My system is not decent

Chapter 1496 Confucian Temple Yushu Zhenguan engraving, bought with a thousand taels of gold

Duan Fang is a person who loves cultural relics. In 1906, he went abroad to investigate Western politics, that is, on his way back to China, he stayed in Cairo, Egypt for a short time.

Due to the long history of Egypt, the government at that time was incompetent.

Therefore, there is no awareness to protect cultural relics. A large number of precious cultural relics are pulled to the cultural relics market and put on shelves at very cheap prices.

Duanfang immediately bought a large number of Egyptian cultural relics, including the painted coffins of the 19th Dynasty of ancient Egypt.

The coffin is 185 centimeters long, 63 centimeters wide and 47 centimeters high, and contains the mummy of an aristocratic woman.

The lid of the coffin is painted with the appearance of this noble woman during her lifetime, and a cow is painted on each side of the figure.

In Egyptian culture, the two cows are sacred cows in the underworld, which can protect the dead.

Such a thing, as long as you look at it, it is absolutely impossible to forget it.

Therefore, Chen Wenzhe, who had just thought of this treasure, was impressed when he saw the picture on the coffin board.

Lifting up the coffin board casually, Chen Wenzhe looked at other places. Sure enough, there were still many rubbings pressed here.

In addition to the coffin, Duanfang also purchased a large number of ancient Egyptian steles, stone carvings, and rubbings.

But it is a pity that most of these cultural relics were sold off by Duan Fang's descendants.

Only this painted coffin has the honor of being collected by the National Museum.

Most likely, it is because everyone knows that Duanfang bought a lot of ancient Egyptian cultural relics back then, and except for the coffin, everything else was lost, so someone imitated it!
As for the authenticity of the items here, don't have such extravagant hopes.

Seeing Chen Wenzhe shaking his head while looking at something, and Chen Xingchen who had been following beside him, he was about to burst into laughter.

Although he doesn't know much about antiques, calligraphy and paintings, and inscriptions, the things here are so famous that even a fool knows that these things can't be true.

So, after seeing Chen Wenzhe shaking his head, Chen Xingchen had already started to despise Li Tianqiang.

But Li Tianqiang didn't care too much, but seeing that Chen Wenzhe had lost interest and was no longer checking carefully, he moved closer to Chen Wenzhe instead.

"Boss, don't look at anything else, just take a look at this Confucian temple stele!"

Chen Wenzhe was taken aback: "What? Someone told you that this stele is genuine?"

Naturally, Chen Wenzhe didn't think that Li Tianqiang would do anything unnecessary, so he soon realized something.

It is definitely not easy to collect so many high imitations.

Since there is an expert pointing it out, what Li Tianqiang said is a little credible.

Therefore, Chen Wenzhe really looked at the stack of inscriptions not far away, the same sentence, no matter what is here, as long as one of them is true, then Chen Wenzhe can wake up with a smile from his dreams.

After tumbling again, there is really a stone tablet under those inscriptions.

Chen Wenzhe was a little dumbfounded. If it was really a stele in the temple of Confucius, even if it was re-engraved by later generations, as long as it was not re-engraved by modern people, it would be a treasure.

The Confucius Temple Stele is very famous, and Chen Wenzhe knew that it had been damaged in a very early period.

There are several kinds of "Confucius Temple Stele", the most famous of which was written by Tang Yu Shinan, so it is called "Confucius Temple Stele" or "Confucius Temple Stele", mostly referring to this stele.

Inscribed in the ninth year of Tang Wude, that is, in 626 A.D., Yu Shinan wrote the book.

This stone tablet is an outstanding work among the inscriptions of the early Tang Dynasty, and it is also recognized by epigraphers and calligraphers of all dynasties as a masterpiece of Yu calligraphy.

This monument was erected to record the conferment of Kong Delun, the 626rd grandson of Confucius, in the ninth year of Emperor Wude of Gaozu (33), for the praise of the Holy Marquis and the rebuilding of the Confucius Temple.

It was engraved in the seventh year of Zhenguan (633), but there is no date of writing.

Therefore, this stele is a Tang stele, the main book, written by Yu Shinan.

Yu Shinan's "Confucius Temple Stele" was originally called "Dongguan Tie", which was collected by Wang Shizhen in the Ming Dynasty, and then transferred to the Qing Dynasty.

During the period, it was acquired by Dong Qichang, and Dong Qichang praised it greatly.

Yu Shinan wrote this stele and presented it to Emperor Taizong of the Tang Dynasty in ink.

Emperor Taizong gave Yu Shinan the yellow silver seal of Kuaiji Neishi, the general of the right army worn by Wang Xizhi.

The thank you form written by Yu Shinan himself was engraved in Qunyutangtie in Song Dynasty, but it has been lost.

The calligraphy on this stele is handsome, round and plump, elegant and quiet, and it is a masterpiece among the stele inscriptions in the early Tang Dynasty.

After the stele was inscribed, "only dozens of papers were extended and given to the ministers, and there were not many ashes."

It's a pity that this monument has long been lost and cannot be found.

In the third year of Chang'an in the Wu Zhou Dynasty (703), Wu Zetian ordered Li Dan to engrave it again.

This stele has 35 lines and 64 characters in the main script.

The six characters of "Confucius Temple Stele" in seal script were written by Li Dan.

And this re-engraved stone is not handed down today.

Huang Tingjian in the Song Dynasty wrote in a poem: "The Yushu in the Confucius Temple is engraved on Zhenguan, where can I buy it with a thousand taels of gold?" It can be seen that the original rubbings are rare in the Northern Song Dynasty.

So, not to mention this stele, even if it is an ancient rubbing, it is very precious.

Only Li Zonghan, a Qing Dynasty man, has the old collection of Yuan Kangli Yushan, which is known as the Tang Ruoben.

Exactly when it was developed is difficult to determine.

Most of these rubbings are from the Shaanxi version, and most of the words Manmi and Sunile are from the Tang version.

Li Zonghan originally had Weng Fanggang's textual research and interpretation.

This rubbing copy has been photocopied by Zhonghua Bookstore, Wenming Bookstore, Youzheng Bookstore, Dahai Ancient Books Bookstore, Nihong Erxuanshe, etc. The original rubbing copy has been transferred to Nihong, and is in the Mitsui family's collection.

Of course, this does not mean that there are no such steles now. In fact, up to now, there are still two inscribed stones of "Confucius Temple Stele".

One is in the Chang'an Forest of Steles Museum, commonly known as "West Temple Stele".

Song Wang Yanchaozhong engraved in Chang'an, 35 lines, 64 characters.

At the end of the stele, a line of nine characters is added, "Wang Yanchao rebuilt, Anzuo engraved characters".

During the earthquake in the 34th year of Jiajing in Ming Dynasty (1555), the stele was broken into three sections.

The word "Yu Shi" in the second line is intact.

On the back of the stele is engraved Song Dun's "Xing Song Bang", Song and Tang Ying seal script, engraved in May of the third year of Tianxi (1019).

The other piece is in Qilu Chengwu, commonly known as "East Temple Monument".

This stele is 2.08 meters high, 0.89 meters wide, and 0.22 meters thick. It has 33 lines of characters and a full grid of 33 characters.

The book is written in block letters, soft on the outside and strong on the inside, harmonious and powerful.

The characters "Ren" in "Zhongsheren" and "Dan" in "Xiangwangdan" in the first line of Ming Tuoben are both intact.

It was unearthed when the bank of the Dingtao River collapsed during the period from Yuan to Yuan (1335-1340), and the date of the engraving is unknown.

It's a pity that this piece of stone is not strong, and Ming Tuo's original characters are loose and thin.

Li Zonghan in the Qing Dynasty obtained Kangli's version, and many words were replaced and supplemented by "Chengwu version".

Weng Fanggang commented that "East Temple Stele" is thinner and harder than "West Temple Stele".

This stele is now in the Chengwu County Cultural Relics Museum.

Others include "Qufu engraved version", which was studied in Qufu County, Qilu, and engraved by Weng Fanggang in the 58th year of Qianlong in Qing Dynasty (1793);

You Raozhou (now Boyang County, Xijiang) "Jinjiang Academy Printed Edition";
There are Nanhai (now Nanhai County, Guangdong Province) Pan's "Haishan Xianguan Ben" and so on.

If the thing in front of him might be genuine, then Chen Wenzhe was more optimistic about those rubbings than the stele.

"I heard that these rubbings are genuine!"

At this moment, Li Tianqiang proudly pointed to a few rubbings on the other side.

(End of this chapter)