"Teacher Cui...... Teacher Cui? ”

Several shouts were made, but no one responded.

After making a phone call, he ran away?

The secretary poked his head: "Are you looking for Researcher Cui?" He went up to the second floor......"

"Good...... Thank you! ”

Li Dingan nodded and walked upstairs quickly.

As soon as I went up the stairs, I saw Cui Li holding his chin with one hand, as if he was looking at something, very focused.

"Teacher Cui...... Researcher Choi? ”

"Oooh...... Teacher Li? ”

"What are you looking at, so fascinating?"

"Nothing!"

Cui Li's eyes were a little evasive, "Just study it!" ”

Research is research, what are you vain?

In doubt, Li Dingan tilted his head and looked: directly in front of Cui Li, there was a statue of a god about 30 centimeters high.

Take a closer look...... Good fellow, happy Buddha?

There is a pavilion under the Buddha statue, and one piece is placed on the left and right: the left is the female ghost, and the right is the male and.

Aren't these the two in the phone photos?

Look at both sides further:

Drum of the Mo, Bell and Pestle, Kadam Tower, Iron Bowl of the Stork Ling, Inlaid Conch, Seven Treasures of the Wheel King, Harmony Pagoda, Relic Pagoda, Dharma Wheel, Method Spoon, Round Method Spoon, ...... Regardless of the texture, whatever shape or pattern, they are all tantric objects.

I felt sudden, and ran into the lama monastery.

Tantra originated from Indian Esoteric Buddhism, which was first fused with Indian Buddhism, then introduced to the Qinghai-Tibet Plateau, and then evolved over thousands of years to form China's unique Tibetan Buddhism, commonly known as Lamaism.

Historically, the majority of believers were ethnic minorities, including the Manchu Qing dynasty.

If before, Li Ding'an would definitely focus on studying it to see how these things came from, and whether he would steal the royal cemetery in Qingxi Mausoleum, or even the emperor's tomb, as he guessed.

But now, even the tomb of King Jing of Zhongshan has been dug up in advance, how can he take care of a tomb?

"Teacher Cui, let's go!"

"Huh?"

Cui Li was stunned for a moment, "Teacher Li, haven't seen those things yet?" ”

"Oh yes......"

I came here today, nominally to help Cui Li look at things, and if I didn't see anything and pulled him away, it would really not be good.

"Which one does Mr. Cui like?"

Li Dingan looked left and right, "This bottle of happy Buddha?" ”

"This object is too niche to be sold...... But the price is not high! ”

Cui Li pointed to the label, "Add two magic weapons, it's only 560,000!" ”

"Five hundred and sixty thousand is not expensive?"

"What if?" Cui Li blinked and pointed in the northwest direction.

What's in the Northwest?

Of course, it's Qingxi Mausoleum......

That's right, too.

According to the wild history, Qianlong, Jiaqing, and Daoguang all participated in Huanxi Zen, and Qianlong was buried in Dongling, so naturally there is no need to mention, but Jiaqing and Daoguang were both buried in Xiling......

Li Ding'an got closer again: the Buddha statue is made of cypress wood, and after being carved it is painted gold, it is not short of years, and there is basically no fragrance anymore.

Most of the gold paint has fallen off, and after being burned by smoke, the whole has become charred black.

The carving is very good: the male Buddha wears a crown, his face is hideous, and he sits with his arms open, in order to show Bodhi's education. The female Buddha holds Buddhist scriptures and ingots to show that she is extremely happy.

The two ritual vessels on the pavilion are both cast in copper, with high purity, and the whole body is covered with patina.

After looking at it for a while, Li Ding'an narrowed his eyes again: If you only look at the color, it feels no different from the statues you saw in Fengcheng?

In short, it has never been dug out of any tomb, but it seems to have been placed in the temple and received all the incense.

And the time to leave the temple is not long......

That's a bit weird.

Can't Baoding also have a lama temple similar to Fengcheng Wuyanguan, right?

Of course, maybe it was Qinghai or XZ......

After thinking about it, Li Ding'an bent down again: Sure enough, the base of the Buddha statue is covered with a round stamp: Beijing Huachen!

Looking at the female ghost and the male on the pavilion, there are also traces of stamping, which is clearly a complete set of ......

Haha, it was brought back at auction?

He straightened up and shook his head again: "Forget it!" ”

Cui Li blinked his eyes: "Fake...... Doesn't it look like it? ”

"It's really true, but it's okay to collect, just make money!"

Li Dingan lowered his voice, "It has been placed in the temple, and it has only flowed out in the past two years." ”

Cui Li was stunned, and suddenly deflated: In addition to Qinghai and XZ, where is there a tantric temple now?

In other words: nothing to do with the Manchu royal family......

Seeing that Li Ding'an might have something, he didn't dare to delay: "Teacher Li, can you help me take a look at this one?" ”

Li Ding'an nodded, and followed him to another stand: an enamel lotus, fifteen or sixteen centimeters high, with a base diameter of nearly five centimeters, and an octagonal wishful jewel embedded on it. Each is painted with colored silk, Jinbao, red spike, flower bell, Yingluo, auspicious knot and other ornaments.

One of the Seven Treasures of the Wheel King, the Jewel of God.

The porcelain is thin, the porcelain is very fine, the color is dignified, the color is bright, the painting is also very exquisite, and it has the typical style of "precision and complexity, Yongrong and luxury" in the Qianlong period.

Look at the bottom glaze again: not green or yellow, the glaze is smooth, clean and flawless.

The cow hair pattern is also very fine, and if you change the angle slightly, the clam light is one after another.

looked very real, but Li Dingan frowned.

It was only when he saw this thing in the photo that he decided to take a look at it with Cui Li. But I don't know if it's the wrong angle when taking pictures, or even the lack of light, he always feels that the real thing is much whiter than in the photo.

In particular, the bottom glaze, that is, the place where it is not painted, can hardly see a little variegation.

Of course, the color porcelain base embryo is white, especially the enamel color, the whiter the porcelain fetus, the less impurities, and the lower the probability of discoloration caused by the reaction with the color material during the second re-firing.

However, in ancient times, even in the Qianlong Dynasty, where the white porcelain technology was the most perfect, it was impossible to remove all the impurities in the porcelain clay, and the bottom embryo was only close to the level of "egg white".

At first glance, it looks like pure white, but if you reflect the light, you can see faint milk green and milk yellow, like a hard-boiled egg, with the egg yolk wrapped in the egg white, and the color penetrates to the surface.

Therefore, all the classics that record porcelain, no matter how white they are, only dare to say "clean and flawless", but dare not say "pure white and flawless".

Of course, it can definitely be done now, not to mention modern, the Republic of China Yuan Shikai has begun to use chemical raw materials to bleach porcelain clay, so Hongxian pastel is so white......

Well, bleaching?

Li Ding'an paused for a moment and sniffed closer.

Tasteless?

But for such a thing, wasting a little bit of points, and I feel like I can't make it......

After thinking about it, he poked Cui Li: "Believe me or not? ”

Cui Li looked confused: "Of course I believe it!" ”

If I don't believe me, I'll still be able to find a way to get you here?

"I'll lick it if you believe it!"

"What?"

"Lick it, I suspect it's new!"

Cui Li was stunned for a while.

Although he mainly focuses on calligraphy and painting, he is not a layman in porcelain, and has studied it a little.

There are only a few ways to melamine: brewing in medicine, boiling tea, rubbing grease, grinding rice bran...... But look at this one, which one doesn't look like it?

But Li Ding'an said it all, it's just a mouthful......

He glanced at the camera, quickly approached, his tongue "swished", and then retracted.

Li Ding'an's face was full of expectation: "What smell?" ”

Cui Li smacked his touch: "It's a little bitter, a little salty!" ”

"Salty is right......"

"Teacher Li, this thing is used by the Great Lama, and it is normal to shake it in your hand and sweat a little, right?"

"Don't interrupt, try it again, is there anything else?"

"Hmm, it still stinks?"

"Haha...... The stinky is even more right, this is high white mud! ”

"What?"

Cui Li's eyes widened and he reacted for a while, "Bleach added to the porcelain embryo?" ”

Li Dingan nodded heavily.

If porcelain clay wants to whiten, in addition to removing impurities, it is nothing more than adding bleach. But in the past, including the nineties, because the craftsmanship was not up to par and the dosage was not easy to master, many porcelain bowls could smell a trace of odor after a long time.

This is because there is too much bleach, and the chlorine in it is not neutralized and is slowly volatilizing.

This thing has been left for long enough, and it is estimated that it has finished evaporating. However, when chlorine gas seeps out of the glaze, chlorate forms on the surface, so you can taste foul and bitter, as well as salt.

Ninety-nine percent ninety-nine percent, the things of the Republic of China, the earliest is no more than Hong Xian.

Look at the price again: 1.2 million.

Not to mention the Republic of China, since it is the court enamel porcelain of the same and light periods, it can't sell so much......

Cui Li was immediately deflated: "Gone? ”

"It's not too eye-catching: the Republic of China still has it!"

In reply, he also sighed: Strictly speaking, he also lost his eyes.

No matter how you look at it in the photo, you don't think it's a problem, but how do you know that the real thing is so white?

"One thing, no need to dwell on it!" Li Dingan patted Cui Li's shoulder again, "Look at the others, right?" ”

"Thank you, Mr. Li!"

If it weren't for Li Ding'an, he might have planted it.

Li Ding'an didn't speak, just nodded.

He has such a good relationship with Ding Licheng, not to mention that if it weren't for Cui Li, he wouldn't have seen the claustrophobia and gloves, and he couldn't watch Ding Licheng's students be fooled.

The two walked to the next stand, and Cui Li pointed to the round spoon he had seen in the photo.

This time, the color is right, the black is translucent, but with the lessons of the past, Li Ding'an looked very seriously: the shape, pulp, and decoration......

After watching it for nearly five minutes, he put down his things with a thoughtful expression on his face.

Cui Li's heart rose again: "Teacher Li, there is also a problem with this one?" ”

Li Dingan shook his head.

It was because it was okay that he found it strange.

Like the previous two: the Joyful Buddha was auctioned at auction, and the divine jewelry was not known, but at most it was at the beginning of the Republic of China, so he thought that he and Cui Li were a little whimsical: the things here have nothing to do with the Qing Emperor's Mausoleum.

The one in front of him has become the third generation of the Qing Dynasty...... No, at least it's also an object before Qianlong?

The rust layer is thick enough to be buried for at least three hundred years and unearthed for no more than thirty years.

The pure black lacquer is ancient, indicating that the climate and soil are relatively dry, which happens to be consistent with the climate of Baoding and the soil quality near the Qingxi Tomb.

Of course, it is also possible that it flowed out of XZ or Qinghai, went to the auction, and was auctioned back by Mr. Wen.

It's like the Buddha of Joy......

"Don't worry, I'll take a look!"

Li Ding'an put down the magic spoon and looked at it one by one.

bells, ropes, hooks, axes, axes, halberds, buildings, covers, pegs, knives...... Many of them evolved from Hindu weapons, including an iron mace.

Huh, yes?

Hinduism does not have this object, Buddhism does not have it, only whips, and it is occasionally seen in Taoism, and Tantra is even more impossible.

An iron rod in the shape of a six-sided column, nearly a meter long, thinner at the back, and tapered at the tip.

There are also iron ornaments on it: at the top are three small iron balls, which will be one finger long, just used to make a handshake, and then down is a cross grid, which should be a grid, and then down is a larger iron ball, which happens to be a jaw.

In addition to the mace, Li Ding'an really can't remember what else this instrument shape can be.

There is a note in the label: Tantric Whip, but there are less than 100 Tantric Weapons, and there are absolutely no whips among them.

Pulling open the cabinet door, he took it out and checked it.

It's not heavy, it's just two pounds, it's hollow.

"Teacher Cui, is there an imprint of this thing?"

"A bit like a weapon?"

"It's hollow!"

Cui Li thought for a while: "Then I don't know!" ”

Since they don't know each other, there's no need to dwell on them.

Li Ding'an put it back in its place.

Further down the ...... Good guys, there are even gabala bowls, gabala drums, gabala rosaries, and even leg bones that are only slightly thicker than a thumb?

It's just ......

Well, and the remnants?

A gold steel peg, the top is a gold steel pestle clad in iron and silver, decorated with three iron Buddha heads, silver head, red lacquer eye, the expression is very vicious. The lowest end is adorned with a gold-plated Capricorn beast with a triangular cone-shaped iron blade.

This is a typical technique of iron-gold and silver in the snow region, which is roughly a simplified version of wrong gold or wrong silver: first cast the core of the mold, then the surface is broken into a fine grid, then the soft gold or silver sheet is burned, and then engraved to repair the shape or pattern.

It's like a layer of crust on the outside.

The advantage is that the process is simple, and the disadvantage is that it is easy to fall off.

Just like this one, the three Buddha heads, most of the silver skin is missing, and the top of the head is bare like an iron ball...... Well, iron balls, three?

After a little thought, Li Dingan turned his head again.

That's right, if you peel off the silver skin on the Buddha's head, it is not much different from the shape of the iron stem: iron balls, three.

Think about it again: Are the three iron balls on the stem also like this gold steel peg, which turned out to be three silver-clad or gold-clad Buddha heads?

Gilded Buddha head?

Suddenly, a light flashed through my mind.

What is it, this is the Kazhangga staff, also known as the tantric heavenly staff.

It is the most complex and highest-level ritual instrument in Tibetan Buddhism.

So far, only two pieces have been found, one is in the Palace Museum on Bay Island: the silver rod crosses the gold, forty centimeters long, is the second year of Qianlong's abdication, and is dedicated by Jia.

There is also a piece of Qianlong's 70th birthday, the sixth Panchen Lama dedicated for Qianlong to practice esoteric magic: iron rod and gold, nearly one meter long, now collected in the original Qing palace inner court Buddhist hall, the Forbidden City Fanhua Building.

If the gold skin on this is still there, it is definitely exactly the same as the one in Fanhua Building......

Li Dingan exhaled sharply, took two steps, and took out the iron rod.

The screen unfolds like a ripple of water:

Kazhangga cane, Qianlong 25th year, Qianlong's 50th birthday, the third Zhangjia Ruobi Dorjee (Manchu national teacher, leader of the Yellow Sect, living Buddha) dedication.

In the thirty-fifth year of Qianlong, Hongli died, and the emperor gave him a staff to be buried......

Ha, Qianlong's imperial gift? (End of chapter)