Chapter 56: Fourteen Years Ago
Fourteen years ago.
Louvre.
Dream Heart is eight years old.
The first time I went abroad.
For the first time, a trip was arranged specifically for the museum.
"Dad, the Louvre is so big." Before Dream Heart entered the Louvre, he had already begun to sigh.
"The Louvre covers an area of 198 hectares, which is enough to fit four full-size football fields." Zong Ji made a little popular science for Meng Xinzhi: "This was once the royal palace of France, and more than fifty French kings and queens lived. ”
"The palace?" Yumeshin asked, "Is this the largest royal palace in the world?" ”
"Of course not, not to mention other countries, as far as France itself, the Palace of Versailles, which we will go to in two days, is more than four times larger than here."
"Huh? Father! Is Versailles actually a palace! Xiao Ah Xin was shocked.
"What's wrong? Is there a problem with the palace? "Soji was surprised by Yume's surprise.
Fourteen years ago, Versailles was still a palace and had not yet become synonymous with Versailles literature that was "showing off in a low-key way".
"Isn't Versailles a rose?" Xiao Ah Xin blinked his big eyes eager for knowledge, like the current Zongyi.
"Why is it a rose?" Zong Ji touched the head of Dream Heart.
The smile of the dream heart eclipsed the glass pyramid of the Louvre.
Dad's touch on the head is Xiao Ah Xin's nuclear-powered smile launcher.
"Didn't I ask my dad what he liked the most last month? Dad told me that you like Versailles roses, and I was wondering when I would be able to buy one for my dad as a birthday present! ”
"Ah Xin, what we discussed at that time was whether to buy you comic books to read." Soji reminded Yume's mind to consider the context of the time.
"But hasn't Dad bought it for Ah Xin yet?"
"Dad can't say it's your mother...... Didn't Ah Xin also express his understanding? ”
"Well, Ah Xin listens to Dad." Yumeshin pouted: "So didn't Dad shift the conversation to the Rose of Versailles?" ”
"Dad told Ah Xin that Dad's favorite comic when he was a child was called "The Rose of Versailles", and he didn't want to open the topic. Didn't Mom let Dad buy you comics? If Dad had seen it when he was a kid and kept it, he wouldn't have bought it, right? ”
"Wow! I remember. Dream Heart's eyes lit up and said, "Then Dad, have you found out?" ”
"Found out."
"Where, where? Dad, when can I watch it? ”
"Isn't it confiscated by your mother!" Zong Ji touched his nose: "Dad read the comic books when he was a child, and now I want to buy them, but I don't know where to buy them." Your mother is still young, so we don't have the same knowledge as her. ”
Or go back to fourteen years ago, the drunken money, flashy extravagance, and extravagant French aristocratic life recorded in "The Rose of Versailles" has not yet become the source of inspiration for [Versailles literature].
Menglan doesn't want Mengxin to read any comics.
Zong Ji was caught in the middle, a little dilemma.
Dream Xinzhi quickly expressed his understanding of this matter, and did not pester Zongji to buy her comics anymore.
Xiao Axin knows how to be considerate of her father best, and she consciously changed the topic: "I almost forgot, there is also the Forbidden City!" Our Forbidden City is much bigger than the French palaces, right? ”
Zong Ji pondered the language: "The Forbidden City is more than three times larger than the Louvre. ”
"The Palace of Versailles is more than four times the size of the Louvre, and the Forbidden City is more than three times the size of the Louvre." Meng Xinzhi held four fingers in his left hand and three in his right hand, and looked back and forth a few times: "Then if you calculate it like this, does it mean that the Palace of Versailles is bigger than the Forbidden City?" ”
"Yes, the Palace of Versailles will be slightly larger than the Forbidden City."
"Ah...... Dad, does that mean that the palaces of our country are not as big as those of France? ”
Yume's heart was a little depressed.
Children's competitiveness is sometimes everywhere.
Zong Ji didn't know why Dream Heart had such a strange desire to win so suddenly.
Since his daughter asked, he naturally wouldn't treat it sloppily: "That's not the case, Ah Xin, our country's palace is not only the Forbidden City." ”
"Really, really, really?" Xiao Ah Xin happily asked, "Then do we have any palace bigger than the Palace of Versailles?" ”
"Yes. Daming Palace. ”
"What kind of palace is Daming Palace? Is it a palace of the Ming Dynasty? ”
"No, Ah Xin, Daming Palace is the palace of the Tang Dynasty."
"Huh? Why is the palace of the Tang Dynasty called Daming Palace, not Datang Palace? Yumeshin blurted out.
"Ah Xin, didn't you watch "Daming Palace Ci" with your mother last year?"
"Huh? Daming Palace is a palace, not a poem? Meng Xinzhi recalled the content: "So Daming Palace is a palace built by Wu Zetian?" ”
"No, but Wu Zetian is also working in the Daming Palace. Daming Palace was originally called Yong'an Palace, which was built by Li Shimin, Taizong of the Tang Dynasty, to his father Li Yuan, and was intended to be used as a palace for summer vacation. ”
"Li Shimin is one of Wu Zetian's husbands, right?"
"Uh......" Zong Ji was stunned, mainly because he didn't expect the eight-year-old Dream Xinzhi to use such a term as "one of the husbands".
Zong Ji smiled and continued, "It's one of her husbands, that's right." ”
"Then why did Dad say Daming Palace instead of Yong'an Palace?"
"Because Yong'an Palace has not yet been built, Li Shimin's father drove to the west."
"Ride the crane west?" Yumeshin didn't understand the meaning.
"Dead warped."
"Oh, that's right." Meng Xinzhi digested it and integrated his limited knowledge to the greatest extent: "Dad, did Li Shimin go to live in Yong'an Palace by himself later, and then because he had a Ming in his name, he changed his name to Daming Palace." ”
"No, Ah Xin. Li Shimin had never lived in this palace, and after his father died, he did not think about building this palace again. ”
"And what about later? Father. "Dream Xinzhi entered the queue to watch the "Mona Lisa", and there was a large black press in front of him, and he couldn't see the edge at a glance.
Rather than staring at the black head, Meng Xinzhi is more willing to discuss the past and present life of Daming Palace with his father.
Later, Li Shimin's ninth son became the emperor and renamed Yong'an Palace Daming Palace. Since then, Daming Palace has officially become the ruling center of the Tang Empire for more than two hundred years. ”
"The ninth...... Dad, let Ah Xin think about it, Tang Taizong Li Shimin's son who became the emperor...... That's also one of Wu Zetian's husbands, right? ”
"Yes, yes, yes." Zong Ji was already a little crying and laughing, he really didn't know where Mengxinzhi's [one of the husbands] said came from.
After figuring out the origin of Daming Palace, Meng Xinzhi turned back to the previous question: "Dad, how big is Daming Palace?" ”
"Daming Palace, there are 13 Louvres."
Zongji used as vivid language as possible to popularize historical knowledge for Dream Heart.
This laid a solid foundation for the popular science that Mengxinzhi later did for Zongyi.
It can be regarded as a family history.
"Thirteen ah......" Dream Xinzhi nodded, as if she understood, but as if she didn't understand, she continued to ask out loud, "What about the comparison with Versailles?" ”
Zong Ji roughly helped to calculate: "Daming Palace is equivalent to 3 Versailles, 4 Forbidden City, 12 Kremlin, 13 Louvre, and 15 Buckingham Palaces. ”
"Dad, are the five palaces you just mentioned the same as the five palaces you told me before, the five palaces in the world?"
"No, Ah Xin, among the five major palaces in the world, there is no Louvre that we visited today."
"What kind of palace is it to add after removing the Louvre?"
Zong Ji touched Mengxinzhi's head again, and doted on the tail of his hair: "Ah Xin, we came to visit the Louvre today, why do you keep asking other palaces?" ”
Meng Xinzhi pursed his lips: "Ah Xin didn't expect to queue for so long." ”
"Who made Ah Xin dream of the most popular [Lady Lisa]? Anytime you look at the Mona Lisa, you will definitely have to queue up. ”
"But queuing is really boring." Meng Xinzhi shrugged his shoulders and blinked, "Otherwise, Dad will tell Ah Xin the story of the Louvre." ”
"Okay, what else does Ah Xin want to hear?"
"Hmm...... In addition to having lived with more than fifty French kings and queens, is there anything else the Louvre has to offer? ”
"Well, you let Dad think about it." "There are 400,000 exhibits in the Louvre, and the construction of the Louvre began in 1204. ”
"What time is 1204, Dad?"
"Uh...... In 1204, ......" Zong Ji was stunned again, the simpler the question, the more difficult it was to answer: "1204 is the Southern Song Dynasty. ”
"Ahh It's the dynasty that is particularly delicious, right, Ah Xinke likes the Song sister-in-law fish soup that her father and mother made together last week. Dream Heart's hand danced and asked, "Sister-in-law Song is the Song Dynasty, right?" ”
"Uh...... Sister-in-law Song is not ...... Song Dynasty"
"Huh? What is that sister-in-law? ”
"Sister-in-law...... It's my brother's wife. ”
"Ahh It turns out that Song's sister-in-law fish soup was made by Zongguang's future wife! Dream Xinzhi was surprised: "Is my brother's wife so much older than him?" Now they will be like the snail girl, cooking for our family? ”
"Hahaha......" Zong Ji couldn't help laughing directly: "Ah Xin, Sister-in-law Song's fish soup is indeed from the Southern Song Dynasty...... Haha......"
"Daddy, what are you laughing at? So since it is the Southern Song Dynasty, is it the time when the construction of the Louvre began? "Yumeshin asked seriously.
Zong Jiqiang couldn't hold back a laugh and replied with one word: "Yes." ”
"Then Dad, why did you just say no?! Dad, why are you lying to Ah Xin! You're done cheating, and you're still laughing at Ah Xin! ”
This is where the loop begins......
Don't reason with a girl, especially one who is only seven or eight years old.
"Ah Xin, Dad will continue to talk to you about the Louvre. Dad doesn't know much about these European museums, so he can only tell you a little about them. When Ah Xin grows up and understands it, remember to come back to teach his father, who may have been old at that time. ”
"Impossible! My dad will always be so handsome! ”
"Ah Xin, even if you are a handsome guy, you will also be old-fashioned."
"Impossible!" Dream Heart's argument argues: "My handsome father won't." ”
"Ah Xin is right!" Zong Ji chose to compromise, "Dad will not be old, nor will he be presbyopia, and he has always been so handsome." ”
"Uh-huh." Mengxinzhi nodded desperately, expressing a great degree of agreement, and then said, "Dad, didn't you say that you want to talk about it a little?" ”
"The place we are going to visit in the afternoon is the super corridor of the Louvre, which is more than 300 meters long, which was built by King Henry IV of France, and the super corridor was not what it is now, and Henry IV planted a lot of trees in it."
"Do the kings of France also like to plant trees indoors?"
"Besides, Henry IV is still galloping inside."
"Dad, can we ride horses when we visit?"
"Of course not! How did you come up with the idea of riding a horse inside a museum? ”
"What's not to be able to do about that?" One of the dream hearts raised his head, shot at his father with a glance tilted at forty-five degrees, and said with a little pride: "Ah Xin dreams of one for his father at night." ”
"Ah Xin, Dad can't see your dreams."
"What's that? Wouldn't it be nice if I drew it for you to see? Dream Xinzhi patted her pocket, which contained her proud work [Aurora Source].
"Okay, Dad is waiting for Ah Xin's masterpiece."
Zong Ji did not discourage the enthusiasm of Dream Heart.
I can't understand what Dream Heart draws, and I may not be able to understand it all the time.
But as long as Xiao Axin himself will not be hit by this, Zong Ji will not feel that there is a problem.
"Dad, Ah Xin doesn't like to queue up, the Louvre is so big, can we go somewhere else to see it first? Wait until it's time to close, so you don't have to wait in line. ”
"Ah Xin wants to come back when you play at night?"
"Is there a night show here? Is it a night when it becomes "Night at the Museum"? Will the mummies we saw earlier come back to life? "The curious trifecta of the dream heart.
Her face was full of excitement at first, and when she talked about the mummy, she trembled several times, hid directly behind Zong Ji, pulled the corner of Zong Ji's clothes, poked out her head, and asked with fear and curiosity: "Dad, isn't the mummy from Egypt?" Why are there mummies in the Louvre? ”
"The relics of the Egyptian Pavilion of the Louvre were looted to France by Napoleon. Not only that, but he also had the soldiers shoot at the tallest and largest pyramid in the world, knocking out the Sphinx's nose. Zong Ji was a little regretful.
"Ahh Is he so bad? Dream Heart asked, "Then why don't we bring the mummy to China for safekeeping?" ”
"Didn't Ah Xin find out?"
"Found what?"
"Our museums in China do not have foreign cultural relics."
"Really?" Dream Heart's doubt: "Isn't there a Forbidden City?" ”
"The Forbidden City is an exception, but every foreign cultural relict in the Forbidden City has a clear origin. No plundering, no stealing. ”
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(End of chapter)