Chapter 1261 - Arguing with the Confucians

Chapter 1261: Arguing with the Confucians

Translator: Atlas Studios Editor: Atlas Studios

When Li Qingxue said this, the surrounding people could not help but mock her.

Professor Charles was famous in the history world. What he said could be placed in class and directly used as teaching content.

Facing many questioning gazes, Xia Wanyuan appeared very calm.

“Can’t a professor make mistakes?”

“Then tell me, what did I say was wrong??” Professor Charles was also a little annoyed by Xia Wanyuan’s words.

He enjoyed an illustrious reputation in this industry. How could a little girl from nowhere casually fool him?

Xia Wanyuan leaned closer to the bowl and pointed at the name on it. “This bowl does not have the cracked ice pattern at all.”

“What a joke.” Before anyone could speak, Li Qingxue jumped out first. The mockery in her eyes was about to overflow. “Miss Xia, don’t tell me you don’t know the five major porcelains in China? Even someone like me who knows them well knows that this is the classic appearance of a cracked ice pattern.”

“Really?” Xia Wanyuan looked at Professor Charles. “Since Professor Charles has always been in charge of this project, there should be information. Are there a few doubts in your information?

For example, the glaze of this porcelain bowl is actually not smooth. Although it looks like a cracked ice pattern, there’s actually a difference. Also, there’s actually a small black mark at the bottom of this porcelain bowl.”

Xia Wanyuan’s words were baffling. Everyone felt that she was casually talking nonsense. Only Professor Charles and a few others who had studied it seriously suddenly had their expressions change drastically.

Because Xia Wanyuan was talking about the characteristics of this bowl that outsiders did not know.

However, this bowl had already arrived at the England Museum more than a hundred years ago. How did Xia Wanyuan know??

Xia Wanyuan stopped halfway through her sentence. “If Professor Charles feels that there’s something wrong with what I said, you can point it out.”

Everyone’s gazes focused on Charles. Everyone thought that he would argue on the basis of reason. Who would have thought that Charles would only mutter a few words before looking at Xia Wanyuan with anticipation? “Why are these reasons? If it’s not a cracked ice pattern porcelain, what is it?”

“This is a burning technology passed down from more than a thousand years ago. It’s specially used by the royal family...” Xia Wanyuan began to explain the origins of this porcelain to everyone present.

Its historical origin and its unique way of preserving it. In the end, everyone understood that it was not because the people there did not know how to preserve this thing.

Instead, because of the unique climate and moisture conditions in the southwest mountains, only by placing it in the air could the porcelain maintain its original luster.

In the end, it cracked into its current state because the England Museum treated it as an expensive cracked ice pattern to safeguard. Instead, it completely lost its original appearance.

Although what Xia Wanyuan said was especially unbelievable, every point she said was supported by solid evidence.

Xia Wanyuan had a very complicated temperament.

She had a political background and had a strong ability to control the situation. Her logical thinking was top-notch. In addition, after being a teacher for a period of time, she knew how to make boring knowledge interesting.

Although cultures were different, humans had the same mood when they admired and felt beauty.

Through Xia Wanyuan’s explanation, everyone seemed to have been brought to that magical southwest world.

It was as if she was with those craftsmen. In the rainy weather, she pulled the bellows and calcined countless exquisite porcelain in the flames.

Professor Charles had been listening attentively until Xia Wanyuan finished speaking. He was very interested in what Xia Wanyuan had said.

He knew that he studied Continent Y’s culture, but some of the things Xia Wanyuan had just mentioned made him feel very unfamiliar.

After Xia Wanyuan finished speaking, Charles’s attitude changed. He had thought that Xia Wanyuan was someone who had come to cause trouble. He did not expect her to really know this very well.

“Miss Xia, what you said is very interesting and right.” The characteristics of the porcelain in the exhibition hall that Xia Wanyuan had pointed out were information that only members of the museum had. This was also the reason why Charles believed her.

Seeing that some people had already begun to communicate with Xia Wanyuan, Li Qingxue gritted her teeth and forced a smile. “Mrs. Jun, you’re amazing. I didn’t expect you to study porcelain too.”

“It’s alright. I should know more about my country’s things.” Li Qingxue deliberately wanted Xia Wanyuan to be embarrassed. She knew this very well. Xia Wanyuan turned around and pointed at a piece of parchment not far away. “I heard that Miss Li has the royal blood of England. Can you help me explain the origin of this?”

What surprised everyone was that

So many experts and scholars, such a large exhibition.

Speaking of any one of them, Xia Wanyuan seemed to be familiar with them. Even if she did not completely surpass them, she could at least fight to a draw with the experts.

After a few hours, almost 30 professors from all walks of life moved out to discuss with Xia Wanyuan. In the end, they were all taken care of by Xia Wanyuan.

To the others who did not participate in this round-robin debate, this was no different from a battlefield.

Everyone was a big shot in the industry. A casual mistake could be pointed out, and Xia Wanyuan stood there quietly, never taking a step back.

Her tone was neither fast nor slow, as if she was always talking to the experts calmly and convincing them with facts and evidence.

In the end, other than those who were especially narrow-minded and could not tolerate others being more outstanding, most people were very impressed by Xia Wanyuan.

Everyone present admired Xia Wanyuan.

At this moment, on the Internet, the Han people were hopping mad, almost scolding Xia Wanyuan to death.

The live broadcast of the museum was delayed at first.

Later on, the museum realized that there were too many scenes about Xia Wanyuan that had to be cut after the broadcast was delayed, so they simply turned off the live broadcast and changed it to editing.

Hence, in the clip released by the museum, there was no scene of Xia Wanyuan arguing with the scholars.

Only the scenes of those experts seriously explaining to Xia Wanyuan and Xia Wanyuan occasionally standing up to retort.

In a certain video, they happened to talk about China.

Xia Wanyuan popularized the former vassals in China’s history.

And Han Country was naturally among them.

Xia Wanyuan even considerately explained China’s cultural period to everyone.

When China was already at the top of the world, Han Country was still a small area in the north.

Xia Wanyuan briefly discussed the influence of Chinese culture on the entire country of Han.

The moment this video was released, it angered the netizens of Country Han.

[ The country of thieves is China!! You were clearly the ones affected by our culture! You stole our movies and television dramas, our clothes, and our pickles. Trash Xia Wanyuan, get out! ]

[ I’m really speechless. Xia Wanyuan is maliciously smearing our country’s image with private goods. Shameless. I’m so angry. ]

[ Us being influenced by you. Do you have any shame? Look at that painting. Is Xia Wanyuan used to stealing? That painting was drawn by our Han Country’s painter, okay? ]

Because Xia Wanyuan was attending an event overseas today, many fans in China had climbed over the wall and registered an account on the Internet.

In the end, everyone was angered to death when they saw such an unlucky statement the moment they entered the Internet.

Some of them stayed to argue with them, while the rest returned to Weibo to get reinforcements.

Soon, a large number of domestic netizens climbed over the wall and acted to protect Xia Wanyuan.

In the museum.

Looking at Xia Wanyuan, who was surrounded by everyone, Li Qingxue never expected the situation to turn out like this.

She had spent all her effort to invite those people over because she wanted Xia Wanyuan to embarrass herself in front of the world and ruin her reputation.

But now??

So many professors actually spoke to her so amiably. Many people even began to ask Xia Wanyuan if she was willing to visit their school after the event ended.

Li Qingxue clenched her fists and adjusted her expression as she walked into the crowd. “Miss Xia, have you forgotten something? Didn’t you say that you drew that painting from Country Han? What evidence do you have to prove what you said?”

When Li Qingxue said this, everyone fell silent.

Xia Wanyuan was talented, but that painting had indeed been verified by many parties. It was an ancient painting from more than a thousand years ago, and it was completely different from Xia Wanyuan’s style. It did not look like it was from Xia Wanyuan at all.