Halfway through the live broadcast of the day, an old acquaintance came to Zhang Yang's live broadcast room, Cheng Erye.

Seeing him wearing Bluetooth headphones and being in a bright palace-like building, Zhang Yang was a little surprised.

Which emperor's palace did you go to?

According to the itinerary that Cheng Erye said in the group before, he is basically re-walking the Silk Road.

The kind that flies, of course.

From Yanjing, we pass through Central Asia, Egypt, and Ancient Greece along the way, and the final destination is the British Museum.

When I encounter any good things, I will look for Zhang Yang Lianmai and take a look together.

This was Zhang Yang's own initiative, and he felt that the audience in the live broadcast room was still very curious about the cultural relics in foreign countries.

But this time, Cheng Erye didn't know why, walked to Central Asia, and suddenly returned to Russia.

"I'm now, on the third floor of the Hermitage (Hermitage Museum) at the Museum of Far Eastern Art." Cheng Zongwen replied in a low voice.

"I'm not sure if it's live, so I can only pretend to be videotaped. But here's something, I feel like it should be shown to the brothers in the live broadcast room. ”

Cheng Erye turned the camera, and he was standing in front of the glass window.

In the shop window, dozens of bronze Buddha statues thirty or forty centimeters high form a circle.

On the central platform, there is a statue of Shakyamuni Buddha.

The true Ten Thousand Buddhas Dynasty.

[I'm blanching, so many Buddha statues? 】

[Tsarist Russia is messing with you, I really didn't take it less at the end of the Qing Dynasty]

[Don't say it, the cultural relics of the entire Western Xia are over there]

"This should be laid out according to the mandala." Zhang Yang explained to the audience in the live broadcast room, "The mandala is also called a mandala, and when Buddhism practices the law, it is surrounded like this, which is said to be able to resist the invasion of foreign demons." ”

"Most of the Buddha statues in this are made of bronze in the third dynasty of the Qing Dynasty, and the market price is just in the appearance of small or medium thousand, which is worthless."

After Zhang Yang finished speaking, it was worthless, and the wind direction of the barrage immediately changed.

are all saying that Lao Maozi doesn't know the goods, and he can't rob them.

But Cheng Erye's next behavior directly slapped the barrage in the face.

After the picture was changed, a small shop window was filled with large and small clay Buddha heads and several murals.

At first glance, it is very old, and the pigment has already fallen off a little.

The Buddha's head is actually fine, but the mural is simply a pain in the hearts of all Chinese people who like cultural relics.

Seeing the barrage brushing the [Dunhuang murals], Zhang Yang explained loudly:

"Don't worry about the barrage of Dunhuang, there are a lot of Winter Palaces, but these are not yet."

"This is the mural painting of the Thousand Buddha Caves of Baizi Creek, most of which were painted by the Uighurs of the Gaochang Kingdom, although they are also related to the Tang Dynasty, but they are not so precious."

"What about this?" Cheng Erye lowered his voice and asked Zhang Yang.

He turned his camera to a golden pagoda, which shone in the light.

But the flamboyant evaluation is: "That's it." ”

"This kind of cultural relics of Tibetan Buddhism in the Qing Dynasty are not very good-looking, most of them should be the Qing royal family that was robbed at the time of the Old Summer Palace, that is, the material and craftsmanship are a little higher, but the value of the cultural relics alone is not as precious as the murals of the Uighurs just now."

"Baoyou, why don't you take us to see the cultural relics of Western Xia, they are all not available in China."

"Are there any characteristics of Western Xia?" Cheng Erye asked.

"If you want to think about it...... You look for a sign that says [Blackwater City Ruins Unearthed]. ”

Large museums, as long as they can indicate the location of the excavation, will definitely mark it clearly, even if it is unearthed in another country.

Many of the Shang Dynasty bronzes in the British Museum are clearly written, and the land is Yinxu.

This is an academic rigor that is necessary.

The tens of thousands of cultural relics of the Western Xia Kingdom collected in the Winter Palace, including more than 500 thangkas, were unearthed from the ruins of Heishui City.

Lao Maozi dug the ruins of Blackwater City for a full twenty years before he finished digging.

It is said on the Internet that if you want to get a glimpse of the style of the Western Xia Dynasty established by Li Yuanhao, you must go to the Winter Palace.

Nowhere else can you see it.

At the beginning, Cheng Erye said that when he was in the Far Eastern Museum on the third floor of the Winter Palace, Zhang Yang instantly thought of this.

Hearing Zhang Yang's words, Cheng Erye didn't stop and soon came to a Buddha statue.

Strange Buddha statue, one body with two heads.

This is known as the only two-headed Buddha in the world.

The two Buddha heads have different expressions, looking down on the left and right sides respectively, with plump and kind facial expressions and a slight smile.

The body of the Buddha has four arms, two of which are folded in front of the chest and the other two arms hang down and stretch out to the left and right.

No matter how you look at it, each head is perfectly integrated with the body and arms of the Buddha as a whole.

[Lying groove, there is also this kind of Buddha statue]

[Is this Tibetan or Chinese?] 】

[This is so famous, it's famous all over the world]

[I think it's the only two-headed Buddha in the world, right?] 】

"If you count the Buddha statues that can move, this should be the only one."

The Double-Headed Buddha is a lesson that cannot be skipped in the study of Buddha statue culture, and Zhang Yang studied it very seriously.

He introduced it very clearly to his friends.

"But if even the big Buddha carved in the grottoes is counted, in fact, in the south niche grottoes in Bazhong, there are double-headed Buddhas in the Tang Dynasty, and there are many in the Western Regions and the Hexi Corridor."

"But those are stone carvings after all, and they really can't compare to this one in Blackwater City."

In addition to this two-headed Buddha, many other Buddha statues have been unearthed in Blackwater City, most of which have a clear flavor of Tibetan Buddhism.

After all, Western Xia and Tibet bordered each other, and the cultural exchanges between them were quite close at that time.

"No, that's all for Blackwater."

"That's all?"

Zhang Yang thought about it, just now, he counted all the Buddha heads, and he saw less than thirty Buddha statues in total.

Compared with the scale of the cultural relics unearthed in Blackwater City back then, it is not an exaggeration to say that it is a drop in the bucket.

The only thing that can see the text of the Western Xia Kingdom is the label of a few scriptures, but at the beginning, more than 20,000 volumes of documents were transported away, and it is claimed to be the third largest archaeological document discovery in China after the oracle bones of Yinxu and the Dunhuang testament......

What do you mean, don't show it?!

"There are still a lot of thangkas over there, do you want to see them?"

Cheng Erye's camera swept over, and on a long wall, there were windows with thangkas.

Tibetan lovers are in ecstasy.

But Zhang Yang is not very interested, so many thangkas are nothing more than paintings of believers, and in museums, it is really not unusual.

"Baoyou, how about a look at that? Just that pair of sculptures. ”

Zhang Yang is talking about a pair of clay protector beasts.

At first glance, I thought it was a coyote with my ears pricked up.

Zhang Yang guessed that it might be something like a tomb beast.

However, when I got closer and saw it completely, I realized that this thing turned out to be a fox.

The fifth of the nine sons of the dragon king, it is it that often swallows clouds and spits mist on the incense burner, and it is said that it was accepted as a mount by the Buddha and became a protector beast.

[This majesty]

[Feels like a tomb beast]

[A bit like the stone lion of a big family in the past]

[Is this a sinister one? 】

"Yes, that's the Fox." Zhang Yang answered the question of the barrage, "From the Mogao Grottoes in Dunhuang, it should have been stolen by Oldenburg back then." ”

"Eh, Master Zhang, do you even know who stole it?" Cheng Erye was a little surprised by Zhang Yang's answer.

He obviously didn't shoot the explanation card of the cultural relics.

"I knew when I saw the Dunhuang murals next to me."

"The Mogao Grottoes themselves are Buddha caves, and there will naturally be Buddha statues, sculptures and other cultural relics in it, which are basically all taken away by Oldenburg."

"It was because he moved all the sculptures that the Harvard archaeological team was so angry that they didn't even let go of the murals on the walls......"

(End of chapter)