Chapter 521

After listening to Zhao Qirui's words, Chu Chen was stunned and thought about the texture of the two paintings. They really have similarities.

Liu Sizhe said excitedly: "so, it's really possible! Maybe there are more materials in the picture of red dragon, so it will show its true appearance when it rains, but there are less materials in the picture of stars in the vast sea, so it needs to be put in the water. In this way, perhaps the red dragon can also be directly put into the water to show its true appearance. Brother Chen, do you want to have a try when we go back? "

Wang Xiaoyue said, "I think it's better to forget it. If it's not like what you said, it's not going to destroy the painting."

"It's the same thing Liu Sizhe scratched his head and said with embarrassment.

"I think we can try it!" Chuchen said with a smile, "let's try it on the edge of the picture. If we don't touch the water like" the map of stars in the vast sea ", it almost proves to be feasible."

Liu Sizhe advised: "well, brother Chen, you'd better think about it."

Now he thinks that what he said just now is somewhat irresponsible. If a strange painting is damaged because of his suggestion, even if Chu Chen doesn't blame him, he won't forgive himself.

Chu Chen more or less understood what he thought, so he nodded, "OK, let it go first."

Next, we chatted for a while. When it comes to the auction in the evening, Zhao Qirui said to Chu Chen with a serious face: "by the way, there is another thing I want to tell you. There are two kinds of national treasures in this auction, and we have to get them anyway."

Chu Chen is no accident, uncle is how to know the auction, he is now curious about what things, will let uncle so solemnly.

Liu Sizhe was an acute man. He asked first, "Uncle Zhao, what are the two national treasures you mentioned?"

"There are ten original oracle bone inscriptions and 112 Dunhuang manuscripts." Zhao Qirui returned.

After listening to Zhao Qirui's reply, we can't help but look at each other. These two things are indeed very important national treasures. No wonder they attract Zhao Qirui's attention.

"Uncle, surely the ten original oracle bone inscriptions are not simple, are they?" Chu Chen asked.

Zhao Qirui nodded and said, "yes, the ten original pieces are the most exquisite parts of the oracle bones collected by Mr. Meng Guanghui before. They can be said to be the most precious oracle bone inscriptions among the people, so no matter what, they must be photographed."

"Who is Meng Guanghui?" Josie asked Wu Ke in a low voice.

Wu Ke shook his head: "I don't know!"

"Meng Guanghui was a famous calligrapher and expert in ancient Chinese writing in the period of the Republic of China."

Chu Chen explained: "it is generally believed that the oracle bone inscriptions were first discovered by Wang Yirong in 1899. But in fact, Meng Guanghui discovered oracle bone inscriptions one year earlier than Wang Yirong. Therefore, Meng, Wang Yirong and Wang Xiang are among the first scholars to discover, identify and study oracle bones in China. "

"It is reported that Meng bought the original oracle bones from an antique dealer in Lu province named fan shouxuan at that time. He collected 430 pieces of oracle bones in his life. After his death, the oracle bone inscriptions first belonged to Mr. Yang Fucun and then to Li Henian."

"In 1951, Li Henian selected and retained 30 films, and the remaining 400 films were introduced by Mr. Guo Moruo and sold to the administration of social and cultural undertakings of the Ministry of culture. The remaining 30 pieces of oracle bones are not only larger, with more handwriting, but also more important content, which is the most essential part of Meng Guanghui's oracle bones. Unfortunately, during that period of turmoil, ten pieces were lost. "

Speaking of this, Chu Chen asked, "uncle, are the ten oracle bones in this auction the ones that were lost that year?"

"Yes, that's the ten pieces. That's why I said I must get them!"

Zhao Qirui said: "fortunately, there are not many people who know about this auction, and most of them come from Xiangjiang and the rich people near Xiangjiang. Moreover, I have already said hello to the owner of this auction in advance, and told him not to inform foreign buyers to come, otherwise we will be under great pressure. "

Chu Chen didn't think there was anything wrong with his uncle's greeting. After all, these ten oracle bones are national treasures, so it's natural for him to stay in China. Therefore, it's normal for him to play some tricks. Besides, they didn't buy or sell by force, so the organizers of the auction should not do anything against the country.

Chu Chen firmly said: "uncle, you can rest assured that no matter what, I will definitely get the ten oracle bones."

Zhao Qirui happily patted Chu Chen on the shoulder and said with a smile, "well, I just want to tell you that you will be the leader then. Are you still worried that I can't take it?"

Chu Chen complimented: "you go out in person, that is God block kill God, Buddha block kill Buddha, at that time, needless to say, you must be captured by hand!"

"You little boy!" Zhao Qirui laughs.

After a while, Liu Sizhe asked, "Uncle Zhao, those Dunhuang manuscripts must be treasures, too?"

"Yes, they are indeed fine products!" With that, Zhao Qirui sighed, his face a little depressed.

Dunhuang manuscripts refer to the ancient manuscripts and printed copies of Dunhuang from the 5th to the 11th century. In 1900, when Wang Yuanlu, a Taoist, was cleaning up cave 16 of Mogao Grottoes in Dunhuang, he found a secret chamber behind the wall, which was full of Buddhist scriptures and other cultural relics, with a total number of more than 50000 pieces. Among them, Buddhist books account for about 90% of Dunhuang Chinese literature.Then, in 1907, Stein came to Dunhuang and swindled away 24 boxes of posthumous letters, paintings and five boxes of other cultural relics with 14 pieces of horseshoe silver. In 1908, French Sinologist Percy ho came to the Mogao Grottoes and used a lot of silver to defraud more than 6000 manuscripts and more than 200 ancient Buddhist paintings and silk fabrics. In addition, a number of Uighur manuscripts of the Yuan Dynasty were found in cave 464.

In 1905, Russian obuchev, Islander juruichao and Yoshikawa Koichiro, in 1914, Russian odenburg, American Warner and others stole a large number of sutras from Mogao Grottoes. Up to now, 35000 of these cultural relics have been scattered overseas, accounting for about two-thirds of all cultural relics.

It was not until August 22, 1909, when the Qing court learned the value of the Dunhuang manuscripts, that Qiao Shunan, Zuo Cheng of the academic department, ordered Mao Shijun, governor of Shaanxi and Gansu provinces, to seal up the Sutra cave in Mogao Grottoes.

Thinking of the end of his country's precious cultural relics, not to mention Zhao Qirui, he would feel depressed, and other people here would also sigh.

Josie couldn't help but said angrily, "that kingly man is really bad, because he has lost so many cultural relics. Thanks to him, he still studies Taoism and is not afraid to go to hell!"

Chu Chen shook his head: "in fact, although Wang daoren is also the culprit, in fact, in the whole incident, his responsibility is not big."

"Why not?" said Josie, frowning? If not for him, how could those Scriptures be sold to foreigners at such a low price? "

"If you know the cause and effect of this, you'll know why I said that."

Chu Chen explained: "first of all, Wang Yuanlu is a genuine Taoist, and the Mogao Grottoes is a holy place for Buddhism, which has always been a place for Buddhist activities. However, the Qing court did such an outrageous thing that it arranged a Taoist in a Buddhist cave. "

When Wang daoren got there, he was very anxious to see that the sacred treasure cave was broken because there was no one to protect it. After that, he went all over the place, worked hard to raise money, saved money and money, and used it to clean up the accumulated sand in the caves. It took nearly two years to clean up the silt in cave 16 alone, which led to the discovery of Dunhuang manuscripts.

After the discovery of the suicide note, Taoist Wang did everything he should do. First of all, he personally presented the county magistrate with two volumes of scriptures from the Sutra cave. As a result, the magistrate was ignorant and just regarded the two volumes of scriptures as two pieces of yellow waste paper.

After that, a new magistrate came to the local area. After the magistrate went to inspect, he just left a message for Taoist Wang to keep on the spot, watch the Sutra cave, and pick up a few volumes of scriptures to take away.

In the end, Wang daoren was still unwilling, so he picked out two boxes of scriptures from the Sutra cave, drove donkeys, lived in the open, risked more than 800 miles, and found Daotai Tingdong, which was then an Subing's road.

The Taoist priest browsed it for a while, but finally came to a very absurd conclusion that the characters on the Scriptures were not as good as his calligraphy. That's it!

Speaking of this, Chu Chen shook his head and sighed: "in the past seven years, Wang daoren has repeatedly asked the government to pay attention to it, and he has reported it to the higher authorities, but no one has asked. How can you say that he is not discouraged? What's more, in order to repair the caves, he lacked funds, and he didn't know the value of the cultural relics, so he finally sold the Scriptures. How many faults do you think he had? "

After listening to Chu Chen's story, everyone was silent for a while and thought in another place. If they were king, would they be able to change the fate of those cultural relics under the circumstances at that time?

"I think the culprit is actually the Qing court at that time! Not only did they not know how to protect cultural relics, but also because of their own decay, so many corrupt officials were born at that time

Chu Chen said angrily: "at that time, when the Qing court learned the value of the letter, it sent people to escort the letter back to Beijing. However, Fu, the escort officer, disobeyed his orders and did not reply to the school directly. Instead, he drove the motorcade into he Zhenyi's private house in private."

"At that time, he Zhenyi, his father-in-law Li Shengduo, Liu Tingchen, Fang Erqian and other four people read all the Dunhuang manuscripts on the car and embezzled some treasures. There are more than 8000 volumes of Dunhuang manuscripts, many of which have been intercepted and embezzled by officials. These cultural relics selected by Confucian officials are all high-class cultural relics! "

Hearing this, Zhao Qirui sighed: "yes! I also think that the loss of the posthumous note was more or less due to the decadence of the Qing court at that time, although the king had some responsibility. Just like the posthumous letters in this auction, they were the treasures intercepted by those corrupt officials at that time! Do you mean sarcasm? "