Riding the wind of rebirth

Chapter 1796 Good News

"There's no rush for that." Mr. Wang quickly stopped everyone's discussion: "So far, this painting has only been restored and painted. The mounting has not yet begun. There's no rush."

Then he began to shift the blame: "Why don't we discuss which museum is more suitable for storing the Fang Lei after the exhibition is completed?"

Given the importance of the "King of Square Lei", this kind of vessel with inscriptions and the first of its kind is usually kept in the National Museum.

There is only one special place, that is the Shaanxi Museum, which covers cultural relics from the Zhou, Qin, Han and Tang dynasties. In Zhou Zhi's mind, the important position of the Shaanxi Museum is actually the same as that of the National Museum and the Forbidden City.

However, the lid of the Dish-shaped Lei had previously belonged to the collection of the Xiangguan Museum, so the Xiangguan Museum had the right to compete for it.

The important researcher and discoverer is Ma Chengyuan, the director of the Shanghai Museum. Ma Chengyuan is also a good friend of Nitta Dongyi. Nitta Dongyi also prefers the Shanghai Museum because Shanghai has money and the conditions of the Shanghai Museum are second only to those of the National Museum.

Although it has gradually become the norm for domestic museums to lend cultural relics to each other, and even the National Museum of China has begun to cause complaints from other museums, with negative reviews such as "borrowing once and not returning for three years", it at least shows that such exchanges have begun.

However, even if exchanges become widespread, it is very important to determine which museum the cultural relics belong to in order to improve the museum's qualifications.

The level of Hunan Provincial Museum is also very high. It has many titles such as National First Class and National Key. The reason is that it has collections of Changsha Kiln porcelain, Shang and Zhou bronzes, Qi Baishi paintings, He Shaoji and calligraphy works of the four famous ministers of the Restoration, ancient Chu lacquerware, etc.

Of course, these things alone cannot support a national key museum. The improvement of the status of the Hunan Museum is mainly due to a great treasure discovered in 1973 - the Mawangdui Han Tomb.

The cultural relics of the Mawangdui Han Tomb, only those that have been moved to warehouses and protected in buildings, have been cleaned up for more than 20 years and are still not complete. According to Xiong Chuanxin's estimation, it may take another 30 years.

Finally, after a heated discussion among the big guys and the opinion of the donor's representative, Zhou Zhi, everyone decided to choose the Hunan Provincial Museum as the museum to collect the Dish-shaped Lei. After all, the main story of this artifact took place in Hunan Province, and the lid has also been kept in Hunan Province. The reunion of the two in Hunan Province has a particularly special regional significance.

For such a great occasion, of course everyone had to let Gao Zhixi and Xiong Chuanxin treat the guests, and as important guests, Nitta Toichi and Sakamoto Goro had to take their tastes into consideration and finally had the banquet at Wangfujing.

A few years ago, a Japanese restaurant called Yoshinoya opened there. They sell Matsutake sashimi, buckwheat soy sauce and clear sake. These three items are quite expensive in the island country. Now it has become the first choice for the islanders in China to entertain guests from their own country.

Two hundred grams of large matsutake mushrooms were served, and the chef cut them into thin slices with a long Japanese kitchen knife and placed them on the plates in front of the guests who were gathered around. They were eaten with seafood sashimi, buckwheat soy sauce and mustard.

Another way is to refer to the Yi people's fire pot barbecue stove, put the matsutake mushrooms on pine cone charcoal and bake them until half-cooked, then tear them apart and eat them with roast beef and roast eel. For the islanders, it is both the flavor of home and exotic, and it is absolutely impressive.

Nitta Doichi and Sakamoto Goro were of course happy, and even thought the reception was a bit too grand. However, the bunch of Chinese old men felt very pitiful because they couldn't eat enough or drink enough despite the expensive food, and in the end each of them had to add a bowl of udon noodles.

The most ridiculous thing is Zhouzhi. The matsutake mushrooms, sake, and buckwheat soy sauce sold by Yoshinoya are all brought from Liangshan by Zhou Liuniang Group. If I want to eat these, do I need to come here? There is an old saying in Shuzhong - tofu is sold at the price of meat!

While seeing the two off, Goro Sakamoto kept talking to Zhou Zhi. His implication was that when the island country's ancient Chinese calligraphy and paintings needed to be repaired in the future, he would ask Zhou Zhi to help.

Zhou Zhi was actually speechless about the Japanese people's behavior. He was a bit like judging others by his own standards. Many Chinese calligraphy and paintings in the Japanese country are national treasures, from the earliest abbots and daimyo of the ancient Kamakura and Muromachi periods, to the Kansai nobles of the Meiji period, especially before and after the Xinhai Revolution. The Japanese country became one of the important channels for the dissemination of important Chinese cultural relics to Europe and the United States.

In addition, due to the plundering during the war, a large number of important Chinese calligraphy and painting collections were lost in the island country, such as Wang Wei's paintings, Su Dongpo's calligraphy, representative works of many famous artists in the Song Dynasty, and posts by famous artists such as Wang Xizhi and Zhiyong. These are the essence of Chinese civilization.

Even if Goro Sakamoto didn't take these detours, could Zhou Zhi just sit back and do nothing?

After seeing off Toichi Nitta and Goro Sakamoto, I returned to receive good news from the Science and Technology Commission.

The results of the textual research and analysis on the Li Gui have come out.

As a "preliminary experimental project" of the "Xia, Shang and Zhou Chronology Project", Director Song was determined to use the accurate time estimation of the Battle of Muye as a breakthrough.

In addition to the records of Li Gui, literary and historical experts also found records in "Guoyu Zhouyuxia", "Shangshu Mushi" and "Yi Zhoushu Shifu", and obtained several key data.

First of all, the Battle of Muye was the node of the change of dynasty of Shanghe Zhou and a very important time specimen.

Secondly, the font of the Li Gui inscription is consistent with the shape and structure of Shang Dynasty oracle bone inscriptions and bronze inscriptions. The font is long and flat, the handwriting is solemn and steady, and it retains the characteristics of the Shang Dynasty inscription font, which is pointed at the beginning and end and thick in the middle, which is in line with the representative characteristics of early Western Zhou Dynasty bronze inscriptions.

Third, the Li Gui records that the battle of "King Wu's conquest of Shang" took place on the morning of the "Jia Zi" day of a certain year, when the "Sui" star was at the zenith. Due to the lack of physical materials, the exact date of the Battle of Muye has been controversial in the historian community for thousands of years, and scholars of all generations have calculated dozens of dates based on relevant records. Now it can be confirmed that the Li Gui has confirmed both the zodiac date and the astronomical phenomena at this time point.

  Fourth, the record in the Book of Documents, Mu Shi, "On the day of Jiazi, at dawn, the king arrived at Muye, outside Shang", is consistent with the Li Gui; the record in ancient documents such as Huainanzi, Binglue Xun, "the kingdom of Zhou was destroyed in one day of fighting", is also consistent with the Li Gui;

These four aspects basically confirm the reliability of the Li Gui inscription. Now it is the scientists' turn to take the stage.

First of all, here are the results of carbon 14 dating experts. Many relics from the early Western Zhou Dynasty were discovered in Shaanxi and Henan provinces, and dating of the unearthed charcoal samples has been ongoing. Based on carbon sampling from some relics from the early Western Zhou Dynasty in the Chaoge battlefield, experts have basically determined that the war took place between 1050 BC and 1020 BC.

This shortened the time to thirty years. Afterwards, astronomers used the computer model created by Zhou Zhi and An Chunjia and the astronomical trajectory of Jupiter, the ancient year star, to calculate the celestial phenomena that could be seen in the Chaoge area.

(End of this chapter)