high Yuan Dynasty cloisonné enamel entwined branch lotus pattern elephant ear furnace!

378 pieces of gold and silverware, only 65 pieces of gold, the most precious is a Qing Dynasty golden hair tower, but the height is only 98 centimeters, although it is also inlaid with turquoise, red sapphire, opal and other precious stones, but the value is still not comparable to the Qianlong golden hair tower in the Forbidden City!

542 pieces of bamboo and wood tooth horns, 192 pieces of bamboo, 287 pieces of wood, 163 pieces of tooth horns, boxwood material of the Yuan Dynasty, the statue of Guan Gong with a height of 67 cm, the bamboo carving landscape pen holder of the Ming Dynasty Zhu Sansong, one of the only five ivory mats in the world, etc.

There are 1,867 pieces of study utensils, 278 brushes, 304 pieces of ink, 678 pieces of paper silk, 347 square inkstones, 131 pieces of miscellaneous documents and 129 pieces of stamp materials. In addition to treasures such as 'Li Mo' and 'Chengxintang Paper', basically from the Song and Yuan dynasties to the end of the Qing Dynasty, precious scholar's utensils are basically available here.

233 pieces of glassware, 121 pieces of jewelry bonsai, and a small number of ware, clocks, ancient coins and precious furniture, as well as a small number of royal items, add up to about 889 pieces!