Chapter 234: What is a Codex
The rest is not right!
Li Ding'an's voice was not loud, but it was enough for a few people on the left to hear it clearly.
What does this mean?
It means that there is something wrong with things, at least it is definitely not a Song manuscript collected by the Inner Government of the Four Dynasties......
For a moment, Professor Ge's eyes were glazed, as if he had lost his soul: it was originally worth hundreds of millions of things, but in Li Ding'an's sentence, the price must not shrink by tens or hundreds of times?
Including the woman, she finally lost her calm and relaxed posture, her small mouth opened slightly, and she had a shocked expression.
The man also reacted, the corners of his eyes were about to burst, and the punch of "Dong" smashed on the table, and the magnifying glass and flashlight jumped several times.
Jiang Lingyu was frightened, and hurriedly took the phone off the stand, seeing that the camera angle was too small, and hurriedly took a few steps back. also snorted Xiaohuya: Dare to do it, wait to go to jail, right?
Not again?
Li Dingan sighed, gestured into the distance, the director had already prepared, held down the walkie-talkie and said a few words, and immediately five or six young men in white shirts came over.
The live broadcast room is more lively:
Endless drips: "Hahaha...... Here we go, here we go! ”
Sanqianzhang: "It's so dangerous, I almost didn't catch up!" ”
Nutrition Express: "It's opened: I bet that I will definitely be able to fight today, and if it doesn't work, I will have to drop a few things on Ang Lee's table...... If you lose, brush our cousin's sports car! ”
My biggest: "Remember to eat or not, you've lost a week in a row?" ”
I drilled into the alley: "The security guards are not vegetarians...... Look, that's not it! ”
As soon as he saw that someone was looking for Li Ding'an for identification, Jiang Lingyu began to be a fan of @Li Ding'an. received the information, and all the hardcore fans who were online entered the live broadcast room.
Then within a few minutes, the most favorite show of netizens began to be staged.
Including a few experts next to him, as well as Tibetan friends who come to the exhibition when they have nothing to do, they have long been surprised: because such a scene happens every day, and even sometimes, several times a day.
But today it was a different place: from Li Ding'an's seat to Professor Ge. Of course, the protagonist has not changed, it is still Li Dingan......
"What is it today, ancient books?" Xie Yuanping stretched his neck, "It looks old, huh?" ”
"It's really rare!" Zhu Xun also glanced at it, "But seeing that these two are quite magnificent, why are they in a hurry!" ”
"I guess things aren't cheap!" Associate Professor Zhang thought for a moment and leaned over, "Old Ge, what is it?" ”
Professor Ge woke up like a dream, and couldn't help but swallow his saliva: "Song version of the book!" ”
The experts were shaken: good guys...... One or two gold on a page of the Song version, this sentence is not blown out.
Looking at the thickness, this one will cost fifty or sixty pages, and if it is less, it will cost tens of millions......
Turning around with similar thoughts, Professor Ge was shocked: "Zhou Bangyan's manuscript is appreciated by Gaozong Zhao Gou and Duanzong Zhao Yu...... It has also passed through the Southern Song Dynasty Secretary Province, the Yuan Hanlin National History Institute, the Ming Wenyuan Pavilion, the Guozijian, and the Qing Tianlu Linlang Four Dynasties Inner Mansion Collection, and there are more than ten seals of these institutions alone...... And in addition to the imperial seals of Zhao Gou and Zhao Yu, there are also Zhu Yuanzhang's "Treasure of Guangyun", as well as Qianlong's Quartet Taishang Treasure ......"
What's that?
is not an exaggeration, but anyone who heard what Professor Ge said clearly was dumbfounded, including experts, Tibetan friends, and fans in the live broadcast room.
Then, I heard a chaotic sound of "squeak", and when I looked at it again, the four experts stood up in pairs, dropped the things in their hands directly, and walked away.
The Tibetan friend sitting in the chair looked confused: No...... This is good to see and leave?
Ask again: I have a day, the Song version of the book, and it is hand-copied by a famous artist, and several emperors have stamped it?
That's a fart, and I'll talk about it after watching the excitement. Pick up the things and leave, how can you still have the heart to queue up when you are queuing...... Suddenly, Professor Ge was surrounded by three layers inside and three layers outside.
Netizens were also shocked: What's the matter?
Most of the new fans are laymen, so they just watch the excitement, and keep swiping the public screen: is it very valuable or something, and the more old fans, the more confused: the Song version is hand-copied, the palace of the four dynasties is appreciated, and the four emperors appreciate it...... But what Professor Fange said is not a dream, this thing can't be hundreds of millions?
Well...... Oh, isn't that right?
Li Ding'an just said...... There's something wrong with this thing!
So, how can it be worth hundreds of millions?
Suddenly, netizens sympathized with this man who was gritting his teeth and looking fierce: What is fighting, who is not desperate?
One counts as one, and all of them have wide eyes and dare not blink.
Several experts stood around the table, all staring at the books on the table with their necks crossed, but they were all just looking, and no one stepped forward to flip through them.
Speaking from the heart, such a thing, now that it has reached such an extent, no one dares to move: what should I do if I am falsely accused?
I have to say that Li Ding'an is worthy of Li Ding'an: even if you feel that something is wrong, can't you say it tactfully?
Every time it is said that it is the same, ironclad, and the camera broadcasts live synchronously, which is equivalent to a direct death sentence for something. This time it's even more absolute: hundreds of millions of things, it's strange that people don't rush with you?
Tibetan friends are excited, secretly exclaiming: hundreds of millions of objects, not to mention in reality, are rare on TV, let alone on-site identification on occasions such as exhibitions.
Unbelievable, it was judged to be false by Li Ding'an?
Haha, there's a lot of excitement to watch now......
In the blink of an eye, dozens of people surrounded him, and a few young people in uniform were eyeing each other, and the man finally regained a little calm.
But the mood was still very excited, his eyes were shining, and he couldn't wait to peel Li Ding'an and swallow it alive: "Come when you open your mouth, you say there is a problem?" ”
"It's not like I'm coming with my mouth open!"
Li Dingan thought for a while, and then pointed to the manuscript: "Have you done a lot of testing?" c-14…… Well, there should still be thermoluminescence! ”
Several experts approached and subconsciously squinted their eyes: the outer edge of the manuscript paper had a few gaps the size of rice grains.
I understood, I took samples, did a generational test, and sampled several pages.
After thinking about it, Li Dingan opened the book again: "I did carbon molecular element analysis again...... Well, I should have done mass spectrometry chromatography and isotopes, and even anti-irradiation X-ray detection......"
At a second glance, the handwriting on the front of the fingertips was obviously lighter, and there were fine marks, which seemed to have been scraped with toner.
"And without exception, these test results all show: this manuscript is something from the Southern Song Dynasty!"
The man was stunned: Then what do you say?
"Don't worry, wait until I'm done!"
Li Ding'an waved his hand again: "Don't talk about molecular element analysis, you are doing atomic absorption and ion beams, and there is absolutely no error...... You must have found an expert, but you should have found more than one, did they all say that there is no problem? Because all the things that people use are things from the Song Dynasty: paper, ink, thread, and even ink...... If you look at it with your eyes, of course it's fine! ”
What do you mean?
"You say it's ...... Imitation? ”
"Right...... You must ask me, why do I say that? Come and see here......"
Li Dingan took the flashlight and magnifying glass, and shot a strong light, "Look at these Qianlong seals, is the color darker, and the edges more neat and clearer?" Looking at the seals of the Song, Yuan, and Ming dynasties, is the color exactly the same? And the color is relatively lighter than that of the Qing Dynasty, does the edge of the seal have a feeling of 'diffusion' and 'blurring'?
This is because there is a difference of nearly 200 years in the middle, and the pigment molecules in the Qing Dynasty seals decompose late and lose slowly, and the colors are of course darker and clearer......"
Two hundred years away from Qianlong's seal?
Professor Zhang calculated it in a second: "Except for the Qing Dynasty, the rest of these seals are all stamped during the Wanli period of the Ming Dynasty?" ”
"Yes!" Li Ding'an nodded, and turned to the burden again, "Including this party's "Halal Layman", as well as "Secretary Provincial Governor Shulang Zhu Ji"! ”
No matter how slow the man reacted, he understood: this book was forged during the Wanli period of the Ming Dynasty, more than 400 years away from the Huizong period of the Song Dynasty, and it had nothing to do with Zhou Bangyan......
"What are you kidding?"
"Not me, but the facts!"
Li Dingan was a little helpless, "I know you definitely don't believe it...... In this way, I suggest you go to the Forbidden City, they have the relevant technology, and they have a database, just do a comparison, it is clear at a glance. ”
Fact:!
A good collection of the palace of the Four Dynasties, the imperial review of the emperors of the Three Dynasties, and the out-of-print Song edition of the book hand-copied by famous masters suddenly became an imitation of the Ming Dynasty?
The man raised his fingers tremblingly, and his lips trembled: "What about the evidence?" ”
To put it so clearly, what more evidence do you need?
"It's all said that the time of those seals before the Qing Dynasty is wrong: the seals of the Song, Yuan, and Ming dynasties were all covered in the same period, so the color depth and the degree of trace blurring are exactly the same, what is this not a fake? I even said, let you go to the Forbidden City for testing, they not only have technology and databases, but even have a lot of similar objects, one by one to compare with one quasi-......"
After a pause, Li Dingan stretched out his hand and pointed into the distance: "Live broadcast, I suggest you don't make noise, the more noisy it is, the greater the impact......"
Seeing the camera not far away, the man's face turned green, and he instinctively clenched his fists: How can this be sold in the future?
It's not that you want to beat people, you can't fight if you want to, it's just that you're a little angry, and your brains are stirred into porridge: because it's not just a matter of missing four or five hundred years of history, but the price: it's still hundreds of millions, and it's not certain whether it can be worth tens of millions now.
The more he thought about it, the more angry he became, and the man couldn't wait to lift the table, and his body couldn't stop shaking.
The woman coughed at the right time, and he came back to his senses, and almost poked Li Ding'an's nose with his fingers: "Li Ding'an, wait for the lawsuit!" ”
Li Ding'an just smiled.
What is the point of a lawsuit, I don't believe you ask a few experts next to him: In the past few days, they have threatened to put him in a sack, hit him with a car, blocked him on the way, burned his house, and even threatened to find a gun to shoot him...... It's too many to count.
As an expert, there are people who want to play with him every day, except for Li Ding'an, there is no one......
The man wanted to vomit blood, but he had nothing to do, so he had to pick up the book.
He stood up and walked out for another seven or eight steps, only to realize that something was wrong, and turned around again: "Sister-in-law? ”
"It's okay!"
The woman waved her hand calmly, "What I said last time, you think about it!" ”
In an instant, the man's face was no longer green, but blue.
After being stunned for a long time, he gritted his teeth and nodded: "Okay, I'll think about it again!" ”
After speaking, he glared at Li Dingan fiercely, and also turned to leave.
Li Dingan still didn't care, glanced at the man's back, and then looked at the woman: I only thought it was a debtor and a creditor, but I didn't think it was still a relative?
Just as she was thinking about it, the woman smiled apologetically: "Teacher Li, I'm sorry!" ”
"You're welcome!"
The woman nodded, thought for a moment, and put her hand into the kun bag again.
When I took it out again, there was an extra piece of paper in my hand: "There will definitely be trouble for you in the future, if you need to, you can call me!" ”
This is a common occurrence, and this week alone, he received eighty or ninety hundred business cards. Li Dingan didn't care, and subconsciously took it.
Then he glanced at it, and his brows furrowed involuntarily: How is this one different from the one I received before?
Very ordinary paper, bronze background, black italics. The problem is that in addition to the word "Qi Ying" on the piece of paper, there is only one set of mobile phone numbers.
No unit, no address, no position...... Except for the name and phone number, there is not a single extra punctuation mark.
This has no beginning or end?
I don't even know what you're doing, so what's the trouble for you?
Just as she was scratching her head, the woman smiled lightly and stood up again: "Teacher Li, goodbye!" ”
The smile is beautiful, and there is a bit of mystery, like "we will definitely meet".
What does it mean?
Even if you want me to reverie, I can't do it at this age?
It's not an exaggeration, this woman is not the same age as the old lady, and she is definitely not a few years younger......
After thinking about it, the woman left her seat, and the crowd got out of the way, and as soon as she went out, she "banged" and surrounded her.
No...... Everyone is gone, what else is there to see?
Li Dingan waved his hand: "Everyone, let's disperse!" ”
"Don't ...... It's not up or down! ”
"Mr. Li, who imitated this book?"
"Listen to what you mean, the seals of the Qing Dynasty are all right, which means: at least the Qing Dynasty has been collected by the inner court and appreciated by Qianlong, right?"
"And how much is it worth now?"
"What does it have to do with the Forbidden City?"
A bunch of Tibetan friends stood still, gossiping, and their voices were still louder than the other,
Li Dingan was very helpless, and several other experts were even more helpless: let alone disperse, there were more and more people around, and no one would sit on their seats anymore, how could they be identified?
Associate Professor Zhang took a look and leaned over: "Explain it, or you won't stop!" ”
Lao Ge was even more impatient: "If I don't understand, I can't sleep!" ”
I don't blame him for being a professor of Beijing University, and he can be regarded as a few experts in gold and stone and ancient books in Beijing, but he is so uncalm?
On the contrary, it is precisely because I know a lot that I feel incredible: there are too many seals, and they are available in all dynasties and generations, but the traces are too uniform? He also saw this problem, so he was a little uncertain for a while, so he asked Li Dingan for help.
But it's just not for sure, thinking if it's the reason for improper preservation, and it's not that I haven't wondered if this book is a forgery, but to be honest, it's not much.
Li Ding'an is good, not only conclusive, but also pointed out a clear time of forgery: Wanli in the Ming Dynasty?
And he also said it very clearly: several scientific test conclusions have shown that this book is the Song version, so how did Li Dingan judge it?
It doesn't make sense that his eyes are more sophisticated than instruments, right?
Suspicious, hearing Li Ding'an say, "That's okay", Lao Ge suddenly came to his senses.
"Let's talk about the open secret first: the Forbidden City also has fakes!"
It is indeed an open secret, and it is written in Pu Yi's memoirs: after the abdication, most of the guards of the Forbidden City were dismissed, and the supervision force was weak, so many old palace maids and eunuchs brought fakes back from places like Liulichang and exchanged the real thing.
It doesn't matter if the handwriting is the same, whether the painting style is similar or not, as long as it's not too outrageous, it's probably right.
For example, the real work is a picture of a lady of Tang Yin, then I will find a picture of a lady, as long as the painting is not too bad, and then ask someone to inscribe a Tang Yin's money, and engrave a Tang Yin's chapter...... Let's live.
Including Pu Yi himself, he also did the same: he couldn't go out, and he was too conspicuous, so he asked his younger brother Pu Jie to do it: when he went to school every day, he carried a schoolbag out, hid a little under the robe, and brought the fakes back when he was out of school.
Most of these real things were given to the Japanese by him......
"I'll say something that many people don't know: after Puyi's abdication, there are actually only a small number of them, and most of the fakes existed before, and the specific time dates back to the Shunzhi period......
Among them, the largest proportion of fakes is books, that is, all kinds of rare books, rare books, and unique books before the Qing Dynasty. The second is calligraphy and painting, and the second is Ding Yi and jade......"
Many people have really never heard of this, such as fans in the live broadcast room and Tibetan friends who are watching. But a few experts know a little bit, at least two professors from Beijing University know about it.
Suddenly, Lao Ge's eyes lit up with a "swish": "That book...... Is it an imitation of Xiang Merlin? ”
Li Dingan nodded: "Nine times out of ten!" ”
Fans and Tibetan friends were confused: "Who is Xiang Molin?" ”
"I just checked, the largest antique dealer in China in the middle and late Ming Dynasty, or the largest collector......"
"There was an antique business in the Ming Dynasty?"
"Strange? The Han Dynasty had ...... Do you think that Cao Cao's gold-touching lieutenant and Faqiu Zhonglang will only steal gold and silver from the tomb? ”
"It's really the biggest ...... in the country Even the Wanli Emperor said: Xiang Molin's storage is abundant, and the first is in the sea...... The seal letter invited him to come out as an official, but he "insisted on not awarding" ......"
"And Qianlong: the breadth and essence of the Xiang style collection, and the prosperity of the ...... for a while"
"He is from the Wanli period, nearly two hundred years apart, how did Qianlong know?"
"Don't look carefully: what Qianlong said is Xiang's ......"
"Wait a minute, I found out...... This says: Most of the ancient books and calligraphy and paintings in many museums in the world come from Xiang's, and the Palace Museum accounts for more than half of them......"
"You found it from that stall?"
"China Collection Yearbook and People's Daily!"
When it comes to stall literature, it immediately stops squeaking: the People's Daily will not talk about it, just say that the collection yearbook: this is published by the State Administration of Cultural Heritage, ask yourself, it is still quite authoritative......
"Good fellow...... This also says: In the second year of Shunzhi, the Qing army broke through Jiaxing, plundered the Xiangfang collection, and transported it to the capital...... In the bibliographic document "Shiqu Baoji" compiled during the Qianlong period, there are more than 40,000 books, calligraphy, paintings, inscriptions and rubbings from the collection of famous artists of the past dynasties from Xiang's collection...... How many paintings and calligraphy are in the Forbidden City? ”
"There must be more than 100,000 pieces, but if you want to remove the ones after the Ming Dynasty, you really can't say ......"
"A collection, half of the Forbidden City...... I have seen it for a long time! ”
"I understand, what Li Ding'an meant: This book was originally a Xiang-style collection, and it flowed into the palace during the Shunzhi period, so those seals of the Qing Dynasty are real."
"What item collection? It's a forgery from Xiang's. ”
"How did that come out?"
"How easy is it...... The change of the king's flag at the head of the city is the capital during the Republic of China...... Which of those warlords who have entered Beijing has not stolen from the palace? ”
"I can't tell if it'......"
In this way, you check a little, he checks a little, and then half-guesses and half-meng, netizens and Tibetan friends actually figured out the general context of the book: Xiang's forgery, Qing Neifu's collection, Qianlong's appreciation, and stamped ......
That's pretty much it, but of course, the details are far more brilliant than that: Xiang Molin was not only the largest antique dealer and the largest collector in China in the mid-to-late Ming Dynasty, but also the most authoritative connoisseur at the time. Nationally well-known, and unrivaled by the kind.
Doesn't that sound familiar?
It's right to be familiar, otherwise how did Xiang's collections that even Wanli and Qianlong were amazed come from?
Since appraisal, collection, collection, and sale are integrated, of course, imitation and counterfeiting are inevitable, and even the relevant historical records have records: Xiang Molin selected skilled craftsmen to make couches, racks, cabinets, coffins, boxes, and Yi vessels, gold and stone, and ancient jade...... And so on, engraved with an inscription, but Xiao is only clever, unmistakable, and fake can be true.
At that time, "Jiaxing Xiang's" had become synonymous with antique and pseudo-ancient.
Needless to say, the imitations of calligraphy and painting: he and Wen Zhengming's father and son are close friends, and they often ask the father and son to write and paint, specifically imitating the works of famous artists of the Song and Yuan dynasties. The four Song families, including Su Shi, the four Yuan families, including Huang Gongwang, and Zhao Mengfu, etc.
There is also a disciple of Wen Zhengming, Qiu Ying, one of the four families of the Ming Dynasty, who was almost trained by him: before Qiu Ying became famous, he lived in Xiangfu at every turn, copying the works of the previous generation of famous masters.
There are also several famous painters who belonged to the Wumen School of painting at the same time as Qiu Ying, Dong Qichang in the Ming and Evening periods, and many calligraphers and painters who are not as famous as these two but have a high ability to copy, all of whom have received funding from Xiang, and similar experiences.
Including Xiang Molin and his son, who were also first-class calligraphy and painting masters of the same period, they imitated even more.
Most of the paper, ink, paint, etc. used are all things collected by Xiang Molin from the previous dynasty, and the old method is also extremely clever. So not to mention that more than 400 years have passed now, even at that time, there were very few connoisseurs who could distinguish the authenticity of Xiang's imitations.
The imitation works, of course, were sold by Xiang Molin as genuine, and then they spent a lot of money to search for the authentic works of famous artists, and so on, endlessly.
It is no exaggeration to say that the fakes collected in the Forbidden City from Xiang Merlin's hands must be counted in "thousands". Li Ding'an even saw the "Gift to Yue Fei Batch Scroll" and the codex written by Zhao Gou of Song Gaozong to Yue Fei, that is, the twelve gold medals in history.
Similarly, it was also forged by Xiang Molin, and there were even autographed inscriptions by Kangxi and Qianlong on it.
So, what is the manuscript of Yan Bang this week?
(End of chapter)