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Chapter 1400 The most unique case in the naming of bronze wares

Naturally, the naming of a bronze ware will not be determined strictly according to academic regulations.

For example, this big and small Yu Ding belongs to the name that was determined by accident.

In fact, regardless of the right or wrong naming at the time, the academic community has continued to use the original naming.

Of course, there are rules for this, because the rule used later is: use the size to distinguish two bronze tripods made of the same bowl.

So why?
A common saying is that the "[-]rd" Yu Ding is larger than the "[-]th" Yu Ding, just like the Da Ke Ding and Xiao Ke Ding.

The size of the volume has become the standard for naming Yu Ding.

However, shortly after it was unearthed, the small Yu Ding disappeared in the hands of a greedy novelty hunter, and its whereabouts are still unknown.

There are recorded inscriptions now, but only a few vague rubbings of the inscriptions were left at that time.

According to Mr. Chen Mengjia's research, the small Yuding rubbings found in the catalog are from Luo Zhenyu's "Three Generations of Auspicious and Jin Wencun".

The original extensions in private collections include two extensions discovered by Chen Jieqi, Yu Xingwu and Qi Lu.

However, the original recorder did not record the size, shape, and pattern of the small Yuding, which made it impossible for some modern experts to compare the volume of the small Yuding.

However, judging from the rubbings of the inscriptions on the two vessels that can be seen so far, the inscriptions on the Da Yu Ding have a total of 291 characters.

Because of the heavy corrosion of the small Yuding, people can only recognize and interpret more than 100 characters, but it is estimated that the original inscription has more than 400 characters.

Judging from the number of words, there are far more inscriptions on the small Yu Ding than on the large Yu Ding.

Although the font size of the former is smaller, its huge number inevitably requires a larger abdominal wall space.

Therefore, we can't help but make us full of doubts about the size of the two vessels.

Recently, some scholars discovered that Chen Jieqi, a collector in Weicheng, Qilu, in the late Qing Dynasty, wrote such a sentence in a letter to Wu Yun, another famous collector: "The big Yu Ding holds eight stones, and the small Yu Ding holds twelve stones. .”

As mentioned above, Chen Jieqi has the original extension of the small Yu Ding in his collection, and as a well-known collector in China, Mrs. Chen should have seen the original, and may even have personally measured its volume.

According to the volume of the two vessels, it can be imagined that the small Yu Ding is actually larger than the large Yu Ding.

Therefore, the closest thing to the fact is that the big Yu Ding was named "Da" because of the large inscription, while the small Yu Ding was the opposite.

This has also become the most unique case in the naming of bronze wares.

Of course, the name is not important, the most important thing is where the thing is!

It can be said that the experience of big and small Yu Ding is very bumpy.

For such a treasure, everyone wants it, which means that everyone is innocent and guilty.

At that time, Qishan County Magistrate Zhou Gengsheng used his power to bully others. In the name of borrowing the tripod to appreciate it, he deceived the Song family's Da Yu Ding, but in fact he secretly sold it to the capital.

It was such a coincidence that at that time Song Zhaokui's grandson, Song Jinjian, was working as a Hanlin in the capital.

When he was wandering around Liulichang, he found this big Yuding.

Is there any reason why he doesn't know the things in his own house?

He then used 3000 taels of silver to redeem this great Yuding.

After traveling thousands of miles, he was sent back to his home in Mei County, Shaanxi Province.

There is a proverb in our country, which is called: The gentleman's luster will be cut for five generations.

This sentence means that wealthy families generally do not exceed five generations before they become poor.

At that time, a descendant of the Song family had an official fan, and he spent money to donate a Houbu magistrate.

In order to implement the magistrate, he did not hesitate to give the small Yuding to the governor of Xishan at that time, and that governor made him the magistrate of Dong'e.

The big Yuding was sold by another son of the Song family who smoked drugs. After liberation, the big Yuding was donated to the country by a big collector in Haihai.

Then talk about the whereabouts of Xiao Yu Ding. According to the research of historians, the governor of Xishan, who was an official fan of the Song family, should be named Sheng Yun.

With the demise of the Qing government in 1912, Shengyun's good days came to an end.

Although he also struggled and contacted the Zong-Socialists in Jin and Daoqing successively in an attempt to restore the restoration, but in the end he only ended up drawing water from a bamboo basket.

He suffered a lot and died in Jincheng in 1931.

Sheng Yun held a heavy bronze vessel from the Western Zhou Dynasty in his hand, which he kept secret from beginning to end.

But after his death, this little Yu Ding became the stepping stone for Sheng Yun's descendants to get promoted and get rich.

This is speculation, because the social environment was chaotic at that time, so we can only infer the whereabouts of Xiao Yu Ding according to the secular way of doing things.

Of course, this is not random speculation.

Because there were still works recording Xiao Yu Ding later, for example, Zhang Fuwan once published an article in the "Northwest History and Geography" magazine in 1938, which contained records about the whereabouts of Xiao Yu Ding.

In the "Shang and Zhou Bronze Wares Mostly Originated from the Counties of Fufeng, Mei County, Baoji, Fengxiang, Fengxiang, Baoji, Western Shaanxi", this important handed down weapon of the Western Zhou Dynasty was once mentioned.

Small Yu Ding, or Yunyi Song Jin Jian family, in the early years of the Republic of China, Lu Jianzhang was the governor of Xishaan, and got it.

When Lu went to Shaanxi, he was intercepted by Chaoyi Wang Feihu (that is, Wang Yinxi) at Dongguan, the provincial capital, and returned to Chaoyi.

After the death of the king, it was acquired by his subordinate Fu Zhenjia, and his whereabouts are unknown.

If the above records are translated in a simple way, it is the order in which Xiao Yu Ding was circulated in the Republic of China.

Shengyun, the governor of Xishan → Lu Jianzhang, the governor of Xishaan → Wang Feihu, the warlord of Xishaan → Fu Zhenjia under Wang Feihu → Xiao Yuding really disappeared next.

But there are also legends that the small Yu Ding, a heavy weapon in the Western Zhou Dynasty, was hidden in Persimmon Village in Dalixi.

Because this is the hometown of Wang Feihu and many other Xishaan warlords...

In fact, seeing this, Chen Wenzhe was almost 100% sure that the wooden box that was pushed into the river and sank at the bottom of the river should be the small Yuding.

At the very beginning, he saw that the box was very big, and there was a bronze vessel inside.

If the small Yuding is smaller than the big Yuding, then it doesn't match.

However, just a little familiarity with the records of the little Yuding makes it clear that this little Yuding was named so only because of the small inscription inside.

If it were real coin weight, he would be much heavier than the Great Yu Ding, and most importantly, it would be about ten centimeters taller.

After being pushed off the boat, such a large bronze vessel sank into the river water very quickly, without even a splash.

How can ordinary people know that the big Yu Ding is smaller than the small Yu Ding?

What's even more coincidental is that Da Yu Ding is hidden in Dahai City.

On June 2021, 6, the National Museum and the Maritime Museum jointly held the special exhibition "Prosperity for the Future - Bronze Tripod Received by the Maritime Museum".

After the opening of the Maritime Museum, the biggest highlight of this exhibition is undoubtedly the second of the "Three Treasures of the Sea".

"Three Treasures of China" is the laudatory name for the three largest Ding Ding, Da Yu Ding, Dake Ding and Mao Gong Ding in the collection circle in the late Qing Dynasty.

The two pieces exhibited in Dahai City at a time are the Da Yu Ding and the Dake Ding.

Now that Chen Wenzhe has discovered the whereabouts of Xiaoyu Ding, then the third of the five most treasured tripods in the country has all fallen into the sea city?
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